Politics & Social Sciences

Product Description Academy Award–winning director Michael Curtiz (1886–1962)―whose best-known films includeCasablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dand...

rethinking Domestic Violence Is The Third In A Series Of Books By Donald Dutton Critically Reviewing Research In The Area Of Intimate Partner Violence (ipv...

Charlie Rose Has Called Louis C.k. The Philosopher-king Of Comedy, And Many Have Detected Philosophical Profundity In His Material. Twenty-five Philosophers...

the Outsiders Is A Book That Delves Deeply Into The Hearts, Minds, And Stories Of A Group That Had No Voice Before S. E. Hinton Gave Them One. She Began Wr...

The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most profound bonds in life. A mother feels her daughter's first kick during pregnancy, labors ...

Product Description New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him be...

Take a random walk through your life and you’ll find it is awash in industrial, often toxic, chemicals. Sip water from a plastic bottle and ingest bisphe...

This new, complete translation of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals provides the most accessible version of this challenging foundati...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the coauthor of Nudge, a revolutionary exploration of why people make bad judgments and h...

What existed before the Universe was created? Where does self-worth come from? Do the ends always justify the means?The Philosophy Book answers the most pr...

The Business Of L'oreal Is Beauty. It Is The World's Largest Cosmetics Firm. This Startling Book Shows The Other Face Of Beauty. It Is The Story Of How This...

ECPA 2017 Christian Book Award FinalistThe church in the West is at a critical moment. While the gospel is exploding throughout the global south, Western ci...

A Creative And Fun Smorgasbord Of Economics Through The Lens Of Food From One Of Today's Foremost Thinkers What Can The Anchovy Tell Us About Industrializat...

The Trauma Of Childhood Abuse: A Resource Loss Model -- Attachment: When Protector And Perpetrator Are One -- Development In The Context Of Deprivation -- T...

For more than seven centuries the Mumonkan has been used in Zen monasteries to train monks and to encourage the religious development of lay Buddhists. It...

the Tragedies Of Bosnia And Kosovo Are Often Explained Away As The Unchangeable Legacy Of Centuries-old Hatreds. In This Richly Detailed, Expertly Balance...

Paul Hellyer's Amazing Book Reveals How A Small Group Of Greedy Men Usurped The People's Power, And Used Politicians To Transfer That Power To A Cabal Dedic...

This book introduces the inter-disciplinary study of childhood and youth and the multi-agency practice of professionals who serve the needs of children, you...

Because new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illumin...

Guiding readers in learning how to respond to difficult situations with a positive, peaceful mind, this resource educates on how to turn challenges into opp...

A guide to meditation, sex, and ecstasy.The Art of Tantra offers a fascinating method of improving your pleasure, vitality, and internal strength. Clear, p...

With such groundbreaking bestsellers as Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause, Dr. Christiane Northrup is one of today’s most trusted ...

From Silence to Voice helps nurses explain their critical work to the public. This revised and freshly redesigned edition has been updated to address the m...

How are the rise of design and neoliberalism connected? How does design change the way we operate as economic beings? What is the economic significance of d...

In Life, Death, and Meaning, David Benatar offers a distinctive collection of readings designed to introduce undergraduates and lay readers to the key exist...

Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 169...

Examining the flaws of mainstream society, this collection of conspiracy theory, esoteric knowledge, and fringe subjects seeks to present solutions to curre...

By Venerable Bhikshuni Wu Yin ; Translated By Bhikshuni Jendy Shih ; Edited By Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [333]-338)...

Alateen, part of the Al-Anon Family groups is a fellowship of young people whose lives have been affected by alcoholism in a family member or close friend.....

Do You Know How to Survive a Disaster?If the answer is "NO" then "The Disaster Survival Handbook" is a MUST-HAVE! This is a no-nonsense reference book on h...

What would cause an eighteen-year-old senior class president and homecoming queen from Nashville, Tennessee, to disobey and disappoint her parents by forgo...

In This Book Arthur Manuel And Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson Challenge Virtually Everything That Non-indigenous Canadians Believe About Their Relationship W...

the Moment They Saw Each Other, Bean And Ivy Knew They Wouldn't Be Friends. But When Bean Plays A Joke On Her Sister, Nancy, And Has To Hide Quick Ivy Come...

'An absolute godsend for parents, educators, and day care providers-. The parent will find this book especially helpful during the rainy months when childre...

the Second Edition Of symbols, Selves, And Social Reality Introduces Students To The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective In Sociology. This Book Differs F...

Bloodlust and dark forces are at work at the House of Night… Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird's adventures at the school are about to take a mysterious tur...

One man’s improbable rise to power in one of the world’s most violent criminal organizations. Fallen Angel sheds light on how the enigmatic and dangerou...

James Grant’s story of America’s last governmentally untreated depression: A bible for conservative economists, this “carefully researched history…m...

This concise, accessible introduction to criminology explores how crime is defined, measured, and controlled within a Canadian context. In-depth and well-ba...

Justin Trudeau’s term as prime minister has been a disaster, but you wouldn’t know it if your only source of news was the Media Party — the liberal-le...

Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day—patien...

Gives information on and illustrations and schematic drawings of twelve planes that changed the worldCategories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics &...

The eleven papers in this anthology, all by Africans, represent a variety of philosophical positions that are central to the debate in and on African philo...

from An Award-winning Historian, A Stirring (and Timely) Narrative History Of American Labor From The Dawn Of The Industrial Age To The Present Day. From...

Examines Projects And Developments In Several Scientific Fields That Are Concerned With The Physical Modifications And Behavior Control Of Humans, Including...

One Hot Summer Night In 1945, Three Young American Writers, Each An Enfant Terrible, Came Together In A Stuffy Manhattan Apartment For The First Time. Each ...

Unabridged private reflections of the Emperor of Rome, on how one is to exist in a world of chaos. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius and in the most accepted ...

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a profound reexamination of some of criticism's most basi...