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Role Playing in Psychotherapy by Raymond J. Corsini
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Role playing is the most naturalistic form of psychotherapy. In the safety and privacy of an office, psychiatrists and psychologists guide patients in more competent ways of living, and help patients... -
The Power Elite and the State G. William Domhoff 9780202303734
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This volume presents a network of social power, indicating that theories inspired by C.Wright Mills are far more accurate views about power in America than those of Mills's opponents.Dr. Domhoff... -
Making Trouble: Cultural Constraints of Crime, Deviance, and Control by Prof. Jeff Ferrell
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48In Making Trouble leading scholars in criminology, sociology, criminal justice, women's studies, and social history explore the mediated cultural dynamics that construct images and understanding of... -
Politics of Social Research by Ralph L. Beals
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Politics of Social Research addresses itself to the question of the behavior appropriate for social scientists conducting research sponsored by or otherwise involving government agencies-our own and... -
Learning Mechanisms in Smoking by W. A. Hunt
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Psychologists have spent years studying the learning processes of the white rat, yet until recently they have neglected the laboratory of everyday social behavior for studying learning in man. In... -
Abused and Battered: Social and Legal Responses to Family Violence by Dean Knudsen
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63That family violence injures and kills its victims both physically and psychologically was established over two decades ago by early researchers in this field. Abused and Battered heralds the second... -
Patterns of Discovery in the Social Sciences by Paul Diesing
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Social scientists are often vexed because their work does not satisfy the criteria of "scientific" methodology developed by philosophers of science and logicians who use the natural sciences as their... -
Horizons of Anthropology by Sol Tax
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The scientific study of human evolution and culture is about a hundred years old. This volume surveys its achievements and methods. Originally published more than forty years ago, the volume's... -
Frameworks for Dating Fossil Man Kenneth P. Oakley 9780202309606
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained both as a... -
On Purposeful Systems: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Individual and Social Behavior as a System of Purposeful Events by Fred Emery
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book provides an innovative foundation for looking at human and social behavior u as a system of purposeful (teleological) events. It uses a systems theoretical approach for the study of these... -
A New Dictionary of Music by Arthur Jacobs
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.74What is a fugue? What is the difference between a saxophone and a saxhorn? Who besides Puccini wrote an opera called "La Boheme"? In what year, was the National Broadcasting Company Orchestra formed... -
Conflict: Violence and Nonviolence by Margaret Fisher
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Focusing on central issues in the study of conflict and conflict resolution, this volume sets forth the views of eminent scholars on the forms, uses, and limitations of violence, nonviolence, and... -
Morality and Expediency: The Folklore of Academic Politics by F. G. Bailey
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book is about micro-politics: that kind of manoevre to control or avoid being controlled, to claim friendship or proclaim enmity, which takes place between people who know one another, and who... -
Counterrevolution: How Revolutions Die James H. Meisel 9780202309903
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The flow and counter flow of revolution and counterrevolution have become the norm of the twentieth century. In this fascinating and well-rounded volume, the author illuminates the revolutionary... -
The Contexts of Social Mobility: Ideology and Theory by Anselm L. Strauss
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book contains a major statement by one of America's most preeminent sociologists on what remains an important problem in American history and social analysis: the nature and extent of movement... -
Interpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness Jeffery Sobal 9780202305783
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63What is "too fat?" "Too thin"? Interpretations of body weight vary widely across and within cultures. Meeting weight expectations is a major concern for many people because failing to do so may incur... -
Historical Sketch of the Cherokee by James Mooney
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49When James Mooney lived with and studied the Cherokee between 1887 and 1900, they were the largest and most important Indian tribe in the United States. His dispassionate account of their history... -
Risk: A Sociological Theory by Niklas Luhmann
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster... -
Genetic Counseling: Ethical Challenges and Consequences by Dianne M. Bartels
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Genetic counseling is fairly new. The fact that the field is an accepted professional enterprise in universities, clinics, and hospitals throughout the United States is remarkable. The contributors... -
Re-educating Troubled Youth Larry Brendtro 9780202360348
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This book is about helping troubled young people who are searching separately for security, identity, and purpose in their lives. Childhood and adolescence are pivotal stages in the quest to belong,... -
