Sociology

Within these visionary pages, meditation and dharma teacher Spring Washam meets the spirit of one of America's greatest ancestors, Harriet Tubman. The Spiri...

A congregational community is an ideal place to share and strengthen faith, form lasting relationships, and develop special gifts and talents. Too often, t...

Edited By Ellyn Spragins.Categories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceLetters

Is There A Song That Changed Your Life? Npr's Music Authority Bob Boilen Posed That Question To Some Of Today's Best-loved Musical Legends And Rising Stars....

American religion—like talk of God—is omnipresent. Popular culture is awash in religious messages, from the singing cucumbers and tomatoes of the animated...

I, Player : The Puzzle Of Personal Identity (mmorpgs And Virtual Communities) -- The Game Inside The Mind, The Mind Inside The Game (the Nintendo Wii Gaming...

"Nickel and Dimed for the Amazon age," (Salon) the bitingly funny, eye-opening story of finding work in the automated and time-starved world of hourly low-...

Traces The History Of Emancipation And Its Impact On The Civil War, Discussing How Lincoln And The Republicans Fought Primarily For Freeing Slaves Throughou...

The high profile experts on workplace bullying have now completely updated and revised their classic book. A landmark book that blazed light on one of the ...

Freedom's Sword is the first history to detail the remarkable, lasting achievements of the NAACP's first sixty years. From its pivotal role in overturning ...

A guide for divorced, widowed, gay, and never-before-married fathers navigates new dads through the complex, sometimes rocky waters of parenting a child alo...

Since its introduction in 1998, Viagra has launched a new kind of sexual revolution. Quickly becoming one of the most sought after drugs in history, the li...

The films of Hitchcock, Welles and Godard; the aesthetics of photography and the technology of cinema; art and revolution in Russia and in Mexico; the avant...

There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have move...

By Nathan Sawaya.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences SociologyReference

from The Bestselling Author Of Earthway Comes A Collection Of Thoughtful And Inspiring Essays On Nature And Life. Together They Light A Path To Genuine Lov...

If you thought you knew Chris Hedges--be surprised. The globally renowned Pulitzer Prize-winner gives us an entirely new view of a nation in crisis in a st...

Paperback. Pub Date :2014-02-13 Pages: 350 Language: English Publisher:. Fourth Estate Ltd Raymond Williams seminal exploration of the history of meaning of...

Beth Harbison, New York Times Bestselling Author Of The Cookbook Club, Has Written Her Strongest Novel Yet: A Story Filled With Humor, Heart And A Little Bi...

We Often Think Of Our Capacity To Experience The Suffering Of Others As The Ultimate Source Of Goodness. Many Of Our Wisest Policy-makers, Activists, Scient...

Canada is one of the most diverse nations in the world. As counsellors increasingly deal with people from many different cultures and backgrounds, there is...

Already a standard in its first edition, this newly expanded and reorganized reader provides a compelling exploration of what arguably remains the single m...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?It is now in vogue to celebrate non-West...

INSTANT BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS’ TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION\From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family...

For 6,557 miles, Chuck Klosterman thought about dying. He drove a rental car from New York to Rhode Island to Georgia to Mississippi to Iowa to Minneapoli...

Includes Transcripts Of Interviews With: Philip Ball, Janine Benyus, Stewart Brand, Stephen Browne, Carol Burns, James Der Derian, Bill Drayton, Gwynne Dyer...

Now in its 16th printing. When faced with a dying person, the combination of fear, embarassment, guilt and profound sadness can make the most caring person...

An eminent film historian illuminates the stars of silent film. Salon - Steve Vineberg The heyday of silent movies began in 1915, when D.W. Griffith rele...

Book Four of the Law of One is the last of the books in the Law of One series. Book Four explores in great detail the archetypical mind which is the framewo...

He's the porn world's Everyman. Blessed with an enormous "talent" yet average looks, he's starred in more than 1,700 adult films, directed 250 of them, and...

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The Cannabis Breeder's Bible offers real-world, professional techniques for breeding primo pot and gives precise growing information for 60 popular marijuan...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and h...

ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award FinalistThe church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western ci...

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...

Because new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illumin...

From Josh Tickell, one of America’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers, comes a “fascinating, easy-to-follow blueprint for how eating in ways that ...

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in AmericaWidespread reporting on aspects of whi...

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the li...

In This Book Arthur Manuel And Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson Challenge Virtually Everything That Non-indigenous Canadians Believe About Their Relationship W...

'An absolute godsend for parents, educators, and day care providers-. The parent will find this book especially helpful during the rainy months when childre...

the Second Edition Of symbols, Selves, And Social Reality Introduces Students To The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective In Sociology. This Book Differs F...

Maureen Baker ; Janet Dryden, Consulting Editor. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References: P. 375-417.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesS...

This concise, accessible introduction to criminology explores how crime is defined, measured, and controlled within a Canadian context. In-depth and well-ba...

The word "lovemap" was first used by Dr. John Money in lectures at Johns Hopkins University in 1980 to symbolize "the neutral template expressed in every i...

A journey through a colorful period in history presents life in the latter part of the nineteenth century, from the small innovations that began to transfor...

Examines Projects And Developments In Several Scientific Fields That Are Concerned With The Physical Modifications And Behavior Control Of Humans, Including...

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...