Fearing Others: The Nature and Treatment of Social Phobia
Author: Ariel Stravynski File Type: pdf Social phobia is commonly regarded as a kind of disease caused by a deficient inner mechanism, but it may also be considered as a purposeful interpersonal pattern of self-protection from social threats. Though a critical assessment of several theoretical perspectives, this book attempts to clarify social phobia by critically discussing four questions what is social phobia, what causes it, what is its nature and what kinds of treatments can improve.Review...a valuable tool for the practicing clinician and researcher. Stravynski takes the reader on an informative trip into the genealogy of the social phobia diagnosis... Robert A. Bischoff, PsycCRITIQUES Book DescriptionIs social phobia a disease or a purposeful interpersonal pattern of self-protection from social threats? This book attempts to clarify social phobia through the critical discussion of four questions what is social phobia, what causes it, what is its nature and what kinds of treatments can improve it?
Author: Donald Preziosi
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Few phenomena in our lives are as inescapable as what we commonly refer to as artyet few concepts are more elusive than the idea of art itself. So what does art look like today? And what is its fate? Art Is Not What You Think It Is offers a series of critical incursions into the current state of debate on the idea of artmaking manifest what has been largely missing or unsaid in those discussions. Revealing how conventional thinking about art is largely based on misconceptions about its history, Preziosi and Farago call for a radical rethink of the subject and its relationship to a wide swath of todays worldfrom religion and philosophy to culture and politics. The authors probe a variety of issues, including the dangers of art and trap of the visual the frame that blinds us deconstruction of the agencies of art the intersections of the local and global the breach of art and religion, and commodifying artistry. Provocative and groundbreaking, Art is Not What You Think It Is will reshape conventional assumptions about the nature, meaning, and ultimate fate of art in todays world.
Author: David Adams Leeming
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The most comprehensive resource available on creation myths from around the worldtheir narratives, themes, motifs, similarities, and differencesand what they reveal about their cultures of origin. Over 200 entries on the creation myths of various peoples, belief systems, and religions from around the world, in addition to entries on the common features of many creation myths, such as the seed, the primordial being, the creative fire, water, and stages of creation 5 in-depth essays analyzing the nature and significance of the archetypal forms of creation myths A series of first person retellings of creation myths from different cultures by contemporary individuals Charts that categorize the myths according to type, theme, and geographical location An extensive glossary of terms related to creation mythsboth general and specific An annotated bibliography of print and online resources for further exploration of all aspects of creation mythology **About the Author David A. Leeming, PhD, is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Author: Steven Shaviro
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Accelerationism is the bastard offspring of a furtive liaison between Marxism and science fiction. Its basic premise is that the only way out is the way through to get beyond capitalism, we need to push its technologies to the point where they explode. This may be dubious as a political strategy, but it works as a powerful artistic program.Other authors have debated the pros and cons of accelerationist politics No Speed Limit makes the case for an accelerationist aesthetics. Our present moment is illuminated, both for good and for ill, in the cracked mirror of science-fictional futurity.Forerunners Ideas Firstis a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital publications. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Author: Bernard Stiegler
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Bernard Stieglers work on the intimate relations between the human and the technical have made him one of the most important voices to have emerged in French philosophy in the last decade. At the same time both an accessible summation of that work and a continuation of it, The Re-Enchantment of the World advances a critique of consumer capitalism that draws on Freud and Marx to construct an utterly contemporary analysis of our time. The book explores the cognitive, affective, social and economic effects of the proletarianization of the consumer in late capitalism and the resulting destruction of the consumers savoir-vivre. Reflecting the collective work of his activist organisation, Ars Industrialis, Stiegler here sets forth an alternative path to that of industrial populism, one that appeals to the force of the human spirit. The Re-Enchantment of the World also includes the manifesto of Ars Industrialis and an account of the organisations 2005 summit in Tunis. **
Author: Mark Ryan
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From differentiation to integration - solve problems with ease Got a grasp on the terms and concepts you need to know, but get lost halfway through a problem or, worse yet, not know where to begin? Have no fear! This hands-on guide focuses on helping you solve the many types of calculus problems you encounter in a focused, step-by-step manner. With just enough refresher explanations before each set of problems, youll sharpen your skills and improve your performance. Youll see how to work with limits, continuity, curve-sketching, natural logarithms, derivatives, integrals, infinite series, and more! 100s of Problems! Step-by-step answer sets clearly identify where you went wrong (or right) with a problem The inside scoop on calculus shortcuts and strategies Know where to begin and how to solve the most common problems Use calculus in practical applications with confidence**
Author: Eben Kirksey
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In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find possibilities in the wreckage of ongoing disasters, as symbiotic associations of opportunistic plants, animals, and microbes are flourishing in unexpected places. Emergent Ecologies uses artwork and contemporary philosophy to illustrate hopeful opportunities and reframe key problems in conservation biology such as invasive species, extinction, environmental management, and reforestation. Following the flight of capital and nomadic forms of lifethrough fragmented landscapes of Panama, Costa Rica, and the United StatesKirksey explores how chance encounters, historical accidents, and parasitic invasions have shaped present and future multispecies communities. New generations of thinkers and tinkerers are learning how to care for emergent ecological assemblagesinvolving frogs, fungal pathogens, ants, monkeys, people, and plantsby seeding them, nurturing them, protecting them, and ultimately letting go.
