Social Scientists & Psychologists

Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations....

From a foremost expert on the science of emotions and consultant to Pixar’s Inside Out comes a groundbreaking and essential exploration into the history, science, and greater understanding of awe....

Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the most influential economist of the twentieth century. In Milton Friedman, historian Jennifer Burns tells Friedman’s extraordinary story with the nuance it deserves....

The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry....

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics....

She only wanted to be a mother to her own children - FLDS Cult leader had other plans....

Trauma, heartbreak, anxiety, and mourning are all parts of the human experience, and Josh Fletcher’s mission in life is to normalize the need to find a trusted professional with whom you can discuss all of life’s scariest aspects....

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury....

Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world....

End of the Hour is for anyone who has experienced the unpredictable, lasting power of grief—and wondered how they’d ever get through it....

Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson’s chance encounter with a wise, playful, and astonishing woman helped her usher in the transformations and self-discoveries that led to her ongoing renewal....

A pioneering neuroscientist shares his story of growing up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and how it led him to his groundbreaking work in drug addiction....

In this stunning debut—both a memoir and a work of investigative journalism—writer Sarah Fay explores the ways we pathologize human experiences....

Journalist Don Lattin provides the funny, moving inside story of the "Cambridge Quartet"....

These stories are about what it means to survive, what it means to find a place to live well despite circumstance....

Mike Jay brilliantly recovers a lost intellectual tradition of drug-taking that fed the birth of psychology, the discovery of the unconscious, and the emergence of modernism....

American's own The Professor and the Madman: a story of Noah Webster, author of American English....

In this groundbreaking book, Aldon D. Morris’ ambition is truly monumental: to help rewrite the history of sociology and to acknowledge the primacy of W. E. B. Du Bois’ work in the founding of the discipline....

I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies shines a powerful, emotional, and surprisingly moving spotlight on the fascinating life of a forensic psychiatrist and the people she works with. It goes to show you just what happens in a world where mental illness makes good people do bad things....

Anthony Stevens argues that Jung's visionary powers and profound spirituality have helped many to find an alternative set of values to the arid materialism prevailing Western society....

Always curious, always working through the clutter, always trying to make sense of the world around him - come and meet Richard Feynman and understand what drove him and how he so profoundly impacted our world....

From the authors of the PEN Center USA award-winning Dallas 1963 comes a madcap narrative about Timothy Leary's daring prison escape and run from the law....

In a sweeping narrative, the author of the mega-bestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history...

Wilhelm Reich and the Function of the Orgasm; Great Minds Series, Vol. 11 - the 2017 revised, updated, and reformatted edition - is a study about one of the greatest authorities on the discovery of the bioenergy for modern science and medical science....

The more we learn about psychedelics, the less we seem to understand them....