Social Scientists & Psychologists

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...

This classic work tells the tale of how a devoted mother accomplished miracles in fostering the intellectual, social and emotional development of her autistic daughter.About the AuthorClara Claiborne Park is the author of several books. She has recently...

"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...

In this absolutely unique treasure trove of fashion, family memoir and literature, Justine Picardie tells a sequence of stories that reveal the fabric of the past, and how a family has fashioned itself through the clothes that they have worn: from her...

"The best thing about the Depression was the way it reunited our family and gave my sister Mary a real opportunity to prove that anybody can do anything, especially Betty."After surviving both the failed chicken farm - and marriage - immortalized in The...

Despite her prolific output, ageless writer and wit Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) never penned an autobiography (although if she had, she said that it would have been titled Mongrel). Combing through her stories, poems, articles, reviews, correspondence,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874779707Author Martin PrechtelFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Adolf Galland began World War II in Poland, as a lieutenant and squadron commander, flying obsolescent biplanes. He ended the war as a Lieutenant General a and was again a squadron commander a this time flying Me 262 jet fighters. In all of aviation...

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies...

Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchu suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother,...

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...

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

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...

A POWERFUL MEMOIR AND MANIFESTO CHALLENGING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BLACK MAN IN BRITAIN "A blisteringly honest take on contemporary Britishness that manages to be both nuanced and shocking. Highly recommended." Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish) You're a...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060761578Author Jennifer SaginorFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950805085Author Barry LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Barry Long BooksPublisher Barry Long BooksWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 126mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060975401Author Slavenka DrakulicFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst, "Introducing Lacan" guides the reader through...

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 &...

To the outside world Julia's family was a picture of respectability; middle-class, decent, loving. But between the ages of eight and thirteen Julia's father sexually abused her. While Julia's mother's obsessive domestic tendencies occupied her elsewhere,...

John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on ‘Home Truths’. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living...

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

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263805Author Leonard PeltierFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

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 9780593358412Author Evanna LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

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 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...

"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 9780679720232Author Harlan LaneFormat PaperbackImprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

A collection of essays accompanied by beautiful black-and-white photography from a diverse group of women on the moment they realized they were ready to fight for themselves-including Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe, Joanna Gaines, Brandi Carlile, Beanie...