Jeff Manza, Michael Sauder
Designed for undergraduate courses on inequality, this reader is the first and only one to incorporate political inequality into the discussion of social stratification.More
Max Weber, Richard Swedberg
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is Max Weber’s most important work and, since its publication in 1904, has been widely considered the most important sociological study of the twentieth century.More
Jane Dailey
America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune.More
Laura Schenone
A Newsday Best Cookbook of 2007: can a recipe change your life? A quest for an authentic dish reveals a mythic love story and age-old culinary secrets.More
Garth Massey
Sixth Edition
Readings for Sociology provides students with engaging selections that reveal the complexities of our social world and offer insights into sociological analysis.More
Cynthia Kuhn, Scott Swartzwelder, Wilkie Wilson
Third Edition
The third edition of the essential, accessible source for understanding how drugs work and their effects on body and behavior.More
Lynn Hunt
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore
The Worldwatch Institute
“Comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible.”—Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. WilsonMore
Ira Silver
The reader features multiple readings on the following topics: crime, disaster, drugs, families, gender, health and environment, inequality, race, and violence.More
Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard P. Appelbaum, Et Al.
Second Edition
Regarded as the most authoritative introduction to contemporary sociology, Essentials of Sociology adds a new author to its team with the Second Edition.More
Michael Lewis
"Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore
The Worldwatch Institute
The award-winning Worldwatch Institute reveals the often overlooked key trends that tell the true health of our planet.More
Ross Macmillan, Michael J. Shanahan
Biography and the Sociological Imagination introduces readers to life course sociology, the imaginative framework with which people can think about how their lives reflect the imprint of society, how this imprint reflects the intersection of social changes and personal development, and how these processes are greatly complicated by each person's unique location in society.More
Saskia Sassen
This groundbreaking study focuses on the importance of place, scale, and nation to the study of globalization.More
Jeff Goodwin, James M. Jasper, American Sociological Association
The Contexts Reader collects over sixty of the best articles from the award-winning magazine Contexts in one affordable anthology.More