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Hope Amidst Conflict: Philosophical and Psychological Explorations by Oded Adomi Leshem 9780197685303
RRP: $105.30$95.98How does hope for peace form and proliferate in the seemingly hopeless reality of conflict, and why do despair and fear often prevail? How do political elites utilize hope and skepticism to manipulate their public during conflict? And how does hope... -
The Psychology of Climate Change Adaptation by Anne van Valkengoed
RRP: $33.15$28.70Why do some people adapt to the risks of climate change, while others do not? This Element provides an in-depth overview of the psychology of climate change adaptation. It begins with an overview of adaptation behaviour and highlights the importance of... -
The Psychology of Poverty, Wealth, and Economic Inequality by Deborah Belle
RRP: $77.98$69.44Economic inequality is a defining issue of our time, with a handful of individuals in the United States today owning more wealth than half the population in the country. What are the psychological consequences of living in a profoundly unequal society?... -
Dark Personalities in the Workplace by Cynthia Mathieu
RRP: $124.70$111.19Dark Personalities in the Workplace defines dark personalities, their prevalence in the workplace, and how they are best managed. The book brings together research in psychology and business to both profile these employees and impart best practices for... -
Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War, Revised and Expanded Edition by Michael D. Matthews 9780190870478
RRP: $40.93$40.38Psychology 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... -
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath
RRP: $62.40$35.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307956392Author Chip HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 217mm *... -
Knowledge in Context: Representations, Community and Culture Sandra Jovchelovitch 9781138042896
RRP: $74.08$65.60In this classic edition of her groundbreaking text Knowledge in Context, Sandra Jovchelovitch revisits her influential work on the societal and cultural processes that shape the development of representational processes in humans.Through a novel analysis... -
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316346627
RRP: $29.23$27.24An introduction to the Tipping Point theory explains how minor changes in ideas and products can increase their popularity and how small adjustments in an individual's immediate environment can alter group behavior.Book InformationISBN... -
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316346627 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$5.17An introduction to the Tipping Point theory explains how minor changes in ideas and products can increase their popularity and how small adjustments in an individual's immediate environment can alter group behavior.Book InformationISBN... -
The Wealth Paradox: Economic Prosperity and the Hardening of Attitudes by Frank Mols
RRP: $44.83$38.14The West is currently in the grip of a perfect storm: a lingering economic recession, a global refugee crisis, declining faith in multiculturalism, and the rise of populist anti-immigration parties. These developments seem to confirm the widely held view... -
Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development by Ilan Kapoor 9781501751752
RRP: $46.78$41.26By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, Confronting Desire offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor... -
Identities in Talk by Charles Antaki 9780761950615
RRP: $97.48$79.05`Identity' attracts some of social science's liveliest and most passionate debates. Theory abounds on matters as disparate as nationhood, ethnicity, gender politics and culture. However, there is considerably less investigation into how such identity... -
Decolonial Psychology: Toward Anticolonial Theories, Research, Training, and Practice Lillian Comas-Diaz 9781433838521
RRP: $124.80$104.03This book offers an expert synthesis of the scholarly literature on approaches to decolonial psychology, its historical foundations, education and training, and psychological practice. From its inception, psychological science and practice in the United... -
Social Construction: A Reader by Mary Gergen
RRP: $95.53$77.82'Social Construction: A Reader is a superb selection of classic and contemporary readings representing the major viewpoints central to social constructionism' Journal of Community and Applied Psychology Social Construction: A Reader is a collection of... -
Developing Public Service Leaders: Elite orchestration, change agency, leaderism, and neoliberalization by Mike Wallace 9780199552108
RRP: $219.38$198.20Developing Public Service Leaders examines why and how governments and representative bodies in public service organizations have mounted major interventions over the last two decades to develop senior staff as leaders. A critical explanation is... -
A Theory of System Justification by John T Jost
RRP: $79.85$65.31A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us-including many of those who are persecuted and powerless-so often defend the social systems that cause misery and injustice.Why do we so often defend the very social systems that are responsible for... -
In A Younger Voice: Doing Child-Centered Qualitative Research by Cindy Dell Clark 9780195376593
RRP: $107.25$94.11Adults were once children, yet a generational gap can present itself when grown-ups seek to know children's lives, in research. In A Younger Voice discloses how qualitative research, tailored to be child-centered, can shrink the gap of generational... -
The Moral Molecule: How Trust Works by Paul J. Zak 9780142196908
RRP: $46.80$32.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196908Author Paul J. ZakFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 201gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 134mm * 14mm -
Behavior Therapy: Scientific, Philosophical and Moral Foundations by Edward Erwin 9780521294393
RRP: $60.43$46.41Although the development of systematic behavior modification techniques had impacted enormously on clinical theory and practice in the years leading up to 1978, when this book was first published, Edward Erwin addresses some of the remaining fundamental... -
The Entire City, a commentary on three texts by Ian Dallas 9780620904346
RRP: $52.63$38.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620904346Author Ian DallasFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Dallas House (Pty) LtdPublisher Dallas House (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 156g -
The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights by Thomas Gilovich
RRP: $37.03$23.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451677553Author Thomas GilovichFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 18mm -
