Social Scientists & Psychologists

"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another's brilliance."-Hiratsuku Raicho Raicho Hiratsuka (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307729354Author Christopher YuanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A...

A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling...

An engaging book that charts the turbulent journey from childhood to adulthood of a well-known psychoanalyst. "Our human task is to be lived by Life. Life as a transcendent principle. It seems to me that a reliable test of whether we have lived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561323Author Meredith TalusanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Williams' mother, the matriarch of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah, told her a week before she died. It was a shock...

One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven.Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think...

Carl 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...

A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country's quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. WatkinsTo many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American...

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 9781906924775Author Ariel RubinsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 262gDimensions(mm)...

Compact INTRODUCING guide to the influential philosopher, sociologist and economist. INTRODUCING MARX - A GRAPHIC GUIDE explores the life of the most famous Socialist figure, from his early years to meeting Engels in1842. It provides a readable,...

The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.World's Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most noteworthy Black personalities in world history and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892746573Author Gerard BleandonuFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780743431729Author BUNDLESPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743219341Author Vincent PeggyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster LtdWeight(grams) 316g

Sigmund Freud spent the final year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, surrounded by all his possessions, in exile from the Nazis. The long-term home and workspace he left behind in Berggasse 19, Vienna is a seemingly empty space, devoid of the...

The Social Work Act of 1968 in Scotland set out to replace Victorian prisons, lunatic asylums and orphanages, and challenge the Poor Law mentalities which had built and sustained them for generations. With the aid of a wide professional career, football...

Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the Amazon:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873203910Author George EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Woodfield Publishing LtdPublisher Woodfield Publishing LtdWeight(grams)...

The definitive biography of Sir John French, by the increasingly famous Richard Holmes.Sir John French is a figure who has always aroused controversy. Douglas Haig despised him, while Churchill thought his leadership qualities unsurpassed. Despite being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846316Author Elisabeth Keubler-RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408g

This is the story of a long-lasting relationship, surviving against the odds. It is the story of Wenn and Beatrice Lawson, born almost twelve years apart in different countries with different cultures, who were both assigned female at birth. After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767905930Author Joan AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books (A Division...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816553433Author Kristin Elizabeth YarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona...

In this volume, based on the series of Alexander Lectures she delivered at the University of Toronto, Julia Kristeva explores the philosophical aspects of Hannah Arendt's work: her understanding of such concepts as language, self, body, political space,...

The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous." Anton Chekhov,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560111Author Sherry TurkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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...

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

What happens when love is no longer enough? Jane Bernstein thought that learning to accept her daughter's disabilities meant her struggles were over. But as Rachel grew up and needed more than a parent's devotion, both mother and daughter were confronted...

The extraordinary case in 1874 of the Tichborne Claimant generated the longest trial, to that point, in British legal history. Was the stout man claiming to be the vanished Sir Roger Tichborne really who he said he was; or was he Arthur Orton, a butcher...

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...

Some scholars label the sample survey--the idea that small, randomly selected, well-designed samples can provide accurate estimates of large population attributes--as the most important social sciences invention of the 20th century. One of the world's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990688041Author Marjorie AunosFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Ingenium BooksPublisher Ingenium BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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 *...

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) is one of the most influential and best-known sociologists of the past century. This introduction dwells on Parsons' conceptual apparatus and offers a compendium of his research. His works are subdivided into three distinct...

Michael Servetus, Heartfelt is a tribute to this unique man and his legacy as a humanist, Renaissance scholar, and standard-bearer of freedom of conscience. The Servetus International Congress (2006) brought together prestigious scholars with diverse...

Tracking Ancient Footsteps celebrates William D. Lipe's five-decade career in Southwestern and conservation archaeology. From the arid expanses of Glen Canyon, the Red Rock Plateau, and Cedar Mesa in Utah, to the relatively lush Dolores Valley and Mesa...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780949206312Author Sally MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm...