W swej najnowszej książce Piotr Jakub Fereński ukazuje relacje zachodzące pomiędzy kulturą, miastem i życiem jego mieszkańców. Autor proponuje specyficzny sposób czytania nakładających się na siebie w przestrzeni miejskiej kodów. Stara się pokazać, jak można interpretować zawarte w niej przekazy i znaczenia. Interesuje go zarówno to, co materialne, namacalne, bezpośrednio obserwowalne, jak i to, co niewidzialne, ukryte, a co zarazem stanowi klucz do zrozumienia sposobów myślenia i zachowań ludzi. Z jednej strony istotne okazują się wartości (estetyczne, artystyczne, etyczne), z drugiej zaś kapitał i praktyki władzy. Fereński zabiera czytelnika w podróż po różnych kontynentach – pisze zarówno o Wrocławiu czy Wiedniu, jak i o Brasílii, Limie, Detroit, Petersburgu, Nowokuźniecku i Tomsku. Pytając o heteronomie życia w mieście, rozważa kwestie związane z rozwojem cywilizacyjnym, ze znaczeniem architektury, z religią, z ideologią, z polityką, z globalnością, z przeobrażeniami społeczno-ekonomicznymi, z uwarunkowaniami geograficznymi. Najważniejsza wciąż jednak pozostaje kultura...
Niniejsze opracowanie to pierwsze w literaturze przedmiotu kompendium wiedzy ukazujące genezę i rozwój polskich agencji prasowych, od tworzenia zalążków tych instytucji aż do chwili obecnej. Jest to zarazem synteza podsumowująca stulecie istnienia rodzimych agencji prasowych.
W opracowaniu prześledzono proces ewolucji polskich agencji prasowych, od agencji telegraficznych do agencji elektronicznych (e-agencji). Autorka podkreśla kontekst polityczny wyrażający się w uwikłaniu agencji prasowych w bieżącą politykę, ukazując rolę omawianych instytucji w procesie rozpowszechniania informacji. Książka wykracza znacznie poza problematykę właściwą dla historii mediów, podejmując refleksję nad perspektywami rozwoju współczesnych agencji informacyjnych.
Walor opracowania stanowi materiał ilustracyjny w postaci fragmentów biuletynów prasowych. Książka adresowana jest do medioznawców, historyków mediów, politologów oraz studentów dziennikarstwa.
Dr hab. prof. UJK Renata Piasecka-Strzelec - pracownik naukowy Instytutu Dziennikarstwa i Informacji Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach. Swoje zainteresowania badawcze koncentruje wokół historii mediów oraz historii najnowszej Polski. W ostatnich latach analizuje również kierunki rozwoju współczesnych polskich agencji informacyjnych w kontekście społeczeństwa sieci.
Autorka wielu artykułów naukowych, rozdziałów w monografiach oraz trzech publikacji zwartych. Najważniejsze opracowanie w jej dotychczasowym dorobku naukowym to monografia Polskie agencje prasowe w latach 1944-1972. Upowszechnianie i reglamentacja informacji, działalność propagandowa (Wydawnictwo UJK, Kielce 2012).
Bezcenne wskazówki jak poprawić lub zmienić swoje życie, aby było spełnione i szczęśliwe. Wspaniała i potrzebna książka!
Urszula Dudziak
Książka zachęca do refleksji nad własnym rozwojem, kształtowaniem umiejętności autentycznego wyrażania siebie w relacjach z innymi oraz słuchaniem innych z uważnością. Zaproponowane ćwiczenia mogą stanowić motywację do zmiany dojrzałego życia.
Beata Bugajska
Uniwersytet Szczeciński
wiceprezes Polskiego Towarzystwa Gerontologicznego
Dzięki temu poradnikowi można poznać praktyczne sposoby mówienia NIE i przyjmowania NIE z troską o relację, wyrażania wdzięczności i proszenia w zgodzie ze sobą, by świadomie budować dojrzałe życie.
