Social science

From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents

by David Gress

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

From The Heart

by Lee Miller

Online Community Handbook: Building your business and brand on the Web

by Dan Moughamian & Scott Valentine

This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Successful online communities don’t just happen by themselves. They’re...

Moving the Rock: Poverty and Faith in a Black Storefront Church

by Mary E. Abrums

Moving the Rock tells the stories of a group of African American women who belong to a small storefront church in central Seattle.

Campaign Rules: A 50-State Guide to Campaigns and Elections in America

by Nina Kasniunas

America may be the most election-crazed nation in the world, boasting roughly 500,000 elected positions nationwide. Americans use elections not only to select candidates, but to directly change government policy...

The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine

by Matthew Continetti

“You’ve got to understand, we are ideologues,” Tom DeLay once told a journalist. “We have an agenda. We have a philosophy. I want to repeal the Clean Air Act. No one came to me and said, ‘Please repeal...

Motor City Muscle: The High-Powered History of the American Musclecar

by Mike Mueller

This is the high-performance tale of what was undoubtedly the fastest, loosest era in automotive history. Through the 1960s and into the 1970s, America's carmakers fought an unbridled war for street supremacy....

Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America's Growing Conspiracist Underground

by Jonathan Kay

From left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists to right-wing Obama-hating "birthers"—a sobering, eyewitness look at how America's marketplace of ideas is fracturing into a multitude of tiny, radicalized boutiques—each...

Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research: An Introduction

by Margaret D. LeCompte & Jean J. Schensul

This first volume of the Ethnographer's Toolkit provides a practical, straightforward introduction to ethnography and ethnographic practice to the student and novice fieldworker.

The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies

by Richard L. Zweigenhaft

The New CEOs looks at the women and people of color leading Fortune 500 companies, exploring the factors that have helped them achieve success and their impact on the business world and society more broadly....

Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions: A Strengths-Based Approach

by Nancy Boyd Webb

Praise for Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditions

A Strengths-Based Approach

"Helping Children and Adolescents with Chronic and Serious Medical Conditionsprovides a wellspring...

Working with Female Offenders: A Gender Sensitive Approach

by Katherine van Wormer

Praise for Working with Female Offenders

"Encyclopedic in scope and full of very relevant work drawn from the fields of biology, psychology, criminology, and corrections, this book is a must-read for those working...

My Lie: A True Story of False Memory

by Meredith Maran

Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent.

During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced...

The World That Changes the World: How Philanthropy, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Are Transforming the Social Ecosystem

by Willie Cheng & Sharifah Mohamed

If there is an X PRIZE for collaborative thought leadership of the social ecosystem, this book would get it.

Dr. Peter H. Diamandis

Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation

The World that Changes the World is thought...

The Electric Vehicle Conversion Handbook HP1568

by Mark Warner

A guide on how to convert any gas- or diesel-powered vehicle to electric power. Includes ownership advantages, basic EV operation, subsystems, components, basic EV operation, project vehicles, and conversion...

Understanding Victimology: Selected Readings

by Peggy M Tobolowsky

Understanding Victimology

Cinderella Story: A Scholarly Sketchbook about Race, Identity, Barack Obama, the Human Spirit, and Other Stuff that Matters

by Jr., James Haywood Rolling

Cinderella Story is an experimental autoethnography that explores critical racial issues in America through the media of language and images.

US Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century: Gulliver's Travails

by J. Martin Rochester

"The issues raised by the Iraq War are symptomatic of larger phenomena that will continue to preoccupy American foreign policy makers well into the twenty-first century. The war on terror, the prolifer"

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia

by Jeanette Covington

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media and Academia critically examines how the film industry and criminologists have constructed African Americans in their...

Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the U.S. Bombing that Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan

by Mike Friscolanti

The text below is an excerpt from Friendly Fire. it is the early morning of April 18, 2002, following the mayhem of a bomb attack on a section of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, outside Kandahar,...