Social Sciences
Subcategories
- Books Unlimited
- Education
- Politics & government
- Psychology
- Social services & welfare, criminology
- Society & culture: general
- Sociology & anthropology
- Warfare & defence
New Publications
- 1.
Social Work in Primary Care
(Paperback 208 pages)Describes the various activities required of social workers in medical and health care setting such as hospitals, public health facilities, outpatient medical clinics, doctors' offices, and health maintenance organizations. This book Read more...
€17.88 (RRP €27.51)
You save: 35%
- 2.
Autism by G. Dawson
(Hardback 417 pages)Overviews recent evaluations of theories and diagnosis of autism, as provided by contributions of many individual researchers. Major sections focus on social, cognitive, and language development; research and theory in neurological Read more...
€52.39
- 3.
- 4.
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Gosta Esping-Andersen
(Paperback 260 pages)1. Esping--Andersen is a leading authority on the welfare state.2. Offers a completely new theoretical framework for understanding the contemporary welfare state and employment Read more...
€22.26
- 5.
Adolescence in a Moroccan Town by Susan Schaefer Davis & Douglas a. Davis
(Paperback 240 pages)€23.93 (RRP €28.16)
You save: 15%
- 6.
- 7.
- 8.
- 9.
Psychische Beanspruchung Durch Wartezeiten in Der Mensch-Computer Interaktion by Heinz Holling
(Paperback 183 pages)€47.87 (RRP €56.32)
You save: 15%
- 10.
Rape, Incest and Sexual Harassment by Kathryn Quina & Nancy L. Carlson
(Hardback 280 pages)A guide to the treatment of survivors of sexual victimization and sexual abuse. It reviews the present literature in this area and Read more...
€91.25 (RRP €107.35)
You save: 15%
- 11.
Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Health
(Hardback 320 pages)undefined Read more...
€93.66 (RRP €144.10)
You save: 35%
- 12.
Fourth Generation Evaluation by Egon G. Guba & Dr. Yvonna S. Lincoln
(Hardback 296 pages)undefined Read more...
€68.12 (RRP €104.80)
You save: 35%
- 13.
The Civil Service in Liberal Democracies
(Paperback 224 pages)Aimed at first year students and above, this book applies a common framework of analysis to the study of each country's political setting, policy making, historical background, political executive, structure, bureaucracy Read more...
€31.16 (RRP €36.67)
You save: 15%
- 14.
The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler & Herbert Butterfield
(Paperback 624 pages)Presents an account of the scientific achievements and lives of cosmologists from Babylonians to Newton. Read more...
€18.92 (RRP €22.26)
You save: 15%
- 15.
Disability and Dependency
(Paperback 156 pages)One of the disturbing messages of this book is the extent to which disabled people are suffering in society. It looks at the socio-economic issues involved as well as the personal aspects of their lives and offers solutions to the Read more...
€38.96 (RRP €45.84)
You save: 15%
- 16.
Ending Men's Violence Against Their Partners by Richard a. Stordeur & Richard Stille
(Hardback 320 pages)undefined Read more...
€67.27 (RRP €103.49)
You save: 35%
- 17.
The February Man by Milton H. Erickson & Ernest Lawrence Rossi
(Hardback 266 pages)This text is a case study that illustrates the use of multiple levels of consciousness and meaning to access and therapeutically Read more...
€94.65 (RRP €111.35)
You save: 15%
- 18.
Guide to Planning Health Promotion For AIDS Prevention and Control by World Health Organization
(Paperback )€9.46 (RRP €11.14)
You save: 15%
- 19.
Journey Into the Eye of a Needle by Maurice Ash
(Hardback )The author believes that all contemporary issues are inter-related and the destruction of the environment can be traced to the way we use language. He examines these problems from a philosophical background Read more...
€8.86 (RRP €10.41)
You save: 15%
- 20.
The New Handbook of Teacher Evaluation by Jason Millman & Linda Darling-Hammond
(Paperback 448 pages)undefined Read more...
€24.68 (RRP €37.98)
You save: 35%
- 21.
Psychologie Der Weltanschauungen. by Karl Jaspers
(Hardback 540 pages)Im Weg von Karl Jaspers von der Psychologie ber die verstehende Psychologie zur Existenzphilosophie nimmt die Psychologie der Weltanschauungen einen wichtigen Rang ein. Sie enth lt Jaspers erste Read more...
