Social Sciences

In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. Instant New York Times Bestseller...

Based on ethnographic research conducted in 'Starlets', a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the 'deviant', and 'stigmatized' world of...

'Harpy is a tonic; a tongue-in-cheek manual for dealing with Spanish Inquisition-style questioning about saying pass to procreation and building an enriching life beyond the nuclear family' - VOGUE 'Harpy...

The world is full of women we don t know whose stories have been overlooked or airbrushed from history. Often faced with limited life choices, this book proudly showcases those...

From the beginning of war (10,000 BCE) to the Arab Spring (2010) in 100 bite- size entries. How did we get from clubs and spears to machine guns and drone...

A biography of the 18th century revolutionary Edward Fitzgerald, the son of Emily Lennox, one of the sisters featured in ARISTOCRATS. The book naturally follows on from ARISTOCRATS and is...

One thing we all have in common -- we're all grandchildren. Through photographs and accompanying stories, this book illuminates the special grandparent-grandchild bond.

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and...

A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community in the Deep South. The true events that inspired the film,...

The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction--its rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its...

A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...

This work is about human origins. It draws on all the latest knowledge from anthropology and archaeology, via genetics and evolution, to psychology and medicine. It tackles issues such as...

We - the users turned creators and distributors of content - are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of the Year 2007. We form a new...

Study after study shows that fathers set up their daughters for success. Involved fathers-whether or not they live in the same house as their daughters-boost their daughters' academic achievement, promote...

What is the world of the 21st century like now that the centrality of the West is no longer given? How were the societies and cultures of today's world together...

The Internet and Society explores the impact of the internet on modern culture.

An exploration of the rites, rituals and many ways that humans approach death and dying around the world. Greg Palmer tries to discover how human culture responds to the universal...

This is the powerful story of one girl's struggle for survival amid the African HIV/AIDS pandemic a story of harsh realities and hard-won hopefulness, leavened with humour and the possibility...

Book 2 in the" New York Times "bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and "Prometheus"! GODSPEED WAS FUELED BY LIES. NOW IT IS RULED BY CHAOS. It's been...

"A one-stop source of information" - Arizona Republic "Buying and reading this book won't guarantee you'll never get lost again, but it's a good start." - Los Angeles Daily News...

Collects essays by authors who use spiritual, economic, ecological, and scientific approaches to examine the year 2012 when, according to a prediction from an ancient Mayan calendar, the end of...

Portrays domestic cats that have lost their jobs because of the recession, working out at the health club, catching some rays, in line collecting unemployment benefit, holidaying in the Swiss...

McAuliff has been given two million dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica's dark interior. All Dunstone Ltd requires is his time, his expertise, and absolute secrecy. But British Intelligence...

Tab is an orphan who works for the Dung Brigade, sweeping the streets of Quentaris. When she is caught up in the Battle of Begonias, she meets Azt, a mysterious...

Yukin, his sister Yulen, and other members of their tribe are caught and transported to another world by 'false' Dmenians. On their journey, Yulen becomes a 'special'. When they reach...

Growing up in a big boisterous family, Andrew Daddo has had a lot of fun being a kid and being around them. So with stories about football fishing, camping, holidays,...

Marcia says there are wondrous things in Belgrandia - houses like palaces and enormous chandeliers and flying cats and music like nothing you've ever heard. But is it a real...

Rouge- red-hot romance... Maya Jackson doesn't sleep with strangers. Until the night grief sent her to the nearest bar and into the arms of the most explosive lover she's ever...

The ultimate resource book: filled with practical tips, meal plans, recipes, testimonials, and a resource guide.

Locked away remote from the rest of the body in its own custom-built casing of skull bone, with no intrinsic moving parts, the human brain remains a tantalising mystery. But...

Cutting-edge astrophysics that builds on Einstein's theories to find the unseen matter that fills the Universe. Dark energy. Dark matter. These strange and invisible substances don't just sound mysterious: their...

By the author of the bestselling THE WOMAN WARRIOR, a magical book- a literature of peace built on the stories of war.Divided into four sections - 'Fire', 'Paper', 'Water' and...

Incredible as it may seem now, in the 16th century, Nostradamus predicted the World Trade Center attack. And his predictions don't stop there! The World's leading Nostradamus expert, David Ovason,...

"How to manage your mother" contains over 100 extensive interviews with characters as diverse as a circus lion tamer, a New York cab driver, a transvestite model and well-known figures...

A literary thriller set during the devastating North Sea flood of 1953, in which a love triangle turns murderous. An atmospheric literary thriller set during the devastating North Sea flood...

Does your family history or that of a loved one have a common thread of dysfunction, marital problems, sickness, or abuse that goes from generation to generation? If so, this...

Workers for the past 25 years in this discipline have tried to reproduce human behaviour on computers. This book presents a survey of their achievements and the problems they still...

For the past 40 years Richard Koch has wanted to uncover the simple, elemental, elegant and parsimonious principles that are needed to create great new businesses. To qualify, a principle...