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The Red Book (Hardcover, New): C. G. Jung The Red Book (Hardcover, New)
C. G. Jung; Edited by Sonu Shamdasani; Introduction by Sonu Shamdasani; Translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, … 1
R7,227 R5,647 Discovery Miles 56 470 Save R1,580 (22%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The years, of which I have spoken to you, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then. These are the words of the psychologist C. G. Jung in 1957, referring to the decades he worked on The Red Book from 1914 to 1930. Although its existence has been known for more than eighty years, The Red Book was never published or made available to the wide audience of Jung s students and followers. Nothing less than the central book of Jung s oeuvre, it is being published now in a full facsimile edition with a contextual essay and notes by the noted Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani and translated by Mark Kyburz, John Peck, and Sonu Shamdasani. It will now be possible to study Jung s self-experimentation through primary documentation rather than fantasy, gossip, and speculation, and to grasp the genesis of his later work. For nearly a century, such a reading has simply not been possible, and the vast literature on his life and work has lacked access to the single most important document. This publication opens the possibility of a new era in understanding Jung s work. It provides a unique window into how he recovered his soul and constituted a psychology. It is possibly the most influential hitherto unpublished work in the history of psychology. This exact facsimile of The Red Book reveals not only an extraordinary mind at work but also the hand of a gifted artist and calligrapher. Interspersed among more than two hundred lovely illuminated pages are paintings whose influences range from Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East to the native art of the new world. The Red Book, much like the handcrafted Books of Hours from the Middle Ages, is unique. Both in terms of its place in Jung s development and as a work of art, its publication is a landmark."

The Future of Forensic Psychology - Core Topics and Emerging Trends (Hardcover): Sara Landstroem, Par-Anders Granhag, Peter J.... The Future of Forensic Psychology - Core Topics and Emerging Trends (Hardcover)
Sara Landstroem, Par-Anders Granhag, Peter J. Van Koppen
R4,022 Discovery Miles 40 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

- Highlights the work of rising stars in the field - Strikes a balance between chapters that are at the very core of legal/forensic psychology and chapters that present new exciting developments within the field - The proposed volume is born out of the world's first and so far only international doctoral program devoted to legal/forensic psychology: The House of Legal Psychology, funded by the EU

Leadership and Narcissism in the Organization (Hardcover): Mateusz Grzesiak Leadership and Narcissism in the Organization (Hardcover)
Mateusz Grzesiak
R4,019 Discovery Miles 40 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Narcissists are seen as people who could inspire others due to their strong charisma, great vision, and ability to convince the crowd that they possess features that others don't. They have followers and fans, and the ability to control them. On the other hand, narcissistic leaders express a lack of empathy and high levels of aggression and show constant criticism of others while refusing feedback on their performance. Those features indicate that such leaders have a strong sense of entitlement of superiority; therefore, it is hard to work with them. In the corporate world, many individuals with narcissistic personalities are chosen as leaders of organizations or teams, which often harms their co-workers and subordinates. Very few lower-level employees have a positive perception of their narcissistic leaders or are satisfied with their job, and so there is need to measure through qualitative research based on already existing articles in a given subject the correlation between the perception of narcissistic leader and the leader evaluation method. This book gives insight into psychology and management by linking the narcissistic personality with the leadership role and with the method of evaluating a leader, along with discussing the positive or negative outcomes of their leadership. Readers will learn about the phenomenon of narcissistic individuals and leaders as well as the attributes and traits of such a person. This research monograph will be of interest to researchers, academics, and advanced students in the fields of work and organizational psychology and leadership studies.

Social Communication Development and Disorders (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Deborah A Hwa-Froelich Social Communication Development and Disorders (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Deborah A Hwa-Froelich
R4,048 Discovery Miles 40 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

- Topic has had a huge surge of interest since 2000 due to the greatly increased incidence of social communication disorders - Covers theory and evidence-based practice, making it a rounded and solid resource for students and professionals

Psychology of Gang Involvement (Hardcover): Jane L. Wood, Jaimee Mallion, Sarah Frisby-Osman Psychology of Gang Involvement (Hardcover)
Jane L. Wood, Jaimee Mallion, Sarah Frisby-Osman
R4,019 Discovery Miles 40 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Psychology of Gang Involvement expands existing knowledge by applying psychological knowledge to gangs, including how gang members think, their mental and emotional well-being, and their perceptions of gang involvement, as well as issues relating to gang prevention and intervention strategies. This book offers readers a clearer understanding of the important role that social psychological processes play in the formation and maintenance of gangs and gang membership. It will enhance readers' understanding of gang members' social cognition, emotional intelligence, well-being, and mental health, as well as how these factors potentially promote and sustain individual gang involvement. Readers will discover also how these important psychological characteristics vary according to an individual's commitment to a gang. Organized in three sections, the first focuses on issues relevant to theoretical perspectives of gang involvement. Chapters include detailed examinations of a gang member's experiences and the implications of these for theoretical development, and considerations of the importance of social and psychological issues such as group processes and levels of commitment to gang membership to, understand and explain involvement in gangs. The second section centers on issues such as adverse childhood experiences and trauma, and examines their links to male and female gang membership as potential risk factors and outcomes of gang involvement. The section concludes by contemplating how the mental health, traumatic experiences, and involvement in violence compares between gang members and other violent men in adulthood. The final section considers current responses to gang membership by evaluating individual and group-based approaches to gang prevention and intervention strategies, and concludes with a theoretical conceptualization of how a strengths-based approach could work to reduce gang involvement. This book will be a useful text for a wide range of readers interested in, or working with gang members, including academics and students, practitioners, youth workers, clinicians, and criminal justice agents.

Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide for Clinicians (Hardcover): Naomi Gurevich,... Clinical Applications of Linguistics to Speech-Language Pathology - A Guide for Clinicians (Hardcover)
Naomi Gurevich, Christopher Grindrod
R4,033 Discovery Miles 40 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

*Provides a foundational understanding of linguistics as it applies to spoken and signed languages. *Covers numerous linguistic disciplines such as phonetics, semantics and sociolinguistics. *Makes linguistic theory accessible to speech-language pathologists. *Highlights the importance of integrating linguistic frameworks into clinical decision-making.

Building Consulting Skills for Sport and Performance Psychology - An International Case Study Collection (Hardcover): Sarah L.... Building Consulting Skills for Sport and Performance Psychology - An International Case Study Collection (Hardcover)
Sarah L. Castillo, Chelsea Butters Wooding, Douglas A. Barba, Stiliani "Ani" Chroni
R4,020 Discovery Miles 40 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Specially designed as training resource for undergraduate and graduate students in applied sport and performance psychology as well as an array of early-career professionals. Case study collection with diverse, international authorship. Deliberate attention paid to ethical challenges and diverse populations (race, culture, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc.) in order to challenge students to identify their own uniqueness in the world and how it impacts their attitudes, beliefs, and empathic connection to potential clients

Passion and Pathology in Victorian Fiction (Hardcover): Jane Wood Passion and Pathology in Victorian Fiction (Hardcover)
Jane Wood
R5,419 R2,273 Discovery Miles 22 730 Save R3,146 (58%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In what was once described as "the century of nerves", a fascination with the mysterious processes governing physical and psychological states was shared by medical and fiction writers alike. This study offers an integrated analysis of how medicine and literature figured the connection between the body and the mind. Alongside detailed examinations of some of the century's most influential neurological and physiological theories, Jane Wood brings readings of both major and relatively neglected fictions - a range which includes work by Charlotte Bronte and George MacDonald, George Eliot and Wilkie Collins, Thomas Hardy and George Gissing. Stepping into an already lively area of interdisciplinary debate, Passion and Pathology is distinguished by its recognition of the intellectual and imaginative force of both discourses: it extends our understanding of the interaction between science and literature in the wider culture of the period.

Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings (Hardcover): Guiseppina Marsico, Luca Tateo Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings (Hardcover)
Guiseppina Marsico, Luca Tateo
R3,035 Discovery Miles 30 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena. Why should we deal with ordinary things? People's life is made of everyday practical, taken-for-granted things, such as driving a car, using money, listening music, etc. When you drive from home to workplace, you are migrating between contexts. Is this an empty space you are crossing, or the time you spend into the car is something meaningful? In psychological terms, things have, at least, three levels of existence, a material, a symbolic and an affective one. The underlying idea is that the symbolic elaboration of everyday things is characterized by the transcendence of the particular object-sign, leading to the creation of more and more complex sign fields. These fields expand according to an inclusive logic up to dialogically and dialectically incorporate opposites (i.e. clean/dirty, transparent/opaque, hide/ show, join/divide, slow/fast, etc.). Even the meaning of "ordinary" and "extraordinary" follow such an inclusive logic: if you give a positive value to ordinary, extraordinary is rule-breaking; otherwise, if ordinary means trivial, extraordinary assumes a positive value. Besides, things are cultural artifacts mediating the experience of the world, the psychological processes and the construction of mind. Reflecting upon "things" is thus a more meaningful pathway to understand Psyche.

