Social science

The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It

by Brian C. Anderson

While there is plenty of literature on California’s history, topography, and attractions, The Beholden State: California's Lost Promise and How to Recapture It is the first book examining in rigorous detail...

Campaign for President: The Managers Look at 2012

by The Institute of Harvard Kennedy School

In this book, a distinguished group of presidential campaign staff, journalists, and political observers take us inside the 2012 race for the Republican nomination and general election, guiding us through each...

Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict Is Changing Congress and American Democracy

by William V. D'Antonio, Steven A. Tuch & Josiah R. Baker

In Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict are Changing Congress and American Democracy, three esteemed scholars trace the confluence of religion and party in the U.S. Congress over...

Heretic's Heart: A Journey through Spirit and Revolution

by Margot Adler

Starting in 1964, writes Margot Adler in this dazzling memoir, “I found myself mysteriously at the center of extraordinary events.” Now a correspondent for National Public Radio, Adler was a young woman...

A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government

by Garry Wills

In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day...

Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: A Civil War Odyssey

by Peter Carlson

Junius Browne and Albert Richardson covered the Civil War for the New York Tribune until Confederates captured them as they tried to sneak past Vicksburg on a hay barge. Shuffled from one Rebel prison to another,...

Pakistan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Safia Haleem

Pakistan is a land with a unique history, formed by migrating peoples who have left their footprint in its diverse cultures, languages, literature, food, dress, and folklore. The country is besieged by bad news,...

USA - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Gina Teague

Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of “just like in the movies” familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can...

France - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Barry Tomalin

France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt...

Egypt - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Jailan Zayan

This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Egypt reveals a country in the throes of change. The largely secular revolution that started in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in January 2011 became the flagship...

Echoes of My Soul

by Robert K. Tanenbaum

New York Times bestselling author and renowned prosecuting attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider's account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, from the shocking double-murder to the wrenching...

The American Bar Association Legal Guide for Military Families: Everything You Need to Know about Family Law, Estate Planning, and the Servicemembers

by American Bar Association

The one and only legal guide for servicemembers and their families.

The American Bar Association Legal Guide for Military Families is the complete resource for servicemembers, veterans, and their families. This...

The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia

by James Fergusson

The first authoritative account of the Somali region, its history, and the Islamic extremists operating there today

American Mania: When More is Not Enough

by Peter C. Whybrow

A doctor's bold analysis of the cultural disease that afflicts us all.Despite an astonishing appetite for life, more and more Americans are feeling overworked and dissatisfied. In the world's most affluent nation,...

Jeep, Dana & Chrysler Differentials: How to Rebuild the 8-1/4, 8-3/4, Dana 44 & 60 & AMC 20

by Larry Shepard

This book focuses on the disassembly, inspection and step-by-step rebuild of the most popular Jeep, Dana and Chrysler differentials.

Gender, Sex and Sexuality

by Gerda Siann

For some time sex has been defined as the biological difference between men and women, and gender as the manner in which culture defines and constrains these differences. Feminine/masculine, male/female, women/men,...

The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity

by John Hodgkins

The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an 'affective turn' for adaptation...

News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries

by Barrie Gunter

News Media in the Arab World: A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim Countries is based on ongoing research at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester, and has investigated the rapidly changing...

The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson

by Harry Mount

Intelligent, ruthlessly ambitious and prone to gaffes that the press and public take equal delight in, Boris Johnson is the darling of the Tory party. This collection of his wit and wisdom, edited by eminent...

Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border

by Elizabeth Emma Ferry

Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued...