Social Sciences

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, this book reviews the research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives including p...

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...

Identifies The Qualities Of Successful People, Maintaining That Culture, Family, And Idiosyncratic Factors Can Have A Decisive Impact On Shaping High Achiev...

A story-based guide to the techniques of shamanic healing• Details indigenous medicine tools and soul healing techniques, including diagnosis and energy c...

Challenging Oppression and Confronting Privilege is the definitive guide to anti-oppressive social work, which is a prominent part of social work theory and...

A History Of Women's Bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing Is Seeing: Biology As Ideology / Judith Lorber -- Becoming A Gendered Body: Practices Of Preschools / ...

A Collaborative Picture Book About Music. The Wilco Book Documents The Band At Home, On Tour, And In The Recording Studio, While Elucidating Its Ideas, Phil...

Discover what life was like for ordinary people living in Renaissance Italy. How was their society organized? What were their homes like? What dangers did ...

In this biography, Anka Muhlstein presents the fascinating life of Russian Historian Astolphe de Custine, one of the first members of French society to liv...

Provides step-by-step instructions for keeping children safe while surfing the InternetCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Library &a...

This Examination Of The Nature And Effects Of Power Draws On The Wide Range Of Disciplines, Including Anthropology, History, Political Science, Law, And The...

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...

"A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life," quipped Oscar Wilde, a fashion genius who could knot an ascot as well as he could turn a phrase. For t...

Pam Clark ... [et Al.]. Since 1914, The Famous Round Tower Of Windsor Castle Has Been The Iconic Home Of The Royal Archives--an Extraordinary Collection Of ...

Kevin Kelly. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 475-500) And Index.Categories: Engineering & TransportationEngineering

When Fatal Strategies was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers...

From The Publisher. In His Absorbing Intelligent (los Angeles Times) And Timely New Play, Donald Margulies Uncovers The Layers Of A Relationship Between A P...

Readers Of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales - Just Think Of The Premature Burial - May Comfort Themselves With The Notion That Poe Must Have Exaggerated: Surely Peop...

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

Family Patterns, Gender Relations is a reader featuring a mix of classic and contemporary readings from Canada, the US, and the UK, designed to introduce se...

Stories Are All We Have -- His Beautiful Eyes And My New Shoes -- In Rwanda, We Danced -- Searching For Humanitarian Space: Msf In Somalia -- Afghanistan: N...

Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of tele...

This book introduces the inter-disciplinary study of childhood and youth and the multi-agency practice of professionals who serve the needs of children, you...

Now in its second edition, this concise, comprehensive overview of Canadian criminology uses traditional and contemporary theories to explain the nature and...

For More Than A Decade, Kathy Harrison Has Sheltered A Shifting Cast Of Troubled Youngsters -- The Offspring Of Prostitutes And Addicts; The Sons And Daught...

I'm Scared And Scarred But I've Survived Tom Wilson Was Raised In The Rough-and-tumble World Of Hamilton--steeltown-- In The Company Of World War Ii Vets, F...

Details The History Of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood, The Ward, Bordered By College And Queen, University And Yonge. Introduction / John Lorinc --...

"Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right...

For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the twentieth century an incredi...

This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s...

A major new talent redefines the literature of rural life. Old world met new when a shepherd in the English Lake District impulsively started a Twitte...

In 1985, at twenty-five, Jeanette published Oranges, the story of a girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, supposed to grow up to be a missionary. Instead, sh...

Habits of the Heart, first published in 1985, rapidly became one of the most widely discussed interpretations of American society in the twentieth century,...

the Word Love Is Most Often Defined As A Noun, Yet...we Would All Love To Better If We Used It As A Verb, Writes Bell Hooks As She Comes Out Fighting And ...

From The Publisher: Food, Inc. Is Guaranteed To Shake Up Our Perceptions Of What We Eat. This Powerful Documentary Deconstructing The Corporate Food Industr...

A new philosophy of movement that explores the active relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, cinema, art, and new media. With ...

Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which w...

In this beautiful book, renowned Celtic authority and gifted storyteller Mara Freeman shares the richness of the Celts -- the festivals, gods and goddesses...

A guide for parents and educatiors explains how to stimulate the curiosity and nourish the spirits of young African American childrenCategories: Education &...

rethinking Domestic Violence Is The Third In A Series Of Books By Donald Dutton Critically Reviewing Research In The Area Of Intimate Partner Violence (ipv...

Covid-19 Is Speeding Up History, But How? What Is The Shape Of The World To Come?Categories: Medical Books Medicine Internal Medicine Pathology DiseasesComm...

Intimate Spaces: A Conversation about Discovery and Connection provides readers the opportunity to discuss, muse, ponder, and explore an essential part of t...

The Muslim world is tremendously rich and diverse, yet few Westerners are familiar with the writings and teachings of a culture that is at the forefront of...

Lee Lamothe & Adrian Humphreys. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeOrganized Crime

Most church members don't see their churches clearly. In almost all of Thom S. Rainer's consultations, church members perceive their church to be friendly. ...

A unique collective portrait of the United Kingdom during the national lockdown of 2020. Introduction by The Duchess of Cambridge. Text by Lemn Sissay MBE. ...

Psychopath. The word conjures up images of serial killers, rapists, suicide bombers, gangsters. But think again: you could probably benefit from being a lit...

Based, In Part, On Dr. Brian Goldman's Personal Search Around The World, From Canada To Brazil, India To Japan, To Rediscover And Rekindle His Own Capacity ...