Traumatic Loss and Recovery in Jungian Studies and Cinema - Transdisciplinary Approaches in Grief Theory (Hardcover): Mark... Traumatic Loss and Recovery in Jungian Studies and Cinema - Transdisciplinary Approaches in Grief Theory (Hardcover)
Mark Holmwood
R4,019 Discovery Miles 40 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

- provides a new perspective in understanding our relationship with death, mourning and recovery - the topic of traumatic grief is timely and of popular interest to Jungians

Relevance Theory in Translation and Interpreting - A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach (Hardcover): Fabrizio Gallai Relevance Theory in Translation and Interpreting - A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach (Hardcover)
Fabrizio Gallai
R4,036 Discovery Miles 40 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book illustrates the potential of Relevance Theory (RT) in offering a cognitive-pragmatic, cause-effect account of translation and interpreting (T&I), one which more closely engages T&I activity with the mental processes of speakers, listeners, writers, and readers during communicative acts. The volume provides an overview of the cognitive approach to communication taken by RT, with a particular focus on the distinction between explicit and implicit content and the relationship between thoughts and utterances. The book begins by outlining key concepts and theory in RT pragmatics and charting the development of their disciplinary relationship with work from T&I studies. Chapters draw on practical examples from a wide range of T&I contexts, including news media, scientific materials, literary translation, audiovisual translation, conference interpreting, and legal interpreting. The book also explores the myriad applications of RT pragmatics-inspired work and future implications for translation and interpreting research. This volume will be of interest to scholars in T&I studies and pragmatics.

Methodology in Neuropsychological Assessment - An Interpretative Approach to Guide Clinical Practice (Hardcover): Sara Mondini,... Methodology in Neuropsychological Assessment - An Interpretative Approach to Guide Clinical Practice (Hardcover)
Sara Mondini, Marinella Cappelletti, Giorgio Arcara
R2,523 Discovery Miles 25 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Offers clear and practical step-by-step guidance for students and clinicians on conducting a complete neuropsychological assessment. A concise and straightforward text that focuses specifically on the practical approach to clinical neuropsychological assessment, to be suitable for students of neuropsychology. Provides a general methodological approach rather than focusing on specific tests or theories. Includes a series of detailed, explanatory clinical cases to clarify the evaluation process.

Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination (Hardcover): Anja Berninger, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination (Hardcover)
Anja Berninger, Ingrid Vendrell Ferran
R4,042 Discovery Miles 40 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the structure and function of memory and imagination, as well as the relation and interaction between the two states. It is the first book to offer an integrative approach to these two emerging areas of philosophical research. The essays in this volume deal with a variety of forms of imagining and remembering. The contributors come from a range of methodological backgrounds: empirically minded philosophers, analytic philosophers engaging mainly in conceptual analysis, and philosophers informed by the phenomenological tradition. Part 1 consists of novel contributions to ontological issues regarding the nature of memory and imagination and their respective structural features. Part 2 focuses on questions of justification and perspective regarding both states. The chapters in Part 3 discuss issues regarding memory and imagination as skills or abilities. Finally, Part 4 focuses on the relation between memory, imagination, and emotion. Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of memory, philosophy of imagination, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

Multiculturalism, Chinese Identity, and Education - Who Are We? (Hardcover): Jason Cong Lin Multiculturalism, Chinese Identity, and Education - Who Are We? (Hardcover)
Jason Cong Lin
R4,022 Discovery Miles 40 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Chinese societies, Chinese identity is an important yet controversial topic. This book examines official understandings of Chinese identity in Mainland China and Hong Kong, exploring how the latest governments of Mainland China and Hong Kong conceptualize Chinese identity; how government-endorsed textbooks frame it in different subjects; and how a multicultural approach can enhance understanding of identity in both societies. Using content analysis to support his theoretical arguments, Lin offers an in-depth, updated, and detailed picture of how the governments of Mainland China and Hong Kong, and their endorsed textbooks, encourage people in these societies to respond to the question of "who are we?". He also elaborates on how the current approach to understanding Chinese identity can be harmful, and examines how a multicultural approach could better fit these Chinese contexts and enhance understanding of "who are we?". Given that the question of identity causes trouble everywhere, and many countries are debating approaches to understanding diverse identities in their own societies, this book provides valuable insights into the Chinese perspective, to allow readers to more fully understand global frameworks of identity. This book will interest researchers and students in the fields of multiculturalism, multicultural education, national identity, identity politics, and China and Hong Kong studies.

