Social science

The Northern Farm

by Henry Beston

In the tradition of his well-loved The Outermost House, Henry Beston's Northern Farm captures "the elusive magic of a year on a Kennebee farm...in truly beautiful prose" (Kirkus Reviews).  Among the blue-white...

Steve Magnante's 1001 Muscle Car Facts

by Steve Magnante

This book contains 1001 well-researched muscle car facts that even the most esteemed experts would be surprised to learn.

The Social Work Interview

by Alfred Kadushin & Goldie Kadushin

For twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human service courses, as well as an essential professional resource for practitioners. This new edition,...

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

by Annalee Newitz

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful...

The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change

by Roger Thurow

The story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger illuminates the challenges, and vital necessity, of transforming Africa’s agriculture sector

Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

by Olympia Snowe

A spirited call to action by Olympia J. Snowe, the iconic moderate and three-term Republican senator from Maine

For God, Country, and Coca-Cola

by Mark Pendergrast

Now fully updated, the classic account of how a bottle of sweetened caramel-colored soda water became synonymous with American capitalism

Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry

by Paul Ingrassia & Joseph B. White

In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's...

A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account

by Gabriel Schoenfeld

Why did Romney lose? How can Republicans win?

In A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior adviser to presidential nominee Mitt Romney for nearly two years, is the first insider to speak...

On Wheels

by Michael Holroyd

From the bestselling author of A Book of Secrets, a brisk, charming, illustrated account of a motoring life

As a child, Michael Holroyd spent his best hours in his family’s cramped garage, which contained...

Thinking About Crime

by James Wilson

As crime rates inexorably rose during the tumultuous years of the 1970s, disputes over how to handle the violence sweeping the nation quickly escalated. James Q. Wilson redefined the public debate by offering...

Misogynies

by Joan Smith

Misogynies is one of the most celebrated feminist texts by a British author. First published in 1989, it created shock waves with its analyses of history, literature and popular culture. Joan Smith drew on her...

Advanced Mapping of Environmental Data

by Mikhail Kanevski

This book combines geostatistics and global mapping systems to present an up-to-the-minute study of environmental data. Featuring numerous case studies, the reference covers model dependent (geostatistics) and...

Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink

by John Campbell

In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbell explores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very...

Why We Fight: The Origins, Nature, and Management of Human Conflict

by David Churchman

This book draws on twenty-four academic disciplines to analyze some 100 theories that explain the origins, nature, and management of human conflict. It treats intellectual, moral, community, political, and international...

It's Not Because You're Black: Addressing Issues of Racism and Underrepresentation of African Americans in Academia

by Annie Smith & Orville Blackman

As the country becomes increasingly diverse, new issues arise within the American educational system. This book examines the effects of underrepresentation of African Americans in colleges and universities....

Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model: An International Relations Theory Explaining Conflict

by Isabelle Dierauer

This book adds a social psychological component to the analysis of why nations, sections, or states enter into armed conflict. The Disequilibrium, Polarization, and Crisis Model is introduced, drawing from prospect...

Just War in Religion and Politics

by Jacob Neusner, Bruce D. Chilton & R. E. Tully

The basis of this collection of essays is the reading of a common topic from different perspectives. The contributors compare and contrast not only positions, but also methods of learning. They examine theories...

The Tribal Moment in American Politics: The Struggle for Native American Sovereignty

by Christine K. Gray

This book makes the case that two moments of social and political action in pursuit of self-determination for Indian tribes—the call for self-determination by the colonists in 1776 and the related call by...

The Scientific Handwriting Analysis Method for Stopping Gun Violence

by Raj Paode

One of the biggest challenges in preventing tragedies like Newtown is that there is still no way of predicting which individuals possibly have a potential for mindless violence, and need to be monitored, and...