Social science

The Japanese Mind

by Roger Davies & Osamu Ikeno

In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their...

Transforming Japan: How Feminism and Diversity Are Making a Difference

by Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow

Feminism is changing the lives of women and men throughout Japan.

Complaints & Disorders [Complaints and Disorders]: The Sexual Politics of Sickness

by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

New edition of this bestselling book about the history of sexism

in the medical profession.

Diagnosis: Schizophrenia

by Rachel Miller & Susan E. Mason

In this book, thirty-five young, recently diagnosed patients speak about schizophrenia and the process of recovery, while two specialists illuminate the medical science, psychoeducation, and therapeutic needs...

The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb

by Avner Cohen

Israel has made a unique contribution to the nuclear age& mdash;it has created (with the tacit support of the United States) a special "bargain" with its bomb. Israel is the only nuclear-armed state that keeps...

Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future

by Tom Scocca

A definitive, and highly entertaining, account of contemporary Beijing, the undisputed capital of the twenty-first century.

Within the past decade, Beijing has debuted as the defining city of the now and foreseeable...

Beyond the Veneer: Malaysia's struggle for diginity and direction

by Ioannis Gatsiounis

The 2008 elections in Malaysia saw the ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional, suffer its worst showing since independence, balancing political power and bringing hope of a more progressive, democratic future. No...

Christian Political Ethics

by John A., S. J. Coleman

Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state...

False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy

by Dean Baker

Despite reports that the recession may be ending, the unemployment rate is sky high and home foreclosures are at record levels. It's no secret that the U.S. economy is in shambles because of the recent housing...

Figures of Speech: First Amendment Heroes and Villains

by William Turner

Recounting controversial First Amendment cases from the Red Scare era to Citizens United, William Bennett Turner shows how we've arrived at our contemporary understanding of free speech. His strange cast of...

Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism

by Belva Davis & Vicki Haddock

Belva Davis covered many of the most explosive stories of the last half-century, including the Black Panthers, the Jonestown massacre, the Moscone/Milk murders, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and Osama bin...

CHINA BOYS: How U.S. Relations With the PRC Began and Grew. A Personal Memoir

by Nicholas Platt

China Boys offers a close-up, worm's-eye view of the U.S. opening to China and the pioneer days in U.S.-China relations that followed. Diplomat Nicholas Platt describes preparations for the historic Nixon visit...

Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians

by F. E. Peters

The Quran is a sacred book with profound, and familiar, Old and New Testament resonances. And the message it promulgated, Islam, came of age during an extraordinarily rich era of interaction among monotheists....

Radicalism, Revolution, and Reform in Modern China: Essays in Honor of Maurice Meisner

by Catherine Lynch

Representing a spectrum of current scholarship, this volume illuminates the relationship of China's radical past to its reformist present as China makes a way forward through contested visions of the future....

The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom

by Ralph Hassig

This unique book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of insider knowledge and experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world...

A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

by John Berger

In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find...

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

by Marvin Harris

In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations...

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

by Marvin Harris

This book challenges those who argue that we can change the world by changing the way people think. Harris shows that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may seem, it always stems from concrete social...

The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly

by Robert Vare

“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values...

Them: Adventures with Extremists

by Jon Ronson

A wide variety of extremist groups -- Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis -- share the oddly similar belief that a tiny shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined...