St. Martin's Press / Social science

The Death of the Grown-Up

by Diana West

Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism."  She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single adult left anywhere?" ...

Low Road

by Eddie B. Allen, Jr.

Donald Goines was a pimp, a truck driver, a heroin addict, a factory worker, and a career criminal. He was also one of world's most popular Black contemporary writers. Having published 16 novels, including Whoreson...

The U.S. Senate

by Tom Daschle & Charles Robbins

The second entry in the civics series clearly and concisely explains how the United States Senate works.  

The U.S. Senate is the second book in the Fundamentals of American Government civics series, exploring...

Brainwash

by Dominic Streatfeild

What would it take to turn you into a suicide bomber?

How would you interrogate a member of Al Qaeda?

With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, the U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and...

Ten Hours Until Dawn

by Michael Tougias

In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat....

The Sex Life of Food

by Bunny Crumpacker

“The sex life of food” doesn’t mean that the strawberries have fallen in love with the oatmeal. It’s a look at food—and sex—and how they go together in our daily lives much more often than we realize....

Inside

by Michael G. Santos

American jails and prisons confine nearly 13.5 million people each year, and it is estimated that 6 to 7 percent of the U.S. population will be confined in their lifetimes. Despite these disturbing numbers,...

The War Against the Terror Masters

by Michael A. Ledeen

The War Against the Terror Masters is a must-read guide to the terrorist crisis. Michael A. Ledeen explains in startling detail how and why the United States was so unprepared for the September 11th catastrophe;...

Spin Sisters

by Myrna Blyth

Myrna Blyth, former editor-in-chief of Ladies' Home Journal, was part of the Spin Sisters media elite for over twenty years. In Spin Sisters, she tells the truth about the business she knows so well---its power...

The American Revelation

by Neil Baldwin

Neil Baldwin, one of the most exciting intellectual historians, has written extensively about the great thinkers and innovators who have shaped our unique American identity. In THE AMERICAN REVELATION, he turns...

The Jesus Machine

by Dan Gilgoff

*The crucial Ohio get-out-the-vote effort that lifted Bush over Kerry.

*The Terri Schiavo controversy.

*The push for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

*Attacks on Roe v. Wade. 

*“Intelligent...

The Science of Star Wars

by Jeanne Cavelos

Could the science fiction of Star Wars be the actual science of tomorrow?

-How close are we to creating robots that look and act like R2-D2 and C-3PO?

-Can we access a "force" with our minds to move objects and...

The Mayor of Castro Street

by Randy Shilts

The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community...

Harvard's Secret Court

by William Wright

In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920." The mystery he uncovered involved a tragic scandal in which Harvard University secretly put...

The Winner Effect

by Ian H. Robertson

What makes a winner? Why do some people succeed both in life and in business, and others fail? Why do a few individuals end up supremely powerful, while many remain powerless?

The “winner effect” is a term...

Sister Gumbo

by Ursula Inga Kindred & Mirranda Guerin-Williams

African-American women's lives and relationships are complex and at times, deliciously spicy. So, when two sisters decided to interview over twenty women about relationships, sex, spirituality, and self, the...

Blackwards

by Ron Christie

The iconoclastic Black Republican strategist calls out leaders who fan the flames of racial rhetoric and sabotage a post-racial America

The euphoria surrounding Barack Obama’s historic election had commentators...

Scurvy

by Stephen R. Bown

Scurvy took a terrible toll in the Age of Sail, killing more sailors than were lost in all sea battles combined. The threat of the disease kept ships close to home and doomed those vessels that ventured too...

Coming Back Alive

by Spike Walker

When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life...

Nights of Ice

by Spike Walker

Spike Walker has spent more than a decade fishing in the subzero hell of Alaska's coastal waters. This collection--coming on the heels of his classic memoir Working on the Edge--is a testament to the courage...