Social science

The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

by James Bamford

James Bamford has been the preeminent expert on the National Security Agency since his reporting revealed the agency’s existence in the 1980s. Now Bamford describes the transformation of the NSA since 9/11,...

From the Dog's Mouth: Barks, Yelps & Growls About Politics, Jackasses and Blowhards, Religion, Christians and Jews, My Chosen People, Gays, Straights,

by Wavecrest Imprint

When a seventy-something astrologer, well-known for his razor-sharp intuition and celestial insights, decides to get his first dog, he is in for the surprise of his life. You see, this Fox Terrier turns out...

On the Hunt: How to Wake Up Washington and Win the War on Terror

by Colonel David Hunt

So says Fox News military analyst Colonel David Hunt in a book that cuts like a buzz saw through the half-measures and half-truths, the dangerous timidity, and the outright stupidity that—if left unchecked—will...

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for OCD

by David A. Clark

This authoritative book reviews current cognitive-behavioral models of OCD and delineates an innovative, theoretically and empirically grounded approach to assessment and treatment. Leading scientist-practitioner...

Pluralism and Freedom: Faith-Based Organizations in a Democratic Society

by Stephen Monsma

Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all these efforts, however, have been accompanied by intense debate and numerous...

The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought

by Jerry Z. Muller

Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their...

The City: A Global History

by Joel Kotkin

If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative...

Death Ground: Today's American Infantry in Battle

by Daniel P. Bolger

“An informative and thought-provoking history of recent infantry operations with reasoned glimpses of its possible future.”

–DR. SHAWN WHETSTONE

Military Heritage

“This is [Colonel Bolger’s] most significant...

The Reputational Premium

by Paul M. Sniderman & Edward H. Stiglitz

The Reputational Premium presents a new theory of party identification, the central concept in the study of voting. Challenging the traditional idea that voters identify with a political party out of blind emotional...

The Unheavenly Chorus: Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba & Henry E. Brady

Politically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics,...

Universal Design as a Rehabilitation Strategy: Design for the Ages

by Jon A. Sanford

A unique resource for rehabilitation engineers, design and building professionals, rehabilitation counselors, gerontologists, psychologists, and other health and mental health professionals, this volume covers...

Island Songs

by Godfrey Baldacchino

Island Songs is a work of sonic anthropology that does more than probe song as a part of the sociocultural life on islands. It illuminates how song performs island life. Gathered here are 15 case study chapters...

The Burden of Democracy: The Claims of Culture, Public Culture, and Democratic Memory

by Geneviève Souillac

This book offers an original contribution to the debate on contemporary democratic ethics. It argues that public culture provides the mediating spaces required for processes of encounter, but should be supplemented...

Global Capitalist Crisis and the Second Great Depression: Egalitarian Systemic Models for Change

by Armando Navarro

This book provides a comprehensive political, economic, and historical analysis of the events and circumstances from the 1920s to 2010 that impacted the rise of today’s “Global Capitalist Crises,” Global...

Lucid Mind, Intrepid Spirit: Essays on the Thought of Chantal Delsol

by Lauren Hall, Paul Seaton & Peter Lawler

This volume of essays explores the bases and significant aspects of the thought of the contemporary French philosopher, Chantal Delsol. It ranges from studies of her philosophical anthropology to her critique...

Taking the Fight to the Enemy: Neoconservatism and the Age of Ideology

by Adam Fuller

Neoconservatism is more of a disposition than a single political theory, but it is an attitude that has had a profound impact on the broader conservative effort in the United States since the Fifties. It is...

Frames and Connections in the Governance of Global Communications: A Network Study of the Internet Governance Forum

by Elena Pavan

This book investigates through a network approach the progressive construction of a new Internet governance (IG) discourse resulting from the joint participation of institutional and non-institutional actors...

The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts

by Craig Hayden

The Rhetoric of Soft Power: Public Diplomacy in Global Contexts provides new insight into the global growth of the soft power concept, through a comprehensive, comparative analysis of public diplomacy and strategic...

Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines

by Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith, the award-winning playwright and actor, has spent a lifetime listening—really listening—to the people around her. As a child in the segregated Baltimore of the early 1960s, Smith absorbed...

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

by Azar Nafisi

We all have dreams—things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi’s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.

For two years before she left Iran...