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Dark Clouds Over Europe: The Latent Danger of Renewed Tyranny Theodor Abt 9783952388082
RRP: $69.28$48.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783952388082Author Theodor AbtFormat HardbackPage Count 209Imprint Living Human Heritage Publications Professor Dr. Theodor AbtPublisher Living Human... -
Creating a Transformational Community: The Fundamentals of Stewardship Activities by August John Hoffman 9781498540087
RRP: $168.00$147.42The purpose of Creating a Transformational Community: The Fundamentals of Stewardship Activities is to provide the reader with a description of the important role that community development has in establishing healthy, cooperative, and prosocial... -
Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities: Transformations in Dialogue by Maya Kahanoff 9781498504973
RRP: $199.50$173.99Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering their Identities reveals the powerful potential of inter-group dialogues to transform identities and mutually negating relations. Using meetings with Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arabian students who attend the... -
Narrative in Crisis: Reflections from the Limits of Storytelling by Martin Dege 9780197751756
RRP: $123.90$111.83In this volume, distinguished scholars of narrative provide their early attempts - triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic - to understand "crises" from a narrative perspective. They discuss the narrative notions of crises as an ongoing situation, thereby... -
The Story of Sexual Identity: Narrative Perspectives on the Gay and Lesbian Life Course by Phillip L. Hammack 9780195326789
$157.86When viewed through the broad lens of social history, the story of sexual identity across place and time is infused with extraordinary contextual specificity. Different cultures in different historical eras have organized human sexuality in a... -
Unlearning Shame: How Rejecting Self-Blame Culture Gives Us Real Power by Devon Price 9781800961944
RRP: $35.68$26.99'With the authentic voice I've grown to expect from Devon [...] This book articulates a feeling that has lurked in the dark corners of so many minds and brings it into the light where it can be faced, embraced, understood, and ultimately, healed. Stop... -
Creativity in the Sciences: A Workbook Companion to Innovation GenerationI by Michael L. Goodman 9780199915545
$136.37Learning to think innovatively requires practice. This workbook, which serves as a companion to Roberta Ness's Innovation Generation: How to Produce Creative and Useful Scientific Ideas, provides over 150 exercises and activities to hone creative... -
Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 7 by Michele J. Gelfand 9780190879235
$213.97With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade. From this proliferation of books, chapters, and journal articles, exciting developments... -
Understanding Disability: The Positive Psychology of Personal Factors by Michael Wehmeyer 9781793634658
RRP: $186.90$164.54Historically, interventions designed to impact the lives of disabled people were predicated upon deficits-based models of disability. This began to change with the introduction of World Health Organization (WHO) frameworks, particularly the International... -
Unequal Foundations: Inequality, Morality, and Emotions across Cultures by Steven Hitlin 9780190465407
RRP: $115.50$114.07Unequal Foundations offers readers a novel theory and a unique use of cross-cultural data to assert that the level of economic inequality in a society is reflected in the emotional experience of its members. People living in societies with more equality... -
Roots of War: Wanting Power, Seeing Threat, Justifying Force by David G. Winter 9780199355587
RRP: $96.58$65.56Ever since Thucydides pondered reasons for the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, writers, philosophers, and social scientists have all tried to identify and catalog factors that promote conflict escalation. Historians emphasize path-dependencies: the... -
Social Dilemmas: Understanding Human Cooperation by Paul Van Lange 9780199897612
RRP: $225.75$166.03One of the key scientific challenges is the puzzle of human cooperation. Why do people cooperate? Why do people help strangers, even sometimes at a major cost to themselves? Why do people want to punish people who violate norms and undermine collective... -
Strangers in a Strange Lab: How Personality Shapes Our Initial Encounters with Others by William Ickes 9780195372953
RRP: $115.50$101.35Can we predict how well-or how poorly-two strangers will get along? According to social psychologist William Ickes, the answer is yes. Drawing upon relevant research findings from his 30-year career, Ickes explains how initial interactions are shaped by... -
Narrative and the Politics of Identity: The Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth by Phillip L. Hammack 9780195394467
$89.88Since the late nineteenth century, Jews and Arabs have been locked in an intractable battle for national recognition in a land of tremendous historical and geopolitical significance. While historians and political scientists have long analyzed the... -
Family Relationships: An evolutionary perspective by Catherine A. Salmon 9780195320510
$119.05Kinship ties - the close relationships found within the family - have been a central focus of evolutionary biological analyses of social behaviour ever since biologist William Hamilton extended the concept of Darwinian fitness to include an individual's... -
Support Processes in Intimate Relationships by Kieran Sullivan 9780195380170
RRP: $115.50$102.19In the past twenty years or so, research on support processes in relationships has emerged as a distinct development in the field. Researchers have drawn from studies in the fields of communication, social support, and intimate relationships to conduct... -
Overworked and Undervalued: Black Women and Success in America by Rosalyn D. Davis 9781666907742
RRP: $170.10$149.23Overworked and Undervalued: Black Women and Successin America is a collection of essays written by Black female scholars, educators, and students as well as public policy, behavioral, and mental health professionals. The contributors' share their... -
Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War by Michael D. Matthews 9780199916177
RRP: $76.63$67.91Psychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II. Changes in the world's political landscape coupled with radical advances in... -
Reading Our Lives: The poetics of growing old by William Lowell Randall 9780195306873
RRP: $102.88$91.81Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging. Despite popular portrayals of mid and later life as entailing inevitable decline,... -
Obedience to Authority by Mark Gridley 9781912303649
RRP: $41.98$37.15Stanley Milgram is one of the most influential and widely-cited social psychologists of the twentieth century. Recognized as perhaps the most creative figure in his field, he is famous for crafting social-psychological experiments with an almost artistic... -
