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A Second Reckoning: Race, Injustice, and the Last Hanging in Annapolis2022 IPPY Silver Medal 2021 Foreword Indies Gold Winner for History 2021-22 Reader Views Literary Awards Silver Medal Winner 2021 Best Book Awards Finalist in US History sponsored by American Book Fest A Second Reckoning tells the story of John Snowden, a Black man...
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The 12 Attributes of Extraordinary Media ProfessionalsCareers in media and creative professions are extremely competitive, with less direct pathways to jobs and advancement relative to more traditional or technical professions. Many future media professionals train for careers without a clear understanding that personal attributes like adaptability, integrity, and confidence are...
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The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower SouthBeginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for...
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Give Children the Vote: On Democratizing DemocracyThroughout history, the right to vote has been extended to landowning men, the poor, minorities, women, and young adults. In each case, the meaning of democracy itself has been transformed. The one major group still denied suffrage is the third of humanity who are...
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Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban WorldsCities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change. In Fragments of the City, Colin McFarlane examines such fragments, what they are...
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Sacred as Secular: Secularization Under Theocracy in Iran Volume 11Debates about Islam and Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and, later, by the events of 9/11. Too often present in these debates are wrongheaded assumptions about the attachment of Muslims to their...
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Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents in Schools: Foregrounding Youth Voices to Improve Educational SupportDrawing on qualitative research conducted with young people in New York, this volume highlights the unique experiences of children of incarcerated parents (COIP) and counters deficit-based narratives to consider how young people's voices can inform and improve educational support services. Supporting Children of Incarcerated...
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Huron And Wyandot Mythology, With An Appendix Containing Earlier Published RecordsHuron And Wyandot Mythology, With An Appendix Containing Earlier Published Records has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we...
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Karl Popper and Africa: Knowledge, Politics and DevelopmentThis book provides a diverse contextualization of Popper's critical rationalism concerning knowledge and his generalized attitude of criticism on appropriate social and political reforms in contemporary Africa. The book evaluates how best to address contemporary political problems, especially in politically very troubled parts of...
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Public SociologyMichael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western world. Public Sociology is his most thoroughgoing attempt to explore what a truly committed, engaged sociology should look like in the twenty-first century. Burawoy looks back on the defining...
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Fractured Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa After Racial InclusionDrawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists, Fractured Militancy tells the story of postapartheid South Africa from the perspective of Johannesburg's impoverished urban Black neighborhoods. Nearly three decades after South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, widespread protests and xenophobic attacks suggest...
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Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing?Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements. Situating the university at the heart of these momentous...
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Degrees of Dignity: Arab Higher Education in the Global EraPresenting an analysis of higher education in eight countries in the Arab Middle East and North Africa, Degrees of Dignity works to dismantle narratives of crisis and assert approaches to institutional reform. Drawing on policy documents, media narratives, interviews, and personal experiences, Elizabeth Buckner...
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Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness: An Introductory Text for Emergency Management and Planning ProfessionalsAn essential text for today's emerging professionals and higher education community, the third edition of Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness provides accessible and actionable strategies to create safer, more resilient communities. Known and valued for its balanced approach, Hazard Mitigation and Preparedness assumes no prior...
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America's Religious Crossroads: Faith and Community in the Emerging MidwestBetween 1790 and 1850, waves of Anglo-Americans, African Americans, and European immigrants flooded the Old Northwest (modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin). They brought with them a mosaic of Christian religious belief. Stephen T. Kissel draws on a wealth of primary sources to...
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The Turning of the Year: Lore and Legends of the Irish SeasonsFrom the author of the hugely successful book Legendary Ireland, The Turning of the Year explores the Celtic division of the year, from Samhain to Imbolc, to Bealtaine, to Lunasa, back to Samhain. It examines the significance of particular times of the year and...
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A Citizen's Guide to City Politics: MontrealFrom Montreal's grassroots activists, city planners, and engaged citizens, a guide to building radical municipal power from the ground up. World cities face persistent tension between the pull of globalization and the needs of citizens. Conventional political parties present milquetoast solutions that accommodate the...
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Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The Codes That Bind Us TogetherThe digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life - it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to different strands of sociological...
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Listening in the Afterlife of Data: Aesthetics, Pragmatics, and IncommunicationIn Listening in the Afterlife of Data, David Cecchetto theorizes sound, communication, and data by analyzing them in the contexts of the practical workings of specific technologies, situations, and artworks. In a time he calls the afterlife of data--the cultural context in which data's...
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Rock Paper Sex Volume 2: Trigger WarningThis follow-up to the bestselling Rock Paper Sex provides a space for the varied voices of individual sex workers, massage parlour owners, and community organizations, in a startling and compelling investigation of the industry. Rock Paper Sex Volume 2: Trigger Warning is timely, compassionate,...
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