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Disrupting the Academy with Lived Experience-Led KnowledgeThis book firmly positions lived experience-led expertise as a unique and compelling form of knowledge in decolonising and disrupting research, teaching and advocacy. Based on the insights of people with first-hand experiences, each chapter presents unique accounts and reflections on a diverse range of...
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Data Management for Social Scientists: From Files to DatabasesThe 'data revolution' offers many new opportunities for research in the social sciences. Increasingly, social and political interactions can be recorded digitally, leading to vast amounts of new data available for research. This poses new challenges for organizing and processing research data. This comprehensive...
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Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and ImagesEnhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country's beauty and expanse, starting with its First Peoples. Depending on the season, the four Plateau Indian tribes dwelled along its rivers, streams, and bunchgrass hills, maintaining an intimate relationship with...
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Care: The Highest Stage of CapitalismAn eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction. Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of...
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Capitalism and Classical Social Theory: Fourth EditionCapitalism and Classical Social Theory offers a rigorous introduction to classical social theory, highlighting the enduring relevance of classical works for understanding the many crises of the contemporary world. This popular theory book introduces students to a selection of classical social thinkers and demonstrates...
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An SPSS Companion for the Third Edition of the Fundamentals of Political Science ResearchAn SPSS Companion for the Third Edition of The Fundamentals of Political Science Research offers students a chance to delve into the world of SPSS using real political science data sets and statistical analysis techniques directly from Paul M. Kellstedt and Guy D. Whitten's...
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Algorithmic Authenticity: An OverviewWhat makes information feel true or compelling in our contemporary digital societies? This book brings together different disciplinary understandings of "authenticity" in order to find alternative ways to approach mis- and disinformation that go beyond contemporary fact-checking and its search for the "authentic" truth....
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A Cold War Exodus: How American Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet JewsReveals the mass mobilization tactics that helped free Soviet Jews and reshaped the Jewish American experience from the Johnson era through the Reagan-Bush years What do these things have in common? Ingrid Bergman, Passover matzoh, Banana Republic(R), the fitness craze, the Philadelphia Flyers, B-grade...
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About Canada: Health and IllnessLiving a long, healthy life is one obvious goal of pretty much all of us. We are told, over and over, to change our "lifestyles" and accept that if we become ill, we have likely brought it on ourselves. Yet, hundreds of studies, over...
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Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable HousingAuthor: Max HolleranPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 05/07/2024Pages: 216Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49dISBN: 9780691259116About the AuthorMax Holleran is lecturer in social policy at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Tourism, Urbanization, and the Evolving Periphery of the European...
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What Was Bolshevism?How did the Bolsheviks see themselves? What grand narrative gave meaning to their revolutionary aspirations? The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, answers these questions in the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Sharply focused case studies allow...
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What Are Prisons For?What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what...
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Walking on Fire: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940Haiti, long noted for poverty and repression, has a powerful and too-often-overlooked history of resistance. Women in Haiti have played a large role in changing the balance of political and social power, even as they have endured rampant and devastating state-sponsored violence, including torture,...
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Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral"Engrossing and suspenseful." --The New York Times "Expertly pulls readers in . . . Graced with a keen eye and sharp wit." --The Guardian The origin story of the post-truth age: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Nick Denton of Gawker...
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The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of ZionismExplores the long history of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist American Jews Throughout the twentieth century, American Jewish communal leaders projected a unified position of unconditional support for Israel, cementing it as a cornerstone of American Jewish identity. This unwavering position served to marginalize and label...
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The Social Work Dissertation: Using Small-Scale Qualitative MethodologyThe book guides the student through the research process relevant to the completion of a social work dissertation.Author: Malcolm CareyPublisher: Open University PressPublished: 02/16/2013Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54dISBN: 9780335247592About the AuthorMalcolm Carey worked as a qualified social worker for...
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The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and FreedomOne of the leading thinkers to emerge in the postwar conservative intellectual revival was the sociologist Robert Nisbet. His book The Quest for Community, published in 1953, stands as one of the most persuasive accounts of the dilemmas confronting modern society. Nearly a half...
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The Liberation of the Human Being as the Basis for Social Reorganisation: Old Thinking and New Social WillThese lectures, held in Switzerland, were addressed to a mostly middle-class audience that had been spared from the First World War. Thus Rudolf Steiner presented the threefoldness here quite differently than in Germany and showed new perspectives of this topic. Nine public lectures, held...
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The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected WorldA timely and urgent argument for preserving the work that connects us in the age of automation With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and labor-saving technologies like self-checkouts and automated factories, the future of work has never been more uncertain, and even jobs...
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The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive WorldFounder of advocacy organization Diversability and creator of the viral Anti-Ableism Series on TikTok, Tiffany Yu's revelatory examination of disability--how to unpack your biases and build a disability-inclusive and accessible world. The Anti-Ableist Manifesto defines ableism as discrimination in favor of non-disabled people and...
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