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The American Penal System: Transparency as a Pathway to Correctional ReformThis thoughtful examination of incarceration in the United States from the 1980s to the current time offers for consideration a transparent and humane correctional model for the future. Author Helen Clarke Molanphy employs an interdisciplinary approach encompassing sociology, penology, memoir, philosophy, and history. Featuring...
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Becoming a Social WorkerThis fully revised new edition of Becoming a Social Worker is made up of entirely new stories. Providing a 'glocal' frame of reference, the book describes the personal and professional narratives of a diverse range of people working in social work in the UK,...
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Criminologists in the Media: A Study of NewsmakingCriminologists in the Media presents the results of a cross-national study examining the structures that shape criminologists' contributions to news and social media discourse. Drawing on interviews with criminologists and a survey of 1,211 criminologists working in the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand,...
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The Meaning Of MasonryThe papers here collected are written solely for members of the Masonic Order, constituted under the United Grand Lodge of England. To all such they are offered in the best spirit of fraternity and goodwill and with the wish to render to the Order...
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South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward LivesThis collection explores how South Asian migrations in modern history have shaped key aspects of globalization since the 1830s. Including original research from colonial India, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa, North America and the Middle East, the essays explore indentured labour and its legacies, law...
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The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean: Cities, Urban Processes, and PoliciesThis handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The content of this multidisciplinary book is organized into four large sections focusing on the histories and trajectories of urban spatial development, inequality and displacement of...
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Pathos and Anti-PathosIm Kontext der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung widmet sich diese interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Reihe dem Verhältnis von Medien und kultureller Erinnerung. Die hier vorgestellten Studien behandeln die ganze Bandbreite der durch Medien konstruierten, tradierten und verbreiteten Erinnerung. Schrift und Bild, das Kino und die 'neuen' digitalen Medien,...
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We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and RecoveryWhat is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster...
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Unlocking the Medinan Qur'anThe Medinan layer of the Qur'an occupies a key position in the formative period of Islam yet poses substantial interpretive challenges. This volume exemplifies a rich array of scholarly approaches to the Medinan Qur'an's distinctive textual, literary, and theological features.Author: Nicolai SinaiPublisher: BrillPublished: 03/18/2022Pages:...
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Freemasonry and Its EtiquetteHandy guide for Masons everywhere. This complete reference gives a concise history of Freemasonry plus its rules, regulations, ceremonies, rituals, duties, etc. Author: William Campbell-EverdenPublisher: Lushena BooksPublished: 06/19/2001Pages: 444Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9781639231515This title is not returnable
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Ronayne's Handbook of FreemasonryThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Mixed/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern BritainHow does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form?What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family who looks like you?Where do you belong if you are simultaneously seen as being 'too...
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Fractured: How We Learn to Live Together'An urgent manifesto for collective healing.' David Lammy MPThis landmark book tackles a deceptively simple idea: the more we spend time with people unlike ourselves, doing things together, the more understanding, tolerant, and even friendly we become.Combining fresh analysis with a wealth of fascinating...
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La PolíticaLa política concierne a todo el mundo, incluyendo a los niños. Es lo que nos permite acordar las reglas para convivir de manera equilibrada. Cómo se convierten en políticos los hombres y las mujeres? Qué hacen los gobernantes? Qué es una ley? Descubramos la...
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The Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American SocietyThe Misuse, Misrepresentation, and Politicization of Statistics in American Society critically examines the early measurement efforts of several government agencies responsible for some of the most widely watched social indicators on unemployment, life expectancy, crime, and population. It argues that official statistics are dubious...
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Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in IndiaRevealing inequalities and sensory hierarchies embedded in the latest medical technologies and global biotechnical marketsWhat happens when cochlear implants, heralded as the first successful bionic technologies, make their way around the globe and are provided by both states and growing private markets? As Sensory...
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Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and ExperienceBlindness, or vision loss, is a major medical concern that has also drawn the attention of artists, writers, musicians, mythologists, filmmakers, religions, philosophers and others. Covering everything from pop culture to high culture, this text is an illuminating anthology of essays examining various representations...
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The Critical Study of Non-Religion: Discourse, Identification and LocalityThis book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'. Chris Cotter presents a concise and up-to-date critical survey of research on non-religion in the UK and beyond, before presenting the results of...
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Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global SouthThis book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications...
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Intersecting Lives: How Place Shapes ReentryFew would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matter--and we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving...
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