Pain, while a private experience, is culturally permeated by patterns, rules, conventions & meanings. This volume discusses this coding from a range of anthropological, ethnological & sociological perspectives. Readers are invited to follow the life histories of people suffering pain. ...

Offering a distinctive, coherent account of social processes & individuals' connections to their larger social & political worlds, this book demonstrates the connections between inequality & de-democratization, between identities & social inequality, & between citizenship & identities. ...

This study follows social psychological developments from the 1920s to the 1990s, discussing contemporary work within this historical context. The contributions, representing both European & North American work, explain a variety of perspectives in the discipline of social psychology. ...

They took his name. They took his memories. Now they want his life... Paul Hardy has lived in a care home for the past seven years with no memory of who he is or where he came from. When a horrific accident necessitates pioneering surgery he begins to remember things. Things that if he's not careful will get him killed. ...

Three girls, Cate, Jessica & Louise, have different personalities & are from opposite ends of Britain, yet have more in common than they can possibly imagine. Could Louise's strange annual appointments with Dr Jay have something to do with it? Is what Jessica once saw at the Science Museum the key? ...

The complete six-part series of the television crime drama, starring Keeley Hawes as part of a police unit fighting identity theft. DSI Martha Lawrence (Hawes), along with her team members, DI Bloom (Aidan Gillen) & DS Wareing (Shaun Parkes), must seek out murderers & criminals who assume the identity of their victims or create characters in order to evade the law. As DSI Lawrence struggles to keep the unit, which she set up, running successfully, she & her team unveil the psychology relating to identity theft & go to extreme measures in order to catch the culprits. ...

A modern-day slasher movie starring John Cusack & Ray Liotta. After a sudden rainstorm in a remote town forces ten travellers to seek refuge in a strange desert motel run by the mysterious Larry (John Hawkes), the disparate group of guests begin losing their lives. Whilst the survivors struggle to find out who the killer is, they also begin to realise that each of them has a secret & that their arrival at the hotel was not merely by chance... ...

A modern-day slasher movie starring John Cusack & Ray Liotta. After a sudden rainstorm in a remote town forces ten travellers to seek refuge in a strange desert motel run by the mysterious Larry (John Hawkes), the disparate group of guests begin losing their lives. Whilst the survivors struggle to find out who the killer is, they also begin to realise that each of them has a secret & that their arrival at the hotel was not merely by chance... ...