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    • Psychology: emotionsx
    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2017

      Critical theory and feeling

      The affective politics of the early Frankfurt School

      by Simon Mussell, Darrow Schecter

      This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent 'affective turn' within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of political philosophy, it argues that critical theory actively cultivates a powerful connection between thinking and feeling, and rediscovers a range of often neglected concepts that were of vital importance to the first generation of critical theorists, including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects and mimesis. In doing so, it brings the dynamic work of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer into conversation with more recent debates around politics and affect. An important intervention in the fields of affect studies and social and political thought, Critical theory and feeling shows that sensuous experience is at the heart of the Frankfurt School's affective politics.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2019

      Feeling the strain

      A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain

      by Jill Kirby, Keir Waddington, David Cantor

      Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2019

      Feeling the strain

      A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain

      by Jill Kirby, Keir Waddington, David Cantor

      Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2019

      Feeling the strain

      A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain

      by Jill Kirby, Keir Waddington, David Cantor

      Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      July 2021

      Critical theory and feeling

      The affective politics of the early Frankfurt School

      by Simon Mussell

      This book offers a unique and timely reading of the early Frankfurt School in response to the recent 'affective turn' within the arts and humanities. Resisting the overly rationalist tendencies of political philosophy, it argues that critical theory actively cultivates a powerful connection between thinking and feeling, and rediscovers a range of often neglected concepts that were of vital importance to the first generation of critical theorists, including melancholia, hope, (un)happiness, objects and mimesis. In doing so, it brings the dynamic work of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch and Siegfried Kracauer into conversation with more recent debates around politics and affect. An important intervention in the fields of affect studies and social and political thought, Critical theory and feeling shows that sensuous experience is at the heart of the Frankfurt School's affective politics.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      June 2021

      Feeling the strain

      A cultural history of stress in twentieth-century Britain

      by Jill Kirby

      Examining the popular discourse of nerves and stress, this book provides a historical account of how ordinary Britons understood, explained and coped with the pressures and strains of daily life during the twentieth century. It traces the popular, vernacular discourse of stress, illuminating not just how stress was known, but the ways in which that knowledge was produced. Taking a cultural approach, the book focuses on contemporary popular understandings, revealing continuity of ideas about work, mental health, status, gender and individual weakness, as well as the changing socio-economic contexts that enabled stress to become a ubiquitous condition of everyday life by the end of the century. With accounts from sufferers, families and colleagues it also offers insight into self-help literature, the meanings of work and changing dynamics of domestic life, delivering a complementary perspective to medical histories of stress.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2024

      The politics of feeling in Brexit Britain

      Stories from the Mass Observation Project

      by Jonathan Moss, Emily Robinson, Jake Watts

      During Brexit, political questions were continually framed in emotional terms. The referendum was presented as a conflict between reason and resentment, fear and hope, heads and hearts. The Leave vote was interpreted as the triumph of passion over rationality, and its aftermath triggered concerns about the divisive impact of feelings on political culture. This book examines how these stories about feelings shaped public experiences and determined political possibilities. The politics of feeling uses first-hand accounts to explore how 'ordinary' people understand their own feelings about the referendum, and how they reacted to the feelings of others. It shows how they drew on public narratives, while also rejecting and reworking them. The authors highlight a dangerous contradiction whereby feelings were simultaneously understood as dangerous and illegitimate, and as an authentic reflection of our inner selves. This had its own political consequences.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2024

      The politics of feeling in Brexit Britain

      Stories from the Mass Observation Project

      by Jonathan Moss, Emily Robinson, Jake Watts

      During Brexit, political questions were continually framed in emotional terms. The referendum was presented as a conflict between reason and resentment, fear and hope, heads and hearts. The Leave vote was interpreted as the triumph of passion over rationality, and its aftermath triggered concerns about the divisive impact of feelings on political culture. This book examines how these stories about feelings shaped public experiences and determined political possibilities. The politics of feeling uses first-hand accounts to explore how 'ordinary' people understand their own feelings about the referendum, and how they reacted to the feelings of others. It shows how they drew on public narratives, while also rejecting and reworking them. The authors highlight a dangerous contradiction whereby feelings were simultaneously understood as dangerous and illegitimate, and as an authentic reflection of our inner selves. This had its own political consequences.

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      January 2026

      The loneliness room

      A creative ethnography of loneliness

      by Sean Redmond

      This remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings. Refusing to pathologise loneliness, the book draws on the creative submissions supplied by its participants to demonstrate that being lonely can mean different things to different people in differing contexts. Filled with the photographs, paintings, videos, songs, and writings of its participants, The loneliness room is a deeply moving account of loneliness today. https://sredmond4.wixsite.com/lonelyroom

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      January 2026

      A sociology of kindness as everyday enchantment

      On making the world go our way

      by Julie Brownlie

      This book asks us to consider how and why the notion of random acts of kindness and the idea of kindness more generally have come to take a hold in many contemporary English-speaking societies. By introducing and mapping the contours of an emergent kindness industry, marshalling empirical research on contemporary framings of everyday kindness and theoretical resources from cultural sociology to the sociology of emotions and relationships, Brownlie makes the case for a critical sociological engagement with the idea of kindness. In doing so, she argues for kindness to be seen as a form of everyday enchantment - one that, like all enchantments, is ultimately ambivalent.

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      March 2024

      The loneliness room

      A creative ethnography of loneliness

      by Sean Redmond

      This remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings. Refusing to pathologise loneliness, the book draws on the creative submissions supplied by its participants to demonstrate that being lonely can mean different things to different people in differing contexts. Filled with the photographs, paintings, videos, songs, and writings of its participants, The loneliness room is a deeply moving account of loneliness today.

