Social Scientists & Psychologists

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262511353Author James H. AustinFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999765866Author Anna McNuffFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Anna McNuffPublisher Anna McNuffWeight(grams) 694gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm

The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons. Maria's dad was a pimp, living in a world of thieves and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780922915972Author John CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 379g

Apologies 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 *...

David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in care and suffered appalling sexual abuse. But no-one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904726807Author Davey FalcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Verite CM LtdPublisher Verite CM LtdWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm *...

New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2015 WOMEN'S WAY Book Prize * Goodreads Best of 2014 Semi-Finalist * Books for a Better Life Award Finalist * Lambda Literary Award Finalist * Time Magazine "30 Most Influential People on the Internet" * American...

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

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804119221Author Larry GwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 171mm...

Isaac 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...

This in-depth biography of Italian intellectual Antonio Gramsci casts new light on his life and writing, emphasizing his unflagging spirit, even in the many years he spent in prison. One of the most influential political thinkers of the twentieth...

Who was Sabina Spielrein? Her dramatic life story is most famous for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, dramatised in the film A Dangerous Method starring Keira Knightley. Yet she was a woman who overcame family and psychiatric abuse to become an...

Major Phil Ashby already had a reputation for surviving scrapes, where others would - and did - break bones and worse. His strength, resourcefulness and luck had been tested to the full during his career in the Royal Marines' elite Mountain and Arctic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946960545Author Hanna SegalFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Free Association BooksPublisher Free Association BooksWeight(grams) 380g

Cry Salty Tears is the tale of a mother's survival and eventual triumph over almost unbelievable domestic hardship. Not only did Dinah O'Dowd face the harsh and unforgiving elements of her background - an upbringing in poverty-stricken 50s Dublin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305581Author Miguel SerranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 233g

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and...

In 1913, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and theorist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) experienced powerful visions, often terrifying. However, seeing their great potential value he found ways to encourage further visions and fantasies. Over many years, he...

"The extraordinary untold story of how a disillusioned American diplomat named William C. Bullitt came to Freud's couch in 1926, and how Freud and his patient collaborated on a psychobiography of President Woodrow Wilson."-Wall Street JournalThe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374500016Author Elie WieselFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

Somaly Mam was abandoned as a baby and looked after by her grandmother until she disappeared. She was then taken into the care of a man she called 'grandfather', but was treated no better than an unpaid servant. sold. Raped at twelve, Somaly was forced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551520476Author Bridget MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan. It wasn't a good' life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one; and the tale he has to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905664245Author Karen CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher CoramBAAFWeight(grams) 166g

Attila Ambrus was a gentleman thief from Transylvania, a terrible professional hockey goalkeeper - and preferred women in leopard-skin hot pants. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Ambrus took up bank robbery to make...

To 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...

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...

Father and daughter provides an unique 'insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science. Ann Oakley, a highly respected sociologist and best-selling writer, draws on her own life and that of her father, Richard...

"The Guv'nor" was a classic book that started an entire genre. It was the original and incredible true story of the world's greatest hard man, Lenny McLean. Ever since it was published, fans of Lenny have been clamouring to know more and more about this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782670964Author Tatiana LunginFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Glagoslav Publications LtdPublisher Glagoslav Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679720232Author Harlan LaneFormat PaperbackImprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

When eight-year-old Jayne left bomb-torn Northern Ireland, her family stayed with relations and a distant relative began a campaign of abuse so horrifying that her world was shattered forever.When the family moved again, Jayne thought the nightmare was...

'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal'A madcap chase... this is a well-written chronicle of 28 months when the world went slightly mad' Sunday Times'A suitably head-spinning...

"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...

This sombre biography of an urban slave who taught himself to read and write, and who ultimately achieved fame as a poet in Cuba's slave society, is presented in both Spanish and English. There is an introduction which sets the text in its historical and...

This is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to "pass in the forbidding Christian world and a quietly moving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Maine Student Book Master List 1998.Book InformationISBN 9780440413134Author Scott O'GradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Max 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...