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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... -
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, 2019 The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018 For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series... -
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... -
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist by Lori Gottlieb
RRP: £10.99£8.02A 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 for... -
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... -
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... -
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding In Plain Sight by M. E. Thomas
£7.96A 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... -
Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by Linda McDougall 9781785907524
£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. Historians... -
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... -
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries
RRP: £10.99£9.19This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today In 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... -
The Invisible Girl by Torey Hayden
£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... -
Veiled Threat: On being visibly Muslim in Britain by Nadeine Asbali 9781785908194
£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
£21.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912573233Author John MarzillierFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint SphinxPublisher Aeon BooksWeight(grams) 454g -
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... -
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... -
The Best of Enemies: Diaries 1980-1997: At the heart of power with two Prime Ministers by Norman Fowler 9781785908156
£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 -
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War by Peter Mandler 9780300187854
£33.46Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging... -
Snakes and Ladders: Navigating the ups and downs of politics by Andrea Leadsom
£7.51In the high-stakes world of politics, there are superb highs and terrible lows – and never more so than in the period since 2010. Few are better placed to give an insider’s view of the turmoil than the Rt Hon. Dame Andrea Leadsom MP. From taking to the... -
STUPID WOMAN: 12 ways NOT to do politics by To be confirmed
£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785907005Author To be confirmedFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Biteback PublishingPublisher Biteback Publishing -
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay
£20.40A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick "Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and... -
Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life by James H. Jones 9780393327243
RRP: £13.99£13.21In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones shows that the public image Alfred Kinsey... -
Carl Jung by Paul Bishop 9781780232676
£18.11Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961), as well as being one of the pioneers of psychology, is one of the most controversial of thinkers: in spite of being largely responsible for the introduction of now-familiar psychological terms such as 'extrovert' and... -
Strange People I Have Known: ... And Other Stories by Andy McSmith 9781785908057
£16.43Westminster and Whitehall are secret worlds, hidden to most. But working as a lobby journalist, former Labour Party staffer Andy McSmith has had exclusive access to our top politicians for decades. Here, he shares his personal encounters with the great... -
Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings by Gary Lachman
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399161995Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,US -
Shining Affliction: A Story of Harm and Healing in Psychotherapy by Annie G. Rogers
RRP: £18.00£11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140240122Author Annie G. RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.Publisher J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S. -
The Passionate Economist: How Brian Abel-Smith Shaped Global Health and Social Welfare by Sally Sheard 9781447314844
£40.10Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the 20th century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This valuable and accessible book... -
History Man: The Life of R. G. Collingwood by Fred Inglis 9780691150055
£21.76This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian,... -
Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo and the Inquisition by Alberto A. Martinez
RRP: £30.00£20.95In 1600 the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher Giordano Bruno for his heretical beliefs. He was then burned alive in a public place in Rome. Historians, scientists and teachers usually deny that Bruno was condemned for his beliefs about the... -
Melanie Klein by Julia Kristeva 9780231122856
£22.82To the renowned psychoanalyst, philosopher, and linguist Julia Kristeva, Melanie Klein (1882-1960) was the most original innovator, male or female, in the psychoanalytic arena. Klein pioneered psychoanalytic practice with children and made major... -
Sigmund Freud by Matthew ffytche
RRP: £12.99£9.34However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most significant thinkers of the last 150 years. He founded psychoanalysis, and his vision of human behaviour and the unconscious mind has provided a compelling... -
Max Weber: A Biography by Joachim Radkau
RRP: £22.99£22.11Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences - there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential. The affinity between capitalism and... -
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy by Niccolo Guicciardini 9781780239064
RRP: £17.95£12.92Isaac Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of a contemporary scientist. He was deeply involved in alchemical, religious and biblical studies, and in the... -
The World of Isaac Newton by Toni Mount
RRP: £20.00£13.10Isaac Newton and the England he knew: the people, places and events that shaped history's greatest scientist. Across nine decades, Isaac Newton bestrode the world of science, becoming a colossus of experimentation, discovery and philosophy. How did a... -
Masters of Sex (Media tie-in): The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love by Thomas Maier
RRP: £12.99£8.43Now a New Showtime Original SeriesShowtime's dramatic series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on this real-life story of sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson. Before Sex and the City and ViagraTM, America... -
Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay 9780393328615
RRP: £49.95£35.64"A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." -J. Anthony Lukas "[This] remarkable biography... briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving...