Politics & Social Sciences

In this provocative, witty, and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, Nancy Etcoff skewers one of our culture's most enduring ...

Beginning With The Pre-hispanic Period, Moving On To Cuba's Struggle To Maintain The Revolution In The Years Following The Collapse Of The Soviet Union, And...

For twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human service courses, as well as an essential p...

Now available in a completely revised sixth edition, this is the leading textbook for professionals preparing to work with children with disabilities and t...

In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. ...

"Timely and necessary...This book is not only a warning. It is an opportunity. An opportunity to live out the gospel we so passionately proclaim. And it sta...

Faced With The Difficulties Of Growing Up And Choosing A Religion, A 12-year-old Girl Talks Over Her Problems With Her Own Private God. Reissued With A Fres...

Nelson Mandela, one of the most famous freedom fighters in the world, is a powerful symbol of hope for oppressed people everywhere.This is his story, revis...

Drones Are In The Newspaper, On The Tv Screen, Swarming Through The Networks, And Soon, We're Told, They'll Be Delivering Our Shopping. But What Are Drones?...

In The Shadow Of The Great Explorer -- The Never-ending First Of May -- A Bloody Initiation -- God Save The Fuhrer -- Working On The Fascist Front -- Invite...

Pt. I. The Basics Of Collaborative Dialogue. 1. Secrets To Talking. 2. Secrets To Listening. 3. Secrets To Dialogue -- Pt. Ii. Dealing With Differences. 4. ...

Danny L. Jorgensen's book certainly provides a good handbook to supplement the more general comments on participant observation found in other texts. . . ...

Emma Woodhouse Imagines That She Dominates Those Around Her In The Small Town Of Highbury, But Her Inept Matchmaking Creates Problems For Herself And Others...

You Have Probably Heard The Term Old School, But What You Might Not Know Is That There Is A Concentrated Effort To Tear That School Down. It's A Values Thin...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic for Time magazine comes the tremendously controversial, yet highly persuasive, argument that our devotion ...

Our Baffling New Multipolar World Grows Ever More Complex, Desperately Calling For New Ways Of Thinking, Particularly When It Comes To Political Risk. To Da...

In this poignant collection of oral histories, four Indian elders recount their life stories in their own quiet but uncompromising words. Growing up and liv...

THE BRILLIANT AND CONTROVERSIAL CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN CULTURE WITH NEARLY A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom publ...

Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans. John and Jenny were just beginni...

Through Careful, Thoughtful Examination Of The Nature And Workings Of Race, Racism, And White Supremacy, The Contributors - An All-white Group Of Theologian...

Why the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrong The Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Midd...

Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and ...

Photo Essay And Captions Record The Incident At Tiananmen Square In 1989. Foreword / Howard Chapnick -- Introduction / Orville Schell -- Beijing Spring: Los...

Jeffrey T. Richelson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs True CrimeEspionage

While it seeks neither to define Zen nor answer its most famous koan (a riddle unanswerable by conventional thinking, in this case the sound of one hand c...

The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies surrounding its anti-slavery sentiments. In fact, it is a ...

He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine -- but it would nearly cost him his life. Semyo...

ANNE GEDDES LITTLE BLESSINGS is a beautiful new gift book featuring the world of award winning photographer and New York Times bestseller Anne Geddes. Each ...

The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China—a complex, fascinating c...

One of America's most purchased and beloved books. An excellent gift for people of any age, full of wisdom and simple poetry, addressing twenty seven topics...

The gold standard for research methods for the social sciences, Babbie/Benaquisto’s Fundamentals of Social Research has introduced over 20,000 social scie...

Preface -- Aporetic Dispossession, Or The Trouble With Dispossession -- The Logic Of Dispossession And The Matter Of The Human (after The Critique Of Metaph...

New Thoughts And Reflections From The Authors Of The Inspirational New York Times Bestseller Same Kind Of Different As Me. The More Than Four Hundred Thousa...

Ernie Zelinski could change your view of the world forever. He has already taught more than 150,000 people what THE JOY OF NOT WORKING is all about: learnin...

In 1985, therapist Niro Asistent tested HIV positive. Facing what many saw as a death sentence, Niro created her own programme of emotional therapy, daily m...

Written by the director of the country's first center for international social work studies, the original edition of this book set the stage for recent year...

What is courage? Certainly it takes courage for a firefighter to rescue someone trapped in a burning building, but there are many other kinds of courage t...

The Riveting Story Of The Entrepreneurs And Renegades Fighting To Bring Lab-grown Meat To The World. The Trillion-dollar Meat Industry Is One Of Our Greates...

An Important Book For Anyone Interested In Global Issues, Writing On The Edge Features Twelve Essays That Take The Reader To Countries In Crisis. Award-winn...

Examines Critical Studies On High-performing, High-poverty Schools To Identify How Schools Can Fulfill The Mission Of Educating All Students To Proficiency,...

So…you’d think after banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark’s life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and alm...

The Nature Of The Communicator's Job Has Shifted Dramatically In The Past Decade. While Communicators Still Prepare Speeches, Press Releases, And Articles F...

Edited, with an Introduction, by Anton C. Pegis with selections from SUMMA THEOLOGICA and SUMMA CONTRA GENTILESCategories: Politics & Social SciencesSoc...

What impulse prompted some newspapers to attribute the murder of 77 Norwegians to Islamic extremists, until it became evident that a right-wing Norwegian t...

Everyone knows about pot brownies, but not many know how to make them — and brownies are so old-school. Aunt Sandy has perfected more than 30 cannabis-inf...

Emily Martin traces Americans' changing ideas about health and immunity since the 1940s. She explores the implications of our emphasis on 'flexibility' in c...

A Mass Market Edition Of The Great Gatsby, A True Classic Of 20th-century Literature And One Of America’s Best-loved And Iconic Novels. This Edition Of Th...

The book has been variously described as the first to analyze the role of the political elite; as the one that established the independence of politics from...