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  • The Illusion of Psychotherapy

    by William Epstein ...
    In The Illusion of Psychotherapy William Epstein asserts that psychotherapy is probably ineffective and possibly harmful. He maintains that there is no credible clinical evidence that psychotherapy is effective in handling personal or social problems, or that it is more effective than other modes of treatment. The theories that underpin clinical practice remain speculative and their influence over ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Masses are the Ruling Classes

    Policy Romanticism, Democratic Populism, and Social Welfare in America

    by William Epstein ...
    The Masses are the Ruling Classes proposes the radical, yet seemingly innocuous view that social policy in the United States is determined by mass consent. Contemporary explanations of decision making in the US typically attribute power over policy making to a variety of hidden forces and illegitimate elites holding the masses innocent of their own problems. Yet the enormous openness of the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Dilemma of American Social Welfare

    by William Epstein ...
    In the current political climate of the U.S., there are noeasily apparent solutions to the social problems we face.William M. Epstein claims that people in need have been poorly served and misled by the American system of social welfare. This is one of those rare works emanating from a social welfare expert that does not offer easy placebos or simplistic claims based on more money.The Dilemma of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Empowerment as Ceremony

    by William Epstein ...
    Many people in the United States are poor, lead marginal lives, and need jobs as well as basic services such as education, medical care, and housing. Multitudes in other parts of the world, in addition to being poor, are jailed, tortured, and killed for being members of the wrong ethnic group or expressing political opinions. Those who argue for empowerment claim it is a magic bullet. It can ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Democracy Without Decency

    Good Citizenship and the War on Poverty

    by William M. Epstein ...
    The conservative attacks on the welfare system in the United States over the past several decades have put liberal defenders of poverty relief and social insurance programs on the defensive. In this no-holds-barred look at the reality of American social policy since World War II, William Epstein argues that this defense is not worth mounting—that the claimed successes of American social programs ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Psychotherapy As Religion

    The Civil Divine In America

    by William M. Epstein ...
    ***A provocative look at America on the couch.***In Psychotherapy as Religion, William Epstein sets out to debunk claims that psychotherapy provides successful clinical treatment for a wide range of personal and social problems. He argues that the practice is not a science at all but rather the civil religion of America, reflecting the principles of radical self-invention and self-reliance deeply ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Social Inequality, and Doom

    by William M. Epstein ...
    A critical examination of how inequality and cultural inertia hinder meaningful climate action.The challenges of climate change, like so many issues today, are not evenly distributed across social and economic lines. In this sobering exploration of the interconnected crises of climate change and social inequality, William M. Epstein examines how entrenched cultural values and systemic inequities ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Post-Pandemic Law Firm

    by Wayne Hassay, John Chisholm, Stuart Wilson, Patricia K Gillette, Yvonne Nath, Mary E Juetten, Jon Whittle, Viv Williams, Sally Kane, Debbie Epstein Henry, Ashley Jordan ...
    The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly had a seismic and lasting impact on how the business of law is conducted. Whilst 2020 certainly expedited changes that were already trending – flexible work schedules, fully-remote offices, revised resource allocations, new client expectations – it also forced firms to adopt practices, methodologies, and strategies that pre-COVID they insisted they could not. ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • The Behavior of Federal Judges

    a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice

    by Lee Epstein, William M Landes, Richard A Posner ...
    Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Psychotherapy and the Social Clinic in the United States

    Soothing Fictions

    by William M. Epstein ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book offers a compelling critical analysis of American society by examining the role of psychotherapy within social policy and the culture that has fashioned it. It takes a deeply critical look at ‘the social clinic,’ defined here as a ubiquitous organizational arrangement that includes clinical and community psychology, counseling, clinical social work, psychiatry, much of the self-help ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    Belonging and Inclusion in Identity Safe Schools Audiobook

    A Guide for Educational Leaders

    by Becki Cohn-Vargas, Alexandrea Creer Kahn, Amy Epstein, Kathe Gogolewski ...
    Narrated by Tiffany Williams ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 54 min

    This is an audiobook version of the paperback title published by Corwin Press.Lead an identity safe learning community where students of all backgrounds thriveStudents of all backgrounds reach their full potential when they feel a sense of belonging and inclusion. When their social identities are valued as assets rather than barriers to learning, they flourish. This guide provides evidence-based ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Perceiving Events and Objects

    Edited by Gunnar Jansson, Sten Sture Bergstr”m, William Epstein, Sten Sture Bergstrom ...
    Series series Resources for Ecological Psychology Series
    Beginning with his doctoral dissertation in 1950 which introduced the study of event perception and the application of vector analysis to perception, Gunnar Johansson has been a seminal figure in the field of perception. His work on biomechanical motion in the 1970s challenged conventional notions and stimulated great interest among experimental psychologists and students of machine vision. In ... Read more

    $73.99 USD