Social Sciences

Rebecca Schiller / A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention (Large Paperback)

Now in paperback: A captivating, heralded memoir, "unflinching and full of truth" (Katherine May), of a woman making a home on a small farm while grappling with an unexpected ADHD diagnosis "When you...

David N. Daniels / The Essential Enneagram (Large Paperback)

The scientific basis for the popular personality profile is explored in this groundbreaking introduction to the centuries-old psychological evaluation system, which also includes accessible...

Edgar H. Schein / Humble Inquiry; The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling (Large Paperback)

Communication is essential in a healthy organization. But all too often when we interact with people especially those who report to us we simply tell them what we think they need to know. This shuts...

Joseph Turow / The Aisles Have Eyes (Large Paperback)

A revealing and surprising look at the ways that aggressive consumer advertising and tracking, already pervasive online, are coming to a retail store near you By one expert's prediction, within...

Michael Cavanagh / Evidence Based Coaching (Large Paperback)

Coaching in its many forms is emerging as an exciting and important branch of positive psychology. Evidence-Based Coaching (Vol.1): Theory, Research and Practice From the Behavioural Sciences is a...

Steve Peters / A Path Through the Jungle (Large Paperback)

"All of us face challenges, rough patches and struggles in life. During these times we are often our own worst enemy, experiencing unwelcome emotions, thinking and behaviours. The one thing that has...

Yapko / When Living Hurts (Large Paperback)

First published in 1994. Some episodes of depression can even be prevented, but the greater focus in this book is on responding to the experience of depression that is already present in the...

L. Michael Hall / The Spirit of NLP (Large Paperback)

"This fully revised edition of The Spirit of NLP brings you a brilliant Richard Bandler master training and significant contributions from master trainers Eric Robbie, Wyatt Woodsmall, Tad James,...

James Davison Hunter / Culture Wars (Large Paperback)

A riveting account of how Christian fundamentalists, Orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics have joined forces in a battle against their progressive counterparts for control of American secular...

Sarah Hendrickx / Love, Sex and Long-Term Relationships (Large Paperback)

"This accessible book is an invaluable source of information and support for couples in which one or both partners has Asperger Syndrome, as well as counsellors and health and social care...

Michael J A Howe / IQ in Question (Large Paperback)

'In this remarkably economical, clear and informed book, Mike Howe... sets about unravelling the formidable semantic, logical and empirical knots into which IQ testers and their supporters have tied...

Jonathan Michel Metzl / Against health (Large Paperback)

From anti-war walkouts to anarchist youth newspapers, rallies against educational privatization, and workshops on fair trade, teenage girls are active participants and leaders in a variety of social...

Michael Lardon / Finding Your Zone (Large Paperback)

The first research-based program to offer concise, clear ways to realize your best performance. As a therapist, physician, and mental coach, Dr. Michael Lardon has dedicated his career to helping...

Galbraith John Kenneth / The Affluent Society (Vintage Paperback)

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Beatrice Webb / My Apprenticeship (Penguin Modern Classics) (Vintage Paperback)

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Mark Simmonds / Breakdown and Repair

A moving and important book exploring one man's battle with mental illness and his daughter's experience of anorexia. Mark's story is one of resilience and strength, offering invaluable advice on the...

Joe Pernice / The Smiths' Meat is Murder

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations     This book is second hand, and...

Olga Silverstein / The Courage to Raise Good Men (Hardback)

A psychotherapist and a mother attack ancient mythology, modern society and the men's movement - in defence of mothers and sons. Provocative in parts, this book looks at popular culture, from...

Justin Cartwright / Not Yet Home (Hardback)

Justin Cartwright was sent on a journalistic assignment to cover the 1995 World Cup Rugby in South Africa, where he grew up. This is the story of his return and travels there. His...

Peter Cave / The Big Think Book

What makes me, me - and you, you? What is this thing called 'love'? Does life have a point? Is 'no' the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from...

Hooman Majd / The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay

What happens when you move to Iran, heartland of the 'Axis of Evil', with your family in tow? - asks Hooman Majd, author of the acclaimed The Ayatollah Begs to Differ and The Ayatollah's Democracy...

Nick Barham / Disconnected

'I wanted to discover what young people are really up to. To see how far they've come - and where they think they're going. Today's young generation don't want reality. They want disconnection - a...

Michael Argyle / The Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour (Pelican S.) (Vintage Paperback) (1)

The first edition of this book outlined what amounted to a breakthrough in the analysis of social behaviour. Since then it has become widely used as an introductory textbook of social psychology. It...