    • Self-help & personal development
      September 2015

      Rethink it!

      Practical ways to rid yourself of anger, depression, jealousy and other common problems

      by Cohen, Michael

      Rethink it gives practical advice on tackling destructive thoughts that lead to anger, rejection, shame, jealousy, fear and worry. Words affect the way we feel and act, and negative talk leads to fear, anxiety, depression and a ‘why bother’ attitude.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      October 2020

      The Science of Feelings

      What Psychological Research Tells Us About Our Emotions

      by Eugene Tee

      What are emotions and why do we experience them? In the last 50 years or so, psychological science has shed light on the essence of what makes us human—why we experience a range of feelings from joy to sadness, anger to fear, and compassion to contempt. Yet, the science of emotion remains mostly inaccessible to the curious reader and those outside academic circles. This book is a story of our emotions; a story of why and how we feel as human beings. It is a tale of our emotions, told by philosophers, biologists, neuroscientists, sociologists, and economists. Drawing on the rich psychological research on emotions, this book invites you to revisit your emotions and to better appreciate and understand how feeling states define us and our humanity. Click here for more information

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2019

      La magie de l'empathie

      Théorie et pratique

      by Dre Nicole Audet, M.D.

      Mon père détestait manger des pommes de terre non salées qu’il jugeait fades et sans goût. Comme lui, je reste sur mon appétit après une conversation superficielle et vide de sens. Pour mettre du piquant dans mes relations, j’ai dû y mettre de l’empathie, cette épice mystérieuse qui a le pouvoir de transformer ceux qui la maîtrisent.Dans ce livre, je vulgarise d’abord la théorie de la communication, puis je raconte des moments magiques où l’empathie a fait son œuvre dans ma vie et dans ma carrière. Enfin, je présente des recettes éprouvées pour se préparer à parler et à écouter avec cœur, authenticité et empathie. Ces compétences exigent des efforts de préparation, de concentration et d’ouverture vers l’autre, mais elles rapportent au-delà de toute espérance chez ceux qui les pratiquent et les maîtrisent. Après tout, pour être savoureuse, la patate a besoin de sel tout comme la communication a besoin d’empathie pour rehausser son goût. C’est magique!Mme Ruth Vachon, présidente et directrice générale du Réseau des femmes d’affaires du Québec signe la préface de ce livre.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2019

      The Magic of Empathy

      Theory & Practice

      by Dr. Nicole Audet, M.D.

      So many of our relationships—including those most important to us are complicated by not listening: we are eager to speak, we talk over each other, or we unintentionally disregard the inner experiences of others. This is most notable in the working world, where a gap exists between professional efficiency and true human connection. In this heart-warming and radically honest book, Dr. Nicole identifies the remedy for resolving the pain and distance caused by miscommunication: empathy. Empathy, the ability to recognize and make space for another’s emotions without judgment, is both an action and a choice. Discovering the power of empathy to heal and create connections dramatically improved Dr. Nicole’s life, both as a mother and a doctor.The initial chapters demystify the theory of communication, focusing on empathy in theory and practice. Dr. Nicole also shares numerous powerful stories from her own life and career that reveal how empathy has led to authentic connections and long-term healing. Lastly, she provides the reader with proven exercises that will allow you to practice listening without judgment, honoring silence, responding with wisdom, and speaking from the heart. Such communication skills will open the doorsto moments of pure magic in your life.Foreword by Ruth Vachon, President and CEO of the Quebec Business Women’s Network.

    • Psychology

      My Father... Who I Hate!

      Reflections on Healing from Parental Abuse and Childhood Traumas

      by Dr. Emad Rashad Othamn

      We did not ask for much. Our only aspiration was to feel okay. And to feel good enough. To feel that we deserve love and to be loved… exactly as we are. It is a normal desire: to be accepted without any change. This book touches our old scars. The scars that did not take enough time to completely heal. The scars which were made by our own parents.

    • Education

      Social Situations – Time Management | Flip Card Series

      The book "Social Situations: Time Management" focuses on helping children learn how to manage their time well through everyday situations.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Age Group: 6+ The Social Situations: Time Management flip card series is designed to help children develop essential time management skills through real-life scenarios. These 30 illustrated cards guide children in prioritizing daily tasks, managing their free time, and creating a balanced schedule for home, school, and play. Key Features of the Book: Encourages responsibility by teaching children how to plan and follow a schedule. Helps improve efficiency by balancing responsibilities and leisure activities. Supports the development of lifelong time management skills, ensuring children grow into organized and stress-free adults. By practicing time management strategies early, children can develop better organization, independence, and productivity in their everyday lives.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences

      Transitions for autistic adolescents

      This book is an excellent resource tailored to autistic adolescents and all adolescents struggling to cope with the complexity of change.

      by Alice Kassotaki - Speech Language Pathologist MSc, BSc

      Age Group: 12 years and over This book is an essential resource for autistic adolescents and all young people who struggle with coping with the complexity of change. It provides a comprehensive approach to managing transitions, covering everything from simple everyday adjustments to significant life events. The book is structured into two key sections: Part One: Features sixty compelling stories about transition, each with a set of options and a detailed timeline to guide adolescents through the stages before, during, and after the change. Part Two: Focuses on the importance of communication through writing, offering tools to help adolescents describe their feelings, identify challenges, and set personal goals. By fostering an environment of understanding and practical strategies, Transitions for Autistic Adolescents helps young people manage changes with confidence and resilience. It takes into account the unique needs, preferences, and strengths of autistic individuals, ensuring a personalized approach to transition management. Through preparation, support, and structured strategies, this book reduces the stress of change and empowers adolescents to handle transitions smoothly.

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