Social science / Sociology

When God Stood Up: A Christian Response to AIDS in Africa

by James Cantelon

THE VICTIMS OF THE AIDS PANDEMIC IN AFRICA ARE FAR MORE NUMEROUS THAN THE DEAD AND DYING. MILLIONS OF ORPHANS AND WIDOWS ARE TRYING TO SURVIVE IN EXTREME POVERTY AND SOCIAL OPRESSION. JAMES CANTELON, A CANADIAN...

The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies

by Greg Harvey

J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian – have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century....

World's Great Men of Color, Volume I

by J.A. Rogers

An eye-opening account of the great black personalities of world history.

In this first volume: outstanding blacks of Asia and Africa, and historical figures before Christ -- including Akhenaton, Aesop, Hannibal,...

The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2010 Edition

by Daryl Cagle & Brian Fairrington

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

The Best of the Year in Editorial Cartoons The best cartoonists in the world contributed to this collection of the best cartoons of 2009, from Daryl Cagle's Political...

My Dad Is a Bro

by The Editors of BroBible.com

DAD IS THE MOST IMPORTANT MAN IN A BRO’S LIFE.

He teaches you how to swing a baseball bat, grill a steak, and master a stick shift. Dad helps you laugh off a breakup, guides you on big decisions, and doesn’t...

Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don't Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook

by Sarah Schmelling

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff White People Like and I Can Has Cheezburger?, the next online humor sensation makes the leap to book form When humorist Sarah Schmelling transformed Hamlet into a Facebook...

To Be an Actress

by Nava Shean

This book traces Nava Shean's life on the stage, providing a first-hand account of life in Terezin concentration camp and the incredible artistic activity under the shadow of the transports to the death camps....

Rider: The Rider Quintet, vol. 1

National Book Critics Circle for Poetry 1994

by Mark Rudman

Rudman skillfully explores his own life and past.

Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema

by Tim Palmer

A major survey of contemporary French cinema's leading films and filmmakers

"All Labor Has Dignity"

by Martin Luther Jr King & Michael K. Honey

An unprecedented and timely collection of Dr. King’s speeches on labor rights and economic justice

Covering all the civil rights movement highlights--Montgomery, Albany, Birmingham, Selma, Chicago, and Memphis--award-winning...

Nina Here Nor There

by Nick Krieger

Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction 

The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.

Ambitious,...

The Widening Gap

by Jody Heymann

This impassioned and informed book is the first to describe how government and industry have failed working families and what we can do to get beyond this critical impasse

The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap

by Susan Pinker

Susan Pinker, psychologist and award-winning columnist, has written a groundbreaking and controversial book that reveals why learning and behavioral gaps between boys and girls in the classroom are reversed...

Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal

by Andrew Hacker

Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic,...

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

by Max Weber & Peter Baehr

In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and the fulfillment...

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women

by Geraldine Brooks

With a New Afterword

As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent...

Towards Relational Sociology

by Nick Crossley

The book argues for a properly 'relational' approach to sociology. It explores what such an enterprise would involve by unpacking and evaluating the key concepts in the relational 'toolbox' - interaction, relations,...

Visual Research Methods

by Stephen Spencer

This is a practical guide for students, researchers and teachers in the social sciences who wish to explore and actively use visual research. Demonstrating the use of visual ethnography, video and photography,...

A Critical Realist Perspective of Education

by Brad Shipway

This book clearly and comprehensively explores the capability of critical realism to throw new light on educational theory. It investigates the convergence and divergence between two forms of critical realism,...

Making Sense of Sports

by ELLIS CASHMORE

Ellis Cashmore's unique, multidisciplinary introduction to the study of sport in its cultural context reaches its fifth edition, which comes enhanced with new chapters, new features and access to a new online...