Social science

Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws

by Michael Klare

In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states...

Exploring the Greek Mosaic: A Guide to Intercultural Communication in Greece

by Benjamin J. Broome

In this introduction to Greek values and behavior, Benjamin Broome explains the importance of history in Greek culture and examines the "cornerstones of Greek culture"-community, family and religion-and how...

Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest 1995

by Gregory Williams

"A stunning journey to the heart of the racial dilemma in this country. Everyone will be enriched by reading the unforgettable tale.

As I Rode by Granard Moat

by Benedict Kiely

Rescued from memory by Ireland's leading short-story writer and raconteur, this anthology weaves a rich tapestry of songs, ballads and poetry reaching across three centuries and drawn from the lanes and highways...

The Choice: Seasons of Loss and Renewal After a Father's Decision to Die

by Judy Brown

Through the dramatic story of her father's decision to die with the help of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and her struggle to cope with his suicide, the author explores the controversies surrounding euthanasia and the...

Blood and Belonging

Lionel Gelber Prize 1994

by Michael Ignatieff

Until the end of the Cold War, the politics of national identity was confined to isolated incidents of ethnics strife and civil war in distant countries. Now, with the collapse of Communist regimes across Europe...

Unfaithful Angels: How Social Work Has Abandoned its Mission

by Harry Specht & Mark E. Courtney

In this provocative examination of the fall of the profession of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged, Harry Specht and Mark Courtney show how America's excessive trust...

Running as a Woman: Gender and Power in American Politics

by Linda Witt, Glenna Matthews & Karen M. Paget

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia

by Aihwa Ong & Michael G Peletz

This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social...

Abortionist

by Rickie Solinger

Prior to Roe v. Wade, hundreds of thousands of illegal abortions occurred in the United States every year. Rickie Solinger uses the story of Ruth Barnett, an abortionist in Portland, Oregon, between 1918 and...

Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War

by Stephen B. Oates

When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she...

The Emperor's Virtual Clothes: The Naked Truth About Internet Culture

by Dinty W. Moore

A skeptic by nature, a writer and teacher more at home with ballpoint pens than computer programs, Dinty W. Moore wanted to find out for himself if the much-touted Internet and the electronic culture it has...

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

by John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, at the time a rising young economist, abruptly resigned his position as adviser to the British delegation negotiating the peace treaty ending World War I. Frustrated and angered by the Allies'...

W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919

by David Levering Lewis

This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how Du Bois changed forever...

The Call of Service

by Robert Coles

In this book, Coles explores the concept of idealism and why it necessary to the individual and society.

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

by George Jackson, Jr., Jonathan Jackson & Jean Genet

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually...

The Politics and Law of Term Limits

by Edward H. Crane & Roger Pilon

The pros and cons of the hottest political issue of the 90s.

The New Archaeology and the Ancient Maya

by Jeremy A. Sabloff

Nowadays, archaeological investigators don't just dig up the past They use high-tech equipment, chemical analyses, sampling strategies, and other modern means to gain a better understanding of why and how cultures...

Betty Page Confidential

by Buck Henry, Bunny Yeager & Stan Corwin Productions

Curvaceous, friendly and wholesome-looking, Playboy pinup Betty Page was the perfect complement to the still-innocent fantasies of young men during the Eisenhower years. Betty Page Confidential includes a biography...

The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry

by R.B. Fleming

For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today there are tens of thousands of descendants of...