Social Sciences

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

Muhammad Yunus, Who Created Microcredit, Invented Social Business, And Earned A Nobel Peace Prize For His Work In Alleviating Poverty, Is One Of Today's Mos...

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

This book places the revival of Indigenous ceremonialism in a new light. The author aims at dispelling misconceptions and negative opinions by showing the t...

A Former Microsoft Executive Describes His Profound Change Of Perspective After A Visit To Nepal And His Creation Of The Non-profit Program Room To Read, A ...

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...

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers—the best and the brightest, the most famous ...

Most social research texts are written from an empiricist/positivist perspective, emphasizing the scientific method and the value of objectivity in research...

A nail-biting inquiry into the disastrous 1998 Sydney to Hobert yachting challenge chronicles the hellish storm that slammed the race, stranding sixty-three...

Groundbreaking new research shows that by grabbing hold of the three-step "loop" all habits form in our brains--cue, routine, reward--we can change them, gi...

America's maestro reporter/novelist gives America an MRI at the dawn of a new age. Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking)...

Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and-gift giving. Lots and lots—and lots—of gift giving. It's hard to imag...

The Internet And The Mobile Phone Have Disrupted Many Of Our Conventional Understandings Of Our Selves And Our Relationships, Raising Anxieties And Hopes Ab...

World-renowned urbanist Richard Florida's bestselling classic on the transformation of our cities in the twenty-first centuryIn his modern classic The Rise...

With the huge popularity of the Eat-Clean Diet among North American women, the question kept arising: Is Eating Clean okay for men? It may seem a silly ques...

Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic ident...

Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II...

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 ...

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns...

Across the world, we see an explosion of unpredictable violence committed by alienated young men. Jamil Jivani recounts his experiences working as a youth ...

Created To Accompany An Exhibition On Children's Drawings, When We Were Young Features A Gallery Of Drawings By Both Famous Artists Such As Homer, Van Gogh,...

This meticulously researched book explores the concept of fame in all its fleeting glory and confounding inconsistency. Why do so many entertainers do so mu...

Drawing on examples from the twentieth-century's "total" and "limited wars," The Media at War provides a uniquely comprehensive assessment of the role of th...

Publisher Description: Illustrated With Never-before-published Artifacts From The Unique Treasures In The Museum's Northwest Coast Collections, Listening To...

A Leading Authority In Gender Studies Profiles American Males Between The Ages Of Sixteen And Twenty-six, Offering Insight Into Their Belief Systems, Relati...

Back in print for the first time in decades! THE UNIDENTIFIED and CREATURES OF THE OUTER EDGE, the classic early works of Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman, n...

In this second volume of Tino Balio's history of United Artists, he examines the turnaround of the company in the hands of Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin i...

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...

In Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media D. N. Rodowick applies the concept of “the figural” to a variety of philosophical and aesthe...

From the Introduction: By the time Starkweather and Fugate were run down and captured on a lonely, windswept highway in Wyoming three days later, eleven peo...

if Freedom Is Such An Important Value In American Life, Ask Jakobsen (women's Studies, Barnard College) And Pellegrini (religious Studies And Performance S...

In this Fifth Edition of her acclaimed text, Elizabeth D. Hutchison uses her multidimensional framework to examine the influences that can impact human beh...

There is no better record of events than the New York Times and now, The New York Times Book of the 1980s captures the history, culture and personalities of...

This new work explores the meaning and implications of professionalism as a form of social organization. Eliot Freidson formalizes professionalism by treati...

Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, ...

Defines specific job descriptions for both fathers and mothers; describes the hidden problems of boy-specific needs, such as close contact with his father a...

Traces the role of utopian thinking as the rationale for religious wars, genocide, enslavement, plunder, economic domination, and campaigns of world conques...

This Is Your Life-- Where We Start -- You Don't Have To Know Latin To Know Your Body -- Making Our Sex Lives Ours-- Common Core Sexual Issues -- To Learn An...

After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her at just five years old. At first, she's...

Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award\A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and sh...

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Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement: An Introduction to Practice, Second Edition offers an accessible, practical introduction to program evaluati...

Criminal Profiling is a unique work centered on the deductive profiling method developed by the author and motivated by the limited knowledge available reg...

Marking a ground-breaking moment in the debate surrounding bodies and "body politics," Elizabeth Grosz's Space, Time and Perversion contends that only by r...

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

One man’s improbable rise to power in one of the world’s most violent criminal organizations. Fallen Angel sheds light on how the enigmatic and dangerou...

A quick survey of the headlines for any given day in the twenty-first century will highlight global market-affecting disasters such as superstorms, data bre...

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, ...