Poverty Policy: A Compendium of Cash Transfer Proposals by Theodore R. Marmor
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Cash transfers are but one form of income supplementation, and a fuller presentation of antipoverty proposals would include both transfers in-kind (such as food, housing, and medical care) and human... -
Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History Jonathan Marks 9780202020334
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Are humans unique? This simple question, at the very heart of the hybrid field of biological anthropology, poses one of the false of dichotomies-with a stereotypical humanist answering in the... -
The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure by Victor Turner
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute... -
Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging by Claudine G. Wirths
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Growing old - what is it like? What are the main problems of the aging? Lack of fulfillment in their work and life? Loneliness? Anxiety about sickness and disability? Fear of death? This... -
Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places by Laud Humphreys
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.04From the time of its first publication, 'Tearoom Trade' engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population... -
The Origins and Character of the Ancient Chinese City: Volume 1, The City in Ancient China by Paul Wheatley
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £56.69These two volumes elucidate the manner in which there emerged, on the North China plain, hierarchically structured, functionally specialized social institutions organized on a political and... -
Explanation and Experience in Social Science by Robert Brown
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18According to their critics, social scientists rarely ask the right questions and cannot provide satisfactory answers even to the questions they ask themselves. Social scientists often discuss the... -
Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men by Orrin E. Klapp
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Radio, television and the press form the vast stage on which the public dramas of our time are played to a responsive audience of millions- the peoples of our nation and of the world. Almost anyone... -
Sketching Theoretical Biology: Toward a Theoretical Biology, Volume 2 C. H. Waddington 9780202363196
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The purpose of this volume is to bring together a number of elements that would be useful in the construction of a coherent and comprehensive theory of biology. Based on the assumption that living... -
Crisis and Hope in American Education by Robert Ulich
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79This book evaluates the educational system of the United States from schools for the young up to universities and various forms of adult education. It is not confined to the evaluation of... -
The Racing Game by Marvin Scott
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This study of a unique social world probes beneath the thrill and spectacle of horse racing into the lives of the "honest boys," the "gyps," the "manipulators," the "stoops," and the "Chalk... -
The Arid Zones by Kenneth Walton
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38The hot and temperate deserts and their marginal steppe lands comprise one-third of the land surface of the world and are an increasingly critical area for the economic wellbeing of world populations... -
The Eastern Orthodox Church: Its Thought and Life by Ernst Benz
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Western European Christendom finds it difficult to comprehend the Eastern Orthodox Church because it knows little about the practice and doctrines of Orthodoxy. Even what is known is overlaid by many... -
Abnormal Hemoglobins in Human Populations by Frank B. Livingstone
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Research on abnormal human hemoglobins (protein in blood that carries oxygen), has taught us about the inheritance, biochemistry, and distribution of these traits. This knowledge, coupled with... -
Rural Vietnam: The Small World of Khanh Hau by James B. Hendry
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Vietnam is a land whose features change dramatically within short distances--from mountains and high plateaus to coastal plains and inland swamps. To the south, the large delta formed by the Mekong... -
The Politics of School Integration: Comparative Case Studies by Robert Crain
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This book discusses desegregation as a community decision, focusing on case studies from the 1960s. Crain uses comparative techniques based on fifteen northern and southern cities. The author seeks a... -
Imprinting and Early Learning Wladyslaw Sluckin 9780202308913
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18What is imprinting and what role does it play in the early development of the individual? What is its theoretical importance for understanding the mechanisms of instinct and learning? What is its... -
Hungary: From Ninth Century Origins to the 1956 Uprising by C. A. Macartney
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04After the Hungarian Revolution in November 1956, the entire world became aware of the Hungarians--the independent people who defied the might of Soviet Russia in defense of their national freedom and... -
The American City: A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery by Anselm L. Strauss
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities and their inhabitants. Advancing the premise that it is not possible to understand... -
Image and Environment: Cognitive Mapping and Spatial Behavior by Dr. David Stea
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment. It...