Social Sciences

Kaja Silverman / Male Subjectivity at the Margins (Large Paperback)

In Male Subjectivity at the Margins Kaja Silverman provides a feminist and psychoanalytic reading of a variety of masculinities which fall outside the phallic pale -- masculinities which defy the logic of paternal succession, and which in doing...

Sigmund Freud - The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - PB ( Translated by Alan Tyson)

The simple but convincing explanations of things that are familiar to everybody are explained in this book: the sudden forgetting of proper names, of sets of words, impressions and intentions; childhood and "screen" memories; bungled actions and other...

W. Bradford Wilcox ( Editor) / Gender and Parenthood (Large Paperback)

Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives   The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct...

Anthony Giddens / Global Europe, Social Europe (Large Paperback)

Anthony Giddens Global Europe, Social Europe   Anthony Giddens (editor), Patrick Diamond (Editor), Roger Liddle (Editor) 3.50 2 ratings0 reviews This book makes an essential contribution to the...

Suzanne Quin / Mental Health and Social Policy in Ireland (Large Paperback)

Mental Health and Social Policy in Ireland Suzanne Quin (editor), Bairbre Redmond (Editor)     A new textbook which draws together developments in mental health policy in recent years and identifies the...

Paul A. Gilbert / Counselling for Depression (Large Paperback)

Highly acclaimed in its First Edition for its practical and sensitive approach, Counselling for Depression is an insightful guide to depression and the essential interpersonal skills and techniques which can be used in counselling the depressed person...

Susan Culley / Integrative Counselling Skills in Action (Large Paperback)

`This excellent book describes a three-stage model of counselling compatible with similar models.. but using simple, everyday language which allows the ideas and structures suggested to be readily accessible to many people... A valuable addition to the...

Bob Manthei / Counselling (Large Paperback)

The Skills of Problem-Solving A revised and enlarged edition of a previous handbook, A Skills Approach , this best-seller presents clear explanations, examples and exercises covering many different skills and settings. This book is second hand, and while...

Brenda Mallon / Dreams, Counselling and Healing (Large Paperback)

New research is re-establishing the importance of the 'inner' knowledge our bodies contain and our dreams express. Emotions, we now discover, influence the production of healing or destructive opiates within the body, and we can no longer deny the power...

Andrew Samuels / Psychopathology: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives (Hardback)

A collection of papers written by Jungian analysts from different schools of analytical psychology on various aspects of psycho-pathology, including depression, anorexia, mania, psychosis, paranoia, fetishism, transvestism, perversion, masochism, and old...

Jerome Bruner / Acts of Meaning (Large Paperback)

Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as “information processor,” has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the...

Marilyn Strathern - The Gender of the Gift - PB

Published by University of California Press, 1990, originally 1988.  Angled creases to back cover corner, back corner is also dogeared, otherwise internally unmarked.  In the most original and ambitious synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian...

Leila Kahwati / Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Mixed Methods Research and Evaluation (Large Paperback)

Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Mixed Methods Research and Evaluation provides a user-friendly introduction for using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as part of a mixed methods approach to research and evaluation. Offering practical,...

Edward T. Hall / The Silent Language (Large Paperback)

Leading anthropologist Edward Hall analyzes the many aspects of non-verbal communication amd considers the concepts of space and time as tools for transmission of messages in this fascinating study. The Silent Language is a work of interest to both the...

Ian Stewart / TA Today - A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis (Large Paperback)

  A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis   Vann Joines TA is a model for understanding human personality, relationships and communication. It was first developed by Eric Berne. Since then, TA has continued to grow. Theory has been...

Helen Buckley / Child Protection Practices in Ireland: A Case Study (Large Paperback)

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Marshall B. Rosenberg / Living Nonviolent Communication (Large Paperback)

Practical Tools to Connect and Communicate Skillfully in Every Situation We all find ourselves in situations similar to these, and too often resort to the same old patterns of behavior - defending our need to be right, refusing to really listen,...

