Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' transnationally.

International Migration, Development and Human Wellbeing (Rethinking International Development series)

Business & Money

Wright, Katie

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Having topped the charts across the world and headlined every big-name venue from the London Palladium to Las Vegas, the superstar who was friends with both Elvis and Sinatra reveals for the first time the real man - and some of the women - behind the name in his honest and humorous autobiography.

Engelbert: What's in a Name?

Biographies & Memoirs

Humperdink, Engelbert

Arts & Literature

Virgin Pub

One of the world's best-loved singing stars shares his story, from his first 10 years in India to life now as a legend—including stories of friends from Muhammad Ali to Elvis Presley
The man known simply as "Enge" by his millions of fans worldwide has sold more than 150 million records and is in the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks on the charts with "Release Me." From living on the dole and receiving last rites with tuberculosis, to buying a Hollywood palace with a heart-shaped pool and a fleet of 14 Rolls Royces, Engelbert wears his "King of Romance" crown so well that horticulturists even named a rose after him. And the love god has certainly lived up to his reputation, indulging in a string of affairs and one-night stands, while remaining happily married to his first love Patricia. Forty years after his early hits Enge is still at the very top, selling out concerts across the world and even representing the UK at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, recording his entry in London, Nashville, and Los Angeles. Inspired by the warmth of his millions of affectionate fans and the endless support of his wife, Engelbert shares his incredible life story with openness, humor, and astonishing honesty.

Engelbert: What's in a Name?: My Autobiography

Humperdinck, Engelbert

Humor & Entertainment

Virgin Books

This book is an examination of the contemporary fascination with psychological life and the historical developments that fostered it. Taking Australia as the focal point, Katie Wright traces the ascendancy of therapeutic culture, from nineteenth century concerns about nervousness, to the growth of psychology, the diffusion of an analytic attitude, and the spread of therapy and counseling. Wright's analysis, which draws on social theory, cultural history, and interviews with therapists and people in therapy, calls into question the pessimism that pervades many accounts of the therapeutic turn and provides an alternative assessment of its ramifications for social, political, and personal life in the globalized West.  "Wright's work provides an all important antidote to a long series of off-base polemics that misunderstand the role of psychotherapy in contemporary society. Wright's work provides a sharp and welcome contrast. She finds the language of therapy at the heart of the new social movements." -Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University  "The strength of Wright's work lies in its emphasis on the complex, contradictory ways in which various aspects of our global worlds enter into the inner, emotional texture of identity as well as the processes through which the unconscious imagination constitutes fabrications of the social-historical world." -Anthony Elliott, Chair of Sociology, Flinders University, Australia.  "This work makes an important contribution to cultural and historical sociology. Wright argues convincingly for a reappraisal of therapeutic culture through a compelling critique of existing theory and by drawing on alternative traditions to those that have dominated scholarship in this field. The case studies she presents are intrinsically interesting and theoretically important, and her innovative perspective on the therapeutic society will make a valuable and significant contribution to the field." -Zlatko Skrbis, Dean, UQ Graduate School, The University of Queensland, Australia.

The Rise of the Therapeutic Society: Psychological Knowledge & the Contradictions of Cultural Change

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

New Academia Publishing/ The Spring

International Migration, Development and Human Wellbeing (Rethinking International Development Series)

Katie Wright explores how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' across spatial boundaries. She draws on empirical research, undertaken with Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid and their Peru-based relatives and close friends to explore how human wellbeing is constructed and how it 'travels' transnationally.

Engelbert What's In A Name?: The Autobiography

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