Sociology

Indulge in a bit of shear delight with this insightful bit of social history. The Barber Book traces men's hairstyles…

Rose Hackman's excursion into the uncompensated work that women and minorities perform every day begins with a…

Period. End of Sentence. won an Oscar in 2019, prompting Melissa Berton to tell the audience “A period should end a…

While more humans live in cities than ever before, there are also masses of people on the move. And it's not just…

Parking: We all hate it. Massive lots of land dedicated to temporary car storage, which often don't even have enough…

It is no laughing matter that we are living through a period of unprecedented hardship, uncertainty, and upheaval in all…

How to Save the World for Just a Trillion Dollars: The Ten Biggest Problems We Can Actually Fix will shift your…

The women featured in this book have made a splash in the world of Surf. As surfing grows to a worldwide lifestyle and…

Through examining prominent cases like Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby, it has become clear that the definition and…

Delve into the world of superfandom, focusing on how passionate fans, particularly fangirls, shaped the early social…

Is the new wave of "self-care" and "wellness" advice all it's hyped up to be? Or is it a symptom and extension of the…

Kirk Goldsberry is a leading expert in basketball analytics and his visual maps of players, teams, and positions help us…

The story follows six young Tibetans involved in the resistance against Chinese occupation, set in Aba, a key site of…

Many people become vegans because they are concerned about the role capitalist food systems play in climate change,…

Whether you’ve always had a soft spot for the USPS or not, prepare to hear a sad and frustrating tale of what happens…

Before we talk about what has been lost since its end, let’s take a moment to consider what was not gained during the…

In Rest Is Resistance, author Tricia Hersey argues that our society's obsession with productivity is harmful to our…

Butts, butts, butts. Whatever you think of them, there's no doubt that humans have a rather strange relationship with…

A diverse, spirited, outspoken group of emerging writers comes together in this anthology to address the many serious…

Drawing on more than a century's worth of quantitative and qualitative data, Segregation By Design brings into sharp…

Blending memoir, biography, and ritual guide, this book celebrates and chronicles the BIPOC witches who are taking back…

In this fascinating new book from author Melanie Challenger, explore what it means to be a human, and more importantly,…

A detailed look by an investigative journalist at the NXIVM cult and the ugliness lurking under its message of…

Every day, our brains are bombarded with more information than they can possibly process. So inevitably, our brains…

On Women Turning Fifty celebrates the new faces of aging with powerful images of celebrated women in their fifties, who…

This is a sobering work of investigative reporting on logging practices that are too common nowadays. Author Lyndsie…