Social Science - General

Profiles in Rehabilitation.The experiences that changed prisoners lives and the book that can change yours.Contributing authors: Donel Poston, James Wilson, Nate Ramazzini, Jose Duarte, Adrian Woodard, Brett Richardson, Christopher Compton, Doon Saetern, Lionel Shell, Brian Fiore, Ray Bracamonte, Steven Allee, Marty Lemaster, Charlse Smith,...

Are you as authentically happy as your social media profiles make it seem? When a group of researchers asked young adults around the globe what their number one priority was in life, the top answer was "happiness." Not success, fame, money, looks, or love...but...

Social Sher's Skills That Pay The Bills are designed to let people know that there is always untapped opportunity within ourselves to do better. A true-life story that ends each chapter with a life lesson designed to empower the reader. Every life experience that...

First published on January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was one the most influential and best-selling works from the colonial period. It has been suggested that it may have been the single biggest factor in inspiring the people of the Thirteen Colonies to...

Through the Glass: The Reality of Working at a For-Profit New York Nursing Home During the COVID-19 PandemicBy: Helen BeedeThe COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on our society and exposed the disparities of our vulnerable populations. No group has been impacted as...

Infrastructural Optimism investigates a new kind of twenty-first-century infrastructure, one that encourages a broader understanding of the interdependence of resources and agencies, recognizes a rightfully accelerated need for equitable access and distribution, and prioritizes rising environmental diligence across the design disciplines. Bringing together urban...

Comprising a number of short essays, 'Why the Homeless Have No Chance: The Dismantling of Success' documents a sociological journey through the homeless services industry and describes today's wrong-headed approach to this lingering social problem. Told from the vantage point of thirty years of...

If you take a video of police officers beating a Black man into unconsciousness, are you a witness or a bystander? If you livestream your friends dragging the body of an unconscious woman and talking about their plans to violate her, are you an...

In Mobilizing Japanese Youth, Christopher Gerteis examines how non-state institutions in Japan--left-wing radicals and right-wing activists--attempted to mold the political consciousness of the nation's first postwar generation, which by the late 1960s were the demographic majority of voting-age adults. Gerteis argues that socially constructed...

Broken But Not in Despair was written by a woman for women to say, "Yes, I am shattered today, but I will survive tomorrow." Sometimes we as women take our failure and heartbreaks to the grave. We hide and pretend to be whole, successful,...

In No More Time, Greg Delanty offers a celebration of the natural environment that also bemoans its mistreatment at the hands of humans. The collection's long sequence, "A Field Guide to People," is an alpha-bestiary of twenty-six sonnets, each a meditation on a species...

Up a Creek, With a Paddle is an intimate and often humorous memoir by the author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. Loewen, who holds the distinction of being the best-selling living sociologist today. Rivers are good metaphors for life, and paddling...

This edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading. 12 point Garamond, 1.25 spacing. Florence Scovel Shinn was an artist, an author, a metaphysics teacher, and a thinker way ahead of her time. Her self-help books are revolutionary and have been teaching people for decades...

The ultimate overview of one of modern psychology's most eminent founders Intended for both the general reader and students, "Understanding Life" offers an excellent introduction to Adler's work, and presents an accessible overview of all his main theories: inferiority and superiority complexes; early memories...

While many in the criminal justice system would agree that the present punitive system of crime control is ineffective, unjust, and malevolent, there is little enthusiasm for talk about reforming the system or for a reexamination of its fundamental premises. In Justice as Sanctuary,...

Acknowledged as the nation's foremost expert on audience development involving America's growing multicultural population by the Arts and Business Council, Donna Walker-Kuhne has now written the first book describing her strategies and methods to engage diverse communities as participants for arts and culture. By...

How To Become A Sucessful Private Investigator- A Step by Step Guide By Mr Ed Opperman Is a great book for people interested in a career as a private investigator. Whether you are just starting out on a career path or are already employed...

In The New American Zionism, Theodore Sasson challenges the conventional view of waning American Jewish support for Israel. Instead, he shows that we are in the midst of a shift from a "mobilization" approach, which first emerged with the new state and focused on...

How do gurus get their power? Gurus are extraordinary individuals who attract fanatical followers and wield incredible and at times destructive control over them. In this remarkable study, Anthony Storr, the acclaimed author of Solitude and Music and the Mind, examines why we are...

In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward Tenner offers a virtual encyclopedia of what he calls "revenge effects"--the unintended consequences of the mechanical,...

Laws and regulations are ubiquitous, touching on many aspects of individual and corporate behavior. But under what conditions are laws and rules actually effective? A huge amount of recent work in political science, sociology, economics, criminology, law, and psychology, among other disciplines, deals with...

Global Interdependence provides a new account of world history from the end of World War II to the present, an era when transnational communities began to challenge the long domination of the nation-state. In this single-volume survey, leading scholars elucidate the political, economic, cultural,...

Ranging from the pre-Christian era to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton at the end of the seventeenth century, this Reader covers a broad range of alchemical authors and works. Organized chronologically, it includes around thirty selections in authoritative but lightly-modernized versions. The selections will...

A mature, considered presentation of McDougall's] current thinking on sexuality . . . simultaneously impassioned and dispassionate, erudite and plain-spoken, conservative in her insistence on basic psychoanalytic assumptions and radical in her celebration of intimate human diversity. --Contemporary PsychologyAuthor: Joyce McDougallISBN-10: 0393702154ISBN-13: 9780393702156Publisher: W....

