Social Sciences

This broad, balanced introduction to organizational studies enables the reader to compare and contrast different approaches to the study of organizations. T...

Body, Boots, and Britches: Folktales, Ballads, and Speech from Country New York (York State Book)Categories: Literature & Fiction United StatesAnthologi...

Ernie Zelinski could change your view of the world forever. He has already taught more than 150,000 people what THE JOY OF NOT WORKING is all about: learnin...

This book is intended as an introductory survey of the philosophy of the social sciences. It is essentially a work of exposition that offers a tool box of m...

This Book Assembles For The First Time Fairy Tales In Which Elders Are Protagonists. The Stories Are Delightful In Them Selves, But Interpreted Under Chinen...

like The Original chicken Soup For The Christian Soul, This Second Volume Celebrates Wholesome, Traditional Values And Principles. Themes Of Forgiveness, ...

A New York Times bestselling author reveals the story of a nearly forgotten moment in American history, when mass violence was not an aberration, but a regu...

In this startlingly original vision of Canada, renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation, heavily influenced and shaped by Ab...

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity,...

THE SPEAKER'S HANDBOOK is an excellent textbook for students in a public speaking course, as well as a practical reference for the independent speaker. Its ...

Manfred B. Steger Presents Globalization In Accessible Language As A Multifaceted Process Encompassing Global, Regional, And Local Aspects Of Social Life. H...

The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyo...

Written by well-known sociologists John D. DeLamater, Daniel J. Myers, and Jessica L. Collett, this fully revised and updated edition of Social Psychology i...

In The Real American Dream One Of The Nation's Premier Literary Scholars Searches Out The Symbols And Stories By Which Americans Have Reached For Something ...

The flush toilet and the discovery of the potato. The Declaration of Independence and the invention of plastic. The first novel and man's first steps on the...

Describes How The United States Evolved From A Frontier Society To The World's Lone Superpower.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesGen...

This unique reader presents primary source documents that offer insights into women's lives throughout the course of European history. Each chapter augmen...

A Bustle Most Anticipated Debut of the Year"Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of the psychological dislocation caused by growi...

The second novel, and first quick read title, from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. My Dad's a Policeman is a dramatic and e...

A complexity perspective on leadership, this book considers factors such as risk and conflict, spontaneity and motivation, bullying and the use/abuse of p...

Unique in its depth, breadth, and variety of opinions and writings, this anthology of scholarly and popular articles explores the positive, negative, ethi...

Gendering Bodies Explains How The Social World Shapes Our Physical Bodies And How Our Bodies Shape The Social World. In This Remarkable Investigation Into C...

This book provides a comprehensive, balanced introduction to communication research methods. Designed for readers who have little or no familiarity with res...

The Prison Break, the Manhunt, the Inside Story In June 2015, two vicious convicted murderers broke out of the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, ...

Coming Soon, The New Book From Governor John Kasich, It's Up To Us--publishing October 22, 2019!Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Go...

The charismatic forger immortalized in the film Catch Me If You Can exposes the astonishing tactics of today’s identity theft criminals and offers powerful ...

Bakan Offers Passionate Argument And Copious Research In This Compelling Call For Parents To Stand Up For Their Children.--booklist (starred Review) Corpora...

From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world...

This is a book about TRUTH--and all the ways we try to avoid it--from the bestselling author of Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up. We live ...

A response to the current state of American affairs traces the course of the self-serving economic comfort achieved by the fortunate, politically dominant c...

An irreverent, straight-talking look at American politics and culture from the iconoclastic anchor of one of the highest-rated TV news programs in the cou...

This Book Takes Its Place Alongside The Unnerving, Memorable, Darkly Funny Family Memoirs Of Augusten Burroughs And Mary Karr. It's A Father-daughter Tale P...

A deeply scouring poetic account of the residential school experience, and a deeply important indictment of colonialism in Canada. Many of the poems in Lo...

"Gibler is something of a revelation, having been living and writing from Mexico for a range of progressive publications only since 2006, but providing ref...

Renown writer and artist Douglas Coupland's valentine to Canada looks at how it feels to be a Canadian now and imagines what it might feel like to be a Cana...

Judy Apps. Includes Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesCommunication & Media Studies

Review\This is a terrific text. A core value of its effective approach is that to understand the making of Europe into a discernible region by culture, we m...

“Liberals seem to have hit upon a reverse Christ story as their belief system. He suffered and died for our sins; liberals make the rest of us suffer for si...

In This Visionary Look Into The Future, Freeman Dyson Argues That Technological Changes Fundamentally Alter Our Ethical And Social Arrangements And That Thr...

Two Of America's Leading Experts On Violent Extremism And Terrorism Explain The Genesis, Evolution, And Implications Of Today's Most Barbaric Jihadist Army,...

Numbers Are Often Intimidating, Confusing, And Even Deliberately Deceptive--especially When They Are Really Big. The Media Loves To Report On Millions, Bill...

Unlike the Rest: A Doctor's StoryCategories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

Describes the destructive effects of verbal abuse, tells how to evaluate one's own relationship, and gives advice on responding to and recovering from this ...

There Is A River In Me: Theory From Life / Dian Million -- The Ancestors We Get To Choose: White Influences I Won't Deny / Teresia Teaiwa -- From Wards Of T...

In American on Purpose, Craig Ferguson delivers a moving and achingly funny memoir of living the American dream as he journeys from the mean streets of Gl...

Edited And Introduced By Everett F. Bleiler. ... An Unabridges And Unaltered Republication Of The Work Originally Published By Fox, Duffield And Company In...

With the revival in good manners, etiquette, spelling, and grammar, this is a timely guide to table manners and dining etiquette to ensure grace at the tabl...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...