Social Scientists & Psychologists

Fifty years after her first fieldwork with Ju/'hoan San hunter-gatherers, anthropologist Megan Biesele has written this exceptional memoir based on personal journals she wrote at the time. The treasure trove of vivid learning experiences and nightly...

Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and transformed the way we think about ourselves today. Starting with a brilliant foreword from renowned...

Sigmund Freud was no stranger to controversy. He shocked many with his revolutionary theories on human development, desires and sexuality, and transformed the way we think about ourselves today. Starting with a brilliant foreword from renowned...

Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal...

Friedrich August von Hayek, a reserved Austrian economist, died in 1992. Though largely unrecognized during his lifetime, he is today regarded as a visionary. In 1944, in the wake of the great Depression and with the political left on the ascendant,...

Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure...

Erich Fromm was a political activist, psychologist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, and one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century. Known for his theories of personality and political insight, Fromm dissected the sadomasochistic appeal...

Advance Praise for Louis Breger's FREUD "Louis Breger's rich and readable study of Freud offers a thoughtfully complex account of a great but flawed man. Everyone with an interest in psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytic movement will enjoy exploring,...

The brilliant but turbulent life of a public intellectual who transformed the social sciencesRobert Bellah (1927-2013) was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century. Trained as a sociologist, he crossed disciplinary...

Ann Cook was an 18th-century cook and cookbook author. Her cookbook was printed in three editions and contained more than just receipts. For some reason, she had a real problem with Hannah Glasse's cookbook, The Art of Cookery: Made Plain and Easy, which...

One of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of non-violence, and effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair...

All Julia Scheeres ever wanted was to have a normal, happy family. But when her fanatical mother decides they should all move to rural Indiana, Julia's life begins to unravel. In the blistering heat of the isolating community, Julia and her adopted...

Daniel Burston chronicles Laing's meteoric rise to fame as one of the first media psychogurus of the century, and his spiraling decline in the late seventies and eighties. Here are the successes: Laing's emergence as a unique voice on the psychiatric...

William Robertson Smith's influence on anthropology ranged from his relationship with John Ferguson McLennan, to advising James George Frazer to write about "Totem" and "Taboo" for the Encyclopaedia Britannica that he edited. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856306014Author Jane Cabot ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 1234g

Milton Wexler was among the most unconventional, compelling, and sometimes controversial figures of the golden age of psychoanalysis in America. From Teachers College at Columbia University to the Menninger Foundation in Topeka to the galleries and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590511022Author Charles StrozierFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Melanie Klein was probably the most controversial and influential figure that has yet appeared on the British psychoanalytic scene. She left Germany in 1926 and settled in London where she soon quarrelled with Anna Freud. Klein pioneered the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393354775Author Professor Michael LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 206mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393354775Author Professor Michael LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 206mm...

A humane behind-the-scenes account of a week in the life of a psychiatrist at one of Canada's leading mental health hospitals. How Can I Help? takes us to the frontlines of modern psychiatric care.How Can I Help? portrays a week in the life of Dr. David...

Tired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Genevieve Makaping turns the tables on Italy's white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been...

A Classical Archaeologists's Life: The Story so Far shows that a scholar's life is not all scholarship, though much of this book is devoted to the writing of books and, especially, travel to classical and other lands. Boardman is a Londoner, born in...

Freud approved the overall editorial plan, specific renderings of key words and phrases, and the addition of valuable notes, from bibliographical and explanatory. Many of the translations were done by Strachey himself; the rest were prepared under his...

This book is the first intellectual biography of Marcel Mauss (1872-1950), the father of modern ethnology and a leading early figure in the French school of sociology. Mauss left a rich intellectual legacy in the social sciences, influencing the work of...

Karen Horney (1885-1952) is regarded by many as one of the most important psychoanalytic thinkers of the twentieth century. Her early work, in which she quarreled with Freud's views on female psychology, established her as the first great psychoanalytic...

"A marvelous new biography." -The New York Times On an otherwise normal weekday in the 1980s, commuters on busy Route 1 in central New Jersey noticed an alarming sight: a man in a suit and tie dashing across four lanes of traffic, then scurrying...

First published in 1946, Viktor Frankl's memoir Man's Search for Meaning remains one of the most influential books of the last century, selling over ten million copies worldwide and having been embraced by successive generations of readers captivated by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455563593Author Bill MinutaglioFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint FaithWordsPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

This is the first full-length biography of Richard Titmuss, a pioneer of social policy research and an influential figure in Britain's post-war welfare debates. Drawing on his own papers, publications, and interviews with those who knew him, the book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Studies Association Bode-Pearson Prize 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780679776123Author Lois W. BannerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House USA...

She is everyone's favourite sex therapist; a four-foot-seven dynamo who answers the most intimate questions with disarming candour and heartening warmth. Yet few really know the real Dr Ruth - her loves, her losses and the irrepressible spirit that has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781017901962Author Julius KappFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 156g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781017897074Author Julius KappFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 549g

Usually when animals are mistreated it's because their owners don't know any better. But there is another kind of cruelty to animals, one that brings delight and satisfaction to its depraved enthusiasts. The animals are used and abused in order to line...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998643359Author Norman BirnbaumFormat HardbackPage Count 732Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 1220g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410204882Author Francis W HirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646839127Author Ellen NorthcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Ellen NorthcottPublisher Ellen NorthcottWeight(grams) 133g