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Africa - A Geographical Study

First published in 1965, Africa provides a geographical, political, economic and social description of the continent.

Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills - A Practical Guide for Social Scientists

"Brother Woodrow" - A Memoir of Woodrow Wilson by Stockton Axson

This memoir of Woodrow Wilson is a long-neglected treasure, full of the candid and perceptive observations of Wilson's brother-in-law and...

Toward Life's Sunset - A Memoir by J. Ralph De Coste

Ralph De Coste was one of five children born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and times were challenging. His father was a WWI vet...

Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences

The second edition of this practical book equips social science researchers to apply the latest Bayesian methodologies to their data anal...

Little Cottage House - Revolution and Revelations

I learned I would have to write another book, when I thought my first book said it all. I guess the subject matter gave a little too much...

Late Modernity in Crisis - Why We Need a Theory of Society

In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture...

Social Research Methods

Clear, comprehensive, and trusted, Bryman's Social Research Methods has guided over a quarter of a million students through their researc...

Contemporary Political Philosophy - An Introduction

This edition of Will Kymlicka's best selling critical introduction to contemporary political theory has been fully revised to include dis...

The Choynski Chronicles - A Biography of Hall of Fame Boxer Jewish Joe Choynski

In this first and only biography of light-heavyweight champion and boxing legend Joe Choynski, author Chris LaForce chronicles the life a...

Anywhere - A Journal of Adventures at Sea

In 1993, Fran and her husband, Tim, had a stable and comfortable life in Vermont with their two young children, Casey and Julia. Living i...

Joe Jackson - A Biography

Shoeless Joe Jackson's rise from the cotton mills of the American South to the big cities of the North is a classic American tale of rags...

Global Climate Change - Turning Knowledge Into Action

Earth¿s climate is changing. This book investigates the scientific, environmental, social, political and economic aspects of climate chan...

Obama: An Intimate Portrait - The Historic Presidency in Photographs

The definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his Chief White House photogra...

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (16pt Large Print Edition)

Shocking Bestseller: The original version of this astonishing tell - all book spent 73 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, has s...

Renegades - Born in the USA

"Two longtime friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music, and their enduring love of America, with all its chall...

Secret Green Beret Commandos in Cambodia - A Memorial History of MACV-SOG's Command and Control Detachment South (CCS), and Its Air Partners, Republic

We could call this book "Special Operations Recon Mission Impossible." A small group of highly trained, resourceful US Special Forces (SF...

Gegen das Vergessen - Lest we forget

Im März 2021 wird der Mannheimer Fotograf Luigi Toscano von der UNESCO zum "Artist for Peace" ernannt. Er ist der erste Deutsche, der die...

Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein - a biography - With an overview of the history of the House of Liechtenstein

Monarch, businessman, banker, art collector, visionary and outspoken controversialist: Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein is all of the...

18 Months in the Spanking Scene

This is the true story of how Anna entered the world of spanking to pay off a £20,000 debt left by her husband when he died suddenly of a...

Fragments of Solidarity - An Ethnography of an Alternative Community in Modern Greece

How is solidarity understood by the people who practice it actively and daily? What is the role of solidarity in reconciling the relation...

Where are you from? - 'Playing White' under Apartheid

My family did the unthinkable: after getting away with 'playing white' for some years, we went one step further and 'jumped the colour li...

To Whom It May Concern

This is a compilation of vignettes of things that have happened to members of our family. It is recollections of events and people and of...

The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (May-August 1924)

This vintage book contains the complete collected works of Mahatma Ghandi. This wonderful and comprehensive collection would make for a f...

Carl Friedrich von Siemens 1872-1941 - Entrepreneur in Times of Upheaval

Entrepreneur in an Age of Upheaval Carl Friedrich von Siemens was one of the significant business figures in an era filled with crises an...

Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist - The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of An...

Sidney Herbert - too short a life

Christian philanthropist and patron of Florence Nightingale, Sidney Herbert was hailed in his own times as a statesman, administrative re...

Politics and Sociology - General Sociology, Volume 5

This is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the t...

Jeff Bezos - In His Own Words

I think everybody has their own passion their own thing that they're interested in, and then you are, very alert to the things that are i...

My Bucket List of Adventures Fulfilled

"A while after mom passed, I encouraged dad to actually make a bucket list. When he sent me his first list I had to laugh because there w...

Jeanne Eagels - A Life Revealed (Fully Revised and Updated)

The true story is finally told about Jeanne Eagels, legendary Broadway actress (as Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain) and film st...

Dwight D. Eisenhower - The American Presidents Series: The 34th President, 1953-1961

An American icon and hero faces a nation-and a world-in transition A bona-fide American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight...

