Political & Social Science

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Brad Snyder’s new book The House of Truth is part intellectual history and part biography.

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Any intelligent person knows that most Muslims are peaceful people, and that they’d tell you Islam is a religion of peace.

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provides essential inspiration, information, resources, and insights.”

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Human civilization is constantly changing, argues David Smick in The Great Equalizer: How Main Street Capitalism Can Create an Economy for Everyone, a manifesto for a new set of policies d

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If every journalist wrote like Patrick Kingsley, more people would likely be reading the critical nonfiction books of our time.

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As a somewhat jaded and world-weary incarcerated writer, rarely do I read something that makes me really mad.

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Theodore Roosevelt richly deserves his reputation as a one of the nation’s greatest presidents.

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Fuller’s explanation of the effect of Darwin’s theory certainly will stand as a fascinating example of the impact of scientific work on popular theory.”

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“The criminal justice system has adapted itself to the world of mass incarceration.”

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Perry’s skewering of evolutionary rationales to explain and justify gender inequalities should keep us going for a while.”

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Written/Unwritten is a collection of essays by American academic faculty of color who have written poignant essays about the challenges, barriers, pain, and resilience required of being a

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The Death and Life of the Single Family House is an important contribution to urban studies . . .”

 

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This book presents itself as the “coming out” of Bennett and her Feminist Fight Club, a girl gang that banded together in 2009 to develop strategies for dealing with “sneaky micro-aggressions and o

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In 1852 Charles Dickens said of solitary confinement, "I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain, to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body: and because its g

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Fans of Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.—also known as Lil Wayne and Weezy—will want to pick up his new journal, Gone ’Til November.

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The front cover of The Battle for Syria shows a hand composed of the flags of regional and international powers reaching across a bullet-ridden map of Syria.

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Brooke Harrington peels back the layers of high net-worth Individuals and wealth managers to expose economic inequality—politely.

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Criminal justice reform is on the political and social agenda in a way that hasn't been seen in several decades.

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The For Beginners series of graphic nonfiction books take on complicated subjects in an authoritative but accessible and entertaining manner.

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The 2016 presidential campaign cycle has proven to be the most unpredictable and volatile in modern history.

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“We depend upon the benefits from nature to sustain our bodies and the solace of wild places to soothe our souls, but somewhere along the way we lost respect for nature. We lost wonder.

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Local history can be rich, exotic, complicated, personal, and dark but especially when an incident like the Scopes Monkey Trial serves as an “island” in regional and national social currents.

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Sociologists, criminologists, and other scholars regularly study and debate what works about the American criminal justice system and what doesn't.

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"Prisoners," wrote Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, "retain the essence of human dignity. . . .

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As the nation comes to grips with the incarceration boom of the last several decades, sociologists, criminologists, and other experts have begun to closely examine the collateral consequences broug

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