This classic account of the traditional upper class in America traces its origins, lifestyles, and political and social attitudes from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to that of John F. Kennedy. Sociologist E. Digby Baltzell describes the problems of exclusion and prejudice within the...

Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global effects: it sharply divides life into labor and leisure, it sustains...

Herbert Kohl, one of America's most influential and provocative educators, believes that the only way to persist and to grow as a teacher is to commit oneself to the development of the child rather than to the regimented training of the pupil. His book...

Whether it's sleek leather pants, a shiny new Apple computer, or a designer toaster, we make important decisions as consumers every day based on our sensory experience. Sensory appeals are everywhere, and they are intensifying, radically changing how Americans live and work. The twenty-first...

The restoration and conservation of art and culture refer to protecting and taking care of artworks, archaeology, architecture, and museum collections. The activities related to the conservation of art and culture involve preventive conservation, examination, documentation, treatment and research. It is often combined with...

Secret societies and subversive movements by Nesta H Weber. good condition. paperback, great resource. First Published in 1924 this is a reprint. Has some great pictures no penciling no names no bookplate. not X library, not remainder marked no smoke smell, minimal Shelfware, paper...

This volume takes up the pressing issues of justice and responsibility that arise at the intersection of food and agricultural systems, environmental degradation, and global climate change. The diverse contributions examine both the various ways that food and agricultural practices contribute to environmental degradation,...

This Special Issue of Genealogy explores the topic of "Intergenerational Trauma and Healing". Authors examine the ways in which traumas (individual or group, and affecting humans and non-humans) that occurred in past generations reverberate into the present and how individuals, communities, and nations respond...

Do you want to ask smart questions like Socrates, be an out-of-the-box thinker like John Stuart Mill, and rational like Descartes?These people have at least one thing in common; they were great critical thinkers of their time and their shared wisdom lived through the...

Weegee was a street photographer for New York's popular press in the 1940s. He was infamous for adjusting the position of dead bodies at crime scenes to make his photographs more pleasing to the eye. Wauter Mannaert and Max de Radigu s have succeeded...

An examination of the society-wide relationship crisis that threatens us all--and a strategic look at how we can reverse it--It is the crisis that everyone feels but that has gone unnamed. We see the pieces: families disintegrating; communities in chaos; businesses losing the trust...

Brings to light the effects of traumatic events on future generations through personal stories and dialogues that engage readers and help them uncover their own inherited stories and even their inherited memoriesAuthor: Gita Arian Baack PhdISBN-10: 1631522221ISBN-13: 9781631522222Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2017Pages: 236Format:...

The second volume of the series expands upon the concepts and foundations of the first, while introducing new ideas such as complex societies, the empire, and the interplay between cultures that began to take place as the world became more interconnected. The volume also...

Just like we don't pay to use elevators, this book argues that we shouldn't pay to ride public transit. In an age of increasing inequalities and ecological crisis, movements advocating free public transit push us to rethink the status quo and consider urban transit...

We have entered the gateway to the apocalypse. This theological concept is the best metaphor to describe the world in which we are already living. Chaos is all around us: political folly, economical delirium, ecological catastrophe, intellectual cynicism, technological simulation of life. This is...

A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes, creating new winners and losers. Globalization: The Essentials explores the flows, structures, processes, and consequences...

When a taxi smashed into police officer Jason Schechterle's patrol car, the fireball that consumed the vehicle should have killed him. But by a series of small miracles, Schechterle survived: Dying would have been easier. As he would learn only after his own horrific...

Daughters of Anowa provides an analysis of the lives of African women today from an African woman's own perspective. It is a study of the influence of culture and religion - particularly of traditional African cultures and Christianity - on African women's lives. Mercy...

""We need a nation," declared a certain Phillippe Grouvelle in the revolutionary year of 1789, "and the Nation will be born."--from NationalismNationalism, often the scourge, always the basis of modern world politics, is spreading. In a way, all nations are willed into being. But...

Toward an Islamic Reformation is an ambitious attempt to modernize Islamic law, calling for reform of the historical formulations of Islamic law, commonly known as Shari'a that is perceived by many Muslims to be part of the Islamic faith. As a Muslim, Abdullahi Ahmed...

Let your Shoes take you on a journey. Through universal experiences, and the many Shoes that you put on over the course of time, the passion and excitement for living life reveals itself! The challenges of growing up, trusting yourself, and being a witness...

What images come to mind when you hear someone described as a feminist? Ladies burning bras? Women walking topless in public? Millions of women marching in protest while wearing pink pussy hats? Perhaps you might picture pioneer suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman...

This is the fasting portion only of what was originally published as "Fasting and Sunbathing" (The Hygienic System, Vol 3). Herbert Shelton wrote 40 books over his 60-year career in health education and "natural hygiene." He supervised over 30,000 fasts of chronically ill and...

It contains the original Chinese text, an accurate and fancy-free yet highly readable translation, extensive annotations by both ancient Chinese commentators and Giles himself, and a vast introduction to provide an in-depth historical perspective to it all. Despite not having become the final word...

Mr. Tony Cashman brings to life one of Canada's most intriguing political figures, the Hon. Ernest C. Manning. The young Saskatchewan farm boy heard William Aberhart preaching over CFCN radio Calgary and was saved (born again) in 1926. He went on to attend Aberhart's...

The foundational economy is everywhere: from clean water to care homes, schools to hospitals, these vital services were established between 1880 and 1980 to be collectively paid for, collectively delivered and collectively consumed. This essential framework has transformed the lives of billions, but in...