Lifetimes of Commitment: Ageing, Politics, Psychology by Professor Molly Andrews 9780521422499
RRP: $72.13$61.05This book is an exploration of the ways in which political belief is developed and sustained throughout the course of a lifetime. Through extensive interviews, it focuses on the lives of fifteen British men and women, aged between seventy and ninety, who... -
Psychoanalysis: Its image and its public Serge Moscovici (cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales) 9780745632698
RRP: $38.98$35.28The publication in English of Serge Moscovici's Psychoanalysis, Its Image and Its Public is an event of singular importance for social psychology. For the first time, English-speaking readers will have access to one of the most influential books... -
Evolution's Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy 9780199892747
RRP: $224.25$182.52Over the last decade, there has been increasing debate as to whether feminism and evolutionary psychology can co-exist. Such debates often conclude with a resounding "no," often on the grounds that the former is a political movement while the... -
Ethnography by Anthony Kwame Harrison 9780199371785
RRP: $78.96$63.06Ethnography familiarizes readers with ethnographic research and writing traditions through detailed discussions of ethnography's history, exploratory design, representational conventions, and standards of evaluation. Responding to the proliferation of... -
Invitation to the Psychology of Religion, Third Edition Raymond F. Paloutzian 9781462527540
$100.89The leading undergraduate psychology of religion text, this engaging book synthesizes cutting-edge theories and findings into an accessible account enlivened by personal reflections and contemporary examples. Raymond F. Paloutzian offers an authoritative... -
From Freedom Fighters to Jihadists: Human Resources of Non State Armed Groups by Vanessa Everts 9780190939762
RRP: $76.03$57.72At the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, thousands of pro-democracy rebel groups spontaneously formed to fight the Assad regime. Years later, the revolution was unrecognizable as rebel opposition forces had merged into three major groups: Jabhat... -
Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: Science and the Paranormal by Terence Hines 9781573929790
RRP: $35.08$30.79Television, the movies, and computer games fill the minds of their viewers with a daily staple of fantasy, from tales of UFO landings, haunted houses, and communication with the dead to claims of miraculous cures by gifted healers or breakthrough... -
Pride: The Secret of Success by Jessica Tracy 9781328745477
$25.27Why did Paul Gauguin abandon middle-class life to follow the path of a starving artist? What explains the massive success of Steve Jobs, a man with great ideas but weak programming skills and a questionable managerial style? How did Dean Karnazes-the... -
Through a Glass Brightly: Using Science to See Our Species as We Really Are by David P. Barash
RRP: $36.06$26.54Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, the apple of God's eye, specially-created creatures who are somehow above and beyond the natural world. This viewpoint - a persistent paradigm of our own unique self-importance - is as... -
Relationships in Chronic Illness and Disability by Renee F. Lyons 9780803947047
RRP: $157.95$130.18This sensitive yet practical book explores challenges to adult close relationships that result from long-term illness and disability. The authors focus on illness and: relationship change; interpersonal supports and stressors; and relationship-focused... -
Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan by Andrew McCarron
RRP: $38.98$35.51Bob Dylan is the prince of self-reinvention and deflection. Whether it's the folkies of Greenwich Village, the student movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Born Again Christians, the Chabad Lubavitch community, or English Department postmodernists, specific... -
Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions by Liz Jackson 9781108711609
RRP: $44.83$40.29Educating students for emotional wellbeing is a vital task in schools. However, educating emotions is not straightforward. Emotional processes can be challenging to identify and control. How emotions are valued varies across societies, while individuals... -
Adult Friendship by Rosemary Blieszner 9780803936737
RRP: $157.95$130.18A topic relevant to everyone - friendship - is explored in this volume, the first in the SAGE Series on Close Relationships. It presents a thoughtful statement about what we know, and have yet to learn, concerning adults' friendships. The authors discuss... -
The Emotions: Social, Cultural and Biological Dimensions by Rom Harre 9780803979307
RRP: $117.00$101.99`There is much that is fascinating here. Long-established experiments and conclusions are rubbished and reinterpreted, long-established assumptions and beliefs about emotions are soundly trounced, and generally a good going-over is delivered to the whole... -
Stereotypes and Prejudice: Key Readings Charles Stangor 9780863775895
$124.29This book contains a collection of classic and contemporary readings that have contributed to our understanding of stereotypes and prejudice from a social-psychological perspective. The selected readings all make an important theoretical contribution,... -
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology Tony Manstead 9780631202899
RRP: $118.85$105.61This encyclopedia, now available in paperback, is the definitive resource for all students, teachers and researchers of social psychology eager to know more about a particular phenomenon, concept, or theory. Each key topic is addressed by internationally... -
Leadership and Power: Identity Processes in Groups and Organizations by Daan van Knippenberg 9780761947035
RRP: $83.83$73.65Leadership and associated power issues lie at the core of group life in a variety of contexts. Even the most informal of groups typically have some form of leadership in their organization, and the understanding of leadership and power from a... -
Group Dynamics for Teams - International Student Edition Daniel J. Levi 9781071808474
RRP: $249.60$118.07Grounded in psychology research but with a practical focus on organizational behavior issues, Group Dynamics for Teams helps readers understand and participate in teams more effectively in day-to-day work. Best-selling author Daniel Levi and new... -
Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illnesses and Social Delusion by Robert E. Bartholomew 9780786409976
RRP: $56.53$46.90For a two week period in 1956, residents in the vicinity of Taipei, Taiwan, lived in fear that they would be the next victims of a crazed villain who was prowling the streets and slashing people at random with a razor or similar weapon. At least 21...