Joanna Berendt
Certyfikowany trener
i mediator Nonviolent Communication
akredytowany coach ICF PCC
Książka daje narzędzie do stworzenia satysfakcjonującego życia, nowych kompetencji, które pozwalają cieszyć się każdym dniem i zachwycać drugim człowiekiem. Zaproponowane ćwiczenia pomagają zrozumieć własne zachowania i emocje. Jeśli czujemy, że brakuje nam świadomego kontaktu z uczuciami, równowagi w dawaniu i braniu, obserwowania zdarzeń bez ich interpretacji oraz asertywnego stawiania granic, to ten poradnik jest właśnie dla nas.
Wanda Matras-Mastalerz
Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN w Krakowie
prezes Polskiego Towarzystwa Biblioterapeutycznego
Jest to lektura obowiązkowa dla każdego człowieka. Dzięki temu poradnikowi możemy na nowo odkryć swoje potrzeby i uczucia, zrozumieć, co jest ważne w relacjach z innymi ludźmi, by razem współtworzyć świat oparty na empatii.
Paweł Piątkowski
Uniwersytecki Szpital Kliniczny im. WAM w Łodzi
Wystarczy sięgnąć po tę pozycję, jeśli jest nam niewygodnie z sobą lub z innymi, a nie potrafimy tego zmienić, bo najtrudniej nauczyć i wychować samego siebie. Ten poradnik wam w tym pomoże.
Jolanta Miśkiewicz, poetka
Książka podpowiada, jak nawiązać bliższe więzi, wypracować szacunek, współpracę, zaufanie i troskę między członkami rodziny adopcyjnej. Jej wielką zaletą są też opisy różnych przypadków, z jakimi zetknęła się w swojej pracy terapeutycznej autorka. Pomagają one w zrozumieniu zachowania dzieci i uwrażliwiają rodziców na ewentualne dalsze zaburzenia w okresie młodzieńczym. Potrzebom emocjonalnym i poziomom rozwoju przypisane są strategie, jakie rodzice powinni stosować, aby wzmocnić poczucie szczęścia dziecka i jego zdrowie psychiczne. Rodzice otrzymują wiele szczegółowych informacji na temat rozwoju dzieci, zwłaszcza tych, które rozwijają się nieharmonijnie. Książka pokazuje, jak stworzyć takie środowisko, które z każdego członka rodziny wydobędzie to, co najlepsze.
Terapeutka więzi Deborah Gray przedstawia wiele teorii i wyników badań. Delikatnie zachęca, uwrażliwia, wspiera i uspokaja przerażonych rodziców adopcyjnych, jednocześnie dostarcza praktycznych narzędzi rodzinom oraz pracującym z nimi osobom. Wszystko objaśnia za pomocą anegdot i przykładów, by pokazać, jak sugerowane techniki mogą wywoływać pozytywną zmianę.
Książka ma na celu umożliwienie zdiagnozowania poziomu wypalenia i poszukania jego potencjalnych źródeł w codziennej pracy nauczyciela.Stanowi próbę odpowiedzi na takie pytania:- jak skutecznie wzmacniać chęć do działania?- jak radzić sobie ze stresem w pracy z uczniami?- jak stać się autorytetem w swojej dziedzinie?- jak zachować pasję do tego, co robimy?- jak efektywnie pracować nad własnym rozwojem?
Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world’s greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of everyday life.
Banned in Russia under Communism, A Calendar of Wisdom was Tolstoy’s last major work, and one of his most popular both during and after his lifetime. This new translation by Roger Cockrell will offer today’s generation of readers the chance to discover, day by day, these edifying and carefully selected pearls of wisdom.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious thinkers of the twentieth century. Lively and insightful, it covers all of his most significant themes, including man's need for a God and the mechanics of dream analysis. One of his most famous books, it perfectly captures the feelings of confusion that many sense today. Generation X might be a recent concept, but Jung spotted its forerunner over half a century ago. For anyone seeking meaning in today's world, Modern Man in Search of a Soul is a must.
‘If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them. It springs rather from my conviction that, if our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.’
- Karl Popper, from the Preface
Written in political exile during the Second World War and first published in two volumes in 1945, Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies is one of the most influential books of all time. Hailed by Bertrand Russell as a ‘vigorous and profound defence of democracy’, its now legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx exposed the dangers inherent in centrally planned political systems and through underground editions become an inspiration to lovers of freedom living under communism in Eastern Europe.
