Social Sciences

celia Was An Ordinary Slave—until She Struck Back At Her Abusive Master And Became The Defendant In A Landmark Trial That Threatened To Undermine The Very...

Dating as you know it is simply one of the most inefficient, nonproductive, haphazard and hit-and-miss ways to try and achieve one of the most important...

A "sink or swim" philosophy frequently prevails in mental health settings today. Booknews Shows beginning therapists and their supervisors how to organize...

Forty years ago, most Americans said they didn't know anyone who was homosexual and claimed to know little or nothing about homosexuality. Today, there's ha...

Nick Twisp started out an honor student and ended up a fugitive. Youth in Revolt is the three-volume journal of Nick Twisp, California's most precocious d...

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Sometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was...

A Collection Of African-american Folklore, Oral Histories, Sermons, And Songs, Dating Back To The Time Of Slavery. John And The Frog -- Witness Of The Johns...

For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unu...

A fascinating, eye-opening and often shocking look at what lies ahead for the U.S. and the world from one of our most incisive futurists. In his thought-pr...

WARNING SIRENS ARE BLARING. YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES TO EVACUATE. WHAT WILL YOU DO?Cataclysmic events strike sleepy towns and major cities every year. Residents...

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...

The Legendary Fbi Criminal Profiler, Number-one New York Times Bestselling Author, And Inspiration For The Hit Netflix Show Mindhunter Delves Deep Into The ...

A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed over the years into a ja...

Here, Novelist And Critic Francine Prose Serves Up A Marvelous Banquet Of Witty And Engaging Observations On The Most Delicious Of Deadly Sins. Prose Traces...

Political activist and social media star Candace Owens explains all the reasons how the Democratic Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African Ameri...

"She was the best mother in the world," said Princes William and Harry at Diana's 10-year memorial. "Entertaining and persuasive," (Publishers Weekly) this ...

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 greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously ga...

For The First Time, The Startling Full Story Of The Disastrous War On Drugs -- Propelled By Moving Human Stories, Revolutionary Insight Into Addiction, And ...

February 2016. Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Tareq Hadhad Was Worried About His Father: Isam Did Not Know What To Do With His Life. Before The War Began In Syria...

In Watching The English anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks and habits of the English people. From the most famous national traits ...

In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightf...

William Burroughs Arrived In Mexico City In 1949, Having Slipped Out Of New Orleans While Awaiting Trial On Drug And Weapons Charges That Would Almost Certa...

The Story Of A Southern Belle Gone Wrong Presents The Shocking Tale Of Patricia Vann Radcliffe Taylor Allanson, Who Tried To Murder Members Of Her Own Famil...

A Single-volume Resource To Ancient Greece, This Geneological Map Of The Universe Of Greek Myth Has A Unique Accordion-paged Design That Can Be Perused Sect...

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

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 ...

An exciting new treasury of Jewish stories and storytellers, from ancient tales and classics re-imagined to contemporary family stories, parables, and humo...

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...

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. ...

Media and Society: A Critical Perspective offers an accessible introduction to the role that the mass media play in our lives, our society, and American cul...

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms. The authors address key aspects ...

The Illusion Of Literacy -- The Illusion Of Love -- The Illusion Of Wisdom -- The Illusion Of Happiness -- The Illusion Of America. Chris Hedges. Includes I...

Featuring a new introduction and a “Back Home” afterword, Shortest Way Home is Pete Buttigieg’s inspirational story that challenges our perception of ...

Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become a reference point for all s...

With clear instructions for developing a research design and complementary research tools, this book is not about describing or theorizing qualitative meth...

Written In A Friendly, Conversational Style, This Book Offers A Hands-on Approach To Statistical Mediation And Moderation For Both Beginning Researchers And...

In eight chapters and with over 225 photographs and original illustrations, this book provides a fascinating and colourful view of the history and tradition...

The first book to explore the role of hair in women's lives and what it reveals about their identities, intimate relationships, and work livesHair is one o...

Provides A Moving Account Of The Disappearances Occurring All Around Us And Traces The Evolution Of Extinction As Concept, From Its First Articulation By Ge...

The most comprehensive study of the sociology of aging, featuring coverage of the latest issues in the field, recent research and data, and real-world examp...

"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...

What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins th...

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguisha...

Kids want to do it. Parents want their kids to do it. Schools often require kids to do it. So do it: Do something and change the world. And here’s how, i...

An American original, Truman Capote was one of the best writers of his generation, a superb and almost matchless stylist. His short stories made him a liter...

Foreword By Steven Pinker Blending The Informed Analysis Of The Signal And The Noise With The Instructive Iconoclasm Of Think Like A Freak, A Fascinating, I...

Beyond Roswell examines the circumstances surrounding the July 1947 reports of a flying saucer crash and the government's recovery of the craft's non-human ...