Society & Social Sciences books

Before there were kings, before there were cities, before even forests had fully learned their own names, there...  Read More >>

Celestial Heralds is a sweeping exploration of how humanity has used the sky to think about meaning, time, order,...  Read More >>

The complex and multifaceted relationship between economic factors and conflict. In this book, Stephen Brooks provides...  Read More >>

How to understand a long-standing puzzle in political philosophy: the relationship between justice and legitimacy...  Read More >>

This book introduces the concept of antitheodicy and an approach that the author proposes to call antitheodicism...  Read More >>

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A bracing feminist chronicle of the history of the West told through seven texts, exposing where our most virulent...  Read More >>

With Malcolm Gladwell-like clarity, Churn captures the most commonplace tensions of life in a multi-faceted democracy...  Read More >>

Gina Gershon offers cautionary (and often hilarious) tales of surviving the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood, revealing...  Read More >>

In mid 1941, David Lloyd Owen, aged 24, joined the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) as a young patrol commander. He...  Read More >>

Japan’s prime minister and top military general during WWII, Hideki Tojo is today associated above all with the...  Read More >>

From her childhood in Puli Khumri, Afghanistan, to her courageous advocacy on the global stage today, Judge Marzia...  Read More >>

Grammy-winning musician Ani DiFranco explores her creativity, spirituality, and evolving consciousness in conversation...  Read More >>

There are two popular and competing viewpoints on sports. Many consider them a mere distraction from important social...  Read More >>

This book covers the theory and practice of agent-based modelling (ABM) from a novice to intermediate level. Structured...  Read More >>

The Second World War saw the eclipse of the battleship as the capital vessel in any navy by a new feat of maritime...  Read More >>

From the world-leading expert on the Maya, a monumental history of a flourishing civilisation across three millennia...  Read More >>

It is a critical time for environmental sociology. Against a backdrop of increasingly dynamic environmental and...  Read More >>

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Draws on the work of the Renaissance theologian and mystic Nicolas of Cusa to offer an alternative to Cartesian...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986, this book was unique in providing a vivid and sometimes disturbing portrait of what...  Read More >>

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