The Beginner Books -- "Their cartoon format and irreverent wit make difficult ideas accessible and entertaining." -- NewsdayEverything you need to know about neurosis, libido, ego, and id -- but somehow it slipped your mind.Freud for Beginners is a perfec
A guide to planning and action, language, memory, attention, emotions and vision, this text explains what science has to say about these topics. Contrasting the seemingly bizarre consequences of head injury with the workday triumphs of the healthy brain,
The philosopher Kierkegaard was an extremely radical thinker - an anti-philosopher - who insisted that philosophy was a waste of time unless it permanently changed people's lives.
Taking the reader on a step-by-step tour of the key players of quantum theory, and explaining such concepts as Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, non-locality and Schrodinger's cat, this text aims to provide a clear introduction to the theories which hav
Moore and Zarate collaborate on a graphic novel full of irony and tension. Adman Timothy Hole is about to get a crack at the the big one: selling the diet drink sensation Flite to the U.S.S.R. Except someone wants him dead. Little murders, tiny betrayals,
One of the only compilations of the crime comic genre, this volume contains 25 of the best graphic short stories, spanning all the nuances of noir, from classic American newspaper strip serials and notorious uncensored comic books to today’s global grap
Was Marx himself a 'Marxist'? Was his visionary promise of socialism betrayed by Marxist dictatorship? Is Marxism inevitably totalitarian? What did Marx really say? "Introducing Marxism" provides a fundamental account of Karl Marx's original philosophy, i
How do psychoanalysts conceptualize the mind? Why was Sigmund Freud so interested in sex? How does analysis work? Introducing Psychoanalysis offers insights into the nature of psychoanalytic theory and original ways of describing therapeutic practice. In
