Sociology

Poverty ended for Angie Peter's family in one generation because of the intervention of ordinary people who cared. Just Act is an inspirational guide for pe...

A text in Nelson's Policing Series, Youth in Conflict with the Law, Third Edition examines the application of statutes that affect young offenders. This tex...

One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and ...

Tying In To The Release Of The Feature Film Starring Steve Carell And Timothee Chalamet, A Timeless Tale Of Addiction, Healing, And Family, With A New After...

Nearly twenty years after its initial publication, Dr. Bernard Jensen’s sobering picture of just how interconnected man is with the earth, and how this co...

Edited By Paul Robert Magocsi. Slightly Different Versions Of Works Which Originally Appeared In Encyclopedia Of Canada's Peoples. Includes Bibliographical ...

An Important Alternative To Traditional Social Problems Textbooks, Best's Social Problems Seeks To How And Why Particular Conditions Come To Be Constructed ...

An Instant American Icon--the First Hispanic On The U.s. Supreme Court--tells The Story Of Her Life Before Becoming A Judge In An Inspiring, Surprisingly Pe...

'being Alive Well': Health And The Politics Of Cree Well-being Is A Critical Medical Anthropological Analysis Of Health Theory In The Social Sciences With S...

An ordinary man's inspiring journey toward a simpler, more meaningful life. In 2008, average American family man Dave Bruno decided to unhook himself fr...

What role has litigation played in the struggle for equal pay between women and men? In Rights at Work, Michael W. McCann explains how wage discrimination...

Winner of the 2019 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award – Non-FictionShortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer PrizeLonglisted for the 2019 RBC ...

In Jonathan Van Ness' New York Times bestselling memoir Over the Top, he showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexu...

In 1980, Lady Caroline Blackwood was commissioned by The Sunday Times to write an article on the aging Duchess of Windsor, who was said to be convalescing ...

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...

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

Recorded by jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is considered to be the first significant song of the civil rights movement and the first ...

Jean Markale ; Translated By A. Mygind, C. Hauch, And P. Henry. Translation Of: La Femme Celte. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 287-304.Categories: Religio...

"Transitions in Dying & Bereavement: A Psychosocial Guide for Hospice and Palliative Care compassionately explains the key transitions that chronically ...

Return to Serenity, South Carolina, where town sweethearts Karen and Elliot find their own story of enduring love. The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix orig...

"Millions of Americans are beginning to work and live the way creative people like artists and scientists always have - and as a result our values and taste...

Hillbilly Elegy Is A Passionate And Personal Analysis Of A Culture In Crisis--that Of Poor, White Americans. The Disintegration Of This Group, A Process Tha...

For thirty years the director of the Wiener Library in London—the leading institute for the study of anti-Semitism—Walter Laqueur here offers both a compr...

This new work explores the meaning and implications of professionalism as a form of social organization. Eliot Freidson formalizes professionalism by treati...

'In this deeply original, provocative book, outrage, hilarity, grief, profanity, lyricism and moral daring join in bursting the accustomed bounds even of ...

The Carsons of Mustang Creek: three men who embody the West and define what it means to be a rancher, a cowboy and a hero in this brand-new series from the...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washi...

Based on the pioneering New York Times series, About Us collects the personal essays and reflections that have transformed the national conversation around...

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The founder of the McDonald's hamburger chain tells of his early business ventures and his success in developing a single restaurant in Illinois into an int...

“Bear Grylls is a veritable superhero….The former UK Special Forces paratrooper has braved the world’s harshest environments.”—Hampton Sides, Out...

"A masterpiece of women’s wisdom."—Christiane Northrup, M.D. "The journey to capture her feminine soul and live authentically . . . makes a fascinatin...

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

levitt (economics, U. Of Chicago) And Writing Collaborator Dubner (a Writer For The New York Times And The New Yorker) Dub The Material In This Work Freako...

They Told You That You Need To Be Thin And Beautiful. They Told You To Wear Longer Skirts, Avoid Going Out Late At Night, And Move In Groups--never Accept D...

Gain the confidence to not only talk about race, but actually make a difference when you do. Negotiation expert Kwame Christian's motto is: "The best things...

An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than twenty years after its original publication. More than twenty years ago, soc...

Right to Be's accessible and engaging step-by-step instructional guide to safe and effective bystander intervention Bystander intervention is simply overc...

The Real Story Of John Wayne Gacy-- By The Man Who Helped Catch Him He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial kill...

A Themes In Canadian Sociology Series Best-seller, Now In Its Fifth Edition, Race And Ethnicity In Canada Engages Students In A Critical Examination Of The ...

Engaging and insightful, Society and Technological Change introduces the study of society and technology through technology's influence on our daily lives i...

T. D. Jakes has helped millions of women discover the glorious truth of who they are. His bestseller The Lady, Her Lover and Her Lord was a groundbreaking ...

In 1939, fifty million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature ...

INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood—inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for da...

In this eye-opening report, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting is less about keeping trim and staying...

Don't Tell examines the effects of sexual abuse on the emotional and sexual life of men, including their sense of self and their personal relationships. Usi...

This Updated Third Edition Of The Immensely Popular Doing Anti-oppressive Practice Introduces Students To Anti-oppressive Social Work, Its Historical And Th...

Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 19...