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Max Weber: A Biography by Joachim Radkau 9780745641478
RRP: $115.50$106.34Max 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... -
The Making of Dr. Phil: The Straight-Talking True Story of Everyone's Favorite Therapist Sophia Dembling 9780471696599
RRP: $37.78$25.49The first biography of Dr. Phil McGraw and his rise to fame Millions look to Dr. Phil for advice on everything from relationships to life. But Dr. Phil is more than just a pop psychologist. He's also an amazing businessman who has started and run a... -
Remembering Sir J C Bose by D. P. Sen Gupta 9789814271615
RRP: $107.10$93.70The year 2008 marks the 150th birth anniversary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose who, at a relatively young age, established himself among the ranks of European scientists during the heyday of colonial rule in India. He was one of those great Indian... -
William Robertson Smith by Aleksandar Boskovic 9781800731578
RRP: $224.70$180.96William 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... -
Margaret Mead Paul Shankman 9781800731431
RRP: $41.90$34.44Tracing Mead's career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. The book looks at Mead's early career through the end... -
Margaret Mead by Paul Shankman 9781800731417
RRP: $224.70$180.96Tracing Mead's career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. The book looks at Mead's early career through the end... -
Strange Journey: John R. Friedeberg Seeley and the Quest for Mental Health by Paul Bentley 9781644690499
RRP: $163.78$122.12This biographical history follows the iconoclastic career of John R. Friedeberg Seeley, pre-eminent "Pop Sociologist" and Mental Health Activist of the 1950s. Seeley's "strange journey" began as a British Home Child, estranged from... -
Once Upon a Time is Now: A Kalahari Memoir by Megan Biesele 9781800738799
RRP: $224.70$180.96Fifty 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... -
Francoise Heritier by Gerald Gaillard 9781800733329
RRP: $224.70$180.96A great intellectual figure, Francoise Heritier succeeded Claude Levi-Strauss as the Chair of Anthropology at the College de France in 1982. She was both an Africanist, author of magnificent works on the Samo population, the scientific progenitor of... -
Mary Douglas by Paul Richards 9781800739796
RRP: $224.70$180.96This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her work focused on how human groups classify each other, and how they resolve the anomalies that then arise... -
Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men by Hugh Firth 9781800739765
RRP: $224.70$180.96How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century. Told by Rosemary and Raymond Firth's... -
Alfred Cort Haddon: A Very English Savage by Ciarán Walsh 9781800739826
RRP: $224.70$180.96An innovative account of one of the least-understood characters in the history of anthropology. Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology... -
Mary Douglas Paul Richards 9781800739819
RRP: $41.90$34.44This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her work focused on how human groups classify each other, and how they resolve the anomalies that then arise... -
Enlightening Encounters: The Journeys of an Anthropologist by Stephen Gudeman 9781800736047
RRP: $224.70$180.96One of the world's top anthropologists recounts his formative experiences doing fieldwork in this accessible memoir ideal for anyone interested in anthropology. Drawing on his research in five Latin American countries, Steve Gudeman describes his... -
Nicole Rafter by Chase Burton 9780367547400
RRP: $83.98$73.63This book is a critical summary and exegesis of the work of Nicole Rafter, who was a leading scholar of the history of biological theories of crime causation as well as a profound theorist of the role of history within criminology. It introduces Rafter’s... -
Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility by Jerome Gold 9781583228777
RRP: $29.38$19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583228777Author Jerome GoldFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 392g -
Memoirs of a Positivist by Malcolm Quin 9781032572888
RRP: $193.18$168.42First published in 1924, Memoirs of a Positivist is both an autobiography of the author and a history of the English Positivist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It especially elaborates on the influence of the Positivist movement in... -
Talcott Parsons: An Introduction by Sandro Segre
$163.97Talcott 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... -
Up a Creek, With a Paddle: Tales of Canoeing and Life James W. Loewen 9781629638270
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629638270Author James W. LoewenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Alva Myrdal: The Passionate Mind by Yvonne Hirdman
RRP: $58.78$51.53Alva Myrdal, the scholarly partner and wife of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal, was an innovative social scientist and thinker in her own right. She helped to lay the intellectual foundations of Sweden's social welfare state, pioneered educational... -
Kinsey: A Biography by Cornelia V Christenson
RRP: $29.38$26.44Alfred C. Kinsey was perhaps the most controversial figure in the US during the 1950s. His books on sexual behavior in the human male and female made best-seller lists and were translated into thirteen languages. Kinsey was denounced by journalists,... -
Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues Richard A. Shweder 9780226756103
RRP: $50.40$48.36Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, non-reductive interpretive social science and have provoked much... -
An Invitation to Laughter: A Lebanese Anthropologist in the Arab World by Fuad I. Khuri
RRP: $54.60$52.19For the late Fuad I. Khuri, a distinguished career as an anthropologist began not because of typical concerns like accessibility, money, or status, but because the very idea of an occupation that baffled his countrymen made them - and him - laugh... -
Levi-Strauss by Maurice Godelier
$148.26One of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropologyAs a young man, Maurice Godelier was Claude Levi-Strauss's assistant. Since then, Godelier has drawn on this experience to develop a profound and... -
The Architecture of Ideas: The Life and Work of Ranulph Glanville, Cybernetician by Bill Seaman
$98.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788360784Author Bill SeamanFormat HardbackImprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 15mm -
W. Arthur Lewis and the Birth of Development Economics by Robert L. Tignor
RRP: $220.50$171.70W. 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... -
Psychology's Grand Theorists: How Personal Experiences Shaped Professional Ideas Amy P. Demorest 9780805851083
$94.46Psychology's Grand Theorists argues that the three schools in psychology that have been dominant historically--the psychodynamic, behavioral, and phenomenological--have resulted in large part from the personal experiences of their originators. Sigmund... -
Ghosts Within: Journeying Through Ptsd by Garry Leech
RRP: $35.60$29.61What are the long-term psychological costs of violence and war? Journalist Garry Leech draws from his experiences as a war correspondent, his ongoing personal struggle with PTSD and the latest research on this mental illness to provide a powerful and... -
Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare John Stewart 9781447341055
RRP: $100.78$77.81This 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... -
Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier
RRP: $73.50$59.54This 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... -
Impromptu Man: J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network by Jonathan D. Moreno
RRP: $31.48$29.04"Impromptu Man captures the remarkable impact of a singular genius, J.L. Moreno, whose creations--the best-known being psychodrama--have shaped our culture in myriad ways, many unrecognized. The record will be set straight for all time by this... -
Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual by Daniel Bessner 9780801453038
RRP: $58.78$48.62Anyone interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, and twentieth century intellectual history will find this impressive biography of Hans Speier, one of the most influential figures in American defense circles of the twentieth... -
Banco: The Further Adventures of Papillon by Henri Charriere 9780586040102 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.74The sensational sequel to 'Papillon'. 'Banco' continues the adventures of Henri Charriere - nicknamed Papillon - in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become... -
The Longest War: A Psychotherapist's Experience of Divorce and Power Catherine Harrington 9781647426880
RRP: $27.28$24.89As a naive freshman, Catherine meets Walter, a senior and Big Man on Campus whose sophistication, confidence, and wealth both intimidate and excite her. A three-year absentee courtship follows, during which time the idea of Walt tethers Catherine to...