Social Scientists & Psychologists

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Sigmund Freud once courted the favour of Austrian writer and satirist, Karl Kraus, and failed to obtain it. Kraus's favourite themes were the power of language, its abuse by psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and journalists, and the catastrophic...

An 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...

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging...

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...

Justyn Rees Larcombe had it all. Around his beautiful home were the mementoes of success - the Sword of Honour awarded by the Queen when he left Sandhurst; the silver photo frames with the pictures of his much loved wife and family; the rooms full of the...

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...

'I want to provide a call to action for fellow conservatives who believe in our nation and our way of life and who share my frustration at what has been going wrong with our politics and governance. I want others to heed the warnings of what I saw...

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...

Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. He uniquely combined in one person...

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A Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471468684Author Sharon HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Harry Gunnison Brown was born in 1880 and died in 1975. He was part of a important group of American economists that included Herbert J. Davenport, E.R.A. Seligman, J. B. Clark, Alvin S. Johnson, Frank A. Fetter, Richard T. Ely and Frank Knight. In some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816549719Author Shelby TisdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956578085Author Nalova LyongaFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Langaa RPCIGPublisher Langaa RPCIGWeight(grams) 213g

James Shaver Woodsworth (1874-1942) stands as one of the half-dozen most important national political figures in twentieth-century Canadian history. Allen Mills acknowledges his outstanding achievements while providing a critical account of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591810421Author John G WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 231g

Adoption is one of the great, untold stories of our recent past. It is a truly epic tale of loss, guilt, identity, family feuds, reunion and redemption. It is a subject, until very recently, surrounded by secrecy and taboos. This is the heart-warming...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062015891Author Carl HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

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 through a narrow underpass as cars whizzed by within...

Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. In this rigorous study, Maurice Godelier traces the evolution of his thought. Focusing primarily on Levi-Strauss's analysis of kinship and myth, Godelier...

In 1600 the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher Giordano Bruno for his heretical beliefs. He was then burned alive in a public place in Rome. Historians, scientists and teachers usually deny that Bruno was condemned for his beliefs about the...

In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Jones shows that the public image Alfred Kinsey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979557613Author Ruthellen H. JosselsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Jorge Pinto BooksPublisher Jorge Pinto BooksWeight(grams) 197gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979557613Author Ruthellen H. JosselsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Jorge Pinto BooksPublisher Jorge Pinto BooksWeight(grams) 197gDimensions(mm)...

When Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee in 1978, they set out on a journey which led not only to the development of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) but also to a revolutionary influence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917298509Author Charles Wesley AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska PressWeight(grams)...

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its populariser, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the...

Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Italian Association for the History of Economic ThoughtOne of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly dramatic life. After fleeing Nazi Germany as a youth, he...

"We found so much to say, to share, to learn...For it wasn't just the Marquis de Sade profile and the sporty thighs-and-calves that seduced me. It was even more, perhaps, or certainly just as much, the speed at which you used to read, and still do...

The Frog Princess is the story of Angie Beasley's transformation from ugly duckling to beauty queen. With few jobs around, bland food and cold weather, the best that Angie could hope for was a job at the local Findus factory. Her family didn't have it...

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...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781082823732Author The History HourFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

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...

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 *...

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...