Scienze Sociali

The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies

di Jonathan Alter

From the bestselling author of The Promise, the thrilling story of one of the most momentous contests in American history, the Battle Royale between Obama and his enemies from the 2010 midterms through the 2013...

The New Jim Crow

di Michelle Alexander & Cornel West

Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as...

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

di Jonathan Haidt

Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

di Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jetha

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science—as well as religious and cultural institutions—has maintained that men and women evolved in families...

Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns

di Glenn Beck

When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional “right of the people to keep and bear arms,” they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

It is the only time this phrase appears...

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

di Jennifer Worth

The highest-rated drama in BBC history returns to PBS Presents in March 2013   Less than a year after the first season finale, PBS’s hit series Call the Midwife returns to Sunday nights this spring with...

101 Reasons to Leave New York

di Howard Jordan Jr.

"101 Reasons to Leave New York is a quirky pop culture book that recognizes and articulates the unthinkable notion of willingly leaving the greatest city on the face of the planet. Then, provides all the funny,...

Jakarta Undercover

di Moammar Emka

Prowling the seedy red-light districts, the underground club circuit and the house parties of wealthy Indonesian society, Moammar Emka offers a unique glimpse into the underbelly of modern, urban Jakarta. This...

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

di Michael Pollan

In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements-fire, water, air, and earth-to transform the stuff...

Manifesto of the Communist Party

di Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto was first published on February 21, and it is one of the world's most influential political tracts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and...

The Official Highway Code

di Drivin for the Department for Transport

The only official Highway Code includes all the latest rules of the road and traffic signs, up-to-date legislation and advice on road safety. An essential read for all road users.

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us

di Felice Newman

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book was the first-ever sex guide to offer information and encouragement for all women who desire women — lesbian, bisexual, butch, femme, androgynous, and transgender. First published...

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

di David Stockman

A New York Times bestseller

The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year...

The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies

di Edward Shils

One of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of McCarthyism-an essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy that considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and...

Morals and Dogma

di Albert Pike

Morals and Dogma has been described as "a collection of thirty-two essays which provide a philosophical rationale for the degrees (membership levels) of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The lectures provided...

Law & Disorder

di John Douglas & Mark Olshaker

From law enforcement legend John Douglas, the FBI's pioneer of criminal profiling and the model for Agent Jack Crawford in The Silence of the Lambs, comes a provocative and personal look at our criminal justice...

The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict

di Dilip Hiro

In The Longest War, Dilip Hiro describes the causes and courses of the Iran-Iraq military conflict and its effect on the two antagonists, as well as the rest of the world. He reveals the intricate twists and...

Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

di Wenonah Hauter

Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food & Water Watch, but she also runs an organic family farm in Northern Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to over five hundred families in the Washington,...

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest 1997

di Anne Fadiman

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which...

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

di Daron Acemoglu & James Robinson

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness,...