Social Sciences

"A great read."―Whoopi Goldberg, The ViewHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate A...

Children who are cared for in an out of home placement are in need of support and stability. This classic text offers information and advice for professiona...

One of the greatest success stories ever told unfolds in the pages of this compelling, three-dimensional book. Through intimate letters, journals, and diari...

For lovers of facts, students of popular culture, history buffs, and science enthusiasts, the fascinating stories behind 500 everyday items, expressions, a...

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...

In May 1995, a photograph and an anonymous note arrived at The Harvard Crimson that said "Keep this picture. There will soon be a very juicy story involving...

Preface -- The Good Red Road -- Anodynes And Amulets -- Keep The Drum Playing -- Recovery And Transformation -- From The Inside: Looking At You -- Physical ...

Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Ar...

There is a path leading to authentic manhood, cut by men who have gone before us, sons following in the footsteps of their fathers, generation after genera...

The twisted copycat who looked to the stars... He slipped like a sinister shadow in the night, stalking, then savagely attacking. Most of his unsuspecting t...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she...

Interviews with religious leaders from various Indian tribes share their world viewsCategories: Literature & FictionMythology & Folk Tales

Using The Easily-learned D-i-s-c System, Rohm's Positive Personality Profiles Helps Readers To Understand Themselves And Others. The Book Describes Key Diff...

In This Reconstruction Of Human Consciousness From The Stone Age Through Modern Technology, Türcke Argues That Both Civilization And Mental Processes Are T...

With the same audacity with which John Steinbeck wrote about migrant worker conditions in The Grapes of Wrath and T.C. Boyle in The Tortilla Curtain, Viramo...

Dr. Larry Clapp was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990. Given the limited options of surgery and radiation, he began intensive research into self-healin...

Luc Sante's Low Life Is A Portrait Of America's Greatest City, The Riotous And Anarchic Breeding Ground Of Modernity. This Is Not The Familiar Saga Of Mansi...

Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may...

The Concept Of Heritage Relates To The Ways In Which Contemporary Society Uses The Past As A Social, Political Or Economic Resource. However, Heritage Is Op...

fellmann Et Al's human Geography Introduces Students To The Scope And Excitement Of Human Geography And Its Relevance To Their Daily Lives. This Edition C...

Hybrid Geographies critically examines the opposition between nature and culture, the material and the social, as represented in scientific, environmental a...

Taking Us From Our Hominid Ancestors To The Megacities Of Today, 'human Geography' Brings A New Emphasis To The Political And Economic Issues Of Human Geogr...

In This Third Edition Of His Bestselling Text, John W. Creswell Explores The Philosophical Underpinnings, History, And Key Elements Of Each Of Five Qualitat...

The Canadian edition of Human Geography: Landscapes of Human Activities retains the goals and best features of the US edition, seeking to introduce readers ...

The global environmental future is a matter of major scientific and public importance. Problems such as deforestation, pollution, the loss of natural habita...

Richard L. Nostrand's Regional Geography Framework Emphasizes The Three Themes That Are Central To Cultural Geography To Explain The Formation And Change Of...

Like Native Children Forced By Law To Attend Schools Across Canada And The United States, Sellars And Other Students Of St. Joseph's Mission Were Allowed Ho...

Widely adopted throughout the world, this definitive text comprehensively examines how the global economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter ...

This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.Categories: Scien...

Trusted for its timeliness and readability, this book introduces geography by emphasizing the relevance of geographic concepts to human problems. Two years ...

A History Of Spaces Provides An Essential Insight Into The Practices And Ideas Of Maps And Map-making. It Draws On A Wide Range Of Social Theorists And Theo...

"Offering a fully integrated, systems-based approach to physical geography, the new Third Edition of Alan and Arthur Strahler's highly successful text incor...

Now substantially revised and updated, the Thirteenth Edition of de Blij and Muller's Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts continues to deliver the aut...

Chacterizing global issues through the daiy lives of individuals helps World Regional Geography enables you to better grasp circumstances affecting regions ...

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

the Debate On Modernity And Postmodernity Has Awakened Interest In The Importance Of The Spatial For Cultural Formations. But What Of Those Spaces That Ex...

What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built envir...

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, in...

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issu...

A reader for undergraduate students enrolled in second- or third-year visual culture or visual communications courses offered via communication studies and...

Edited By Stephen Graham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Arts & Photography Architecture Urban & Land Use PlanningLand Us...

The Diverse Essays Collected Here Constitute An Exploration Of The Emerging Interdisciplinary Field Of Visual Culture, And Examine Why Modern And Postmodern...

This unique volume of 27 readings includes works by leading Canadian and international scholars.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

This latest edition integrates Karen Arms' exceptional writing style with a solutions-oriented approach to emphasise the human and ecological implications o...

in The Early Morning Of November 7, 1976, I Climbed Into A Pickup Truck In Front Of The Holiday Inn In Kenora, Ontario, And Set Out On A Journey That Would ...

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importa...

A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting...

Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and incre...