Social Sciences

Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle...

Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He Sees. To the ph...

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

Journalist Segev Explores The Dramatic Period Before The Creation Of The State Of Israel, When Britain Ruled Over One Palestine, Complete (as Noted In The R...

Signatures: )(⁸⁻¹ A-2g⁸. Title Vignette; Head- And Tailpieces. Der Kirschbaum. Ein Kindergespräch Im Garten, In Prose: P. [427]-438. Einiges Von Und...

This State-of-the-art Handbook Will Keep Researchers And Practitioners In Gerontology Abreast Of The Newest Theories And Models Of Aging. With Virtually All...

From the front fly-leaf: "The television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- a brilliant portrait of British life during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

It may sometimes seem that only a miracle could get some kids to read, but YA experts Patrick Jones, Maureen Hartman, and Patricia Taylor believe in some pr...

With Unparalleled Empirical Material, This Is The Most Comprehensive Introduction To Comparative Politics Written By The Leading Experts In The Field Who Br...

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An Examination Of Cuban Society Through The Music Of The 1920s-30s When It Began To Embrace Afro-cuban Culture. Traces How The African Element Of Cuban Soci...

Exploring power and participation in a connected world.Social media are all around us. For many, they are the first things to look at upon waking and the la...

As Canadians, We Are All Touched By Some Aspect Of Social Welfare, Either As Recipients, Donors, Or Taxpayers. But Despite The Importance Of The Social Netw...

Imagine a world where whole epochs will pass, cultures rise and fall, between a telephone call and the reply. Think of the human race multiplying 500-mill...

A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe-from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia-to investigate why so ...

A Seasoned War Correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman Has Covered Every Major Conflict Over The Past Twenty Years, From Afghanistan To Iraq To The Congo. For The ...

This reader reflects the genesis, scope, and direction of women’s activism in a single Latin American country. It collects the voices of forty-one dive...

Looking for a reader on globalization that is just as exciting as the topic itself? That comprehensively covers the issues and perspectives you and your stu...

In 2007, A Short Blog Post On Valleywag, The Silicon Valley-vertical Of Gawker Media, Outed Paypal Founder And Billionaire Investor Peter Thiel As Gay. Thie...

A Human Voyage Is A Ground-up Canadian Text Designed To Help Students Understand Biological Anthropology And The Evolution Of Humanity. Comprehensive, Balan...

UNDERSTANDING HUMANS: INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY shows students how anthropologists and archaeologists go about their work as the...

Images of the Past is an introduction to prehistoric archaeology that aims to capture the excitement and visual splendor of archaeology while at the same t...

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM). It provides practical exa...

Readers will learn to research and write papers in the social sciences with this thorough and complete guide to research in the social sciences. Part of a...

Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity In The South African Coloured Community Is The First Systematic Study Of Coloured Identity, Its History,...

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

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 ...

Join Jalaja Bonheim On A Fascinating Journey Of Exploration As She Invites Dozens Of Women From A Wide Range Of Spiritual Traditions And Backgrounds To Tell...

drawing On Experience Gleaned From Many Years Of Traveling, Studying, And Teaching In Italy, Killinger (history, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Flori...

Grants for Physically & Mentally Disabled, 2001-2002Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesPhilanthropy & Charity

Istanbul is a shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its foremost writer. Orhan Pamuk, winner of the ...

This book presents an overview of the prominent quantitative and qualitative data that exists on gangs. Academically sound, it synthesizes gang research ...

The Author, Former Chief Of The Investigative Support Unit Of The Fbi's National Center For The Analysis Of Violent Crime, Discusses How He And His Colleagu...

Eleanor Herman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 257-274) And Index.Categories: Medical Books PsychologySocial Psychology & Interactions

"Appiah has written a remarkably impressive book, one that makes a number of important advances on the existing literature and stands as an important cont...

Robert Downham died on Wednesday, August 23, 1967 of Reticulum Cell Sarcoma. Three weeks before he died, he did not know he was sick. Nine days after diagn...

Letters To My Palestinian Neighbor Is One Israeli's Powerful Attempt To Reach Beyond The Wall That Separates Israelis And Palestinians And Into The Hearts O...

This Concise Guide Offers Not Only The Practical 'how-to' For Doing Business In The People's Republic But Also The Valuable 'why' For Understanding Chinese ...

Peace Was A Talented Young African-american Man Who Escaped The Slums Of Newark For Yale University, Only To Succumb To The Dangers Of The Streets -- And Of...

A nation lost its innocence on November 22, 1963, the day that President John F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. Thirty-five years lat...

In this dual autobiography, father and son discuss their war experiences in Vietnam, how the tragedy of cancer--caused by exposure to Agent Orange--has affe...

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...

Dude, you're a dad now!Picking up where From Dude to Dad left off, author and founder of the popular Diaper Dude parenting brand Chris Pegula dives into th...

“When I was a boy, I cried. But now I see it well.” Steve Saint was only five years old when his father was brutally killed by Waodani warriors, men from ...

With their thirtieth birthdays looming, Jen, Holly, and Amanda are feeling the pressure to hit certain milestones—score the big promotion, find a soul ma...

A thumb print left at the scene of a grisly murder. Fingerprints taken from a getaway car used in a bank robbery. A palm print recovered from the shattere...

Stories of Art is James Elkins's intimate history of art. Concise and original, this engaging book is an antidote to the behemoth art history textbooks fro...

Two leading gender experts and Harvard researchers reveal a new paradigm for fairness at work and offer professionals at every level, in any kind of organiz...