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The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities for Personal and Collective Success by Jay Van Bavel
RRP: $25.33$17.22If you're like most people, you probably believe that your identity is stable. But in fact, your identity is constantly changing - often outside your conscious awareness and sometimes even against your wishes - to reflect the interests of the groups of... -
The Heart of Nonviolent Communication: 25 Keys to Shift From Separation to Connection by Stephanie Bachmann Mattei 9781934336427
RRP: $52.55$38.92Do you want to express yourself honestly and compassionately? Learn to live in choice rather than submit or rebel? This book explores 25 key distinctions that reveal the consciousness embedded in Nonviolent Communication. Drawing on brain science with... -
Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialization: New Perspectives from Group Analysis, Psychoanalysis and Sociology Farhad Dalal (Institute of Group Analysis, UK) 9781583912928
RRP: $70.18$62.28Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some... -
The Psychology of Fraud, Persuasion and Scam Techniques: Understanding What Makes Us Vulnerable by Martina Dove 9780367859565
RRP: $56.53$48.93The Psychology of Fraud, Persuasion and Scam Techniques provides an in-depth explanation of not only why we fall for scams and how fraudsters use technology and other techniques to manipulate others, but also why fraud prevention advice is not always... -
Trust: How Citizens View Political Institutions by Dr Ben Seyd 9780198896449
RRP: $148.20$134.75We seem to be living in an age of citizen distrust of social and political elites. Distrust is also seen to have numerous negative consequences for our civic and democratic life. Yet are western democracies really facing a crisis of trust? This book... -
Autoethnography by Tony E. Adams 9780199972098
RRP: $85.78$52.47Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences in order to understand cultural experiences. The method challenges canonical ways of doing research and recognizes how personal experience influences the... -
A Manifesto for Mental Health: Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health Care by Peter Kinderman
RRP: $48.73$40.58A Manifesto for Mental Health presents a radically new and distinctive outlook that critically examines the dominant 'disease-model' of mental health care. Incorporating the latest findings from both biological neuroscience and research into the social... -
Psychology in Historical Context: Theories and Debates Richard Gross 9781138683853
RRP: $74.08$65.87Psychology, the study of mind and behaviour, has developed as a unique discipline in its brief history. Whether as it currently takes place, or how it has been conducted over the past 140 years or so since it became recognized as a separate field of... -
Identity: A Very Short Introduction by Florian Coulmas
RRP: $17.53$12.97Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet 'identity' is extremely versatile, meaning different... -
The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age by Anand Giridharadas
RRP: $39.00$27.87CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND THE IRISH TIMES 'Illuminating and entertaining . . . while the world seems to counsel despair, The Persuaders is animated by a sense of possibility' The New York TimesA riveting insider... -
The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook: Healing from Emotional Abuse by Amy Marlow-Macoy, Lpc 9781646112692
RRP: $33.13$21.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646112692Author Amy Marlow-MacoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Rockridge PressPublisher Rockridge PressWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 251mm *... -
The Nerves and Their Endings: essays on crisis and response by Jessica Gaitan Johannesson
RRP: $19.48$13.46The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress. In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we... -
Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity Guy Corneau 9780877736035
RRP: $44.85$30.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877736035Author Guy CorneauFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Truth About Lies: A Taxonomy of Deceit, Hoaxes and Cons by Aja Raden 9781838951924 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48$8.00Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie you were told - or why we lie at all? In this witty,... -
The Truth About Lies: A Taxonomy of Deceit, Hoaxes and Cons by Aja Raden
RRP: $19.48$13.46Fibbing, prevaricating, stretching the truth, white lies, of omission, of commission. Lying is so pervasive that we have countless words for it. But have you ever considered why you believed a lie you were told - or why we lie at all? In this witty,... -
Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills by Sonja Falck
RRP: $50.68$44.13In Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills, Dr Sonja Falck provides a unique and practical manual of how to improve interpersonal interactions that involve adults who stand out from the neurotypical majority by having... -
The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future by Theodore Zeldin 9780857053695 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$5.17A guide to new ambitions in work, relationships and learning, by our most inspired thinker on society and community."Scintillating . . . prophetic . . . engaging" - Financial Times"A masterpiece" - The TimesWhat is worth knowing? What does it mean to be... -
The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future Theodore Zeldin 9780857053695
RRP: $25.33$17.22A guide to new ambitions in work, relationships and learning, by our most inspired thinker on society and community."Scintillating . . . prophetic . . . engaging" - Financial Times"A masterpiece" - The TimesWhat is worth knowing? What does it mean to be... -
Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong by Eric Barker
RRP: $23.38$15.78Wall Street Journal Bestseller Much of the advice we've been told about achievement is logical, earnest...and downright wrong. In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and most... -
Paranoia: A Journey Into Extreme Mistrust and Anxiety by Daniel Freeman 9780008472580
