Harcourt social books in Social Science Books

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Francisco D'Sai, the son of a Konkan father, Lawrence, and an American mother, Denise, grows up surrounded by the colorful tales of India and Konkan history, stories that feed his imagination and give him a profound sense of his heritage and its meaning in his life.

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A trio of interlinked novellas chronicles the lives of Westerners who have been forever changed by their experiences with the people and places of India, from a middle-aged couple on vacation, to a staid Boston attorney, to a young woman who befriends an elephant in Bangalore.

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An intriguing portrait of African-American activist Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone, describes his radical new approach to eliminating inner-city poverty, one that proposes to transform the lives of poor children by changing their schools, their families, and their neighborhoods at the same time.

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An engaging fictional history of the rise of a single New York family, the Carnochans, from their early arrival in America from Scotland, through their successful integration into New York's textile business during the Civil War, to their rise to prominence and wealth, recounting the lives and fortunes of diverse members of the family across generations.

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Old friends share memories of the past, current regrets, and future plans as they gather on a July weekend for the thirtieth reunion of Darton Hall College's class of 1969.

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A provocative and powerful argument that the new "killer woman," who believes that achievement lies in tough, aggressive, "male" behavior, is reshaping American society and betraying the original vision of feminism.

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The life of six-year-old Aasha Rajasekharan and those of her prosperous family are turned upside down by the death of her grandmother, the dismissal of the family's rubber plantation servant girl, and the departure of her older sister, Uma, for Columbia University, in the saga of one Malaysian Indian immigrant family's secrets and lies. A first novel.

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Still grieving over the death of his mother, tough Edinburgh ex-con Pearce refuses a job offer from the dysfunctional Baxter family to protect their pregnant sixteen-year-old daughter from her older, martial-arts-expert husband Wallace, until Wallace makes the mistake of killing Pearce's dog.

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Andy Park's plans to seek revenge on his family's enemies leads to mortal peril for his teenage son and forces his daughter and prospective son-in-law to carry out his dirty work, while Tommy Savage, blackmailed by a masked man calling himself Mr. Smith, and his brother, Phil, find themselves battling for survival in an Edinbrugh graveyard.

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Carson Fielding is well respected for his ability to train horses, but after reluctantly agreeing to work for a wealthy rancher he despises, he finds his loathing supplanted by his growing desire for his employer's wife.

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Struggling with the realities of her unemployed father, her massacre-victim mother, and her reckless adolescent brother, AhlFme, a young Algerian immigrant living on the outskirts of Paris, struggles to hold fast to her dreams in the face of her limitations and responsibilities.

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Having escaped her limited prospects and painfully critical family in Ireland, Greta Cahill embarks on a career and starts a family in America; an improved circumstance that forces her to choose between revealing her successes to her relatives back home and exposing her children to her painful past.

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The acclaimed author of <IT>The Rituals of Dinner<RO> reveals her fascinating inquiry into gratitude, ranging from the unusual determination with which parents teach their children to thank, to the difference between speaking words and feeling them, to the ways in which different cultures handle the complex matters of favors and presents.

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This case study is appropriate for courses in Anthropology, Education, Chicano Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Urban Studies. Vigil's impressive case study explores the real life situations of both suburban and urban Mexican American high school students in 1974 and 1988. The author approaches the study qualitatively so the reader can better understand his subjects, but he also uses a quantitative approach for essential background information.

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Probes the origins of contemporary sex-role determination and discusses the relationships of women in diverse historical and modern societies.

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