Sociology

A Meticulously Researched And Powerful Exposé On The Epidemic Of Cover-up That Surrounds Sexual Assault And College Football Players. The Playbook As It Is...

In A Life Filled With Meaning And Accomplishment, Michelle Obama Has Emerged As One Of The Most Iconic And Compelling Women Of Our Era. As First Lady Of The...

it S Been Ten Years Since Mitch Albom First Shared The Wisdom Of Morrie Schwartz With The World. Now Twelve Million Copies Later In A New Foreword, Mitch ...

Offers Snapshots Of The Anchorman's Life And Career Through Excerpts From Interviews Conducted By Oral Historian Don Carleton. From St. Joe To Austin -- The...

Authored By Four Leading Scholars And Teachers, Introduction To Sociology Provides An Authoritative Introduction To Basic Concepts, Major Theories, And Curr...

Meeting at an African American college in North Carolina in 1959, a group of black and white Episcopalians organized the Episcopal Society for Cultural and ...

Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in gover...

"The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its histo...

In cities across North America, teenage runaways are struggling to stay alive. Some don't make it to adulthood. Some do, but their lives rarely rise above ...

Social Work Terms -- Milestones In The Development Of Social Work And Social Welfare. By Robert L. Barker.Categories: ReferenceDictionaries & Thesauruse...

“A book of great value for every daughter and every mother; useful for sons, too.”—Benjamin Spock, M.D. From the Introduction:The goal of this book i...

" International indigenism" may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it is indeed a global phenomenon and a growing form of activism. In his fluent and ...

From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle class—defined as those with a house,...

The New York Times bestseller about two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld—“A wildly entertaining must-read not only for Seinfeld fans...

The fourth edition of Canadian Cities in Transition: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century has been completely revised and updated to reflect the most ...

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...

A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. Healing from racism is a jour...

A sensitive and penetrating reflection on coming of age in a Dutch immigrant family scarred by violence\Arthur Boers’s earliest memory was of shattered gl...

Through the integration of gender analysis into resilience thinking, this book shares field-based research insights from a collaborative, integrated projec...

Custom Pub: Global Citizenship: From Social Analysis to Social ActionCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

Lucid And Accessible, What Is Anthropology? Draws Examples From Current Affairs As Well As Previous Anthropological Studies. Eriksen Looks At The History Of...

Bestselling author Randall Robinson, one of our nation's most distinguished African-American leaders, returns with a book certain to be as important and co...

Zen Teacher Joan Halifax Has Been Helping Both The Dying And Their Caregivers To Face Death With Courage And Compassion For Three Decades. Here, Joan Offers...

The intimate, inside story of the ultimately tragic life of multiple Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse ('Rehab,' 'Back to Black') is...

A healing antidote to our divisive culture, full of evocative storytelling, spiritual wisdom, and nine essential daily practices--by the first female, Black...

Bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of tele...

The Eagerly Anticipated Fourth Edition Of The Title That Pioneered The Comparison Of Qualitative, Quantitative, And Mixed Methods Research Design Is Here! F...

(2007 Independent Publisher Award, Bronze Medalist in Reference) Newly expanded and updated, The Early Intervention Dictionary defines more than 4,000 medi...

In this book, Anyen Rinpoche gives practical information beneficial to those wanting to explore the depth of the teachings on dying skillfully, in accord wi...

Intended As A Senior Undergraduate And Graduate Text, Research As Resistance Brings Together The Theory And Practice Of Critical, Indigenous, And Anti-oppre...

Dizzy Gillespie has secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of music. But he was much...

This innovative new book unravels many of the prevailing mysteries surrounding the pursuit of health and wellness today. Focusing explicitly on health rathe...

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Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico contains a remarkable set of Ancestral Puebloan buildings. Occupied between AD 850 and 1150, Chaco appears to have b...

The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s gr...

Since earliest times, humanity has pondered the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe, life...and the afterlife. In The Stairway to Heaven, the second ...

IS THIS YOUR CHILD? These are the major symptoms of potentially unrecognized allergies. Does your child suffer from any of the following? • Allergic No...

Covers methods for the analysis of social networks and applies them to examples. Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

“It is one of only a few studies to apply the results of surveys and interviews to form an analysis from a social perspective. It is also important becaus...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER\Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut—and he's just as richly, gloriously funny on the page as on stage.\His...

A comprehensive and clever mix of classic and contemporary essays on the sociology of culture. Cultural sociology has grown to exercise a deep influence on...

From the stars of the Netflix documentary Life in the Doghouse and founders of one of the most recognized rescue organizations in the world, the poignant ...

Most Incidents Of Urban Unrest In Recent Decades - Including The Riots In France, Britain And Other Western Countries - Have Followed Lethal Interactions Be...

a Harrowing Yet Poignant Examination Of A Famous Lynching That Considers America's Ongoing Struggles With Race, Equality, And Justice. washington Post Bo...

A three-year-old is a real puzzle to parents, sometimes anxious to please and befriend, sometimes strong-willed and difficult to get along with. At the hear...

the Little Immigrants Is A Tale Of Compassion And Courage And A Vivid Account Of A Deep And Moving Part Of Canadian Heritage. In The Early Years After Confe...

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

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importa...