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Best-selling author and ministry leader Thom S. Rainer drew an exceptional response when he posted a 500-word declaration about church membership to his dai...

"This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. Pathologies of Power is an eloquent ...

This Handbook Brings Together Foundational And Leading-edge Research Exploring Dimensions Of Improving Quality Of Life In Communities Of Place. Social Indic...

In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina, Longtime New Orleans Residents Abdulrahman And Kathy Zeitoun Are Cast Into An Unthinkable Struggle With Forces Beyond Wind...

Presents the official results of the government's investigation into the Kennedy assassinationCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn't make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with...

Classical Mythology: Images and Insights approaches the study of myths through complete works of Greco-Roman literature, including six complete Greek dramas...

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

Winner Of The 2009 Warwick Prize For Writing Only A Crisis - Actual Or Perceived - Produces Real Change. When That Crisis Occurs, The Actions That Are Taken...

To what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters to assassin...

Thoreau Went To Walden Pond To Live Simply In The Wild And Contemplate His Own Place In The World By Observing Nature. Robert Sullivan Went To A Disused, Ga...

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

Nature: The Wilderness That Environmentalists Try To Protect From Industrial Despoliation; The Spectacular National Parks Where People Seek Refuge From Thei...

White's TERRORISM: AN INTRODUCTION, a perennial best-seller, is recognized as the most objective terrorism book in the market. In the latest edition, White ...

The lawyer had not wanted the case at first -- it was too big, too complicated, too risky. It concerned a cluster of childhood leukemia victims in a small t...

With a new foreword by Moira Donegan, this long-awaited reissue of Dworkin’s iconic study of women in American conservatism is paired with a bold, modern ...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER San Francisco Chronicle's 10 Books to Pick * HelloGiggles' 10 Books to Pick Up for a Better 2021 * PopSugar's 23 Exciting New Books...

The New York Times bestselling memoir by Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three, who was falsely convicted of three murders and spent nearly eighteen years...

1. Beginning -- 2. Available Space -- 3. Leaf On The Water -- 4. Frogs And Limies -- 5. Fredericton -- 6. English-english And French-french -- 7. Wars, Hero...

This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi's ideas on pluralism, religious identity, non-violence, satyagraha, and modernity...

In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative d...

Taking A Sociological Perspective, Criminology: A Sociological Understanding, 5/e Offers Award-winning Coverage Of Criminology And Highlights Issues Of Race...

A Researcher For Human Rights Watch Describes The Refugee Camp In Dadaab, Home To Those Fleeing Civil War In Somalia, And Highlights The Life Of Various Res...

Breaking night: (Urban slang) staying up through the night, until the sun rises Breaking Night is the stunning memoir of a young woman who at age fifteen w...

Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired women, Per...

A survey of the past 300 years of theorizing on myth, this book takes into account the work of such prominent thinkers as Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strau...

The folklore of the Scottish Highlands is unique and very much alive. Dr Anne Ross, a Gaelic-speaking Celtic scholar and archaeologist, has lived and worked...

Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity” to describe meaningful coincidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with...

New software (Lisrel and AMOS) has made the techniques of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) increasingly available to students and researchers, while the...

A Gripping, Inspiring, And Eye-opening Memoir Of Fortitude And Survival--of A Twelve-year-old Boy's Traumatic Flight From Afghanistan To The West--that Puts...

This bestselling text provides a practical guide to the basic concepts of structural equation modeling (SEM) and the AMOS program (Versions 17 & 18). T...

Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn't been a week Ralph Macchio hasn't heard friendly...

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

James Fitzgerald.Categories: Education & Teaching Schools & TeachingEducation Theory

Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she's still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet,...

designed To Give Students An Exceptional Grounding In The Discipline, human Geography Is A Comprehensive And Engaging Introduction To The History, Philoso...

The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of w...

The most complete collection of Greek and Roman myths specially arranged to be read aloud to children aged five to twelve. "Every child deserves this book. ...

Product DescriptionCanada's best-selling introductory sociology reader has articles carefully chosen for their ability to connect the sociological concepts ...

As a priest and a physician, Richard Frechette has known the body, heart, and soul of people in the most anguishing of circumstances. He has carried out hi...

Here, For The First Time In Print, Is The History Of The Beatles--by The Beatles. The Extraordinary Project Has Been Made Possible Because Paul Mccartney, G...

Written for Canadians, by Canadians, Our Society provides students with an up-to-date analysis of the major diversities that characterize Canadian society. ...

Messages: Building Interpersonal Communication Skills, Fifth Canadian Edition, is a practical, task-oriented introduction to the field of interpersonal comm...

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 ...

Simone De Beauvoir.Categories: ReferenceLanguage Study & Reference

Social Scientist Brené Brown, Phd, Lmsw, Has Sparked A Global Conversation About The Experiences That Bring Meaning To Our Lives -- Experiences Of Courage,...

Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doom Activists today strive to...

In This Book Arthur Manuel And Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson Challenge Virtually Everything That Non-indigenous Canadians Believe About Their Relationship W...