Sociology
epub |eng | | Author:Chelsea Cain [Cain, Chelsea]

Nostalgia is a funny thing. I remember vividly the very air of San Antonio, the warm, sweet, almost rotten smell of the river and the jungle, the feel of green ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Simon [Simon, David]

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 Clayvon Jones lies face down in the courtyard of the housing project, his torso covering the loaded 9mm Colt he never had a chance to use. The ...
( Category: True Crime October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Vaknin

By bringing the feared abandonment about, the narcissist can lie to himself persuasively. "She didn't abandon me, it is I who abandoned her. I controlled the situation. It was all ...
( Category: Family Relationships October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sara Wachter-Boettcher

THE NONGORILLA IN THE ROOM One Sunday in June 2015, Jacky Alciné was sitting in his room watching the BET Awards show, when a photo from a friend popped up ...
( Category: Sociology October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-07 | Author:Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner [Levitt, Steven D. & Dubner, Stephen J.]

SuperFreakonomics CHAPTER 4 THE FIX IS IN—AND IT’S CHEAP AND SIMPLE It is a fact of life that people love to complain, particularly about how terrible the modern world is ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 24,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-08 | Author:Frances Gies & Joseph Gies [Gies, Frances & Gies, Joseph]

8 Piers Plowman’s Wife Most of our information about the Middle Ages, political, social, economic, is concerned with the tip of the iceberg, the perhaps one percent of the population—kings ...
( Category: Women's Studies October 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-13 | Author:Abigail C. Saguy [Saguy, Abigail C.]

Another way in which we measured attitudes about weight and health was by showing respondents computer-generated images of women in bikinis at various body sizes and asking them whether they ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-27 | Author:John Safran [Safran, John]

Plan B So much for the big set piece. I was counting on the trial to settle the questions of what Richard Barrett was thinking that night, and what Vincent ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 23,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:B.R. Ambedkar,Arundhati Roy,S. Anand [Roy, Arundhati]

3.6 But what is worthy of note is that the plebeians permitted themselves to be thus cheated because they too, like the patricians, held firmly the belief that the approval ...
( Category: Sociology October 23,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-12-01 | Author:Susan Bordo [Bordo, Susan]

I hope I'm expressing myself properly here, because this is important. You have to understand. I don't see my whole body as fat. When I look in the mirror I ...
( Category: General Gender Studies October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-12 | Author:Sampson Davis & Lisa Frazier Page [Davis, Sampson & Page, Lisa Frazier]

The sunshine outside was bright. It was going to be another warm day. I headed for my Honda Accord. That car was tough. Despite a few fender benders and even ...
( Category: Sociology October 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-12 | Author:David K. Shipler [Shipler, David K.]

The psychological techniques that help a child cope with sexual or physical abuse do not work when the child herself becomes a parent. The dissociative reaction, the emotional closedown, interferes ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Leith Gollner

* * * The idea of a one-trick pony who keeps blowing your mind returned to me a few hours later when, perusing the bookshelves in my room, I came ...
( Category: Philosophy October 22,2017 )
epub | | 2009-10-12 | Author:Amis, Martin [Amis, Martin]

A pair of lovers was its subject — the usual depraved-desolate couple in a typical setting of tombstones and yews. The man was brutal-looking and the long-haired woman (I think ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence October 22,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Emerson, Robert M. [Emerson, Robert M.]

Troubles-Tellings and Alignment Informal others may become involved in dyadic troubles on their own initiative: a friend may notice another’s upset and ask what is going on; a neighbor may ...
( Category: Social Sciences October 21,2017 )