Sociology - General
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The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement
$20.00 Add to cartThe author of Generation Me explores the spread of narcissism in today’s culture and its catastrophic effects at every level of society.
Narcissism–an inflated view of the self–is everywhere. Public- Author: Twenge, Jean M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1416575995
- Language: English
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Almost Home: Helping Kids Move from Homelessness to Hope
$19.99 Add to cartInside the lives of homeless teens–moving stories of pain and hope from Covenant House
Almost Home tells the stories of six remarkable young people from across the United States and Canada as they con
- Author: Ryan, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1118230477
- Language: English
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Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism
$30.00 Add to cartIn a groundbreaking new study, acclaimed scholar of global capitalism William I. Robinson presents a bold, original, and timely ‘big picture’ analysis of the unprecedented global crisis. Robinson synt… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, William I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1009670492
- Language: English
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Therapy Nation: How America Got Hooked on Therapy and Why It’s Left Us More Anxious and Divided
$32.00 Read moreA provocative look at how therapy culture has reshaped the way we live, speak, and relate to one another, and how it’s changing the fabric of American life, by acclaimed psychotherapist Jonathan Alper… [more below]
- Author: Alpert, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1335000658
- Language: English
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Growing Up Latino
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the mean streets of the barrio to the house on Mango Street, from the Mambo Kings to the Garcia Girls, the authors who contribute to this volume transport us across geographies and through cultur
- Author: Augenbraum, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0395661242
- Language: English
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Retirement Rocks!: 50 Devotions for All That New Free Time
$14.99 Add to cartRetirement Rocks! is the perfect gift for the loved one, friend, or coworker who is embarking on a new season of retirement. Help them celebrate retirement by re-imaging life as you know it in this de… [more below]
- Author: Dayspring
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1648708021
- Language: English
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The Culting of America: What Makes a Cult and Why We Love Them
$35.00 Add to cartYou’re probably in a cult. You just don’t know it yet.
In The Culting of America, cult survivor, military veteran, and bestselling author of Uncultured, Daniella Mestyanek Young delivers a gripping i
- Author: Mestyanek Young, Daniella
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1955671826
- Language: English
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Churn: The Tension That Divides Us and How to Overcome It
$29.99 Add to cartA pioneer of social psychology, Claude M. Steele is renowned for Whistling Vivaldi, a runaway bestseller that analyzed societal stereotypes–from beliefs about racial and gender test score gaps to the
- Author: Steele, Claude M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324093447
- Language: English
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The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up
$29.95 Add to cartAn illuminating look at the world of cleanfluencers that asks why the burden of housework still falls on women.
Housework is good for you. Housework sparks joy. Housework is beautiful. Housework is g- Author: Casey, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526170973
- Language: English
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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives–from the author of The … [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593230078
- Language: English
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
$20.00 Add to cartNOW IN PAPERBACK The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that gives us a “generous but disconcerting look at Tea Party backers in Louisiana to explain the way many people in thi… [more below]
- Author: Russell Hochschild, Arlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1620973499
- Language: English
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Writing on Raving
$19.95 Read moreWriting on Raving is the definitive mix of voices from the Brooklyn underground rave scene and beyond, providing fresh language for the shared and infinitely varied experience of dancing through the n
- Author: Wark, McKenzie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1682196283
- Language: English
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Social Science: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Social science is the study of human behaviour. It offers the tools to understand and explain people’s choices and actions, and how they live toget… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Betts, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 019287182X
- Language: English
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The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I
$25.99 Add to cartThe Scottish Migration To Ulster In The Reign Of James I by M. Perceval-Maxwell was first published in 1973, yet it continues to be one of the most significant works of scholarship on the ‘plantation’… [more below]
- Series: Ulster-Scottish Historical S
- Author: Perceval-Maxwell, M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0901905445
- Language: English
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The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills
$25.00 Add to cartAn investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today’s bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychological interventions will never be enough to truly ad
- Author: Singal, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829461
- Language: English
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A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters
$22.99 Add to cartUnlike earthquakes and other natural catastrophes, this “new species of trouble” afflicts persons and groups in particularly disruptive ways.
With clear-eyed compassion, in vivid narrative and in part… [more below]
- Author: Erikson, Kai T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0393313190
- Language: English
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Land Sickness
$12.95 Add to cartAs a heatwave hits Paris, the author’s entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing
- Author: Schultz, Nikolaj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1509556133
- Language: English
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Art of Contrary Thinking
$10.95 Add to cart“Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press”
“When everybody thinks alike, everyone is likely to be wrong.” The ten words quoted above are, according to Humphrey B. Neill, a poten… [more below]- Author: Neill, Humphrey B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: October 26 2018
- ISBN10: 087004110X
- Language: English
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Social Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSocial psychology is about the people who populate our everyday lives, and how they affect our “personal universe”, defining who we are, and shaping our behavior, beliefs, attitudes, and ideology. In … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Crisp, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2015
- ISBN10: 019871551X
- Language: English
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Sociology: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDrawing on studies of social class, crime and deviance, education, work in bureaucracies and changes in religious and political organizations, this Very Short Introduction explores the tension between… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bruce, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0198822960
- Language: English
