Social science / Sociology

Extinct for a Reason: A Field Guide to Failimals and Evolosers

by Scott Cooney & Aaron Adler

Before there was Darwin, before there was man’s best friend, there were . . . Failimals.

The Royal Failimal Society presents the Unchameleon, Bipolar Bear, Emo Emu, and other Darwin-defiant animals that, though...

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...

Winchell and Runyon: The True Untold Story

by Trustin Howard

This book is about the bond between two legendary journalists, Walter Winchell and Damon Runyon, during the unforgettable era of World War II and the years following. Winchell was a popular radio personality...

Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity

by Emily Matchar

Amid today’s rising anxieties—the economy, the scary state of the environment, the growing sense that the American Dream hasn’t turned out to be so dreamy after all—a groundswell of women (and more than...

Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds

by Zygmunt Bauman

This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, 'liquid modern' times - the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition...

Destroying The Joint

by Jane Caro

A fabulously provocative collection by women ready to destroy the joint Early in September 2012, commentator Alan Jones, responding to a comment by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, said: ‘She [Gillard] said that...

Connected by Nature's Law

by Michael Laitman

Connected-by Nature's Law presents a comprehensive picture of reality and the process that humanity is undergoing. The book offers tools for using the major personal and social shifts we're going through to...

The Bitch in the House

by Cathi Hanauer

Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House.

Women today have more choices than at any time in history, yet many smart, ambitious, contemporary...

The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception

by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem in 1947 and 1956. Now Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, co-authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, have succeeded in uncovering what...

Water

by David L. Feldman

Water is our planet’s most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world’s population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry,...

Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcasts

by Zygmunt Bauman

The production of 'human waste' - or more precisely, wasted lives, the 'superfluous' populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts - is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect...

The Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Bryon De La Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South

by Maryanne Vollers

Revised and reissued with a new epilogue, the award-winning classic Ghosts of Mississippi tells the inside story of one of the most rankling murder cases of the civil rights era. In this historical page-turner,...

Among the Thugs

by Bill Buford

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the...

Sociology Through the Eyes of Faith

by David A. Fraser & Anthony Campolo

Colorfully written by two popular and respected sociologists, this volume shows how sociology has evolved, how it became divided from Christian faith, and how Christian sociologists can make sense of this branch...

End of The Good Life

by Riva Froymovich

Generation Y faces the bleakest economic landscape in modern history. The recent spikes in unemployment and debt, alongside a drop in marriage, home-buying, and childbearing rates, will have long-term consequences...

Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

by Colin Crouch

The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy...

Faces of the North: The Ethnographic Photography of John Honigmann

by Bryan Cummins

A photographic account of John J. Honigmanns anthropological endeavours among northern First Nations from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Conundrum

by Jan Morris

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and...

The Crone

by Barbara G. Walker

A probing account of the honored place of older women in ancient matriarchal societies restores to contemporary women an energizing symbol of self-value, power, and respect.

Give Hope in Hell - How to Succeed in Humanitarian Employment

by Adi Walker, Bryan Walker & Richard Walker

While government and non-government agencies employ permanent staff, the random nature of humanitarian work means, inevitably, that many employees and consultants will be on short-term contracts. Some will have...