Social science

The Book of Kink: Sex Beyond the Missionary

by Eva Christina

How to get your Fifty Shades on...

For anyone who’s felt...inspired...after reading Fifty Shades of Grey, The Book of Kink both entertains and enlightens, showing you the who, what, where, why, and how...

Agrimonde

by Sandrine Paillard, Sébastien Treyer & Bruno Dorin

How will the world be able to feed close to 9 billion people in 2050 and still maintain the ecosystems? In this perspective, INRA and CIRAD launched the initiative, in 2006, to develop a foresight project for...

Final Floodaware Report of the European Climate and Environment Programme

by Nicolas Gendreau

Within the framework of a European approach with standards recognised by the establishment of risk and vulnerability maps and consideration of ecological and social aspects, this report presents 14 European...

Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of the New Single Woman

by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead

A hard-hitting, groundbreaking exploration of the new mating conditions that are changing the face of love, commitment, and marriage as we know it.

A double revolution is at work in modern American love: A revolution...

Water Governance for Sustainable Development

by Sylvain Perret, Stefano Farolfi & Rashid Hassan

The book examines how water policies, institutions and governance have shifted in recent years from supply-driven, quantitative, centrally controlled management to more demand-sensitive, decentralized participatory...

Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America

by Jay Feldman

A vital, engaging, and sometimes troubling story of modern America’s struggle to live up to its ideals.

In this ambitious and wide-ranging history, Jay Feldman takes us from the run-up to World War I and...

Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans

by Mitch Daniels

Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected...

A Dictionary of Female Occupations: Women's Employment 1850-1950

by Margaret Ward

This is a carefully researched A-Z of women's employment, covering over 100 years of change. The entries themselves are based on an encyclopaedic approach, each full of interest and information, as they chart...

Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins

by Thomas G. Smith

In 1961—as America crackled with racial tension—the Washington Redskins stood alone as the only professional football team without a black player on its roster. In fact, during the entire twenty-five-year...

Fashion and Music

by Janice Miller

The relationship between popular music and fashion has been a culturally significant one since the 1950s, and this book explores how music and musicians play a key role in the shaping of identity, taste and...

When You're Falling, Dive

by Mark Matousek

Do survivors-of trauma, loss, abuse-gain a "secret knowledge" about life from their experience? Mark Matousek, a survivor fascinated with the enigma of survival, draws on interviews with an enslaved Sudanese...

The Moro War

by James R. Arnold

As the global war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic insurgents on multiple fronts. But the post-9/11 war against terrorists is not the first time...

What if Latin America Ruled the World?

by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

For too many of us, Latin America exists "below the fold," an echo barely heard beyond the roar of U.S. economics, politics, and culture; the source of little more than dance steps, mesmerizing soccer, spicy...

Philanthrocapitalism

by Matthew Bishop & Michael Green

For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists-the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give-it's like business....

Falling off the Edge

by Alex Perry

If the world is flat, as Thomas Friedman says, then aren't some people going to be falling off the edge? Award-winning Time Magazine correspondent Alex Perry (China, India, and Africa) takes us on an unforgettable...

Cro-Magnon

by Brian Fagan

Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans-not only the creators of the stunning cave paintings at Lascaux and elsewhere, but the most adaptable and technologically inventive people that had yet lived...

There Is No Me Without You

by Melissa Fay Greene

Two-time National Book Award nominee Melissa Fay Greene puts a human face on the African AIDS crisis with this powerful story of one woman working to save her country's children.

After losing her husband and...

Imagining Modernity in the Andes

by Priscilla Archibald

This interdisciplinary work deals with the intersection of projects of modernity with constructions of race and ethnicity in the Andes. The book analyzes indigenista writings, the multidisciplinary work of osé...

Social Things: An Introduction to the Sociological Life

by Charles Lemert

In fifteen years, Charles Lemert's Social Things has become a much-loved modern classic among teachers, students, and many other readers. It introduces the sociological imagination through lively, memorable...

Key States, High Stakes: Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and the 2010 Elections

by Charles S. Bullock III

In this new edited volume, Charles S. Bullock III collects original contributions from top political scientists to evaluate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party's role in the 2010 midterm elections. Key States, High...