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Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? - New Edition by Philip E. Tetlock 9780691175973
RRP: $28.38$22.91Since 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... -
Dignity: Its Essential Role in Resolving Conflict by Donna Hicks
RRP: $18.05$15.80A noted conflict-resolution expert explores dignity, its role in human conflict, and its power to improve relationships "This book is a must read for those who want to experience peace in their everyday lives and peace in the world around them. . . . If... -
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson 9781035038510
RRP: $14.18$9.69The Sunday Times bestseller - now with a new introduction and part of the Picador Collection'The belly laughs come thick and fast' - The Observer_____What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon... -
Social: Why our brains are wired to connect by Matthew D. Lieberman
RRP: $19.34$14.13Why 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
RRP: $21.92$15.84'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... -
Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson
RRP: $12.89$9.38Out of the Ordinary is Jon Ronson at his inimitable best: hilarious, thought-provoking and with an unerring eye for human frailty - not least his own.Jon Ronson's subjects have included people who believe that goats can be killed by the power of a really... -
Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty by R Baumeister 9780805071658
RRP: $30.95$19.08Apologies 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 -
The Village Effect: Why Face-to-face Contact Matters by Susan Pinker
RRP: $19.34$12.64Marrying 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... -
Parenting for Humans: How to Parent the Child You Have, as the Person You Are by Dr Svanberg 9781728297415
RRP: $21.92$16.56Apologies 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 -
The Human Mind: A Brief Tour of Everything We Know by Paul Bloom
RRP: $32.25$23.25Are 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 Generation Divide: Why We Can’t Agree and Why We Should by Bobby Duffy
RRP: $14.18$9.18'Subtle and compelling.' Observer'One of the best books of 2021.' The TimesAre we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled 'snowflakes'? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children's futures? Are Generation X the saddest... -
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
RRP: $24.50$17.56In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives... -
Developing a Model of Islamic Psychology and Psychotherapy: Islamic Theology and Contemporary Understandings of Psychology by Abdallah Rothman 9780367611521
RRP: $49.01$43.06At a time when there is increasing need to offer psychotherapeutic approaches that accommodate clients' religious and spiritual beliefs, and acknowledge the potential for healing and growth offered by religious frameworks, this book explores psychology... -
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield
RRP: $12.89$8.64A Financial Times Business BOOK OF THE YEARAN INSIDE LOOK AT THE HORIZON POST OFFICE SCANDAL'Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more fun than a book about failure has any right to be.' - Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit An... -
The Anatomy Of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm
RRP: $24.50$18.07In 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... -
Foolproof: Why We Fall for Misinformation and How to Build Immunity by Dr Sander Van der Linden
RRP: $28.38$19.32Winner of British Psychological Society Best Book Prize (Popular Science) 2023 Nature's Top 10 Books of 2023 A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 ... -
Liberation in the Face of Uncertainty: A New Development in Dialogical Self Theory by Hubert J. M. Hermans 9781108844406
RRP: $141.90$110.11In 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: $25.80$20.50Today 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,... -
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us by James W. Pennebaker
RRP: $19.34$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194964Author James W. PennebakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bloomsbury PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 385g -
Foundations of Social Theory by James S. Coleman 9780674312265
$61.46Combining 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: $12.89$8.77'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: $16.76$15.40Who 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... -
Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed by Will Storr
RRP: $15.47$10.51'Fascinating' Guardian'Brilliant' Evening Standard'Electrifying' Financial Times'So interesting I literally couldn't put it down' Sunday TimesWe are living in an age of heightened individualism. Success is a personal responsibility. Our culture tells us... -
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
RRP: $16.76$14.78Claude M. Steele, who has been called "one of the few great social psychologists," offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social... -
Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness by Owen Eastwood
RRP: $25.80$17.74THE #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... -
The Fear of Freedom by Erich Fromm
RRP: $19.34$17.52Erich 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... -
Awe: The New Science and Transformative Power of Everyday Wonder by Prof. Dacher Keltner
RRP: $32.25$22.73'I recommend [Awe] to everyone. Its ideas organized a lot of my experiences, observations, thoughts, and hopes in a powerful new way.' - Rebecca Solnit, (X)From a foremost expert on the science of emotions, a groundbreaking exploration into the history,... -
The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff 9780241645574
RRP: $32.25$22.73Why 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... -
Behavioural Economics: Psychology, neuroscience, and the human side of economics by David Orrell
RRP: $14.18$9.44The 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: $14.18$10.02How 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 Psychology of Terrorism by Neil Shortland
RRP: $16.76$15.40What is terrorism? Can anyone be radicalized? How can we respond to terrorist acts? The Psychology of Terrorism seeks to explain why some acts of violence are considered terrorism and others are not, and why some individuals may be more susceptible to... -
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg 9780593862063
RRP: $41.28$23.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593862063Author Charles DuhiggFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 425g -
The Inner Eye: Social Intelligence in Evolution by Nicholas Humphrey 9780192802446
RRP: $34.17$31.62Where 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... -
BFF?: The truth about female friendship by Claire Cohen
RRP: $21.92$15.84Why 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... -
Identity: A Very Short Introduction by Florian Coulmas
RRP: $11.60$8.32Identity 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... -
Outrage Machine: How Tech Amplifies Discontent, Disrupts Democracy--And What We Can Do about It by Tobias Rose-Stockwell 9780306923326
RRP: $37.41$29.59Apologies 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 Bystander Effect: The Psychology of Courage and Inaction by Catherine Sanderson
RRP: $12.89$8.57'Fantastic ... It explains the misperception of stacked odds and personal powerlessness that stops individuals challenging bad behaviour. Stunning. Humbling. Thought-provoking'Kathryn Mannix, author of With the End in Mind In the... -
Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World by Michael Harris
RRP: $14.18$10.02'An elegant, thoughtful book . . . beautifully expresses the importance and experience of liberation from the battery-hen life of constant connection and crowds.' Daily Mail'A compelling study of the subtle ways in which modern life and technologies have... -
Educational Psychology by Tony Cline 9780367339142
RRP: $56.75$49.59Now in its third edition, Educational Psychology offers a comprehensive overview of how key advances in social, developmental and cognitive psychology impact upon the role of educational psychologists working today. Written by leading researchers, the... -
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
RRP: $16.76$10.55From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to "a better, more human way to live" (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the "laziness lie"-which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard...