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Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

Extreme intelligence is strongly correlated with the highest of human achievement but also paradoxically with higher relationship conflict career difficulty mental illness and high-IQ crime. Increased intelligence does not necessarily increase success; it should be considered as a minority special need that requires nurturing. This book explores the social development and predicaments of those who possess extreme intelligence and the consequent personal and professional implications for them. It uniquely integrates insights and knowledge from the research fields of intelligence giftedness genius and expertise with those from depth psychology emphasising the importance of finding ways to talk effectively about extreme intelligence and how it can better be supported and embraced. The author supports her arguments throughout reviewing the academic literature alongside representations of genius in history fiction and the media and draws on her own first-hand research interviews and consulting work with multinational high-IQ adults. This book is essential reading for anyone supporting or working with the highly gifted as well as those researching or interested by the field of intelligence. | Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

GBP 27.99
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France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provides commentary and analysis of the broad range of the extra-parliamentary right in interwar France. Organisations such as Action Française and the militant ligues are examined as well as prominent extreme-right intellectuals such as Lucien Rebatet Robert Brasillach and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. The various forms of French anti-Semitism are assessed and the book also situates the French extreme right within a broader context by assessing its impact on other European countries including the UK. It concludes by exploring the complicated politics of wartime France where some extreme-right activists collaborated with the Nazis while others opposed them and where few generalisations prove possible. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of French history the extreme right and interwar politics. | France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

GBP 36.99
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Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

In Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills Dr Sonja Falck provides a unique and practical manual of how to improve interpersonal interactions that involve adults who stand out from the neurotypical majority by having top 2% IQ. Her main message is that understanding the individual differences involved in extreme intelligence and mastering relevant communication skills can break through barriers of frustration underachievement and loneliness to bring about brain-changingly positive conversations and interpersonal effectiveness connection and joy. Dr Falck begins by explaining the neurophysiological and social foundations of why we communicate the way we do and then explains in detail seven essential communication skills. Following this she shows how to put these skills into practice applying insights from depth psychology and demonstrating how to have better conversations in a variety of contexts from general social gatherings to the workplace and intimate relationships. Particular attention is paid to areas that Dr Falck’s research and professional practice have repeatedly shown her are challenging for adults with extreme intelligence such as small talk office politics dating and handling conflict. She draws on case examples from her consulting work (psychotherapy and coaching) with clients who have extreme intelligence and examples from novels cinema the media the literature on giftedness and biographical material on high-profile high-IQ figures like Steve Jobs Elon Musk and Lady Gaga. Throughout she emphasizes the theme from her original model of interpersonal relating which is that experiencing freedom of self-expression with others who offer you a high level of acceptance is what puts you in a state of thriving. The book provides step-by-step guidance for engaging in numerous interpersonal situations such as how to handle difficult conversations how to write effective emails how to breathe listen play take a risk bond repair a broken connection and keep yourself well through changes like failure success and falling in love. It is essential reading for anyone affected by or interested in issues associated with extremely high intelligence. | Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

GBP 24.99
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Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society including new perspectives on charity morality and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving spending and investment. Misers surveys this class of people—as invented and interpreted in sermons poems novels and plays; analyzed by economists and philosophers; and profiled in obituaries and biographies—to explore how British attitudes about saving money shifted between 1700 and 1860. As opposed to the century before the nineteenth century witnessed a new appreciation for misers as economists credited them with adding to the nation's stock of capital and novelists newly imagined their capacity to empathize with fellow human beings. These characters shared the spotlight with real people who posthumously donned that label populating into a cottage industry of miser biographies by the 1850s. By the time A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843 many Victorians had come to embrace misers as links that connected one generation’s extreme saving with the next generation’s virtuous spending. With a broad chronological period this volume is useful for students and scholars interested in representation of misers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. | Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

GBP 130.00
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Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

This book considers the nature causes and consequences of extreme pro- and anti-sustainability rhetoric exploring how and why the expressions of radical views on sustainability-related themes may prevent real sustainable development. Following a thorough introduction on sustainability rhetoric on dialogue and on the role played by ideologies in the building of environmental beliefs Fracarolli Nunes and Lee Park examine positions and statements expressed or made by individuals companies governments and NGOs in the last decades. The outcomes of these considerations lead to the classification of expressions in different categories of sustainability rhetoric laying the groundwork for the development of a ‘sustainability spectrum’: a metric for the level of radicalization of sustainability positions which ranges from apocalyptic views to ultimate denial. Through the combination of historical perspectives theoretical frameworks and conceptual developments this book provides a foundation for a more informed and productive dialogue between radically opposing views on sustainability issues. This volume will be of great interest to students scholars and practitioners researching and working in the areas of environmental communication and media environmental politics and sustainable development. | Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

