Schadenfreude: why we feel better when bad things happen to other people

In Schadenfreude, historian of emotions Tiffany Watt Smith offers expert insight and advice. Ranging across thinkers from Nietzsche to Homer Simpson, investigating the latest scientific research, and collecting some outrageous confessions on the way - she reveals how everyone, babies, nuns, your most trusted friends, are enjoying your misfortunes. But rather than an emotional glitch, she argues…

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audi…

The sociology book, big ideas simply explained

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781465436504

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

300 THO s

Sociology : a global perspective

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781285746494

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

300 FER s

All in her head: the truth and lies early medicine taught us about women's bo…

For as long as medicine has been a practice, women's bodies have been treated like objects to be practiced on: examined and ignored, idealized and sexualized, shamed, subjugated, mutilated, and dismissed. The history of women’s healthcare is a story in which women themselves have too often been voiceless—a narrative instead written from the perspective of men who styled themselves as author…

Sociology : updated ninth edition

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9780495096344

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

300 SHE s

Disability praxis: the body as a site of struggle

The rise of the extreme right globally, the crisis of capitalism and the withdrawal of all but the most punitive arms of the state are having a disastrous impact on disabled people’s lives. Bob Williams-Findlay offers an account of the transformative potential of disability praxis and how it relates to disabled politics and activism. He addresses different sites of struggle, showing how di…

Teori Sosiologi

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9786028001052

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

-

Cambridge IGCSE® sociology coursebook

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9781107645134

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

301 BLU c

The Rules of Sociological Method

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

9789350009536

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

301.018 Dur