Politics & Social Sciences

The Moral Foundations Of Trust Seeks To Explain Why People Place Their Faith In Strangers And Why Doing So Matters. Trust Is A Moral Value That Does Not Dep...

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Wom...

In Canada, It Is Estimated That 90 Per Cent Of Sexual Assaults Are Not Reported And That Less Than 1 Per Cent Of Perpetrators Will Receive Any Form Of Legal...

“An incredible, compelling read. It covers an astonishing amount of ground with basic simplicity and good humor. A masterful starting point for any inves...

From the editor of The New York Sun, 130 astonishing and delightful editorials on the monetary crisis and the need for the restoration of a sound dollar. "B...

In the spirit of the mega-selling On Bullshit, philosopher Aaron James presents a theory of the asshole that is both intellectually provocative and existen...

Wrestling with the Goddess details the candid, personal journey of one man's struggle with a debilitating and chronic illness, the insurmountable challenges...

Judith Schaffer And Christina Lindstrom. At Head Of Title: The Center For Adoptive Families. Reprint. Originally Published: New York : Crown Publishers, C19...

A Field Guide To The Twenty-first Century, Written By One Of Its Most Celebrated Observers We All Sense It—something Big Is Going On. You Feel It In Your ...

What do we really mean by phrases such as western Canadian political culture, the centrist political culture of Ontario, Red Toryism in the Maritimes, or P...

Based on her own widely respected book The Indispensable Woman, Ellen Sue Stern has taken the observations and recovery program which made that book so valu...

In July 2011 the Republic of South Sudan achieved independence, concluding what had been Africa's longest running civil war. The process leading to independ...

Since earliest times, humanity has pondered the incomprehensible mysteries of the universe, life...and the afterlife. In The Stairway to Heaven, the second ...

This Book Follows Marilyn During The Year Before Her Death, And The Mass Hysteria That Followed In The Wake Of Her Assassination. No Death In The 20th Centu...

"As dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight."—New York Times New York Times The most fascinating killer in modern American history...

Motherhood is stressful, but international award-winning speaker and worry management expert Denise Marek is here to tell you that you can stress less by le...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

In This Book, Author Pamela Toulouse Provides Current Information, Personal Insights, Authentic Resources, Interactive Strategies And Lesson Plans That Supp...

In San Diego, not far from the gates of the fantasy world of Disneyland, tent cities lining the freeways remind us of an ugly reality. Homeless individual...

From the international bestselling author of The Architecture of Happiness and How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this lyrical, erudite look at our world...

Jan Zwicky ; With A New Afterword By The Author And A New Introduction By Sue Sinclair. Poems. Includes Bibliographical References.Categories: Politics &...

Yemen Is The Dark Horse Of The Middle East. Every So Often It Enters The Headlines For One Alarming Reason Or Another -- Links With Al-qaeda, Kidnapped West...

Examines The History, Art, Architecture, Languages, Literatures, Society, And Religion Of Biblical Israel And Early Judaism And Christianity. In The Beginni...

This young readers' edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable...

Step by step, Sullivan pieces together the hidden esoteric tradition of the Andes to uncover the tragic secret of the Incas, a tribe who believed that, if e...

Explores A New Phase Of Human Evolution That Reflects A Growing Understanding About Authentic, Spiritual Power Based On Cooperative Beliefs And A Reverence ...

The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother Over the ...

In Her First Work Of Nonfiction, Winner Of The 2018 Unesco City Of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an Author Whose Exploration Of The Exile's Predi...

In the must-read tenth installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling vampyre series by PC and Kristin Cast, Darkness won’t stay hidden for long… “...

what Is The Difference Between Choking And Panicking? Why Are There Dozens Of Varieties Of Mustard-but Only One Variety Of Ketchup? What Do Football Playe...

A Feisty, Sexy Fairy Helps A Young Girl Heal Traumas Of Her Past.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsCensors...

The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill chal...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the US found itse...

A celebration of feminine beauty, athleticism, wisdom, and skill—Women Who Dare profiles twenty of America’s most inspiring women climbers ranging from ...

An account of the activities of the Walker family spy ring, this book reveals how the seemingly small espionage operation became the KGB's most important pr...

Working Childhoods draws upon research in the Indian Himalayas to provide a theoretically-informed account of children's lives in a remote part of the world...

This important contribution to the sociology of religion provides an analysis that clarifies the often ironic interaction between religion and society. Be...

The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, ...

From the longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and how they can be r...

Detailed plates from the Bible: the Creation scenes, Adam and Eve, horrifying visions of the Flood, the battle sequences with their monumental crowds, depic...

Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined ...

Depicts the efforts of four people to improve the harsh conditions of life in the impoverished and over-populated area of Calcutta, IndiaCategories: Politic...

Thomas Hobbes' timeless account of the human condition, first developed in The Elements of Law (1640), which comprises Human Nature and De Corpore Politico,...

Recent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve...

Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century, including his encounters with Carl Jung,...

Multiculturalism Has Been The Subject Of Cover Stories In Time And Newsweek And Other Newspapers And Magazines Around America. A Leading Literary And Cultur...

From the front fly-leaf: "The television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- a brilliant portrait of British life during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

Stefan Nowak. -- Includes Bibliographies And Index.Categories: Science & Math History & PhilosophyGeneral