Sociology: Recent submissions
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The History of the World
(Oxford University Press, 2013)J.M. Roberts's renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of readers a tour of the ... -
The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy
(Oxford University Press, 2013)The economic analysis of the digital economy has been a rapidly developing research area for more than a decade. Through authoritative examination by leading scholars, this handbook takes a closer look at particular ... -
The Handbook of Market Design
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Economists often look at markets as given, and try to make predictions about who will do what and what will happen in these markets Market design, by contrast, does not take markets as given, instead, it combines insights ... -
The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law
(Oxford University Press, 2013)The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins, concepts, and core issues of international law. The first comprehensive Handbook on the history of ... -
The culture of connectivity : a critical history of social media
(Oxford University Press, 2013)Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical ... -
The Organized Mind Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
(Dutton, 2014)New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin shifts his keen insights from your brain on music to your brain in a sea of details. The information age is drowning us with an unprecedented deluge ... -
The Templar salvation
(Dutton, 2010)This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business ... -
The border lords
(Dutton, 2011)This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business ... -
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
(Dutton, 2012)For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq ... -
Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man
(Dutton, 2011)Chaz Bono's groundbreaking and candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity with his physical body and his transformation from female to male At first, America knew the only child of Sonny and Cher ... -
Where She Went
(Dutton, 2011)It's been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard's rising star and Adam is LA tabloid fodder, thanks to his ... -
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The Submission
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)Entertainment Weekly’s Favorite Novel of 2011 Esquire’s 2011 Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book for 2011 One of NPR’s 10 Best Novels of 2011Ten years after 9/11, ... -
Travels in Siberia
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great PlainsIn his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the ... -
Ilustrado
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)Garnering international prizes and acclaim before its publication, Ilustrado has been called “brilliantly conceived and stylishly executed . . .It is also ceaselessly entertaining, frequently raunchy, and effervescent with ... -
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport, The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book based on his legendary Harvard course Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated ... -
What Darwin Got Wrong
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)What Darwin Got Wrong is a remarkable book, one that dares to challenge the theory of natural selection as an explanation for how evolution works a devastating critique not in the name of religion but in the name of good ... -
Big Data: Opportunities and challenges.
(Faber & Faber, 2015)This ebook aims to give practical guidance for all those who want to understand big data better and learn how to make the most of it. Topics range from big data analysis, mobile big data and managing unstructured data to ... -
Untangling the Web
(Faber & Faber, 2013)The World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real effects is it having on our social world? What does it mean to be a modern family ... -
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks
(Faber & Faber, 2010)Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for ...