GBP 130.00
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The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence this book considers the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety of contributing factors such as brain abnormalities in homicide offenders. Featuring several contemporary real-world case studies this book offers insight into the psychology of serial homicide offenders mass shooters school shooters and lone-actor terrorists. The main purpose of this book is not to glorify or condemn the actions of these individuals but to attempt to explain the motivations and circumstances that inspire such acts of extreme violence. By adopting a detailed case study approach it aims to increase our understanding of the specific motivations and psychological factors underlying extreme violence. Using nontechnical language this book is the ideal companion for students researchers and forensic practitioners interested in the multidisciplinary nature of extreme violence. This book will also be of interest to students taking courses on homicide mass shooting school shooting terrorism forensic psychology and criminology and criminal justice. | The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

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Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire fantasy and irrationality as it is about interest reality and reason the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance. Its growth and interconnection with other fields appealed to the eclectic and holistic interests of historians so much so that the term psychohistory was coined admiringly ambivalently or perjoratively. The methodological intersection of psychology and history also helped move us toward a more inclusive social history through investigation of the institutional history of medical sciences of the mind. Treating Mind and Body examines the recent history of psychotherapy psychoanalysis and medicine in Germany through a series of original essays by Geoffrey Cocks. The first section Psychotherapy analyzes the history of psychotherapy in the Third Reich and includes such essays as The Professionalization of Psychotherapy in Germany and The Nazis and C. G. Jung which examines Jung's association with the Nazi regime and the rift between Jungians and Freudians. Section two Psychoanalysis considers the repression of memory evident among German psychoanalysts a more disturbing historical reality than the traditional view of a Nazi destruction of psychoanalysis. Essays include Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Germany Since 1939 as well as a discussion of Heinz Kohut's self psychology in light of Kohut's life experience in Austria and America. In section three Cocks treats medicine the history of professions and the increasing awareness among historians of the place of medicine hi Nazi plans and projects. Essays include Jews and Medicine in Modern German Society and The Nuremberg Doctor's Trial and Medicine in Modern Germany. As a historian of Germany psychoanalysis and medicine Cocks's writings reflect an abiding interest in the intersections of psychology and history. To his selection of previously published essays he adds a new introduction placing the essays in newer richer contexts. This book will be of interest to psychologists psychiatrists and psychotherapists as well as those in the fields of medicine history and sociology. | Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

GBP 27.99
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Global Heating and the Australian Far Right

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in Australia exploring their broader political context and responses to climate change. The book traces the development of far-right pseudo-environmentalism and territorial politics from colonial genocide and Australian nationalism to extreme-right political violence. Through a critical analysis of news and social media it reveals how denialist and resignatory attitudes towards climate change operate alongside extreme right accelerationism in a wider Australian political context characterised by reactionary fossil fuel politics and neoliberal New Right climate change agendas. The authors scrutinise the manipulation of environmental politics by contemporary Australian far- and extreme-right actors in cross-national online media. They also assess the political-ideological context of the contemporary far right addressing intergovernmental approaches to security threats connected to the far right and climate change and the emergence of radical environmentalist traditions in ‘New Catastrophism’ literature. The conclusion synthesises key insights analysing the mainstreaming of ethnonationalist and authoritarian responses to global heating and potential future trajectories of far-right movements exploiting the climate crisis. It also emphasises the necessity for radical political alternatives to counter the far right’s exploitation of climate change. This book will be of interest to researchers of climate change the far right neoliberal capitalism extremism and Australian politics.

