Social Sciences

Lauren B. Alloy / Casebook in Abnormal Psychology (Coffee Table Book)

This book is in NEW condition. Although it was read, it's spine has not been broken, there are no dog ears. It contains 14 case histories based on material supplied by psychiatric professionals. The presenting symptoms were actually observed, and the...

Lilly M. Berry / Psychology at Work: An Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Coffee Table Book)

With an analysis of human work behavior, this text addresses the issues of using psychology at work. A focus on the development of employees and organizational structure helps students understand how psychology is applied in the workplace. Organizational...

Tibor Palfai / Drugs and Human Behavior (Coffee Table Book)

Drugs and Human Behavior provides unique historical background and introduces students to psychoactive drugs' pharmacology and the mental illnesses they are used to treat. This text is ideal for upper-level courses that take a psychopharmacological...

Irwin G. Sarason / Abnormal Psychology: The Problem of Maladaptive Behavior (Coffee Table Book)

This classic textbook builds on the strengths of existing theoretical systems and clinical methods to provide students with a comprehensive and up-to-date real-world overview of the field of abnormal psychology. It focuses on maladaptive behaviour as a...

Mark T. Keane / Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook (Coffee Table Book)

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Ross Vasta / Child Psychology: The Modern Science (Coffee Table Book)

This updated topically organized text examines child psychology from the perspectives of three principal traditions which characterize the discipline today—the cognitive-developmental, environmental-learning and ethological orientations. It...

B.R. Hergenhahn / An Introduction to the History of Psychology [6th ed]

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Thomas Hardy Leahey / A History of Modern Psychology (Coffee Table Book)

This book is a history of modern psychology, beginning with the publication of Fechner's elements of Psychophysics in the mid-19th century to the present. It approaches the history of psychology from a scientific perspective. Chapter topics include: the...

Daniel J. Levitin / Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: Core Readings (Coffee Table Book)

  Scientists from many disciplines, including physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience, contribute to the study of cognition. Cognitive psychology, the science of the human mind and of how people process information, is at the core of empirical...

A. McCashin / Social Security in Ireland (Large Paperback)

An accessible text for college or institute of technology students of Irish social policy, sociology, social studies, social care, public administration, poverty and equality studies. Also written for those undertaking professional training in social...

A.Barrett / How Unequal? - Men and Women in the Irish Labour Market(Large Paperback)

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John Van Maanen / Representation in Ethnography (Large Paperback)

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Dang Nghiem Van / Ethnic Minorities in Vietnam (Large Paperback)

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Tony Fahy & Helen Russell ( Editors) / Best of Times? The Social Impact of the Celtic Tiger (Large Paperback)

2007 ( published just before things went belly up)  The Celtic Tiger  caused the Irish economy to roar ahead, but what has it done to Irish society? Some saw the rising tide as having lifted all boats, while others argue that the benefits...

Clifford Geertz / Works and Lives the Anthropolgist as Author (Large Paperback)

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Andrew Gamble / An Introduction to Modern Social and Political Thought (Large Paperback)

This book is a concise guide to the main doctrines and trends in Western social and political thought since the French Revolution. Clearly and simply written, the book includes brief biographical details of major individual thinkers as well as an...

Roberto Assagioli / Psychosynthesis (Large Paperback)

Psychosynthesis: a manual of principles and techniques This is the seminal work by Dr. Roberto Assagioli, M.D. on a psychological model he developed called psychosynthesis. He was a contemporary and colleague of both Freud and Jung and had studied...

Daniel J. Siegel / IntraConnected - MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging(Large Paperback)

MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity, and Belonging Exploring the nature of how our experience of what we call “self” emerges across the lifespan. Both a personal and general meditation on identity and belonging, Daniel J...

Henrietta L. Moore / A Passion for Difference (Large Paperback)

n this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the...

Marushka Svasek & Kay Milton (Editors) / Mixed Emotions (Large Paperback)

Emotions are of increasing interest in all the human sciences. In the past two decades, a growing number of anthropologists have explored emotional dynamics in a variety of geographic and cultural settings, and have developed various, at times...

Thomas W. Laqueur / Making Sex - Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Large Paperback)

This is a book about the making and unmaking of sex over the centuries. It tells the astonishing story of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns in a precise account of developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology. We cannot fail to...

Barbara A. Misztal / Theories of Social Remembering (Large Paperback)

“brilliant… an impressive tour de force” Network *Why does collective memory matter?*How is social memory generated, maintained and reproduced?*How do we explain changes in the content and role of collective memory?Through a...

Ian Hacking / The Social Construction of What? (Large Paperback)

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social...

Robert Ornstein / Psychology: The Study of Human Experience (Coffee Table Book)

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Paul E. Willis / Learning to Labor - How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (Large Paperback)

Hailed by the New Society as the "best book on male working class youth," this classic work, first published in 1977, has been translated into several foreign languages and remains the authority in ethnographical studies.   This book is second hand,...

Beate Rössler / The Value of Privacy (Large Paperback)

This new book by Beate Rössler is a work of real quality and originality on an extremely topical issue -  privacy and the relations between the private and the public.Rössler investigates the reasons why we value privacy and why we ought...

Daniel Miller, Don Slater / The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach (Large Paperback)

This pathbreaking book was the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption in the early 2000's. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the...

Allan Megill ( Editor) / Rethinking Objectivity (Large Paperback)

Although "objectivity" is a term used widely in many areas of public discourse, from discussions concerning the media and politics to debates over political correctness and cultural literacy, the question "What is objectivity?" is often ignored, as if...

