Society & culture: general books

A starry-eyed Midwestern DJ spins on-air personas that unravel her identity and moral fabric in the male-dominated...  Read More >>

Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence: Convergent Systems for Planning, Design, and Operations, Second Edition...  Read More >>

'Why does capitalism fail us?' Richard D. Wolff walks readers through this pressing question in a brilliant takedown...  Read More >>

Richard D. Wolff masterfully explains why Karl Marx's analysis of class struggle is fundamental to a proper understanding...  Read More >>

Socialism is a yearning for justice, community, and the greater realisation of human potential. Cornel West calls...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

A Woman's Guide to Menopause, Body Image, and Emotional Well-being at Midlife is the definitive primer for all things...  Read More >>

Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing...  Read More >>

Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Modern Issues serves as a solid foundational textbook for the...  Read More >>

Climate change imagery on social and traditional media platforms can be formulaic and narrow in perspective. Going...  Read More >>

The Reflective Age investigates the cultural and political context that led to the nostalgia boom in American media...  Read More >>

Unwelcome Shores is an ethnographic study of the Liberian refugee community in Staten Island, NY, that sheds light...  Read More >>

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing...  Read More >>

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine...  Read More >>

Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, “vegetarian sects,”...  Read More >>

Jay S. Kaufman offers a clear and accessible guide to understanding the use and abuse of statistics on racial and...  Read More >>

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Paralympic Games Explained is the leading introduction to...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking book reimagines marginality as a transformative force, interweaving personal narratives with...  Read More >>

An illustrated picture book for kids age 3-7, telling the story of Benjamin and his mom, David. Benjamin speaks...  Read More >>

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Tackle systemic racism in the workplace with practical strategies In The Anti-Racist Organization: Dismantling...  Read More >>

One bed. One (very awkward) shared past. What could go wrong? With a fun and steamy twist on the only-one-bed...  Read More >>

This book offers a history of the most critically derided subgenre in American comics: the ""bad girl"" comics of...  Read More >>