Social Theory

the Cultural Creatives Illuminates An Emerging, Pervasive Movement Whose New Worldview Is Deeply Affecting Not Only Their Own Lives But Our Larger Society ...

An examination of the nature of power that offers creative alternatives for positive change in our personal lives, our communities, and our world.Categories...

When the novel Brave New World first appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictatorship seemed a projection into the remote future. Here,...

In This Groundbreaking Book, Murthy Argues That Loneliness Is The Underpinning To The Current Crisis In Mental Wellness And Is Responsible For The Upsurge I...

The New York Times Bestselling Freakonomics Was A Worldwide Sensation. Now, Steven D. Levitt And Stephen J. Dubner Return With Superfreakonomics, And Fans A...

The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of "the experience of sexuality in Western s...

While the fathers were off founding the country, what were the women doing? Running their husband s businesses, raising their children plus providing polit...

riveting and comprehensive, encompassing every aspect of the rise of military robotics. —Financial Times In Wired for War, P. W. Singer explores the gre...

Team Human Is A Manifesto--a Fiery Distillation Of Preeminent Digital Theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Most Urgent Thoughts On Civilization And Human Nature. In ...

In the tradition of Susan Cain's Quiet and Scott Stossel's My Age of Anxiety, Atlantic staff writer Olga Khazan reclaims the concept of "weird" and turns i...

New York Times Bestseller - Oprah's Book Club Pick - The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Bestselling Author Of The Warmth Of Other Suns Examines The Unspoken Caste ...

Thaler And Sunstein Offer A Groundbreaking Discussion Of How To Apply The Science Of Choice To Nudge People Toward Decisions That Can Improve Their Lives Wi...

Introduction To International Development Integrates The Work Of Leading Experts From Disciplines As Varied As Geography, History, Sociology, Political Scie...

we’ve Now All Heard About The Shocking Redistribution Of Wealth—to The Rich—that’s Occurred During The Last Thirty Years, And Particularly During The Last...

The New York Times Bestselling Freakonomics Was A Worldwide Sensation. Now, Steven D. Levitt And Stephen J. Dubner Return With Superfreakonomics, And Fans A...

In her surprising, entertaining and persuasive new book, award-winning author and psychologist Susan Pinker shows how face-to-face contact is crucial for l...

Why are certain people so incredibly great at what they do? Most of us think we know the answer-but we're almost always wrong. That's important, because if...

You see stupidity everywhere. This book can fix that. This book will change your life. Every day you're driven nuts by the people around you making common ...

Malcolm Gladwell's Provocative New #1 Bestseller -- Now In Paperback. Three Thousand Years Ago On A Battlefield In Ancient Palestine, A Shepherd Boy Felled ...

An anthology of basic statements by the most influential social and political philosophers of Western civilization. Includes Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rou...

This compilation showcases the most famous murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more. Starting ...

Our "thirty-is-the-new-twenty" culture tells us the twentysomething years don't matter. Some say they are a second adolescence. Others call them an emergin...

From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries "We ar...

The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that be...

In This Thoughtful Treatise Spurred By The 2015 Death Of African-american Academic Sandra Bland In Jail After A Traffic Stop, New Yorker Writer Gladwell (th...