Social Sciences

Acclaimed Crime Historian, Podcaster, And Author Of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson Tells The Thrilling Story Of Edward Rulloff—a Serial Murderer Wh...

The Culture Of Disbelief Has Been The Subject Of An Enormous Amount Of Media Attention From The First Moment It Was Published. Hugely Successful In Hardcove...

Berman shows how a genuine spiritual inspiration can be twisted into a fanatical demand for murder. He offers remarkable insights into the trends and confli...

This Eye-opening Uk Bestseller Shows How One Single Factor--the Gap Between Its Richest And Poorest Members--can Determine The Health And Well-being Of A So...

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature ...

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...

Life is full of moments when you don't know how to act or how to handle yourself in front of other people. In these situations, etiquette is vital for keepi...

The Folklore Process -- Dynamics Of The Folk Group -- The Folk Performance -- Dimensions Of The Folk Event -- Aesthetics And Repertoire -- Folklore And Conn...

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...

By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these "electric" essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multiv...

The Goal Of This Book Is To Help You Better Understand Health Information By Teaching You About The Numbers Behind The Messages--the Medical Statistics On W...

Mit Psychologist And Bestselling Author Of Reclaiming Conversation And Alone Together, Sherry Turkle's Intimate Memoir Of Love And Work In This Vivid And Po...

Paying tribute to the courageous men and women who are battling to change the lives of residents in the poorest inner-city communities, Robert Woodson offe...

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...

A Pair Of Technology Experts Describe How Humans Will Have To Keep Pace With Machines In Order To Become Prosperous In The Future And Identify Strategies An...

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

It was a night David Smith would never forget...the night he began living every father's most agonizing nightmare. On that chilly fall evening in 1994, he ...

What Does It Mean To Be White In A Society That Proclaims Race Meaningless Yet Is Deeply Divided By Race? In The Face Of Pervasive Racial Inequality And Seg...

In Gone to Texas, historian Randolph Campbell ranges from the first arrival of humans in the Panhandle some 10,000 years ago to the dawn of the twenty-first...

Mental Health Social Work Practice in Canada is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the nature of mental health issues and the legal and policy fram...

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a...

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...

Drawing From Suzuki's Published And Unpublished Writings, This Collection Reveals The Underlying Themes That Have Informed His Work For More Than Three Deca...

A Collection Of Essays Explores Philosophical Aspects Of The Beatles' Music, Lyrics, And Political Acitivities. Topics Addressed Include: Skepticism And Epi...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'This ...

The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves...

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...

Antipsychotic medications are sometimes imposed on psychiatric patients deemed dangerous to themselves and others. This is based on the assumption that tre...

Amazon.com Review Elliott’s honest, sometimes darkly funny personal stories illuminate how identity can be both a bludgeon and a backbone. The daugh...

A Portrait Of The Historic Barack Obama Era Features Essays Originally Published In The Atlantic, Including Fear Of A Black President And The Case For Repar...

This investigation of the first five years of the AIDS epidemic examines the roles of the federal government, public health authorities, and research scient...

Crime analysis is a profession and process in which a set of quantitative and qualitative techniques are used to analyze data valuable to police agencies an...

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

Is it in our nature to be altruistic, or evil, to make art, use tools, or create language? Is it in our nature to think in any particular way? For Daniel L....

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguisha...

Simone De Beauvoir.Categories: ReferenceLanguage Study & Reference

Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tender reckoning of what it means to be a heterosexual woman a...

Review\"Finally we have a research-based guide for how to sensibly select a partner. A must read for all those of us seeking a lasting love."-Dr. John Gottm...

In this book, the Searses bring the reason and common sense of their philosophy of parenting to the hurdles of raising the older child. Attachment parenti...

#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Sunday Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next Pick A Best Book Of The Year: The Washington Post * Npr * The Atlantic * New York ...

It is technology's saturation of American society - with its fabulous innovations and its devastating consequences - that John Naisbitt and his coauthors Na...

The First Book About The Bp Disaster By A World-renowned Oceanographer, A Sea In Flames Examines The Environmental And Social Consequences Of The Spill From...

Winner of the 1998 National Jewish Book Award "An astonishing fusion of learning and psychic intensity; its poignance and lucidity should be an authentic ...

Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?In Please Stop Helping Us, ...

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...

Offers Advice On Traditional Etiquette, Such As How To Order A Bottle Of Wine, As Well As Modern Points Of Etiquette, Such As How To Respond To Voice Mail A...

When Jose Canseco Burst Into The Major Leagues In The 1980s, He Changed The Sport--in More Ways Than One. No Player Before Him Possessed His Mixture Of Spee...

A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITYThe effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our t...