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  • His Name Is George Floyd (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    by Robert Samuels, Toluse Olorunnipa ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; SHORT-LISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWARD WINNER.A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy—from his family’s roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hamlet, Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Politics

    Irony, Ideology, Authoritarianism, Hysteria, and the Universal Subject

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
    Hamlet: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and the Crisis of ModernityThis book offers a bold reinterpretation of Hamlet through five interwoven frames-ironic, ideological, psycho-social, emotional, and scientific-to reveal how Shakespeare's play speaks directly to today's cultural, political, and psychological dilemmas. Drawing on Freud, Lacan, Hegel, and Marx, the author argues that Hamlet is not only a ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • The Global Solution to AI

    Risks, Rhetoric, Ideology, and Psychoanalysis

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book interrogates the notion that artificial intelligence may represent a threat to the world because it lacks both empathy and reason and suggests that - if we do not intervene to limit and control AI - we are at risk of being overtaken by machines, which are not aligned with human ethics and values. To outline how we should counter the worst tendencies of automated intelligence, we must ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Globalism, Psychoanalysis, and the Integration of Eight Global Ideologies

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Globalism, Psychoanalysis, and the Integration of Eight Global Ideologies argues that psychoanalysis helps us comprehend the different ideologies shaping our world today by examining eight distinct belief systems through their psychological and rhetorical roots, moving beyond simple Left-Right political polarization.The work uses Freud's theory of psychology and politics to answer pressing ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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    Job Interview: How to Face the Behavioral Interview With Preparation, to Relax, and Overcome the Job Interview (The Ultimate Resource to Get the Job You Really Want)

    by Robert Amin ...
    Narrated by Jeffrey Ferguson, Samuel Helmer ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 46 min

    If you think most hiring decisions are based on your experience and qualifications, then you better keep reading.Your resume gets you in the door, but how you interview determines whether you’re offered the job. Even the smartest and most qualified job seekers need to prepare for their job interviews. Why, you ask? Interview skills are learned, and there are no second chances to make a great first ... Read more

    $13.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis

    Hysteria, Narcissism, and the Repression of Psychoanalysis

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Trauma, Pedagogy, and the College Mental Health Crisis argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice offers a solution to the large increase in students seeking mental health services.Robert Samuels returns to the roots of psychoanalysis, drawing from Freud’s and Lacan’s conceptions of hysteria and narcissism. This book examines the idea that the repression of psychoanalysis has resulted in a ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Psychoanalysis and the Future of Global Politics

    Overcoming Climate Change, Pandemics, War, and Poverty

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a unique approach by using psychoanalytic theory to explain how we can resolve the most important issues facing the world today and in the future. One of my main arguments is that we need to move beyond national politics in order to provide global solutions to global problems. However, there is a misplaced fear concerning global governance, and much of this phobia is derived from ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason

    What Makes Us Human?

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Series series Comparative Psychoanalysis
    The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to better understand humanity and explores the question of what makes us human.For thousands of years, thinkers have been trying to define what makes us human. Some of the main questions they have asked is: What is consciousness? Do we have free will? Do ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • (Mis)Understanding Freud with Lacan, Zizek, and Neuroscience

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud’s work but, it is argued, rarely understood—even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and ... Read more

    $44.89 CAD

  • Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession

    Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the “Liberal” Class

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of uppermiddle-class political centrists.Through a psychoanalytic interpretation of The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire, House of Cards, Dexter, Game of Thrones, and Succession, Robert Samuels uncovers how moderate “liberals” have helped to produce ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

  • Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free

    How to Decrease Cost and Increase Quality at American Universities

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Universities tend to be judged by the test scores of their incoming students and not on what students actually learn once they attend these institutions. While shared tests and surveys have been developed, most schools refuse to publish the results. Instead, they allow such publications as U.S. News & World Report to define educational quality. In order to raise their status in these rankings, ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Psychoanalyzing the Politics of the New Brain Sciences

    by Robert Samuels ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book argues that neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and behavioral economics often function as a political ideology masquerading as a new science. In looking at works by Antonio Damasio, Steven Pinker, Richard Thaler, Cas Sunstein, and John Tooby, Robert Samuels undertakes a close reading of the new brain sciences, and by turning to the works of Freud and Lacan, offers a counter-discourse ... Read more

    $76.89 CAD