A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays,
FOREWORD by Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and Grown Up Digital The Obama campaignâs mastery of social media for everything from fundraising to volunteer coordination has been widely reported. U...
The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of curre...
âFascinating . . . The Social Sex is a paean to companionship. Share it with a bosom friend.â âNPR From historian and acclaimed feminist author of How the French Invented Love and A History of t...
There remains a huge gulf in understanding by many leaders of what some are calling the Social Age â huge changes going on in society, enabling anyone with a smartphone to sign up to a social networ...
In the compelling popular science tradition of Sapiens and Guns, Germs, and Steel, a groundbreaking and eye-opening exploration that applies evolutionary science to provide a new perspective on human ...
We spend a lot of time thinking about other people: their motivations, what they are thinking, why they want particular things. Sometimes we are aware of it, but it often occurs without conscious thou...
A set of bold theoretical reflections on how the social photo has remade our world. With the rise of the smart phone and social media, cameras have become ubiquitous, infiltrating nearly every aspect ...
A range of empirical and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between biology and social cognition from infancy through childhood. Recent research on the developmental origins of the social mi...
Research in the field of human social development is moving at an astonishing pace. Within psychology, children's social behaviour has attracted interest from cognitive, social, clinical, and educatio...
Hamish can see the truth about people. And not everyone likes it. His family is trying to get him locked up, his parish priest thinks he may be the son of the devil, and the woman he loves, Church Pri...
This in-depth study of one of the twenty-first centuryâs most acclaimed films, The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 considers the contribution of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkinâs film to the underst...
In this translated classic, Rousseau argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. He says that we can only be free under the law by voluntarily embracing that law as our own...