Social science

Cooper's Revenge

by Terrence L Williams & Emily Carmain – First Coast Publishers, LLC (October 21, 2014)

Navy SEAL, Logan Alexander, is trying to put his life back together following a career-ending injury in Afghanistan, when he learns that his younger brother, Cooper, has been killed in an ambush while on patrol...

Rights of Man

by Thomas Paine – Dover Publications (February 02, 2012)

Highly influential statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism helped pave the way for social security for workers, public employment for those in need of work, abolition of laws limiting wages, other...

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill – Dover Publications (February 02, 2012)

Mill's eloquent 1859 treatise asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty in a democratic society. Enduringly influential study.

Emergence of infectious diseases

by Serge Morand & Muriel Figuié – Quae (April 03, 2018)

From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains...

Robo sapiens japanicus

by Jennifer Robertson – University of California Press (November 10, 2017)

Japan is arguably the first post-industrial society to embrace the prospect of human-robot coexistence.  Over the past decade, Japanese humanoid robots designed for future use in homes, hospitals, offices,...

Aviation Maintenance Technician Oral & Practical Exam Guide

by Dale Crane & Raymond E. Thompson – Aviation Supplies and Academics, Inc. (May 02, 2016)

The oral and practical exams are the last steps for certification of an Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT). The AMT Oral & Practical Exam Guide by industry expert Dale Crane (edited by Raymond E. Thompson)...

Black Pearls

by Eric V. Copage – Amistad (June 07, 2011)

Eric V. Copage's Black Pearls is an extraordinary book of inspirational thoughts and practical advice for African-Americans. The 365 quotes that begin each day's entry range from African proverbs to wisdom from...

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin

by Frank Bailey, Ken Morris & Jeanne Devon – Howard Books (April 05, 2011)

This explosive, up-close view of Sarah Palin comes from an inner-circle confidant who shares surprising information about how Sarah dealt with staff and perceived "enemies," and the discrepancy between what...

The Apple Family: Scenes from Life in the Country

by Richard Nelson – Theatre Communications Group (December 08, 2014)

A Chekhovian quartet of plays examining the contemporary American experience.

The Irregularization of Migration in Contemporary Europe: Detention, Deportation, Drowning

by Yolande Jansen, Robin Celikates & Joost de Bloois – Rowman & Littlefield International (December 12, 2014)

This carefully curated collection addresses the intertwined political, legal, cultural, and normative dimensions of the irregularization of migration.

Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings

by Martina Tazzioli – Rowman & Littlefield International (November 24, 2014)

This book explores migrants’ movements and struggles taking place in the aftermath of the Arab Revolutions and examines how they impact the European space.

Handbook of Socialization, Second Edition: Theory and Research

by Joan E. Grusec & Paul D. Hastings – The Guilford Press (December 05, 2014)

This highly regarded handbook remains the leading reference and advanced text on socialization. Foremost authorities review the breadth of current knowledge on socialization processes across the life span. Extensively...

Barry's First Time

by John Derek – Lulu.com (November 16, 2014)

This book contains a depiction of a first person sexual act. Barry is straight. Or so he thinks. Until he sees his neighbor getting a blow job. It makes him wonder what is that all about. This is a first person...

In Plain Sight: Reflections on Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver

by Leslie A. Robertson & Dara Culhane – Talonbooks (December 15, 2014)

A collection of seven life stories from women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside who are seldom heard on their own terms.

Policy change, public attitudes and social citizenship: Does neoliberalism matter?

by Humpage, Louise – Policy Press (November 05, 2014)

This unique book traces public views on social citizenship across three decades through attitudinal data from New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Australia. It will be valuable for academics and students in...

Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent

by Stuart Price & Ruth Sanz Sabido – Rowman & Littlefield International (December 12, 2014)

Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent offers an insight into modern European protest movements, focusing on the strategies, activities, and developments associated with the current wave of public dissent....

The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays

by Paula Vogel – Theatre Communications Group (November 01, 1995)

The first major collection of plays by leading lesbian playwright Paula Vogel.

Fallen Leaves

by Will Durant – Simon & Schuster (December 09, 2014)

Praised as a "revelatory" book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his death.

