Social Sciences

Visionary Game Designer Jane Mcgonigal Shows How We Can Harness The Power Of Computer Games To Solve Real-world Problems And Boost Global Happiness, Since H...

'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial TimesThe five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.Since time immemorial, a powe...

Arguing That Our Current Response To World Poverty Is Not Only Insufficient But Ethically Indefensible, Philosopher Peter Singer Offers A Seven-point Plan T...

Introduction -- Performances -- Teams -- Regions And Region Behavior -- Discrepant Roles -- Communication Out Of Character -- The Arts Of Impression Managem...

The Cultural Critic Questions How Modern People Understand The Concept Of Villainy, Describing How His Youthful Idealism Gave Way To An Adult Sympathy With ...

From The New York Times Bestselling Author Of Reviving Ophelia, A Guide To Wisdom, Authenticity, And Bliss For Women As They Age. Women Growing Older Conten...

A New Translation Of Prometheus Bound With Extant Fragments Of The Lost Prometheus Plays. Aeschylus ; Translated By James Scully And C.j. Herington. Include...

An Accessible Introduction To The Science Of Evolutionary Psychology And How It Explains Many Aspects Of Human Nature. Unlike Many Books On The Topic, Which...

Canada Security Intelligence Service Was Set In The Early 90's Was Supposed To Squeaky- Clean After The Excess Of The Rcmp. One Reporter Delivers Stories Th...

What secrets connect Egypt‘s Great Pyramids, the Freemasons, and the Council on Foreign Relations? In this astonishing book, celebrated journalist Jim Mar...

with No-holds-barred Honesty And Poignant Storytelling, Nate Larkin Introduces A Model Of Community And Friendship That Is Reinvigorating Men's Ministry A...

Hard to Find bookCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesCriminology

Culture and Customs of Russia is a splendid introduction to the largest country in the world. This timely volume gives the scope of the country from earlie...

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner—in short, an exquisite rom...

a new York Times Bestseller! with The Right Lifestyle, Experts Say, Chances Are That You May Live Up To A Decade Longer. What’s The Prescription For Succe...

Presents A Cultural Analysis Of Sensational Crime In America That Profiles Such Infamous Cases As The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, The Black Dahlia Murder, An...

Now a New York Times bestseller and from the author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreci...

Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most r...

In This Riveting Popular History, The Creator Of You Must Remember This Probes The Inner Workings Of Hollywood’s Glamorous Golden Age Through The Stories ...

Synopsis: Women And Men Live In Different Worlds...made Of Different Words. Spending Nearly Four Years On The New York Times Bestseller List, This Is The Bo...

Recounts how an improper relationship and broken confidences led to threats of jail, public humiliation, and prejudgement in the mediaCategories: Politics &...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER\From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation acro...

This Book Takes Its Place Alongside The Unnerving, Memorable, Darkly Funny Family Memoirs Of Augusten Burroughs And Mary Karr. It's A Father-daughter Tale P...

Edited By Barrington Walker. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesEmigration & Immigration

Preface: Ratna Omidvar -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Alan Broadbent -- Who is a refugee? -- Adeline Oliver, United States -- Mampre ...

The Host Of Cnn Tonight With Don Lemon Is More Popular Than Ever. As America's Only Black Prime-time Anchor, Lemon And His Daily Monologues On Racism And An...

One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads\From one of our sharpest and most important political thinkers, a brilliant big-picture vision of the greatest chall...

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously con...

Today's economic realities have reset our expectations of what retirement is, yet there's still the promise for what it can be: a life stage filled with mo...

What if conflicts at home, conflicts at work, and conflicts in the world stem from the same root cause? And what if individually and collectively we syste...

A best-selling author and a popular radio talk show host team up to reveal the pending ill-effects of human-made changes to the Arctic weather patterns, pre...

Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his ap...

Global Poverty, Economist Collier Points Out, Is Actually Falling Quite Rapidly For About 80% Of The World. The Real Crisis Lies In A Group Of About 50 Fail...

This Bestselling, Classic Work Offers A Definitive Presentation Of The Theory And Practice Of Cognitive Therapy For Depression. Aaron T. Beck And His Associ...

Case Conceptualization Is Among The Most Challenging Aspects Of Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (cbt). Many Therapists Feel Stymied By The Task Of Formulating ...

This classic text, now revised and updated, presents objective and thorough accounts of the many types of criminology theories in a clear and readable fashi...

Science As A Vocation -- Politics As A Vocation. Max Weber ; Edited And With An Introduction By David Owen And Tracy B. Strong ; Translation By Rodney Livin...

Students And Researchers All Write Under Pressure, And Those Pressures--most Lamentably, The Desire To Impress Your Audience Rather Than To Communicate With...

A Conclusion To The Award-winning Historian's Three-volume History Of Slavery In Western Culture Includes Coverage Of The Influential Haitian Revolution, Th...

Piercing pioneer Elayne Angel has performed over 40,000 piercings since the 1980s and has brought many practices, such as tongue-piercing, into the mainstr...

A delightful journey through the psychology and science of music, Why You Love Music is the perfect book for anyone who loves a tune. Music plays a hugely...

Stunning. A Precise Puncturing Of The Post-racial Bubble. --nafkote Tamirat For Readers Of Between The World And Me And We Should All Be Feminists, An Intim...

Letters and essays from Folsom State Prison during the early 1960's lay bare Cleaver's ideas about himself as an Afro-American and the society which has nur...

Categories: Science & MathHistory & Philosophy

One Man's Campaign To Build Schools In The Most Dangerous, Remote, And Anti-american Reaches Of Asia: In 1993 Greg Mortenson Was An American Mountain-climbi...

Volume 2 of fairy tale anthology. All the best loved and remembered tales. Includes: Jorinda and Joringel; Puss in Boots; The Emperor's New Clothes; Billy B...

"Life Is with People" takes us inside a world that exists today only in memory. It allows us to enter the lives of Jewish communities in the small towns and...

Alfie Kohn’s landmark challenge to carrot-and-stick psychology, featuring updated reflections and research in a major new afterword by the author Our bas...