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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to World Population

    by Vanessa Baird ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    No-Nonsense Guide to World Population (1/2 page)With world population passing seven billion and predicted to hit nine billion by 2050, we are in the grip of a number panic. This book explodes some of the common myths, looks at what the numbers really mean, and addresses nine topics, such as why women in most parts of the world have fewer children, what will happen to our societies as we all live ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity

    by Vanessa Baird ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    The treatment of sexual minorities—whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender—varies significantly in different parts of the world. In some countries, equal rights have been achieved and progress is being made against discrimination; in others, being gay still incurs the death penalty.This guide examines all the colors of the sexual rainbow, unearths hidden histories, and looks at ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • My Gender Workbook, Updated

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity

    by Kate Bornstein ...
    "This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an entire generation of trans writers and artists. This revised and expanded edition extends that legacy, ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Soft Power

    The Means To Success In World Politics

    by Joseph S Nye Jr. ...
    **From the pre-eminent scholar of foreign policy, the classic work that defined soft power“As brilliant as it is timely, Professor Nye’s book is must reading for anyone who cares about the success of America and the world.” —Madeleine K. Albright**Joseph S. Nye, Jr., coined the term “soft power” to describe a nation’s ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power—the ability to coerce—grows ... Read more

    Was $10.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • On Being Different

    What It Means to Be a Homosexual

    by Merle Miller, Charles Kaiser ...
    The groundbreaking work on being homosexual in America—available again only from Penguin Classics and with a new foreword by Dan SavageOriginally published in 1971, Merle Miller’s On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the New York Times Magazine entitled ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Coming Out, Coming Home

    Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child

    by Michael LaSala, , Ph.D. ...
    The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she's raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination. From the child's perspective, gay and lesbian youth fear their families will reject them and that they will lose financial and emotional support. All in all, learning a child is gay challenges long ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Does the 21st Century Belong to China?

    The Munk Debate on China

    by Dr. Henry Kissinger, Niall Ferguson, David Li, Fareed Zakaria ...
    Is China's rise unstoppable? Powered by the human capital of 1.3 billion citizens, the latest technological advances, and a comparatively efficient system of state-directed capitalism, China seems poised to become the global superpower this century. But the Middle Kingdom also faces a series of challenges. From energy scarcity to environmental degradation to political unrest and growing global ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gay Marriage

    Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America

    by Jonathan Rauch ...
    A leading Washington journalist argues that gay marriage is the best way to preserve and protect society's most essential institutionTwo people meet and fall in love. They get married, they become upstanding members of their community, they care for each other when one falls ill, they grow old together. What's wrong with this picture? Nothing, says Jonathan Rauch, and that's the point. If the two ... Read more

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  • When Your Spouse Comes Out

    A Straight Mate's Recovery Manual

    by Carol Grever, Deborah Bowman ...
    Effective therapeutic self-help techniques for a straight mate’s recoveryOne of the most traumatic events that can happen in a marriage is discovering your mate is gay. When Your Spouse Comes Out: A Straight Mate’s Recovery Manual is a comprehensive exploration of the trauma that provides practical steps that successful individuals have taken to keep this event from ruining their future. This ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Making Globalization Work

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    "A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Straight State

    Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

    by Margot Canaday ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenshipThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • War is a Racket

    by Smedley Butler ...
    War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. Based on his career military experience, Butler frankly discusses how business interests commercially benefit (including war profiteering) from warfare. He had been appointed commanding officer of the Gendarmerie during the United States ... Read more

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