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| Below are several titles exhibited by LSS in 2018—selected for their excellence and significance. Please scroll down the page for information on these exciting books—produced by the publishers that we work with. Please support these publishers by ordering through Amazon. |
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The Happiness Industry
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Broke and Patriotic |
| The recent DSM-5 for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age, a new religion dedicated to well-being. In this brilliant dissection of our times, William Davies shows how this philosophy has dominated the political debates that have delivered neoliberalism. |
Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations. In Broke and Patriotic, Francesco Duina reports his findings based on over 60 revealing interviews in which the people he met explain how they view themselves and their country. |
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POLITY
Culture and Cognition
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WORTH PUBLISHERS
The Wilding of America |
| How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and what we ignore? In this engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus shows us the many ways that culture influences our thought processes. |
From the heights of society down to the saddest corners of America, we are currently experiencing an epidemic of “wilding”—acts of self-interested violence or greed that weaken the social fabric. Derber’s fully updated Sixth Edition takes the reader on a terrifying tour of this out-of-control individualism spreading across the United States. |
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DEMETER PRESS
Matricentric Feminism
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INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING
Pathfinders in International Psychology |
| Argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face are specific to women's role and identity as mothers. Consequently, mothers need a feminism of their own, one that positions mothers' concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic of empowerment. |
This book provides a global overview of pioneers in international psychology, with contributions from distinguished authors from representative nations around the world. Chapters offer biographical profiles describing the personal histories and professional contributions of leading figures in psychology from across the globe. |
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