Sociology: Recent submissions

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    • The uses of social investment 

      Hemerijck, Anton (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      The Uses of Social Investment provides the first study of the welfare state, under the new post-crisis austerity context and associated crisis management politics, to take stock of the limits and potential of social ...

    • The spread of modern industry to the periphery since 1871 

      O’Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Williamson, Jeffrey Gale (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Ever since the Industrial Revolution of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, industrialization has been the key to modern economic growth. The fact that modern industry originated in Britain, and spread ...

    • The Sociocultural Brain: A Cultural Neuroscience Approach to Human Nature 

      Han, Shihui (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      How is the human brain shaped by our sociocultural experiences? What neural correlates underlie the extraordinary cultural diversity of human behavior? How do our genes interact with sociocultural experiences to moderate ...

    • The semantics of nouns 

      Ye, Zhengdao (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      This volume brings together the latest research on the semantics of nouns in both familiar and less well-documented languages, including English, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, the Papuan language Koromu, the Dravidian language ...

    • The evolution of memory systems : ancestors, anatomy, and adaptations 

      Graham, Kim S.; Murray, Elisabeth A.; Wise, Steven P (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Current theories about human memory have been shaped by clinical observations and animal experiments. This doctrine holds that the medial temporal lobe subserves one memory system for explicit or declarative memories, while ...

    • Islamic Extremism and the War of Ideas: Lessons from Indonesia 

      Hughes, John (Hoover Institution Press, 2010)
      For decades, the themesof the Hoover Institution have revolved around the broad concerns of political and economic and individual freedom. The Cold War that engaged and challenged our nation during the twentieth century ...

    • Democracy's dangers and discontents: the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama 

      Thornton, Bruce S. (Hoover Institution Press, 2014)
      By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that ...

    • Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform 

      Walberg, Herbert J. (Hoover Institution Press, 2011)
      The pressing need to improve achievement in American schools is widely recognized. In Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform, Herbert J. Walberg draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to inform citizens, ...

    • Conversations about Energy: How the Experts See America's Energy Choices 

      Carl, Jeremy; Goodby, James E.; Shultz, George P. (Hoover Institution Press, 2010)
      Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax ...

    • The End of Modern History in the Middle East 

      Lewis, Bernard (Hoover Institution Press, 2011)
      With the ending of global strategic confrontation between superpowers, those in the Middle East must adjust to a new reality: to accept final responsibility for their own affairs, to make and recognize their mistakes, and ...

    • Jihad in the Arabian Sea 

      Pecastaing, Camille (Hoover Institution Press, 2011)
      Camille Pecastaing looks at the twenty-first-century challenges facing the region around the Bab el Mandeb-the tiny strait that separates the Red Sea from the Indian Ocean-from civil war, piracy, radical Islamism, terrorism ...

    • The great meat cookbook 

      Aidells, Bruce; Ramo, Anne-marie (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
      Grass fed. "Organic." "Natural." "Pastured." "Raised without antibiotics." "Heirloom breed." Meat has never been better, but the vast array of labels at today's meat counter can overwhelm even the saviest shopper. Which ...

    • The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 

      Gall, Carlotta (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014)
      Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, ...

    • Baking Style: Art Craft Recipes 

      Yockelson, Lisa (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011)
      A dazzling celebration of the art and craft of baking. In Baking Style, the award-winning author of Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate, presents what has fascinated her during a lifetime of baking. In 100 essays and ...

    • Vegetarian Times Everything Vegan 

      Vegetarian Times (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
      A diverse and delicious collection of vegan recipes from the experts at Vegetarian Times magazine. Whether they're vegan for a day, a week, a lifetime, or even just for lunch hour, the demand among vegans for deliciously ...

    • Simply Sensational Cookies 

      Baggett, Nancy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
      Sophisticated, contemporary cookie recipes from one of America's most respected baking experts. From bestselling cookbook author and award-winner Nancy Baggett comes Simply Sensational Cookies, a delicious collection of ...

    • Time reborn: From the crisis in physics to the future of the universe 

      Smolin, Lee (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
      The scientific c a se for time being an illusion is formi-dable. That is why the consequences of adopting the view that time is real are revolutionary. The core of the physicists’ case against time relies on the way we ...

    • The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable 

      Weatherall, James Owen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)
      After the economic meltdown of 2008, Warren Buffett famously warned, “beware of geeks bearing formulas.” But as James Weatherall demonstrates, not all geeks are created equal. While many of the mathematicians and software ...

    • Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things 

      Frost, Randy O.; Steketee, Gail (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010)
      What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper that’s ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky ...

    • Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook, Fourth Edition 

      Watchers, Weight (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012)
      At Weight Watchers, we believe that change is good and Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook, featuring our new PointsPlus program, is very good for anyone who loves to eat and wants to embrace a healthier lifestyle. Heres ...