Not Just Politics

What is narrative? How does it work and how does it shape our lives? H. Porter Abbott emphasizes that narrative is found not just in literature, fi...

DescriptionThis comprehensive textbook by the editor of Law and the Internet seeks to provide students, practitioners and businesses with an up-to-...

Black lives matter. That message would be self-evident in a just world, but in this world and this America, all children need to hear it again and ...

Reducere. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was purchased at auction for a staggering $450 million. The exchange rippled beyond the art world into ...

Style is not just the clothes on our backs--it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian...

Reducere. Are we being told the whole truth about COVID-19 or just a one-sided view? Why is the PCR test being used to diagnose this disease when it's not fi...

Reducere. We are all faced with suffering at some point in our life. This is an insightful look at trauma, addiction, faith, and politics. What could one man...

DescriptionA succinct, expert guide to how we got to BrexitAfter all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. ...

Reducere. Byrne is a libertarian who did not vote for Trump and has publicly criticized him: that said, he believes Election 2020 was rigged, and that should...

Wobbly Bits is the essential guide to polite conversation. Covering everything from the politically incorrect to the seriously taboo, this humorous...

Reducere. Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. As historian and author Ar...

Reducere. Little maids shouldn't play with the big boys. Piper dreams of the days when unemployment was her biggest problem. Working for an jerk boss she cou...

Reducere. Buried in many people and operating largely outside the realm of conscious thought are forces inclining us toward liberal or conservative political...

Reducere. "Jessica Luther studied history and the classics before marshaling her writing talent toward of-the-moment topics like sexual assault and college s...

DescriptionDemocracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested su...

Reducere. Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol...

Reducere. A FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE BOOK TO READLess than a decade after Washington endorsed a fraudulent case for invading Iraq, similarly misinformed and p...

Women today are being instructed on how they can raise their self-esteem, love their inner child, survive their toxic families, overcome codependen...

Reducere. Everything a crossword solver could ever need -- in one complete volume! Who won the Academy Award for best actress in 1993? What's another word fo...

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most contro...

Reducere. Six-time New York Times bestselling author, FOX News star, and radio host Mark R. Levin "trounces the news media" (The Washington Times) in this ti...

Poetry. African & African American Studies. EVERYTHING SAVED WILL BE LAST, the debut poetry chapbook from Isaac Pickell, considers the body and the...

In the Cold War era, the confrontation between capitalism and communism played out not only in military, diplomatic, and political contexts, but al...

Reducere. So, you're deconstructing your faith?It can be painful. It can be scary. But the good news is that you're not alone, and you don't have to lose you...

Reducere. Political Correctness Does More Harm Than Good!It's a surprising assertion. Isn't PC culture all about kindness? About protecting victimized groups...

Contributor(s): Author: David HarveyNeoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all hu...

Reducere. This handy reference contains the full text of the Wyoming State Constitution. Whether you're studying the state government or you just want to rea...

One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panor...

Reducere. We all know the opposite sex can be a baffling, even infuriating, species. Why do most men use the phone to exchange information rather than have a...

Reducere. For Erik Reece, life, at last, was good: he was newly married, gainfully employed, living in a creekside cabin in his beloved Kentucky woods. It so...

Reducere. "Of all the important studies of the American right, The Family is undoubtedly the most eloquent. It is also quite possibly the most terrifying." -...

DescriptionIn Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, Michael Walzer revises and extends the arguments in his influential Spheres of Jus...

Reducere. In his new encyclical "FRATELLI TUTTI", Pope Francis calls for a more fraternal society that does not just continue as before after the Corona cris...

Reducere. Leading while female--whether in business, politics, the home, local communities, or the church--can be incredibly life-giving and spiritually fulf...

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and u...

DescriptionCardinal D sir -Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation durin...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 2008 housing bubble bailouts were the largest financial scandal in History. Tens of trillions of dollars were needed to prop up inst...

Reducere. In these lectures delivered in 1980, Michel Foucault gives an important new inflection to his history of "regimes of truth." Following on from the ...

Reducere. Being a citizen requires more than just being a resident.If you intend to vote in 2020 or beyond, then you should read this book before you vote. I...

Reducere. Conservatives in America need solutions-not just values. Time is running out on American exceptionalism. The light of liberty is flickering. At no ...

Reducere. In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and deliberate bleeding of India... was the] greatest c...

The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea. ...

Reducere. Beyond the facade of the two major political parties clucking their non-sense back and forth like an irate hen house, there is an inherent flaw in ...

Reducere. Dover Rees is a guppy tailed merman and the youngest child of the King of the Southern Silver Isles. Despite the lofty title, he fits in better wit...

DescriptionThis searing novel tells the journey of a young Israeli soldier at the breaking point, unable to continue carrying out his military serv...

"I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm." With these words, Roland Bar...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat would happen if Christians and a Muslim at a university talked and disagreed, but really tried to understand each other? What would...

Reducere. Description2005 Southwest Book Award The stories are charmingly frank, unexpectedly humorous, sometimes sad, all reminiscent of a simpler, though n...

DescriptionLaboratory experiments, survey experiments, and field experiments occupy a central and growing place in the discipline of political scie...

Before markets opened in 1978, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into th...

The research for this extensive, two volume project. represents a comprehensive effort to establish a complete context from which the sport of body...

International institutions are prevalent in world politics. More than a thousand multilateral treaties are in place just to protect the environment...

Reducere. What if we had direct control over our daily lives? What if society's defining institutions--those encompassing economics, politics, kinship, cultu...

Reducere. Dream Hoarders sparked a national conversation on the dangerous separation between the upper middle class and everyone else. Now in paperback and n...

A U.S. Army veteran and rising star in the conservative movement makes the case that the United States should look to the country as it was on Sept...

DescriptionKeith Kahn-Harris argues that the controversy over antisemitism today is a symptom of a growing "selectivity" in anti-racism caused by a...

Reducere. The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121--180) embodied in his person that deeply cherished, ideal figure of antiquity, the philosophe...

In 1999 Tobias Jones immigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he found a ...

Tribalization is a global megatrend in today's world. The election of Donald Trump, the Brexit vote, populist movements like Catalan separatism - t...

Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Cox RichardsonWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to ...

What if you can't find your face in the sea of lookalike brides? Perhaps you are arguing with family over your 'wacky' wedding ideas? Wondering how...

Reducere. One in every twenty difficult conflicts ends up grinding to a halt. That's fully 5 percent of not just the diplomatic and political clashes we read...

Reducere. DescriptionMichael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a...

From the racial defamation and mocking tone of "Mexican" restaurants geared toward the Anglo customer to the high-end Latin-inspired eateries with ...

Description"The humans are not going to take this quietly. They've treated Vampires with suspicion ever since The Event. We have to deal with this ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Company of Critics provides a fascinating survey of the terrain of social criticism in the last century. Organizing the book as a se...

DescriptionLike the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately ...

The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-98), is now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narr...

Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and e...