Social science / Sociology

AA to Z: An Addictionary of the 12-Step Culture

von Christopher Cavanaugh

What does a codependent say to his mate when he wakes up?  

"Good  morning, how am I?"

--Overheard at a Codependents Anonymous meeting

Throughout the world today, more than two million alcoholics and hundreds...

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

von Chuck Klosterman

From the kid who brought you Fargo Rock City -- the first book in history to garner the praise of Stephen King, David Byrne, Donna Gaines, Sebastian Bach, Jonathan Lethem, and Rivers Cuomo -- comes Sex, Drugs,...

Going Natural: How to Fall in Love with Nappy Hair

von Mireille Liong-A-Kong

With 73 percent of African American women suffering from hair breakage due to the use of straightening chemicals, this guide is the perfect resource to help them on their endeavor to go natural. The book not...

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us

von Felice Newman

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book was the first-ever sex guide to offer information and encouragement for all women who desire women — lesbian, bisexual, butch, femme, androgynous, and transgender. First published...

Cooking with Cannabis: The Most Effective Methods of Preparing Food and Drink with Marijuana, Hashish, and Hash Oil Third E

von Adam Gottlieb

Cooking with Cannabis includes everything from soup to nuts. The epicurean marijuana enthusiast combines altered consciousness with good taste. Includes tasty recipes for boiling, baking, sauteeing, jellying,...

Eating the Dinosaur

von Chuck Klosterman

Q: What is this book about?

A: Well, that’s difficult to say. I haven’t read it yet—I’ve just picked it up and casually glanced at the back cover. There clearly isn’t a plot. I’ve heard there’s...

A Raisin in the Sun

von Lorraine Hansberry

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway...

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

von Wes Moore

BONUS: This edition contains a new afterword and a The Other Wes Moore discussion guide.

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

Two kids named...

The 50th Law

von 50 Cent & Robert Greene

A hip hop icon joins forces with the best-selling author of The 48 Laws of Power to write a bible for success in life and work living by one simple principle: fear nothing.

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

von Lawrence Wright

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than...

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny

von Alex Tresniowski, Laura Schroff & Valerie Salembier

An Invisible Thread tells of the life-long friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy, and how both of their lives were changed by what began as one small gesture of kindness.

When...

Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

von Jean-Benoit Nadeau

The French... -Smoke, drink and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet live longer and have fewer heart problems than Americans -Work 35-hour weeks, and take seven weeks of paid holidays per year, but are...

Free Will

von Sam Harris

A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse...

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

von David Brooks

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing...

Manchild in the Promised Land

von Claude Brown

Manchild in the Promised Land is indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive...

Half the Sky

von Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl Wudunn

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.

With Pulitzer Prize...

Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times

von Jennifer Worth

The highest-rated drama in BBC history returns to PBS Presents in March 2013   Less than a year after the first season finale, PBS’s hit series Call the Midwife returns to Sunday nights this spring with...

Sleepers

von Lorenzo Carcaterra

"Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intensely human story."

--The Washington Post Book World

"A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrative grips like gunfire in a dark alley."...

Confessions of a Guidette

von Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi

Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi has a lifestyle most guidettes dream about. But can she help it if she was born to love fake tans and juiceheads? In this must-have guide to being a guidette, America’s favorite...

The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care

von Nina Bernstein

In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system....