€79.62 (RRP €93.66)
You save: 15%
- 22.
- 23.
Spotlight on the Cities by World Health Organization
(Paperback 179 pages)€13.36 (RRP €15.72)
You save: 15%
- 24.
Psychology of Aging by Janet K. Belsky
(Hardback 460 pages)Completely revised to include up-to-date research findings, this text focuses on the individual and psychological changes experienced by the elderly. Read more...
€34.05
- 25.
- 26.
Tungaru Traditions by Sir Arthur Grimble & H.E. Maude
(Hardback 424 pages)€24.44 (RRP €28.75)
You save: 15%
- 27.
The Balance of Power by Peter C. Ordeshook & Emerson M.S. Niou & Gregory F. Rose
(Hardback 368 pages)This book uses the tools of game theory to develop a comprehensive Read more...
€115.28
- 28.
The Meaning of General Theoretical Sociology by Thomas J. Fararo
(Hardback 404 pages)This book sets out a generative structuralist conception of general theoretical sociology; its philosophy, its problems, and its methods. Read more...
€106.11
- 29.
The Political Economy of James Buchanan by David Reisman
(Hardback 216 pages)A survey of the political economy of James Buchanan seeking to explain his theories in detail and evaluate them in depth, covering topics such as the constitution and its failure, democracy, Read more...
€99.10 (RRP €116.59)
You save: 15%
- 30.
Melanie Klein and Critical Social Theory by Fred C. Alford
(Paperback 244 pages)€17.27 (RRP €20.30)
You save: 15%
- 31.
- 32.
Memory and Cognition in Its Social Context by Robert S. Wyer Jr. & Thomas K. Srull
(Hardback 504 pages)€87.95 (RRP €103.48)
You save: 15%
- 33.
Money and the Morality of Exchange
(Hardback 288 pages)This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa, and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary Read more...
€83.84
- 34.
Making the Economy Work by Jon Shields
(Paperback 300 pages)This volume contains a series of essays which examine microeconomic or structural issues and attempt to explain why alternative prescriptions to monetarism could have avoided the massive rise in unemployment in the Read more...
€40.09 (RRP €47.16)
You save: 15%
- 35.
Privatizing Criminal Justice
(Hardback 208 pages)undefined Read more...
€77.95 (RRP €91.70)
You save: 15%
- 36.
Criminal Justice Organizations by J.K. Klofas & Etc. & S (University of Wisconsin USA) Stojkovic & D (Michigan State University USA) Kalinich
(Hardback 416 pages)This book provides a broad overview of management theories, techniques and research as they apply Read more...
€66.80
- 37.
War and Democracy by Peter T. Manicas
(Hardback 384 pages)Peter Manicus discusses the historical meaning of "war" and "democracy" and traces the pattern of their interconnections within a variety of exemplary contexts, including ancient Greece, renaissance Italy, Read more...
€45.84
- 38.
Biosocial Aspects of Social Class
(Hardback 153 pages)Four contributions on various aspects of social class are brought together, concentrating on different concepts of social class, the associations between class and mortality in Britain, demography and the biological variables Read more...
€98.25
- 39.
Compendium of Statistics and Indicators on the Situation of Women by United Nations.Department of Economic and Social Affairs
(Paperback 603 pages)€48.99 (RRP €57.64)
You save: 15%
- 40.
A Discipline Divided by Gabriel a. Almond
(Paperback 352 pages)undefined Read more...
€28.95 (RRP €44.54)
You save: 35%
- 41.
Family Work With Elderly People by Alison Froggatt
(Paperback 152 pages)'...a good basic introduction...a valuable tool for students or those wishing to pursue an interest in this specialist area of work.' Social Work Today Read more...
€22.26 (RRP €26.19)
You save: 15%
- 42.
- 43.
The Politics of Public Health by Meredith Turshen
(Paperback 300 pages)An examination of the progressive health tradition. This book discusses basic concepts and practices underlying conventional approaches to disease and offers an alternative framework based on the Read more...
€25.05 (RRP €29.48)
You save: 15%
- 44.
Privatizing Criminal Justice
(Paperback 208 pages)undefined Read more...
€24.48 (RRP €28.81)
You save: 15%
- 45.
Math Stories For Problem Solving Success by James L. Overholt & Nancy H. Aaberg & James Lindsey
(Paperback 250 pages)Here are 51 interesting, true-to-life situations to Read more...
€21.14 (RRP €24.88)
You save: 15%
- 46.
Patterns of Deprivation in the Soviet Union Under Brezhnev and Gorbachev by Mervyn Matthews
(Paperback 220 pages)€16.14 (RRP €19.00)
You save: 15%
- 47.
- 48.
Variations on Teaching and Supervising Group Therapy by Karen Gail Lewis
(Hardback 151 pages)A guide aimed at professionals, giving effective techniques for teaching and supervising group therapy. It brings together teaching and supervisory models for a host of Read more...
€27.82 (RRP €32.74)
You save: 15%
- 49.
The Caring Relationship by Hazel Qureshi & Alan Walker
(Paperback 304 pages)This investigation of the subject of caring for the elderly considers the role played by family and state and highlights the need for care in addition Read more...
€34.51 (RRP €40.60)
You save: 15%
- 50.
Promissory Notes by Sonia Kruks & Rayna Rapp & Marilyn Blatt Young
(Paperback 396 pages)€16.65 (RRP €19.58)
You save: 15%
- 51.
From Poor Law to Welfare State by Walter I. Trattner
(Paperback 400 pages)€16.69 (RRP €19.64)
You save: 15%
- 52.
- 53.
- 54.
- 55.
- 56.
- 57.
The History of the Family by James Casey
(Paperback 216 pages)The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms Read more...
€31.43
- 58.
Pre-Industrial Societies by Patricia Crone & R. I. Moore
(Paperback 226 pages)One would not normally expect students of biology to dissect frogs without prior knowledge of frog anatomy; yet students of history are regularly Read more...
€35.36
- 59.
Children in Recovery by Rosalie Cruise Jesse
(Hardback 288 pages)Children from alcoholic or addictive families are too often the victims of neglect and physical and sexual abuse, subject to unpredictable and abusive family behaviour. This study focuses on the Read more...
€20.03 (RRP €23.57)
You save: 15%
- 60.
Cognitive Therapy in Practice by Jacqueline B. Persons
(Paperback 248 pages)This book gives a nitty-gritty account of cognitive behavior therapy in practice. Read more...
€23.37 (RRP €27.50)
You save: 15%
- 61.
American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 by Charles Ritter & Jon L. Wakelyn
(Hardback 1156 pages)"a unique biographical dictionary. . . . There is no such other directory." Library Journal Read more...
€180.33 (RRP €212.15)
You save: 15%
- 62.
- 63.
Survey Research by Telephone by James H. Frey
(Paperback 296 pages)undefined Read more...
€38.30 (RRP €58.94)
You save: 35%
- 64.
Success and Failure in Arms Control Negotiations by April Carter
(Hardback 320 pages)In this book the author examines the reasons why negotiations to curb arms have had so little success over the last 40 years, and provides an up-to-date survey of the problems and Read more...
€154.58
- 65.
How Children Discover New Strategies by Robert S. Siegler & Eric a. Jenkins
(Hardback 152 pages)€25.60 (RRP €30.12)
You save: 15%
- 66.
Social Intelligence and Cognitive Assessments of Personality by Robert S. Wyer Jr. & Robert S. Wyer
(Hardback 224 pages)This volume presents a new conceptualization of personality and social cognition that addresses Read more...
€77.93 (RRP €91.69)
You save: 15%
- 67.
- 68.
In the Age of the Smart Machine by Shoshana Zuboff
(Paperback 490 pages)A noted Harvard social scientist documents the pitfalls and promises of computerized technology in business life. Read more...
€23.37 (RRP €27.50)
You save: 15%
- 69.
Papers on Psychoanalysis by Hans W. Loewald
(Paperback 448 pages)Discusses the nature of the internalization processes and structure building, the nature and role of reality, preoedipal modes of perceiving and the permanence of a "psychotic core" in every personality, Read more...
€18.37 (RRP €21.62)
You save: 15%
- 70.
