Social Sciences

The Medicine Wheel is a springboard of power that will allow you to link up to all the energies of the universe. -- Sun Bear Millions of people around th...

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in AmericaWidespread reporting on aspects of whi...

"Walk upstairs, open the door, and look in the crib.What do you see: Most of us see a picture of innocence and helplessness, a clean slate. But in fact, wh...

john Grisham's First Work Of Nonfiction, An Exploration Of Small Town Justice Gone Terribly Awry, Is His Most Extraordinary Legal Thriller Yet. In The Maj...

Imagine an 8-week program that can help you overcome depression, anxiety, and stress--by simply learning new ways to respond to your own thoughts and feelin...

This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.” I...

From The Authors Of The International Bestseller Why Nations Fail, A Crucial New Big-picture Framework That Answers The Question Of How Liberty Flourishes I...

Children:The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved childr...

The classic account of survivors of the sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I—and their return to the world after decades of “...

Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 “Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, ‘Wait.’ But ...

On a bleak winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence: he destroyed the legendary Golden...

Venice--a city of masks and riddles, where narrow streets and passageways form a giant maze that confounds the uninitiated and deepens the sense of myster...

*finalist For The National Book Award* *finalist For The Kirkus Prize* *instant New York Times Bestseller* *named A Best Book Of The Year By Npr, New York P...

From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countri...

In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the...

Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- William Robbins, perhaps the most po...

National Bestseller  When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the ...

This Book Is Not Only An Analysis Of Demographic And Political Realities In Europe, But Also An Eyewitness Account Of A Continent In Self-destruct Mode. It ...

There are tens of thousands of them in Iraq. They work for companies with exotic and ominous-sounding names, like Crescent Security Group, Triple Canopy, a...

with No-holds-barred Honesty And Poignant Storytelling, Nate Larkin Introduces A Model Of Community And Friendship That Is Reinvigorating Men's Ministry A...

Ted Conover, the intrepid author of Coyotes, about the world of illegal Mexican immigrants, spent a year as a prison guard at Sing Sing. Publishers Weekly ...

frank Mccourt's Glorious Childhood Memoir, angela's Ashes, Has Been Loved And Celebrated By Readers Everywhere For Its Spirit, Its Wit And Its Profound Hum...

Social Scientist Brené Brown, Phd, Lmsw, Has Sparked A Global Conversation About The Experiences That Bring Meaning To Our Lives -- Experiences Of Courage,...

Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents o...

French Kids Eat Everything is a wonderfully wry account of how Karen Le Billon was able to alter her children’s deep-rooted, decidedly unhealthy North Am...

They insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congre...

The first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism. Though much debated, its position as the bas...

Near The Ontario-michigan Border, Canada's Densest Concentration Of Chemical Manufacturing Surrounds The Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living In The Polluted He...

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his firs...

Which Is More Dangerous, A Gun Or A Swimming Pool? What Do Schoolteachers And Sumo Wrestlers Have In Common? Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live With Their Moms?...

This is the moving and powerful account of two  remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's  Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex  disfigur...

We've All Asked, What Is The World Coming To? But We Seldom Ask, How Bad Was The World In The Past? In This Startling New Book, Cognitive Scientist Steven P...

Thoreau Went To Walden Pond To Live Simply In The Wild And Contemplate His Own Place In The World By Observing Nature. Robert Sullivan Went To A Disused, Ga...

When Piper Kerman Was Sent To Prison For A Ten-year-old Crime, She Barely Resembled The Reckless Young Woman She'd Been When She Committed The Misdeeds That...

To what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA’s recruitment of gangsters to assassin...

The award-winning PostSecret project's most profound and stunning postcards to date For the past three years Frank Warren has invited people of all back...

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth...

Instant #1 New York Times bestseller Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith le...

1. People turn to Chicken Soup at stressful times in their lives. Last general CS cancer book sold 700,000 copies and is twelve years old, so time for new ...

A New York Times Notable Book For more than a half century, Father Damien Modeste has served his beloved people, the Ojibwe, on the remote reservation of ...

According To The Mayan Elders, At The Moment Of Birth Every Human Being Is Given A Destiny. Our Life Challenge Is To Develop Ourselves And Our Skills In Ord...

In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society yea...

Author, Activist, And Ted Speaker Ashton Applewhite Has Written A Rousing Manifesto Calling For An End To Discrimination And Prejudice On The Basis Of Age. ...

Christmas Eve, 1941. Mere days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt...

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date--a brutally honest, surprisingly poignan...

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...

An instant feminist classic, and perfect gift for all parents, women, and people working towards gender equality. Here is a brilliant, beautifully readable...

The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were simple, but the results were extraordinary. "You are invited to anonymously con...