Society & Social Sciences books

Homins are hair-covered, humanlike beings purported to exist in oral and written literature across time and space....  Read More >>

In an increasingly polarized age, culture wars are everywhere. They are often dismissed as superficial or confected...  Read More >>

A seminal work for queer theory and non-Western feminism that challenges the historical universality of Western...  Read More >>

A polemic contrast of the idea of a collectivist, humanist culture of traditional African matriarchal heritage with...  Read More >>

A challenge to western anthropologists to recognize their own class-based, patriarchal ways of thinking about Africa...  Read More >>

The contributors to this volume examine musical instrument collectors and their reasons and means for collecting:...  Read More >>

Freakonomics for criminal justice, The Science of Second Chances presents a groundbreaking approach to prison reform,...  Read More >>

Examining how creative decision-making is fundamentally tied to our values and modes of thinking in an era of accelerating...  Read More >>

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By showing that the way we speak, draw, and gesture all share common cognitive organizing principles, this book...  Read More >>

A powerful debut novel charting the faultlines that open in a farming family in North Wales as they wait for their...  Read More >>

The encyclopedia has expanded in scope, scale, and popularity in the digital age. Wikipedia in particular serves...  Read More >>

The Historical Imaginary examines Quebec's French-language feature films through the lens of ""national cinema,""...  Read More >>

Prompt Thinking explores how artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the nature of thought. In the...  Read More >>

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Ceux de l'élite haïtienne qui résistèrent à l'occupation américaine - un Georges Sylvain par exemple - avaient le...  Read More >>

L'ouvrage qui paraît aujourd'hui est une collection d'études et d'articles - de notre regretté compatriote, le savant...  Read More >>

Quelques-unes des études contenues dans ce volume ont été publiées déjà dans les périodiques de Port-au-Prince....  Read More >>

HE LONG WALK TO EUTAW is a literary novel that explores grief, memory, and the fragile architecture of the future...  Read More >>

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Fatima Mojaddedi draws on her fieldwork in 2010s Afghanistan in Shelter for the Night, an ethnographic and conceptual...  Read More >>

Engaging the interplay between science and humanities, the essays examine science writing as a form of cultural...  Read More >>

In Racial Beings, Michelle N. Huang brings a feminist new materialist lens to bear on contemporary Asian American...  Read More >>