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Hermann Lotze - An Intellectual Biography

by William R. (University Of New Hampshire) Woodward

~~168,98€~~ 135,18€ 20% OFF

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 As a philosopher, psychologist, and physiologist, the nineteenth-century German thinker Hermann Lotze defies classification. This book is the first full-length historical study of Lotze's intellectual origins and institutional context and thus enriches the current scholarship in the history of philosophy, psychology, and medicine.
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Changing The Rules - Psychology In The Netherlands 1900â€“1985

by Trudy (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands) Dehue

~~45,96€~~ 36,77€ 20% OFF

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 This book uses twentieth-century psychology in the Netherlands to study debates over the correct methodology of the social sciences.
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Measuring Minds - Henry Herbert Goddard And The Origins Of American Intelligence Testing

by Leila (California State University, Fullerton) Zenderland

~~62,19€~~ 49,75€ 20% OFF

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 This book explores the early history of one of the most controversial psychological innovations of this century: intelligence testing. It follows Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester, as he tried to introduce this French innovation into the basic institutions of American life.
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Inventing Our Selves - Psychology, Power, And Personhood

by Nikolas (Goldsmiths College, University Of London) Rose

~~77,06€~~ 61,65€ 20% OFF

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 Inventing Our Selves analyses our current regime of the 'self' and the values that animate it; it discusses how psychology and other 'psy' disciplines have affected the ways in which people understand themselves, and aims to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.
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The Professionalization Of Psychology In Nazi Germany

by Ulfried Geuter

~~59,48€~~ 47,58€ 20% OFF

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 It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany, faced with political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds, withered under national Socialism. Yet in The Professionalisation of Psychology in Nazi Germany Ulfried Geuter tells a radically different story of how German psychology, rather than disappearing, rapidly grew into a fully developed profession during the Third Reich.
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Metaphors In The History Of Psychology

~~58,13€~~ 46,50€ 20% OFF

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 Metaphors in the History of Psychology describes and analyses the ways in which psychological accounts of brain functioning, consciousness, cognition, emotion, motivation, learning, and behaviour have been shaped - and are still being shaped - by the central metaphors used by contemporary psychologists and their predecessors.
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Crowds, Psychology, And Politics, 1871â€“1899

by Jaap Van (Universiteit Van Amsterdam) Ginneken

~~75,71€~~ 60,57€ 20% OFF

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 Jaap van Ginneken's study explores the social and intellectual history of the emergence of crowd psychology in the late nineteenth century. Both the popular work of the French physician LeBon and his predecessors are shown to be influenced and closely connected with both the dramatic events and academic debates of their day.
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Constructing Scientific Psychology - Karl Lashley'S Mind-Brain Debates

by Nadine M. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Weidman

~~50,02€~~ 40,02€ 20% OFF

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 This 1999 book was the first full-scale interpretation of the life and work of the major American neuropsychologist Karl Lashley. The book explodes the myth of Lashley's neuropsychology as a fact-driven, 'pure' science by arguing that a belief in the power of heredity and a nativist and deeply conservative racial ideology informed every aspect of his theory and practice.
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Measuring Minds - Henry Herbert Goddard And The Origins Of American Intelligence Testing

by Leila (California State University, Fullerton) Zenderland

~~110,85€~~ 88,68€ 20% OFF

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 This book explores the early history of one of the most controversial psychological innovations of this century: intelligence testing. It follows Henry Herbert Goddard, America's first intelligence tester, as he tried to introduce this French innovation into the basic institutions of American life.
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Gestalt Psychology In German Culture, 1890â€“1967 - Holism And The Quest For Objectivity

by Mitchell G. (University Of Iowa And Universitat Wien, Austria) Ash

~~177,10€~~ 141,68€ 20% OFF

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 A full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology in Germany, based on exhaustive research in primary sources, including archival material. Ash challenges accepted viewpoints in the history of German science and culture by showing that holistic thought, natural science, and democratic politics were compatible.
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Changing The Rules - Psychology In The Netherlands 1900â€“1985

by Trudy (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands) Dehue

~~127,08€~~ 101,66€ 20% OFF

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 This book uses twentieth-century psychology in the Netherlands to study debates over the correct methodology of the social sciences.
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Metaphors In The History Of Psychology

~~154,11€~~ 123,29€ 20% OFF

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 Metaphors in the History of Psychology describes and analyses the ways in which psychological accounts of brain functioning, consciousness, cognition, emotion, motivation, learning, and behaviour have been shaped - and are still being shaped - by the central metaphors used by contemporary psychologists and their predecessors.
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Rebels Within The Ranks - Psychologists' Critique Of Scientific Authority And Democratic Realities In New Deal America

by Katherine (University Of Oklahoma) Pandora

~~123,01€~~ 98,41€ 20% OFF

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 This book examines the work of social and personality psychologists who in the 1930s criticized the increasingly restrictive vision of scientific life being promoted by neo-behavioralist social scientists in the United States.
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The Professionalization Of Psychology In Nazi Germany

by Ulfried Geuter

~~141,95€~~ 113,56€ 20% OFF

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 It has been widely believed that psychology in Germany, faced with political antipathy and mass emigration of its leading minds, withered under national Socialism. Yet in The Professionalisation of Psychology in Nazi Germany Ulfried Geuter tells a radically different story of how German psychology, rather than disappearing, rapidly grew into a fully developed profession during the Third Reich.
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Gestalt Psychology In German Culture, 1890â€“1967 - Holism And The Quest For Objectivity

by Mitchell G. (University Of Iowa And Universitat Wien, Austria) Ash

~~75,71€~~ 60,57€ 20% OFF

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 A full-length historical study of Gestalt psychology in Germany, based on exhaustive research in primary sources, including archival material. Ash challenges accepted viewpoints in the history of German science and culture by showing that holistic thought, natural science, and democratic politics were compatible.
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Constructing The Subject - Historical Origins Of Psychological Research

by Kurt Danziger

~~33,80€~~ 27,04€ 20% OFF

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 Constructing the Subject traces the history of psychological research methodology from the nineteenth century to the second quarter of the twentieth century. Danziger examines the social context on research practice in the field of personality research. It has important consequences for a critical understanding of psychological methodology in general.
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Rebels Within The Ranks - Psychologists' Critique Of Scientific Authority And Democratic Realities In New Deal America

by Katherine (University Of Oklahoma) Pandora

~~58,13€~~ 46,50€ 20% OFF

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 This book examines the work of social and personality psychologists who in the 1930s criticized the increasingly restrictive vision of scientific life being promoted by neo-behavioralist social scientists in the United States.
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Inventing Our Selves - Psychology, Power, And Personhood

by Nikolas (Goldsmiths College, University Of London) Rose

~~32,45€~~ 25,96€ 20% OFF

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 Inventing Our Selves analyses our current regime of the 'self' and the values that animate it; it discusses how psychology and other 'psy' disciplines have affected the ways in which people understand themselves, and aims to help us think differently about the kind of persons we are, or might become.
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English Metrical Psalms - Poetry As Praise And Prayer, 1535-1601

by Rivkah Zim

59,48€

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 This 1987 book was the first full-scale study of English metrical Psalms to be published in the twentieth century.
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Political Participation And Democracy In Britain

by George Moyser, Geraint Parry e Neil Day

81,11€

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 The results of a survey on the level and patterns of political involvement in Britain.

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