Social Sciences

They risk their lives every day to protect and serve our homes, families and communities. Here are their most dramatic true stories, in their own unforget...

Through Personal Stories, Proven Experience And A Thorough Analysis Of The Biblical Text, Building A Healthy Multi-ethnic Church Illustrates Both The Biblic...

The best-selling author of multiple award-winning books returns with his first novel in ten years, a powerful, fast and timely story of a troubled foster te...

How many times have you and your friends asked one another these questions without ever coming up with any good answers? Your girlfriends just tell you wh...

Space elevators. Internet-enabled contact lenses. Cars that fly by floating on magnetic fields. This is the stuff of science fiction—it’s also daily lif...

In the tradition of the instant bestsellers The Intellectual Devotional and The Intellectual Devotional: American History comes the third installment in t...

An archaeological examination of the disappearance of the Anasazi considers the various theories about their departure from the Southwest and probes their h...

Perhaps the most powerful influence in the world is that of a dad on his child. Baseball gloves, dirty diapers, tiny little hands, first days of school, da...

Who was Zodiac? A serial killer who claimed 37 dead. A sexual sadist who taunted police with anonymous notes. A madman who was never apprehended. This is t...

An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom in Afghanistan that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl.In Afghanis...

You are an idiot.Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not hav...

In these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliantsense of timming, ...

Doubt is our product, a cigarette executive once observed, since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the...

Junichi Saga ; Translated By John Bester ; Illustrated By Susumu Saga. Previously Published As The Gambler's Tale--t.p. Verso.Categories: Politics & Soc...

two Men, Each Handsome And Unusually Adept At His Chosen Work, Embodied An Element Of The Great Dynamic That Characterized America’s Rush Toward The Twenti...

Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen's Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator's compulsively rea...

Two men in England photographed each other stealing thousands of dollars from gambling machines. An armed man successfully robbed a pharmacy and was capture...

Review\Highway’s determinedly positive view of his early life … carries over to this series of lectures. … He is a storyteller who has gathered many s...

Robert Fulghum. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 266-273).Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesCustoms & Traditions

Explores Listening, Assertion, And Conflict Management Skills Needed For The Development Of Effective Interpersonal Communications And More Meaningful Human...

Widely praised as "impressive" (The Washington Post Book World), "ambitious" (The Wall Street Journal), and "alluring" (Los Angeles Times), Dancing in the ...

What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option? Cathy Glass is about to find out. From author of Sunday Times an...

In this 6th edition of his successful Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. As befo...

No one wants to see a church die. And yet, far too many churches are dying. For more than twenty-five years, Dr. Thom Rainer has helped churches grow, rever...

Are scrolls containing the secret teachings of Jesus buried in Scotland?The discovery that the most important incantation of Freemasonry is spoken in ancien...

When writer Carol Saline and photojournalist Sharon J. Wohlmuth released their first book in 1994, they took America by storm, touching countless women wit...

The Characteristic Heart And Punch-packing Observations Are Back, But With A Newfound Coat Of Maturity. A Thin Coat. More Of A Blazer, Really. Fans Of I Was...

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. ...

The daughter of a former aide to the king of Morocco, who was executed after a failed assassination attempt on the ruler, describes how she, her five siblin...

Franklin recalls childhood memories that are both happy and tainted. There are the warm memories of hunting and exploring with his father in the mountains a...

Book by Fowke, Edith (collect and ed)Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian examines the changing face of American history, demonstrating how an increasing focus on ethnicity has affected life in...

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Tolt...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (1859-1930) was a Scottish author. He is most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are gener...

Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from a twenty-year police veteran and former Trump supporter w...

Racial Formation in the United States is now considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. Omi and Winant discuss their groundbreaking resea...

Culinary Historian Michael W. Twitty Brings A Fresh Perspective To Our Most Divisive Cultural Issue, Race, In This Illuminating Memoir Of Southern Cuisine A...

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman draws unsettling, even sinister parallels between the psychological conditioning required to make soldiers kill in war and the simila...

Here's the book you'll wish you read before your  very first date. Renowned relationship expert  Barbara de Angelis, Ph.D. reveals: -Secrets  about sex th...

From Civil Rights To Ferguson, Franchise Reveals The Untold History Of How Fast Food Became One Of The Greatest Generators Of Black Wealth In America. Often...

The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII-includes the actual Navajo Code and rare photos. Although more than 400 Navaj...

Welcome to the incredibly beautiful and intriguing world of the Tarot.The purpose of this book, Rebirth of the Oracle - The Tarot for the Modern World, is t...

during His Twenty-five-year Career With The Investigative Support Unit, Special Agent John Douglas Became A Legendary Figure In Law Enforcement, Pursuing S...

The relationship expert from the Ladies' Home Journal, the Wall Street Journal, and Lifetime Television shows how to prevent marriage problems before they s...

The First Hispanic American On The U.s. Supreme Court Shares The Story Of Her Life Before Becoming A Judge, Describing Her Youth In A Bronx Housing Project,...

This text will be a core text on Canadian demography. It situates Canadas population in a global context, providing Canadian students with a more balanced a...

Forbidden Knowledge Boldly Traces The Tragic Arc Of Western Literature And Culture As It Explores The Notion Of Forbidden Knowledge, From The Sexual Innocen...