Society & Social Sciences books

The essential modern guide for understanding what divides us and the path to building a better community—a revolutionary...  Read More >>

A feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked...  Read More >>

Why has the European Union failed to combat rising authoritarianism within its own ranks? And how can it defend...  Read More >>

Lanza explores radical attempts to remake Chinese cities during the Great Leap Forward in the first English history...  Read More >>

A life-changing message for our lonely age- leading behavioural scientist Nicholas Epley helps us understand our...  Read More >>

Why did more than 15,000 people from the former Soviet bloc join ISIS - nearly a third of the group's foreign fighters?...  Read More >>

What was 'race' in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead 'White' men?...  Read More >>

For K-12 and higher ed leaders and educators, civil society leaders, other citizens concerned about America's fracturing...  Read More >>

Examines the challenges of living with social and religious difference, the politics of recognition, violence and...  Read More >>

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood...  Read More >>

Monetary policy implementation refers to the mechanism for interbank payments, the set of administered interest...  Read More >>

In what was then seen as a historic renewal of the Black movement, tens of thousands of mostly younger Black people...  Read More >>

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The New York Times bestseller – a moving memoir of grief, healing, and the unbreakable bond between man and dog...  Read More >>

Sincerity is essential to communication: without a norm of sincerity, we could hardly trust what other people tell...  Read More >>

This book proposes an integrative view of human development in older age, demonstrating through case studies how...  Read More >>

Trade based on global production sharing within the Global Manufacturing Value Chain has been the primary driver...  Read More >>

This Element investigates the 2016 installation of Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe language) toponym signs throughout the...  Read More >>

Parents wonder how to instill virtues in their children, educators seek effective ways to build character in their...  Read More >>

Twelve essays on Kant's political-legal philosophy, focusing on the moral foundations of Kant's political theory,...  Read More >>

The Element examines various facets of craftwork in small-scale societies in Central Europe during the Bronze Age....  Read More >>

This Element explores a range of conceptions of politically relevant merit found in the philosophical texts (the...  Read More >>

This Element presents the theory of segmented polity to address the misfit between dominant state-centric political...  Read More >>

The debate over the relative merits of adopting functional universal psychological principles, processes, and constructs...  Read More >>