Politics & Social Sciences

Kitzinger, a social anthropologist, explores the experience of grandmotherhood both personally and historically based on detailed research. Publishers Week...

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 parents' survival guide for raising teens—a new addition to the popular How to Say It seriesRaising teens is one of the greatest responsibilities in life...

The Author Shares His Experiences During A Year Of Living As If It Were His Last, And Offers A Year-long Program With Seven Different Exercises And Meditati...

John Kerry Tells The Story Of His Extraordinary Life Of Public Service, From Decorated Vietnam Veteran To Five-term United States Senator, 2004 Democratic P...

a Grief Like No Other Is The Book No One Wants To Ever Have To Buy; Sadly, Many People Continue To Need It. From 9/11 To Cindy Sheehan's Son – From Mass T...

The Conquer Kit is a canvas for your dreams and goals. You are invited to sketch, scribble, collage, and write all over these pages, all while developing a...

The Journalist Who Broke The Jihadi John Story Draws On Her Personal Experience To Bridge The Gap Between The Muslim World And The West And Explain The Rise...

In This Epic, Beautifully Written Masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Isabel Wilkerson Chronicles One Of The Great Untold Stories Of American History:...

Tetsuya Kataoka. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & Worl...

Michael M. Yoshitsu. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [109]-113.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & GovernmentPolitical Science

Leiter (theater, Brooklyn College and CUNY) presents the first English-language collection of disparate essays exploring Japan's kabuki theater. Fifteen of ...

This Book Provides A Novel Perspective On The Origins Of The Cold War In Asia, Tracing It All The Way Back To The Occupation Of Japan After The Second World...

memory Is As Central To Modern Politics As Politics Is Central To Modern Memory. We Are So Accustomed To Living In A Forest Of Monuments, To Having The Pas...

Since the end of World War Two, the use of nuclear weapons has been America's-and the world's-worst nightmare. But they have never actually been used, des...

In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis — people who had reappeared in Haitian society yea...

The Public Servant’s Guide to Government in Canada is a concise primer on the inner workings of government in Canada. This is a go-to resource for student...

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope? Looking at the headlines--the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodivers...

Intended for one semester Introductory Canadian Politics courses, A Citizens Guide to Government shows students how the political process works at all level...

Introduction to Security, Seventh Edition, presents the latest in security issues from security equipment and design theory to security management practice...

the Time - And Money-saving Furnace Care And Repair Guide. Giving You Useful Tips, Simplified Strategies, And Genuine Expertise, Roger Vizi Offers Homeown...

Quants, physicists working on Wall Street as quantitative analysts, have been widely blamed for triggering financial crises with their complex mathematical ...

This year's volume in the Canada Among Nations series takes stock of Canada's evolving relationship with its most important hemispheric partner, the US. It ...

I. Personal And Social Life -- Ii. Political And International Life -- Iii. Philosophical And Religious Life. Arnold Toynbee And Daisaku Ikeda ; Edited By R...

A radically new interpretation of the Progressive Era which argues that business leaders, and not the reformers, inspired the era’s legislation regarding ...

Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astu...

An Assemblage Of First-person Accounts Detailing The Everyday Lives And Experiences Of Firefighters Across The Country Focuses On Those Who Have Been Decora...

There’s never been a better time to be woman. We live in an era when girls are told they can do anything. So why aren’t we seeing more women rising to t...

gregory Kasza Examines State-society Relations In Interwar Japan Through A Case Study Of Public Policy Toward Radio, Film, Newspapers, And Magazines. Cate...

This book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. ...

A dramatic retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in "a differen...

By The Editors Of The Foreign Policy Association ; With An Introd. By Daniel P. Moynihan. Includes Index.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesPolitics ...

Warren I. Cohen. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 305-309.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government International & World Pol...

Product Description A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-firs...

"In this collection of seventeen essays, leading scholars address the question of what kind and what degree of change accompanied the political events known...

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which...

The Russo-japanese War And The Peace Conference That Followed It At Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Marked A Turning Point In The History Of Both Participants An...

In A Decade Of Constant Crises, Perhaps The Most Formidable Challenge That Americans Faced In The 1970s Was The Energy Shortage. An Era Of Inexpensive And S...

Repeatedly In The Twentieth Century, The United States Has Been Involved In Confrontations With Other Countries, Each With The Potential For Widespread Inte...

A Widely-read Washington Post Columnist Takes A Deep Dive Into What The End Of The Baby Boom Means For American Politics And Economics. Philip Bump, A Repor...

During World War II, 110,000 citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry were banished from their homes and confined behind barbed wire for two and a ...

For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Ja...

Throughout what publisher Henry Luce dubbed the "American century," the United States has wrestled with two central questions. Should it pursue its securit...

This definitive and thorough exploration of the causes and course of the Vietnamese Revolution of August 1945 provides new insights from hitherto unexploit...

Twenty-six Essays In This Volume Showcase The Brilliant Originality And Range Of Economic Thought That Earned Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Gary S. Becke...

Book by McCormick, R.E., Tollison, Robert D.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Specific TopicsIncome Inequality

Presents A New Approach To Capitalism, Revealing How It's Fully Consistent With Jesus's Teachings And The Christian Tradition, While Also Showing Why This S...

As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, s...