Popper’s highly accessible style, his erudite and lucid explanations of the thoughts of great philosophers and the recent resurgence of totalitarian regimes around the world are just three of the reasons for the enduring popularity of The Open Society and Its Enemies and why it demands to be read today and in years to come.
One of the most important texts of modern times, Herbert Marcuse's analysis and image of a one-dimensional man in a one-dimensional society has shaped many young radicals' way of seeing and experiencing life. Published in 1964, it fast became an ideological bible for the emergent New Left. As Douglas Kellner notes in his introduction, Marcuse's greatest work was a 'damning indictment of contemporary Western societies, capitalist and communist.' Yet it also expressed the hopes of a radical philosopher that human freedom and happiness could be greatly expanded beyond the regimented thought and behaviour prevalent in established society. For those who held the reigns of power Marcuse's call to arms threatened civilization to its very core. For many others however, it represented a freedom hitherto unimaginable.
Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies – the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.
Born in the French colony of Martinique, Fanon worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria, another French colony that saw brutal violence during its revolution against French rule. His experiences power the searing indictment of colonialism that is his final book, 1961’s The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon’s account of the physical and psychological violence of colonialism forms the basis of a passionate, closely reasoned call to arms – a call for violent revolution. Incendiary even today, it was more so in its time; the book first being published during the brutal conflict caused by the Algerian Revolution. Viewed as a profoundly dangerous work by the colonial powers of the world, Fanon’s book helped to inspire liberation struggles across the globe.
Though it has flaws, The Wretched of the Earth is above all a testament to the power of passionately sustained and closely reasoned argument: Fanon’s presentation of his evidence combines with his passion to produce an argument that it is almost impossible not to be swayed by.
In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, neurologist Oliver Sacks looked at the cutting-edge work taking place in his field, and decided that much of it was not fit for purpose. Sacks found it hard to understand why most doctors adopted a mechanical and impersonal approach to their patients, and opened his mind to new ways to treat people with neurological disorders. He explored the question of deciding what such new ways might be by deploying his formidable creative thinking skills.
Sacks felt the issues at the heart of patient care needed redefining, because the way they were being dealt with hurt not only patients, but practitioners too. They limited a physician’s capacity to understand and then treat a patient’s condition. To highlight the issue, Sacks wrote the stories of 24 patients and their neurological clinical conditions. In the process, he rebelled against traditional methodology by focusing on his patients’ subjective experiences.
Sacks did not only write about his patients in original ways – he attempt to come up with creative ways of treating them as well. At root, his method was to try to help each person individually, with the core aim of finding meaning and a sense of identity despite, or even thanks to, the patients’ condition. Sacks thus redefined the issue of neurological work in a new way, and his ideas were so influential that they heralded the arrival of a broader movement – narrative medicine – that placed stronger emphasis on listening to and incorporating patients’ experiences and insights into their care.
The end of the Cold War, which occurred early in the 1990s, brought joy and freedom to millions. But it posed a difficult question to the world's governments and to the academics who studied them: how would world order be remade in an age no longer dominated by the competing ideologies of capitalism and communism? Samuel P. Huntington was one of the many political scientists who responded to this challenge by conceiving works that attempted to predict the ways in which conflict might play out in the 21st century, and in The Clash of Civilizations he suggested that a new kind of conflict, one centred on cultural identity, would become the new focus of international relations. Huntington's theories, greeted with scepticism when his book first appeared in the 1990s, acquired new resonance after 9/11.
The Clash of Civilizations is now one of the most widely-set and read works of political theory in US universities; Huntington's theories have also had a measurable impact on American policy. In large part, this is a product of his problem-solving skills. Clash is a monument to its author's ability to generate and evaluate alternative possibilities and to make sound decisions between them. Huntington's view, that international politics after the Cold War would be neither peaceful, nor liberal, nor cooperative, ran counter to the predictions of almost all of his peers, yet his position – the product of an unusual ability to redefine an issue so as to see it in new ways – has been largely vindicated by events ever since.
Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as “evolving” from “savage” beliefs in magic, to religion, to modern science, then explains why she believes those arguments are wrong. She also adeptly chaperones readers through a vast amount of data, from firsthand research in the Congo to close readings of the Old Testament, and analyzes it in depth to provide evidence that traditional and Western religions have more in common than the first comparative religion scholars and early anthropologists thought.
