Social Sciences

William Davis / The Rich: A Study of the Species (Older Edition Small Paperback)

The Rich has topped America's bestseller lists and received international acclaim for its insight into the lives and fortunes of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people. Renowned...

Iddo Tavory / Abductive Analysis (Large Paperback)

In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, and theories that...

Barry Hindess / Discourses of Power (Large Paperback)

In this accessible yet provocative text Barry Hindess provides a new interpretation of concepts of power within Western social thought, from Hobbes' notion of "sovereign power" to Foucault's account...

Peter Jackson / Commercial Cultures (Large Paperback)

Why do fashion houses pay exorbitant rents for retail space in London and New York from which they sell very few clothes? Why are some mothers happy to buy and sell children's clothes from charity...

Pierre Bourdieu / Political Interventions (Large Paperback)

Pierre Bourdieu, one of the most influential critical social theorists of the second half of the twentieth century, once described sociology as "a combat sport." This comprehensive collection of his...

E. Kay Trimberger / The New Single Woman (Large Paperback)

Drawing on stories from diverse women who have been single for many years, Trimberger explodes the idea that fulfillment comes only through coupling with a soulmate. Instead she presents an exciting...

Vic Seidler / Transforming Masculinities (Large Paperback)

Critically exploring the ways in which men and masculinities are commonly theorized, this multidisciplinary text opens up a discussion around such relationships, and shows that, as with feminisms,...

Zygmunt Bauman / The Individualized Society (Large Paperback)

We are spurred into action by our troubles and fears; but all too often our action fails to address the true causes of our worries. When trying to make sense of our lives, we tend to blame our own...

Pierre Bourdieu / The Logic of Practice (Large Paperback)

Now available in paperback, this book offers a major statement of Bourdieu?s theoretical approach, illustrating it with examples from anthropology. It will consolidate his reputation as one of the...

Pierre Bourdieu / In Other Words (Large Paperback)

Pierre Bourdieu has established himself as one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and his work is increasingly influential throughout the social sciences and humanities. This volume of...

Howard S. Becker / Writing for Social Scientists (Large Paperback)

Students and researchers all write under pressure, and those pressures-most lamentably, the desire to impress your audience rather than to communicate with them-often lead to pretentious prose,...

Pierre Bourdieu / An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology (Large Paperback)

Over the last three decades, Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and research of the post war era. Yet, despite the his influence, no single...

Pierre Bourdieu / Homo Academicus (Large Paperback)

In this highly original work, Pierre Bourdieu turns his attention to the academic world of which he is part and offers a brilliant analysis of modern intellectual culture. The academy is shown to be...

Dorothy E. Smith / Texts, Facts and Femininity (Large Paperback)

Texts, Facts and Femininity is a collection of essays which illustrate the full range of work by this leading feminist scholar on social relations as texts. It includes Smith's famous essay K is...

Bob Pease / Recreating Men (Large Paperback)

One of the most central issues for women's prospects for equality is whether man can and will change. Changing the social relations of gender will involve changing men's subjectives as well as their...

John R. W. Speller / Bourdieu and Literature (Large Paperback)

Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and...

Nico Stehr / The Moralization of the Markets (Large Paperback)

Nothing affects the modern economy and society more than decisions made in the marketplace, especially, but not only, decisions made by consumers. Although it is not startling to suggest that...

Thomas Gilovich / The Wisest One in the Room

A brilliant compendium of psychological discoveries that will truly make you wiser, The Wisest One in the Room is an accessible and pragmatic summary of how we perceive and misperceive the world...

Iris Gower / Halfpenny Field

Jessie Price is anxious to escape Wales and her wicked boss to build her own dairy business in London. She fights hard to make her business a success but is devastated when the man she loves is...

Ece Temelkuran / How to Lose a Country

An urgent call to action from one of Europe's most well-regarded political thinkers and a field guide to spotting the insidious patterns and mechanisms of the populist wave sweeping the globe - with...

Glenn Patterson / Lapsed Protestant (Large Paperback)

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Janet B. Ruscher / Current Directions in Social Psychology (Large Paperback)

This 2nd edition of Current Directions in Social Psychology presents readings that focus strongly on situational forces. The essays are authored by American Psychological Society recognized and...

Hilde Bruch / The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa (Vintage Paperback)

A leading psychiatric authority on anorexia nervosa, a baffling disorder in which self-starvation leads to devastating weight loss, uses case studies to clarify the causes, symptoms, and treatment of...

Eric Berne / What Do You Say After You Say Hello (Vintage Paperback) (1)

What Do You Say After You Say Hello? explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined...

George A. Miller / Psychology: The Science of Mental Life (Vintage Paperback)

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Joy Melville / Phobias and Obsessions (Vintage Paperback)

A British author discusses some irrational fears and the behavior that results from them.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be...

