Politics & Social Sciences

Exposes The Myth Of The Good Girl, Freeing Girls From Its Impossible Standards And Encouraging Them To Embrace Their Real Selves. The Myth Of Girls' Emotion...

Presents An Exploration Of Child Genius Through The Stories Of Fifteen Exceptionally Gifted Young People, From Cybernetics Founder Norbert Wiener And Chess ...

Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to fami...

Did you ever wonder what life might be like in a Native American village? What would you eat, and how would you pass the long winter nights? In this book, ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “gripping, revelatory” (NPR) memoir of hard-won success, struggles with addiction, and a lifelong mission to give backâ€...

Americans Are Living Through A Social Crisis. Populist Firebrands -- On Left And Right Alike -- Propose To Address The Crisis Through Acts Of Tearing Down. ...

perspectives On The Nature & Causes Of Suicide/suicide Prevention, Postvention/approaches For Trmt/rational Suicide booknews a Revised Edition Of The T...

**Shortlisted for the 2021 Stephan Russo Goddard Riverside Book Prize for Social Justice** This definitive account of the battle for reproductive freedom i...

Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East fro...

Once A Sleeping Giant, China Today Is The World's Fastest Growing Economy -- The Leading Manufacturer Of Cell Phones, Laptop Computers, And Digital Cameras ...

All Nations Make Themselves Up As They Go Along, But Not All Make Themselves Up In The Same Way. In This Study, Alon Confino Explores How Germans Turned Nat...

Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. I...

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Ian Buruma. Previously Published As: A Japanese Mirror. London : Jonathan Cape, 1983. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics &am...

They are burning Japanese cars in Detroit. The top management at Toyosan Motors must decide whether to begin offshore production of its cars in the U.S. But...

Katie Malone and her twin boys' trip along the beautiful mountain roads to Virgin River is stopped short by a tire as flat as her failed romance. To make ma...

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...

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

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...

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, ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...