Politics & Social Sciences

What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the...

Asking And Listening Is The First Book To Trace The Changing Ways In Which Human Beings Have Learned To Look At The Others Beyond The Gate With Their Strang...

Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta b...

The only book written by Jack Layton (1950-2011) on his political life and vision, this is the former NDP leader's passionate call to action and will inspi...

a History So Funny, So True, So Scary, It's Bound To Be Called A Conspiracy. meticulous In Its Research, Forensic In Its Reasoning, Robust In Its Argume...

For Four Years, The Author Interviewed Extremist Members Of Three Religions Around The World: Christians, Jews, And Muslims. Traveling Extensively To Refuge...

The majority of the world's population is religious or believes in supernatural phenomena. In the United States, nine out of every ten adults believe in Go...

National Book Critics Circle Award—2017 Nonfiction Finalist “nothing Less Than A Tour De Force—a Heady Amalgam Of Science, History, A Little Bit Of An...

“Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years.”—Christopher Dickey, Newsweek The Washington Post - Robert Kagan Today, the conventio...

The turmoil and brutality of the twentieth century have made it increasingly difficult to maintain faith in the ability of reason to fashion a stable and p...

Jordan Peterson's Twelve Rules for Life meets Jocko Willink and Leif Babin's Extreme Ownership in this tough-love leadership book from a Navy SEAL and risin...

Challenging The Idea That Biological Evolution Is Aimless, The Author Explores His Theory That Greater Social Complexity Is In The Cards For Humanity As The...

How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts...

A descendant of Crazy Horse adapts the Lakota way to modern life, using poetry, songs, and folklore to teach basic wisdom about how to live in the world. 15...

An acclaimed theorist offers a provocative and chilling warning: today’s advanced societies have grown overcomplex and highly vulnerable to extreme event...

In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianis...

Tourists Know Amsterdam As A Picturesque City Of Low-slung Brick Houses Lining Tidy Canals; Student Travelers Know It For Its Legal Brothels And Hash Bars; ...

Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson Presents His Views On The Future Of Space Travel And America's Role In That Future, Giving His Readers An Eye-opening Man...

The Human Genome, The Complete Set Of Genes Housed In Twenty-three Pairs Of Chromosomes, Is Nothing Less Than An Autobiography Of Our Species. Spelled Out I...

from The Winner Of The First Lannan Prize For Cultural Freedom, A Bitingly Funny, Kaleidoscopic Vision Of The First World Through The Eyes Of The Third ed...

A World-class Oncologist Delivers A Devastating And Deeply Personal Examination Of Cancer, Offering A Searing Account Of How Both Medicine And Society (mis)...

From One Of His Generation's Most Inventive And Gifted Writers (the New York Times), Intimate And Sharply Observed Commentary On Life, Art, Politics, And Th...

A Debut Collection Of Stories Which Illuminates The Complexity Of Human Behavior, As Seen Through The Lens Of The Natural World. These Stories Expose Unsusp...

How Should We Live? According To Philosopher And Biologist Massimo Pigliucci, The Greatest Guidance To This Essential Question Lies In Combining The Wisdom ...

A one-voume reference to the history of ideas that is a compendium of everything that humankind has thought, invented, created, considered, and perfected ...

For Many Centuries, The World Of Islam Was In The Forefront Of Human Achievement - The Foremost Military And Economic Power In The World, The Leader In The ...

An Exploration Of The Human Psyche That Shows Us How The Very Purpose Of The Mind Changes Throughout The Day. Indeed, As Gelernter Explains, When We Are At ...

In This Rich, Irreverent, Compelling History, Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Steven Weinberg Takes Us From Ancient Miletus To Medieval Baghdad And Oxford, Fr...

Publisher's Description: How Do You Know If Your Child Is Happy Or Sad, Tired Or Hungry, When All He Wants To Talk About Is Wasps--or The Color Of Subway Tr...

In 1889, Broken Shackles was published in Toronto under the pseudonym of Glenelg. This very unique book, containing the recollections of a resident of Owen...

Sharon S. Brehm ... [et Al.]. Mcgraw-hill Higher Education. Rev. Ed. Of: Intimate Relationships / Sharon S. Brehm. 2nd Ed. 1992. Includes Bibliographical Re...

"Lost Boy" John Bul Dau’s harrowing experience surviving the brutal horrors of Sudanese civil war and his adjustment to life in modern America is chronicl...

The prophecies of the 16th-century seer Nostradamus have attracted attention for over 400 years. This timely program examines in detail the life and work of...

In The Three Marriages, bestselling author, poet, and speaker David Whyte asks us to think about our work, relationships, and inner selves in a radically d...

A complexity perspective on leadership, this book considers factors such as risk and conflict, spontaneity and motivation, bullying and the use/abuse of p...

A groundbreaking and accessible history of heaven—from the earliest biblical conceptions of the afterlife to the theologians who frame our understandings ...

“Rutherford describes Humanimal as being about the paradox of how our evolutionary journey turned ‘an otherwise average ape’ into one capable of crea...

Originally published in 1995 to huge critical acclaim and a finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction, Madeleine Blais’s In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle...

The story of the global search for moral truthsIn this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has deve...

Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He Sees. To the ph...

In This Visionary Look Into The Future, Freeman Dyson Argues That Technological Changes Fundamentally Alter Our Ethical And Social Arrangements And That Thr...

As U.s. Troops Prepare To Withdraw, The Shocking Tale Of How The American Military Had Triumph In Sight In Afghanistan--and Then Brought The Taliban Back Fr...

Journalist Segev Explores The Dramatic Period Before The Creation Of The State Of Israel, When Britain Ruled Over One Palestine, Complete (as Noted In The R...

Signatures: )(⁸⁻¹ A-2g⁸. Title Vignette; Head- And Tailpieces. Der Kirschbaum. Ein Kindergespräch Im Garten, In Prose: P. [427]-438. Einiges Von Und...

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does me...

The Texan's Unexpected Home: An Uplifting Inspirational Romance – A Small Town Cowboy Story of Love and RestorationCategories: Literature & Fiction Ge...

8 Starred Reviews - Goodreads Choice Awards Best Of The Best - William C. Morris Award Winner - National Book Award Longlist - Printz Honor Book - Coretta S...

A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APO...