True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us by Danielle J. Lindemann
Category: Social Sciences
What do we see when we watch reality television? In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist and TV lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard look in the "funhouse mirror" of this genre, from countless rose ceremonies on The Bachelor to the White House and more (so much more!). ...Show more
When the Time Comes by Magnolia Cardona
Category: Social Sciences
What do we want for ourselves and our loved ones, 'when the time comes'? Jointly written, collected and curated by a doctor and nurse working in end-of-life care, this collection of personal experiences (of families and healthcare professionals) throws light on social, cultural and individual influences ...Show more
The Child Snatchers by Jasmin Newman
Category: Social Sciences
Child abduction has impacted everyone from royalty to a-list movie stars. It is estimated that every year at least 500 children will be abducted from Australia, overseas. Many more will be abducted within our shores, making Australia one of the highest ranking parent-child abduction hotspots in the worl ...Show more
Perfectly Queer - Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet by Jillian Abby
Category: Social Sciences
Jill had a happy, healthy 20-year relationship with her college sweetheart, two wonderful kids, and rescue cat from the Humane Society. They lived in a nice suburban home with a white picket fence and owned a small bar that was rated one of the "Best Mom & Pop" businesses in Tampa Bay. From the outs ...Show more
Roe - The History of a National Obsession by Mary Ziegler
Category: Social Sciences
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis; Frank Barat (Editor); Cornel West (Preface by)
Category: Social Sciences
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, ...Show more
2020 When the World Lost Its Balance - Living in Covid by Kristina McGhee (Editor)
Category: Social Sciences
An anthology of experiences and thoughts from around the world, during the Coronavirus pandemic of 2020.
Planning for Community by Phil Heywood
Category: Social Sciences
Planning for Community A comprehensive exploration of community planning that integrates today?s social and economic issues with policy and governance considerations In Planning for Community, distinguished regional and local planner Phil Heywood delivers an insightful examination of the accelerating im ...Show more
Without a Net, 2nd Edition: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class by Michelle Tea
Category: Social Sciences
An urgent proclamation of what life is like for American women without the security of a financial safety netIndie icon Michelle Tea--whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts--shares these fierce, honest, tender essays written by women who can ...Show more
An Apartment on Uranus - Chronicles of the Crossing by By Paul B. Preciado; Foreword by Virginie Despentes; Translated by Charlotte Mandell
Category: Social Sciences
A "dissident of the gender-sex binary system" reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism.Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concep ...Show more
The Savvy Ally by Jeannie Gainsburg
Category: Social Sciences
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ Advocate, Second Edition, is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy. This fully revised second edition includes: ...Show more
What World Is This? - A Pandemic Phenomenology by Judith Butler
Category: Social Sciences
The pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. Wh ...Show more