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Reproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way ForwardReproductive Health and Human Rights: The Way Forward critically reflects on the past fifteen years of international efforts aimed at improving health, alleviating poverty, diminishing gender inequality, and promoting human rights. The volume includes essays by leading scholars and practitioners that are centered on...
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Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common GroundAs nations struggling to heal wounds of civil war and atrocity turn toward the model of reconciliation, Reconciliation in Divided Societies takes a systematic look at the political dimensions of this international phenomenon. . . . The book shows us how this transformation happens...
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The International Struggle for New Human RightsIn recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms...
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The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the PastIn a turnabout of the cynical belief that might makes right, nations now see fit to issue apologies to peoples and countries they have wronged. We live in an age that seeks to establish political truth, perhaps best exemplified by the creation of truth...
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Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee CampsLandscape of Hope and Despair Palestinian Refugee Camps Julie Peteet "A book of serious scholarship and theoretical insight that is also a call to do something about this grim situation."--Journal of Palestine Studies "A sophisticated and nuanced study of how Palestinian refugees have negotiated...
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The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare StateFor Michael B. Katz, the term welfare state describes the intricate web of government programs, employer-provided benefits, and semiprivate organizations intended to promote economic security and to guarantee the basic necessities of life for all citizens: food, shelter, medical care, protection in childhood, and...
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Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.As the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing ground for federal policy initiatives and social experiments--with decidedly mixed results. Well-intentioned efforts to introduce measures of social justice for the district's largely black population have failed. Yet...
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Never Quit the FightDrawing on his global experiences from Africa to Iraq, author Ralph Peters attacks today's crucial issues of our time head-on, with the clear eye and blunt voice that has won him a devoted following: Is Iraq worth it? What's the truth behind the politics?...
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Beyond Schizophrenia: Living and Working with a Serious Mental IllnessThe experience of living and working with schizophrenia is often fraught with challenges and setbacks. This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged...
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Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional, Volume 2Ethics of Spying: A Reader for the Intelligence Professional, Volume 2 picks up where the first book ended, but, with a twist. The book begins with an historical perspective of the expectations of moral and ethical conduct of personnel working in intelligence. In a...
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Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do about It)At least five U.S. presidential elections have been won by the second most popular candidate, but these results were not inevitable. In fact, such an unfair outcome need never happen again, and as William Poundstone shows in Gaming the Vote, the solution is lurking...
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Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980sReading this book revives the spirit of civic action today for those who are unjustifiably forlorn about overcoming injustice.--Ralph Nader An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal The 1960s are widely seen as the high...
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The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America's Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern ArtAt a time when America's faculties of taste and judgment--along with the sense of the sacred and shameful--have become utterly vacant, Rochelle Gurstein's The Repeal of Reticence delivers an important and troubling warning. Covering landmark developments in America's modern culture and law, she charts...
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Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics & the Struggle Over LandThe election of Evo Morales as Bolivia's president in 2005 made him his nation's first indigenous head of state, a watershed victory for social activists and Native peoples. El Movimiento Sin Tierra (MST), or the Landless Peasant Movement, played a significant role in bringing...
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Many Minds, One Heart: Sncc's Dream for a New AmericaHow did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time....
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Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum NorthFrederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest...
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America's Secret War Against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1920From the Russian revolutions of 1917 to the end of the Civil War in 1920, Woodrow Wilson's administration sought to oppose the Bolsheviks in a variety of covert ways. Drawing on previously unavailable American and Russian archival material, David Foglesong chronicles both sides of...
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Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and WelfareIn August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.S. state to offer restitution to victims of state-ordered sterilizations carried out by its eugenics program between 1929 and 1975. The decision was prompted largely by a series of articles in the Winston-Salem Journal. These stories...
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A Richer Heritage: Historic Preservation in the Twenty-First CenturySurveying the past, present, and future of historic preservation in America, this book features fifteen essays by some of the most important voices in the field. A Richer Heritage will be an essential, thought-provoking guide for professionals as well as administrators, volunteers, and policy...
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A White-Collar Profession: African American Certified Public Accountants since 1921Among the major professions, certified public accountancy has the most severe underrepresentation of African Americans: less than 1 percent of CPAs are black. Theresa Hammond explores the history behind this statistic and chronicles the courage and determination of African Americans who sought to enter...
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