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A. H. Maslow

Human beings are perpetually wanting animals whose needs arrange themselves into a hierarchy of prepotency, so that satisfying lower needs releases the emergence of higher ones culminating in self-actualization.

A practical leadership guide showing managers how to identify, reduce, and prevent workplace anxiety using eight evidence-based strategies that build resilience and improve team performance.

A research-grounded account of how national, organizational, and occupational cultures differ along measurable dimensions, why those differences persist, and what they mean for cooperation in an interdependent world.

Other people invisibly shape almost every decision we make—what we buy, who we marry, how hard we try—and understanding how social influence works lets us harness it rather than be ruled by it.

A management thinker argues that the discoveries of quantum physics, self-organizing systems, and chaos theory offer a radically new and more hopeful way to lead organizations in a world of constant change.

J. Richard Hackman

Effective work teams come not from leaders managing behavior in real time but from leaders creating and sustaining five enabling conditions that set the stage for great team performance.

Robert B. Cialdini

The decisive moment for persuasion comes not during a message but in the privileged instant before it, when a communicator channels attention to ideas that pre-load the recipient to say yes.

Dan Ariely

A behavioral economist demonstrates through clever experiments that human irrationality is not random but systematic and predictable, shaping the decisions we make about money, relationships, honesty, and happiness.

A scientifically grounded, practical guide to identifying, appreciating, and deliberately using your 24 VIA character strengths to thrive in life, relationships, work, and community.

Two ZS sales-compensation consultants forecast how sales incentive plans will evolve over the next decade, arguing that the future lies in blending extrinsic and intrinsic motivators, personalizing plans, gamifying behavior, leveraging predictive analytics and technology, and treating change management as central to plan success.

Laszlo Bock

Google's former head of People Operations reveals the data-driven, values-based people practices that any organization can adopt to attract, develop, and retain great people while making work more meaningful and free.

Drawing on his Stanford Prison Experiment and the Abu Ghraib abuses, Philip Zimbardo demonstrates how powerful situational and systemic forces can lead ordinary, good people to commit acts of evil—and how understanding these forces enables both resistance and heroism.

Through a series of controlled laboratory experiments, Stanley Milgram demonstrates that ordinary people will inflict apparently lethal harm on an innocent person simply because a legitimate authority commands them to.

Robert B. Cialdini

An experimental social psychologist reveals the six universal psychological principles that drive automatic human compliance and shows how to recognize and defend against their exploitation.

A practical, five-milestone process for business leaders to make deliberate organization design decisions that translate strategy into executable capabilities, balanced power relationships, and the right talent.

Daniel Coyle

Through a patented 'discovery' method, Clotaire Rapaille reveals the unconscious 'Culture Codes'—the emotional meanings cultures imprint on things like cars, love, food, and money—that secretly drive why people buy and behave as they do.

A systematic treatise arguing that everyday reality—what people take for granted as objectively real—is in fact produced, sustained, and internalized through ongoing social processes that the sociology of knowledge must analyze.

A century-spanning review of employee turnover theory and research that traces how scholarship moved from atheoretical cost-control studies to rich models of why people leave, why they stay, and how collective turnover shapes organizations.

Daniel Kahneman

A groundbreaking exploration of the two systems that drive the way we think—the fast, intuitive System 1 and the slow, deliberative System 2—revealing the pervasive cognitive biases that systematically shape our judgments and decisions in everything from financial markets to personal happiness.

Social Psychology: A Very Short Introduction explores the intricate ways in which our perceptions, memories, motivations, and social interactions shape our understanding of ourselves and others, challenging the assumptions we hold about human behavior.

Erving Goffman's 'The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life' explores the intricate dynamics of social interaction and the cooperative performance required to manage impressions in various social settings.

A comprehensive introduction to the logic and methods of social science research, teaching readers to understand the theoretical foundations, design rigorous studies, collect and analyze both quantitative and qualitative data, and communicate findings responsibly.

A comprehensive introduction to the logic, methods, and ethics of psychological research that teaches students to think like scientists and become competent producers and critical consumers of empirical evidence about behavior.

A scaffolding for understanding social research that shows how research methods are grounded in methodologies, theoretical perspectives, and epistemologies, and traces the meaning of the major philosophical traditions that inform inquiry.

Mutea Rukwaru

A beginner-friendly guide that marries social research methods with statistics to teach students—especially social workers and development officers—how to conduct systematic, objective, and ethical inquiry.

A comprehensive reference manual that profiles 35 distinct methods for coding qualitative data and guides researchers through first and second cycle analytic processes toward categories, themes, concepts, and theory.

A concise tour of the central questions in philosophy of science—what science is, how scientific inference works, what explanation means, whether theories describe reality, how science changes, and how it relates to its critics.

Tania Glenn

A veteran trauma clinician's field-tested playbook for delivering the right mental-health care to police, fire, EMS, and military first responders before, during, and after trauma.