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Strength Through Peace: How Demilitarization Led to Peace and Happiness in Costa Rica, and What the Rest of the World can Learn From a Tiny, Tropical Nation by Judith Eve Lipton 9780199924974
€48.87Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized. Its military was abolished in 1948, with the keys to the armory handed to the Department of Education. Socially, Costa Rica is a success story. Although... -
The Psychology of Desire Wilhelm Hofmann 9781462527687
€50.09Providing a comprehensive perspective on human desire, this volume brings together leading experts from multiple psychological subdisciplines. It addresses such key questions as how desires of different kinds emerge, how they influence judgment and... -
Propaganda and Ideology in the Russian–Ukrainian War by Jon Roozenbeek 9781009244008
RRP: €30.93€26.17Russia's invasion of Ukraine is one of the most important conflicts of the twenty-first century. With the start of military hostilities in 2014 also came an onslaught of propaganda, to both convince and confuse audiences worldwide about the war's... -
The Psychology of Peace: An Introduction, 2nd Edition by Rachel M. MacNair 9780313397233
€67.07Despite our advances in technology and education, we still live in a world permeated by violence. This introductory textbook in the field of peace psychology addresses the psychological causes of violence and nonviolence, conflict resolution, nonviolent... -
Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's Dissident Terrorists by John Horgan 9780199772858
RRP: €49.37€39.79Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29 people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a major security threat to a region that has been denied... -
Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World by Jurgen Streeck 9780521895637
RRP: €119.00€91.74How do people organize their body movement and talk when they interact with one another in the material world? How do they coordinate linguistic structures with bodily resources (such as gaze and gesture) to bring about coherent and intelligible courses... -
Love Online: Emotions on the Internet by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev 9780521832960
RRP: €59.49€38.13Computers have changed not just the way we work but the way we love. Falling in and out of love, flirting, cheating, even having sex online have all become part of the modern way of living and loving. Yet we know very little about these new types of... -
Manipulation: The Little-Known Secrets People High in Dark Triad Traits Know About Persuasion, Human Psychology, Analyzing Body Language, and Mind by Neil Morton 9781952559891
RRP: €29.74€21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952559891Author Neil MortonFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint PrimastaPublisher PrimastaWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
Power in Close Relationships by Christopher R. Agnew
RRP: €36.88€33.65Power 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... -
The Meaning of Cooking Jean-Claude Kaufmann (Commissioning Editor in Media and Cultural Studies and lecturer at University of Paris V Sorbonne) 9780745646916
RRP: €21.41€19.39In 1785 James Boswell and Dr Johnson were trying to come up with a way of distinguishing human beings from animals. ?The beasts have memory, judgement, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree,' said Boswell, ?but no beast is a... -
Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups by E. J. R. David 9780826199256
RRP: €64.25€52.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826199256Author E. J. R. DavidFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Springer Publishing Co IncPublisher Springer Publishing Co IncWeight(grams) 500g -
On the Self-Regulation of Behavior by Charles S. Carver 9780521572040
RRP: €101.15€91.05This book presents a thorough overview of a model of human functioning based on the idea that behavior is goal-directed and regulated by feedback control processes. It describes feedback processes and their application to behavior, considers goals and... -
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization by Peter T. Coleman 9780231197410
RRP: €19.03€15.36The partisan divide in the United States has widened to a chasm. Legislators vote along party lines and rarely cross the aisle. Political polarization is personal, too-and it is making us miserable. Surveys show that Americans have become more fearful... -
Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context by Seth Chaiklin
RRP: €61.87€51.67Understanding Practice brings together the many different perspectives that have been applied to examining social context. From Ole Dreier's work on the therapeutic relationship, to Hugh Mehan's work on learning by disabled students, to Charles and Janet... -
Immigration and Acculturation: Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation by Salman Akhtar 9780765708243
RRP: €124.95€108.75Moving from one country to another causes a radical alteration of one's cultural and geophysical surround. Separation from friends and family, loss of valued possessions, and encountering new ways of living result in mental pain and disorienting... -
Domestic Workers Talk: Language Use and Social Practices in a Multilingual Workplace by Kellie Gonçalves 9781800416741
RRP: €29.69€26.17Set in a multilingual cleaning company that serves Anglophone customers in the upper-(middle) class suburbs of New York City, this book presents an ethnographic study into power, language policy and communication from the perspectives of the... -
Emotions and Beliefs: How Feelings Influence Thoughts by Nico H. Frijda 9780521787345
RRP: €46.40€39.58Few people would question nowadays that emotions influence beliefs but until recently little scientific research has been done on exactly how this effect takes place. This important new book, with contributions from some of the leading figures in the... -
Reaction Formation: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture: The Creation of the Modern Unconscious by Jonathan Hall
RRP: €35.70€23.66Bakhtin and Voloshinov argued that dialogue is the intersubjective basis of consciousness, and of the creativity which makes historical changes in consciousness possible. The multiple dialogical relationships give every subject, who has developed through... -
Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty: A New Development in Dialogical Self Theory by Hubert J. M. Hermans 9781108844406
RRP: €130.90€101.58In this volume, Dialogical Self Theory is innovatively presented as a guide to help elucidate some of the most pressing problems of our time as they emerge at the interface of self and society. As a bridging framework at the interface of the social... -
The Social Psychology of Power Ana Guinote 9781606236192
€76.76Addressing an issue of central concern in social life, this authoritative book examines how having or lacking power influences the way individuals and groups think, feel, and act. Leading international experts comprehensively review classic and... -
The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness by Lee Alan Dugatkin
€38.63In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed,... -
The Roots of Modern Social Psychology: 1872-1954 by Robert M. Farr
RRP: €45.16€41.01This volume traces the origins of social psychology in both the European and American traditions of thought, and seeks to place modern social psychology in its historical setting.About the AuthorRobert M. Farr is Professor of Social Psychology at the... -
Social Psychology in Christian Perspective: Exploring the Human Condition by Angela M. Sabates 9780830839889
RRP: €57.11€48.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830839889Author Angela M. SabatesFormat HardbackPage Count 567Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 988gDimensions(mm)... -
The Radical's Journey: How German Neo-Nazis Voyaged to the Edge and Back by Arie W. Kruglanski 9780190851095
RRP: €41.64€35.81This volume offers a crucial examination of right-wing extremism, supported by detailed empirical analyses of right-wing militants' experiences within and outside their organizations. The authors delve deeply into the motivations that prompt initial... -
The Conflicted Mind: And Why Psychology Has Failed to Deal With It Geoffrey Beattie (19022021 Account placed on hold. Awaiting resolution from KP concerning calculation query. SF01604554 GRQ0109612) 9781138665798
€51.31One of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior is our tendency to say one thing and do something completely different. We think of ourselves as positive and fair-minded, caring about other people and our environment, yet our behavior lets us down time... -
Attachment in Religion and Spirituality: A Wider View Pehr Granqvist 9781462542680
€55.94Synthesizing diverse strands of theory and research, this compelling book explores the psychology of religion and spirituality through an innovative attachment lens. Pehr Granqvist examines the connections between early caregiving experiences, attachment... -
The Social Self: Cognitive, Interpersonal and Intergroup Perspectives Joseph P. Forgas 9781841690827
€66.47What is the nature of the 'self', how do everyday experiences shape it, and how does it influence our thinking, judgements and behaviors? Such questions constitute enduring puzzles in psychology, and are also of critical practical importance for applied... -
Critical Social Psychology by Tomas Ibanez 9780761952893
RRP: €69.02€60.20Much recent work in social psychology has questioned the assumptions and practices of traditional research and debate. Accessible and often passionately argued, this book pulls these new trends together in a major overview of the main theoretical,... -
Coping with Threatened Identities Glynis M. Breakwell 9781138838673
RRP: €52.35€46.10People cope with threats to their identities in many different ways. Until the original publication of this title in 1986, there had been no theoretical framework within which to analyse their strategies for doing this, or to examine the nature and... -
The Psychology of Facial Expression by James A. Russell 9780521587969
RRP: €52.35€45.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Psychology and Culture: Thinking, Feeling and Behaving in a Global Context Lisa Vaughn 9781138576803
€46.46The increasing globalization of society is causing shifts in social, linguistic, religious, and other cultural differences, which may increase the potential for misunderstandings in communication, the workplace, health care, and education. The new second... -
Experiments With People: Revelations From Social Psychology, 2nd Edition Kurt P. Frey (University of New Rochelle, Connecticut, USA) 9781138282117
€58.71This book showcases 28 intriguing social psychological experiments that have significantly advanced our understanding of human social thinking and behavior. Each chapter focuses on the details and implications of a single study, while citing related... -
Surviving Identity: Vulnerability and the Psychology of Recognition by Kenneth McLaughlin
€46.46Today, political claims are increasingly made on the basis of experienced trauma and inherent vulnerability, as evidenced in the growing number of people who identify as a "survivor" of one thing or another, and also in the way in which much political... -
The Social Net: Understanding our online behavior by Yair Amichai-Hamburger 9780199639540
€99.26In the past two decades, the Internet has come to dominate every aspect of everyday life. This has been a huge change for many of us, and, for the younger generation - born into this situation - there has been no other way of living. How does this new... -
Multiculturalism and Diversity: A Social Psychological Perspective by Bernice Lott 9781405190657
RRP: €39.21€34.68Multiculturalism and Diversity focuses on the ways in which history and identity inform each other, and examines the politics of culture as well as the politics of cultural identities within the U.S. Illustrates the basic proposition that each of us is a... -
The Power of Body Language: How to Succeed in Every Business and Social Encounter by Tonya Reiman 9781416561095
€14.07THE POWER OF BODY LANGUAGE is for everyone who wants to know what others are really saying and thinking - what is going on beneath the words. It's also for people who want to improve their own communication and improve how they are perceived by others in... -
How Fantasy Becomes Reality: Information and Entertainment Media in Everyday Life, Revised and Expanded by Karen E. Dill-Shackleford 9780190239299
RRP: €49.97€41.76From smartphones to social media, from streaming videos to fitness bands, our devices bring us information and entertainment all day long, forming an intimate part of our lives. Their ubiquity represents a major shift in human experience, and although we... -
Entangled Narratives: Collaborative Storytelling and the Re-Imagining of Dementia by Lars-Christer Hyden 9780199391578
RRP: €82.11€58.16As people are living longer on average than ever before, the number of those with dementia will increase. Because many will live a considerable time at home with their diagnosis, we need to know more about the ways people can adapt to and learn to live... -
Bereavement and Health: The Psychological and Physical Consequences of Partner Loss by Wolfgang Stroebe 9780521287104
RRP: €35.69€30.87Does the popular notion of a 'broken heart' have some grounding in reality? How can grief affect the body in ways that necessitate medical care and may even be life-threatening? Bereavement and Health constitutes a comprehensive review of what is known... -
A History of Social Psychology: From the Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment to the Second World War by Gustav Jahoda 9780521687867
RRP: €32.12€27.13The term 'social psychology' was first established in the 1860s but the issues surrounding the subject have evolved over a much longer period. This book follows the history of the discipline over two and a half centuries, demonstrating the links between...