
Does this sound like you?
Food will make me fat. My body should be perfect. I am ashamed of how I eat. I am not in control of my body. I am only lovable when I’m thin. Eating is the only pleasure I have in life.

Does this sound like you?
Food will make me fat. My body should be perfect. I am ashamed of how I eat. I am not in control of my body. I am only lovable when I’m thin. Eating is the only pleasure I have in life.

This fascinating first volume in a short series provides a unique insight into the world of reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates, and is aimed at the general reader. It highlights more than 100 of the most stunning discoveries that have been made by scientists around the world about this group of creatures since the start of the current decade. These studies reveal not just the existence of new species, but also provide amazing insights into the lifestyles and biology of members of these groups, and, in some cases, highlight how they can actually help us in various ways, offering a fresh insight into the natural world. Fully illustrated in colour throughout.

Follow an implacable killer as he stalks and butchers the occupants of houses across the stretch of one lone country road while the residents prepare to watch a yearly college-football bout.

Our children grow up into a world of stories—in books, on screens—but what do they make of the stories we offer them? What do they think and feel as they listen to a parent read a picture-book? What if a story confuses or upsets them?

This book unveils the concept of social love as a kind of “Karst River” that flows through the history of sociology, reassessing it as a form criticism by people in everyday life.

The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic explores the motif of kátabasis (a “descent” into an imaginal underworld) and the importance it held for writers from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on its place in psychoanalytic theory.

Zeus Syndrome: A Very Short History of Religion-Based Masculine Domination is a critical assessment of the biblical concepts of gender hierarchy and the intersection of sex/gender, power, and religion.