Bridget Giles / History of Psychology (Coffee Table Book)

This comprehensive encyclopedia of psychology covers topics as diverse as the nature of consciousness and the mind, how nerve cells communicate, how people acquire language, and the ways we are...

A. N. Oppenheim / Questionnaire Design, Interviewing and Attitude Measurement (Large Paperback)

Research methods and evaluation in the social sciences, including market research.     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Neil Thompson / Understanding Social Work (Large Paperback)

Social work is a challenging yet rewarding career. It involves dealing with a range of people and situations and requires knowledge, skill and a commitment to important professional values. This...

Peter Hamilton / The Uses of Sociology (Coffee Table Book)

The Uses of Sociology discusses whether sociological knowledge is important. It introduces students to the main ways in which sociology is practised in the world and explores the major debates...

Andy Ruddock / Youth and Media (Coffee Table Book)

When societies worry about media effects, why do they focus so much on young people? Is advertising to blame for binge drinking? Do films and video games inspire school shootings? Tackling these...

Andrea Fraser / Museum Highlights (Coffee Table Book)

Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of...

Jon Anderson / Understanding Cultural Geography (Coffee Table Book)

This new and comprehensive book offers a holistic introduction to cultural geography. It integrates the broad range of theories and practices of the discipline by arguing that the essential focus of...

Roxanna Ferllini / Raising the Dead (Coffee Table Book)

This book demonstrates how specialized scientific methods are used to identify human remains and piece together facts behind the most horrendous crimes, fires, accidents, airline crashes, natural...

Liz Heron / Changes of Heart

Through an unusual combination of interviews with women, imaginatively reworked fragments of the author's own experience, and her personal reflections on some enduring female dilemmas, Changes of...

Ivan Vladislavic / Portrait with Keys

In the wake of apartheid, the flotsam and jetsam of the divided past flow over Johannesburg and settle, once the tides recede, all around the author, who, patrolling his patch, surveys the changed...

MCALEVEY / NO SHORTCUTS (Hardback)

A compelling call for progressive movements to change their organizing strategies     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the...

Sally Coulthard / Superstition (Hardback)

Superstitions have captured our imaginations for centuries but we are often unaware of where they came from and why. In her new book Superstition, Sally Coulthard explores the history and background...

Cath Tate / Manhood (Hardback)

Based on her bestselling range of greetings cards, Cath Tate bring you her unique take on the subject of men, with vintage illustrations accompanied by witty and insightful text. In the realm of...

John Lyons - Chomsky (Fontana Modern Masters)

Paperback, published by Fontana UK 1974, originally 1970. light tanning to pages.

E.J. Hobsbawm - Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Canto)

Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the...

Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs of faith and salvation.Thias edition...

Clover Stroud / My Wild and Sleepless Nights

'Raw, elemental and beautiful.' Telegraph 'This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.' - Eleanor Mills in the Sunday Times Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has...

Jennifer E. Beer / The Mediator's Handbook: Revised & Expanded 4th Edition (Coffee Table Book)

The popular The Mediator's Handbook presents a time-tested, adaptable model for helping people work through conflict. Extensively revised to incorporate recent practice and thinking, the accessible...

Joan Vincent / The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (Coffee Table Book)

In "The Anthropology of Politics: A Reade

Bryan S. Turner / Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (Coffee Table Book)

The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide the first truly international overview of the major developments in twentieth-century...

Alex Payne / Dictionary of Cultural Critical Theory (Coffee Table Book)

This is an authoritative and accessible g

John Blewitt / Understanding Sustainable Development (Coffee Table Book)

Sustainable development is notoriously difficult to grasp for students and professionals. Multidimensional, encompassing social, ecological and economic theories, policies and practice, it can be a...

Donncha Hanna / Psychology Statistics For Dummies (Coffee Table Book)

The intr

Stuart Hall / Modernity and Its Futures (Coffee Table Book)

This introductory textbook examines the f

Kathy C. Charmaz / Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide through Qualitative Analysis (Coffee Table Book)

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William Outhwaite / Blackwell Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Social Thought (Coffee Table Book)

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Larue Allen / Psychology: The Contexts of Behavior (Coffee Table Book)

This int

Tim Cresswell / Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction (Coffee Table Book)

This engaging and accessible introduction

Douglas Robertson / Looking into Housing: A Practical Guide to Housing Research (Coffee Table Book)

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