GBP 130.00
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The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia–Ukraine Conflict provides a comprehensive account of the postwar parliamentary and extra parliamentary far right in Italy. This book explores the ideology movements and activism of the extreme right and neo- fascists. The recent victory in the Italian parliamentary elections of the ‘post-fascist’ party Fratelli d’Italia and its leader Giorgia Meloni highlights the importance of such research. The book examines why some of these movements participated with CIA- backing in the ‘Strategy of Tension’ in the years of the Cold War where terrorist actions aimed to keep Italy in NATO and prevent the Communist Party from coming to power while other extreme- right groups vehemently opposed this and what they considered the dangerous ‘Americanization’ of the country. It debunks the myth that there was a unified postwar fascist movement in Italy but instead excavates the complex battles within the extreme right as well as with their opponents from the left and the authorities. This study is necessary to clarify the history and ideological dynamics of a political area still too often shrouded in mystery and whose geopolitical role is still poorly understood and generally underestimated. The analysis is contextualized in the present day by looking at the different perspectives of the Italian far right on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The book will be of interest to researchers of political history the Cold War and Italian history and politics. | The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

GBP 35.99
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High Hopes The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition

High Hopes The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition

Now in paperback this perceptive psychological portrait of Clinton and his presidency investigates whether Clinton has demonstrated the necessary qualities of judgment vision character and skill as well as his ambition and extreme self-confidence. Renshon traces the development of Clinton's character from his early family experiences to his adolescence and long political career including the controversy surrounding Clinton's draft-dodging and marriage. | High Hopes The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition

GBP 160.00
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The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber A Psychoanalytic Essay

The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber A Psychoanalytic Essay

Why does someone resolve to take his own life in order to murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows him to commit such a monstrous act? This book explores the mental state that compels certain individuals to perform murderous suicidal acts and emphasizes that whereas a suicidal terrorist attack can be described as a crime against humanity its protagonists cannot necessarily be classified as criminal or insane. There is no such a thing as a typical suicide terrorist - each attacker differs in age sex family status culture and even religion. Indeed the common elements in suicide terrorism should perhaps be sought not so much in the individuals concerned as in the dynamics rooted in their group family history or country. It may be extreme situations experienced by the group situations that are either objectively extreme or perceived as such that give rise to paradoxical behaviour at individual level. Psychoanalysis is well placed to consider this terrain. | The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber A Psychoanalytic Essay

GBP 130.00
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The North the South and the Environment

The North the South and the Environment

The essays in this study contribute to an analysis of the prospects for the world's economy in the face of environmental constraints. The contributors examine the implications of development in both northern and southern hemispheres and the extreme differences between rich and poor nations in the distribution of income resource use and consumption. Using extensive case studies from WIDER-sponsored research the text explores the limits and consequences of further development. | The North the South and the Environment

GBP 175.00
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Greenhouse Warming Abatement and Adaptation

Greenhouse Warming Abatement and Adaptation

Originally published in 1989 Greenhouse Warming combines papers presented at a workshop held in 1987 to discuss climate change. This study identifies ways that climate impacts upon agriculture forestry and water resources in order to advise on safeguarding against drought flood and extreme cold as well as what policies can be implemented to adapt to the probable physical and socioeconomic impacts of climate change. This study will be of interest to students of environmental studies. | Greenhouse Warming Abatement and Adaptation

GBP 16.99
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Terror Love and Brainwashing Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

Terror Love and Brainwashing Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in totalitarian states terrorist groups and cults as well as in controlling personal relationships. Illustrated with compelling stories from a range of cults and totalitarian systems Stein's book defines and analyses the common identifiable traits that underlie these groups emphasizing the importance of maintaining open yet supportive personal networks. Using original attachment theory-based research this book highlights the dangers of closed isolating relationships and the closed belief systems that justify them and demonstrates the psychological impact of these environments ending with evidence-based recommendations to support an educational approach to awareness and prevention. Featuring a foreword by John Horgan the new edition has been fully updated to include recent work on political extremism and radicalization and totalitarian systems as well as the recent highly publicized NXIVM case. Terror Love and Brainwashing second edition is essential reading for professionals policy makers legal professionals educators and cult survivors and their families themselves. | Terror Love and Brainwashing Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems

GBP 27.99
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Visioning Multicultural Education Past Present Future

Visioning Multicultural Education Past Present Future

Organized by the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) this volume explores the organic relationship between the past present and future of the discipline. In particular the book addresses the various forms of recent social upheaval from educational inequities and growing economic divides to extreme ideological differences and immigration conflicts. Written by a group of eminent and emerging scholars chapters draw lessons from the past two decades and celebrate present accomplishments in order to ambition a better future through multicultural education. | Visioning Multicultural Education Past Present Future

