David Cohen, Author John Wiley & Sons $27.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-471-31922-1
Parents who blame themselves for children who are unambitious, irresponsible, moody or suicidal may be full of unwarranted self-reproach, Cohen contends, because the influence of parenting on a child's personality development is much weaker than...
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David Cohen, Author . Picador USA $24 (312p) ISBN 978-0-312-26154-2
French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville's famed 1831 trek and resulting book, Democracy in America, is closely shadowed by South African journalist Cohen's own journey. Both explorers went from the contrasting wealth and poverty of New York,
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David Cohen, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-312-28869-3
London-based journalist Cohen (Chasing the Red, White, and Blue
) reports in this tight, perceptive study that crime—which has soared in the past 10 years—is now South Africa's biggest growth industry. Rather than taking a broad...
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David Cohen, Author Collins Publishers $45 (220p) ISBN 978-0-00-215321-8
Ninety photographers (60 Western, 30 Chinese) fanned out across China on a single day--April 15, 1989--to take the pictures that make up this rare, candid glimpse of the world's most populous nation. The photos show us villages and farms and take us
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Peter R. Breggin, Author, David Cohen, Author, David Cohen, Joint Author Da Capo Press $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7382-0184-9
In his previous books (Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Prozac), psychiatrist Breggin laid the groundwork for his battle against what he sees as American psychiatry's harmful overdependence on prescribing medication. This time out, he reiterates...
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David Cohen. Overlook, $28.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59020-673-7
Only a small part of this book is about 82-year-old Sigmund Freud’s escape from Vienna to London in June 1938, but that part is fascinating. Psychologist, filmmaker, and writer Cohen (Psychologists on Psychology) relates how Freud was able to leave...
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