Referring to the work of Emile Durkheim and Erving Goffman, Falk reviews the whole range of stigmatized people from the mentally ill to ordinary people with unpopular occupations, like undertakers and trash collectors.

This unique book goes beyond the standard fare on football strategy and history, or the biographies of famous players and coaches, to analyze the reasons why the game is the essence of the American spirit.

The restoration of Israel to the Holy Land was originally an English, Protestant idea.

This is a book for all those who are frustrated by the ridiculous election campaigns we have to endure and the inadequate options we face at election time. Democracy may be the best system, but only when it works.

Prof. Falk looks at major traditional religious groupings in the US and discusses how they influence the family, education, government, the economy, philanthropy, violence, music, and the media.

This book describes twelve inventions that transformed the United States from a rural and small-town community to an industrial country of unprecedented power.

This book describes the assimilation and acculturation of a small minority who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and again in the twentieth century.

This book reviews the achievements of American women in the American economy; in education; in government; in religion; in the military; in law enforcement and in communications.

The American Jewish community is in transition. This book describes in detail how American Jews changed from living in a religion-oriented community to living a secular life.