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A Complete Guide to Its Diagnosis and TreatmentWhen Understanding Depression was first published over ten years ago, it quickly became a trusted guide for the millions of Americans suffering from depression. Now the long-awaited revised and expanded second edition of this definitive and readable book is available to a new generation of those...

Each year, thousands of junior doctors apply for highly competitive training jobs        in a variety of specialties. Obtaining a training job can be a difficult and        stressful process, with some specialties attracting 40 applicants per post. This        book helps doctors to improve their chances of getting that highly...

This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious        studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers        meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and        philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through...

Cynthia Gordon uses tape-recorded conversations about everyday, mundane topics among three dual-income families to explore how family communication creates a special kind of meaning and a sense of distinctive group coherence within the family....

This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, it made him instantly famous and stamped him as the bard of the Jazz Age....

Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Memes, like genes, are replicators, and this enthralling book is an...