Politics & Social Sciences

In the instant number one New York Times bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, Steve Harvey gave millions of women around the globe insight into wh...

This book guides helping professionals, using the theme of decision-making as an anchor for the discussion of ethics in professional practice. Providing a...

Wolf Considers The Future Of The Reading Brain And Our Capacity For Critical Thinking, Empathy And Reflection As We Become Increasingly Dependent Upon Digit...

Mike Nickerson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 431-433) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Public Affai...

Chakras are psychic centers of subtle energy in the human body, and doorways to a powerful process of transformation. Knowledge of the chakra system comes f...

A conceptual and practical presentation of the strengths perspective in social work. Part of Advancing Core Competencies Series, a unique series that help...

Illustrates Family Therapy Techniques. With Its Clinical Focus And Extremely Practical Presentation, The Essentials Of Family Therapy, 6/e Examines The Rich...

Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Fronti`res, delivers emergency aid around the world. This book is its history and examines t...

This anthology features essays written by outstanding and representative thinkers from several eras.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences PhilosophyGen...

We are all aging. We are each a spoke on the great wheel of life, part of the ongoing cycle of growth. In Aging, Henri J.M. Nouwen and Walter J. Gaffney sh...

Motivational interviewing (MI) offers powerful tools for helping social work clients draw on their strengths to make desired changes in their lives. This r...

The incredible story of an artist who is just trying to change the world—one sequin at a time Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better know as Lady Gag...

Shulman's text introduces a model for the helping process based on an 'interactional' approach, which uses a number of theories and skills to build on the c...

In vivid detail he describes his years of intermittent schooling, his entry into life in the fishing industry at the age of ten, his marriage, at thirteen, ...

This text/workbook is a step-by-step guide through the case management process, from intake and assessment to referrals and termination. The 4th edition foc...

Social Inequality in Canada is a collection of twenty-eight articles that cover all of the major aspects of social inequality. The text covers two broa...

Respected for its coverage of foreign policy and domestic politics, Present Tense also provides a thorough examination of social and cultural history. Thi...

Living Through Loss is the first book to identify the many ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and to discuss the interventions mo...

In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich Documents The Emergence Of A New Stage In The History Of American Capitalism. Just As The Industrial Capitalism Of...

an International Bestseller And The Basis For A Hugely Successful Film, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Was One Of The Defining Works Of The 19...

Finalist for the 2015 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismLonglisted for the Lionel Gelber Award for the Best Non-Fiction book in the wo...

Akira Iriye And Warren Cohen, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government In...

On the centennial of the peace treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, Dartmouth College hosted a conference to examine the background and makin...

Alan Dawley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [359]-386) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Scie...

Using concrete examples, this optimistic book illustrates the ways in which structural social work theory is being successfully implemented in social work p...

Looks at the open door policy, describes the trials of the Chinese immigrant, and analyzes foreign relations between the U.S. and China prior to World War I...

Full Tents And Empty Cathedrals -- Oriental Wisdom -- Enlightenment Values. Ian Buruma. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Religion & Spiri...

We walk to the faucet, turn it on and are refreshed by a glass of cold, clean water. But this ordinary action we take for granted is not the norm in the wor...

An Inspiring Classic on the Nature of God What is the nature of God? How can we recapture a real sense of God's majesty and truly live in the Spirit? Thi...

The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and l...

This Newly Revised Volume Drawn From Professor Hane's Classic Text, Japan: A Historical Survey, Presents A Rich Account Of Early Japanese History For Studen...

Nature And Instinct: Your First Life -- You Are Here -- Don't Panic, It's Only A Midlife Crisis -- You Are Not The Favorite -- Illusions -- Time Limits -- A...

the Writings Included Here Deal With Philosophical Issues Crucial To The Understanding Of Theology And Include Responses To Those Questions From Plato To Th...

A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degration of the public sphere to create an envi...

Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too ev...

This book divides the time period since the colonization of America to the present into five parts; within each section, Dolbeare and Cummings have selected...

A groundbreaking scientific examination of the way our brains understand politics from a New York Times bestselling author One of the world 's best-known ...

Who were the Progressives? In the first two decades of the twentieth century, a diverse array of Americans sought solutions to the social problems caused by...

Interest in U.S. foreign relations has soared to great heights in the early twenty-first century. Long admired as the most comprehensive and accessible Ame...

In this fascinating new interpretation of Cold War history, John Lewis Gaddis focuses on how the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get thr...

William H. Overholt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Library Journal Best BooksCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Gove...

Eminent psychologist Richard Nisbett boldly takes on the presumptions of evolutionary psychology in a provocative, powerfully engaging exploration of the ...

In this new interpretation of the making of modern America, prizewinning historian Alan Dawley traces the group struggles involved in the nation's rise to p...

Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the li...

First, there are questions concerning the role and relative importance of internal and external factors in the pattern of events. Did the activities of the...

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.Here are the major statements...

Examines Japanese thought through the traditions of Shinto, Buddhism, Confucianism, liberalism, nationalism, and socialism from earliest times to the presen...

Vol. I. The Earliest Records Of Japan -- Early Shinto -- Prince Shōtoku And His Constitution -- Chinese Thought And Institutions In Early Japan -- Nara Bud...