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The story is set during the closing years of the eighteenth dynasty
in ancient Egypt. It covers the rise of an ambitious child of a
farmer, as he successfully climbs the ladder of power, until he
wears the crown of the Pharaoh of all Egypt. During his rise, the
novel tries to follow the accepted history of the known rulers. We
meet Akhenaton and Nefertiti, Tutankhamen, and Ankhesenamun, and
also Horemheb and Mutnedjmet. Many more known and unknown
characters appear as we tie the story together. There is intrigue,
treachery, and murder, as well as love, sadness, and joy. It's a
bit of a saga as individuals come and go. This era of Egyptian
history, for all of its study, has many blanks, and this story
attempts to fill them in. It is my hope that you will read it with
interest and pleasure.
At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their
problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of
persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this
provocative new book, between current essentialist theories that
rely on biological models, and constructionist approaches based on
sociocultural experience, the concept of the person has all but
vanished from psychology.
Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency recasts
theories of mind, behavior, and self, synthesizing a range of
psychologists and philosophers to restore the centrality of
personhood-especially the ability to make choices and decisions-to
the discipline. The authors' unique perspective de-emphasizes
method and formula in favor of moral agency and life experience,
reveals frequently overlooked contributions of psychology to the
study of individuals and groups, and traces traditions of selfhood
and personhood theory, including: The pre-psychological history of
personhood, a developmental theory of situated, agentive
personhood, the political disposition of self as a kind of
understanding, Human agency as a condition of personhood,
Emergentist theories in psychology, the development of the
perspectival self.
Persons represents an intriguing new path in the study of the
human condition in our globalizing world. Researchers in
developmental, social, and clinical psychology as well as social
science philosophers will find in these pages profound implications
not only for psychology but also for education, politics, and
ethics.
Disciplinary psychology has failed to achieve a coherent conception
of human agency. Instead, it oscillates between two differing
conceptions of agency that are equally untenable: a scientistic,
reductive approach to choice and action, and an instrumental
approach that celebrates a romantic notion of free will. This book
examines theoretical, philosophical psychology and argues for a
historically and socioculturally situated human capacity for
choosing and acting in ways not entirely determined by culture
and/or biology. The authors present a detailed developmental theory
of how agentic capability emerges from the pre-reflective activity
of humans in a real physical and social world.
1. The use of memoir as a structure for disciplinary criticism is
innovative and creative. 2. The field of humanistic psychology is
growing, and this book will be an important contribution by one of
the field's respected scholars. 3. Provides examples and
illustrations of the ways in which professional associations,
academic publishers, university administrators, and granting
agencies fit into and help constitute the lives and development of
academic psychologists
Most contemporary North Americans, as well as many other
Westerners, take for granted their conceptions of themselves as
individuals with uniquely valuable and complex inner lives - lives
filled with beliefs, imaginings, understandings, and motives that
determine their actions and accomplishments. Yet, such
psychological conceptions of selfhood are relatively recent, dating
mostly from the late eighteenth century. Perhaps more surprisingly,
our understandings of ourselves as creatively self-expressive and
strategically self-managing are, for the most part, products of
twentieth-century innovations in Enlightenment-based social
sciences, especially psychology. Fueled by the enthusiasm for
self-expression and self-actualization that emerged in the 1960s,
humanistic, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychologists
published widely on the overwhelmingly positive consequences of
increased self-esteem in children and adolescents. While previous
generations had been wary of self-confidence and self-interest,
these qualities became widely regarded as desirable traits to be
cultivated in both the home and the school. In The Education of
Selves, Jack Martin and Ann-Marie McLellan examine ways in which
psychological theories, research, and interventions employed in
American and Canadian schools during the last half of the twentieth
century changed our understanding of students, conceptualizing
ideal students as self-expressive, enterprising, and entitled to
forms of education that recognize and cater to such expressivity
and enterprise. The authors address each of the major programs of
psychological research and intervention in American and Canadian
schools from 1950 to 2000: self-esteem, self-concept,
self-efficacy, and self-regulation. They give critical
consideration to definitions and conceptualizations, research
measures and methods, intervention practices, and the social,
cultural consequences of these programs of inquiry and practice.
