sociological aspects

Argues that Americans are losing control over their lives to a handful of global conglomerates, and calls for changes in the country's corporate system designed to keep businesses healthy while making them accountable to the people.

Argues that the American dream is actually causing more harm than good, making people spend too much time focusing on their career and preventing them from enjoying their families, and encourages people to avoid the "market mania" that consumes Americans and instead begin enjoying the simple things in life.

Explains the nature, history, effects, and various causes of genocide, the practice of extermination on the basis of culture or race.

Discusses, from a feminist viewpoint, how cosmetic surgery is both a way in which women are victimized and a means through which women take power to meet their own needs.

Presents the latest medical knowledge about women's mental health issues, includes information about hormones, medications, and selecting psychotherapies, also provides tips on preventing depression and anxiety, and avoiding eating disorders and substance abuse.

Examines the male sport experience and how it relates to violence, homophobia, and gender, class and racial inequality.

Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.

A social history of American sport, told through profiles of sixteen of the twentieth century's most famous athletes, studying the increasing trend toward commercialism in sports, and looking at the changing attitudes toward African-Americans, women, and other minorities.