Under the Abaya

A convergence of factors led me to Saudi Arabia: Professional calling, wanderlust, and race fatigue. In my truth, I went to Saudi Arabia ...

Administative Remedies in Prisons

Prison authorities in the United States have used the administrative remedy process as a vehicle to delay/deny treatment to inmates for t...

Raw Thought, Raw Nerve - Inside the Mind of Aaron Swartz: not-for-profit - revised fourth edition

In late 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded a large number of academic journal articles through MIT's computer network. At the time, Aaron was ...

Bit by Bit - Social Research in the Digital Age

In just the past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile phones, and numerous other digital m...

Head-On, Stories of Alopecia

This collection of personal narratives follows the courageous journeys of over 75 writers as they find their way after being diagnosed wi...

Hague Girls Part One: Fleeing

After being targeted by a coordinated campaign of threats and media harassment, Ewurabena was forced to flee Ghana with her young family....

Status and Culture - How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

An examination of how we achieve social status by what we consume and how that affects the culture as a whole Contrary to belief, status ...

The Woman in Battle - Soldier, Spy and Secret Service Agent for the Confederacy During the American Civil War

An incredible heroine of the Confederacy There are several accounts told through the ages, and concerning several conflicts, of women who...

Stories

"I don't want to write an architectural bible. I want to sell stories that show what defines me and my work." Matteo Thun In the world of...

Black & Queer - There's More Than Sugar In My Tank

Asa Leveaux gazes in awe at RuPaul, Billy Porter and Laverne Cox as queer Black superheroes, but doesn't see the totality of who he is re...

The Magical Journey - to the Path of Enlightenment

An extraordinary life-story of a Tibetan monk and his spiritual path of Yungdrung Bön: Nagru Gelek Jinpa made a life-changing decision at...

The Devil Never Sleeps - Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today's foremost thinkers in crisis management.

Dreaming of Harvard - A Novelistic Tale

Dreaming of Harvard: A Novelistic Tale is a poignant story of a Mexican American who dreamed of attending Harvard. Searching for the stai...

HAUTE PURSUIT

Become an overnight fashion insider... Immerse yourself in the thrilling New York fashion scene from the 1980s to the 2010s. With frankne...

Go to the Start - Life as a World Cup Ski Racer

As a third-generation member of a ski-racing family, Mike Janyk fulfills a childhood dream by becoming a world class ski-racer on the big...

Wally by Name - A Monkey's Tale(Volume One)

Having been required to resign from the Leicester City Constabulary for the heinous crime of 'gross impertinence to a member of the publi...

'Mad Mike' Hoare - The Legend

Ever After

"This is the stuff of fairy tales," said the Archbishop of Canterbury on July 23, 1981, after the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer arrived ...

The Wah-Wah Diaries - The Making of a Film

Chief Loco - Apache Peacemaker

Winner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagory Jlin-tay-i-tith, better known as Loco, was the only Apache leader...

Adrenaline - Udo Müller - The exceptional story of a passionate entrepreneur | The amazing success story of the man behind Ströer, t-online.de, Statista...

The amazing success story of the man behind Ströer, t-online.de, Statista... With his perseverance and penchant for risk-taking, Udo Müll...

Dear langston, It Explodes!

Dear Langston, It Explodes! is the first title published by author Regina Faye Brown. It is a unique, genre-bending compilation of over t...

Living the Dream - The Story of Lloyd W. "Fig" Newton

Living the Dream tells the story of an African-American boy who had dreams of serving in the United States military, wearing the uniform,...

A New Universal Dream - My Journey from Silicon Valley to a Life in Service to Humanity

This book is an opportunity for big and meaningful change... it is a beautiful place to start... for guidance and inspiration to walk you...

Kissing Asphalt - The Courageous True Story of One Child's Unbreakable Spirit-From Kidnapping & Abuse to Self-Love

Resilience isn't inherited. It's a hard-fought skill forged by our ability to pick up the broken pieces of our past and remake them into ...

THE LAWLESS SIDE OF WAR - Making Millions on the Vietnam Black-Market - A Fictional Memoir

A young, naïve Texan takes a job with a foreign assignment in Saigon in order to beat the draft and, through attrition, he quickly become...

Mother of Peace - A Memoir by Hak Ja Han Moon

Discover the untold story of Hak Ja Han Moon, the North Korean village girl who is now known to millions as the Mother of Peace. Her hear...

It's Because They Were Black - 100 Years of Fraud and Forgery

The past can predict the future, but without true acknowledgement of its impact, it can also repeat itself. Syl Johnson shares his tumult...