Politics & Social Sciences

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguisha...

Kids want to do it. Parents want their kids to do it. Schools often require kids to do it. So do it: Do something and change the world. And here’s how, i...

Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million ...

A National bestseller, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy has been widely acclaimed for identifying and defining the core body of knowledge that no litera...

An American original, Truman Capote was one of the best writers of his generation, a superb and almost matchless stylist. His short stories made him a liter...

While offering a thorough grounding in the institutions and processes of Canadian government, this book focuses on issues of individual, group, and regional...

Foreword By Steven Pinker Blending The Informed Analysis Of The Signal And The Noise With The Instructive Iconoclasm Of Think Like A Freak, A Fascinating, I...

Beyond Roswell examines the circumstances surrounding the July 1947 reports of a flying saucer crash and the government's recovery of the craft's non-human ...

Review\"Few public officials in Canadian history wrought more fundamental change than Michael Wilson – all while dealing with overwhelming family pressure...

hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this b...

Bring the wisdom of ancient Yoga philosophy into your life in a fresh, accessible, and relevant way.In its highest form, yoga is a practice for your body a...

The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict...

Product Description A timely and entertaining exploration of why ambitious women are often perceived as rude and how the power of rudeness can be harne...

What If The Hottest Guy In The World Was Hiding A Nameless Evil, And All He Wanted Was You? At The Start Of This Heart-pounding New Installment Of The Bests...

Are there "natural laws" that govern the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves, just as there are physical laws that govern the motions of a...

In The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Ryan P. Burge details a comprehensive picture of an increasingly significant gro...

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge...

"Rosalind Miles has rescued from obscurity women of astonishing ability, courage and determination. . . . An exuberant book, written in a jazzy, colorful s...

Decisions Made By The Food, Tobacco, Alcohol, Pharmaceutical, Gun, And Automobile Industries Have A Greater Impact On Today's Health Than The Decisions Of S...

“An extraordinary accomplishment. . . . A remarkable book that will be of great value to people who feel isolated, alienated and overwhelmed by the circu...

Philosophical Perspectives: History of Philosophy contains Wilfrid Sellars' essays on Plato, Aristotle and Leibniz.Categories: Politics & Social Science...

Mark H. Moore’s now classic Creating Public Value offered advice to public managers about how to create public value. But that book left a key question u...

Social Capital Theorists Have Shown That Some People Do Better Than Others In Part Because They Enjoy Larger, More Supportive, Or Otherwise More Useful Netw...

Obama: An Intimate Portrait Reproduces More Than 300 Of Souza's Most Iconic Photographs With Fine-art Print Quality In An Oversize Collectible Format. Toget...

Elsewhere 1 we were concerned with fundamental aspects of the question how man can comprehend his fellow-men. We analyzed man's subjective experiences of th...

Dying, Death and Grief is written for anyone who provides support to adults following bereavement. The author explains the theoretical background to attachm...

"A true master class in the art of making the impossible possible." —Paul Polman One of the most vexing human rights issues of our time has been how to ...

This compilation showcases the most famous murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more. Starting ...

Containing 40 Stories In New Translations By Tatar This Celebration Of The Richness And Dramatic Power Of The Legendary Fables Also Features 150 Illustratio...

This book exposes and examines how Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurance plans combined with widespread business practices and fraud create inequ...

This Book Considers The Issues Globalization Raises For Second Language Learning And Teaching. Block And Cameron's Collection Shows How, In An Economy Based...

Numbers Are Often Intimidating, Confusing, And Even Deliberately Deceptive--especially When They Are Really Big. The Media Loves To Report On Millions, Bill...

This highly readable introduction to modern physics was written by a giant of quantum mechanics. Gifted with a rare ability to explain complicated scientifi...

An Extraordinary Book That Explores How The Earth Itself Has Shaped The Western Imagination And How, As A Result, Our Interaction With The Environment Is Fa...

Product Description From an award-winning science journalist, a “deeply researched, entertaining, and impassioned exploration of sanitation” (Natur...

A witty, insightful, and provocative look at the inside world of political marketing and its impact on democracyInside the political backrooms of Ottawa, th...

In this beautiful book, renowned Celtic authority and gifted storyteller Mara Freeman shares the richness of the Celts -- the festivals, gods and goddesses...

The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create™ includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest a...

How to research, visit, evaluate, and join the ecovillage or sustainable community of your dreams. Finding community is as critical as obtaining food an...

Curse of the BlackGold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta takes a graphic look at the profound cost of oil exploitation in West Africa. Featuring images b...

Conversational Remembering : A Social Psychological Approach, By David Middleton And Derek Edwards. Artefacts, Memory And A Sense Of The Past, By Alan Radle...

This is the ebook version of Judy Sierra's classic book on telling stories with the flannel board. The book includes 50 rhymes, songs, and folktales that ar...

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your Blessings will inspire and uplift readers with its stories of optimism, faith, and strength. In bad times, and good, ...

"The last great mystery for science," consciousness has become a controversial topic. Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction challenges readers to recon...

The fate of poor and working-class African Americans-who are unquestionably represented among neoliberalism's victims-is inextricably linked to that of oth...

Building upon the foundations students gain in introductory sociology courses,Social Problems: A Canadian Perspective examines the social dynamics and conse...

The story of Atlas and Heracles.Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In W...

in This Book, The Author Is Attempting To Make Sense, As A Philosopher, Of The Ideas Of Rationality Put Forward By Economists, Sociologists, And Political T...