Situated Learning by Charmi Patel 9781912302154
RRP: $41.98$37.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Applied Social Psychology Marilynn B. Brewer (Ohio State University) 9781405110679
RRP: $90.20$79.74Applied Social Psychology is a collection of readings from the four-volume set of Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology that examine the applications of social psychological theory and research in various domains of personal, institutional, and... -
Creating Equality at Home: How 25 Couples around the World Share Housework and Childcare by Francine M. Deutsch 9781108497886
RRP: $121.80$110.06Creating Equality at Home tells the fascinating stories of 25 couples around the world whose everyday decisions about sharing the housework and childcare - from who cooks the food, washes the dishes, and helps with homework, to who cuts back on paid work... -
Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock 9781108474528
RRP: $140.70$125.83Strengthen your understanding of the persuasive mechanisms used by terrorist groups and how they are effective in order to defeat them. Weaponized Words applies existing theories of persuasion to domains unique to this digital era, such as social media,... -
The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice: Concise Student Edition by Fiona Kate Barlow 9781108426008
RRP: $138.58$122.66The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice: Concise Student Edition aims to answer the questions: why is prejudice so persistent? How does it affect people exposed to it? And what can we do about it? With cutting-edge research from top... -
Arguing, Obeying and Defying: A Rhetorical Perspective on Stanley Milgram's Obedience Experiments by Stephen Gibson 9781108421331
RRP: $210.00$188.75Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments are among the most influential and controversial scientific studies ever conducted. The experiments are commonly understood to have shown how easily people can be led into harming another person, simply as a result... -
Health and Illness in Close Relationships by Ashley P. Duggan 9781108419932
RRP: $233.10$210.04Health and Illness in Close Relationships provides an integrated theoretical framework for understanding the complexities of health trajectories and relationship processes. It is the first volume to review and synthesize current empirical evidence and... -
Contemporary Studies on Relationships, Health, and Wellness by Jennifer A. Theiss 9781108419864
RRP: $233.10$210.04Close relationships are a vital part of people's daily lives; thus family members, friends, and romantic partners play an integral role in people's health and well-being. Understanding the ways in which close relationships both shape and reflect people's... -
The Experience and Expression of Uncertainty in Close Relationships by Jennifer A. Theiss 9781107130555
RRP: $218.40$196.18Close relationships are an important and desired aspect of the human experience; but as individuals pursue intimacy and connection with others, they will encounter a variety of questions about the nature, status, and future of their relationships... -
Power in Close Relationships by Christopher R. Agnew 9781107192614
RRP: $210.00$189.59Power is an inherent feature of social interactions, yet it is hard to define and therefore understand. This book is the first to organize current interdisciplinary theorizing and research about power from leading academics in areas such as social... -
Interpersonal Emotion Dynamics in Close Relationships by Ashley K. Randall 9781107177703
RRP: $210.00$188.75Emotions play a powerful role in close relationships. Significant progress has been made in understanding the temporal features of emotions associated with the development and maintenance of close relationships across the lifespan. This advancement has... -
Cognitive Motivation: From Curiosity to Identity, Purpose and Meaning by David Beswick 9781107177666
RRP: $231.00$208.19Motivation and cognition were treated as separate concepts throughout most of twentieth-century psychology. However, in recent years researchers have begun viewing the two as inextricably intertwined: not only does what we want affect how we think, but... -
Men and Sex: A Sexual Script Approach by Philip Graham 9781107183933
RRP: $210.00$189.59Men and Sex provides a comprehensive yet accessible account of male sexuality by using the theoretical concept of the 'sexual script' to illuminate different aspects of men's sexual behaviour. Graham begins by discussing different theories of sexuality,... -
Violence Rewired: Evidence and Strategies for Public Health Action by Richard Whittington 9781107018075
RRP: $210.00$188.75This thought-provoking book draws together research from genetics, anthropology, psychology and the social sciences to show that widespread assumptions about the inevitability of human violence are almost entirely a collection of myths. While violence... -
Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century: Psychological, Sociological, and Political Perspectives by Romin W. Tafarodi 9781107007550
RRP: $144.90$129.51What is it like to be a person today? To think, feel, and act as an individual in a time of accelerated social, cultural, technological, and political change? This question is inspired by the double meaning of subjectivity as both the 'first-personness'... -
Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory by Hubert J. M. Hermans 9781107006515
$199.90In a boundary-crossing and globalizing world, the personal and social positions in self and identity become increasingly dense, heterogeneous and even conflicting. In this handbook scholars of different disciplines, nations and cultures (East and West)... -
The Message of Social Psychology: Perspectives on Mind in Society by Craig McGarty 9780631197799
RRP: $275.00$245.24In this book twenty--five of the worlda s most eminent social psychologists address what they see as the principal lessons to be learned from the study of social psychology. In doing this they provide their own provocative and original answers to the key... -
Attitudes, Chaos and the Connectionist Mind J. Richard Eiser (University of Sheffield, UK) 9780631191315
RRP: $77.60$68.27This book presents a broad-ranging and fascinating examination of attitudes: how we form them; how we organize them towards others; and whether they are inherently human or could also be developed by computers. Professor Eiser suggests there are... -
Communicating Affection: Interpersonal Behavior and Social Context by Kory Floyd 9780521832052
RRP: $149.10$134.82Few behavioral processes are more central to the development and maintenance of intimate relationships than the communication of affection. Indeed, affectionate expressions often initiate and accelerate relational development. By contrast, their absence... -
Genius Unmasked by Roberta B. Ness 9780199976591
RRP: $80.83$61.01Genius. It is a word that invokes mystique. How did Einstein deduce the theory of special relativity? How did Rutherford intuit the inner secrets of the atom? Although (in hindsight) genius can appear to have been predictable, more often such thinking...