Technology As Symptom and Dream by Robert D. Romanyshyn
(Paperback 268 pages)Robert Romanyshyn's latest book examines the claim that the development of linear perspective vision was, and is indispensable to the emergence of our technological world. Read more...
€27.82 (RRP €32.74)
You save: 15%
- 71.
Ethnographic Decision Tree Modeling by C. H. Gladwin
(Paperback )undefined Read more...
€11.06 (RRP €17.02)
You save: 35%
- 72.
- 73.
- 74.
- 75.
The Pastoral Son and the Spirit of Patriarchy by Michael E. Meeker
(Paperback 288 pages)€17.76 (RRP €20.89)
You save: 15%
- 76.
Psychological Factors in Competitive Sport by Don Davies & Malcolm Armstrong
(Paperback 188 pages)This book explains the importance of psychological factors for achievement and performance in competitive sport. It deals with Read more...
€36.73 (RRP €43.22)
You save: 15%
- 77.
Comparative Political Finance in the 1980S
(Hardback 288 pages)This book concerns the financing of politics, political parties, candidates and elections in eleven countries. Read more...
€106.11
- 78.
The Roots of Prosocial Behavior in Children by Nancy Eisenberg & Paul Henry Mussen
(Paperback 208 pages)In this book the authors review and summarize scholarly research that has been devoted to the development of Read more...
€23.57
- 79.
- 80.
Gender, Health and Illness
(Hardback 175 pages)This offers a varied perspective on the popular health/illness category of nerves. Relationships between gender and nerves are investigated in terms of biology and epidemiology, interpersonal and social relations, social construction of Read more...
€100.20 (RRP €117.89)
You save: 15%
- 81.
Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond by Gregor McLennan
(Paperback 320 pages)1. This book provides a comprehensive introduction, overview and analysis of the complex theoretical developments surrounding Pluralism and Marxism 2. It stresses the continual inter-relation between Read more...
€24.88
- 82.
- 83.
Works and Lives by Clifford Geertz
(Paperback 168 pages)This major work, now available in paperback, by one of the worlda s leading anthropologists discusses the style, imagery and metaphor of the great anthropologists, thereby developing Geertza s claim that doing good Read more...
€22.26
- 84.
Anomalistic Psychology by Leonard Zusne & Warren H. Jones
(Paperback 328 pages)€42.30 (RRP €49.77)
You save: 15%
- 85.
- 86.
Current Issues in Cognitive Processes by Chizuko Izawa
(Hardback 440 pages)€71.25 (RRP €83.83)
You save: 15%
- 87.
Inside Case-Base Reasoning by Christopher K. Reisbeck & Roger C. Schank
(Hardback 448 pages)€94.63 (RRP €111.34)
You save: 15%
- 88.
Interaction in Human Development by Marc H. Bornstein & Jerome S. Bruner
(Hardback 320 pages)€82.39 (RRP €96.93)
You save: 15%
- 89.
- 90.
- 91.
Anti-Systemic Movements by Giovanni Arrighi & Terence K. Hopkins & Immanuel Wallerstein
(Paperback 136 pages)€14.46 (RRP €17.02)
You save: 15%
- 92.
Children in Family Therapy by Joan J. Zilbach
(Hardback 188 pages)€38.96 (RRP €45.84)
You save: 15%
- 93.
Contemporary German Youth and Their Elders by Meredith W. Watts & Arthur Fischer & Werner Fuchs & Jurgen Zinnecker
(Hardback 216 pages)€80.12 (RRP €94.25)
You save: 15%
- 94.
Terrorism and the State by William D. Perdue
(Hardback 240 pages)€92.37 (RRP €108.66)
You save: 15%
- 95.
Without Locks and Bars by Grant R. Grissom & William Dubnov
(Hardback 268 pages)This volume documents the organizational change process that transformed Glen Mills Schools, America's oldest juvenile correctional Read more...
€40.03 (RRP €47.09)
You save: 15%
- 96.
- 97.
Evaluability Assessment by M.F. Smith & George Mayeske
(Hardback 238 pages)€110.24 (RRP €129.69)
You save: 15%
- 98.
- 99.
- 100.
Lay Epistemics and Human Knowledge by Arie W. Kruglanski
(Hardback 304 pages)€110.24 (RRP €129.69)
You save: 15%
