Social Sciences

A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed over the years into a ja...

Here, Novelist And Critic Francine Prose Serves Up A Marvelous Banquet Of Witty And Engaging Observations On The Most Delicious Of Deadly Sins. Prose Traces...

Political activist and social media star Candace Owens explains all the reasons how the Democratic Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African Ameri...

"She was the best mother in the world," said Princes William and Harry at Diana's 10-year memorial. "Entertaining and persuasive," (Publishers Weekly) this ...

Powerful tools for spreading peace in your community Unfounded beliefs and hateful political and social divisions that can cascade into violence are thr...

why Do Some Allegations Of Scholarly Misconduct And Error Become Large Media Spectacles And Result In Sanction Against The Offending Writer, While Others R...

Welcome To Celebrity Culture In The Early Aughts: The Reign Of Perez Hilton, Celebrity Sex Tapes, And Dueling Tabloids Fed By Paparazzi Who Were Willing To ...

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously ga...

This revised edition of this extremely popular introduction to social theory has been carefully and thoroughly updated with the latest developments in this...

The Author Recounts How His Exposure To The Criminal Underclass While Serving Time In A State-run Confinement Center Opened His Eyes To The Ways In Which Th...

List Of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The True History And Description Of A Country Populated By A Wild, Naked, And Savage ...

How Did Advertising Come To Seem Ordinary And Even Natural To Turn-of-the-century Magazine Readers? The Adman In The Parlor Explores Readers' Interactions W...

For The First Time, The Startling Full Story Of The Disastrous War On Drugs -- Propelled By Moving Human Stories, Revolutionary Insight Into Addiction, And ...

Of all the peoples who fought for supremacy on the vast eastern European plains, the Slavs have proved the most enduring. They spread out from homelands bey...

February 2016. Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Tareq Hadhad Was Worried About His Father: Isam Did Not Know What To Do With His Life. Before The War Began In Syria...

Very nice book highlighting stories and customs of Christmas in Ireland.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesHolidays

This book explores the musical interest and needs of children in their daily lives. Based upon their expressed thoughts and actual musicking behaviors, thi...

In Watching The English anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks and habits of the English people. From the most famous national traits ...

In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightf...

William Burroughs Arrived In Mexico City In 1949, Having Slipped Out Of New Orleans While Awaiting Trial On Drug And Weapons Charges That Would Almost Certa...

The Story Of A Southern Belle Gone Wrong Presents The Shocking Tale Of Patricia Vann Radcliffe Taylor Allanson, Who Tried To Murder Members Of Her Own Famil...

On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. ...

A Single-volume Resource To Ancient Greece, This Geneological Map Of The Universe Of Greek Myth Has A Unique Accordion-paged Design That Can Be Perused Sect...

A History Of Women's Bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing Is Seeing: Biology As Ideology / Judith Lorber -- Becoming A Gendered Body: Practices Of Preschools / ...

Pam Clark ... [et Al.]. Since 1914, The Famous Round Tower Of Windsor Castle Has Been The Iconic Home Of The Royal Archives--an Extraordinary Collection Of ...

An exciting new treasury of Jewish stories and storytellers, from ancient tales and classics re-imagined to contemporary family stories, parables, and humo...

From The Publisher. In His Absorbing Intelligent (los Angeles Times) And Timely New Play, Donald Margulies Uncovers The Layers Of A Relationship Between A P...

In 'The Mountain People', Colin M. Turnbull, the celebrated author of the classic 'The Forest People', describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African trib...

The fun way to lift morale in any work group! Did you know that games can be a terrifically effective way to build team spirit, communication, and trust a...

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. ...

Media and Society: A Critical Perspective offers an accessible introduction to the role that the mass media play in our lives, our society, and American cul...

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms. The authors address key aspects ...

This trusted bestseller provides all the information needed to understand binge eating and bring it under control, whether you are working with a therapist ...

Canada's best-selling introductory sociology reader, Society in Question, Seventh Edition, is a collection of 25 articles that provide balanced coverage of ...

The Authors Document How Four Forces--exponential Technologies, The Diy Innovator, The Technophilanthropist, And The Rising Billion--are Conspiring To Solve...

in 1982, A 21 Year Old Cocktail Waitress In Ada, Oaklahoma, Debra Sue Carter, Was Raped And Murdered. For Five Years The Police Could Not Solve The Crime....

This book shows how many Christian beliefs could be far older than what we have suspected. It gives a complete run-down of the stellar, lunar, and solar evo...

30 Years After Its Publication Marshall Mcluhan's The Medium Is The Massage Remains His Most Entertaining, Provocative, And Piquant Book. With Every Technol...

The first handbook for the paoidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, written by the director of the national organization, Sing...

The Former Governor Of Minnesota Teams Up With A Successful Author And Some Of The Most Respected And Influential Assassination Researchers To Provide All T...

The Illusion Of Literacy -- The Illusion Of Love -- The Illusion Of Wisdom -- The Illusion Of Happiness -- The Illusion Of America. Chris Hedges. Includes I...

Sanaaq Is An Intimate Story Of An Inuit Family Negotiating The Changes Brought Into Their Community By The Coming Of The Qallunaat, The White People, In The...

In 9-11, Noam Chomsky comments on the September 11th attacks, the new war on terrorism, Osama bin Laden, U.S. involvement with Afghanistan, media control, a...

Featuring a new introduction and a “Back Home” afterword, Shortest Way Home is Pete Buttigieg’s inspirational story that challenges our perception of ...

A collection of folktales from the nine tribes of Ethiopia, along with two stories from Ethiopia's religious traditions. A collect...

The United States Is Obsessed With Virginity--from The Media To Schools To Government Agencies. The Purity Myth Is A Critique About Why This Is So, And Why ...

As The Son Of George Manuel, Who Served As President Of The National Indian Brotherhood And Founded The World Council Of Indigenous Peoples In The 1970s, Ar...

They call it 'collateral damage', but legally and morally it is really mass murder. In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a 'humanitarian intervention', i...