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Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful, Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff
RRP: £14.99£9.95In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff looks back to our ancestors for solutions to our failing modern-day parenting theories. When Dr Michaeleen Doucleff became a mother, she examined the studies behind modern parenting... -
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life by Catherine Gray
RRP: £9.99£6.73THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Many people wonder if they can still have fun without alcohol... Gray tackles this misconception.' - The New York Times 'Gray's tale of going sober is uplifting and inspiring' - The Evening Standard 'An icon of the Quit... -
Introducing Melanie Klein: A Graphic Guide by R. D. Hinshelwood
RRP: £8.99£3.39INTRODUCING guide to the pioneering child psychoanalyst. Born in Vienna in 1882, Melanie Klein became a pioneer in child psychoanalysis and developed several ground-breaking concepts about the nature and crucial importance of the early stages of... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
RRP: £9.99£6.95Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of... -
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Adam Phillips
RRP: £10.99£10.06From one of the world's foremost authorities on Sigmund Freud comes a strikingly original biography of the father of psychoanalysisBecoming Freud is the story of the young Freud-Freud up until the age of fifty-that incorporates all of Freud's many... -
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay 9780300276091
RRP: £10.99£10.06"Fascinating."-Thomas W. Hodgkinson, The Guardian "Richly detailed and frequently illuminating."-Rhys Blakely, Times (UK) "Excellent."-Clare Bucknell, New Yorker A New Yorker Best of the Week PickA provocative and original history of the scientists and... -
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist by Lori Gottlieb
RRP: £10.99£7.57A TIME magazine Must-Read Book of the Year Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of her practice - where her patients are looking... -
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
RRP: £19.99£15.28Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject,... -
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
RRP: £10.99£8.02THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family... -
A Shift Inside by Dr Rebecca Milner
RRP: £8.99£6.27Get inside the criminal mind with forensic psychologist Dr Rebecca Milner in this deeply shocking but fascinating memoir. Fresh out of university, Rebecca was only 22 years old when she started working in Wakefield Prison, and set out upon... -
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison
RRP: £10.99£7.76An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doctor and patient, the healer and the healed. A classic memoir of enormous candour and courage, it teems with the wit and wisdom of its writer, Dr Kay Redfield Jamison.With... -
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding In Plain Sight by M. E. Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.76A memoir by a diagnosed sociopath. Fascinating, shocking and funny, Confessions of a Sociopath is a gripping insight into the mind of a self-confessed predator.M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic, ambitious and... -
In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist by Dr Sohom Das 9780751583793
RRP: £12.99£8.11Shocking. Eye-opening. Grimly fascinating. These true stories from a Forensic Psychiatrist working in prisons, secure hospitals and criminal courts are perfect for true crime fans and readers of The Prison Doctor and The Dark Side of the Mind.As a... -
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 9780374601140
RRP: £30.00£19.18One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the... -
Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by Linda McDougall 9781785907524
RRP: £25.00£16.43Over a decade before Margaret Thatcher swept to power, another woman was running Britain from 10 Downing Street: Marcia Williams was the first ever female political adviser to a Prime Minister and was said to have a powerful grip on her boss. ... -
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation by Paul Thompson
RRP: £24.99£21.56Presenting the landmark Pioneers life stories project, this one-of-a-kind book documents how modern social research in the UK was shaped. It sheds new light on the lives, methods and motivations of men and women who helped develop a new world of... -
The Not Quite Prime Ministers: Leaders of the Opposition 1783–2020 by Nigel Fletcher 9781785908101
RRP: £20.00£13.34History is written by the winners, they say. And more often than not, it is written about them too. A library's worth of books have been published chronicling the UK's Prime Ministers - those individuals who somehow made it to the top of the greasy pole... -
In Two Minds: Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a forensic psychiatrist by Dr Sohom Das
RRP: £18.99£12.52AS SEEN ON THIS MORNING'a fascinating and moving account of life working with people who too often society wants to forget'Dr Amanda Brown, author of THE PRISON DOCTOR'excellent and enlightening'Jonathan Levi and Emma French, authors of INSIDE... -
Love of Beginnings by Jean-Bertrand Pontalis 9781853431296
£22.20Winner of the Prix Femina and considered a masterpiece of autobiography, this is J. B. Pontalis' lyrical meditation on his own life. One of France's pre-eminent psychoanalysts, he is co-author of the classic The Language of Psychoanalysis and he has also... -
The Girl With Two Lives: A Shocking Childhood. A Foster Carer Who Understood. A Young Girl's Life Forever Changed by Angela Hart
RRP: £7.99£6.00The Girl With Two Lives is the fourth book from well loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart, in which she tells the story of one of her toughest placements yet.Twelve year old Danielle has been excluded from a special school... -
Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi 9781840468519
RRP: £8.99£3.39Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a part of our everyday vocabulary. But do we know what they really mean? Introducing Freud... -
John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman by Robert Skidelsky
RRP: £32.00£22.69THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHYRobert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into... -
The Invisible Girl by Torey Hayden
RRP: £7.99£6.00From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes The Invisible Girl, a deeply moving true account of a young teen with a troubling obsession and an extraordinary educational psychologist's sympathy and determination to... -
The Bigger Picture: How Psychedelics Can Help Us Make Sense of the World by Alexander Beiner
RRP: £12.99£7.97Can psychedelic drugs help us tackle the biggest problems we face globally? Can they heal the cultural, spiritual, and political wounds we're wrestling with?Psychedelics have hit the mainstream as powerful new mental health treatments. But as clinicians... -
Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer by Michael Ashcroft 9781785906961
RRP: £20.00£13.34Sir Keir Starmer has played many parts during his life and career. He went from schoolboy socialist to radical lawyer before surprising many by joining the establishment, becoming Director of Public Prosecutions, accepting a knighthood and then, in 2015,... -
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C G Jung 9780679723950
RRP: £19.00£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723950Author Carl G. JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Veiled Threat: On being visibly Muslim in Britain by Nadeine Asbali 9781785908194
RRP: £18.99£12.72Nadeine Asbali would be the first to say that a scarf on a woman's head doesn't define her, but in her case, that's a lie. Nadeine's life changed overnight. As a mixed-race teenager, she had unknowingly been passing as white her entire life: until she... -
The Gossamer Thread: My Life as a Psychotherapist by John Marzillier
RRP: £22.50£21.06An honest and accessible insight into the often closed world of psychotherapy. This book is a memoir of the author's professional life as a psychologist and psychotherapist. It shows his progression from a hard-nosed behaviour therapist with a... -
Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help by Torey Hayden
RRP: £9.99£7.31From Torey Hayden, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of One Child comes Lost Girl, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination.Jessie is nine years old... -
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: £10.99£7.50In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the... -
Keynes: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Skidelsky
RRP: £8.99£6.70John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture. In this Very Short Introduction Lord Skidelsky, a renowned biographer of... -
Unlocking the Golden Cage: An Intimate Biography of Hilde Bruch, M.D. by Joanne Hatch Bruch
RRP: £21.99£15.23This biography of Hilde Bruch is a colorful, personal account of a legendary figure in modern psychiatry. Although she is best known as a pioneer in the field of eating disorders and is considered a major contributor to the conceptualization of anorexia... -
Carl Jung: Psiquiatra Pionero, Artesano del Alma by Claire Dunne 9788498016420
RRP: £29.95£23.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788498016420Author Claire DunneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint BlumePublisher BlumeWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 163mm * 28mm -
Home in the World: A Memoir by Amartya Sen
RRP: £12.99£9.34The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectualsWhere is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places - Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised... -
A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Wolbert Burgess 9781802792171
RRP: £8.99£6.16'I think you have something here' I said, 'This could lead to a whole new way of understanding criminal behaviour. As far as I know no one's ever tried to figure out why serial killers kill. The implications are profound.' Haunting, heartfelt, and deeply... -
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis by Seamus O'Mahony 9781803285665
RRP: £10.99£8.02A brilliantly witty book about the intertwined lives of psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, surgeon Wilfred Trotter and the guru of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Welsh-born psychoanalyst Ernest Jones was Sigmund Freud's closest associate and most fervent... -
Talking to Myself: Memoirs of a Human Rights Activist by Anthony Lester
RRP: £25.00£17.62'I have been a campaigner in many human rights causes, some successful, some less so, some failed. My mother once said, 'Anthony, we had such a fine system until you ruined it!' I hope she was wrong.' Over the course of his illustrious, pioneering and... -
Tango, Juliet, Foxtrot: How did British policing go wrong? by Iain Donnelly 9781785907166
RRP: £20.00£13.74In thirty years on the front line of British policing, there is very little that Iain Donnelly didn't do: from being a uniformed constable on the beat in London to running counter-terrorism and surveillance operations, combatting child sexual... -
The Best of Enemies: Diaries 1980-1997: At the heart of power with two Prime Ministers by Norman Fowler 9781785908156
RRP: £25.00£16.43The Best of Enemies is the political diaries of one of the most significant politicians of the late twentieth century. Covering the Thatcher/Major period - during which time Norman Fowler held prominent positions in the Cabinet and as party chairman -... -
Wilson Duff: Coming Back, a Life by Robin Fisher
RRP: £21.99£14.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179750Author Robin FisherFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing