Sociology & Psychology

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

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.

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.

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.

* Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. Here, Boltanski, a leading sociologist, seeks to develop a sociology of birth and abortion. * He draws on reports gathered from hospital settings and in-depth interviews with women who have had abortions.

Shows readers how to identify the type of manipulative man they're involved with, deal with the issues his behaviour provokes and ultimately, salvage the relationship - or move on. This book offers tests to help women decide if they are involved with mama's boys, narcissists, sociopaths or even psychopaths.

"A superior exploration of the consequences of the hollowing out of our agricultural heartlands."—Kirkus Reviews In the tradition of Wendell Berry, a young writer wrestles with what we owe the places we’ve left behind. In the tiny farm town of Emmett, Idaho, there are two kinds of people: those who ...

How do we learn? What is memory? How do we know how to behave?

The formal study of psychology as a scientific enterprise began in Germany in the late 19th century, but the observation of human behavior dates back to ancient Greece. Defined as the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, ...

One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year"One of the smartest young writers of her generation."-Book RiotNow in paperback and featuring a new afterword from the author, comes Morgan Jerkins' powerful story of her journey to understand her northern ...

Reveals and discusses some of the important and distinctive aspects of Nubian culture. This study contains discussions on the psychology of death ceremonies, the nature of 'taboo,' and the importance of trance curing ceremonies. It brings a work of scholarship on the ceremonial traditions of a changed and changing Nubian world.

In the 1960s the construction of the Aswan High Dam occasioned the forced displacement of a large part of the Nubian population. Beginning in 1960, anthropologists at the American University in Cairo's Social Research Center undertook a survey of the Nubians to be moved and those already outside their ...

Refugees; Palestinian Arab; Middle East; politics and government.

Christopher Berry-Dee is back. In Talking With Serial Killers: World's Most Evil, the bestselling author delves deeper still into the gloomy underworld of killers and their crimes.

Why do we cut off our noses to spite our faces? A leading expert in psychology shines a light on a universal emotion