Stephen Gorard / Combining Methods in Educational and Social Research (Large Paperback)

“This excellent book promises much and delivers a whole lot more. It provides a description of the practicalities of combining evidence from a variety of data collection modes in order to enrich our responses to educational research questions. This...

Robert F. Drake / The Principles of Social Policy (Large Paperback)

The Principles of Social Policy provides a powerful exposition of policy making in the contemporary nation state. Social policies are shaped by prevailing political beliefs and values and they are made tangible in the form of overarching policy...

Nicholas Clifford / Key Methods in Geography (Coffee Table Book)

Key Methods in Geography is an introduction for undergraduates to the principal methodological issues involved in the collection, analysis and presentation of geographical information. It provides an accessible primer, which will be used by students as a...

Gill Branston / The Media Student's Book (Coffee Table Book)

Available in colour for the first time, thoroughly revised, re-ordered and completely updated with recent examples and expanded coverage of current issues, this fourth edition is a must-have introduction to media studies. The chapters are all supported...

Mikhail Bakhtin ( Edited by Michael E. Gardiner) / SAGE Masters in Modern Social Thought series - Vol 1-4 (4 Book Collection)

Mikhail Bakhtin Edited by Michael E. Gardiner Vol 1-4 (4 Book Collection) Mikhail Bakhtin was one of the twentieth century's most influential literary theorists. This four volume edition of his work deals in detail with his ideas on authorship and...

Alan Bryman ( Editor) Sage Publishing / Ethnography Volumes 1-4 ( Sage Benchmarks in Research Methods) (4 Book Collection)

Ethnography (4 Book Collection)

Social Psychology (4 Book Collection)

Social Psychology (4 Book Collection)   Social interaction and Personal Relationships Issues for Social Psychology  Identities - Groups and Social Issues Understanding the Self

Open University / DSE 202: Methodology Handbook (2 Book Collection)

DSE 202: Methodology Handbook (2 Book Collection)   Experimental research designs Correlational research designs

Open University / Social Psychology D317 (2 Book Collection)

Social Psychology D317 (2 Book Collection)   trigger unit media notes

Open Guides / Psychology (4 Book Collection)

Open Guides to Psychology (4 Book Collection)   Perception and Representation Memory  Language Understanding Problem Solving

Nikolas Rose / Governing the Soul - The Shaping of the Private Self (Large Paperback)

This 1999 work is now widely recognised as one of the founding texts in a new approach to analyzing the links between political power, expertise and the self. This "governmentality" perspective has had important implications for a range of academic...

Helen Buckley / Child Protection and Welfare - Innovations and Interventions (Large Paperback)

IPA, published 2002. This book gives an overview of innovative practices that have been demonstarted in different health boards and child welfare and protection services. The range of subjects covered includes family support, identification of children...

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...

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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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...

Vincent Mosco / The Political Economy of Communication (Large Paperback)

This definitive, critical overview of the discipline explains in detail the analytical tools that political economy can apply to today′s increasingly global and technological information society. Vincent Mosco defines political economy by its focus...

Everett M. Rogers / Diffusion of Innovations (Large Paperback)

Since the first edition of this landmark book was published in 1962, Everett Rogers's name has become "virtually synonymous with the study of diffusion of innovations," according to Choice. The second and third editions of Diffusion of Innovations...

Mary Ingham / Men (Hardback)

. Apart from the chapter on Feminism, which now seems somewhat dated, the treatment of men's feelings and behaviour patterns is insightful and beautifully constructed, and remains current today. At the time it was written inm 1985 the men interviewed...

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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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...

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...

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

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Eric Miller / From Dependency To Autonomy (Large Paperback)

In this absorbing collection Eric Miller draws on the experience of three decades as organizational consultant to various sorts of institutions, employing approaches drawn from psychoanalysis, systems theory and the group relations movement. He has...

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,...

Gillian Cohen , George Kiss & Martin Le Voi / Memory : Current Issues ( 2nd Edition - Open Guides to Psychology) (Large Paperback)

Open Guides to Psychology An up-to-date, in-depth treatment of the major current issues, theories and findings. It introduces a representative selection of different research methods, and the reader is encouraged, by means of activities and...

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...