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Brave Girls

by Stacey Radin & Leslie Goldman – Atria Books (January 06, 2015)

"A solid resource for parents and educators" (Kirkus Reviews), Brave Girls is an empowering guide to cultivating confident, passionate, and powerful young leaders during the most formative stage of life: the...

The Trouble with Africa

by Robert Calderisi – St. Martin's Press (December 22, 2014)

After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of Africa's...

Pyropolitics: When the World is Ablaze

by Michael Marder – Rowman & Littlefield International (December 12, 2014)

A highly original theory of the political, the book explores the literal and metaphorical flare-ups in political theology, revolutionary thought, radical protests, and global energy production.

The Visual Dictionary of Transportation

by Ariane Archambault & Jean-Claude Corbeil – Les Éditions Québec Amérique (July 20, 2012)

The Visual Dictionary of Transportation gives readers the chance to explore ancient and modern transport, on road, rails, water, or in the air. Convenient and affordable, this book is the perfect tool to discover...

The Visual World Atlas

by QA international Collectif – Les Éditions Québec Amérique (November 14, 2012)

An overview of the state of the world for understanding global issues Inside you will find: • more than 110 thematic maps, • more than 50 fact tables from world renown organizations, • more than 130 photographs,...

Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco's Housing Wars

by James Tracy – AK Press (September 29, 2014)

The true story of how gentrification, fueled by income inequality, decimated working people in San Francisco.

FAR/AIM 2015

by Federal Aviation Administration – Skyhorse (November 18, 2014)

If you’re an aviator or aviation enthusiast, you cannot be caught with an out-of-date edition of the FAR/AIM. In today’s environment, there is no excuse for ignorance of the rules of the US airspace system....

Universal versus Disney: The Unofficial Guide to American Theme Parks' Greatest Rivalry

by Sam Gennawey – Unofficial Guides (October 20, 2014)

Universal Studios never really wanted to get into the theme park business. They wanted to be the anti-Disney. But when forced to do so, they did it in a big way. Despite the fits and starts of multiple owners,...

The Valley

by Joan MacLeod – Talonbooks (July 01, 2014)

Eighteen-year-old Connor, an aspiring author whose fantastical stories foretell his growing struggle with depression, can’t wait to be free of his adverb-wielding, solve-it-all mother, Sharon. But six weeks...

I Belong Only to Myself: The Life and Writings of Leda Rafanelli

by Andrea Pakieser – AK Press (December 01, 2014)

The life and words of an Italian feminist and firebrand.

Full Circle: Death and Resurrection In Canadian Conservative Politics

by Bob Plamondon – eBookIt.com (November 21, 2014)

Full Circle tells the dramatic story of how the Canadian conservative movement was fractured in the 1990s and how it was restored to glory and was returned to power in 2006. It recounts the humiliating defeat...

Environment, Politics, and Ideology in North Korea: Landscape as Political Project

by Robert Winstanley-Chesters – Lexington Books (November 12, 2014)

This book provides a unique summary of North Korean environmental and developmental policies. Coupling ideological and political developments with a review of practical projects within specific sectors, it provides...

The Politics of Crisis Management in China: The Sichuan Earthquake

by Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo – Lexington Books (November 14, 2014)

This book studies the Chinese government and military’s rapid mobilization and coordination work in the aftermath of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. It is a comparative and historical analysis for scholars and...

Portland: A Food Biography

by Heather Arndt Anderson – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (November 13, 2014)

More than just food carts and microbrews, Portland has a story to tell. Its culinary history sings the song of the salmon-people, the pioneers and immigrants, each struggling to make this strange but inviting...

Minorities of Europeanization: The New Others of European Social Identity

by Hakan Ovunc Ongur – Lexington Books (November 13, 2014)

This book combines the conceptualization of social identity with historical analysis to rethink discussions of Europeanization and minorities. Problematizing the EU’s attempts to create a “European social...

The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics, and Trajectories

by Fahed Al-Sumait, Nele Lenze & Michael C. Hudson – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (November 06, 2014)

This collection of essays uses the term “Arab Uprisings” as the organizing frame to address numerous socio-cultural, economic, political, experiential, and communicative aspects of the uprisings. The text...

