Social History & Conditions, Social Problems
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In Praise of Idleness: And Other EssaysIntolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise of Idleness, a collection of essays in which he espouses the virtues of cool reflection and free enquiry; a voice of calm in...
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The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest ProblemsThink of the toughest problems in your organization or community. What if they'd already been solved and you didn't even know it? In The Power of Positive Deviance, the authors present a counterintuitive new approach to problem-solving. Their advice? Leverage positive deviants--the few individuals...
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In Praise of Idleness: The Classic Essay with a New Introduction by Bradley Trevor GreiveBertrand Russell is considered "the Voltaire of his time," and Bradley Trevor Greive is considered one of the funniest people of his. Russell was a Nobel Laureate, and Greive is a New York Times bestselling author. Together, with Russell bringing the philosophy and Greive...
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Social Problems: A Human Rights PerspectiveSocial Problems: A Human Rights Perspective, Second Edition evaluates U.S. society through an international human rights framework. The book provides a critical discussion about what rights mean, along with a sociological exploration of power and inequality to explain why human rights are so often...
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The Art of Protest: A Visual History of Dissent and ResistancePresented in collaboration with Amnesty International, this stunning collection of more than a hundred posters charts a visual journey across more than a century of political and social activism. From the suffragettes of the early twentieth century to the upheavals of the 1960s and...
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What's Wrong with the WorldChesterton gives his remarkably perceptive analysis on social and moral issues more relevant today than even in his own time. In his light and humorous style, yet deadly serious and philosophical, he comments on feminism and true womanhood, errors in education, the importance of...
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Global Problems: The Search for Equity, Peace, and SustainabilityALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable....
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Indivisible Poems for Social JusticeAnthology including over 50 works of poetry by 20th century writers on issues related to social justice. Foreword by COMMON.Author: Gail BushPublisher: Norwood House PressPublished: 01/15/2013Pages: 94Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30dISBN: 9781603574174Audience: Young AdultReview Citation(s): School Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg....
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Poetries - Politics: A Celebration of Language, Art, and LearningPoetries - Politics: A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning celebrates the best of innovative humanities pedagogy and creative graphic design. Designed and implemented during a time of political divisiveness, the Poetries - Politics project created a space of inviting, multilingual walls on the...
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It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!Get Informed Get Inspired Get Going The New York Times bestselling book of empowerment for kids. Make a difference in your world In a book that tackles the biggest challenges facing us today, Chelsea Clinton combines facts, charts, photographs and stories to give readers...
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The Long-Legged HouseFirst published in 1969 and out of print for more than twenty-five years, The Long-Legged House was Wendell Berry's first collection of essays, the inaugural work introducing many of the central issues that have occupied him over the course of his career. Three essays...
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Isola or, The disinherited: A revolt for woman and all the disinheritedIsola; or, The disinherited: A revolt for woman and all the disinherited Isola first appeared in Young Oxford in September, 1902, and ran in serial form for six months through that publication. The drama itself was written many years ago. It is not for...
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Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8)Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8) - Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainI wonder if Fors will let me say any small proportion, this year, of what I intend. I wish she would, for my readers have every right to be...
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40 Years of ItForty Years of ItThe history of democracys progress in a mid-Western cityso, to introduce this book in specific terms, one perhaps inevitably must call it. Yet in using the word democracy, one must plead for a distinction, or, better, a reversion, indicated by the...
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Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8)Fors Clavigera (Volume 4 of 8) - Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainOne day last November, at Oxford, as I was going in at the private door of the University galleries, to give a lecture on the Fine Arts in Florence,...
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A Letter to the Parishioners of FulhamA Letter to the Parishioners of FulhamThe Cholera has visited Fulham the second time. When it prevailed in 1832, it was always understood that two deaths only in this parish were to be traced to that fearful pestilence as their cause. But in the...
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The rise, progress, and phases of human slaveryThe rise, progress, and phases of human slavery - How it came into the world and how it shall be made to go outThis little Work, by an eloquent denunciator of the manifold evils of Profitmongering and Landlordism, whose entire life was devoted to...
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The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social ProtestThe Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest - The writings of philosophers, poets, novelists, social reformers, and others who have voiced the struggle against social injustice; selected from twenty-five languages; covering a period of five thousand yearsWhen the idea...
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The Crime of Caste in Our CountryThe Crime of Caste in Our CountryHad a Johnstown flood, a Charleston earthquake, a war with Chili, or a Homestead strike occurred on November 8, 1892, instead of an election, those Napoleons of journalism, James Gordon Bennett, of the New York Herald, Joseph Pulitzer,...
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Causes and ConsequencesCauses and ConsequencesAs we unravel political knots, they resolve themselves into proverbs and familiar truth, and thus our explanation becomes a treatise upon human nature,a profession of faith. The idea that man is an unselfish animal has gradually been forced upon me, by the...
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