Society & Social Sciences Books

Francoise Hardy is best known in Europe for originating the famed "Y-Y" sound in pop music which began a cultural scene in the early 1960s. Her teenage success grew as she became a much-photographed fashion model and actress. Adored for her shy beauty...

It's difficult to believe that our planet has been weaponised before our very eyes, but that is exactly what has happened. First, we were seduced by the convenience of a wireless world; then, atmospheric weather experimentation in the guise of carbons -...

"I was a Long Island kid that graduated college in 1976 and moved to Greenwich Village. Two years later, I was working The Mudd Club door. Standing outside, staring at the crowd, it was "out there" versus "in here" and I was on the inside. The Mudd Club...

With the appearance of the demonic Christmas character Krampus in contemporary Hollywood movies, television shows, advertisements, and greeting cards, medieval folklore has now been revisited in American culture. Krampus-related events and parades occur...

Harley Flanagan provides a fascinating memoir: a homeless child prodigy and family friend of Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, at a young age he became close to many stars of the early punk rock scene like Joe Strummer of The Clash and was taught to play...

Famous for its revolutionary aspects in musical, political, sexual identity and consumerist ideas, punk rock also has its lesser-known gangster ethos as well, explained here by players in the various punk gangs.The Los Angeles, Orange County, and South...

2016 IndieFab Honorable Mention in Popular Culture.Mel Gordon, author of Voluptuous Panic, the celebrated history about the sex culture of Weimar Berlin, returns with a stunningly illustrated look at Paris, The City of Pleasure, prior to and during...

The Secret Life of a Satanist steps behind the curtain with the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan.What is contemporary Satanism, and why would one start a church dedicated to the Dark One? It wasn't a rebellion against an oppressive...

"Seven Myths of Native American History will provide undergraduates and general readers with a very useful introduction to Native America past and present. Jentz identifies the origins and remarkable staying power of these myths at the same time he...

An authentic, engaging, and practical guide to help college grads thrive personally and professionally.The rules have changed; the traditional workplace is dead. To BOOM in employment today, the secret is to alter the approach, andFrom Classroom to...

An entertaining and informative read, The Joy of Art offers the reader:A working art vocabulary to help you identify and explain what you're looking at Answers to many of the questions you may have about visual art in general A summary of the basic...

When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, and its business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own companies, and its CEO is the richest person in the world while its workers make minimum wage with impossible quotas....

Anxiety can control your life with a tight grip. Get yourself free with these exercises and worksheets designed to help you identify, manage, and ultimately calm your anxiety, be it stress that ebbs and flows or constant, chronic panic. Work through this...

In this exhaustive anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene. There's a common thread of women being excluded and gatekept from the hardcore music scene, but...

Penises rejoice! Here is the expert guide you need to the art and science of giving and getting oral pleasure. Learn techniques for causing great pleasure and for communicating desires, needs, and boundaries.Find out the science of why oral sex feels so...

The Boundaries Conversation Deck was created as a companion to the book Unfuck Your Boundaries. These 52 cards prompt reflection and conversation about your and others' boundaries, needs, consent, and relationships. Featuring two types of cards...

A feminist history of bicycling for sport and adventure spans a century of women who changed the world from two wheelsThis vivacious tale, peppered with fascinating details from primary sources, shows how women were sometimes the stars of bicycle races...

A corrupt politician. A local business in trouble. A neighbour with a heroic story. An opportunity to work together for positive change. Whatever stories in your community most need to be told, the best person to tell them is you.Whether you're writing...

With a new preface by the author on the Gaza war.An unflinching expos of the hidden costs of American war-making written with 'an immense and rare humanity' (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts.Every election cycle,...

The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author, praised by critics as a welcome antidote to apologists for empire, has defined for a generation of...

Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan"Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we are...

The must-have new edition of the classic book-and-poster set, based on the most recent census data, depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whomGenerations of teachers, union organizers, and activists have relied...

"A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee" (Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the CourtDark MoneyAs the story of Supreme Court malfeasance and ethics...

In Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims' rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would actually make us safe, from the widely respected head of Alliance for Safety and Justice When...

Finalist, Colorado Book AwardA gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what's at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence-and what we can do about it rule was meant to transform the U.S. justice system. In soaring language,...

An insider's look at how the rise of "fast fashion" obstructs ethical shopping and fuels the abuse and neglect of garment workers.'With years of expertise in the fashion industry, Alyssa's reporting is consistently deep and thoughtful, and her...

Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books The New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal's reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal mindsThe RootAllow Me to Retort is an easily digestible argument about what rights we have,...

A timely and paradigm-shifting argument that all members of a democracy must participate in elections, by a leading political expert and Washington Post journalist Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get...

Riveting and inspiring first-person stories of how "taking a knee" triggered a political awakening among athletes of all ages and levels, from the celebrated sportswriter"With profiles of courage that leap of the page, Zirin uncovers a whole national...

Powerful, wry essays offering modern takes on a primitive practice, from one of our most widely read death penalty abolitionistsAs Ruth Bader Ginsburg has noted, people who are well represented at trial rarely get the death penalty. But as Marc Bookman...

NOW IN PAPERBACK The book the American Prospect calls "an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern," by America's leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian"An essential read for those who want to fight the...

An illuminating portrait of young LGBTQ people in China, the latest addition to the acclaimed photobook series celebrating LGBTQ communities around the worldSame-sex relationships have been an accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. It was only...

A riveting primer on the growing trend of surveillance, monitoring, and control that is extending our prison system beyond physical walls and into a dark future-by the prize-winning author of Understanding Mass Incarceration"James Kilgore is one of my...

The "Erin Brockovich of Sewage" tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural America, with a foreword by the renowned author of Just MercyCatherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place...

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine argues that progressives and liberals who oppose regressive policies on immigration, racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ rights, and other issues must extend...

The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood productionSoon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called 'the most...

The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution-the product of compromises and an artifact of its time-and made it more democraticWho wrote the Constitution? That's obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in...

The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedomHealth insurance, student loan debt, retirement savings, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership-these are the issues driving America's current...

A "searing, searching, and eloquent" (Martha Minow, Harvard Law School) investigation into the role of the legal profession in perpetuating mass incarceration-now in an accessible paperback format from the award-winning civil rights lawyer "Usual...

This Is How the Heart Beats is a portrait by acclaimed photographer Jake Naughton of a group of East Africans who have fled unimaginable abuse in their homeland for the United States, following this community from its darkest moments to an uncertain...

"The best book yet on the complex lives and choices of for-profit students."  -The New York Times Book Review As seen on The Daily Show, NPR's Marketplace, and Fresh Air, the 'powerful, chilling tale' (Carol...

As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly and Well-Read Black GirlIncluded in Foreword Reviews Best Books of 2019, Entrepreneur magazine's Best Books of 2019 for Entrepreneurs and The Stack Podcast's 10 Favorite Reads...

A completely revised edition of James W. Loewen's classic retelling of American history, based on six new textbooks and including an all-new chapter on the recent past Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The EconomistA chilling work of true crime about the midair murder of a human rights activist, set against a riveting political drama in the world's fourth-largest nationOn a warm Jakarta night in September 2004, Munir...

"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Paul Farmer called "a gem of a social history linking two countries stuck in uncomfortable embrace for well...

From a leading constitutional lawyer who has sued every president since LBJ, a masterful explication of the true "pillars of our democracy"On November 9, 2016-and again on January 6, 2021-many Americans feared that our democracy was on the verge of...

At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades. In Night of the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson...

A crucial indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration" that exposes how many of these new approaches actually widen the net of punishment and surveillance "But what does it mean--really--to celebrate reforms that convert your home into...