Social Science

Our Social Science list reflects a strong focus on American studies, anthropology, cultural and gender studies, and philosophy, covering topics as wide-ranging as global social movements, medical misinformation, and systemic and institutional racism.

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Trust

Brief Books about Big Ideas

Gert Tinggaard Svendsen

Publication Date: June 11, 2024

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Love

Brief Books about Big Ideas

Anne Marie Pahuus

Publication Date: June 4, 2024

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Vicious and Immoral

Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh

John Gilbert McCurdy

Publication Date: June 4, 2024

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Spanning the Gilded Age

James Eads and the Great Steel Bridge

John K. Brown

Publication Date: May 21, 2024

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Longing for Connection

Entangled Memories and Emotional Loss in Early America

Andrew Burstein

Publication Date: April 23, 2024

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Frontline Bodies

Sports and Black Struggles for Justice since the Late Nineteenth Century

Nicolas Martin-Breteau
translated by Lucy Garnier
foreword by Damion L. Thomas

Publication Date: April 16, 2024

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The American Transportation Revolution

A Social and Cultural History

Aaron W. Marrs

Publication Date: April 9, 2024

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The New Physiognomy

Face, Form, and Modern Expression

Rochelle Rives

Publication Date: April 9, 2024

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Catland

Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania

Kathryn Hughes

Publication Date: March 26, 2024

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Preserved

A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America

Dean G. Lampros

Publication Date: March 26, 2024

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Conspiracy

Why the Rational Believe the Irrational

Michael Shermer

Publication Date

2024

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New Narratives on the Peopling of America

Immigration, Race, and Dispossession

edited by T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Alexandra Délano Alonso

Publication Date: January 30, 2024

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Vaccine Wars

The Two-Hundred-Year Fight for School Vaccinations

Kim Tolley

Publication Date: December 5, 2023

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Courteous Capitalism

Public Relations and the Monopoly Problem, 1900–1930

Daniel Robert

Publication Date: November 28, 2023

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Comics and Conquest

Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

Rhiannon Koehler

Publication Date: November 21, 2023

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The Power of Placebos

How the Science of Placebos and Nocebos Can Improve Health Care

Jeremy Howick

Publication Date: November 14, 2023

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Questions

Brief Books about Big Ideas

Pia Lauritzen

Publication Date: November 7, 2023

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Terminus

Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire

Stuart Rollo

Publication Date: October 31, 2023

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Energizing Neoliberalism

The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America

Caleb Wellum

Publication Date: October 17, 2023

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Abraham Lincoln

A Life

Michael Burlingame
edited and abridged by Jonathan W. White

Abridged Edition

Publication Date: October 10, 2023