Scienze Sociali

THE HANDBOOK OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR

di Clifton D. D. Bryant

The Handbook of Deviant Behavior presents a comprehensive, integrative, and accessible overview of the contemporary body of knowledge in the field of social deviance in the twenty-first century.

This book addresses...

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities: From Industrial Restructuring to the Cultural Turn

di Peter W. W. Daniels, K. C. C. Ho & Thomas A. A. Hutton

The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world's most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the 'industrialization paradigm'...

Handbook of Identity Studies

di Anthony Elliott

The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the...

Stonehenge Mathematics

di Neil L Thomas

Synopsis: STONEHENGE MATHEMATICS is about numbers and counting, lines triangles circles and ovals - their use by the sages of Britain and Ireland five thousand years ago. They designed ancient monuments with...

My Fellow Americans: Presidents Speak to the People in Troubled Times

di Michael Worek

The most interesting and inspiring presidential speeches, from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama.

From Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama, American presidents have faced unprecedented challenges at home and...

Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixties

di Samuel Hawley

The quest for the land speed record in the 1960s and the epic rivalry between two dynamic American drivers, Art Arfons and Craig Breedlove.

"Interesting and complex. . . .The best job I've seen done on the subject...

Hope in Hell: Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders

di Dan Bortolotti

More fascinating and harrowing accounts of the volunteer professionals who risk their lives to help those in desperate need.

Praise for the second edition:

"Direct and evocative, this well-written book pushes...

Group Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy of Anxiety: A Transdiagnostic Treatment Manual

di Peter J. Norton

Cognitive-behavioral therapy is highly effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders, regardless of the specific type of fear that is causing difficulties. This practical, hands-on clinical resource presents...

Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

di Robert Pape

Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but there is great confusion as to why. In this paradigm-shifting analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence...

The Fashionista Files: Adventures in Four-Inch Heels and Faux Pas

di Karen Robinovitz & Melissa de la Cruz

A fashionista is a girl who always looks current and cutting edge, even when her clothes are vintage 1975. A fashionista can tell her Pucci from her Gucci and her Blahniks from her Choos, but she’s as comfortable...

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

di Anthony Everitt

He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of...

Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

di Morgan Spurlock

Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even higher in Where...

Getting America Right: The True Conservative Values Our Nation Needs Today

di Edwin J. Feulner

Where did we take a wrong turn?

That’s what proud conservatives are asking. The era of liberal dominance is finally over, but sometimes you wouldn’t know it. Government spending is out of control, huge waves...

Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping

di Patrick Radden Keefe

How does our government eavesdrop? Whom do they eavesdrop on? And is the interception of communication an effective means of predicting and preventing future attacks? These are some of the questions at the heart...

How the Government Got in Your Backyard: Superweeds, Frankenfoods, Lawn Wars, and the (Nonpartisan) Truth about Environmental Policies

di Jeff Gillman & Eric Heberlig

Biotechnology - the future or a genetic time bomb? Renewable fuels - the key to cleaner air or just corporate welfare? Greenhouse gasses - baking the earth to death or just a needless worry? Plant patents -...

Recovery

di Peter J Dwyer

'Ours is proving to be one of those decisive periods of history in which a fundamental transformation of the human prospect is taking place.' In this book Peter Dwyer draws on expert studies to show how current...

From Buddha to Bono

di Tor Hundloe

This is a very special book. Until now no one has put together the full environmental and ethical story facing Planet Earth, as Tor Hundloe has done. In this book he has put squarely on the agenda the key matters...

Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France

di John J. Miller & Mark Molesky

Liberté? Egalité? Fraternité? Or just plain gall?

In this provocative and brilliantly researched history of how the French have dealt with the United States, John J. Miller and Mark Molesky demonstrate that...

Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror

di Mahmood Mamdani

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that...

The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class

di Michael J. Casey

A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic...