Politics & Social Sciences

In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightf...

William Burroughs Arrived In Mexico City In 1949, Having Slipped Out Of New Orleans While Awaiting Trial On Drug And Weapons Charges That Would Almost Certa...

The Story Of A Southern Belle Gone Wrong Presents The Shocking Tale Of Patricia Vann Radcliffe Taylor Allanson, Who Tried To Murder Members Of Her Own Famil...

The concept of individualism has gone through a fundamental change, according to distinguished political theorist Nadia Urbinati. In the nineteenth century,...

An overview of the nuclear era examines the confrontations, key decisions, and personalities involved with nuclear policy from the Roosevelt administration ...

Includes Articles, Many Of Which Originally Appeared In Scientific American, On Memes, Innumeracy, William Safire, Frederic Chopin, Rubik's Cube, Strange At...

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but h...

Social Security law has changed! Get What’s Yours has been revised and updated to reflect new regulations that took effect on April 29, 2016.Get What’s...

From New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Stanford University professor Amy B. Zegart comes an examina...

Isaiah Berlin Was One Of The Leading Thinkers Of Our Time And One Of Its Finest Writers. The Proper Study Of Mankind Brings Together His Most Celebrated Wri...

A Single-volume Resource To Ancient Greece, This Geneological Map Of The Universe Of Greek Myth Has A Unique Accordion-paged Design That Can Be Perused Sect...

The Author's First Encounter With A Racialized America Came At Age Seven, When Her Parents Told Her They Named Her Austin To Deceive Future Employers Into T...

A History Of Women's Bodies / Rose Weitz -- Believing Is Seeing: Biology As Ideology / Judith Lorber -- Becoming A Gendered Body: Practices Of Preschools / ...

Pam Clark ... [et Al.]. Since 1914, The Famous Round Tower Of Windsor Castle Has Been The Iconic Home Of The Royal Archives--an Extraordinary Collection Of ...

The sixth edition of Canadian Politics offers a comprehensive introduction to Canadian government and politics by a highly respected group of political scie...

An exciting new treasury of Jewish stories and storytellers, from ancient tales and classics re-imagined to contemporary family stories, parables, and humo...

From The Publisher. In His Absorbing Intelligent (los Angeles Times) And Timely New Play, Donald Margulies Uncovers The Layers Of A Relationship Between A P...

The Islamic State Has Stunned The World With Its Savagery, Destructiveness, And Military And Recruiting Successes. What Explains The Rise Of Isis And What D...

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. ...

Media and Society: A Critical Perspective offers an accessible introduction to the role that the mass media play in our lives, our society, and American cul...

New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts, defining over 500 critical terms. The authors address key aspects ...

The Emergency Teacher is Christina Asquith’s moving firsthand account of her year spent teaching in one of Philadelphia’s worst schools. Told with str...

The creative cure for every mom Take a mindful break from the pressures of parenting and notice the everyday miracles that abound with Aimee Chase'sPresen...

Examines The Canadian Health-care System.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics & Government

Featuring a new preface by the author on how parents can make a difference. With author appearances on Good Morning America, The Today Show, 20 /20 and NP...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Awakening in the Dream comes a book that will take readers on a surprising and enthralling journey through th...

This is a highly illustrated and full-color collection of the greatest propaganda images ever. From Napoleonic war paintings via anti-Hitler posters to brut...

'The book everyone's talking about' The Times (Book of the Year) 'Titania McGrath is a genius' Spectator (Book of the Year) 'Beautiful classic satire' Rick...

Reading Sociology: Canadian Perspectives, second edition, is a contributed reader comprised of edited contributions from members of the Canadian Sociologic...

There is one certainty regarding the human relationship with nature-there is no getting away from it. But while a relationship with nature is a given, the n...

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday\A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history―and figure out why...

The groundbreaking number one international bestseller and "one of the most important books of this young century" (David Suzuki) Climate change is real, a...

however You See The World, This Book Could Blow Your View Apart. It's Got Six Sticks Of Dynamite In It--in The Form Of Six Questions-- That Could Remake The...

On December 25, 1991, at 7:35 p.m., soldiers lowered the red Soviet flag flying over the Kremlin and raised the Russian tri-color in its place. The moment ...

Starting Points is a text that is truly a reflection of its title in that it provides a solid starting point for introductory university-level students delv...

In this urgent, thought-provoking book, Bjorn Lomborg presents the 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises. • If y...

Why The Modern World Forgot How To Sleep Why Is Sleep Frustrating For So Many People? While Human History Presents A Vast Diversity Of Sleeping Styles, Toda...

The promise and the peril of our are inextricably linked with the promise and the peril of modern science. On the one hand, the spread of knowledge has over...

The Illusion Of Literacy -- The Illusion Of Love -- The Illusion Of Wisdom -- The Illusion Of Happiness -- The Illusion Of America. Chris Hedges. Includes I...

Erma Lee is on the run . . . Running from an abusive husband . . . running from a mother who doesn't care — never cared. Running from a soul-numbing facto...

Bertrand Russell ranks as one of the giants of twentieth-century philosophy.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Philosophy History & Schools of T...

Explains the concept of open adoption, examines its effect on adopted children, and discusses the long-term benefitsCategories: Politics & Social Scienc...

Featuring a new introduction and a “Back Home” afterword, Shortest Way Home is Pete Buttigieg’s inspirational story that challenges our perception of ...

Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its fi...

This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and ...

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which equates the ultimate end of human life with happiness (eudaimonia), is thought by many readers to argue that this hi...

Introduction to the Philosophy of Law: Readings and Cases employs a combination of case-based and theory-based materials to show novices in the field how th...

Gebara's profound and moving statement of principles of ecofeminism shows how intertwined are the tarnished environment around her and the poverty that affl...