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Sociology

1. Social Problems

   Joel Best

   In his new textbook, Joel Best gives readers a complete set of tools for analyzing any social problem.More

2. My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family

   Anne Burt

   "[Includes] a take on just about every version of a newly extended family....Stellar."—Boston GlobeMore

3. When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties

   Kristin Luker

   "It is difficult to imagine a juicier subject, or a more thoughtful, fluent, trustworthy guide for its exploration."—San Francisco ChronicleMore

4. State of the World 2007: An Urban Planet

   The Worldwatch Institute

   “Top-ranked annual books on sustainable development.”—GlobeScan survey of sustainability expertsMore

5. The Mismatched Worker

   Arne L. Kalleberg

   In this provocative new study, Arne L. Kalleberg examines how the now-common expectation that a career should at once provide fulfillment, challenge, meaning, and financial success is creating a growing number of “mismatched” workers—workers who fit poorly with their employers or careers.More

6. Indian Removal

   David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler

   This casebook traces the evolution of U.S. Indian policy from its British Colonial origins to the implementation of removal after 1830.More

7. Vital Signs 2006-2007: The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

   The Worldwatch Institute

   The award-winning Worldwatch Institute reveals the often overlooked key trends that tell the true health of our planet.More

8. The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging

   Kym Ragusa

   A memoir of astonishing delicacy and strength about race and physical beauty.More

9. How to Read Marx

   Peter Osborne, Simon Critchley

   Intent on letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading classic authors, the How to Read series will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.More

10. Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World

    Douglas Massey

    Drawing from evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and sociology, this truly interdisciplinary study explores how the drive to find social connection has shaped the size, structure, and organization of human communities from the Stone Age to the post-industrial present.More

11. Breaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change

    Judith Lorber

    In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.More

12. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why

    Laurence Gonzales

    "Unique among survival books...stunning...enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."—Penelope Purdy, Denver PostMore

13. The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness

    Bryan S. Turner

    The New Medical Sociology makes a bold and innovative investigation of how society makes us sick.More

14. Methods of Discovery: Heuristics for the Social Sciences

    Andrew Abbott, Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena.More

15. Respect in a World of Inequality

    Richard Sennett

    The powerful case for a society of mutual respect.More