Sociology

A love-letter to the unexpected delights (and occasional despair) of so-called “first-hand food”—meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the wo...

Morality And Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Provides A Compelling Assessment Of The Powerful Role Moral Systems Play In Addressing Matters Of Health...

When News Of The Budding Romance Between A Beloved English Prince And An American Actress Broke, It Captured The World's Attention And Sparked An Internatio...

America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism—manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditi...

Deep In The Mountainous Jungle Of Malaysia The Aboriginal Sng'oi Exist On The Edge Of Extinction, Though Their Way Of Living May Ultimately Be The Kind Of E...

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...

The parenting classic, now revised with new chapters, checklists, and information about today's most pressing issues regarding our children This bestselli...

An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future. We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, ...

Sprung From Their Hugely Successful Taggart & Torrens Podcast, Taggart (that Guy From That Band) And Torrens (that Guy From That Show) Share A Collectio...

Long-married Icons Marlo Thomas And Phil Donahue Offer A Collection Of Intimate Conversations With Famous Couples About Their Long Marriages And How They Ha...

Urbanization is a fact of Canadian life. With approximately 80 per cent of Canadians residing in cities, it is imperative that students understand the issue...

Churches That AbuseCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her e...

Yogis Have Been Using Cannabis To Enhance Spiritual Practice For Millennia. Unfortunately, We've Lost This Tradition In The Modern Practice Of Yoga, And Alo...

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Pro...

This book places the revival of Indigenous ceremonialism in a new light. The author aims at dispelling misconceptions and negative opinions by showing the t...

Award-winningfilm historian Patrick McGilligan follows hisacclaimed biographies of Alfred Hitchcock and Oscar Micheauxwith a revelatory look at the life of ...

With An Antiabortion Majority On The Supreme Court And Several States Attempting To Outlaw Abortion Altogether, Many Activists Are On The Defensive, Hoping ...

By Antwone Quenton Fisher And Mim Eichler Rivas.Categories: Science & MathEssays & Commentary

This Book Is An Introduction To Issues Of The Social Determinants Of Health. Social Determinants Of Health Of The Living And Working Conditions That Shape W...

2 March 1810 . . . Today, I Fell In Love. at The Age Of Ten, Miranda Cheever Showed No Signs Of Great Beauty. And Even At Ten, Miranda Learned To Accept ...

When civil war came to Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in January 1991, two-thirds of the city’s population fled. Among them was eight-year-old Asad Ab...

iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Mea...

The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist: Finding Healing After Hidden Emotional And Psychological Abuse Is The Most Comprehensive And Helpful Book On The T...

D. W. Meinig, Editor ; J. B. Jackson ... [et Al.]. Seven Of The Nine Essays Derive From A Special Series Of Lectures Presented At Syracuse University. Inclu...

How does poverty impact learning, work habits and decision-making? People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth-c...

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...

By the New York Times bestselling author: a provocative account of the attack on the humanities, the rise of intolerance, and the erosion of serious learni...

As A Professor At Yale, Bill Deresiewicz Saw Something That Troubled Him Deeply. His Students, Some Of The Nation's Brightest Minds, Were Adrift When It Cam...

Adolescence is a difficult time for teenagers, but it can also be a troublesome time for their parents - a time of profound and even life-altering change. I...

On March 5, 1973, 12-year-old Dave Pelzer was freed from the prison he had known his entire life. His clothing in tatters, his bed an old army cot, Pelzer ...

Covering everything from hate groups and extremist exploits to Black church arsons and the fall out violence from 9/11; this is an important collection th...

Simmering With Menace, Mrs. England Is A Portrait Of An Edwardian Marriage, An Enthralling Tale Of Men And Women, Power And Control, Courage, Truth And The ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE | THE JHALAK PRIZE | THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 'This ...

The Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of FreemasonryCategories: Religion & Spirituality Other Religions, Practices & S...

Helping widows and widowers learn how to cope with the grief of losing their helpmate, their lover, and perhaps their financial provider, this guide shows ...

A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the “civilized West” has had with decapitated heads and skulls....

Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller—voted one of the top twenty parenting books—provides pare...

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERWinner of the 2023 Libby Book Award for Best Memoir and AutobiographyThe Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with h...

As seen in THE NEW YORK TIMES • READER'S DIGEST • SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH • HUFFPOST Featured on NPR's RADIO TIMES and WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO When...

Within Every Woman There Is A Wild And Natural Creature, A Powerful Force, Filled With Good Instincts, Passionate Creativity, And Ageless Knowing. Her Name ...

Most Americans Believe Debtors' Prisons Are A Thing Of The Past. Yet Today, People Are In Jail By The Thousands For No Other Reason Than That They Are Poor....

A Comic About Dinosaurs Finding Balance, Together From The Sunday Times Bestselling Team Behind Dinosaur Therapy, @dinosandcomicsCategories: Crafts, Hobbies...

The Goal Of This Book Is To Help You Better Understand Health Information By Teaching You About The Numbers Behind The Messages--the Medical Statistics On W...

A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical...

celia Was An Ordinary Slave—until She Struck Back At Her Abusive Master And Became The Defendant In A Landmark Trial That Threatened To Undermine The Very...

In This Translation, Michel De Certeau Anticipates Current Debates Surrounding Multicultralism And Social Diversity, Providing A Prescient Critique Of Ident...

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...