Social science / Sociology

The Good Body

by Eve Ensler

Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” “In the 1950s,” Eve...

Dreaming with the Wheel: How to Interpret Your Dreams Using the Medicine Wheel

by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind & Shawnodese

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

Seven Soulful Secrets for Finding Your Purpose and Minding Your Mission

by Stephanie Stokes Oliver

From the author of Daily Cornbread, Seven Soulful Secrets will motivate women to become not just better than they are but the best they can be.

In a tone that is as encouraging and comforting as your favorite...

Land of Disenchantment: Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico

by Michael L. Trujillo

This experimental study of cultural dysfunction in New Mexico's Española Valley tells the stories of several of its Nuevomexicano residents, both famous and notorious.

My Bondage and My Freedom

by Frederick Douglass & John Stauffer

“My Bondage and My Freedom,” writes John Stauffer in his Foreword, “[is] a deep meditation on the meaning of slavery, race, and freedom, and on the power of faith and literacy, as well as a portrait of...

The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition

by Eve Ensler

A poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone, The Vagina Monologues is a celebration of female sexuality in all its complexity and mystery. In this stunning phenomenon that...

Untold Tales of the Hasidim: Crisis and Discontent in the History of Hasidism

by David Assaf

Reveals the untold tale of shocking events and anomalous figures in the history of Hasidism

Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World

by Peggy Orenstein

Peggy Orenstein’s bestselling Schoolgirls is the classic study of teenage girls and self-esteem. Now Orenstein uses the same interviewing and reporting skills to examine the lives of women in their 20s, 30s...

Men Who Hate Women and Women Who Kick Their Asses: Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in Feminist Perspective

by Donna King & Carrie Lee Lee Smith

Stieg Larsson was an unabashed feminist in his personal and professional life and in the fictional world he created, but The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked...

The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America: Issues and Challenges

by Andrew P. Jackson, Julius Jefferson & Akilah S. Nosakhere

This collection of poignant essays covers a multiplicity of concerns for the 21st-century Black librarian and embodies compassion and respect for the provision of information, an act that defines librarianship....

Navigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajo Land

by Gelaye Debebe

Navigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajoland by Gelaye Debebe uses data of an inter-organizational relationship between a Navajo and Anglo organization to show how concerns about political inequality...

Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema

by Andrew Scahill, Debbie C. Olson & Sage Leslie-McCarthy

Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, is an edited collection that challenges notions of the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of...

Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing

by Paula Mathieu, Steven J. Parks & Tiffany Rousculp

Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp, represents the first attempt to gather the myriad of community and college...

Dancing with the Wheel

by Sun Bear, Wabun Wind & Crysalis Mulligan

The Native American philosophy behind the vision of the Medicine Wheel is that all things and beings on the earth are related and, therefore, must be in harmony for the earth to be balanced. Dancing with the...

Dancing Out of Bali

by John Coast & Richard Attenborough

"It is Bali felt, understood, loved, communicated...Coast has a kind of word magic." --New York Herald Tribune

This book tells of a young Englishman, fresh out of a Japanese prison camp, and his Javanese wife,...

The New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization

by Jan Douwe Douwe van der van der Ploeg

'Jan Douwe van der Ploeg combines long engagement in the empirical study of farming and farmers, and of alternative agricultures, in very different parts of the world, with a sophisticated analytical acumen...

Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema

by Rajinder Dudrah

Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the...

Liquid City: Megalopolis and the Contemporary Northeast

by John R R Short

Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late...

Ready, Steady, Go!: The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London

by Shawn Levy

It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel...

China's Soft Power and International Relations

by Hongyi Lai & Yiyi Lu

China's soft power has attracted considerable attention in the recent decade. In this volume scholars from the U.K., Europe, the U.S., Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and mainland China, including a number of...