Social Sciences

In the summer of 2003,The New York Times Magazinesent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young ...

canada's Health Care, Which Comprises A Myriad Of Institutions And Practices, Is Often Referred To As Canada's Best-loved Social Programme. This Support I...

Preface To The Extended Version -- Preface To The First Edition -- 1. Introduction: A Historical Note On The Outerworld -- 2. Psychosexuality And The Cycle ...

Amin MaaloufCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSocial Sciences

With essays from some of the most influential contemporary feminist writers, such as Jessica Valenti, bell hooks, Afua Cooper, Gloria Steinem, and Kim Ande...

Issues of movement – of people, things, information and ideas – are central to people's lives and to most organisations. From oil wars to SMS texting, ...

Travel across Ontario and pay a visit to Ontario's nearly 50 heritage jails. Built before the modern era of the OPP, they range in size from single cell lo...

A Spiritual Book Written For--and By--someone Who Would Otherwise Never Read A Spiritual Book, 10% Happier Is Both A Deadly Serious And Seriously Funny Look...

Impossible Desires : An Introduction -- Communities Of Sound : Queering South Asian Popular Music In The Diaspora -- Surviving Naipaul : Housing Masculinity...

A Critique Of The White American Class Structure Argues That The Paths Of Social Mobility That Once Advanced The Nation Are Now Serving To Further Isolate A...

Love, Life, Loss and a Little Bit of Hope: Poems from the Soul (Indigenous Spirit of Nature)Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

In the most extraordinary book Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Gr...

Returning to print, this insiderÆs view of pre-Stonewall high class homosexual lifestyles retraces the authorÆs journey from his backwards Midwestern town...

*A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?**A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE**A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”**AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK ...

The story of the ancient Greeks is one of the most improbable success stories in world history. A small people inhabiting a country poor in resources and di...

ForewordChapter IUnderstanding Family Violence from a Societal PerspectiveFamily: Haven or NightmareApplying a Social PerspectiveThe Violence of SocietyThe ...

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 young readers' edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable...

what Is The Difference Between Choking And Panicking? Why Are There Dozens Of Varieties Of Mustard-but Only One Variety Of Ketchup? What Do Football Playe...

A Concise Paperback Based On Maxfield/babbie's Best-selling, Research Methods For Criminal Justice And Criminology, This 'basics' Version Combines Accessibi...

This important contribution to the sociology of religion provides an analysis that clarifies the often ironic interaction between religion and society. Be...

The Canadian Writer's Handbook, Essential Edition is a streamlined version of the successful Concise Canadian Writer's Handbook. The Essential Edition uses ...

This First Major Collection Of Paula Vogel's Work Surveys A Remarkable Decade Of Her Writing For The Stage. Vogel's Singular Voice Is Exhilarating, Comic An...

In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known accepted military practice — and indeed, the laws o...

The ad men behind CBC Radio’s The Age of Persuasion combine lively social history and years of industry experience to show how the art of persuasion shape...

developed By Two Master Clinicians With Extensive Experience In Cognitive Therapy Treatment And Training, This Popular Workbook Shows Readers How To Impro...

Now in its seventh edition, this top-selling introductory text offers a strong balance of theoretical perspectives along with an outstanding list of contrib...

APA Simplified was written specifically for the new 7th edition of the APA Publication Manual, and concisely covers:Finding appropriate research using onlin...

In This Groundbreaking And Timely Book, Antiracist Educator Robin Diangelo Deftly Illuminates The Phenomenon Of White Fragility. Referring To The Defensive ...

A book that supports the human spirit and the humanistic visions of those who champion personal and social change through the social work group.. The Seco...

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade ...

In order to think theoretically about our global age it is important to understand how the global has been conceived historically. 'Eurafrica' was an intell...

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguis...

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

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

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 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...

Narcissism — a very positive and inflated view of the self — is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from your wife...

In A Natural, Cultural, And Artistic History Of Our Favorite Mood Enhancer, The Authors Show How Caffeine Was Discovered, Its Early Uses, And The Unexpected...

Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization", a...

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Tur...

selected Extracts From Max Weber's Writings Which Reflect The Full Range Of His Concerns.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

A classic work, Munitions of the mind traces how propaganda has formed part of the fabric of conflict since the dawn of warfare, and how in its broadest d...

Trapnel, AnnaCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSocial Sciences

Should women see a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of Nature in the name of profit and progress? How can they counter the vi...

To some it's the classic "gateway drug," to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provide relief from pain. Some fear it is dangerous and addictive, wh...

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the sho...