Sociology & Psychology

The fascinating story behind Studies on Hysteria, the groundbreaking book that launched Freud's career and created psychoanalysis

Everyone is tired of tears for tiers. This is the first guide devoted to inoculating everyone emotionally from the microbe madness and lockdown lunacy.

A renowned branding consultant and behavioral psychologist shows readers how to appeal to the hidden brain where instinct prevails, creating a network of connections that convince people to buy into your product, idea, or vision.

From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, bold new ideas for creating environments that promise a brighter futurePsychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street-our environments ar

Judith Butler shows how COVID-19 and all its consequences-political, social, ecological, economic-challenge us to develop a new account of interdependency. Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.

Drawing on new research from anthropology, evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, and neuroscience, Dominic Johnson presents a new theory of supernatural punishment that offers fresh insight on the origins and evolution of not only religion, but human cooperation and society.

Published for the first time as a Granta Books paperback: Barbara Ehrenreich's groundbreaking investigation into the roots of war, with a new introduction by the author.

Linguist and writer Malwina Gudowska unpicks the myths surrounding multilingualism and the political, emotional and gendered weight of passing down language to your children

A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Classic work of geography analysing the new possibilities for spatial thought

Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019'[A] painfully intense, courageous and gripping account of [Fanning's] journey to the underworld of madness and back. This is a brave and instructive book.' Irish Times'Extraordinary. An account of mental illness, grief, delusions, homelessness, a fractured ...

After World War I, the US was flooded with newspapers, magazines, radio stations and movies. Many feared serious books would disappear altogether. The concern caused a boom in fine editions, valued for beauty, craftsmanship or rarity, rather than content, and this is their story.

Why do people commit hate crimes? A world-leading criminologist explores the tipping point between prejudice and hate crime, analysing human behaviour across the globe and throughout history in this vital book.

Think you're rational? Think again

Tell your inner critic to take a back seat, so you can start feeling more calm, confident, and kickass!

A powerful work of non-fiction and the natural sequel to The Shock of the Fall.

A practical and inspiring popular psychology book that encourages embracing traits that would normally be seen as 'problems' and using them to thrive in life.

The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this polemic examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources. Pivotal in establishing the field of demography, it remains crucial to understanding modern problems with food ...

Ethnography at Work follows the experiences of the author as a participant observer in the day-to-day running of a Japanese advertising agency.

* First book to trace systematically the relationship between key American social theorists and Freud's psychoanalyitc ideas. * Focuses on key social theorists and schools widely studied at Universities inside and outside the US, including Parsons, Chicago sociology, and Goffman.