Sociology
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Field CommandEver wondered about the difference between a sector of fire and a field of fire? How about command and control, information and intelligence or drifting standards and creeping missions? Is time on your side? What is key terrain and how do you recognize it?...
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Voices of Campus Sexual Violence Activists: #Metoo and BeyondThe stories and strategies of student activists fighting against sexual violence in the #MeToo era.The global #MeToo movement that began in 2017 sparked an explosion of activism to address systemic problems of discrimination, harassment, and sexual violence. In Voices of Campus Sexual Violence Activists,...
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Unequal: Why India Lags Behind Its NeighboursA newborn girl can expect to live to eighty in Sri Lanka, seventy-four in Bangladesh and sixty-nine in India. This is but one of a range of Swati Narayan's insights from a five-year study across four countries: India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. She...
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Too Close to the Flame: With the Condemned Inside the Southern Killing MachineJoe Ingle's Too Close to the Flame is a heartbreakingly beautiful account of over four decades serving as a spiritual counselor, guide, and friend to the men and women on Death Row. "I had been working with the condemned since 1975--but never before had...
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The Waste of the World: Consumption, Economies and the Making of the Global Waste ProblemDespite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste. Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book examines the root causes of the global waste problem,...
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The Varieties of Suicidal Experience: A New Theory of Suicidal ViolencePROSE Award Finalist for Psychology and Applied Social Work Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones Mass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning...
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The Universal OneThe Universal One is Walter Russell's first expression of his new Cosmology explaining the Mind-centered electric universe. Though he would revise his theory somewhat over the years, this is the first and basic description of his new Cosmology. Lavishing illustrated, it sets out his...
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The Theory of the Leisure ClassConsidered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class has come to be regarded as one of the great works of economic theory. Using contemporary and anthropological accounts, Veblen held that our economic and social...
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The Routledge International Handbook of Indigenous ResilienceThis handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge strengths-based resource on the subject of Indigenous resilience.Indigenous Peoples demonstrate considerable resilience despite the social, health, economic, and political disparities they experience within surrounding settler societies. This book considers Indigenous resilience in many forms: cultural, spiritual, and...
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The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore EssaysThe Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explanation of folklore. Can we confidently regard jokes as the catharsis of sexual and aggressive impulses? What is the basis for characterizing...
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The Child-Parent Caregiving Relationship in Later Life: Psychosocial ExperiencesThis book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for and with their ageing parents in later life. It offers new insights into the practical, emotional and physical effects that witnessing the ageing and...
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The Atlas of California: Mapping the Challenge of a New EraCalifornia is at a crossroads. For decades a global leader, inspiring the hopes and dreams of millions, the state has recently faced double-digit unemployment, multi-billion dollar budget deficits and the loss of trillions in home values. This atlas brings together the latest research and...
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The Anarchist Turn in Twenty-First Century Leftwing ActivismLeftwing activism of recent decades exhibits an anarchist turn evident in quantitative indicators like mentions of anarchists in news reports and by activists adopting anarchist modes of organization, tactics, and social goals-whether or not they claim that label. The authors of this Element argue...
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Teología Pop: 21 Ensayos Para Pensar La Fe Y La Cultura del Siglo XXILa cultura popular es el escenario que moldea donde vivimos, nos movemos y somos. En las canciones, películas, novelas, memes y series, se evidencian convicciones y preguntas punzantes de nuestra generación. La cultura popular es una liturgia secular: el terreno donde se labra la...
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Sites of Conscience: Place, Memory, and the Project of DeinstitutionalizationHow activities in and around government-run care facilities can help former residents heal after their closure. Into the twenty-first century, millions of disabled people and people experiencing mental distress were segregated from the rest of society and confined to residential institutions. Deinstitutionalization--the closure of...
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Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese CitySeeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells...
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Scottish FolkloreScotland has one of the richest traditions of folklore in the world, and the nation's greatest writers have been influenced by the country's abundance of customs, superstitions, ghost stories and folktales. Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson all used Scottish...
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Rolling: Blackness and Mediated ComedySince slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses.Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about...
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Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating CommunityStroll through any public park in Brooklyn on a weekday afternoon and you will see black women with white children at every turn. Many of these women are of Caribbean descent, and they have long been a crucial component of New York's economy, providing...
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Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and BelongingFrom one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract "nowhere," then, is the...
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