- Abducted
- Susan A. Clancy
- How could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a mélange of nightmares, culturally available texts, and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- The Culture of Education
- Jerome Bruner
- In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Good Natured
- Frans B. M. de Waal
- Frans de Waal takes on those who have declared ethics uniquely human. Making a compelling case for a morality grounded in biology, he shows that ethical behavior, in humans and animals alike, is as much a matter of evolution as any other trait.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Indivisible by Two
- Nancy L. Segal
- A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of twelve remarkable sets of twins, triplets, and quadruplets. Segal unravels these stories with an eye for the challenges that life as a twin can pose to parents, friends, spouses, and the twins themselves. These moving stories remind us of how incompletely any theory explains real life--twin or not.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- Living Narrative
- Elinor Ochs
- Lisa Capps
- This pathbreaking book looks at everyday storytelling as a twofold phenomenon--a response to our desire for coherence, but also to our need to probe and acknowledge the enigmatic aspects of experience. Elinor Ochs and Lisa Capps develop a way of understanding the seemingly contradictory nature of everyday narrative.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- Making Dead Birds
- Robert Gardner
- This detailed and candid account of the process of making Gardner’s classic Dead Birds is more than the chronicle of a single work. Gardner’s classic Dead Birds is one of the most highly acclaimed and controversial documentary films ever made. It is also a thoughtful examination of what it meant to record the moving and violent rituals of warrior-farmers in the New Guinea highlands and to present to the world a graphic story of their behavior as a window onto our own. This book not only addresses the art and practice of filmmaking, but also explores issues of representation and the discovery of meaning in human lives.
- Paperback 2008
- The Mystery of Courage
- William Ian Miller
- Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting, enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear? Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage--and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Negotiation Analysis
- Howard Raiffa
- Contributions by John Richardson
- Contributions by David Metcalfe
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2007
- Parenting for Primates
- Harriet J. Smith
- In this natural history of primate parenting, Smith compares parenting by nonhuman and human primates. In a narrative rich with vivid anecdotes derived from interviews with primatologists, from her own experience breeding cottontop tamarin monkeys for over thirty years, and from her clinical psychology practice, Smith describes the ways that primates care for their offspring, from infancy through young adulthood.
- Hardcover 2006
- Police Interrogation and American Justice
- Richard A. Leo
- "Read him his rights." We all recognize this line from cop dramas. But what happens afterward? In this book, Leo sheds light on a little-known corner of our criminal justice system--the police interrogation. An important study of the criminal justice system, this book provides interesting answers and raises some unsettling questions.
- Hardcover 2008
- Presenting the Past
- Jeffrey Prager
- At the core of Presenting the Past is the dramatic case of a woman who during the course of her analysis began to recall scenes of her own childhood sexual abuse. Later, the patient came to believe that the trauma she remembered might have been an emotional violation and that she had composed a memory out of present and past relationships. Using this case and others, Prager explores the nature of memory and its relation to the interpersonal, therapeutic, and cultural worlds in which remembering occurs.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Sexual Fluidity
- Lisa M. Diamond
- Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.
- Hardcover 2008
- Then They Started Shooting
- Lynne Jones
- What happens to children who grow up with war? Child psychiatrist Jones draws the reader into the compelling stories of Serbian and Muslim children who came of age during the Bosnian wars of the 1990s. These children endured hardship, loss, family disruption, and constant uncertainty, and yet in a blow to psychiatric orthodoxy, few showed lasting signs of trauma.
- Hardcover 2005
- The Two Sexes
- Eleanor E. Maccoby
- How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In this book, the distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods of their lives. A book about sex in the broadest sense, The Two Sexes seeks to tell us how our development from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood is affected by gender.
- Paperback 1999 / Hardcover
- Unto Others
- Elliott Sober
- David Sloan Wilson
- No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, a detailed case studyof scientific change, tells us differently. In Unto Others philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist and biologist Sloan Wilson demonstrate once and for all that unselfish behavior is in fact an important feature of both biological and human nature. Their book provides a panoramic view of altruism throughout the animal kingdom--from self-sacrificing parasites, to insects that subsume themselves in the superorganism of a colony, to the human capacity for selflessness--even as it explains the evolutionary sense of such behavior.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999