Social Sciences

A Respected International Economic Advisor And The Director Of The Earth Institute Shares A Wide-spectrum Theory About How To Enable Economic Success Throug...

In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is intelligence hidden in the brain, and why does that ma...

One of Time Magazine’s Sixteen Best True Crime Books of All Time A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly...

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Millions of readers literally defined their lives through Gail Sheehy's landmark bestseller Passages. Seven years ago she...

"Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerou...

In 1941, Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was a teenage girl who, like other Americans, reacted with horror to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Yet soon she and her fa...

With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom t...

Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people...

From one of the world’s most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s compelling story of eight...

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential i...

How Four Men--michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegel, Dennis Levine--nearly Destroyed Wall Street ... How They Made Billions And How They Got Caught. Ca...

Luc Sante's Low Life Is A Portrait Of America's Greatest City, The Riotous And Anarchic Breeding Ground Of Modernity. This Is Not The Familiar Saga Of Mansi...

A Riveting Saga In The History Of Rock 'n' Roll: The Decades-long Rivalry Between The Two Men Who Innovated The Electric Guitar's Amplified Sound--leo Fende...

The Murder Of Abraham Lincoln Set Off The Greatest Manhunt In American History. From April 14 To April 26, 1865, The Assassin Led Union Cavalry And Detectiv...

A position a day keeps the love doctor awayFrom the perpetrators of Nerve.com's wildly popular Position of the Day: After all these years of thinking 69 wa...

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...

valuable Flea Market Finds...a Peeling, Antique Vanity In Muted Sea Green... an Elegant, Cracked Chandelier... an Enormous, Slipcovered Sofa With Deep, Cus...

Interviews with religious leaders from various Indian tribes share their world viewsCategories: Literature & FictionMythology & Folk Tales

A Comic About Dinosaurs Finding Balance, Together From The Sunday Times Bestselling Team Behind Dinosaur Therapy, @dinosandcomicsCategories: Crafts, Hobbies...

T. D. Jakes has helped millions of women discover the glorious truth of who they are. His bestseller The Lady, Her Lover and Her Lord was a groundbreaking ...

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite roman...

A riveting nonfiction thriller reveals the inside story of how U.S. special forces and intelligence agencies led the largest manhunt in history to capture a...

Liespotting shows how to use the latest techniques to spot deception in work and life situations.GET TO THE TRUTHPeople--friends, family members, work colle...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall—not to mention work...

"This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. Pathologies of Power is an eloquent ...

Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his ap...

The basis for the hit TV series Gangland Undercover! The gripping account from an ex-con who went undercover to help the ATF infiltrate three of America's ...

Churches and individual Christians typically have faulty assumptions about the causes of poverty, resulting in the use of strategies that do considerable h...

Welcome To Celebrity Culture In The Early Aughts: The Reign Of Perez Hilton, Celebrity Sex Tapes, And Dueling Tabloids Fed By Paparazzi Who Were Willing To ...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with bu...

An Incendiary Examination Of Burnout In Millennials--the Cultural Shifts That Got Us Here, The Pressures That Sustain It, And The Need For Drastic ChangeCat...

Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she's still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet,...

Tom Wolfe's much-discussed kaleidoscopic non-fiction novel, chronicling the tale of novelist Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters. In the 1960s, Kese...

Addiction Treatment Covers The Biological, Psychological, And Social Aspects Of Alcoholism, Eating Disorders, Compulsive Gambling, And Other Addictions. The...

The Art Of Domestic Bliss -- The Joy And Comfort Of Seasonal Pastimes -- January: January Joys; Home-circle Pastimes; Board Games; The Treasures Of The Snow...

A Close-up Examination And Exploration, How We Live Now Challenges Our Old Concepts Of What It Means To Be A Family And Have A Home, Opening The Door To The...

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...

This book is the first comprehensive survey of the African-American experience. It draws on recent research to present black history in a clear and direct m...

Product Description One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike’s Jordan Brand from a $200M sneaker company to a $4...

This Is The True Story Of How A Systems Manager At Lawrence Berkeley Lab Singlehandedly Tracked Down And Helped Capture A Computer Hacker Who Had Been Break...

Using The Easily-learned D-i-s-c System, Rohm's Positive Personality Profiles Helps Readers To Understand Themselves And Others. The Book Describes Key Diff...

Updated and available for the first time in English, Mafia Inc. reveals how the Rizzuto clan built their Canadian empire through force and corruption, allia...

Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields—a chilling tr...

The late 1960s and early 1970s, in New York City and America at large, were years marked by political tumult, social unrest—and the best professional bas...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States ...

Who Gave Jonathan Van Ness Permission To Be The Radiant Human He Is Today? No One, Honey. The Truth Is, It Hasn't Always Been Gorgeous For This Beacon Of Po...

The premier choice for Courts courses for decades, this popular text offers a comprehensive explanation of the courts and the criminal justice system, prese...

The indispensable classic on marketing by the bestselling author of Tribes and Purple Cow. Legendary business writer Seth Godin has three essential questio...