The Coaching Shift - How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You (Hardcover):... The Coaching Shift - How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You (Hardcover)
Shonna D. Waters, Brodie Gregory Riordan
R4,026 Discovery Miles 40 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You offers practical guidance on how to adopt a coaching mindset and how to build a coaching skill set to unlock better communication, stronger relationships, and high performance in others. Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help readers think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond. The book offers specific and tangible advice for readers to develop their coaching and communication skills, while also developing a deeper understanding of themselves. The Coaching Shift, with its clear tone, anecdotal references, and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, and for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. These concepts and practices are also relevant for anyone who wants to have more effective interactions with others.

Methodology in Neuropsychological Assessment - An Interpretative Approach to Guide Clinical Practice (Paperback): Sara Mondini,... Methodology in Neuropsychological Assessment - An Interpretative Approach to Guide Clinical Practice (Paperback)
Sara Mondini, Marinella Cappelletti, Giorgio Arcara
R1,099 Discovery Miles 10 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Offers clear and practical step-by-step guidance for students and clinicians on conducting a complete neuropsychological assessment. A concise and straightforward text that focuses specifically on the practical approach to clinical neuropsychological assessment, to be suitable for students of neuropsychology. Provides a general methodological approach rather than focusing on specific tests or theories. Includes a series of detailed, explanatory clinical cases to clarify the evaluation process.

The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung - Writing to the Woman Who Was Everything (Paperback):... The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C. G. Jung - Writing to the Woman Who Was Everything (Paperback)
Craig Stephenson
R1,079 Discovery Miles 10 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

- author has an international reputation - book has the potential to be a classic in the field

An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger - An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Paperback): Padraig... An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger - An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Paperback)
Padraig Belton
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

The Allan Schore Reader - Setting the course of development (Paperback): Eva Rass The Allan Schore Reader - Setting the course of development (Paperback)
Eva Rass
R1,280 Discovery Miles 12 800 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Eva Rass, a leading expert on the work of Allan Schore, presents a collection that provides an overview of his core ideas and makes accessible the evolution of his thought. Including interviews and original papers, as well as integrating his ideas with research in psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, biology and developmental psychopathology, this book provides an in-depth introduction to Schore's theories. Allan Schore: Setting the Course of Development represents a major contribution to the understanding of Schore's often dense and complex work. The choice of papers, interviews and subject matter is structured and instructive, while the content captures both the depth and breadth of Schore's ideas, including important extensions into other fields, like paediatrics, social works and family law. Schore's contribution to the advancing knowledge base - pioneering the paradigm shift in researchers' focus in psychopathogenesis from the cognitive verbal left brain to the affective, preverbal right brain - is here made accessible to a far greater readership. The book will be of interest to all practitioners, researchers, educators and policy makers dealing with the critically important and broad field of mental health service delivery and prevention of mental illness for those "at risk", particularly psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and counsellors.

Moralistics and Psychomoralistics - A Unified Cognitive Science of Moral Intuition (Hardcover): Graham Wood Moralistics and Psychomoralistics - A Unified Cognitive Science of Moral Intuition (Hardcover)
Graham Wood
R1,547 Discovery Miles 15 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book brings together three distinct research programmes in moral psychology - Moral Foundations Theory, Cognitive Adaptations for Social Exchange, and the Linguistic Analogy in Moral Psychology - and shows that they can be combined to create a unified cognitive science of moral intuition. The book assumes evolution has furnished the human mind with two types of judgement: intuitive and deliberative. Focusing on moral intuitions (understood as moral judgments that were not arrived at via a process of conscious deliberation), the book explores the origins of these intuitions, examines how they are produced, and explains why the moral intuitions of different humans differ. Providing a unique synthesis of three separate established fields, this book presents a new research program that will further our understanding of the various different intuitive moral judgements at the heart of some of the moral tensions within human society.

How Children Learn Math - The Science of Math Learning in Research and Practice (Paperback): Nancy Krasa, Karen Tzanetopoulos,... How Children Learn Math - The Science of Math Learning in Research and Practice (Paperback)
Nancy Krasa, Karen Tzanetopoulos, Colleen Maas
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

-This textbook offers an accessibly-written, practical, and amply illustrated introduction to the science of elementary math learning, written for pre-service and in-service K-5 teachers and educators with little background in cognitive development. -Balances Science and Classroom sections, synthesizing the latest developmental research, and offering ready-to-use practical classroom activities for individual, small-group, and classroom settings. -Written by an author team drawing from decades of experience in cognitive research on mathematics learning, clinical psychology, classroom experience, and working with both teachers and children.

