Social History

Peter Laslett. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 204-209.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesGerontology

The marriage of bad theology and hypocritical behavior by the church has eroded our spiritual lives. Taking the best of biblical scholarship, Meyers recast...

Awe-inspiring, Exciting And Poignant, This Is A Thrilling Read, A Piece Of Redemptive Storytelling And A Work Of Important Holocaust Historical Research.--s...

Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven....

Huston Smith, The Author Of The Classic Bestseller The World's Religions, Delivers A Passionate, Timely Message: The Human Spirit Is Being Suffocated By The...

Bestselling Author, Former White House Speechwriter, And Atlantic Columnist And Media Commentator David Frum Explains Why President Trump Has Undermined Our...

From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies—from Rebel Wi...

Ken Stern Watched The Increasing Polarization Of Our Country With Growing Concern. As A Longtime Partisan Democrat Himself, He Felt Forced To Acknowledge Th...

People, Places and Times is a 2-volume social history reader that was developed to combine primary and secondary sources resulting in a totally unique resou...

How to be a VictorianCategories: History Historical Study & Educational ResourcesSocial History

From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidde...

Behind Most Major Political Stories There Is An Agenda: To Destroy An Idea Or The People Advancing It. Maybe You Watched Someone On The News Report That Don...

This rich and beautiful book takes readers from tropical forests to deserts, and from alpine mountains to English country gardens as it tours the most mag...

From the front fly-leaf: "The television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- a brilliant portrait of British life during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

A basic introduction and must-read for aspiring nurses, written by one of the founders of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.Categories: Medical BooksHist...

“Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well...

Jihad vs. McWorld is a groundbreaking work, an elegant and illuminating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus relig...

A Revelatory History--spanning Continents And Millennia--of How The Distribution Of Water Has Shaped Human Civilization, By The Chief Strategy Officer And G...

The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic games―by a New York Times best-selling sportswriter. A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Ki...

Shortlisted, New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wildernes...

Did Newton "unweave the rainbow" by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says ac...

In this book the 2,000-year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac comes a full-color book celebrating the world's most breathtaking, exciting, and astonishing attraction...

one Of The Vital Challenges Facing Thoughtful People Today Is How To Read The Bible Faithfully Without Abandoning Our Sense Of Truth And History. reading T...

Are scrolls containing the secret teachings of Jesus buried in Scotland?The discovery that the most important incantation of Freemasonry is spoken in ancien...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Farsighted, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In this illust...

The Idea Of Childhood -- Ages Of Life -- Discovery Of Childhood -- Children's Dress -- Modest Contribution To The History Of Games And Pastimes -- From Immo...

Jared Diamond.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences AnthropologyCultural

The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchant...

For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an as...