Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Stuffocation
Why We've Had Enough of Stuff and Need Experience More Than Ever
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Stuffocation is a movement manifesto for “experiential” living, a call to arms to stop accumulating stuff and start accumulating experiences, and a road map for a new way forward with the potential to transform our lives.
Reject materialism. Embrace experientialism. Live more with less.
Stuffocationis...
Microtrends Squared
The New Small Forces Driving Today's Big Disruptions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Ten years after his New York Times bestselling book Microtrends, Mark Penn identifies the next wave of trends reshaping the future of business, politics, and culture.
Mark Penn has boldly argued that the future is not shaped by society’s broad forces, but by quiet changes within narrow slices...
Odd Girl Out
The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
REVISED AND UPDATED
WITH NEW MATERIAL ON CYBERBULLYING AND
HELPING GIRLS HANDLE THE DANGERS OF LIFE ONLINE
When Odd Girl Out was first published, it became an instant bestseller and ignited a long-overdue conversation about the hidden culture of female bullying. Today the dirty looks, taunting...
Braving the Wilderness
The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture, from the #1 bestselling author of Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection
**Don’t...
Enlightenment Now
The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR
"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier...
Without Child
Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Without Child challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the lifeaffirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection...
Solitude
In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
With a foreword by Nicholas Carr, author of the Pulitzer Prize–finalist The Shallows.
Today, society embraces sharing like never before. Fueled by our dependence on mobile devices and social media, we have created an ecosystem of obsessive connection. Many of us now lead lives of strangely...
How to Make Black America Better
Leading African Americans Speak Out
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Issuing a powerful call for constructive social action, the popular radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley has assembled the voices of leading African American artists, intellectuals, and politicians from Chuck D to Cornel West to Maxine Waters. How to Make Black America Better takes a pragmatic,...
The Private Life
Our Everyday Self in an Age of Intrusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
With social networking and reality television, self-help columns and daytime talk shows, there’s an infinite array of platforms to both expose our deepest thoughts and examine the thoughts of others. In this age of non-stop communication, one’s privacy is subject to unrelenting examination, intrusion,...
by Dieter Duhm
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Is there a possibility left to put a stop to the global violence and to start a globalization of peace?
The answer offered in this book is: Yes, the dream of peace may become true. And that’s serious:
Acting on the assumption of the most recent scientific realizations the author develops the concept...
From Max Weber
Essays in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Max Weber (1864-1920) was one of the most prolific and influential sociologists of the twentieth century. This classic collection draws together his key papers. This edition contains a new preface by Professor Bryan S. Turner.
by Gustave Le Bon
Language: French
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Psychologie des foules Gustave Le Bon, anthropologue, psychologue social et sociologue français (1841-1931) Alcan, 1895.
Ce livre numérique présente la "Psychologie des foules", de Gustave Le Bon, édité en texte intégral. Une table des...
Face Value
The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
“A fascinating look” (The Boston Globe) at how we think and talk about beauty in the twenty-first century—and the unexpected and often positive way that beauty shapes our lives.
For decades, we’ve thought of beauty as a negative influence in our lives. We feel insecure in the face of...
Scapegoat
A History of Blaming Other People
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A “brief and vital account” of humanity’s long history of playing the blame game, from Adam and Eve to modern politics—“a relevant and timely subject” (The Daily Telegraph).
We may have come a long way from the days when a goat was symbolically saddled with all the iniquities of...