How Children Learn Math - The Science of Math Learning in Research and Practice (Hardcover): Nancy Krasa, Karen Tzanetopoulos,... How Children Learn Math - The Science of Math Learning in Research and Practice (Hardcover)
Nancy Krasa, Karen Tzanetopoulos, Colleen Maas
R4,019 Discovery Miles 40 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

-This textbook offers an accessibly-written, practical, and amply illustrated introduction to the science of elementary math learning, written for pre-service and in-service K-5 teachers and educators with little background in cognitive development. -Balances Science and Classroom sections, synthesizing the latest developmental research, and offering ready-to-use practical classroom activities for individual, small-group, and classroom settings. -Written by an author team drawing from decades of experience in cognitive research on mathematics learning, clinical psychology, classroom experience, and working with both teachers and children.

Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition - Perspectives, Issues, and Findings (Hardcover): Xiaofei Lu Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition - Perspectives, Issues, and Findings (Hardcover)
Xiaofei Lu
R4,021 Discovery Miles 40 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

* Features/Benefits o The first book to comprehensively and systematically review corpus analytic research methods to understand/examine second language acquisition (L2 use, processing, development, and pedagogy). o Discusses recent empirical studies that employ these techniques to apply corpus linguistic methods across diverse areas of SLA and theoretical orientations, and highlights the contributions that corpus methods have made to the studies' results. o Discusses how new and emerging corpus linguistic methods can be fruitfully used in future SLA research. * Demand/Audience o The field of Second Language Acquisition has had a marked increase in studies on and interest in corpus- and usage-based approaches. This book serves that audience in both courses and personal research use with a comprehensive, up-to-date, how-to volume on corpus-based research methodology. o A unique resource for students and researchers of SLA and applied linguistics, corpus linguistics, second language pedagogy, bi- and multilingualism, and language teaching. * Competition o No real competition. Extant books in this area fail to cover corpus linguistics methods for SLA comprehensively as this book does; they either report findings from a specific research study or focus on a single theoretical perspective/particular area of SLA. o Many of the books in this area are edited volumes, which lack the unified authoritative voice of a single author that this book will have.

Counseling and Psychotherapy for South Asian Americans - Identity, Psychology, and Clinical Implications (Hardcover): Ulash... Counseling and Psychotherapy for South Asian Americans - Identity, Psychology, and Clinical Implications (Hardcover)
Ulash Thakore-Dunlap, Devika Srivastava, Nita Tewari
R4,019 Discovery Miles 40 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This essential text explores what it means to be a South Asian American living in the US while seeking, navigating and receiving psychological, behavioral or counseling services. It delves into a range of issues including cultural identity, racism, colorism, immigration, gender, sexuality, parenting, and caring for older adults. Chapter authors provide research literature, clinical and cultural considerations for interviewing and treatment planning, case examples, questions for reflection, suggested readings, and resources. The book also includes insights on the future of South Asian American mental health, social justice, advocacy, and public policy. Integrating theory, research, and application, this book serves as a clinical guide for therapists, instructors, professors and supervisors in school/university counseling centers working with South Asian American clients, as well as for counseling students.

Genetic Seeds of Warfare - Evolution, Nationalism, and Patriotism (Paperback): R. Paul Shaw, Yuwa Wong Genetic Seeds of Warfare - Evolution, Nationalism, and Patriotism (Paperback)
R. Paul Shaw, Yuwa Wong
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For millennia humanity has simultaneously deplored and waged war. With each conflict the stakes have risen, and we now face global annihilation for the sake of a practice all the world claims to condemn. Is there some seemingly irresistible force that impels us toward our own destruction? To explain this central paradox of human behaviour, Genetic Seeds of Warfare, originally published in 1989, advances a startling new theory. It traces the origins of warfare back to early groups of Homo sapiens in competition for scarce resources, showing that warfare evolved as these groups evolved: kin-group against kin-group; tribe against tribe; nation against nation. Rather than being tied to a specific gene, warfare emerged as one of many behavioural strategies for maximising genetic survival. As social groups became more complex, motivations for warfare developed from simple protection of blood relations to political appeals to shared ethnicity, religion, and national identity. But the ultimate cause of warfare is rooted in the most basic of human drives: the need to ensure that one's genes will survive and reproduce. The authors challenge many assumptions about human behaviour in general, and warfare in particular. They convincingly present the case for an evolutionary understanding of the propensity for warfare, supporting their argument with data from a vast array of social and natural science research. In doing so, they reveal why previous attempts at ending war have failed, and make proactive suggestions toward the development of a new agenda for world peace.

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