Browsing: Sociology

Set amid the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, this powerful book centers on Jimmy, a New York man with both black and white ancestry. When Jimmy traces his roots back to Oklahoma, he finds love and community as he becomes caught in the lead-up to a historic conflict.

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the…

“Essential…in showcasing people who are persistent, clever, flawed, loving, struggling and full of contradictions, Broke affirms why it’s worth solving…

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on…

A Serial Killer —Your Neighbor, Friend, Even Your Spouse?Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often…

“Riveting, inspiring, at times hard to believe but utterly true…it gives some measure of hope in these rancorous times.” –…

Raised by a lively family of Spanish Jews in tropical and Catholic Panama of the 1950s and 1960s, Marlena depends…

This “humorous and heartfelt” memoir (Booklist) recounts the Arab American author’s Midwestern upbringing — from navigating Western dating mores to discovering the simple joy of an Egg McMuffin. “Fast-paced, funny… Great for a plane, the beach, or a free afternoon” (Publishers Weekly).

Having his best friend ripped from his life at an early age has carved Zeke into the man he is…

What dark motives drove a mother to kill her young son? This compelling work of nonfiction provides “a painstaking and meticulous exploration of all the facts and conjectures surrounding a disturbing case” (Kirkus Reviews).