Social Sciences

An Incisive Follow-up To The New York Times Bestseller White Fragility Asserting That It Is White Progressives Who Are Responsible For Inflicting The Most D...

"This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential." --Marlon...

“An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circu...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, H. G. Wells predicted that statistical thinking would be as necessary for citizenship in a technological world ...

A provocative sequel to and a significant extension of Sheehy's international bestseller Passages. Sheehy finds a revolution in the adult life cycle as she ...

Public Relations Writing is intended for students who plan to work as public relations practitioners. The fundamentals of “Writing” is emphasized above all ...

"This book is highly recommended for development professionals, as well as board members and administrators who believe that a few million can easily be ra...

Long before Politically Correct Bedtime Stories invaded bookstores, Americans were getting their giggles from Fractured Fairy Tales, those delightfully twis...

Can the stories of sea dragons be true? The Bible describes a frightening, huge creature that lived in the sea. Called Leviathan, it had fearsome teeth a...

Stories, Poems, Carols, And Recollections Of Christmas By World-famous Authors, With 120 Illustrations By Norman Rockwell.Categories: Arts & Photography...

Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman—b...

A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITY The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of o...

The Challenge Every Man Faces ... The Fight Every Man Can Win. From The Television To The Internet, Print Media To Videos, Men Are Constantly Faced With The...

The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the Midwife When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth...

Studio 54 was the icon of excess—a place where Andy, Mick, Bianca, and Elton lounged in the VIP section while patrons did drugs in the fabled unisex bath...

Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Patricia K. Kuhl. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [227]-264) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologyChild ...

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable,...

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the...

What is a difficult conversation? Asking for a raise. Ending a relationship. Saying "no" to your boss or spouse. Confronting disrespectful behavior. Apol...

Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and resear...

Abby Stein Was Raised In A Hasidic Jewish Community In Brooklyn, Profoundly Isolated In A Culture That Lives According To The Laws And Practices Of An Eight...

"In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, The Accidental Superpower will be a much discussed, contrarian and eye-opening as...

This State-of-the-art Handbook Will Keep Researchers And Practitioners In Gerontology Abreast Of The Newest Theories And Models Of Aging. With Virtually All...

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

Here We Can Find Out About Irony And The Meaning Of Life, The Politics Of The Nuclear Family, Marxism In Springfield, The Elusiveness Of Happiness, Popular ...

A Memoir Of A City, An Industry, And A Dynasty In Decline, And The Story Of A Young Artist's Struggle To Find Her Way Out Of The Ruins. Frances Stroh's Earl...

Be careful who you let into your lifeArabella MacQueen had a tough start. Growing up surrounded by drugs and alcohol, getting into trouble as a teen, she’s ...

"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson Lears A powerful sequel to Benja...

#1 New York Times Bestseller Winner Of The 2014 Living Now Book Award For Inspirational Memoir An Enormously Smart, Clear-eyed, Brave-hearted, And Quite Per...

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña/Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks a...

Tells The Story Of Jazz As It Has Never Been Told Before, In A Book That Brilliantly Portrays The Legendary Jazz Players, The Breakthrough Styles, And The W...

A Thrilling Magnum Opus On America's Great Crime Epic. A Mystery Writers Of America Grand Master--author Of The Gangster Classic Road To Perdition, Long-tim...

Conversations Between Joseph Campbell And Bill Moyers, A Television Journalist, Discussing Mythology And Our Ties To The Past. Myth And The Modern World -- ...

The New York Times Bestseller #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller The essential leadership playbook. Learn the principles and guiding philosophies of Bill Gat...

1. Comparative-historical analysis: achievements and agendas / James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer. - 2. Comparative-historical analysis and knowledge a...

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...

Gynaecologists Catherine and Reg Hamlin left Australia in 1959 on a short contract to establish a midwifery school in Ethiopia. Over 40 years later, Catheri...

During Sarah Smarsh's Turbulent Childhood In Kansas In The 1980s And 1990s, The Country's Changing Economic Policies Solidified Her Family's Place Among The...

Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man's gruel-little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani sh...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic  for Time magazine comes the  tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive,  argument that our dev...

A Humorous Description Of Motherhood From The Supermom Type To The Mother Who Puts Her Children Outside To Play When The Chill Factor Is 40 Below. By Erma B...

A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his thought-pr...

This Book Weaves The Best Of Today's Emergent Spirituality With Seasoned Political Wisdom, Demonstrating How America Can Grow Beyond Its Current Stagnation ...

This unique approach to Egyptian mythology takes readers on a tour up the Nile, stopping at the most famous monuments and vividly retelling the myths conne...

a Work Of Enormous Breadth, Likely To Pleasantly Surprise Both General Readers And Experts.—new York Times Book Review david Futrelle to Those Outside The...

Twenty Years Since The Publication Of The Second Edition And More Than Thirty Years Since The Publication Of The Original Book, Racial Formation In The Unit...

Margaret Humphreys. Includes Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesChildren's Studies

Winner of the Books for a Better Life/Suze Orman First Book Award May 1986: Seven-year-old Francis Bok was selling his mother's eggs and peanuts near his ...