Gen Ed: Social Sciences (Psychology, Sociology)

The combination of compelling vignettes, lively dialogues, and step-by-step instructions makes this guidebook an indispensable tool for the parents, partners, adult children, and the clinicians who treat them, to heal the powerlessness, pain, and impossibility of life with someone they've been trying to help, sometimes for decades.

What really happened behind those closed asylum doors, and what does it mean for our understanding of mental illness today?

What could you accomplish if you could stay focused and overcome distractions? What if you had the power to become "indistractable"?

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Author Malcolm Gladwell aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them."

The author divides shooters into three categories, and he discusses the role of personality, trauma, and psychosis among school shooters.

Shows how rejection of experts has occurred: the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news industry into a 24-hour entertainment machine.

This distinct and pioneering book will spark interest from anyone wishing to learn more on race and society.

The author uses his investigation of these public versions of history, often literally written in stone, to correct historical interpretations that are profoundly wrong, to tell neglected but important stories about the American past, and, most importantly, to raise questions about what we as a nation choose to commemorate and how.

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society.

Sequel to the authors' well-known Freakonomics.