Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Society & Culture

This easy-to-use guide is like an encyclopedia of Christian saints and angels. It explains the history of each, what role they serve today, how they can help us deal with specific life problems, and how to call upon each one. It also includes a comprehensive chart that lists a number of life situ...

Britain's best known classicist Mary Beard shows how history has treated powerful women. With examples ranging from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Elizabeth Warren, Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, how we look at women who exercis...

In this assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist, Steven Pinker, urges us to step back from the prophecies of doom, which bring out the worst in our psychological biases and follow the data. In this book Pinker shows that life, health, prosperity, safety, pea...

The Colossus of New York is a remarkable portrait of life in the big city. Ambitious in scope, gemlike in its details, it is at once an unparalleled tribute to New York and the ideal introduction to one of the most exciting writers working today.

Featuring Freud, Groucho Marx, Socrates, Lily Tomlin, Kierkegaard, Buddha, New Yorker cartoonists, zombies, and of course, Heidegger. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein share the timeless wisdom of the great philosophers, theologians, psychotherapists and wiseguys. From angels to zombies and everyt...

Like millions of us, Anjali Kumar, a lawyer for Google, was not religious. But when her daughter was born, Anjali felt compelled to find God -- or at least some form of enlightenment -- that she could someday impart to her daughter. Knowing that she couldn't simply Google an answer to "What is th...

Wicca for Life presents a comprehensive guide to Wicca for both established followers and newcomers to the Craft, designed to carry the modern Witch through every season and aspect of life. From Wicca's ancient beginnings to its current practice worldwide, Wicca for Life encompasses the rites, ri...

Caitlin Doughty sets out in search of cultures unburdened by fears of dead bodies. With curiosity and morbid humour, Doughty introduces us to inspiring death-care innovators, participates in powerful death practices almost entirely unknown in the West and explores new spaces for mourning; includi...

In this book, the author draws on his latest research to update his theory that inhabitants of other planets have kept in contact with humankind since the beginning of our history.

Subject: Draws on the latest research from a diverse range of fields to consider the role of trust in success, failure, and overall well-being, discussing how to recognize cues in order to discern the trustworthiness of others.