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Sociology

1. 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

2. Flying Solo: Single Women in Midlife

   Carol M. Anderson, Sona Dimidjian, Susan Stewart

   A groundbreaking book portraying the new American lifestyle of single midlife women.More

3. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

   Elijah Anderson

   Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice)More

4. Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife

   Terri Apter

   "The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book ReviewMore

5. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

   Elizabeth Wayland Barber

   "A fascinating history of . . . [a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book ReviewMore

6. Social Problems

   Joel Best

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

7. 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

8. The Improvised Woman: Single Women Reinventing Single Life

   Marcelle Clements

   "A remarkable new book. . . . Marcelle Clements's The Improvised Woman has that exhilarating Eureka! quality. . . . In its modest, quizzical way, The Improvised Woman is a visionary work." —MirabellaMore

9. The Age of Jim Crow

   Jane Dailey

   America’s racial history has been marked by both hard-won progress and sudden reversals of fortune.More

10. The Souls of Black Folk

    W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Terri Hume Oliver

    When it was published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk revolutionized thinking about the experience of African Americans in the United States.More

11. The Marx-Engels Reader

    Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

    Second Edition

12. White-Collar Sweatshop: The Deterioration of Work and Its Rewards in Corporate America

    Jill Andresky Fraser

    How corporate greed and mismanagement ate the American dream.More

13. The Feminine Mystique

    Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen

    The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world.More

14. Call and Response: Key Debates in African American Studies

    Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Jennifer Burton

    Class-tested by Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his groundbreaking course, Call and Response is an innovative core reader for African American Studies.More

15. The Tender Passion: The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud

    Peter Gay

    The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.More