Social Science - General

The first four books in the Blujesto Press Knows nonfiction series bring you all the latest information on today's hottest issues placed in their proper historical perspective. No more time wasted searching the internet! Here is everything you need to know in easy-to-read fast-paced...

This book examines the welfare effects of third degree price discrimination by an intermediate good monopolist selling to downstream firms with bargaining power. One of the downstream firms (the "chain store") may have a greater ability than rivals to integrate backward into the supply...

CONNECTIONS MAGAZINE is helping the social growth in our society. Connections about people, fashion statement, diet, fitness, education favorite places, and social trend.Author: Eddie AdelISBN-10: 1502746190ISBN-13: 9781502746191Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2014Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.17d

This book discuses the problems in our society from various perspectives. It examines how we as people deal with issues of race, incarceration, family relationships, and socioeconomic problems. It reflects the sentiments of people like WEB DuBois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and gives a refreshing...

There is no simple way to solving the African youth question. This book seeks to make a simple but no ordinary call on all stakeholders to take steps and help solve the youth question across the continent. This is a call, which does not...

A liberal feminist text. Rather than considering what is appropriate masculine or feminine behaviour, we should investigate what it is to be human.Author: Gilman Charlotte PerkinsISBN-10: 1500948691ISBN-13: 9781500948696Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/2014Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.28d

This is the first book of the series "Obstacles: Life lessons for success." This volume includes; Positive and Negative Thinking, The High School Commencement Speech That Every Grad Should Read, Live Selfish, Bullying and How High School Never Ends, To Succeed In Business, You...

The World Now - The Spiral is a series of short articles made by Howard Goldenberg in 2013, focused on strategy, economics, culture, politics, international affairs, showing an unexpected scenario of the contemporary world. With a fluid and accessible text, Goldenberg reveals some of...

Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution is a book written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and published in 1898. It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and...

Bangladesh has a rich and living tradition of craft and textiles that are closely linked to its vibrant cultural heritage. The crafts and textiles produced by its artisans reflect a heritage of thousands of years of history, folk music and literature. Firmly rooted in...

The Case for Discarding Organized Religion!Author: Ashoka Jahnavi PrasadISBN-10: 1500832197ISBN-13: 9781500832193Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/13/2014Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.34d

The United States has been at war for over ten years since that fateful day of September 11, 2001. Despite the surge in American patriotism and resultant overwhelming admiration for the military during these ten years, a dangerous gap between American society and its...

Author: Ashoka Jahnavi PrasadISBN-10: 1500766402ISBN-13: 9781500766405Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2014Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d

In terms of national transportation statistics, one area that suffers from a critical lack of information is transportation use by people with physical, mental, or emotional disabilities. Little is known about the ability of the nation's transportation system to meet the unique transportation needs...

Generations of American society have been effected by decades of negative societal conditioning. The country is no longer the virtuous society that once served as the example for global democratization and the free market economy. America is an often copied culture by other global...

Ross Moore Stokes Family Ties details the connections between the Ross, Moore, and Stokes families. It is written for all descendants of Joe and Mary Tyler Moore. This book is a starting point for those descendants wishing to do more genealogy research.Author: Family Members,Bonita...

A little closer to a decade, Homosexuality (gay and lesbianism) has become a very debatable issue among nations, religions, organisational bodies, families, tribes and many others. This is a very social phenomenon which needs to be addressed with careful and logical reasoning in order...

I examine and analyze domestic terrorism in Nigeria. I used data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) at http: //www.start.umd.edu/gtd/. Each recorded attack was described with date of occurrence, the city in which it occurred, who was blamed for the attack, the number of...

Friendship is a mutual affection among two or more people. Different cultures categorize friendships differently, and have different rules for how to fill those categories. In the present investigation, I analyze 371 questionnaires given to students in Nigeria. Unlike in the United States, in...

My Connections Magazine Spring 2014. family life style and culture around Southern California. Connections of favorites and most active hot topics in the world around us.Author: Eddie AdelISBN-10: 1499689268ISBN-13: 9781499689266Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/26/2014Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w x 0.12d

In the first chapter of the book initiatives have been taken to analyze and interpret the experiences of the world with the process of globalization. However theoretical frameworks have been taken from different pioneering works like the works of Anthony Giddens and Immunal Walleristein...

As an author, scholar, and essayist, Sunny Moraine has mused on a variety of things in a variety of ways. In this collection, spanning over two years of work, they make their way through thoughts on the form and business of writing, the nature...

What is fear..., why do we fear..., what do we fear..., and personal search in self-discoveryAuthor: Sayyar Isma SwiftISBN-10: 1499542143ISBN-13: 9781499542141Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2014Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d

This issue of Limn analyzes food infrastructures and addresses scale in food production, provision, and consumption. We go beyond the tendency towards simple producer "push" or consumer "pull" accounts of the food system, focusing instead on the work that connects producers to consumers. By...

This is an excerpt from the full story by Jackie Ogega titled, "Pervasive Violence: What Makes Female Genital Cutting Possible, Even Inevitable." Jackie Ogega survived Female Genital Cutting at the age of 10 and is dedicated to eliminating it.Author: Jackie OgegaISBN-10: 149492000XISBN-13: 9781494920005Publisher: Createspace...

In the late 1960's I didn't think a career mattered because the world was going to end. When it didn't end I found myself in a series of bad jobs with bad bosses. This is my story.Author: Jerry W. GoodwinISBN-10: 1494812169ISBN-13: 9781494812164Publisher: Createspace Independent...

This may be one of the most important books written in the last thousand years. Our world is deteriorating right before our eyes. Our environment is tainted. Species are dying out faster than in any other time in history. Children are born toxic. The...

Published in 1892, this volume contains a treatise on the sins and vices of men, including sex, drink, tobacco and more.Author: Geo F. HallISBN-10: 1492980749ISBN-13: 9781492980742Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/19/2013Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.68d

Timing Think, Thinking Time: A Beginner's Critical Historical Sociology Redux, takes the reader through a condensed critical tour of the intellectual landscape of Historical Sociology, with its distinctive reciprocal deployment of sociological theory, historical method and comparative technology. Lifting off from a comparative analysis...

The hosting of major hallmark and mega events continues to be a contentious issue as we embark into the 21st century. This book will provide the reader with a trans-historical account of the emergent issues that have been the subject of much debate in...

OPEC members have been suffering from the dramatic decline in oil prices over the past two years, which has seen crude dropping to between $40 and $50 per barrel from more than $100 in 2014. Since OPEC declared its noncutting policy on November 2014,...

Author Tony Cloud grew up in Wheaton, Maryland, when the metropolitan area of Washington, DC, earned the title "Crime Capital of the World." He knows firsthand the ugliness that crime perpetuates. In Transition of the Mind, he shows how drugs and violence have affected...

This book unleashes years of frustration stemming from the ostensible and sheer ignorance of Americans concerning not only the outside world, but even matters apposite to their immediate vicinity. I have lived in Tallahassee, Boston, Miami, and College Station. There has been a common...

Everyone suffers and pays the price for abuse directly or indirectly, but the degree to which we respond is largely determined by our knowledge of the abuse-creating stimuli (real or abstract) and how to break the circle. Were you abused as a child? Are...

This report conveys the findings and recommendations of the Defense Science Board (DSB) Task Force (TF) on Predicting Violent Behavior. This study was chartered and co-sponsored by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) and the Under Secretary of Defense...

Doing this lovely goodness reduces hurricane, earthquake, tsunami, and firestorm. Earth regent Uriel is working with sun's regent Mikhael - and with us, of course - to change earth's negatives to positives. It's beautiful. We love it.Author: Richard ShargelISBN-10: 1489534229ISBN-13: 9781489534224Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Did you know all the major religions and indigenous people from 800 B.C.E. to 200 B.C.E. had a form of the Golden Rule? Did you know we are at the start of the Second Axial Age? Harmonizing Humanity explains how man's religious, historical and...

Deconstructing Discrimination takes an anthropological, sociological, social psychological, and historical perspective to understand the root of discrimination and the possibility of social and institutional change. A first step to perceiving how a situation or institution can change is to understand how that situation arose....

The public schools have been breaking down for decades. This has been a huge contributing factor in the breakdown of Detroit. If we are going to transform this city, we must transform our public schools. Dana Coyne worked in the public schools for thirty...

Opium poppy cultivation and drug trafficking have eroded Afghanistan's fragile political and economic order over the last 30 years. In spite of ongoing counternarcotics efforts by the Afghan government, the United States, and their partners, Afghanistan remains the source of over 90% of the...

...Or Should There? We take for granted that laws are a necessary part of society. But does everything need to be regulated? Do more laws make us more secure? Happier? Or do they just grow government? This little booklet, clearly written by a fiscal...

Author: Bill Locke,Joel ChristieISBN-10: 1477208534ISBN-13: 9781477208533Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2012Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.10d

Foster care is a system designed to protect children, yet it is a system that often causes additional trauma and pain for the children involved. In Through the Belly of the Beast and Back, author and licensed master social worker Titania D. Grace examines...

Economic Satyagraha looks at humanity's most dogged issues and investigates whether people of good-will could find a common, inspiring, world-wide vision to end hunger and poverty, stop wars and deliver lasting peace on earth. Natural Justice is the first of six volumes and is...

Based on a study of about fifty of his own dreams and tackled from the point of view of sensations and real-life affects, the author suggests viewing these dreams as a rerun of poorly mentalised, psychological experiences that appeared in real-life the day preceding...

Author: G. V. HairISBN-10: 1469196093ISBN-13: 9781469196091Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2012Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d

Author: Teresa Debarba-MillerISBN-10: 1469186071ISBN-13: 9781469186078Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2012Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d

Author: David H. ThompsonISBN-10: 1469154331ISBN-13: 9781469154336Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2012Pages: 78Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.19d

Author: Jim RomeoISBN-10: 1469148226ISBN-13: 9781469148229Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2012Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d

This short book describes the negative effects exerted by Catholicism on the large majority of Catholics. It is critically focused on such issues as: papal infallibility; believing in miracles; the imposition of rules that cannot be followed (condemnation of any sexual act not directed...