Society & Social Sciences books

This book presents a unique, in-depth and critical analysis of preventing and countering extremism. A multidisciplinary...  Read More >>

This interdisciplinary edited volume studies practices and representations of urban violence from a spatiotemporal...  Read More >>

This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English...  Read More >>

This book traces the changing ways enthusiasm has been understood politically, exploring how political actors use...  Read More >>

This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russia's...  Read More >>

In modern times of political confusion, when Leftist agendas and struggles often collapse or become appropriated...  Read More >>

This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish...  Read More >>

The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty and argues that its essential value lies...  Read More >>

This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using...  Read More >>

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles:...  Read More >>

There was a profound shift in peace and security norms from the African Union (AU) to the Organization of African...  Read More >>

This book seeks to detect the ways of thinking about international law present in films and TV series, placing focus...  Read More >>

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work...  Read More >>

This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first...  Read More >>

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and...  Read More >>

In this book, historians and political scientists show how radically external images of Germany changed over the...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates...  Read More >>

This book extends the boundaries of our understanding of Karl Polanyi's life and work. The contributors consider...  Read More >>

THE PRINCETON REVIEW GETS RESULTS. Get all the prep you need to ace the Digital PSAT/NMSQT with 3 full-length practice...  Read More >>

Affective bordering is a powerful exploration of the emotional politics of borders that demonstrates how racial...  Read More >>

The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century...  Read More >>

An urgent examination of Canada’s legal, cultural, and historical acceptance of corporal punishment and the children...  Read More >>

All about the big beautiful blonde, Anita Ekberg.  Read More >>

You've got the seat at the table-but you're still holding your breath. You've worked hard, played by the rules,...  Read More >>