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Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault · 1975 · ★ 4.1 · 333p · ≈ 11h · Moderate English version of "Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison" Shares: Community pick

Psychoanalytic approaches to myth Daniel Merkur · 2002 · 172p · ≈ 5h · Moderate This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights. Shares: Myth, Psychological aspects, Psychology, Mythology

A Short History of Myth Karen Armstrong · 2005 · ★ 3.7 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate The history of myth is the history of humanity; our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, link us to our ancestors and each other. Myths help us make sense of the universe. Armstrong takes us from the Palaeolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the 'Great Western Transformation' of the last 500 years and the discrediting of myth by science.… Shares: Myth, Mythology

Aspects du mythe Mircea Eliade · 1963 · 243p · ≈ 8h · Moderate First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide… Shares: Myth, Mythology

The Psychology of Everyday Things Donald A. Norman · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 257p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman about how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to optimize that conduit of communication in order to make the experience of using the object pleasurable. One of the main premises of the book is that although people are often keen to blame themselves when… Shares: Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects, Psychology

Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 Andrew Lang · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging This volume contains the following Contents: systems of mythology; new system proposed; mental conditions of savages, confusion with nature, totemism, magic, metamorphosis, metaphysic, psychology; nature myths; non-Aryan myths of the origin of the world and of man; Indo-Aryan myths, sources of evidence; Indian myths of the origin of the world and of man; Greek myths of the origin of the world… Shares: Myth, Mythology

Myth, ritual and religion Andrew Lang · 1906 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This volume contains the following Contents: systems of mythology; new system proposed; mental conditions of savages, confusion with nature, totemism, magic, metamorphosis, metaphysic, psychology; nature myths; non-Aryan myths of the origin of the world and of man; Indo-Aryan myths, sources of evidence; Indian myths of the origin of the world and of man; Greek myths of the origin of the world… Shares: Myth, Mythology

A philosophy of political myth Chiara Bottici · 2007 · 295p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this book, Chiara Bottici argues for a philosophical understanding of political myth. Bottici demonstrates that myth is a process, one of continuous work on a basic narrative pattern that responds to a need for significance. Human beings need meaning in order to master the world they live in, but they also need significance in order to live in a world that is less indifferent to them. This… Shares: Myth, Mythology

Still Here Bunty Avieson · 2019 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Still Here . . . investigates the role and practices in contemporary culture of memoir focusing on illness, death, loss and other experiences of trauma; writing as cure, therapy, or healing narrative. Editors, Sue Joseph, Bunty Avieson and Fiona Giles have brought together this collection of scholarly essays that provide an overview of the areas which trauma memoir has tended to cover, for… Shares: Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects, Psychology

Why we kill Nancy Loucks · 2009 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Capital punishment, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings, war, and genocide: all involve the taking of life. Put most simply, all involve killing other people. However, cultural context heavily influences heavily how people perceive these acts, and most people reading this paragraph will likely disagree on the extent to which these "count" as… Shares: Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects

Positive Pedagogy for Sport Coaching Richard Light · 2016 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Positive Pedagogy is an athlete-centred, inquiry-based approach that transforms the way we understand learning and coaching in sport. This book demonstrates how Positive Pedagogy for sport coaching (PPed) can be successfully employed across a range of sports and levels of performance, while also providing insight into coaches’ experiences.Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, the… Shares: Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects, Psychology

The Psychology of Selling Brian Tracy · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Ben shu nei rong bao kuo:xiao shou de nei zai bo yi,She li bing shi xian quan bu xiao shou mu biao,Ren men yin he er gou mai,Chuang yi xiao shou,Yue jian geng duo de ke hu,Cheng gong xiao shou de shi da guan jian deng. Shares: Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects

The wise wound Penelope Shuttle · 1978 · ★ 4.0 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "This study of the facts, fantasies and taboos surrounding menstruation has helped bring about a profound shift in attitudes towards a natural phenomenon that has been reviled and denigrated over the centuries. Thoroughly researched yet highly readable, combining psychology, anthropology and poetry, Shuttle and Redgrove illustrate their theories using examples ranging from The Bible to such… Shares: Psychological aspects, Psychology, Mythology

Uses of Comparative Mythology Kenneth L. Golden · 2015 · 294p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind.… Shares: Myth, Mythology

The Game of Life and How to Play It Florence Scovel Shinn · 1925 · ★ 4.1 · 96p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Reprint of 1941 Second Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. One secret of Shinn's success was that she was always herself . . . colloquial, informal, friendly, and humorous. She herself was very spiritual . . . and taught by familiar, practical, and everyday examples. --Emmet Fox By studying and practicing the principles laid down in… Shares: Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects, Psychology

Goals! How to Get Everything You Want--Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible Brian Tracy · 2003 · ★ 3.9 · 290p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The performance difference between the top salespeople in the world and the rest is smaller than you may think. Learn where you can elevate your game today and reach unprecedented new heights.Did you know that the 80/20 rule applies to the world of sales too? Eighty percent of all sales are made by only twenty percent of salespeople. How are they raking in so much money though, and how can others… Shares: Aspect psychologique, Psychological aspects

Myths And Mythologies Jeppe Sinding Jensen · 2006 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate In all cultures and at all times, humans have told stories about where they came from, who they are and how they should live their lives. 'Myths and Mythologies' brings together the key classic and contemporary writings - philosophical, psychological, sociological, semiological and cognitivist - on myth. To the insider, myths contain truth, revelation and a 'history of ourselves'; to the… Shares: Myth, Mythology

Myth and Science Tito Vignoli · 1882 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Myth, as it is understood by us, and as it will be developed and explained in this work, cannot be defined in summary terms, since its multiform and comprehensive nature embraces and includes all primitive action, as well as much which is consecutive and historical in the intelligence and feelings of man, with respect to the immediate and the reflex interpretation of the world, of the Individual,… Shares: Myth, Mythology

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