Social Psychology category: 7378 books
A Country of Strangers
Blacks and Whites in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists and celebrities and takes us among ordinary Americans...
by Gael Lindenfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Learn the secrets of self-esteem with 365 tips from the UK’s number one confidence expert Gael Lindenfield. Dip into this comprehensive self-help handbook as and when you need it or use it as a personal development plan. Includes advice on social life, work issues, relationships and much more. Poor...
Friend & Foe
When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
What does it take to succeed? This question has fueled a long-running debate. Some have argued that humans are fundamentally competitive, and that pursuing self-interest is the best way to get ahead. Others claim that humans are born to cooperate and that we are most successful when we collaborate...
How to Be a Mentalist
Master the Secrets Behind the Hit TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A renowned stage magician reveals the secrets of The Mentalist's brainpower.
On the hit television show The Mentalist, protagonist Patrick Jane employs his keen powers of observation and mental acuity to assist the police. Now, noted stage magician Simon Winthrop explains How to Be a Mentalist...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle,the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative...
by Cecilia Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
We see the bloodshed, the hatred, the greed, the ruthless brutality in the world, and then we look to see who is making or letting this madness happen. We find that male excesses, not male needs – certainly not women's and children's needs – drive the world.
Beyond the Chains of Illusion
My Encounter with Marx and Freud
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Profound insights into Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud from the “prolific and eclectic” social theorist and bestselling author of Escape from Freedom (The Washington Post).
According to renowned psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, three people shaped the essential character of the twentieth century:...
Conspiracy
How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
"A solid sketch of a difficult and intriguing topic without indulging in sensationalism" (Kirkus Reviews, August 15, 1997).
Was AIDS intentionally inflicted upon blacks by whites? Was JFK assassinated as part of an intricate conspiracy? Pipes traces conspiracy theories through history to show...
Peoplewatching
The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Peoplewatching is the culmination of a career of watching people - their behaviour and habits, their personalities and their quirks. Desmond Morris shows us how people, consciously and unconsciously, signal their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings with their bodies and actions, often more powerfully than with their words.
Gossip
The Untrivial Pursuit
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
A look at the delights—and dangers—of gossip, from a New York Times–bestselling, “erudite writer, gifted with rare insight and a wry sense of humor” (USA Today).
Gossip is no trivial matter. In this enlightening and entertaining study, the author of Snobbery takes a look at a human...
May Man Prevail?
An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
An engulfing study of the turmoil and uncertainty that pervaded the early 1960s, when the world was preoccupied with the threat of a nuclear holocaust
The early 1960s were a time of existential unease across the world. The constant threat of a nuclear bomb—and of mutually assured destruction—led...
Behaving Badly
The New Morality in Politics, Sex, and Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
What is the relevance of morality today? Eden Collinsworth enlists the famous, the infamous, and the heretofore unheard-of to unravel how we make moral choices in an increasingly complex—and ethically flexible—age.
To call these unsettling times is an understatement: our political leaders...
by Freud Sigmund
Language: French
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), père de la psychanalyse, est né le 6 mai 1856 à Freiberg en Moravie. Après avoir fait des études de médecine à l'Université de Vienne, Freud accomplit un stage à Paris, dans le service Dr. Charcot, spécialiste...