Sociology

It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been wat...

When Warren Zevon died in 2003, he left behind both a fanatical cult following and a rich catalog of dark, witty rock-n-roll classics that includes "Lawyer...

This parenting book shows you how to make magical Montessori memories -- every day. This beautiful, modern Montessori book for parents outlines the key prin...

Step-by-step Instructions Show How To Build Detailed Lego Models Of Neighborhoods - Complete With Homes, Stores, Restaurants, Barbershops, And More. Enter ...

This book offers a critical introduction to the media as well as a “self defense” against the “spin” of politicians, advertising, and assorted propa...

For many scholars, the study of community and community development is at a crossroads. Previously dynamic theories appear not to have kept pace with the ...

Walk with the indigenous people who settled North America —and with their descendants, whose more than 500 tribes range from the Arctic Circle across the ...

Ideas, Products, Messages And Behaviors Spread Just Like Viruses Do. Behavior Can Ripple Outward Until A Critical Mass Or Tipping Point Is Reached, Changing...

A vast reconstruction of the knowledge of the ancient Jewish priest-scientists, with vital implications for contemporary spirituality and science. • Rev...

We need reminders of God's power now more than ever. We often think about prayer as a wish list, with God as Santa Claus. The reality is that the power of...

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...

Drawings Depict Imaginary Plants, Supposedly Growing On The Island Of Atlantis, That Whimsically Resemble Insects, Birds, And Animals. Compiled And Edited B...

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his...

The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with str...

Product Description From an award-winning science journalist, a “deeply researched, entertaining, and impassioned exploration of sanitation” (Natur...

“A gift of love to others who are seeking solace.” —Olivia Newton-John On the morning of May 11, 2015, Erin Davis, one of Canada’s most beloved rad...

Conversational Remembering : A Social Psychological Approach, By David Middleton And Derek Edwards. Artefacts, Memory And A Sense Of The Past, By Alan Radle...

***2022 BMO WINTERSET AWARD – WINNER***The Raw Light of Morning is a powerful debut novel about women and children finding humour and love in the aftermat...

How to research, visit, evaluate, and join the ecovillage or sustainable community of your dreams. Finding community is as critical as obtaining food an...

Out of the 100 million women—almost 11 million in the United States alone—who are on the pill, roughly 60 percent take it for non-contraceptive reasons...

In the summer of 2003,The New York Times Magazinesent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young ...

In This Definitive And Meticulously Researched Account Of The Jewish Experience In Canada, Award-winning And Critically Acclaimed Author Allan Levine Docume...

Arguing that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, and incompletion, Caroline Walker Bynum here examines diverse mediev...

A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, And Usa Today Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Of 2019 * An Npr Best Book Of 2019 * One Of Time's Must-read B...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Awakening in the Dream comes a book that will take readers on a surprising and enthralling journey through th...

In This Beautifully Written Personal Meditation On Life And Living, Raymond Tallis Reflects On The Fundamental Fact Of Existence: That It Is Finite. Inspire...

An Anthology Of Writing Addressing The Most Urgent Issues Facing The Black Community In Canada. The Killing Of Trayvon Martin In 2012 By A White Assailant I...

Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Midd...

What Was It Like To Work In A Canadian Second World War Munitions Factory? What Were Working Conditions Like? Did Anyone Die? Just How Closely Did Female Em...

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...

“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forwa...

Veteran radio and television personality John Gallagher’s salacious, voracious, and dangerously delicious memoirs of a life lived on the edge in the mids...

Canada's beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going to do now? That was the question on everyone's lips when the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA gripping account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager, and the detective determined to find her killer, set against the bac...

Elizabeth Hay, One Of Canada's Most Beloved Novelists Has Written A Poignant, Complex, And Hugely Resonant Memoir About The Shift She Experienced Between Be...

A textbook supplement to the 32 hours of lectures, diagrams and charts which make up the Basic Seminar "Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts." The purpose of ...

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book and remembe...

Maybe It Was A Grandparent, Or A Teacher. Someone Older Who Understood You When You Were Young And Searching, Who Helped You See The World As A More Profoun...

A Sharp, Funny, And Honest Collection Of Real-life Stories From Kelly Ripa, Showing The Many Dimensions And Crackling Wit Of The Beloved Daytime Talk Show H...

Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been vis...

on January 15, 2009, The World Witnessed One Of The Most Remarkable Emergency Landings In Aviation History When Captain Chesley "sully" Sullenberger Skill...

How did you feel after your last interaction with another person? Did that person — your spouse, best friend, coworker, or even a stranger — "fill your ...

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...

The Holocaust Chronicle, Written And Fact-checked By Top Scholars, Recounts The Long, Complex, Anguishing Story Of The Most Terrible Crime Of The 20th Centu...

In this new edition of Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment, Readings and Interpretations, Brigadier General (Retired)...

This book provides fresh sociological analyses on family violence in Japan. Aimed at an international audience, the authors adopt a life course perspective ...

This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective through a multi-generational study of women as teachers. It expl...