What teenage girls make of their awakening sexuality-distant from and yet susceptible to cultural stereotypes-emerges for…

College education is one of the most important investments a family will make, but the process can be a headache for…

A Nobel laureate reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time.…

Schuman examines the question-answer process that is basic to polls and surveys. This book is less about the substance of…

In the 1960s and 1970s, analogies between sex discrimination and racial injustice became potent weapons in the battle for…

After many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, this edition of Emily Dickinson's poems is divided into three volumes and…

Explores the slow shift from one form of public community to another - from the ancient city to the Christian Church. He…

The Caring Child provides the most current account of our understanding of the motivations behind prosocial behaviors and…

The great evolutionist Mayr elucidates the subtleties of Darwin's thought and that of his contemporaries and intellectual…

Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, and Lawrence, Reeve brings the…

Neoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. This title gives…

Guaranteeing that all are insured does not create a system with the quality of care patients want, the flexibility…

In this entertaining and illuminating book, biopsychologist Blumberg explores the many ways that temperature rules the lives…

Conventional wisdom attributes women's decision to leave work to their maternal traits and desires. This book shows why that…

By uncovering the challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, when civil rights were…

African American literature is over. With this provocative claim, the author sets out to identify a distinctly African…

A leading expert on twins delves into the stories behind her research to reveal the profound joys and real-life traumas of…

Unmaking the Public University is the story of how conservatives have maligned and restructured public universities in a…

One of the most respected voices in American education demonstrates that when teachers are not given a say in how new…

This book takes us to the shores of the Indian Ocean, in a brilliant reinterpretation of how culture developed and history…

In this new book, Parke considers the father-child relationship within the "family system" and the wider society. Using the…

A guide to the strange and often illogical world of neural function, this book shows how the brain is not an optimized,…

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In 1963, West Germany was gripped by a dramatic trial of former guards who had worked at Auschwitz. It was the country's…

Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness.…

The guiding thread of this book is the distinction McGinn draws a distinction between perception and imagination, showing…

Page duBois incorporates insights from postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and postmodern theories into her nuanced close readings…

Duden asserts that the most basic biological and medical terms that we use to describe our own bodies-male and female,…

Paley sets out to discover the truth about the multicultural classroom from those who participate in it. Here are the voices…

Emphasizing the importance of parental choice, quality of care, and work opportunities, Waldfogel guides readers through a…

This book offers a rich philosophical and historical perspective on the mechanics, moral dilemmas, and rippling implications…

Karp explores the relationship between pills and personhood. Through the honest and vivid stories of patients, he provides…

Television, video games, and computers are easily accessible to twenty-first-century children, but what impact do they have…

A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. DeStefano…

First published in 1981, this book is eerily prescient and timely. Warning the women's movement against dissolving into…

In this moving and eloquent portrait, Heilbron describes how the founder of quantum theory rose to the pinnacle of German…

Roth charts changes in the character and incidence of homicide in the U.S. from colonial times to the present. He examines…

Anchored in classical philosophy, this book nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern…

In a style that is writerly and audacious, Adam Phillips takes up a variety of seemingly ordinary subjects underinvestigated…

In charting the growth of gleaming shopping centers and refurbished brownstones in Harlem, Brian Goldstein shows that…

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel an American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis and social isolation of disadvantaged…

Each body recovered at a crime scene is an ecosystem, a unique microenvironment colonized in succession by a diverse array…

Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a…

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. This title…

Cheating Lessons is a guide to tackling academic dishonesty at its roots. James Lang analyzes the features of course design…

Devoted to a deceptively simple but original argument that copying is an essential part of being human, that the ability to…

Beginning with Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and ending with the work of the English game theorist Geoffrey Parker…