Sociology

In the ten years after President Clinton made good on his promise to "e;end welfare as we know it"e; by signing the reform act of 1996, the number of families on welfare dropped by over three million.

From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers' lives into one.

This book presents original ethnographic research into the connections between childcare, family lives and social policy in Wales.

Connectedby Nature's Law presents a comprehensive picture of reality and the process that humanity is undergoing.

Herrnstein & Murray's The Bell Curve is a deeply controversial text that raises serious issues about the stakes involved in reasoning and interpretation.

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century's most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers.

Das Toiletten Buch: Deutscher Fußball – Kuriose Fakten und faszinierende GeschichtenTauchen Sie ein in die Welt des deutschen Fußballs und entdecken Sie die kuriosesten Fakten und faszinierendsten Geschichten, die dieser Sport zu bieten hat.

The five physical senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching have been held to underpin the complexity of human experience ever since Aristotle first theorised about how they worked.

Is Lionel Messi your number 1 footballer?

Tessa knows a soccer scholarship is her best chance at going to college.

As a teenager, Kylian Mbappe was one of the best footballers on the planet.

The German sociologist Max Weber is considered to be one of the founding fathers of sociology, and ranks among the most influential writers of the 20th-century.

American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and died.

Step into a world of timeless traditionsA breathtaking collection of evocative poetry paired with beautiful linocut prints inspired by the British Isles.

'Like Louis Theroux channelling Margaret Atwood' - New Statesman'A tour of the lurid fringes of the tech world' - The Times'A moreish page-turner of a book' - HeraldImagine if it was possible to have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise, eat meat without killing animals, have babies without the need to bear them, and choose the time of our painless death.

THE CENTER FOR TALENT INNOVATION (CTI) is an NYC-based think tank which focuses on global talent strategies and the retention and acceleration of well-qualified labor across the divides of gender, generation, geography, and culture.

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If you're a true fan of The Reds then this is the book for you!

READ ABOUT THE STAR LIONESSES AND DISCOVER WHAT IT TOOK TO BECOME CHAMPIONS AT EURO 2022!

Voulez-vous exciter et donner tout le plaisir que vous méritez?

Discover the venerable art of graphology - how to interpret the curves, arcs and loops of the handwritten word to reveal the personality of the writer.

William Whyte's core idea in The Organization Man is that the Protestant Ethic that characterized financial and personal success in American history had been replaced in modern times by the Social Ethic.

Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important.

Transforming the Modern Workday: A New Era of EfficiencyIn a world where burnout lurks at the fringes of every workday, the need for sustainable solutions is more pressing than ever.

Frantz Fanon is one of the most important figures in the history of what is now known as postcolonial studies - the field that examines the meaning and impacts of European colonialism across the world.

David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd: A Study in the Changing American Character is one of the best-known books in the history of sociology - holding a mirror up to contemporary America and showing the nation its own character as it had never seen it before.

This classic book on Hawaiian families and culture is an essential text for anyone interested in pre-American Hawaii.

Filled with quizzes, stats and little-known facts, plus illustrated and told with all the fun of a Tom Gates novel, the Football Superstars series is perfect for young readers five and up.

Effective Training & Development is essential if you are to continuously get the best from your people and extend the knowledge shelf-life of your company.

There are many amazing soccer players-but who are the greatest of all time?

Do you take credit for your employees' ideas?

Meditation can create social harmony

From Marcus Collins, strategist to Apple, Nike and Beyonce, discover how you can harness the most powerful vehicle for influencing behaviour: true cultural engagement.

A rich, informative and entertaining compendium of weather facts, weather stories and weather-related fun and trivia!

Robert Lucas is known among economists as one of the most influential macroeconomists of recent times - a reputation founded in no small part on the critical thinking skills displayed in his seminal 1990 paper 'Why Doesn't Capital Flow from Rich to Poor Countries?

Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique is possibly the best-selling of all the titles analysed in the Macat library, and arguably one of the most important.

Lock him up and throw away the key.

Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biological change, On the Origin of Species.

In recent months there has been a spate of burglaries at the houses of players from Danny's favourite football club, City FC.

In the great boom of the 1990's, top management's compensation soared, but the wages of most Americans barely grew at all.

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The largely untold stories of innumerable, rather humble, lives spent 'in service' are lying just below the surface of many great houses.

Audisee(R) eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience!

Filled with quizzes, stats and little-known facts, plus illustrated and told with all the fun of a Tom Gates novel, the Football Superstars series is perfect for young readers five and up.

Is Sam Kerr your ultimate soccer hero?

Understanding evidence is critical in a court of law - and it is just as important for critical thinking.