Sociology

When crime and violence invades a person's life, vengeance and justice are seen as acceptable responses. However, The…

Take It as a Compliment is gripping comic memoir collecting the stories of men and women of all ages who have…

Being a kid or a teen is rough, besides all the changes that are happening with your body you also have to somehow…

Asking For It is about ending rape culture. It gives an unflinching look at the ways in which we undermine victims and…

Millions of women suffer from painful sex and pelvic pain due while struggling with a healthcare system that fails to…

"Nobody's perfect," we've all heard from every person trying to reassure us ever, and nice and important as that…

Steven D. Levitt isn't your average economist. He studies everyday life and the conclusions to his findings will have…

Do you expect to hear stories of gruesome violence perpetrated by women? If not, this gorefest of a book will blow your…

Why do people cross the border without documents? How do they make the journey? Whose interests does the border serve…

In the age of never-ending distractions and shortcuts, how do we build perseverance in the face of long term goals?…

From the exclusion of trans women, the erasure of identities, and the failure to recognize the intersectional issues of…

Former Royal Marine intelligence officer and current criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee delves the abyssal depths of…

We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our…

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help,…

Over the course of two years, a twenty-something punk rocker eats a cheese slice from every pizzeria in New York City,…

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time,…

Beautiful Trouble brings together dozens of seasoned artists and activists from around the world to distill their best…

An entertaining and informative graphic novel about US consumption and waste, from the perspective of a garbage…

A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise…

The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against…

Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out…

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society…

Hegemony How-To is a practical guide to political struggle for a generation that is deeply ambivalent about questions…

This collection of essays about what it means to be "cool," particularly in relation to Blackness, packs a punch.…