GBP 38.99
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Social Amnesia A Critique of Contemporary Psychology

Social Amnesia A Critique of Contemporary Psychology

Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembrance - society's own past. In this book Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content. Social Amnesia is an effort to remember what is perpetually lost under the pressure of society. It is simultaneously a critique of present practices and theories in psychology. Jacoby's new self-evaluation has the same sharp edge as the book itself offering special insights into the evolution of psychological theory during the past two decades. In his probing self-critical new introduction Jacoby maintains that any serious appraisal of psychology or sociology or any discipline must seek to separate the political from the theoretical. He discusses how in the years since Social Amnesia was first published society has oscillated from extreme subjectivism to extreme objectivism which feed off each other and constitute two forms of social amnesia: a forgetting of the past and a pseudo-historical consciousness. Social Amnesia contains a forceful argument for thinking against the grain - an endeavor that remains as urgent as ever. It is an important work for sociologists psychologists and psychoanalysts. | Social Amnesia A Critique of Contemporary Psychology

GBP 130.00
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The Psychology of Prejudice

The Psychology of Prejudice

Why do we develop extreme attitudes to others? Can our personality contribute to our prejudices? How do we reduce prejudice and discrimination? The Psychology of Prejudice explores different forms of prejudice and discrimination from racial jokes to genocide. It looks at what might cause our prejudiced attitudes including our personalities social influences group identity and evolutionary factors and how prejudice can be reduced through education campaigning and consciousness raising. Offering insights into a topic of great public concern and debate The Psychology of Prejudice shows us how we can confront our prejudiced attitudes and contribute to greater tolerance and understanding.

GBP 12.99
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Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television Hollywood’s Cartel Wars

Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television Hollywood’s Cartel Wars

This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution. Mapping out media representations of the ongoing war on drugs in Mexico and the United States the author delves into the social cultural and geopolitical impacts of distribution and consumption of these media. With a particular emphasis on the globalized Mexican cartels this book investigates three areas – gender and racial representation in film and television the digital distribution of content through the internet and streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix and depictions of extreme violence in film television and online spaces – to identify whether there are fundamental similarities and differences in how Hollywood productions reproduce stereotypes about race gender and extreme violence. Some of the movies and television series analysed are Breaking Bad Ozark Weeds Rambo: Last Blood No Country for Old Men Sicario and the Netflix series Narcos Narcos: Mexico and El Chapo. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach to the study of cartels in the media this book will be of interest to students and scholars of media studies film television security studies Latin American and cultural studies. | Global Trafficking Networks on Film and Television Hollywood’s Cartel Wars

GBP 38.99
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Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity From Toxic to Seminal

Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity From Toxic to Seminal

Drawing on a broad range of psychoanalytic cultural and social influences the author examines the concept of toxic masculinity for how it brings into focus a widespread anxiety about toxicity throughout daily life: In nature society and personal relationships. Aggressive misogynistic masculinity has become a major topic in recent years spreading throughout popular culture the media and research. Often called 'phallic ' it simmers in everyday life and hits the headlines for turning florid and violent in maintaining its dominance especially towards women. But at the extreme phallic masculinity has recently crystallized in a very different form as toxic masculinity and 'toxic' has become the near-universal epithet for all forms of extreme destructiveness in a 'toxic culture. ' It has brought into focus and named as masculine an anxiety over toxicity in every corner of everyday life. Exploring toxic masculinity in depth brings out a misogynistic current that pervades individual and social realms but also throws a sharp light on normal masculinity. By elaborating on the roots of this toxicity Figlio is able to draw out a different more positive alternative for masculinity with particular reference to the underlying fears around fertility and the seminal. With a strong research and clinical base this book is essential reading for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists and cultural and social theorists interested in exploring concepts of masculinity. | Rethinking the Psychoanalysis of Masculinity From Toxic to Seminal

GBP 31.99
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Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at home and abroad. He then traces some serious and recurrent internal problems to the commitment to difficult Pietist beliefs about authority and obedience. The organization survived those troubles and its impact on Ghana continued to grow because the same biblical worldview that demanded extreme discipline also prepared the members of the mission community to sustain their efforts. | Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast 1828-1917

GBP 175.00
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