Social Science - General

Nations are not helpless if the military decides to stage a coup. On dozens of occasions in recent decades, even in the face of intimidated political leaders and international indifference, civil society has risen up to challenge putschists through large-scale nonviolent direct action and...

The current status of fossil fuel and alternative energy is a hot topic of today. Many different sides have many different opinions on the transition strategy that will work best as fossil fuel reserves slowly diminish. Seeing the light at the end of the...

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill and his wife Harriet Taylor Mill in 1869stating an argument in favour of equality between the sexes. At the time it was published in 1869, this essay was an...

We are living in an age of information. Staggering amounts of information are collected, stored, and widely disseminated. Yet, we may be less informed and less knowledgeable than ever. The paradox of increasing information, yet decreasing knowledge and insight has many possible reasons, some...

"The Corporation Sole" from Frederic William Maitland. English jurist and historian (1850-1906).Author: The Perfect Library, Frederic William MaitlandISBN-10: 1522874038ISBN-13: 9781522874034Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2015Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.06d

"On War" from Karl von Clausewitz. Prussian general and influential military theorist (1780-1831).Author: The Perfect Library, Karl Von ClausewitzISBN-10: 152275069XISBN-13: 9781522750697Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2015Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d

The growing presence of social media and computer use has caused significant changes to community engagement. With the ubiquity of these technologies, there is increasing engagement in social and political policies and changes. Online Communities as Agents of Change and Social Movements is a...

Each of us wonders about something. We might wish we understood our romantic partners better. Maybe we struggle to understand people from other cultures, or we can't figure out why different religious or political groups do what they do. Even though we all communicate...

READER RESPONSES: "You have thought so deeply and multi-dimensionally about what it means to be creative and how that creativity can be manifested." "For a piece under 200 pages, you covered a lot of ground and untied the Gordian Knot." "You have read so...

Gender Matters: Truth and Consequences employs an intersectional feminist approach to introduce students to the various ways feminist thinkers discuss gender, sexuality, sex, and more. It encourages them to consider how these views may be manifested in their everyday surroundings from the classroom to...

The Social Work Practitioner: An Introduction to Fundamentals of the Social Work Profession emphasizes the practical over the theoretical to give students a deep understanding of fundamental concepts of the social work profession. Organized into four primary sections, it begins with a realistic examination...

The law perverted And the police powers of the state perverted along with it The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose The law become the weapon of every kind of greed Instead...

In this volume, a labor of respect and love if ever there was one, award-winning writer, visual artist and trained economist Kyi May Kaung joins other Contributors in remembering many outstanding Mentors at the Institute of Economics, Rangoon, in the post World War II...

Author: Simona PipkoISBN-10: 1514485249ISBN-13: 9781514485248Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2016Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

This book contains the basics of the Philippine government and the important provisions of the 1987 Philippine Constitution.Author: Domingo Serrano Sagnip JrISBN-10: 1511565810ISBN-13: 9781511565813Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2015Pages: 44Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d

Primary Numbers: A New Hampshire Numbers Book is a fitting follow-up to its companion state alphabet book. This fun, colorful, and superbly informative book teaches children about numbers using recognizable places, events, and facts from their respective states. Numbers throughout the books are explained...

Most of Andre Gunder Frank's early work on the nature of underdevelopment focused on one continent: Latin America. Here he broadened his canvas and traced the world-wide effects of the process of capital accumulation from the period just prior to the discovery of America...

In Lilith's Fire, Grenn-Scott examines why and how modern women are still demonized-identified as "bad" for actions perceived as reasonable for men, through techniques used for thousands of years-and how women have started to reverse this tendency by redefining right and wrong. Demonization, she...

You are what you eat ... and you should eat brilliantly Your fitness, health, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. Yet, knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good...

North of Los Angeles - the studios, the beaches, Rodeo Drive - lies a sparsely populated region that comprises fully one half of Los Angeles County. Sprawling across 2200 miles, this shadow side of Los Angeles is in the high Mojave Desert. Known as...

Kim Chernin's mother was a leftist firebrand, an American Marxist at mid-century, when it was dangerous to be one. Her father, a quiet man, was no less radical. Why then, decades later, does their daughter--a liberal California psychoanalyst and writer--find herself drawn toward a...

This book provides new information about Emily Dickinson as a writer and new ways of situating this poet in relation to nineteenth-century literary culture, examining how we read her poetry and how she was reading the poetry of her own day. Cristanne Miller argues...

From its founding in 1857 until its sale by Houghton Mifflin in 1908, the Atlantic Monthly was the most respected literary periodical in the United States. This study focuses on the magazine's first seven editors: James Russell Lowell, James T. Fields, William Dean Howells,...

One of the messages that Emily Dickinson wanted to communicate to the world was her great love of William Shakespeare--her letters abound with references to him and his works. This book explores the many implications of her admiration for the Bard. P疵aic Finnerty clarifies...

During the 1960s, the SNCC Freedom Singers, The Living Theatre, the Diggers, the Art Workers Coalition, and the Guerrilla Art Action Group fused art and politics by staging unexpected and uninvited performances in public spaces. Through their activism and the response it provoked, art,...

