Social science

Your Pilot's License

by Jerry Eichenberger

* A "must" guide containing comprehensive and straight-to-the-point advice on current issues concerning a pilot's license--from how much it costs to regulations and requirements

* Fully updated, this classic...

Election 2012: The Battle Begins (The RealClearPolitics Political Download)

by Carl M. Cannon & Tom Bevan

Real Clear Politics’ first in a series of in-depth looks at the 2012 campaign.

With unsurpassed access to the White House, Republican candidates, and their respective staffs, Election 2012: The Battle Begins...

Missing Data

by Patrick McKnight & Katherine McKnight

While most books on missing data focus on applying sophisticated statistical techniques to deal with the problem after it has occurred, this volume provides a methodology for the control and prevention of missing...

Boys of Few Words

by Adam Cox

When your son responds to personal questions with a blank stare, or quickly changes the topic, you might chalk it up to "boys will be boys"--but still worry that something is missing in your relationship or...

Cognitive Therapy Techniques for Children and Adolescents

by Robert Friedberg & Jessica McClure

Providing a wealth of practical interventions and activities--all organized within a state-of-the-art modular framework--this invaluable book helps child clinicians expand their intervention toolkits. Building...

The 20th Century Cyber War Zone Operations Part One

by Perry Ritthaler

This fascinating e-book tells the story of war taking the reader from the time of full blow killings on the battlefield toward the peace truce operations currently being negotiated in the Middle East today....

Savages and Civilization

by Jack Weatherford

In Indian Givers and Native Roots, renowned anthropologist Jack Weatherford opened the eyes of tens of thousands of readers to the clash between Native American and European cultures. Now, in his brilliant new...

Why do aircraft crash? Pilots and their limitations

by Steve Murray

Today, most aviation accidents are the result of human limitations, not mechanical failure. How can pilots best deal with their limitations to avoid accidents? Steve Murray explores physical and mental limitations,...

Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen & Harry Lewis

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and...

Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics

by Masao Maruyama

A collection of notable essays by Japanese political science professor Masao Maruyama, translated from the original Japanese. Topics covered include pre-war Japanese nationalism, fascism, and the science of...

Bamboo

by William Boyd

Plant one bamboo shoot-cut bamboo for the rest of your life. William Boyd's prolific, fruitful career is a testament to this old Chinese saying. Boyd penned his first book review in 1978-the proverbial bamboo...

Some Notes on English Animal Lore - Birds, Animals, Insects and Reptiles (Folklore History Series)

by T. F. Rhiselton Dyer

The English countryside was full of customs and superstitions relating to the animals that were seen in every day life. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are...

The Everything Guide to Understanding Socialism: The political, social, and economic concepts behind this complex theory

by Pamela Toler

Socialism was one of the formative forces of the modern world, and its complex history stretches back nearly three centuries. But what, exactly, does socialism mean? This informative and impartial guide takes...

The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder

by Serena Nanda

This ethnographically based murder mystery, set in an Indian immigrant community in New York City, uses the main principles of cultural anthropology and ethnographic method to explore a wide range of cultural...

Lorries: 1890s to 1970s

by Nick Baldwin

From lumbering house-shakers on solid tires to smooth turbo-power in the 1970s, the lorry has come a very long way in a remarkably short time. In the early competition between steam, petrol and electricity,...

The American Way of Death Revisited

by Jessica Mitford

"Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get.  It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health."--The New York Review of Books

Only the scathing...

Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem And Save Girls' Lives

by Jean Zimmerman

Now in paperback, the first book to document how participating in sports changes young girls' lives during the difficult years of adolescence.

From high-profile women's professional leagues to high-school-level...

Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America

by Christopher J Matthews

First as friends, then as bitter enemies, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon shared a rivalry that had a dramatic impact on American history and that has never been understood until now. One would become the most...

Social Q's: How to Survive the Quirks, Quandaries and Quagmires of Today

by Philip Galanes

Office attire and e-mail misfire. Twitter snafus and dating miscues. Philip Galanes hears an awful lot of WHAT SHOULD I DOs?!

“I’m pretty sure the woman who swims laps next to me at the Y is peeing in the...

Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall

by Amy Chua

In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most...