Piro - Social & Cultural Studies 3

The award-winning Black Wealth / White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking research analy……続きを見る

On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamenta……続きを見る

Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decision……続きを見る

A woman can always count on are her friendsーright? But what if those friendships are hurtful, harmful, even toxic? Susan Shapiro Barash explores the ten types of female friends and shows you why an……続きを見る

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present as a superseding standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence Shapiro sets out the……続きを見る

Almost everyone has citizenship, and yet it has emerged as one of the most hotly contested issues of contemporary politics. Even as cosmopolitan elites and human rights advocates aspire to some noti……続きを見る

Almost everyone has citizenship, and yet it has emerged as one of the most hotly contested issues of contemporary politics. Even as cosmopolitan elites and human rights advocates aspire to some noti……続きを見る

The architect of O.J. Simpson's Dream Team tells the inside story of the Simpson murder trial from the beginning. In this book, the man who created the defense strategy answers the questions of fact……続きを見る

GPR Remote Sensing in Archaeology provides a complete description of the processes needed to take raw GPR data all the way to the construction of subsurface images. The book provides an introduction……続きを見る

Spiro challenges the argument of Bronislaw Malinowski that the matrilineal society of the Trobriand Islands produced a psychological constellation -- a matrilineal complex -- different from Freud's ……続きを見る

A thoughtful and "utterly mind-blowing" exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in the 21st century (New York Times). There are hundreds of books on parenting, and with good reasonーbecoming a par……続きを見る

Come pesci nella rete è un saggio semi-serio, nel senso che è serio nelle statistiche e nella ricerca delle fonti, divertente nello stile. Scritto a quattro mani da due giornaliste blogger, racconta……続きを見る

In the last decade, with the success of review sites and online commentaries and the increased accessibility of travel information online, the job of a traditional travel journalist is being challen……続きを見る

While the original print editions of The Explorer Race and ETs and the Explorer Race were arranged according to subject, this digital edition combines and rearranges the channeled material into chro……続きを見る

In this accessible and authoritative work of political science and political philosophy, one of the most prominent political theorists of our time provides a primer on democracy: what it is, why it ……続きを見る

Mi chiamo Puiu e non ho paura del buio. Parlo con le stelle. La mia amica è una lupa ribelle. Le chiavi dell’uscio le porto appese al collo con un laccio rosso. Ho paura del bosco ma lo attraverso, ……続きを見る

Si el programa de investigación sociológico trazado por Pierre Bourdieu renovó los modos de pensar los intelectuales, la circulación de las ideas y, de modo más general, las relaciones entre polític……続きを見る

America seems to be on a downward slide. Our government spends too much, our economy creates too little, and we aren't preparing our children to compete in a global marketplace. Yet our politicians……続きを見る

This book provides a broad overview of the history and practice of forensic psychology, illustrating the principles of how psychological knowledge can inform judges and juries in the U.S. legal syst……続きを見る

Ambiente, Società, Economia, Politiche sono i capitoli attraverso cui si sviluppa un affresco ampio e articolato dei problemi che riguardano il nostro tempo, nel mondo e più nello specifico in Itali……続きを見る

First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's d……続きを見る

This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the……続きを見る

"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” ーJia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this……続きを見る

In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government author……続きを見る

Sociological Theory and the Capability Approach connects normative strands of sociological theory to the fusion of ethics and economics proposed by Amartya Sen’s and Martha Nussbaum’s capability app……続きを見る

While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political ……続きを見る

American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application. Citizenship has mostly been about being here, either through birth or residence. The territorial premises for ……続きを見る

The French Writers' War, 1940–1953, is a remarkably thorough account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France's passage of amnesty laws ……続きを見る

From acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, the true life story of how his great-uncleーa Jewish vaudeville impresario and exuberant con manーmanaged to cheat Hitler’s agents in the run-up to WWII. Al……続きを見る

This study examines all the characterizations of the female personality in the Divine Comedy, including representations of things traditionally categorized as feminine. Marianne Shapiro treats diffe……続きを見る