Social Scientists & Psychologists

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316159388Author Deirdre BairFormat PaperbackPage Count 881Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Award - YALSA 2004 and Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and School Library Journal Adult Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759755Author Brendan LillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 356g

Next Generation Indie Book Award "Grand Prize/First Place Winner Nonfiction" Next Generation Indie Book Award "First Place Winner Women's Issues Nonfiction" Next Generation Indie Book Award "First Place Winner Education/Academic" IndieReader Discovery...

The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679723950Author Carl G. JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060598952Author Peter D KramerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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...

A Passion for Cooperation is the exciting autobiography of Robert Axelrod, one of the most acclaimed and wide-ranging scientists of the last fifty years. After being recognized by President Kennedy for being a promising young scientist while in high...

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

Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the 20th century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This valuable and accessible book...

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...

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 *...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison campIn 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labor camp, where he spent the two most...

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...

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 9781504095723Author John HiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

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...

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...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328470225Author Consultant Statistician Walter BenjaminFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books...

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...

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...

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...