
Chutes and Ladders - Newman, Katherine S.
Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the…
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Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the…
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Jackall tells how New York detectives pieced together a case of drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder, centered on…
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Making Good explores the choices confronting young workers who join the ranks of three dynamic professions-journalism,…
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This book shows how innovation in the "post-Google generation" is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line…
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Alexander shows how popular stories about mathematicians are really morality tales about their craft as it relates to the…
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In Prejudice, the history and psychology of discriminatory policies is contrasted with efforts to overcome discrimination.…
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Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced American readers' lives and helped them to find…
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\nDrawing on a range of hard evidence, Neil Van Leeuwen shows that the psychological mechanisms underlying religious belief…
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Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon…
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\nFrom Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were…
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\nOrganizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing…
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Bernardo Zacka probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats-the frontline social and welfare workers, police…
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Since the 1970s a gulf has opened between the pay of low-paid workers and that of the middle class, resulting in the…
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In 1992 Gordon founded the Workplace Project to help immigrant workers in the underground suburban economy of Long Island.…
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Drawing on extensive archives of teachers' letters and accounts, Zimmerman's narrative explores the teachers' shifting…
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Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than…
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We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this…
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What should we do with teens who commit crimes? Two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile…
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In The Real American Dream literary scholar Andrew Delbanco shows how Americans have organized their days and ordered their…
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In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Hawthorne and Melville produced works of fiction that even today help define…
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\nPhilosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as…
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Siegfried Kracauer was one of the twentieth century's most brilliant cultural critics, a daring and prolific scholar, and an…
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\nDuring his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into…
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Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever called himself Byzantine. While the identities of…
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Populism suddenly is everywhere, and everywhere misunderstood. Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as…
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\nIn Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan\'s engagement with Chinese fiction in the…
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Eisgruber offers practical, moderate, and appealing terms for the settlement of many hot-button issues that have plunged…
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Standing on Common Ground locates the roots of today's debates over border enforcement in the Sunbelt's pan-ethnic and…
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In a compelling analysis of the interplay among assassinations, Western bombardment of Japanese cities and fertile cultural…
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"Mind" is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture,…
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When financial institutions collapse, new ones take their place, shaping markets for generations to come. This book explains…
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This elegant essay on the justice of work focuses on the fit between who we are and the kind of work we do. Muirhead shows…
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This book is about murder-in life and in art-and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lesser's…
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Twenty years scouring American culture has made Hampton a uniquely hard-nosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging…
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\nKaterina Clark recovers the story of leftist world literature, a massive project that united writers from the Soviet…
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How do we justify our political convictions? Libertarians appeal to a love of freedom, liberals to a dedication to fairness.…
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\nWhat was the representation of the Mongol invasions in Japan, and what role did it play as a repertoire of cultural…
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Phenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its…
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Representation-in visual arts and fiction-play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of…
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\nEconomists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we…
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\nStatistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary…
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\nEugene Fishel asks whether, how, and under what circumstances the United States has considered Ukraine\'s sovereignty in…
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"The problem of the [20th] century is the problem of the color-line," W. E. B. Du Bois wrote in 1903. His words have proven…
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