Social science

Globalization, Labor Export and Resistance

by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

Moving beyond polemical debates on globalization, this study considers complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and class within the field of globalized labor.

As a significant contribution...

Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific

by Geoffrey Till & Patrick Bratton

With particular focus on the Asia-Pacific region, this book examines the rise and fall of sea powers.

In the Asia-Pacific region there has been significant expansion of sea-based economies together with burgeoning...

Gated Communities

by Samer Bagaeen & Ola Uduku

Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background...

Statebuilding, Security-Sector Reform and the Liberal Peace

by Barry J. Ryan

This book explores how and why police reform became an international phenomenon in the era of statebuilding that followed the end of the Cold War.

Police reform has become an indispensible element in the spread...

Psychoanalytic Theory and Sociological Method

by Claudia Lapping

The use of psychoanalytic ideas to explore social and political questions is not new. Freud began this work himself and social research has consistently drawn on his ideas. This makes perfect sense. Social and...

Niklas Luhmann

by Christian Borch

Niklas Luhmann offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important sociologists of our time. It presents the key concepts within Luhmann's multifaceted theory of modern society, and compares them...

A Companion to Life Course Studies

by Michael E J Wadsworth & John Bynner

Since the end of the Second World War, society has been characterised by rapid and extensive political, economic, scientific, and technological change. Opportunities for education, employment, human relations,...

The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet

by Graham Hancock

An asteroid transformed Mars from a lush planet with rivers and oceans into a bleak and icy hell. Is Earth condemned to the same fate, or can we protect ourselves and our planet from extinction?

In his most riveting...

Anything for a Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in U.S. Presidential Campaigns

by Joseph Cummins

A History of Mud-Slinging, Character Assassination, And Other Election Strategies—Revised and Updated for 2012!

Today’s political pundits express shock and disappointment when candidates resort to negative...

Coming for to Carry Me Home: Race in America from Abolitionism to Jim Crow

by Michael Martinez

Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the concept of race in the United States from the 1830s, when the abolitionists rose to prominence, until the 1880s, when the Jim Crow regime commenced. J. Michael Martinez...

Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality

by Hanne Blank

It's surprising that the term "heterosexuality" is less than 150 years old and that heterosexuality's history has never before been written, given how obsessed we are with it. In Straight, independent scholar...

Utopia of Crime

by Mark Featherstone

In this essay, Mark Featherstone proposes to explore the « culture of cruelty », in reference to Henry Giroux’s work, through a consideration of the violence endemic in American culture and what he calls...

The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma

by Alex Kotlowitz

In The Other Side of the River, Kotlowitz takes us to southern Michigan. Here, separated by the St. Joseph River, are two towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Geographically close, they are worlds apart, a living...

Men We Cherish

by Brooke Stephens

One evening in 1994, writer Brooke Stephens was listening to the news while working on a tribute to her grandfather for an upcoming family reunion. The evening's newscast began with three negative reports about...

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

by Richard Hofstadter & Sean Wilentz

This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style...

Freedom of Religion and the Secular State

by Russell Blackford

Exploring the relationship between religion and the state

Focusing on the intersection of religion, law, and politics in contemporary liberal democracies, Blackford considers the concept of the secular state,...

Midlife Clarity: Epiphanies From Grown-Up Girls

by Cynthia Black, Laura Carlsmith & Jane Foley

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Tell Them Who I Am

by Elliot Liebow

He observes them, creating portraits that are intimate and objective, while breaking down stereotypes and dehumanizing labels often used to describe the homeless. Liebow writes about their daily habits, constant...

Patton's Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion In World War II

by Charles W. Sasser

On the battlefields of World War II, the men of the African-American 761st Tank Battalion under General Patton broke through enemy lines with the same courage with which they broke down the racist limitations...

The Secret Life of Cowboys

by Tom Groneberg

"One of the stories I tell myself when I am trying to fall asleep is that I have tried. I've tagged along after myself in the pages of my own modern Western, and every few years is another chapter to the story....