Social Scientists & Psychologists

Maria Mies' achievements include developing groundbreaking praxis and theory around the concept of "housewifisation", the violence of colonisation and profound writings about ecofeminism. She fights the Multilateral Agreement of Investment, she fights...

Presenting 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145420Author Mary Crow DogFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952615750Author Michael BentinckFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Michael BentinckPublisher Michael Bentinck

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780679730675Author Edward W. SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House...

Herman Kahn was the only nuclear strategist in America who might have made a living as a standup comedian. Indeed, galumphing around stages across the country, joking his way through one grotesque thermonuclear scenario after another, he came...

Once patriarchal and phallocentric, psychoanalysis has now become strongly mother-centered. This book tells the story of that revolution through biographical portraits of four pioneering figures in the early institutions of psychoanalysis: Helene...

This 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,...

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,...

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...

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...

In this major new assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work, Smith gives a clear introduction to this controversial and challenging sociologist.About the AuthorDennis Smith is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, and the author of many books,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555392Author Alex JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590511831Author Gail A. HornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 721gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837912186Author Jack GoldsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Acorn Books LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493331617Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 73g

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,...

Baroness Kunigunde von Richthofen originally published Mein Kriegstagebuch (My War Diary) in 1937, at a time when tales of heroes of the First World War inspired the youth of a country being prepared for a second war. Mother of Eagles is the culmination...

W. Arthur Lewis was one of the foremost intellectuals, economists, and political activists of the twentieth century. In this book, the first intellectual biography of Lewis, Robert Tignor traces Lewis's life from its beginnings on the small island of St...

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...

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...

The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film. The director of such classics as Potemkin,Ivan the Terrible, October, Strike, and Alexander...

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...

Unavailable for many years the famous Freud/Jung Letters are now back in print. As historical documents the letters reflect the early struggles of Freud and Jung in gaining acceptance for analysis. The two exchange candid opinions on their colleagues,...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978982751Author David LoyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Riane EislerPublisher Riane EislerWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

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...

The story begins with his parents' life of poverty in rural Texas. When Wheelis was a small boy, his father contracted tuberculosis. He spent several years dying, exercising a tyrannical control over his family. In one searing scene, Wheelis is made to...

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...

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...

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...

Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s. The Chinese were mostly ignored, as Ho describes it,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679736394Author William StyronFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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...