Politics & Social Sciences

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying, with introductory commentary by Dzogchen Buddhist master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, is a new translation of ...

"This is truly a major contribution — brilliant, beguiling, and as broad in concept as it is deep." — Jean Houston, PhD, author of The Possible HumanTho...

Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the underlying connections be...

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...

George W. Bush. Includes Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsCommentary & Opinion

Based On A New Documents And Interviews, This Work Is A Look At The Berlin Crisis Of 1961, With Powerful Applications For The Present. In June 1961, Nikita ...

How many people in your life have refrigerator rights? • How many people are you really, truly, connected to-not by social media, email, or phone, but by ...

MARK R. LEVIN HAS MADE THE CASE, IN NUMEROUS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING BOOKS—MEN IN BLACK, LIBERTY AND TYRANNY, AND AMERITOPIA—THAT THE PRINCIPLES UND...

Within these visionary pages, meditation and dharma teacher Spring Washam meets the spirit of one of America's greatest ancestors, Harriet Tubman. The Spiri...

YOUR PLAN FOR A HEALTHY, HAPPY, AND MEANINGFUL RETIREMENT Retirement is not an ending: It's the beginning of an entirely new phase of life, one that requir...

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. San Francisco Chronicle A breathless, real-time adventure.....

Ready, Set, Grow! In her uniquely warm and funny style, Lynda wrote this entirely new book especially for younger girls to give them what they need to know...

Every day is full of "what would you do?" moments. They can be as simple as times when you're considering whether to bother saying thank you to the taxi dri...

in Today's World, Yesterday's Methods Just Don't Work. Veteran Coach And Management Consultant David Allen Recognizes That Time Management Is Useless The M...

In this new fifth edition of Social Welfare in Canadian Society, author Rosalie Chappell provides a critical look at chronic and emerging social issues, as ...

John Bolton served as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump for 519 days. A seasoned public servant who had previously worked for Presidents R...

Meet Denver, a man raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana in the 1960s; a man who escaped, hopping a train to wander, homeless, for eighteen y...

From The Publisher: This Extraordinary Best-seller Is A Brilliant Evocation Of The Noted Scholar's Teachings On Mythology. Joseph Campbell And Bill Moyers O...

Cultivating Stillness -- 1. Wu-chi -- 2. Wang-chi -- 3. T'ai-chi -- 4. The Three Realms Of Existence -- 5. The Mind (heart) Of Tao -- 6. The Human Mind (hea...

Concern about how women are represented, despite varied and often conflicting conceptions of feminism, is the underlying force in this collection. Eight cri...

"Most people know intuitively that when you fall in love the world is full of magic. What they don't know is that when you discover the universe is full of...

her Name Was Henrietta Lacks, But Scientists Know Her As Hela. She Was A Poor Southern Tobacco Farmer Who Worked The Same Land As Her Slave Ancestors, Yet...

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Engagingly written and incorporating up-to-date statistics and numerous Canadian examples, The Shadow Line, fourth edition offers a unique and challenging v...

Maureen Baker ; Janet Dryden, Consulting Editor. Includes Index. Includes Bibliographical References: P. 375-417.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesS...

Millions of people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller WONDER and fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Th...

Examines How The Wealthy Classes Have Contributed To Growing Inequality In Society And Explains How The Quest To Increase Wealth Has Hindered The Country's ...

The Host Of Cnn Tonight With Don Lemon Is More Popular Than Ever. As America's Only Black Prime-time Anchor, Lemon And His Daily Monologues On Racism And An...

A magisterial account of the worst disasters to strike humankind—the Great Irish Potato Famine—conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed...

Homegrown is a celebration of the food Canadians grow, produce, manufacture and consume. With over 175 recipes sourced from the members of the Ontario Home...

On May 18, 1860, in the midst of the nominating battle at the Republican National Convention, four contenders–Lincoln, Seward, Chase and Bates–wait in the...

How To Live As Jesus Lived Dallas Willard, One Of Today's Most Brilliant Christian Thinkers And Author Of The Divine Conspiracy (christianity Today's 1999 B...

Offers concrete advice on handling the physical, mental, emotional, and financial needs of the aged and includes new and updated sections on spirituality, e...

Used in place of traditional reading programs to give at-risk readers the appropriate kinds of structure, pacing, and practiceCategories: Politics & Soc...

As A Professor At Yale, Bill Deresiewicz Saw Something That Troubled Him Deeply. His Students, Some Of The Nation's Brightest Minds, Were Adrift When It Cam...

Noted for its fair and equal coverage of men and women, this book reviews the research and issues surrounding gender from multiple perspectives including p...

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

An investigation into corporate bribery around the world and how it undermines democracy and the free market systemThe World Bank estimates that rich multi...

As His Parents Finished Packing The Few Personal Belongings They Were Permitted To Take Out Of Germany, The Bespectacled 15-year-old Stood In The Corner Of ...

She Was Know To The World As Emily Doe When She Stunned Millions With A Letter. Brock Turner Had Been Sentenced To Just Six Months In County Jail After He W...

A unique collective portrait of the United Kingdom during the national lockdown of 2020. Introduction by The Duchess of Cambridge. Text by Lemn Sissay MBE. ...

This 2006 book introduces and develops the basic actuarial models and underlying pricing of life-contingent pension annuities and life insurance from a uniq...

Lee Lamothe & Adrian Humphreys. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeOrganized Crime

Including real life stories, this newly revised third edition of the award-winning bestseller—voted one of the top twenty parenting books—provides pare...

The author of the popular new English version of "Tao te Ching" brings his gift for bringing new life into ancient sacred texts to one of the world's grea...

Machine Generated Contents Note: Introduction How To Use This Book / Seth Giddings -- 1.the First And The Second Industrial Revolution / Norbert Wiener -- 2...

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...