Politics & Social Sciences

The Bubble and the Bear recounts the dramatic rise and fall in Nortel stock value and tracks its devastating effects on personal savings and investments in ...

Details what ordinary life was like during the extraordinary years of the reign of Soviet Union. Thirty-six illustrations, thematic chapters, a glossary, ti...

We are all fascinated by lives led outside mainstream society. Photographer Carl Hiebert spent seven years documenting the Mennonite way of life for this ...

Investigating The Causes And Consequences Of Ethnic Conflict, The Authors Argue That The Most Effective Responses Are Those That Take Into Account Factors A...

A regular contributor to Harper's Magazine who writes about business and environmental issues, introduces general readers to the coming depletion of fossil...

A Book About The Remarkable Life Of Elsie Macgill Who Achieved Many Firsts In Science And Engineering At A Time When Women Were Considered To Be Inferior In...

Deborah Dundas is a journalist who grew up poor and almost didn't make it to university. In On Class, she talks to writers, activists, those who work with...

Revised Papers From The Second And Third Of Three Conference Held In Chicago Throughout 1984-1985, And Sponsored By The Project On The Federal Social Role. ...

This best-seller is a "must read" for anyone embarking on or considering a career in human services, counseling psychology, social work, or any of the other...

this Book Explores A Widely Lived Yet Little Remembered Facet Of America's Cultural And Political History: The Cold War As Experienced At The Grassroots L...

During his first year at Howard University, Claude Brown wrote an article for the magazine Dissent about growing up in Harlem. The piece attracted the atte...

Where did we come from? To answer this question, anthropologists reconstruct the human past and study the human present from both biological and cultural pe...

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:...

Useful To The Novice Searcher, As Well As The Professional Genealogist. Covers All Aspects Of Research--major Records, Published Sources, And Special Resour...

Invisible Punishment Is The First Comprehensive Examination Of The Hidden Ramifications Of Conviction For Inmates, Ex-felons, Their Families And The Communi...

In this new edition of Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Understanding the New Security Environment, Readings and Interpretations, Brigadier General (Retired)...

There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming ...

This book approaches the understanding of delinquent and criminal behavior from a developmental, coginitive-behavioral, and psychological perspective. Viewi...

The Twentieth Century Has Been Called 'the American Century', Given Its Economic And Military Rise To Superpower Status In World War Ii, As Well As Its Seem...

The Best Concise Yet Comprehensive Introduction To Issues Facing Indigenous Peoples In Canada Today.indigenous Peoples In The Twenty-first Century Provides ...

International Bestseller From the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind comes an extraordinary new book that explore...

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...

Charles C. Bullock, Michael J. Mahon, Charles L. KillingsworthCategories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesSocial Work

Spanning Nearly Two Decades, From 1980 To 1996, This Reader Investigates The Debates Which Have Best Characterized Feminist Theory. Including Such Articles ...

Three severed hands. No clues. A race against time.Three embalmed hands are discovered in a disused Victorian house. Is it a gangland ritual? The work of a ...

A brief text based on Maxfield/Babbie's best-selling, RESEARCH METHODS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CRIMINOLOGY, Fourth Edition, this "basics edition" combines ...

Some of the chief goals of science - understanding, explanation, prediction, and application in new technologies - can only be conducted with any purpose if...

The World Today Is Facing Unprecedented Challenges Of Governance Far Beyond What The United Nations, Established More Than 70 Years Ago, Was Designed To Fac...

James Fitzgerald.Categories: Education & Teaching Schools & TeachingEducation Theory

In this important new work, Professor Trigg deals with the question of the rational foundations of science. In so doing, he explains and evaluates the views...

Looks at the open door policy, describes the trials of the Chinese immigrant, and analyzes foreign relations between the U.S. and China prior to World War I...

Paperback McGraw-Hill CollegeCategories: HistoryHistorical Study & Educational Resources Reference Politics & Social SciencesPhilosophy Book d...

This book offers a critical introduction to the media as well as a “self defense” against the “spin” of politicians, advertising, and assorted propa...

Recent findings from the fields of astronomy, cosmology, biology, and biochemistry that provide convincing evidence for God Like many people, Lee Strobel tr...

Essays by a provocative Italian philosopher on memory and oblivion, on what is lost and what remains. The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has always be...

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, in...

This unique volume of 27 readings includes works by leading Canadian and international scholars.Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

Now in paperback, Canada's leading public intellectual's powerful entry into the national discourse on Aboriginal rights and the renaissance of Canada     ...

Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of S...

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

5.0 out of 5 stars Receiving Transformative Initiations from the Seven Star Systems, October 16, 2009CONTENTS:1 - Virginia's Welcome and Introduction2 - Irv...

The title says it all. This tenth edition of the best-selling Sociology is a comprehensive book and multimedia package that offers readers a global perspec...

Two reporters for The Dallas Morning News analyze the responses to the newspaper's national survey of death row inmates in 1994 and early 1995. Of the 3,000...

Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female ...

From the #1 bestselling author of Why Your World Is About to Get A Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck ...

A Veritable Who's Who In The Field Of Contemporary Philosophy Of Religion Here Considers Various Issues In The Epistemology Of Religious Beliefs. The Writin...

Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definiti...

In his new book G. William Domhoff provides the most thorough critique to date of state autonomy theory as it has been applied to the American federal gover...