Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Boundaries in an Overconnected World
Setting Limits to Preserve Your Focus, Privacy, Relationships, and Sanity
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Over the past decade, 24/7 connectivity has given us not only convenience and fun but worries about privacy, interruptions while working or trying to enjoy family or other downtime, and new compulsions — from shopping to tweeting and cute-cat watching. Anne Katherine, one of the authors who brought...
Our Peaceful Planet
Healing Ourselves and Our World for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Transform yourself and transform the world. The steps you can take to positively shape your reality and then pay it forward . . .
*Our Peaceful Planet *contains extraordinary ideas that have the power to transform lives and the planet. It is unique because it provides a practical healing framework...
by Gregory R. Maio, Geoffrey Haddock, Professor Bas Verplanken
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
This third edition explores the scientific methods that are used to better understand attitudes and how they change, updated to reflect the flurry of research activity in this dynamic subject over the past few years. Providing the fundamental concepts for understanding attitudes, with a balanced consideration...
Modern Misogyny
Anti-Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Pundits and politicians often opine on the irrelevance of feminism and the women's movement today. Some commentators describe the state of feminism as "post-feminist," alongside equally questionable claims of Barack Obama's election as signaling a "post-racial" America. Modern...
The Creativity Crisis
Reinventing Science to Unleash Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Every day we hear about some fascinating new discovery. Yet anemic progress toward addressing the greatest risks to humankind -- clean energy, emerging infections, and cancer -- warns us that science may not be meeting its potential. Indeed, there is evidence that advances are slowing. Science is...
Sham
How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (fittingly,...
by Echegaray Inda, Guillermo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 30, 2009
«Nuestro espíritu empresarial ha desaparecido»; «No consigo llegar a los clientes»; «Los miembros del equipo no se comunican». ¿Son capaces las organizaciones de resolver sus propios problemas...? Rápidas, creativas, eficaces, centradas en la solución y contemplando el problema desde una...
by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Sociology
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.
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by David Bown, Laura Pountney, Tomislav Maric
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Sociology
First Teaching: September 2016
First Exam: June 2017
Build students' understanding with this concept-driven approach to the 2015 AQA A-level Sociology specification, written by a team of leading subject authors and approved by AQA.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This collection provides access to up to date, very high quality research and critical perspectives on China’s CCIs on an industry by industry basis. Industries dealt with by this collection include: advertising, architecture, art and antiques, computer games, crafts, design, designer fashion,...
The Different Drum
Community Making and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
'The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another...' Although we have developed the technology to make communication more efficent and...
On Monsters
An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future....
The Play Ethic
A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
‘Fizzes with intellectual curiosity. Kane writes engagingly and with a humility difficult to find among idea-entrepreneurs’ James Harkin, Independent
We all think we know what play is. Play is what we do as children, what we do outside of work, what we do for no other reason than for pleasure....
The Copycat Effect
How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE...
A disturbed student shoots up his classroom -- and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools. A young child is taken from her home -- and for months afterward child abductions are frantically reported on an almost daily basis....