Erik Jonsson / Inner Navigation (Large Paperback)

A lively text, intriguing facts, and real-world examples combine to present a fascinating exploration into our "cognitive maps, " which are inherited from our animal ancestors, allowing us to navigate the physical world. This book is second hand, and...

Vijayendra Rao / Culture and Public Action (Large Paperback)

How does culture matter for development? Do certain societies have cultures which condemn them to poverty? Led by Arjun Appadurai, Mary Douglas, and Amartya Sen, the anthropologists and economists in this volume contend that culture is central to...

Anthony Giddens - The Consequences of Modernity - PB

Published by Polity Press, 1990. Inked number to front endpage corner is teh only mark, spine uncreased, a very good PB copy.  In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional...

E. Valentine Daniel / Charred Lullabies (Large Paperback)

How does an ethnographer write about violence? How can he make sense of violent acts, for himself and for his readers, without compromising its sheer excess and its meaning-defying core? How can he remain a scholarly observer when the country of his...

Pertti J Pelto, Gretel H Pelto / Anthropological Research: The Structure of Inquiry (Large Paperback)

This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations about human...

Clive Seale / Media and Health (Large Paperback)

`This book appears to fill a substantial gap in the literature at present. There are, quite simply, no books available which engage seriously and competently with the presentation of health issues in the media, and certainly none which focuses on...

Rachel Pain et al. / Introducing Social Geographies (Large Paperback)

Written by Rachel Pain, Michael Barke, Duncan Fuller, Jamie Gough, Graham Mowl, Robert MacFarlene `Introducing Social Geographies' is a major new text offering a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of...

Marian Liebmann / Community and Neighbour Meditation (Large Paperback)

This practical book looks at mediation as it can be applied to resolving community and neighbour disputes. It covers the history and theory of mediation practices before looking at how these can work in practice by analysing the mediation process and...

Avril Tabuns / Confused about Care for Your Mum and Dad? (Large Paperback)

Packed with real life stories and practical resources, this guidebook provides step by step solutions for most of the issues you may encounter as you or your parents reach a certain age.This guide will ease your stress and give you the peace of mind that...

Becky Francis / Reassesing Gender and Achievement (Large Paperback)

Questioning Contemporary Key Debates Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perceptions of gender on which the 'gender and achievement' debates are...

Amiria Henare / Thinking Through Things - Theorising Artefacts Ethnographically (Large Paperback)

Amiria Henare (Editor), Martin Holbraad (Editor), Sari Wastell (Editor) Drawing upon the work of some of the most influential theorists in the field, Thinking Through Things demonstrates the quiet revolution growing in...

Carol Dyhouse / Girl Trouble : Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women (Large Paperback)

Horror, scandal and moral panic! The popular fascination with the moral decline of young women has permeated society for over a hundred years. Be it flappers, beat girls, dolly birds or ladettes, public outrage at girls' perceived permissiveness has been...

Lorraine Nencel / Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru (Large Paperback)

In this lively, hard-hitting feminist study of prostitution, Lorraine Nencel interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour have been constructed (and deconstructed) over the years. This is a richly detailed ethnographic account...

T.M.S. Evens / The Manchester School: Practice and Ethnographic Praxis in Anthropology (Large Paperback)

Pioneered by Max Gluckman to demonstrate the way in which social practice and structure together constitute and are themselves constituted by the situational flow of social life, the extended case method became diagnostic of the Manchester School of...

Ruben Andersson / Illegality, Inc - Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe. (Large Paperback)

Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering Europe (California Series in Public Anthropology) In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration...

Ilana Feldman / In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (Large Paperback)

Scientists, activists, state officials, NGOs, and others increasingly claim to speak and act on behalf of “humanity.” The remarkable array of circumstances in which humanity is invoked testifies to the category’s universal purchase. Yet...

Alejandro Portes / Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives (Large Paperback)

Alejandro Portes (Editor), J. DeWind (Editor) With the increasing worldwide problems of migration, research into its causes and effects become ever more urgent. This volume takes stock of recent advancements that social science research in...

Sigmund Freud - Two Short Accounts of Psychoanalysis ( Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis | The Question of Lay Analysis ) - PB -1970

Pelican PB reprint edition. These two accounts form the best possible introduction to psycho-analysis for the general reader, for whom they were originally prepared. When Sigmund Freud was invited to lecture in America in 1909 he expounded, for the first...

Susan M. Pearce / Museums, Objects and Collections (Large Paperback)

This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as...

W.J. Thomas Mitchell / Landscape and Power (Large Paperback)

The first edition of this book, published in 1994, reshaped the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of...

James Watson, Anne Hill / Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies (Large Paperback)

The Watson and Hill dictionary in its 8th edition presents a fresh and comprehensive overview serving all aspect of the study of media and communication. It provides a detailed compendium of the different facets of personal, group, mass media and...

Daniel Miller ( Editor) / Materiality (Large Paperback)

Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here...

Jon Bird, George Roberts, Barry Curtis, / The Block Reader in Visual Culture (Large Paperback)

Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of visual and cultural studies. The journal's editors and contributors sought to further the critical tradition in art history, respond to the woek of contemporary artists, and bring the...

Donna L. Dickenson, Malcolm Johnson / Death, Dying and Bereavement (Large Paperback)Donna L. Dickenson (Editor) ,

"The book does give a broad overview of many of the issues around death, dying and bereavement. It raises the reader's awareness and encourages deeper investigation at every level. It is easy to read and therefore accessible to a wide audience. In all it...