The Taos Institute has made available out-of-print titles scanned on CD-ROMs as text in pdf format. Also available on CD are Books from Around the World which are difficult to ship. Enjoy the text version of these books on CD rather than in book form and bring down the cost of shipping.
We have the following books on CD-ROM:
1. Ethical Ways of Being, by Dirk Kotze, Johan Myburg, Johann Roux, and Associates
2. Images of Man, by John Shotter
3. Text of Identity, edited by John Shotter and Kenneth J. Gergen
4. The Social Construction of the Person, edited by Kenneth J. Gergen and Keith Davis
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Ethical Ways of Being (2002)
by Dirk Kotze, Johan Myburg, Johann Roux, and Associates
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Author |
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Doing participatory ethic |
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2. |
Immersed in America: Life after a trip to South America |
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3. |
A door to Alice's wonderland |
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4. |
A woman's preferred story: Respect restored |
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5. |
Oonomathemba: Newsletters of "resilience" |
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6. |
Resilience ethics in organisational change |
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7. |
Ideas for participatory practices in organisations |
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8. |
Factory floor stories |
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9. |
Ethical and cultural dilemmas of an Indian pastoral therapist |
Singh & Kotze |
10. |
One day ... we will tell our story |
Polson |
11. |
Facing Evil |
Meiring & Kotze |
12. |
Schizophrenia: A conversation on ethics |
Wet & Bekker |
13. |
Journeying a life - giving ethical spirituality |
Hudson & Kotze |
14. |
"To teach and delight": Ethical uses of poetic verses |
Noome |
This is part of the Classic Books on CD series. The pages of the original book have been scanned and electronically saved onto the CD. This book on CD is in PDF format and can be printed page by page.
$15 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Original Copyright date 2002, Original Publisher: Pretoria: Ethics Alive
Electronic Reproduction ©2005
All rights reserved - CD may not be reproduced
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 Images of Man (1987)
by John Shotter
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Pg |
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Editor's Notes |
7 |
| 1. |
To regain ourselves |
11 |
| 2. |
The dual function of current psychological research |
24 |
| 3. |
Conceptual analysis as a method |
35 |
| 4. |
Integration and fragmentation |
45 |
| 5. |
The classic view of science: the religion of Newton |
71 |
| 6. |
Psychology as a moral science of action |
84 |
| 7. |
Agency, indeterminacy and time |
105 |
| 8. |
George Kelly and George Mead |
115 |
| 9. |
Images of man and their function in human affairs |
124 |
| 10. |
The human nature of human nature |
129 |
This is part of the Classic Books on CD series. The pages of the original book have been scanned and electronically saved onto the CD. This book on CD is in PDF format and can be printed page by page.
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Original Copyright date 1975, Original Publisher: London: Methuen
Electronic Reproduction ©2005
All rights reserved - CD may not be reproduced
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 Text of Identity (1989)
Edited by John Shotter and Kenneth J. Gergen
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Author |
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The Deconstruction of the Self |
Sampson |
| 2. |
Language Games and Texts of Identity |
Harré |
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Ego Identity and Explanatory Speech |
Slugoski
& Ginsburg |
| 4. |
Discourse and Power |
Parker |
| 5. |
Warranting Voice and the Elaboration
of the Self |
Gergen |
| 6. |
Liberal Humanism as an Ideology of Social Control: The Regulation of Lesbian Identities |
Kitzinger |
| 7. |
Narrative Culture and the Motivation of the Terrorist |
Tölölyan |
| 8. |
Individualizing Psychology |
Rose |
This is part of the Classic Books on CD series. The pages of the original book have been scanned and electronically saved onto the CD. This book on CD is in PDF format and can be printed page by page.
$15 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Original Copyright date 1989
Original Publisher: Sage Publications, London
Digital Reproduction ©2005
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 The Social Construction of the Person (1985)
Edited
by Kenneth J. Gergen and Keith Davis
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Author |
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Social Constructionist Inquiry: Context and Implications
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2. |
An Overview of Descriptive Psychology
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3. |
The Social Construction of the Person: How Is It Possible?
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4. |
Necessarily True Cultural Psychologies |
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5. |
The Social Construction of Emotion: With Special Reference to Love |
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6. |
Social Pragmatics and the Origins of Psychological Discourse |
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7. |
Two Concepts of the Mental |
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8. |
Relationships in the Real World: The Descriptive Psychology Approach to Personal Relationships |
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9. |
Social Accountability and Self Specification |
Shotter |
10. |
Sincerity: Feelings and Construction in Making a Self |
Silver & Sabini |
11. |
A Dialectical View of Personal Change |
Cronen, Pearce, Tomm |
12. |
How Personal Differences Can Make a Difference |
Kirkpatrick |
13. |
Asking Taboo Questions and Doing Taboo Deeds |
McKenna & Kessler |
14. |
The Language Game of Self-Ascription: A Note |
Harré |
This is part of the Classic Books on CD series. The pages of the original book have been scanned and electronically saved onto the CD. This book on CD is in PDF format and can be printed page by page.
$15 plus shipping and handling (volume discounts at Shopping Cart)
Original Copyright date 1985
Original Publisher: Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidleberg, Tokyo.
Digital Reproduction ©2005
All rights reserved - CD may not be reproduced
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