The author presents a comprehensive look at language use and attitudes among the Kiche people of Guatemala. The book combines qualitative and quantitive analyses to test two hypotheses: (1) that K'iche' and Spanish are in a stable diglossic relationship and (2) that there is...

Originally published in 1992, the critically acclaimed Seeds of Nonviolence chronicles John Dear's early experiments in Gospel nonviolence, from his service to the homeless in Washington, DC; various nonviolent civil disobedience actions against war and injustice; journals and diaries from Central America, the Philippines,...

This engineering text is directed toward Forensic Engineers who are interested in determining the causal factors of bicycle accidents. The author, a Professional Engineer and competitive cyclist and triathlete, has organized the engineering literature for this purpose. He also has detailed laboratory data and...

Newfoundland is well known for the strong traditions and folklore of its English-speaking inhabitants. Until recently, however, few outside this province realized that there is also a small but vigorous Francophone population, situated mainly on the west coast of the island in and around...

One of the most definitive books written on the gentrification phenomena. The author examines the various aspects of gentrification and how they were countered in one community, Venice, California. The time period is the first two decades of the 21st century, with side trips...

Philip Dru: Administrator has repeatedly been recommended by talk-show sensation Glenn Beck. A novel written by one of the most influential members of Woodrow Wilson's administration, the book presciently outlines the plans of America's progressive movement. Those who desire a deeper understanding of the...

Power from on High offers the first critical survey of scholarship on the subject of Luke's view of the Spirit, assessing the rival theories by means of three criteria: continuity with Luke's background, relationship to other aspects of Luke's theology, and Luke's place in...

Description: This groundbreaking study explores the ways young Americans today understand right and wrong, how they think out their morality, and how they live it out. It describes contrasting ethical styles in the biblical, utilitarian, and personalist traditions of our culture; first, as they...

About the Contributor(s): Walter C. Wright is Executive Director of the De Pree Leadership Center at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena. He is also the author of the international best-seller Relational Leadership.Author: Walter C. WrightISBN-10: 1625645171ISBN-13: 9781625645173Publisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2013Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight:...

With skillful storytelling, Matthew McKenzie weaves together the industrial, cultural, political, and ecological history of New England's fisheries through the story of how the Boston haddock fleet--one of the region's largest and most heavily industrialized--rose, flourished, and then fished itself into near oblivion before...

In his 1862 eulogy for Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson reflected that his friend "dedicated his genius with such entire love to the fields, hills, and waters of his native town, that he made them known and interesting to all reading Americans, and...

Well known for its world-renowned art museums--from the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston--Massachusetts is also home to numerous institutions with more eclectic collections and, oftentimes, lower profiles. These include Mansfield's National Black Doll Museum of History...

The story of America's "War on Drugs" usually begins with Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan. In Containing Addiction, Matthew R. Pembleton argues that its origins instead lie in the years following World War II, when the Federal Bureau of Narcotics--the country's first drug control...

From 1877 to 1896, the popularity of bicycles increased exponentially, and Boston was in on it from the start. The Boston Bicycle Club was the first in the nation, and the city's cyclists formed the nucleus of a new national organization, the League of...

A volume in Applied Research in Education and the Social Sciences Series Editor Jerry W. Willis, St. John Fisher College The first three chapters of Action Research: Models, Methods, and Examples covers the history, foundations, and basics of conducting action research projects. In those...

Dealing with Differences is a pervasive issue everyone is faced with, yet our responses are not always just and mutually enriching. This book argues that our ability for empathy can become an internal lens to overcome the fear of differences. Dealing with Differences begins...

This book bridges the disciplines of economics and marketing and brings them to bear on the analysis of contemporary business problems. The world has changed dramatically over the last four decades. Sociologically, technologically, economically and politically speaking the world is changing at an increasing...

The growing housing crisis cries out for solutions that work. As many as 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness each year, half of them women and children. One in four renters spends more than half of their income on rent and utilities (more than 30...

A survey of New Deal projects and their lasting impact Robert D. Leighninger, Jr., believes there may be a model for municipal building projects everywhere in the ambitious and artful structures erected in Louisiana by the Public Works Administration. In the 1930s, the PWA...

In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, no large kingdoms controlled Nigeria and Cameroon's multilingual...

Originally published in French in 1848, Essays on Political Economy by Frederic Bastiat is a collection of essays in which Bastiat addresses several controversial economic and political principles, such as the free market, the role of government, taxes, and capital and interest, among others....

This book is about Nature, Man and Life; about wisdom of Nature and arrogance of Man pretending to be wiser than Nature; about Life-faking fantasies of Man called socialism; and about socialist ideals of economic equality, altruism and "rejuvenation" of human nature. This book...

Author: G. K. ChestertonISBN-10: 1613829752ISBN-13: 9781613829752Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/08/2010Pages: 148Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

Thomas Paine's classic "Common Sense"Author: Thomas PaineISBN-10: 1612930166ISBN-13: 9781612930169Publisher: Tribeca BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/03/2011Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.20d

Greece Through Irish Eyes is an insightful personal view by Richard Pine of the country where he has lived for the past 15 years. One of Ireland's leading literary critics, Pine asks, What links Ireland and Greece? The author's trenchant, provocative arguments acknowledge both...