The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen a backlash
against what some have come to regard as a self-absorbed generation
of young people. Such criticism may be interpreted, at least in
part, as a reaction to the scientific and professional activities
of psychologists, many of whom now appear to share in the general
concern about where their activities have left students, schools,
and society at large.
More than half a century has passed since the publication of "An
American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy," Gunnar
Myrdal's agonizing portrait of the pervasiveness of racially
prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory practices in American life.
Central to Myrdal's work was the paradox posed by the coexistence
of race-based social, economic, and political inequality on the one
hand, and the cherished American cultural values of freedom and
equality on the other. In the five decades since the publication of
this work, there has been a dramatic decline in white Americans'
overt expressions of anti-black and anti-integrationist sentiments
and in many of the inequalities Myrdal highlighted in his
monumental work. Yet the persistence of racial antipathy is
evidence of the continuing dilemma of race in American society.
This collection of original essays by leading race relations
experts focuses on the recent history and current state of racial
attitudes in the United States. It addresses key issues and debates
in the literature, and it includes chapters on the racial attitudes
of African-Americans as well as whites. The volume will be of great
importance to students and scholars concerned with the sociology
and politics of contemporary American race relations.
What is a person? Surprisingly little attention is given to this
question in psychology. For much of the past century, psychology
has tended to focus on the systematic study of processes rather
than on the persons who enact and embody them. In contrast to the
reductionist picture of much mainstream theorising, which construes
persons as their mental lives, behaviours or neurophysiological
particulars, The Psychology of Personhood presents persons as
irreducibly embodied and socially situated beings. Placing the
study of persons at the centre of psychology, this book presents
novel insights on the typical, everyday actions and experiences of
persons in relation to each other and to the broader society and
culture. Leading scholars from diverse academic disciplines paint
an integrative portrait of the psychological person within
evolutionary, historical, cultural, developmental and everyday
contexts.
At its core, psychology is about persons: their thinking, their
problems, the improvement of their lives. The understanding of
persons is crucial to the discipline. But according to this
provocative new book, between current essentialist theories that
rely on biological models, and constructionist approaches based on
sociocultural experience, the concept of the person has all but
vanished from psychology. Persons: Understanding Psychological
Selfhood and Agency recasts theories of mind, behavior, and self,
synthesizing a range of psychologists and philosophers to restore
the centrality of personhood-especially the ability to make choices
and decisions-to the discipline. The authors' unique perspective
de-emphasizes method and formula in favor of moral agency and life
experience, reveals frequently overlooked contributions of
psychology to the study of individuals and groups, and traces
traditions of selfhood and personhood theory, including: The
pre-psychological history of personhood, a developmental theory of
situated, agentive personhood, the political disposition of self as
a kind of understanding, Human agency as a condition of personhood,
Emergentist theories in psychology, the development of the
perspectival self. Persons represents an intriguing new path in the
study of the human condition in our globalizing world. Researchers
in developmental, social, and clinical psychology as well as social
science philosophers will find in these pages profound implications
not only for psychology but also for education, politics, and
ethics.
A Spectroscopic Atlas of the Stars: A Pocket Field Guide is a
standard reference book for all amateur astronomers interested in
practical spectroscopy or spectrography. For the first time in one
place, it identifies more than 70 (northern hemisphere) bright
stars that are suitable observational targets for both amateurs and
astronomy students.
Finder charts are provided for locating these sometimes-familiar
stars. Data for each star includes labelled stellar spectra, a
spectral profile with spectral lines identified. These are
conveniently laid out on a single page, opposite tables of
spectroscopic properties, and lines and wavelengths identified.
This is the first Spectral Atlas designed for amateur
astronomers. It is equally relevant to college undergraduates,
being intended to familiarize astronomers of any age and level of
knowledge with labelled stellar spectra and their different
properties. It contains much information about stars which is hard
to find or inaccessible to most people.