RRP: $48.75$32.04'A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK' JOHN HUMPHRYS 'FASCINATING... SHOCKING' SPECTATOR What is paranoia? What makes us anxious? How can this be overcome? ... -
Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems by Alexandra Stein
RRP: $56.53$47.35This book explains how people can be radically manipulated by extreme groups and leaders to engage in incomprehensible and often dangerous acts through psychologically isolating situations of extreme social influence. These methods are used in... -
Social Psychology: The Basics Daniel Frings 9781138552005
RRP: $38.98$35.02Social psychology explores some of the most important questions we face as people: how do we create and understand the social self? How does our 'social mind' influence the volition and content of thoughts and behaviour? How do we relate to other... -
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
RRP: $21.43$14.55Behavioral economist and New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational Dan Ariely returns to offer a much-needed take on the irrational decisions that influence our dating lives, our workplace experiences, and our general behaviour, up... -
Creativity: A Very Short Introduction by Vlad Glaveanu
RRP: $17.53$12.97Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to our existence. From... -
Introducing Social Psychology by Colin Fraser 9780745610948 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.73$5.17This book offers an accessible and broadly conceived introduction to social psychology. Written in a lucid and lively style, it assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and is the ideal textbook to get students thinking about the subject. The volume... -
Introducing Social Psychology Colin Fraser (Churchill College) 9780745610948
RRP: $48.73$45.14This book offers an accessible and broadly conceived introduction to social psychology. Written in a lucid and lively style, it assumes no prior knowledge of the field, and is the ideal textbook to get students thinking about the subject. The volume... -
The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology by Alison Attrill-Smith 9780192894175
$97.25The internet is so central to everyday life, that it is impossible to contemplate life without it. From finding romance, to conducting business, receiving health advice, shopping, banking, and gaming, the internet opens up a world of possibilities to... -
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control by Steven Hassan
RRP: $38.98$23.87A masterful and eye-opening examination of Trump and the coercive control tactics he uses to build a fanatical devotion in his supporters written by "an authority on breaking away from cults...an argument that...bears consideration as the next election... -
The Transformative Self: Personal Growth, Narrative Identity, and the Good Life by Professor Of Psychology Jack Bauer
RRP: $105.30$97.17The Transformative Self explores three of life's perennial questions: How do we make sense of our lives? What is a good life? How do we create one? In this comprehensive volume, developmental psychologist Jack J. Bauer responds to those three... -
Conversational Realities: Constructing Life through Language by John Shotter 9780803989337
RRP: $111.15$96.99This imaginative and original book challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological `realities' are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly realities are both... -
The Grail Legend by Emma Jung
RRP: $58.50$46.92The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the... -
Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face-to-Face Behavior by Erving Goffman
RRP: $97.48$84.83"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual, a study of face-to-face interaction in natural settings, that class of events which occurs during... -
The Human Network: How We're Connected and Why It Matters by Matthew O. Jackson 9781786490223
RRP: $19.48$13.46It's not what you know, it's who you know. Or so the adage goes. Professor Matthew Jackson, world-leading researcher into social and economic networks, shows us why this is far truer than we'd like to believe.Based on his ground-breaking research, The... -
Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human by Daniel J. Siegel 9780393710533
RRP: $40.93$37.87Neuroscience studies the brain. A full examination of what we mean by the term "mind" has traditionally been the province of philosophers but here Daniel Siegel explores what neuroscience can teach us about it-how the mind differs from consciousness and... -
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman 9780316040938
$26.68The good news is that the vast majority of soldiers are loath to kill in battle. Unfortunately, modern armies, using Pavlovian and operant conditioning have developed sophisticated ways of overcoming this instinctive aversion. The psychological cost for... -
The Nature Of Prejudice: 25th Anniversary Edition by Gordon W. Allport
RRP: $39.00$32.12With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. First published in 1954, The Nature of Prejudice... -
Ethnocentrism: Integrated Perspectives by Boris Bizumic
RRP: $81.88$71.66Ethnocentrism works to reinvigorate the study of ethnocentrism by reconceptualising ethnocentrism as a social, psychological, and attitudinal construct. Using a broad, multidisciplinary approach to ethnocentrism, the book integrates literature from... -
Becoming an Ex: The Process of Role Exit by Helen Rose Ebaugh 9780226180700
RRP: $54.60$53.41The experience of becoming an ex is common to most people in modern society. Unlike individuals in earlier cultures who usually spent their entire lives in one marriage, one career, one religion, one geographic locality, people living in today's world... -
The Urge: our history of addiction by Carl Erik Fisher 9781912854059
RRP: $33.13$22.58As a psychiatrist-in-training fresh from medical school, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Here, he investigates the history of this age-old condition. Humans have struggled to define,... -
The New Science of Narcissism: Understanding One of the Greatest Psychological Challenges of Our Time--And What You Can Do about It by Phd
RRP: $31.18$22.99Narcissism is truly one of the most important concepts of our time - ceaselessly discussed in the media, the subject of millions of online search queries, and at the center of serious social and political debates. But what does it really mean? In The...