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Counselling Skills for Working with Shame by Christiane Sanderson
RRP: £28.99£28.16Counselling Skills for Working with Shame helps professionals to understand and identify shame and to build shame resilience in both the client and themselves.Shame is ubiquitous in counselling where there is an increased vulnerability and risk of... -
Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do about It by Daniel Simons
RRP: £25.00£15.28From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody's Fool, psychologists Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris show us how to... -
The Psychology of Humor: An Integrative Approach by Rod A. Martin 9780128121436
RRP: £54.99£50.18Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the subject, the research is spread in a variety of disciplines. The Psychology... -
Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us by Clark R. McCauley 9780199747436
RRP: £46.49£38.93This accessible book identifies twelve mechanisms of political radicalization that can move individuals, groups, and the masses to increased sympathy and support for political violence. Terrorism is an extreme form of radicalization, and the book... -
Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown
RRP: £18.00£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583333785Author Stuart BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Avery Publishing Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)... -
Fans: A Journey Into the Psychology of Belonging by Michael Bond
RRP: £20.00£14.29'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' - TLSFans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental... -
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt 9781786090195 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.53'Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH'Poignant... striking... important and... -
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Jennifer Eberhardt makes it clear that racism operates at all levels, and it fills me with hope to know that she is fighting it at all levels. More power to you, sister. The world needs you.' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH'Poignant... striking... important and... -
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? - New Edition by Philip E. Tetlock 9780691175973
RRP: £22.00£17.76Since its original publication, Expert Political Judgment by New York Times bestselling author Philip Tetlock has established itself as a contemporary classic in the literature on evaluating expert opinion. Tetlock first discusses arguments about whether... -
Social: Why our brains are wired to connect by Matthew D. Lieberman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Why are we influenced by the behaviour of complete strangers? Why does the brain register similar pleasure when I perceive something as 'fair' or when I eat chocolate? Why can we be so profoundly hurt by bereavement? What are the evolutionary benefits of... -
The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World by Alex O'Brien 9781788164870 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£7.74'Through the lens of her personal experience as a poker player, Alex O'Brien reveals the tricks that can help each of us navigate a world beset with uncertainty and misinformation' ANGELA SAINI 'It's thrilling' PHILIP BALL 'Deserves to be widely... -
The Truth Detective: A Poker Player's Guide to a Complex World by Alex O'Brien 9781788164870
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Through the lens of her personal experience as a poker player, Alex O'Brien reveals the tricks that can help each of us navigate a world beset with uncertainty and misinformation' ANGELA SAINI 'It's thrilling' PHILIP BALL 'Deserves to be widely... -
What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson
RRP: £10.99£7.93As hilarious as it is perturbing, Jon Ronson's second collection of Guardian journalism, What I Do, is a treat for everyone who has ever suspected themselves to be at the mercy of forces they can barely comprehend.In part one, read about the time Jon... -
Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty by R Baumeister 9780805071658
RRP: £23.99£15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805071658Author R BaumeisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company Inc -
I You We Them: Journeys Beyond Evil: The Desk Killer in History and Today by Dan Gretton
RRP: £14.99£11.35A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK OF NON-FICTION A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'Meticulous, clinical and sobering, a shockingly important and incisive book' David OlusogaVast and revelatory, Dan Gretton's I You We Them is an unprecedented study of the... -
The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters by Susan Pinker
RRP: £14.99£9.80Marrying the findings of the new field of social neuroscience together with gripping human stories, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker explores the impact of face-to-face contact from cradle to grave, from city to Sardinian mountain... -
The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff 9780241645574
RRP: £25.00£17.62Why bother refuting your opponents, when you can just take away their platform or career?Greg Lukianoff was one of the first to raise the alarm about the troubling social and psychological consequences of the growing intolerance of opposing viewpoints on... -
Parenting for Humans: How to Parent the Child You Have, as the Person You Are by Dr Svanberg 9781728297415
RRP: £16.99£12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728297415Author Dr SvanbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 23mm -
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman 9780241989258
RRP: £10.99£7.77Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and fanatics.Distilling decades of economics, political... -
How Many Friends Does One Person Need?: Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks by Robin Dunbar
RRP: £11.99£7.93We are the product of our evolutionary history and this history colours our everyday lives - from why we kiss to how religious we are. In How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Robin Dunbar explains how the distant past underpins our current behaviour,... -
