Social Theory

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

Michel Foucault's 'the History Of Sexuality' Pioneered Queer Theory. In It He Builds An Argument Grounded In A Historical Analysis Of The Word Sexuality Aga...

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...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Charac...

Michel Foucault ; Translated From The French By Robert Hurley. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1985. Includes Bibliographical Refe...

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

Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives.Three t...

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...

Since the mid-1960s, Alvin and Heidi Toffler have predicted the far-reaching impact of emerging technological, economic, and social developments on our bus...

For fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, a revelatory new look at how we make decisi...

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

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...

Over the last three decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory and resear...

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...

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...

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...

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

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to. On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter...

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...

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...

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

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

"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, The...

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

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...

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer's account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfi...

A Leading Authority In Gender Studies Profiles American Males Between The Ages Of Sixteen And Twenty-six, Offering Insight Into Their Belief Systems, Relati...

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

Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communiti...

The world we live in today is more volatile than ever. The security of free nations is threatened by rogue states, the global economy is in flux, and the r...

This Book Provides A Comprehensive Overview Of Globalization And Its Consequences. Exploring The Insights Of A Wide Range Of Critical Theorists, It Book Arg...