Social science

Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History

by Kumkum Sangari

An anthology of essays discussing the regulation and reproduction of patriarchy within colonial India's class-caste society. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org)...

The City in Late Imperial China

by G. William Skinner

Thirteen papers comprise this final volume of a three-part series titled Studies in Chinese Society. The papers are divided into three sections that examine Chinese cities in the context of history, spacial...

Dollars over Dominion: The Triumph of Liberalism in Mexican-United States Relations, 1861-1867

by Thomas David Schoonover

A study of U.S.-Mexican relations from 1861 to 1867, with an emphasis on the role of liberal ideology and economic expansionism. This digital edition was derived from ACLS Humanities E-Book's (http://www.humanitiesebook.org)...

Women and Slavery in Africa

by Claire C. Robertson & Martin Klein

Collected essays discussing women and slavery in Africa, divided into four sections: demographic and theoretical perspectives, production and reproduction, case histories, and women as slave owners. This digital...

An American Family: The Great War and Corporate Culture in America

by Ferdinando Fasce

Using Scovill, a large yet largely anonymous company in Waterbury, Connecticut, as a case study, Fasce scrutinizes corporate culture during and immediately after World War I. He explores the relationship between...

An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama: A Primer

by David Olive

Barack Obama’s superb and captivating oratory style has earned him comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this collection of his complete speeches—presented for the first time in their...

Practical Junk Rig: Design, Aerodynamics and Handling

by H G Hasler & J K McLeod

This encyclopaedic volume synthesises 25 years of research and development of this unique rig as adapted to western craft. It is a work which has been welcomed by the growing number of yachtsmen and designers...

35 Miles from Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980

by Emilio Corsetti III

On May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet with 57 passengers and a crew of six departed from New York’s JFK International Airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten, but four hours and 34 minutes later the flight...

Arguing A.I.: The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science

by Sam Williams

Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its appearance in academic journals,...

Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution

by Linda Hirshman

A Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit details the enthralling and groundbreaking story of the gay rights movement, revealing how a dedicated and resourceful minority changed America forever.

When the modern...

The Riot Within: My Journey from Rebellion to Redemption

by Rodney King, Lawrence J. Spagnola & Lawrence J. Spagnola

On a dark street, what began as a private moment between a citizen and the police became a national outrage.

Rodney Glen King grew up in the Altadena Pasadena section of Los Angeles with four siblings, a loving...

No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women

by Estelle Freedman

Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new...

Tubes

by Andrew Blum

When your Internet cable leaves your living room, where does it go? Almost everything about our day-to-day lives—and the broader scheme of human culture—can be found on the Internet. But what is it physically?...

Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War I I

by Jim Powell

The fateful blunder that radically altered the course of the twentieth century—and led to some of the most murderous dictators in history

President Woodrow Wilson famously rallied the United States to enter...

National and European Foreign Policy

by Reuben Wong & Christopher Hill

National and European Foreign Policy explores the processes of interaction between the national and the European levels in foreign policy making in European Union states. The volume also assesses the mutual...

How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individual's Guide to Tackling Climate Change

by Chris Goodall

Drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world. Governments and businesses have been slow to act - individuals need to take the lead...

Slaves Tell Tales

by Sara Forsdyke

Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political...

TV Cops: The Contemporary American Television Police Drama

by Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in...

In Search of Omar Khayyam (RLE Iran A)

by Ali Dashti

Khayyam has been the subject of speculation on the part of literary critics ever since Edward Fitzgerald published his own version of the Rubaiyat in 1859. This edition represented the first opportunity to study...

The Persian Language (RLE Iran A)

by Reuben Levy

This book describes the structure of modern Persia, showing the methods by which it conveys meaning in sentences and connected passages and illustrating its special characteristics. As an introduction there...