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion by Paul Bloom
RRP: £10.99£7.77In a divided world, empathy is not the solution, it is the problem. We think of empathy - the ability to feel the suffering of others for ourselves - as the ultimate source of all good behaviour. But while it inspires care and protection in personal... -
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R Banaji
RRP: £18.00£10.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345528438Author Mahzarin R. BanajiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know by Paul Bloom
RRP: £25.00£18.02Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you.'Like having the mind's complexities untangled by a witty, eloquent and deeply knowledgeable friend' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'Really wonderful, hugely readable ... loving it' DERREN BROWNNothing is... -
The Anatomy Of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
RRP: £18.99£14.01In a world in which violence in every form seems to be increasing, Erich Fromm has treated this problem with deep perception in the most original and far-reaching work of his brilliant career. Fromm asks: what is there in the conditions of human... -
Louder Than Words: Take Your Career from Average to Exceptional with the Hidden Power of Nonverbal Intelligence by Joe Navarro
RRP: £11.99£7.86Drawing on his decades of work in the behavioural sciences, Navarro shows how to use his simple yet powerful comfort/discomfort model to decode nonverbal behaviour and gain crucial insights about what's really being said at meetings, interviews,... -
Reaction Formation: Dialogism, Ideology, and Capitalist Culture: The Creation of the Modern Unconscious by Jonathan Hall
RRP: £30.00£19.88Bakhtin 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: £110.00£85.36In 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... -
Exhaustion: A History by Anna Katharina Schaffner 9780231172318
RRP: £20.00£15.89Today our fatigue feels chronic; our anxieties, amplified. Proliferating technologies command our attention. Many people complain of burnout, and economic instability and the threat of ecological catastrophe fill us with dread. We look to the past,... -
Foundations of Social Theory by James S. Coleman 9780674312265
£47.64Combining principles of individual rational choice with a sociological conception of collective action, James Coleman recasts social theory in a bold new way. The result is a landmark in sociological theory, capable of describing both stability and... -
The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die by Keith Payne
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A persuasive and highly readable account of how rising inequality, and not just absolute poverty, is undermining our politics, social cohesion, long-term prosperity and general well-being' Barack ObamaInequality makes us feel poor and act poor, even... -
The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories by Jan-Willem van Prooijen 9781138696105
RRP: £12.99£11.94Who believes in conspiracy theories, and why are some people more susceptible to them than others?What are the consequences of such beliefs?Has a conspiracy theory ever turned out to be true?The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories debunks the myth that... -
Courting the Wild Twin by Martin Shaw
£17.34'Fabulous.' Dan Richards, author of Holloway 'Terrifically strange and thrilling.' Melissa Harrison, author of All Among the Barley 'A modern-day bard.' Madeline Miller, author of Circe This is a book of literary activism - an antidote to the... -
Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness by Owen Eastwood
RRP: £20.00£13.75THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Gareth Southgate's secret weapon' - Guardian'A copy of Eastwood's new book, Belonging, was given to every England player when they reported for duty at the European Championships' - TelegraphIn BELONGING Owen Eastwood... -
Behavioural Economics: Psychology, neuroscience, and the human side of economics by David Orrell
RRP: £10.99£7.32The controversial science that claims to have revolutionised economics.For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational individuals who optimise our own 'utility'. Then, in the 1970s, psychologists demonstrated that the reality is... -
You are Not So Smart: Why Your Memory is Mostly Fiction, Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook and 46 Other Ways You're Deluding Yourself by David McRaney
RRP: £10.99£7.77How many of your Facebook friends do you think you know? Would you help a stranger in need? Do you know why you're so in love with your new smartphone? The truth is: you're probably wrong. You are not so smart. In this international bestseller,... -
The Inner Eye: Social Intelligence in Evolution by Nicholas Humphrey 9780192802446
RRP: £26.49£24.51Where does consciousness come from? What is it? Where is it taking us? In 1971 Nicholas Humphrey spent three months at Dian Fossey's gorilla research centre in Rwanda. It was there, among the mountain gorillas that he began to focus on the philosphical... -
Brainwashing: The science of thought control by Kathleen Taylor
RRP: £12.99£9.09Throughout history, humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has become part of the popular culture and been exploited to create sensational... -
BFF?: The truth about female friendship by Claire Cohen
RRP: £16.99£12.28Why do some friendships last a lifetime, while others fade away?How do you break up with a friend? How many 'best' friends should we be aiming for? From the time we start school, we are fed a diet of 'Best Friends Forever' - the idea that you should have... -
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy--And What We Can Do about It by Tobias Rose-Stockwell 9780306923326
RRP: £29.00£22.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306923326Author Tobias Rose-StockwellFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Legacy LitPublisher Legacy LitWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm *... -
The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
RRP: £14.99£13.58Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and...