Politics & Social Sciences

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

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 ...

Behind The Scenes At The World's Major Art Museums, The Life Of A Curator Can Be Thrilling, Amusing, Disappointing--but Never Boring. In These Fifteen Essay...

"If I could, I would put this book into the hands of every Christian in America." --Dr. David Jeremiah "Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, an...

The Election Happened, Remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-randall, Then Deputy Secretary Of The Department Of Energy. And Then There Was Radio Silence. Across All...

the Coeditor Of The Enormously Popular Jewish Catalog Help[s] Readers Understand More Fully The Meaning Of Our Holidays And Thereby To Observe These Festi...

Introduction To Los Angeles : City And Region / Edward W. Soja And Allen J. Scott -- The First American City / Richard S. Weinstein -- Hetero-architecture A...

Pieter Spierenburg. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 247-269) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeMurder & Mayhem

“Patocka’s contribution to philosophy and, in particular, to post-Heideggerian thought has shaped the European debate about the future of philosophy and...

"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...

Polly Young-eisendrath, Florence L. Wiedemann. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 233-237.Categories: Science & Math Behavioral SciencesBehavioral Psychol...

"The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, less than ten pages of large type in the original. Yet they contain the essence of practi...

To Some, Nihilism Is Losing Its Crisis Connotations And Becoming Simply An Unobjectionable Characteristic Of Human Life. Carr Argues That This Transformatio...

In order to think theoretically about our global age it is important to understand how the global has been conceived historically. 'Eurafrica' was an intell...

From the U.S. lead negotiator on climate change, an inside account of the seven-year negotiation that culminated in the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015—an...

Make Every Moment With Your Child Count. Tap Into The Psychology Behind Your Child's Behavior At Every Stage Of Development, And Respond With Confidence. Fi...

Throughout History, The Concept Of Command - As Both A Way To Achieve Objectives And As An Assertion Of Authority - Has Been Essential To Military Action An...

The Author Scales The Mountain Of Names, The Great Pyramid Of Ancestry And Relationship That Unites All Human Beings. Part I: A History Of The Human Family:...

Jarvis Jay Masters Has Taken An Extraordinary Journey Of Faith. Strangely Enough, His Moment Of Enlightenment Came Behind The Bars Of San Quentin's Death Ro...

Adler Traces 'in The Simplest Language And With Occasional Modern Analogues, The Logic And Growth Of Aristotle's Basic Doctrines.' Publ Wkly Aristotle Taugh...

We the People by Thomas Patterson is a concise approach to American Government, emphasizing critical thinking through relevant examples that appeal to today...

Over The Last 30 Years Referendums Have Played An Increasingly Important Role In Determining Government Policy. Recent High Profile Referendums In Scotland,...

[by] Thomas E. Mails. Bibliography: P. 601-606.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism

The Disinterested Witness is a detailed, contextual, and interpretive study of the concept of saksin (or that which directly or immediately perceives) in A...

For More Than Three Decades, The Women's Movement And Its Scholars Have Exhaustively Studied Women's Complex History, Roles, And Struggles. In Manhood In Am...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and f...

Can There Still Be Anything New To Say About The Erotic, Sexy Play, And Desire? Yes , Because What Drives Each Of Us To Any Sexual Fixation--from Feet Or Fa...

when David Cole Was First Writing enemy Aliens, In The Immediate Aftermath Of 9/11, The Anti-immigrant Brand Of American Patriotism Was At Fever Pitch. Now...

Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguis...

Short-listed for the The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Across the world, economic recovery, growth and investment are – at best – slow. At...

Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity,...

[translated] By Brian Walker.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Other Eastern Religions & Sacred TextsTaoism

The teachings of Taoism, China's great wisdom tradition, apply to every aspect of life, from the physical to the spiritual—and include instruction on eve...

Lost in Space was the prime time weekly series to take viewers into outer space’s strange new alien worlds – something the networks believed impossible ...

In Public Policy: Politics, Analysis, and Alternatives, students come to understand how and why policy analysis is used to assess policy alternatives. To en...

Arthur Ripstein's lectures focus on the two bodies of rules governing war: the jus ad bellum, which regulates resort to armed force, and the jus in bello, w...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the pu...

The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction repr...

Helen Adams Keller was an American writer and social activist; an illness (possibly scarlet fever or meningitis) at the age of 19 months left her deaf and b...

Il simposioCategories: Politics & Social Sciences PhilosophyGeneral

The idea of studying peace has gained considerable traction in the past few years after languishing in the shadows of conflict for decades but how should it...

How Should Christians Dispose Of The Bodies Of Their Loved Ones After Death? Does The Bible Give Us Authoritative Guidance On This Question, Or Are We Free ...

Ongoing Crisis Communication: Planning, Managing, and Responding provides an integrated and multi-disciplinary approach to the entire crisis communication ...

Ever since its emergence in colonial-era Cuba, Afro-Cuban Santería (or Lucumí) has displayed a complex dynamic of continuity and change in its institution...

This Volume Shows How Public And Private Forms Of Power Regulate Three Main Aspects Of Social Reproduction: Biological Reproduction; Reproduction Of Labour ...

Introduction To International Development Integrates The Work Of Leading Experts From Disciplines As Varied As Geography, History, Sociology, Political Scie...

A former United Church minister massacres his family. What led to this act of femicide, and why were his victims forgotten? On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins,...

this Lyrical, Evocative, Thought-provoking Journal Of A Man's Quest For Truth—and For Himself—was An Instant Classic, Now Available Unabridged On Cd villag...