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Dirty Great Love Story
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 12.99Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, hes a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, shes perfect. Hes short-sighted. This achingly funny, romantic catastrophe fuses poetry and prose to ask can a one-night stand last a lifetime? A very... more...
Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model
University Press of America 2013; US$ 74.99This book adds a social psychological component to the analysis of why nations, sections, or states enter into armed conflict. The Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model is introduced, drawing from prospect theory, realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Three case studies are included, demonstrating this model and its six process stages.... more...
The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 50.00A unique handbook on human psychology, integrating contributions of sociocultural specialists from 15 countries worldwide. more...
Stereotype Dynamics
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2007; US$ 45.95Addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes in the socio-cultural context. more...
Folk Psychology Re-assessed
Springer 2007; US$ 139.99What is central to our ability to interpret one another? This work includes contributions which maintain that understandings of folk psychology and of the mechanisms that underlie it need to be revised, supplemented or dismissed altogether. more...
The Emotions of Managing
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00The past decade has seen a growing understanding of how emotions are intertwined with and embedded in all aspects of organizational life. The traditional stereotype of the detached and singularly cognitive-focused Mr. Spock-like manager has been replaced by one in which managers are expected to be more well-rounded, fully human individuals.... more...
Leren van de praktijk
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 22.50Lerende Overheid staat empirisch onderzoek naar het oplossen van maatschappelijke problemen centraal. Wat betekent de Rotterdamse aanpak van achterstandswijken voor het gelijkheidsbeginsel? Hoe verantwoordt de politie zich over de aanpak van hardnekkige veiligheidsvraagstukken? Met welke bestuurlijke en politieke obstakels worden burgerinitiatieven... more...
The Concept of Social Change (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95Anthony Smith's important work on the concept of social change, first published in 1973, puts forward the paradigm of historical change as an alternative to the functionalist theory of evolutionary change. He shows that, in attempting to provide a theory of social change, functionalism reveals itself as a species of 'frozen' evolutionism. Functionalism,... more...
Social Development (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95Originally published in 1924, Professor Hobhouse's theories and commentaries upon social development are an important milestone in the history of sociological thought. Of particular interest to the modern sociologist is his delineation of the struggle of the human mind towards rationality in thought and action and his insistence on the principle that... more...
Leadership at the Crossroads [Three Volumes]
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 490.00What is leadership? Not only has that question been debated since the beginning of human culture and society, but it's a moving target based on the definer, and the epoch. The definition can be thought-provoking and profound: A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise... more...









