Showing titles in Sociology

New York Times best-selling author Caitlin Doughty presents Titanic like never before: through the stories of those who died—and what happened to the bodies. Millions of people trust Caitlin Doughty to explore dark subjects with empathy and humor. Now, in her most ambitious work to date...

Em 2022, Carlos de Almeida Baptista Junior, comandante da Aeronáutica, resistiu às pressões para que os militares aderissem a uma ruptura institucional. Esta é a primeira vez que um integrante da cúpula militar daquele período relata, em livro, os bastidores da crise que ameaçou a...

Em A cultura no mundo líquido moderno, Zygmunt Bauman — um dos mais brilhantes pensadores da atualidade — rememora os deslocamentos históricos do conceito de cultura e examina seu destino num mundo marcado pelas poderosas forças da globalização, da migração e da coexistência bélica...

Twice Blessed is the compelling story of how unconditional love provides resilience to the main characters (also the authors) as they navigate, against the odds, a new family for a young Puerto Rican girl, Stefanie, who lost her mother to AIDS. In the midst of this loss, Claire and Stan Altman...

From Oxford Ballroom to Federal Courtroom The Rise and Fall of High Society's Most Notorious...

Understand one of the most influential philosophers of modern democracy, communication, and critical theory.HABERMAS DICTIONARY: A Study of His Most Frequent Words and Phrases is a clear, structured, and accessible guide to the essential concepts of Jürgen Habermas, one of the most important...

Dauerstress, Lärm und permanente Erreichbarkeit prägen den Alltag moderner Gesellschaften. Aktivität gilt als Maßstab für Leistung, Geschäftigkeit als Zeichen von Produktivität. Doch diese permanente Betriebsamkeit hat Folgen: Konzentration, Ruhe und Rückzug als Voraussetzungen für Denken, Wissensarbeit und politische Urteilskraft gehen zunehmend verloren. Der Essayband „Ruhe!“ untersucht diese Entwicklung in drei miteinander verbundenen Essays.

Mutterschaft – ein Machtkonflikt der Gegenwart. Frauen, die heute ein Kind bekommen, betreten ein Minenfeld der Erwartungen. Umgehend werden sie beurteilt – intim, widersprüchlich und gnadenlos öffentlich – und nicht selten verurteilt. Verunsichert von ungebetenen Ratschlägen, alten Konventionen und neuen Momfluencers suchen sie einen Weg, ihrem Kind gerecht zu werden. Und sich selbst. Ihr kluges, fundiertes und dringend nötiges Buch dekonstruiert die Schablonen, nach denen Mütter immer noch bewertet werden – von der Entbindung über das Stillen bis hin zur Kinderbetreuung.

يتحدث الكاتب عن ظاهرة الاستشراق وكيف كان لها أثر كبير في تشكيل نظرة الغرب للإسلام، وكيف بدأ الاستشراق والهدف الرئيسي منه وكيف كان عامل مساعد قوي في فترة الاستعمار...

Every day, innocent men across America are thrown into prison, betrayed by a faulty justice system, and robbed of their lives - either by decades-long sentences or the death penalty itself. Injustice tarnishes our legal process from start to finish. From the racial discrimination and violence used by backwards law enforcement officers, to a prison culture that breeds inmate conflict, there is opportunity for error at every turn.

From Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog we're {not} having a baby, and nationally recognized expert on the childfree choice, comes a definitive investigation into the history and current growing movement of adults choosing to forgo parenthood: what it means for our...

On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in central Oslo, killing eight people. He then proceeded to a youth camp on the island of Utøya, where he killed 69 more, most of them teenage members of Norway's governing Labour Party. In One of Us, the journalist Åsne Seierstad tells the story of this terrible day and what led up to it. What made Breivik, a gifted child from an affluent neighborhood in Oslo, become a terrorist?

Mortality is the most meditative collection of writing Hitchens has ever produced - at once an unsparingly honest account of the ravages of his disease, an examination of cancer etiquette and the coda to a lifetime of fierce debate and peerless prose. In this eloquent confrontation with mortality, Hitchens returns a human face to a disease that has become a contemporary cipher of suffering.

Insightful, surprising and with groundbreaking revelations about our society, Everybody Lies exposes the secrets embedded in our Internet searches, with a foreword by best-selling author Steven Pinker. Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters - and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets - about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views.

It's about time we made motherhood more diverse.... When Candice fell pregnant and stepped into the motherhood playing field, she found her experience bore little resemblance to the glossy magazine photos of women in horizontal stripe tops and the pinned discussions on Mumsnet about what pushchair to buy. Leafing through the piles of prenatal paraphernalia, she found herself wondering: "Where are all the black mothers?". 

Brought to you by Penguin. A riveting insider account of how activists, politicians, educators and citizens are working to change minds, bridge divisions and save democracy The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change. But America is...

The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are enforcing on our democracy. "An investigative triumph and a warning." —David Corn, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Russian...

Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.

This is the first book to define and explore Black fatigue, the intergenerational impact of systemic racism on the physical and psychological health of Black people - and explain why and how society needs to collectively do more to combat its pernicious effects. 

Bloomsbury presents You Are Not Alone written and read by Cariad Lloyd. NEW STATESMAN, THE TIMES AND EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ‘Full of sense, heart and hope . . . the friend you need when you’re grieving’ PHILIPPA PERRY ‘This book is a game-changer. Read it before you need to’ DR...