Social Sciences

In this new fifth edition of Social Welfare in Canadian Society, author Rosalie Chappell provides a critical look at chronic and emerging social issues, as ...

How far have we come in 100 years of juvenile justice? Have we changed our thinking about youth crime and our responses to it? To address these broader ques...

In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. D...

Welcome to the new era of organizational behaviour! Virtual teams are replacing committees. Values and self-leadership are replacing command-and-control sup...

Popular Culture: A User S Guide Is An Introduction To The Critical Study Of Popular Culture. The Text Enables Readers To Examine Parts Of The Contemporary C...

Q: Skills for Success is a six-level series with two strands, Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking. The series provides students with:Clearly ide...

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Book of the Year A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year A Maclean's 20 Books You Need to Re...

Autobiography of the KING of PORN In the world of adult cinema, one name stands out above all others: John Holmes. For nearly 20 years, from 1967 to 1987, H...

Can We Imagine A World In Which Homer's Lyre And Gutenberg's Press Have Given Way To Virtual Reality Environments Like The Star Trek Holodeck? Murray Sees T...

The legalization of marijuana has changed the way we live, party, and treat illnesses. If you have ever wanted to grow your own Cannabis, now you can, with...

Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick's Secret City. For decades, the ...

Yes, It All Really Happened Just Like This. . . Here's the story of Rich Merritt--the good son, teacher's pet, Southern gentleman, model Christian studen...

Filled with real–life examples, practical applications, and case law discussions, this proven text covers new and emerging fields of study, the many areas...

Human Geography 8 provides a study of the patterns in human geography, including population distribution, population characteristics, settlement patterns, a...

For hundreds of thousands of gay Americans, New York City is the literal gay metropolis: the place where they have learned how to live openly, honestly, and...

Political scandals have become a pervasive feature of many societies today. From Profumo to the cash-for-questions scandal, from Watergate to the Clinton-L...

A Portrait In Text And Photographs Of Canada's Twenty-one Dynastic Families. Includes A Directory Of The Power-elites In Business, The Arts, Politics, And T...

Manitous lived in human form among the Ojibway in the early days, after Kitchi-Manitou (the Great Mystery) created all things and Muzzu-Kummik-Quae (Mother ...

“It is one of only a few studies to apply the results of surveys and interviews to form an analysis from a social perspective. It is also important becaus...

On a military base in post-Taliban Afghanistan, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl found in a bombed-out school. The army major thin...

This life-changing teaching challenges men to exercise the manly courage found in the male soul. Called thumos, this physical, moral, and spiritual courage ...

In This Intimate And Humorous Memoir About How Childhood Passions Shape Our Adult Selves, Cathal Kelly Probes His Youthful Obsessions--from Star Wars To The...

V. 1. Issues And Strategies For Elementary Teachers -- V. 2. Issues And Strategies For Secondary Teachers. Roland Case, Penney Clark, Editors. Includes Bibl...

Museum Exhibition is the only textbook of its kind to consider exhibition development using both theory and practice in an integrated approach. This compreh...

A Beautiful, Full-color Book Showcasing 20 Best Practice Designs From Ecovillages Around The World--Categories: Arts & Photography ArchitectureSustainab...

Accessible And Illuminating, This Text Is Both A Map And Toolkit For Successfully Navigating The Maze Of Social Statistics. A Five-step Learning Model, Appl...

How To Read Better And Faster is a book that teaches reading techniques to its readers - techniques that can help them increase their reading speed and rete...

Praise for the fifth edition:I applaud Dr. Haber for addressing key concepts and issues in health promotion and aging, and making them accessible, respectf...

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...

Two reporters for The Dallas Morning News analyze the responses to the newspaper's national survey of death row inmates in 1994 and early 1995. Of the 3,000...

"[Crapalachia is] a wild and inventive book, unquestionably fresh of spirit, and totally unafraid to break formalisms to tell it like it was." —Vice "Pa...

A Collaborative Picture Book About Music. The Wilco Book Documents The Band At Home, On Tour, And In The Recording Studio, While Elucidating Its Ideas, Phil...

The contested creation of free movement—for people and goods—in the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nations—or is it? ...

The Trinitarian Self Argues That The Insights Of Three Key Authors-soren Kierkegaard, Eric Voegelin, And Rene Girard-can Be Synthesized To Produce A Trinita...

Robert Sobel. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [244]-246.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who rais...

American Art Directory 2022Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesMuseum Studies & Museology

'A thought-provoking and worthwhile read' THE TIMES 'A timely, challenging book' GUARDIAN '[A] rich, intriguing book' NATURE WE ARE MUCH MORE CONNECTED TO...

Text: English, German (translation)Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

Donald Goines Was A Pimp, A Truck Driver, A Heroin Addict, A Factory Worker, And A Career Criminal. He Was Also One Of World's Most Popular Black Contempora...

Plan Of The Book -- 1. Attitudes And Language: Foundational Issues. The Importance Of Attitudes. The Nature Of An Attitude. Attitude As Input And Output. Th...

In This Thoughtful Treatise Spurred By The 2015 Death Of African-american Academic Sandra Bland In Jail After A Traffic Stop, New Yorker Writer Gladwell (th...

In This Definitive And Meticulously Researched Account Of The Jewish Experience In Canada, Award-winning And Critically Acclaimed Author Allan Levine Docume...

The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for gi...

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his...

A clear, understandable book which shows the many ways spiritual problems try to affect children, and how to effectively minister deliverance for Children a...

Corporations need great leaders – particularly during times of distress and crisis. Shareholders, employees, and longtime customers all experience firsth...

In No Apologies, Katherine Brodsky argues that it' s time for principled individuals to hit the unmute button and resist the authoritarians among us who nam...