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  • Risky Teaching

    Harnessing the Power of Uncertainty in Higher Education

    by Jay W. Roberts ...
    Risky Teaching examines the role of risk and uncertainty in teaching and learning in higher education. Discussing the current landscape of higher education and the challenges and opportunities we face, this book synthesizes a range of evidence-based and high-impact practices both in and out of the classroom, offering practical strategies and thought-provoking ideas on educational innovation for ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Beyond Learning by Doing

    Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education

    by Jay W. Roberts ...
    What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents.As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety of curriculum projects from outdoor and environmental ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Experiential Education in the College Context

    What it is, How it Works, and Why it Matters

    by Jay W. Roberts ...
    Experiential Education in the College Context provides college and university faculty with pedagogical approaches that engage students and support high-impact learning. Organized around four essential categories—active learning, integrated learning, project-based learning, and community-based learning—this resource offers examples from across disciplines to illustrate principles and best practices ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Losing Reality

    On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind controlIn this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Destroying the World to Save It

    Aum Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence, and the New Global Terrorism

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    From the National Book Award–winning author, "a fascinating (if frightening) investigation" of millennial cults intent on apocalyptic destruction (Daniel Berger, The Philadelphia Inquirer ).Since the earliest moments of recorded history, prophets and gurus have foretold the world's end, but only in the nuclear age has it been possible for a megalomaniac guru with a world-ending vision to bring ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Climate Swerve

    Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."— The Washington PostFrom "one of the world's foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate changeOver his long career as witness to an extreme ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Climate Swerve

    Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    Longlisted for the PEN America/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Well worth the read. . . . [A] prescient handoff to the next generation of scholars."—The Washington PostFrom "one of the world’s foremost thinkers" (Bill Moyers), a profound, hopeful, and timely call for an emerging new collective consciousness to combat climate changeOver his long career as witness to an extreme ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Surviving Our Catastrophes

    Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the COVID-19 Pandemic

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    From the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination that ”cuts through the existential fog to reveal something like hope” (The Washington Post)In this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe, award-winning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID-19 pandemic.When the people ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Witness to an Extreme Century

    A Memoir

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    On a fateful day in the spring of 1954 Robert Jay Lifton, a young American psychiatrist just discharged from service in the Korean War, decided to stay in Hong Kong rather than return home—changing his life plans entirely—so that he could continue work that had enthralled him, interviewing people subjected to Chinese thought reform. He had plunged into uncharted territory in probing the far ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Losing Reality

    On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind controlIn this unique and timely volume Robert Jay Lifton, the National Book Award–winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual proposes a radical idea: that the psychological relationship between extremist political ... Read more

    Was $17.99 USD Now $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

    37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

    by Bandy X. Lee, Robert Jay Lifton, Gail Sheehy, William J. Doherty, Noam Chomsky, Judith Lewis Herman M.D., Philip Zimbardo Ph.D., Rosemary Sword, Craig Malkin Ph.D., Tony Schwartz, Lance Dodes M.D., John D. Gartner Ph.D., Michael J. Tansey Ph.D., David M. Reiss M.D., James A. Herb M.A., Esq., Leonard L. Glass M.D., M.P.H., Henry J. Friedman M.D., James Gilligan M.D., Diane Jhueck L.M.H.C., D.M.H.P., Howard H. Covitz Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Betty P. Teng M.F.A., L.M.S.W., Jennifer Contarino Panning Psy.D., Harper West M.A., L.L.P., Luba Kessler M.D., Steve Wruble M.D., Thomas Singer M.D., Elizabeth Mika M.A., L.C.P.C., Edwin B. Fisher Ph.D., Nanette Gartrell M.D., Dee Mosbacher M.D., Ph.D., Stephen Soldz ...
    As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him?That ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

    A Study of 'brainwashing' in China

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    Informed by Erik Erikson’s concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of fifteen Chinese citizens and twenty-five Westerners who underwent “brainwashing” by the Communist Chinese government. Robert Lifton constructs these case histories through personal interviews and outlines a thematic pattern of death and rebirth, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD