Social science

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by Crispin Black

How could a moment of triumph about the Olympic Bid turn into a catastrophe? These terrible events follow on the continuing revelations that the intelligence reports that were the government's basis for the...

Flying Scotsman

by Andrew Roden

Think of the Golden Age of Steam and one train leaps to mind above all others: the Flying Scotsman, Nigel Gresley’s elegant masterpiece of a locomotive, which broke the world speed record in 1934 and has enthralled...

What's Really Wrong with the Middle East

by Brian Whitaker

The problems in the Middle East run deeper than dictatorship. Inspired by the popular uprisings that overthrew the presidents of Tunisia and Egypt, Arabs across the Middle East are demanding change. But achieving...

The Color Complex (Revised): The Politics of Skin Color in a New Millennium

by Kathy Russell, Midge Phd Wilson & Ronald Hall

A courageous, humane, and provocative examination  of how differences in color and features among  African Americans have played and continue to play a  role in their professional lives, friendships,  romances,...

Members of the Tribe

by Zev Chafets

Chafets travels through Jewish America and introduces a range of characters that he meets on his journey, showing all sides of the Jewish community in America.

Songs of the Doomed

by Hunter S. Thompson

First published in 1990, Songs of the Doomed is back in print -- by popular demand! In this third and most extraordinary volume of the Gonzo Papers, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson recalls high and hideous moments in...

The Trouble with Canada ... Still!

by William D. Gairdner

"... an eloquent plea for liberty and independence by a ... critic who combines singing prose with a gimlet eye." - ROGER KIMBALL, editor, The New Criterion "... provocative and stimulating ... indispensable...

The Killing Game

by Gary Webb

Gary Webb had an inborn journalistic tendency to track down corruption and expose it. For over thirty-four years, he wrote stories about corruption from county, state, and federal levels. He had an almost magnetic...

From Neighborhood to Nation: The Democratic Foundations of Civil Society

by Ken Thomson

A study of the unique impact of participatory and representative democracy on policy outcomes at local, state, and national levels.

Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

by Noam Chomsky

Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by...

Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet

by Derrick Jensen, Aric Mcbay & Lierre Keith

For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, "Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?" No one ever says yes.

Deep Green Resistance starts...

Turn and Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart

by Howard Mansfield

Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they,...

Why China Will Never Rule the World

by Troy Parfitt

After having lived in Taipei for ten years, Troy Parfitt sets out on an epic journey to test the theory that China is ascending toward a position of global hegemony. The result is whirlwind tour of the Chinese...

Global Demographic Change and Its Implications for Military Power

by Martin C. Libicki, Howard J. Shatz & Julie E. Taylor

What is the impact of demographics on the prospective production of military power and the causes of war? This monograph analyzes this issue by projecting working-age populations through 2050; assessing the...

Men Briefly Explained

by Tim Jones

Men Briefly Explained explores all aspects of contemporary manhood, the humourous and not so humourous, where men are in relation to women and to society in general. Thought provoking, impertinent, irreverent,...

Near-Term Opportunities for Integrating Biomass into the U.S. Electricity Supply: Technical Considerations

by David S. Ortiz, Aimee E. Curtright & Constantine Samaras

Biomass is an increasingly important source of electricity, heat, and liquid fuel. One near-term option for using biomass to generate electricity is to cofire biomass in coal-fired electricity plants. This report...

Nuclear Deterrence in Europe: Russian Approaches to a New Environment and Implications for the United States

by James T. Quinlivan & Olga Oliker

Through a variety of policies and actions--and most recently in a new military doctrine adopted in February 2010--Russia has indicated the types of situations and threats that might cause it to resort to using...

Crime and Drugs on Trip City Street

by Timothy Louis Baker

Synopsis: At only four years old, Kevin Gregory Wilson entered a life of crime on the streets of New York City. Saving his money, he began plans for building a terrorist army when he was only 10. The most powerful...

Looters, Photographers, and Thieves: Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

by Pasquale Verdicchio

What do we 'see' when we think of Italy? How is our sense of that country, its people and culture formed, what conditions it? Looters, Photographers, and Thieves suggests that our visualization and relationship...

Insider's Guide to Key Committee Staff of the U.S. Congress 2010

by Suzanne Struglinski

The Insider's Guide to Key Committee Staff of the U.S. Congress contains in-depth profiles on key congressional staff members that you will not find elsewhere. The information provided on these personnel gives...