First evaluating her scholarly predecessors by marshalling their arguments, Douglas identifies their main weakness: that they dismiss traditional societies and their religions by identifying their practices as “magic,” thereby creating a chasm between savages who believe in magic and sophisticates who practice religion.
Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today.
The book’s success owes much to Beauvoir’s brilliant writing style and passion, but both are rooted in the clarity of her critical thinking skills. She builds a strong argument against the silent assumptions that continually demoted (and still demote) women to “second place” in a society dominated by men. Beauvoir also demonstrates the central skills of reasoning at their best: presenting a persuasive case, organising her thoughts, and supporting her conclusions.
Above all, though, The Second Sex is a masterclass in analysis. Treating the structures of contemporary society and culture as a series of arguments that tend continuously to demote women, Beauvoir is able to isolate and describe the implicit assumptions that underpin male domination. Her demolition of these assumptions provides the crucial ammunition for her argument that women are in no way the “second” sex, but are in every way the equal of men.
Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is an unflinching dissection of the racial biases built into the American prison system. Named after the laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern United States until the mid-1960s, The New Jim Crow argues that while America is now legally a colorblind society – treating all races equally under the law – many factors combine to build profound racial weighting into the legal system.
The US now has the world’s highest rate of incarceration, and a disproportionate percentage of the prison population is comprised of African-American men. Alexander’s argument is that different legal factors have combined to mean both that African-Americans are more likely to be targeted by police, and to receive long jail sentences for their crimes. While many of Alexander’s arguments and statistics are to be found in other books and authors’ work, The New Jim Crow is a masterful example of the reasoning skills that communicate arguments persuasively. Alexander’s skills are those fundamental to critical thinking reasoning: organizing evidence, examining other sides of the question, and synthesizing points to create an overall argument that is as watertight as it is persuasive.
Never before has there been a greater need for deeper listening and more open communication to cope with the complex problems facing our organizations, businesses and societies. Renowned scientist David Bohm believed there was a better way for humanity to discover meaning and to achieve harmony. He identified creative dialogue, a sharing of assumptions and understanding, as a means by which the individual, and society as a whole, can learn more about themselves and others, and achieve a renewed sense of purpose.
`Professor Douglas writes gracefully, lucidly and polemically. She continually makes points which illuminate matters in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science and help to show the rest of us just why and how anthropology has become a fundamentally intellectual discipline' - New Society
Professor Douglas' book sparkles with intellectual life and is characterised by a concern to understand. Right or wrong, sound or idiosyncratic, it presents a rare and exciting spectacle of a mind at work.' - Times Literary Supplement
Can mediums communicate with the dead? Do people really believe they’ve been abducted by aliens? Why do some people make life decisions based on their horoscope?
The Psychology of the Paranormal explores some commonly held beliefs regarding experiences so strange they can defy an obvious scientific explanation. The book explains how psychologists have conducted experiments to provide insight into phenomena such as clairvoyance, astrology, and alien abduction, as well as teaching us fundamental truths about human belief systems.
From debunking myths about Extra Sensory Perception, to considering whether our lives can truly be fated by the stars, The Psychology of the Paranormal shows us that however unlikely, belief in the paranormal will continue to be widespread.
How does music affect our moods?
What is the best way to develop musical skills?
How does the definition of music vary between cultures?
The Psychology of Music explores the important impact music has on our everyday lives, and its influence on society, groups and individual people. It demonstrates how music can benefit our intellectual functioning, and health and well-being, and examines musical ability as both a gift and something that can be developed through learning and practice.
Music can enhance our understanding of humanity and modern life and The Psychology of Music shows us the significance of music, and the power it can have over our behaviour.
Is happiness all down to luck? Do events in our life influence how happy we feel? Can too much of a good thing make us less happy?
The Psychology of Happiness introduces readers to the variety of factors that can affect how happy we are. From our personality and feelings of self-worth, to our physical health and employment status, happiness is a subjective experience which will change throughout our lives. Although feeling happy is linked with positive thinking and our sociability in daily life, the book also includes surprising facts about the limitations of our personal happiness.
We all want to feel happy in our lives, and The Psychology of Happiness shows us that achieving it can be both an accident of fortune and as a direct result of our own actions and influence.
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