Politics & Social Sciences

Romeo Dallaire joined the Canadian Army in 1964. A three star General, he served as Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army and later in the Ministry of Defen...

This book offers solid, practical advice on how to cope with the many personal challenges mothers of children with disabilities face at home, at work, and w...

Detroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr., dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandell...

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...

Muhammad Yunus, Who Created Microcredit, Invented Social Business, And Earned A Nobel Peace Prize For His Work In Alleviating Poverty, Is One Of Today's Mos...

Kwong Kuen Shan has gathered together forty beautiful paintings of the animal many people hold dear to their hearts and accompanied these with Chinese prove...

The sad, tender, and extremely funny memoir of a boyhood few thought he would survive, including the unforgettable mother and hilarious grandmother who rais...

A modern philosophy suggests that there are three main forces working to shape our livesCategories: History Modern (16th-21st Centuries)20th Century Po...

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of outliers—the best and the brightest, the most famous ...

The story of a woman who spent her life disregarding the law and the Lord, but found salvation through Christ while on death row, and shared her testimony a...

Undeniably, evil exists in our world; we ourselves commit evil acts. How can one account for evil's ageless presence, its attraction, and its fruits? The q...

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.Here are the major statements...

An Outspoken, Christian Reproductive Justice Advocate And Abortion Provider--one Of The Few Doctors To Provide Such Services To Women In Mississippi And Ala...

The Author Of This Groundbreaking Volume Is Not Only A Social Scientist And Victim Advocate; She Is Also The Mother Of A Murder Victim. Deborah Spungen Illu...

"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year." This was th...

Winner of the Lincoln Prize This brilliant multiple biography is centered on Lincoln’s mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency ...

Sri Ramakrishna is widely known as a nineteenth-century Indian mystic who affirmed the harmony of all religions on the basis of his richly varied spiritual ...

America's maestro reporter/novelist gives America an MRI at the dawn of a new age. Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking)...

The Iran deal was a crowning moment of international diplomacy, allowing the world to step away from the edge of a self-created abyss. Donald Trump's decisi...

Vampires are much more complex creatures than Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Twilight, True Blood, or scores of other movies and television shows would have you ...

Years ago, a cartoon appeared in a Russian newspaper picturing a fork in the road. One path was labeled freedom; the other path was labeled sausage. As we ...

"The new edition of Research Methods in Health continues to provide an excellent broad based introduction to the subject. New or expanded sections, for ex...

The Real Story Of John Wayne Gacy-- By The Man Who Helped Catch Him He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial kill...

As Taylor Swift releases her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poet's Department, catch up on all her previous eras through the ultimate fan book.Are you a Fe...

For Four Years, The Author Interviewed Extremist Members Of Three Religions Around The World: Christians, Jews, And Muslims. Traveling Extensively To Refuge...

There Are Books That Debate Math, Science, And History; There Are Books That Help You Build Walls Or Even Pyramids; There Are Even Books That Discuss Neande...

Aesthetics has also been the subject of a number of theoretical challenges that investigate the conceptual frameworks customarily assumed by theories of art...

in 1983, The U.n. General Assembly Created The World Commission On Environment And Development, An Independent Committee Of Twenty-two Members, Headed By ...

To Be an Anchor in the Storm is the first hands-on guide for people who want to assist a friend or loved one in her struggle to escape domestic violence. Br...

How is it possible for a highly educated woman with a career and resources of her own to stay in a marriage with an abusive husband? How can a man be consi...

Groundbreaking new research shows that by grabbing hold of the three-step "loop" all habits form in our brains--cue, routine, reward--we can change them, gi...

On a military base in post-Taliban Afghanistan, American authorities have just imprisoned a teenaged girl found in a bombed-out school. The army major thin...

This book contains the 101 best stories from Chicken Soup's library on the mother-daughter bond. Mothers and daughters will laugh, cry, and find inspiratio...

Connects current political science to the core topics in American politics. The text that professors trust to get students thinking analytically about Amer...

A nail-biting inquiry into the disastrous 1998 Sydney to Hobert yachting challenge chronicles the hellish storm that slammed the race, stranding sixty-three...

Candide, by Voltaire, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general...

The Internet And The Mobile Phone Have Disrupted Many Of Our Conventional Understandings Of Our Selves And Our Relationships, Raising Anxieties And Hopes Ab...

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This 'made in Canada' book is for introductory counselling and interviewing courses in social work and social service educational programs at colleges and...

Art and culture critic Barnet recounts the exploits of the free- spirited bohemian women of New York City during the period 1913-1930. Coverage includes (f...

How did our universe come to be? Does God exist? Does time flow? What are we? Do we have free will? What is truth? Metaphysics is concerned with the nature...

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Book of the Year A CBC Books Nonfiction Book of the Year A Maclean's 20 Books You Need to Re...

Why does the United States go to war? America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the...

The Lost Realms, the fourth book of Zacharia Sitchin’s Earth Chronicles series, transports readers to the pre-Columbian civilizations and ancient empires o...

The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Patriot's History of the United States examines ten current challenges. America is at a crossroads. We fa...

With the huge popularity of the Eat-Clean Diet among North American women, the question kept arising: Is Eating Clean okay for men? It may seem a silly ques...

Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic ident...

A powerful guide for every woman looking to find—or amplify—her voice Most books about public speaking don’t tell you what to do when you open your mouth a...