Social Scientists & Psychologists

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

The Big Three in Economics reveals the battle of ideas among the three most influential economists in world history....

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....

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....

Becoming Freud is the story of the young Freud—Freud up until the age of fifty—that incorporates all of Freud’s many misgivings about the art of biography....

A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung's complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement....

To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru....

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....