Politics & Social Sciences

Breaking New Ground And Old Taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein And Charles Murray Tell The Story Of A Society In Transformation. At The Top, A Cognitive Elite Is...

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Review\"Cogently argued ... [an] excellent book really worth reading."― James Kynge, Financial Times\"Unflinching and historically grounded, provocative a...

Shows the many advantages of thinking like a scientist and argues that today's problems require a scientific approach.You don't have to be a scientist to th...

Ideal for courses in contemporary moral problems, introduction to ethics, and applied ethics, Disputed Moral Issues: A Reader, Second Edition, is a comprehe...

the #1 Introduction To Mass Communication, media & Culture goes Beyond The Basic Facts And Presents Students With A Critical And Cultural Perspective ...

There is no capitalism without cooperation. In spite of its numerous obvious failures, many presidential candidates and voters are in favor of a socialist ...

Includes The Diary Of A Young Girl: The Definitive Edition, By Anne Frank ; Edited By Otto H. Frank & Miriam Pressler ; Translated By Susan Massotty, Ne...

Dr. Stephen LaBerge draws on recently developed techniques that teach you to be aware of what you are dreaming, and ultimately control and manipulate the ou...

Public Ownership Is More Widespread And Popular In The United States Than Is Commonly Understood. This Book Is The Most Comprehensive And Up-to-date Analysi...

Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing...

Introduction -- The Revolt Against Formalism -- The American Scene -- The New History And The New Ethics -- The Path Of The Law -- The Amoral Moralist -- Pr...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash—an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most o...

In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To en...

Forty Years After The Landmark Roe V. Wade Ruling, Abortion Is Still A Word That Is Said With Outright Hostility By Many, Despite The Fact That One In Three...

19th century thought.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences PhilosophyGeneral

Georges Duby ; Translated From The French By Richard Howard. Translation Of: Guillaume Le Marechal. Bibliography: P. 154-155.Categories: Politics & Soci...

the Spirit Of The Laws Is Without Question One Of The Central Texts In The History Of Eighteenth-century Thought, Yet There Has Been No Complete Scholarly E...

From the award-winning author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a riveting, intimate account of America’s troubled war in Afghanistan. When President ...

in 1983, The U.n. General Assembly Created The World Commission On Environment And Development, An Independent Committee Of Twenty-two Members, Headed By ...

Here is the riveting story of how a second-rate newspaper rose to national greatness, only to become a casualty of war-a civil war within the family that ow...

A candid narrative of how and why the Arab Spring sparked, then failed, and the truth about America's role in that failure and the subsequent military coup ...

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...

Now That The Welfare System Has Been Largely Dismantled, The Fate Of America's Poor Depends To A Large Degree On What Happens To Them In The Low-wage Labor ...

in His Classic International Bestseller, When Corporations Rule The World, David Korten Exposed The Destructive And Oppressive Nature Of The Global Corpor...

People with disabilities are four to ten times more likely to experience violence and abuse than people without disabilities.* This is the one book that em...

The struggle between the urgencies of instinct and the restrictions of civilization is addressed throughout the works of Sigmund Freud, and in Civilization ...

The Canadian party system is a deviant case among the Anglo-American democracies. Unruly and inscrutable, it is a system that defies logic and classificatio...

Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men — FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthu...

The Science Studies Reader Pulls Together The Foundational Essays In Science Studies By The Field's Key Scholars, Including The Cultural Study Of Science, F...

Teachers select The Real World because students love it. Kerry Ferris and Jill Stein set out to write a book that was sorely needed for sociology courses:...

Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to p...

This exciting book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Carter provides multi...

Provides surprising cultural insights about the Japanese at home, at work, and at play and contains numerous anecdotes and trivia about Japan and its people...

From one of today’s foremost scholars, a lively retelling of the timeless tales… Here are the myths that have influenced so much of our cultural herit...

There have been many reports about the Iraq war and the vicissitudes of the American occupation, yet none heretofore has been informed by the inside story. ...

A classic of linguistic philosophy.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences PhilosophyGeneral

MEDITATION The Ancient Egyptian Path to Enlightenment Many people do not know about the rich history of meditation practice in Ancient Egypt. This volume ou...

Depicts the efforts of four people to improve the harsh conditions of life in the impoverished and over-populated area of Calcutta, IndiaCategories: Politic...

The Historical Foundations Of Women's Power In The Creation Of The American Welfare State, 1830-1930 / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Borderlands: Women, Voluntary A...

Bending And Stretching Its Conventions To Imagine New, More Feminist Futures And New Ways Of Experiencing Gender, Visionary Women Writers Have Been From The...

Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the ...

Traces The Anti-progressive, Populist Tradition Of Democracy In Nineteenth And Early Twentieth-century Movements By Artisans And Farmers As Well As In Major...

A Shrewd Bargainer With A Visionary Global Outlook, Richard Nixon Was A Master Of Cold War Politics, From His Infamous Kitchen Debate With Khrushchev In Mos...

This Landmark Work Of History And Theory Challenges Every Accepted Notion About The Nature Of Black Women's Lives. Ain't I A Woman Examines The Impact Of Se...

Mark Johnson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences PhilosophyEpistemology

In a culture that includes sex in everything from advertising to climbing the corporate ladder, it's easy to feel fuzzy about the true purpose and place of ...

Freedom, Sen Argues, Is Both The End And Most Effective Means Of Sustaining Economic Life And The Key To Securing The General Welfare Of The World's Entire ...