Social Scientists & Psychologists

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...

"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...

For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the ""last explorer"" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico,...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In 1960 Timothy Leary was not yet famous -- or infamous -- and Allen Ginsberg was both. Leary, eager to expand his experiments at the Harvard Psilocybin Project to include accomplished artists and writers, knew that Ginsberg held the key to bohemia's...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905204045Author Smith Davies PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Quercus PublishingPublisher Quercus PublishingWeight(grams)...

In 1996 a man wielding a machete ran into a primary school playground and began to slash out at the children. Lisa Potts defended the children and received many injuries herself. In this book Lisa tells the full story of that day, and describes the...

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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998643342Author Norman BirnbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 732Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 1057g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578206400Author Dr Monty WeinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Family Therapy Center for New York & GeorgiaPublisher Family Therapy Center...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786887736Author Heather PringleFormat PaperbackPage Count 463Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 599g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578849799Author Shelby ParrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Shelby Parris LLCPublisher Shelby Parris LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905379514Author Chai PinitFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Maverick HousePublisher Maverick HouseWeight(grams) 202g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887178723Author Paul FerrisFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

It is the mid-1950s in Lewiston, a sleepy town near Niagara Falls, famous only for the invention of the cocktail. Divorce is unheard of, mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon and television has only just arrived. But with no siblings to provide...

Kathy Pettingill is a name that's both respected and feared, not only by Australia's criminal underworld, but by many in the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian...

Dorothea Bleek (1873 to 1948) devoted her life to completing the 'bushman researches' that her father and aunt had begun in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. this research was partly a labour of familial loyalty to Wilhelm, the acclaimed...

The fourth and final part of Helen Forrester’s bestselling autobiography continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of the war years in Blitz-torn Liverpool In 1940 Helen, now twenty, reeling from the news that her...

The second volume of Helen Forrester’s powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression. The Forrester family are slowly winning their fight for survival. But...

For years, Jenny and sister Kim suffered horrendous physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their father. They survived in part because of their closeness and their determination to be there for each other. Both sisters left home at the earliest...

Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When that...

Born in 1829 to a working-class family in upstate New York, Lucy Ann Lobdell was not your average girl. Donning her brother's clothes, she worked on the family farm and in her father's saw mill, demonstrating marksmanship skills that earned her the...

"My name is Ronnie Thompson. Being a prison officer was something I used to be proud of. I soon realised the truth of what it's like working as a screw, though. It's a fucking headache. Corruption, danger, violence. Welcome to my world." Ronnie Thompson...

Life for Linda Caine should hold no fears. As a contented wife and mother, she should have everything to live for. Yet a blackness has started to leak into her thoughts. Images flash through her head leaving her stunned and breathless. On the face of it...

The heart of the book is the account, not only of Guntrip's dream sequences over a period of forty years, but also of his two analyses, the first with W.R.D. Fairbairn, and the second with D.W. Winnicott.Book InformationISBN 9781853433320Author Jeremy...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646638918Author Nicole S KluemperFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Koehler BooksPublisher Koehler BooksWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888311181Author Michael MishFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Michael MishPublisher Michael MishWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630510305Author William J SchoenlFormat HardbackImprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 322g

"[An] unusual meditation on sex, death, art, and Jewishness. . . . Weber weaves in musings on his own sexual and religious experiences, creating a freewheeling psychoanalytic document whose approach would surely delight the doctor, even if its...