The Coordinated Management of Meaning: A Festschrift in Honor of W. Barnett Pearce

by Stephen W. Littlejohn & Sheila McNamee – Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (November 05, 2013)

Honoring the work of W. Barnett Pearce, this volume of 16 essays explores various applications of the theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning. It anticipates futures in many areas of the communication...

The Clash: The Only Band That Mattered

by Sean Egan – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (November 06, 2014)

In The Clash: The Only Band That Matters, respected music critic Sean Egan examines The Clash’s career and art through the prism of the uniquely interesting and fractious UK politics of the Seventies and Eighties,...

Generational Feminism: New Materialist Introduction to a Generative Approach

by Iris van der Tuin – Lexington Books (November 12, 2014)

Iris van der Tuin redirects the notion of generational logic in feminism away from its simplistic conception as conflict towards a more nuanced conception of the methodology's useful structures. Experimenting...

49 Myths about China

by Marte Kjær Galtung & Stig Stenslie – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (November 13, 2014)

This engaging book highlights 49 prevalent myths about China’s past, present, and future and weighs their truth or fiction. Leading a thoughtful and entertaining tour, the authors debunk widespread “knowledge”...

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the Industrial Base, 2000-2013

by Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders & Rhys McCormick – Center for Strategic & International Studies (October 16, 2014)

This report analyzes contracting for products, services, and research & development (R&D) by the Department of Defense (DoD) and its key components.

Gossip Girl: A Critical Understanding

by Lori Bindig – Lexington Books (November 12, 2014)

This book is a critical cultural studies analysis of the CW’s hit teen television drama Gossip Girl (2007–2012). Bindig examines the show in terms of gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, and...

Mediated Nostalgia: Individual Memory and Contemporary Mass Media

by Ryan Lizardi – Lexington Books (November 06, 2014)

Mediated Nostalgia works to help understand the cultural, historical, and sociological implications of a past-obsessed media industry. It takes a cross-media and interdisciplinary approach in its study of the...

The Death Penalty: What's Keeping It Alive

by Andrea D. Lyon – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (November 06, 2014)

In The Death Penalty: What’s Keeping it Alive an award-winning criminal defense attorney turns a critical eye towards the death penalty in America. Filled with gripping case studies, the book analyzes why...

Recovering Christian Realism: Just War Theory as a Political Ethic

by H. David Baer – Lexington Books (November 13, 2014)

Recovering Christian Realism develops an account of just war theory as a political ethic grounded explicitly in a Christian theory of political authority. It advances a defense of Christian realism, explains...

Re-creating Paul Bowles, the Other, and the Imagination: Music, Film, and Photography

by Raj Chandarlapaty – Lexington Books (November 05, 2014)

This work underscores the true brilliance and timelessness of colonial metaphors of authorship that extend into the postmodern Age. The emphasis is upon both re-invention and comprehensive scholarship on music...

Archaeological Thinking: How to Make Sense of the Past

by Charles E. Orser Jr. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (November 07, 2014)

In Archaeological Thinking, Charles E. Orser, Jr., provides a commonsense guide to applying critical thinking skills to archaeological questions and evidence.

A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

by Audrey Thomas McCluskey – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (October 30, 2014)

In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national prominence as educational reformers and social activists. This book...

Eisenhower: The Public Relations President

by Pam Parry & Mary Jean Eisenhower – Lexington Books (October 30, 2014)

Dwight D. Eisenhower is this nation’s most transformative public relations president, not because he was the best practitioner to occupy the Oval Office but because he embraced public relations as vital to...

Created Equal

by Michael Nava & Robert Dawidoff – St. Martin's Griffin (December 15, 2014)

Why should Americans who are not gay care about gay rights? In Created Equal, Michael Nava and Robert Dawidoff argue that the movement for gay equality is central to the continuing defense of individual liberty...

Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati

by Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Msia Kibona Clark, Sheba Lo & Rico Chapman et al. – Lexington Books (October 30, 2014)

This book explores the role of hip hop in grassroots changes occurring today in Africa. It argues that artists use hip hop to confront social structures and reveals the complexity and dynamic nature of African...

Sisterly Love: Women of Note in Pennsylvania History

by Marie A. Conn & Thérèse McGuire – Hamilton Books (October 30, 2014)

Sisterly Love tells the stories of women who have made or are making significant contributions to Pennsylvania history, from the state’s early decades to the present day. In these essays you will meet artists,...