Author: Yiu-Wai Chu
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Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China. In Found in Transition, Yiu-Wai Chu examines the fate of Hong Kongs unique cultural identity in the contexts of both global capitalism and the increasing influence of China. Drawing on recent developments, especially with respect to language, movies, and popular songs as modes of resistance to Mainlandization and different forms of censorship, Chu explores the challenges facing Hong Kong twenty years after its reversion to China as a Special Administrative Region. Highlighting locality and hybridity along postcolonial lines of interpretation, he also attempts to imagine the future of Hong Kong by utilizing Hong Kong studies as a method. Chu argues that the study of Hong Kongthe place where the impact of the rise of China is most intensely feltcan shed light on emergent crises in different areas of the world. As such, this book represents a consequential follow-up to the authors Lost in Transition and a valuable contribution to international, area, and cultural studies. Yiu-Wai Chu is Professor and Director of the Hong Kong Studies Program at the University of Hong Kong. His books include Lost in Transition Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China, also published by SUNY Press. **
Author: Eric Allen Hall
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Arthur Ashe explains how this iconic African American tennis player overcame racial and class barriers to reach the top of the tennis world in the 1960s and 1970s. But more important, it follows Ashes evolution as an activist who had to contend with the shift from civil rights to Black Power. Off the court, and in the arena of international politics, Ashe positioned himself at the center of the black freedom movement, negotiating the poles of black nationalism and assimilation into white society. Fiercely independent and protective of his public image, he navigated the thin line between conservatives and liberals, reactionaries and radicals, the sports establishment and the black cause.Eric Allen Halls work examines Ashes life as a struggle against adversity but also a negotiation between the comfortsperhaps requirementsof tennis-star status and the felt obligation to protest the discriminatory barriers the white world constructed to keep black people in their place. Ashe lived a peculiarly difficult moral life, the personal and political producing exquisite conflict. White society expected him to be grateful black militants scolded him for not being radical enough. He broke racial taboos by playing tennis in Dixie and in South Africa, but he valued his privacy and shunned extremism. Ashe forced positive change in the United States and South Africa with an approach that borrowed from both the civil rights and the Black Power movements. After a severe heart attack in 1979, he stopped playing professional tennis but maintained a visible public profile as coach of the U.S. Davis Cup team, antiapartheid activist, and author of A Hard Road to Glory, the first published synthesis of African American sports history. A fierce guardian of his private life, Ashe was forced to publicly acknowledge that he was ill with AIDShaving become infected with HIV from a blood transfusion following coronary bypass surgery in 1983. He died of the disease in 1993. Drawing on coverage of Ashes athletic career and social activism in domestic and international publications, archives including the Ashe Papers, and a variety of published memoirs and interviews, Hall has created an intimate, nuanced portrait of a great athlete who stood at the crossroads of sports and equal justice.
Author: Michael Gagarin
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Review...an engaging study that is brimming with original insights. ...Gagarin offers a valuable, thought-provoking and welcome contribution to the growing body of literature on Greek law. --BMCR...this is a stimulating and thought-provoking book. Gagarin concludes with the observation that future study of ancient Greek law will require both new ideas and new perspectives to remain healthy. In Writing Greek Law he has offered refreshing examples of both. --New England Classical Journal Book DescriptionA comparative 2008 study of legal writing revealing the uniqueness of Greek law. The Greeks used writing extensively to make laws available to the community, but used it sparsely during litigation. This is very different from other societies, where fewer laws are written but legal documents are used frequently in litigation.