In this set of insightful essays, the concept of the psychological
humanities is defined and explored. A clear rationale is provided
for its necessity in the study and understanding of the individual
and identity in a discipline that is occupied largely by empirical
studies that report aggregated data and its analysis. Contributors
to this volume are leading scholars in theoretical psychology who
believe that psychology must be about persons and their lives. In
these essays, they draw from a variety of disciplines that include
art, literature, life writing, and history to make a case for the
psychological humanities. A final chapter provides a critical
commentary on the value of the psychological humanities. The
chapter argues that psychology must draw on the knowledge and
practices of the humanities, as well as the sciences and social
sciences, in order to attain a greater understanding of personhood.
This book is aimed at upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate
students and scholars of psychology, particularly theoretical
psychology, philosophy of the mind, and those from a humanities
background interested in exploring the concept of the psychological
humanities.
Naturally self-effacing and deferential, Captain John Reynolds
Hughes is not as famous today as his publicity-hog contemporary
Captain Bill McDonald. Yet, Texas Rangers of the late-nineteenth
and early-twentieth centuries considered him an authentic hero, a
straight-ahead lawman that did his job and left the talking to
journalists. Hughes became a ranger in 1887, serving in the
celebrated Frontier Battalion. In 1900, he won appointment as
captain in command of Company D. During his long career he served
primarily along the Texas-Mexico border where his word became law.
State offi cials subsequently promoted him senior captain, moving
his headquarters to Austin. Hughes retired in 1915-having served as
ranger and captain longer than any man on the force. This State
House Press reprint of Border Boss makes this Texas classic
available to a new generation of readers and introduces them to one
of the bravest rangers who ever sported the cinco peso.
The sociocultural turn in psychology treats psychological
subjects, such as the mind and the self, as processes that are
constituted, or "made up," within specific social and cultural
practices. In other words, though one's distinct psychology is
anchored by an embodied, biological existence, sociocultural
interactions are integral to the evolution of the person.
Only in the past two decades has the sociocultural turn truly
established itself within disciplinary and professional psychology.
Providing advanced students and practitioners with a definitive
understanding of these theories, Suzanne R. Kirschner and Jack
Martin, former presidents of the American Psychological
Association's Division of the Society for Theoretical and
Philosophical Psychology, assemble a collection of essays that
describes the discursive, hermeneutic, dialogical, and activity
approaches of sociocultural psychology. Each contribution
recognizes psychology as a human science and supports the
individual's potential for agency and freedom. At the same time,
they differ in their understanding of a person's psychological
functioning and the best way to study it. Ultimately the
sociocultural turn offers an alternative to overly biological or
interiorized theories of the self, emphasizing instead the
formation and transformation of our minds in relation to others and
the world.
Demon worship calls for sacrifice. It's Gabe's job to stop it.
Alyssa escapes with her little girl from the clutches of the cult
leader Walton. She races off into the night determined to keep her
daughter from becoming his next victim. As Walton pursues her,
Alyssa meets a handsome truck driver named Gabe, who is the most
beautiful man she's even seen. His courage and selfless kindness
sends ripples of emotion throughout Alyssa's petite form. Emotions
she's never felt before. But will his courage be enough to protect
her from the evil that pursues her?
The story is set during the closing years of the eighteenth dynasty
in ancient Egypt. It covers the rise of an ambitious child of a
farmer, as he successfully climbs the ladder of power, until he
wears the crown of the Pharaoh of all Egypt. During his rise, the
novel tries to follow the accepted history of the known rulers. We
meet Akhenaton and Nefertiti, Tutankhamen, and Ankhesenamun, and
also Horemheb and Mutnedjmet. Many more known and unknown
characters appear as we tie the story together. There is intrigue,
treachery, and murder, as well as love, sadness, and joy. It's a
bit of a saga as individuals come and go. This era of Egyptian
history, for all of its study, has many blanks, and this story
attempts to fill them in. It is my hope that you will read it with
interest and pleasure.
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