Social Sciences

In The Mastery of Love, don Miguel Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering and drama in relationsh...

The only two-level series that prepares students for success in both presentations and academic discussions, Speech Communication Made Simple takes an i...

Leiter (theater, Brooklyn College and CUNY) presents the first English-language collection of disparate essays exploring Japan's kabuki theater. Fifteen of ...

This Book Provides A Novel Perspective On The Origins Of The Cold War In Asia, Tracing It All The Way Back To The Occupation Of Japan After The Second World...

An Assemblage Of First-person Accounts Detailing The Everyday Lives And Experiences Of Firefighters Across The Country Focuses On Those Who Have Been Decora...

gregory Kasza Examines State-society Relations In Interwar Japan Through A Case Study Of Public Policy Toward Radio, Film, Newspapers, And Magazines. Cate...

This book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. ...

"In this collection of seventeen essays, leading scholars address the question of what kind and what degree of change accompanied the political events known...

A Widely-read Washington Post Columnist Takes A Deep Dive Into What The End Of The Baby Boom Means For American Politics And Economics. Philip Bump, A Repor...

For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Ja...

As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, s...

this Is A Fascinating Analysis Of The Meaning Of Rice As A Symbol Of Personal And Particularly Of Social Identity In Japanese Culture.--robert N. Bellah o...

A classic study of the Japanese psyche, a starting point for a true understanding Japanese behavior.... The discovery that a major concept of human feelin...

This lucid, hard-hitting book explores a central paradox of the Japanese economy: the relegation of women to low-paying, dead-end jobs in a workforce that d...

Translated From The Japanese By Richard L. Gage. Translation Of The Author's Nihonjin To Yudayajin.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social Science...

Text: English, Japanese (translation)Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesGeneral

The United States has been epitomized as a land of opportunity, where hard work and skill can bring personal success and economic well-being. The American D...

It Has Been Fifty Years Since Japan Admitted Defeat And Accepted The Terms Of The Potsdam Declaration Following World War Ii. At The Time, Japan Was In Sham...

Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable h...

A retrospective covers forty years worth of the best of American Bandstand, a popular music television show hosted by the author who remains a pop icon toda...

In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of “the figural” to a variety of philosophical and aesthe...

For the past twenty-five years, no one has been better at revealing secrets than Oprah Winfrey. On what is arguably the most influential show in television ...

David Brooks. Includes Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

New York Times Bestselling Journalist John Stossel Shows How The Expansion Of Government Control Is Destructive For American Society. Fixing The Economy -- ...

Exposes The Myth Of The Good Girl, Freeing Girls From Its Impossible Standards And Encouraging Them To Embrace Their Real Selves. The Myth Of Girls' Emotion...

Presents An Exploration Of Child Genius Through The Stories Of Fifteen Exceptionally Gifted Young People, From Cybernetics Founder Norbert Wiener And Chess ...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give backâ€...

In the instant number one New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey gave millions of women around the globe insight into wh...

We are all aging. We are each a spoke on the great wheel of life, part of the ongoing cycle of growth. In Aging, Henri J.M. Nouwen and Walter J. Gaffney sh...

Motivational interviewing (MI) offers powerful tools for helping social work clients draw on their strengths to make desired changes in their lives. This r...

In vivid detail he describes his years of intermittent schooling, his entry into life in the fishing industry at the age of ten, his marriage, at thirteen, ...

Akira Iriye And Warren Cohen, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government In...

Eminent psychologist Richard Nisbett boldly takes on the presumptions of evolutionary psychology in a provocative, powerfully engaging exploration of the ...

In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, prizewinning historian Alan Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise to p...

Examines Japanese thought through the traditions of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, liberalism, nationalism, and socialism from earliest times to the presen...

Vol. I. The Earliest Records Of Japan -- Early Shinto -- Prince Shōtoku And His Constitution -- Chinese Thought And Institutions In Early Japan -- Nara Bud...

Asking Provocative And Profound Questions About Human Motivation And Contemporary Living And Reaching Some Astonishing Conclusions, 'freakonomics' Will Make...

The world we live in today is more volatile than ever. The security of free nations is threatened by rogue states, the global economy is in flux, and the r...

The life stories appearing in this volume come from communities where storytelling provides a customary framework for discussing the past. Angela Sidney, Ki...

A thematic history of the women s movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the prese...

In This Book, The Authors Challenge The Medical Model Of The Psychotherapist As Healer Who Merely Applies The Proper Nostrum To Make The Client Well. They S...

A Long Short War is the one essential book for anyone who wants to understand the greatest global crisis of the past decade, one that bitterly divided publi...

The Reporter Who Caused A Scandal At The New York Times When It Was Discovered That He Had Been Faking His Stories Recounts His Youth As An African American...

“Bruce Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist.” —Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia Born for Love is the d...

This Account Will Finally Explain For The First Time, In The Uncensored Words Of Simpson's Closest Confidants And Attorneys, Such Mysteries As The Missing L...

This inspiring memoir by the Muslim American Gold Star father and captivating DNC speaker is the story of one family’s pursuit of the American dream.NAME...

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...