Sociology

Much has been written about the profound impact the post-World War II baby boomers had on American religion.

Building on their important findings in The Source of the River, the authors now probe even more deeply into minority underachievement at the college level.

Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career.

In 2004, Spain's Banco Santander purchased Britain's Abbey National Bank in a deal valued at fifteen billion dollars--an acquisition that made Santander one of the ten largest financial institutions in the world.

The religious and political winds are changing.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Balancing respect for religious conviction and the values of liberal democracy is a daunting challenge for judges and lawmakers, particularly when religious groups seek exemption from laws that govern others.

Citizenship presents two faces.

Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team.

Soccer is the world's favorite pastime, a passion for billions around the globe.

Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals?

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.

Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way.

There is a struggle for the hearts and minds of Muslims unfolding across the Islamic world.

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade.

School vouchers.

School vouchers.

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency.

American society today is shaped not nearly as much by vast open spaces as it is by vast, bureaucratic organizations.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy.

How we die reveals much about how we live.

America was built on stories: tales of grateful immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, Horatio Alger-style transformations, self-made men, and the Protestant work ethic.

During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes.

Using as his example post-World War I Italy and the government's interest in the size, growth rate, and "e;vitality"e; of its national population, David Horn suggests a genealogy for our present understanding of procreation as a site for technological intervention and political contestation.

Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly BestsellerLearn success secrets from original remote work pioneers on the mindset and strategies they developed to build and grow successful organizations from the ground up.

Buying a table tennis table will make your staff happier.

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2023 - International Business BookBuilding and sustaining an organization which is nimble, adaptable, resilient and future proof is both complex and urgent.

Leverage the power of Talent Intelligence (TI) to make evidence-informed decisions that drive business performance by using data about people, skills, jobs, business functions and geographies.

Virtual work and teams have become normal in organizations around the world.

Many coaching tools and techniques are now well established, but how do they actually work?

How can coaching and mentoring approaches be applied in individual, team and organizational contexts to increase performance?

This brand-new book from HRM expert and bestselling author, Michael Armstrong, is an ideal companion for those studying learning and development (L&D) at third year undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as practitioners in L&D roles in the workplace.

Superb.

If your workplace feels like a battle zone and colleagues sometimes act like adversaries, you ore not alone.

The author of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life asks fifty experts, artists, business leaders, trendsetters, doctors, athletes, environmentalists, and intellectualsWhat will the next decade look like?

“Feiler brings to life the birth moment of Western faith and seeks to use the past to understand the present climate of religious extremism.

In a world spiralling into a state of technological excess, Michael Dertouzos shows us how to make technologyin all its infinite varietieswork for, rather than against, us in our everday business lives.

One of Americas top radio hosts gives her inimitable take on intimate relationships.

Characters refusing to talk?

Tribal Leadership gives amazingly insightful perspective on how people interact and succeed.

Barbara Weisberg's Talking to the Dead blends biography and social history in this revelatory story of the family responsible for the rise of Spiritualism.

Immigrants in America are at the heart of what makes this country the most prosperous and visionary in the world.

From his childhood days in Mexico, to his experience of censorship in governmentowned Mexican media companies, his student years in LA, and his early beginnings as a journalist in the USA, Ramos gives us a personal and touching account of his life.

After fifteen weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list, God's Politics not only changed the conversation about faith and politics in this country, it began a movement.

With wit, wisdom and uncommon sense, Dr.

In this Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Michigan Business School guru and worldwide consultant Noel Tichy brings his special brand of organisational transformation to a practical level that guarantees a leader at every level of an organisation.

Enough of the leftist lunatics like Rosie O'Donnell who think "e;Radical Christians"e; are "e;as big a threat to America as Radical Muslims.

A fulfilling sex life is one of the great joys of life,yet many woman silently wonder why their own sexual pleasure falls short of the romantic fantasies they hear about.

In her first book in over 10 years, Pia Mellodyauthor of the groundbreaking bestsellers Facing Codependence and Facing Love Addictionshares her profound wisdom on what it takes to sustain true intimacy and trusting love in our most vital relationships.