Politics & Social Sciences

The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Travelers an...

From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation - and how we got here. We a...

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...

What Would A Theology Of The Church Look Like That Took Seriously The Fact That North America Is Now Itself A Mission Field? This Question Lies At The Found...

This Text Explores Controversial Ideas In 'the Da Vinci Code' And The Real And Remarkable Significance Of Magdalene To Our Culture And To Christianity Itsel...

A Manifesto For Everyone Tired Of Pretending To Like Things--really, Really Bad Things. Hater Begins From A Simple Premise: That It's Good To Hate Things. N...

In Health Care for Some, Beatrix Hoffman offers an engaging and in-depth look at America’s long tradition of unequal access to health care. She argues tha...

[by] C. S. Whitaker, Jr. Published For The Center Of International Studies, Princeton University. Bibliography: P. 509-546.Categories: Politics & Social...

An ideal core text for introductory courses, Medical Anthropology: A Biocultural Approach, Second Edition, offers an accessible and contemporary overview of...

A Rulebook For Arguments Is A Succinct Introduction To The Art Of Writing And Assessing Arguments, Organized Around Specific Rules, Each Illustrated And Exp...

On Divorce, the Break Up, and a Broken HeartOriginally published in 1987, and continuously in print since then, Coming Apart has been an important resource...

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 first accessible guide to examine Sensory Processing Disorder, The Out-of-Sync Child touched the hearts and lives of thousands of families. Carol Stock...

Man's Worldly Goods - The Story of The Wealth of Nations By Leo Huberman Originally published in the 1930s, this is 'an attempt to explain history by econom...

The health disparities affecting Indigenous peoples in Canada might well be understood as a national epidemic. Although progress has been made in the last d...

Snow: A Novel – A Compelling 1950s Murder Mystery Set in a Snowbound Irish Manor (Strafford and Quirke, 1)Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy Scienc...

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...

A second-chance town!\Like many small towns, Buffalo Valley, North Dakota, is dying. Stores are boarded up, sidewalks are cracked, houses are in need of a c...

"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...

john Kotter, The World's Foremost Expert On Business Leadership, Distills Twenty-five Years Of Experience Into leading Change. A Must-have For Any Organiza...

’Tis the season for cozy stories of falling in love\Here Comes Trouble by Debbie Macomber\After rival columnist Nolan Adams writes an unflattering piece a...

Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent a...

Team Human Is A Manifesto--a Fiery Distillation Of Preeminent Digital Theorist Douglas Rushkoff's Most Urgent Thoughts On Civilization And Human Nature. In ...

The Six-time #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Fox News Star, And Radio Host Mark R. Levin Explains How The Dangers He Warned Against In The “timely Y...

A Medium Recounts His Experiences Relaying Messages From Spirits In The Afterlife, Sharing The Stories Of The Mourners He Has Served And Showing Readers How...

Obama Tells The Story Of His Improbable Odyssey From Young Man Searching For His Identity To Leader Of The Free World, Describing In Strikingly Personal Det...

Andrea Tone. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Law SpecialtiesLabor Law

Here Are The Most Significant Ethical Writings Of The 12th-century Philosopher, Physician, And Master Of Rabbinical Literature -- Translated From The Origin...

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Intended For Courses On Social Media And Politics, This Text Focuses On The Way Major Social Media Platforms And Viral Content Affect Modern Politics. The T...

James W. Fraser. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [334]-338) And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Historical United StatesGeneral

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting...

Product Description INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"My Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her i...

In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth centur...

A Manifesto For A Radically Different Philosophy And Practice Of Manufacture And Environmentalism. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Urge Environmentalists--in Other ...

In Out Of Captivity, Gonsalves, Stansell, And Howes Recount For The First Time Their Amazing Tale Of Survival, Friendship, And, Ultimately, Rescue, Tracing ...

In The Years He Served On And Eventually Chaired The House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, Chaffetz Gained Crucial Insight Into The Inner Work...

Critics across the country have raved about Joyce Carol Oates’s ground-breaking memoir A Widow’s Story, lauding its blazing honesty and raw emotion, ca...

“[A] vivid and lively account of those hectic and historic three days….The best fly-on-the-wall account, tantamount to having had a backstage pass to a...

A shocking true story of contemporary slavery: a young girl, snatched from her tribal village in Africa, survives enslavement in Sudan and London before ma...

ben Macintyre’s agent Zigzag was Hailed As “rollicking, Spellbinding” (new York Times), “wildly Improbable But Entirely True” (entertainment Weekly), And, ...

In This Instant New York Times Bestselling Account Of Violence And Espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter Ronan Farrow Exposes Serial Abus...

Just As Jane Christmas Decides To Enter A Convent In Mid-life To Find Out Whether She Is Nun Material, Her Long-term Partner Colin Springs A Marriage Propos...

A powerful, often funny, always inspiring memoir from a beloved comedian, professional orator, actor, entertainer, gone all too soon.Candy Palmater loved to...

This text provides a complete introduction to a wide variety of statistical techniques frequently used in the social and behavioral sciences. Adapted from t...

Chopra Turns To The Most Profound Mystery: What Happens After We Die? Is This One Question We Were Not Meant To Answer, A Riddle Whose Solution The Universe...

This is the story the daily press didn't give us, the definitive book about what happened at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, examined from both sides - the Bu...

A Revelatory History--spanning Continents And Millennia--of How The Distribution Of Water Has Shaped Human Civilization, By The Chief Strategy Officer And G...