Benjamin Spock / Decent and Indecent (Vintage Paperback)

A discussion of psychological development and individual psychology's relationship to social psychology and political behavior.     All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the...

Graeme Salaman / Class and the Corporation (Vintage Paperback)

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Eric Berne / What Do You Say After You Say Hello? (Vintage Paperback)

As a psychiatrist, Dr. Berne found that each person, in early childhood--under the powerful influence of his parents--writes his own script that will determine the general course of his life. That...

Rm Briggs / Science Fiction Tales (Large Paperback)

Written by a hardcore Trekkie and devotee of Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and HG Wells, RM Briggs' Science Fiction Tales can only be described as ten outré encounters with sci-fi-the...

Sean French / Fatherhood (Hardback)

This collection, the response from poets, journalists and novelists, is an exploration of the subject of fathering. Alan Brien, Owen Dudley Edwards, Laurie Flynn, Tim Hilton, Alan Jenkins, Hugo...

Anna Robertson / No Going Back to Moldova (Hardback)

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Loraine Condon / A New Way of Life (Large Paperback)

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John Bradshaw / Healing the Shame (Large Paperback)

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Wayne Dyer / Wisdom of the Ages (Large Paperback)

National Bestseller This inspiring book by Wayne Dyer, author of the bestselling classics Your Erroneous Zones and Pulling Your Own Strings, delves into the teachings of intellectuals of our past to...

Judith Newman / To Siri, with Love (Large Paperback)

'Incredibly moving' Daily Mail ' To Siri with Love is a beautifully honest and illuminating love letter to Gus, your typical atypical nonneurotypical human.' Jon Stewart 'A moving and witty memoir...

Corey Wayne / How to Be a 3% Man (Large Paperback)

Dear Friend:This book teaches you the hidden secrets to completely understand women. How you can meet and date the type of women you've always wanted and have effortless relationships! How to get a...

Margaret Peterson Haddix / Turnabout

Selected for Project Turnaround, Melly and Anny Beth receive an injection to reverse the ageing process. At first, the results are astonishing, they can walk, hear and see again. Then they discover...

Zing Tsjeng / Forgotten Women (Hardback)

'For most of history, anonymous was a woman.' Virginia Woolf Everyone knows a forgotten woman. The ones we hold close to our hearts, the rebels we raise in conversation over a drink, the pioneering...

Judith S. Beck / Cognitive Therapy (Hardback)

Written in a clear, step-by-step style, this ideal teaching text makes cognitive therapy immediately accessible to students as well as to professionals new to cognitive therapy. The author uses a...

Christie Aschwanden / Good to Go (Large Paperback)

'A must-read for all athletes, from the professional to the weekend warrior.' Wall Street Journal The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING account of the new frontier of sports recovery science, which shows...

Ezra Klein / Abundance (Large Paperback)

Time to rethink liberal answers to society's biggest challenges - by ditching scarcity politics and embracing visionary action to create an abundant future     This book is second hand, and while you...

Robert N Bellah / Habits of the Heart (Large Paperback)

Attention has been focused on forms of social organisation, be it civil society, democratic communitarianism, or associative democracy, that can humanise the market and the administrative state. In...

Phyllis Krystal / Cutting the Ties That Bind (Large Paperback)

Shows how the Arthurian legend may be structured into a workable mystery system, comprised of three primary grades of attainment. The book concludes with an exploration of the Greater Mysteries    ...

Natalie Pennicotte-Collier / Sleep Reset (Large Paperback)

'Natalie's holistic five-week sleep programme is life-changing' - Chloe Brotheridge, author of The Anxiety Solution 'I defy anyone to read this book and not get a good night's sleep' - Alex...

Arnold Mindell / Working with the Dreaming Body (Large Paperback)

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Joseph Goodbread / Radical Intercourse (Large Paperback)

Between the participants in any relationship, there exists a kind of enescapable communion whereby they create-dream up-parts of one another's worlds of experience out of each other's dreams. Rather...

N. Katherine Hayles / Writing Machines (Large Paperback)

A pseudo-autobiographical exploration of the artistic and cultural impact of the transformation of the print book to its electronic incarnations. Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N...

Arnold Mindell / Dance of the Ancient One (Large Paperback)

"Just as the earth is moved by the universe, you, me, every human, every life form, and every thing is moved by the universe as well. This movement feeling, the sense of the universe's gravity field...

Warren Rovetch / The Creaky Traveler in Ireland (Large Paperback)

Part travel story and part guidebook, but all charm and wit, this book transports us to another culture. While interesting for all readers, it offers planning and navigation tips for the Creaky...

Irvin D. Yalom / Love's Executioner (Large Paperback)

The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humour at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his...

Donald Woods Winnicott / Deprivation and Delinquency (Large Paperback)

D. W. Winnicott (1896-1971) was one of the giants of child psychiatry and analysis. Whether writing or talking, he always argued eloquently for an increased sensitivity to children, their development...