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Left Behind In Rosedale: Race Relations And The Collapse Of Community Institutions"This book has the potential to be a classic in the fields of race relations and urban sociology." Cleveland State UniversityAuthor: Scott CummingsPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 01/30/1998Pages: 239Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.99h x 6.02w x 0.66dISBN: 9780813334219Review Citation(s): Booklist 02/15/1998 pg. 954About the AuthorScott Cummings is...
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Jewish EducationMost writing about Jewish education has been preoccupied with two questions: What ought to be taught? And what is the best way to teach it? Ari Y Kelman upends these conventional approaches by asking a different question: How do people learn to engage in...
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Interracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-BeingInterracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being examines how the race of one's partner, and the couple's racial composition, can affect a person's lived experiences and health outcomes.Author: Byron MillerPublisher: Lexington BooksPublished: 04/12/2024Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...
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Instruction Manual for Braille TranscribingThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison RanchGold Medal Winner for Best Regional Non-Fiction, 2011 Independent Publisher Book AwardsMary Zeiss Stange's story of running a bison ranch with her husband in southeastern Montana--on the outskirts of nowhere and far-from-here--is a narrative of survival in a landscape and a society at once...
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Gods, Heroes and Monsters: Myths and Legends from Around the WorldRetells the ancient stories from around the world, which have been passed down by generation after generation of storytellers, each bringing a clearer understanding of life's biggest questions Since the dawn of communication, humankind has looked around itself and used myths and legends to...
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Gender in the Digital Sphere: Representation, Engagement, and ExpressionThe digital sphere, especially social media, is perceived as a new form of public sphere where individuals can share and circulate information and participate in formal and informal democratic processes albeit in the context of echo chambers and confirmation biases. Gender in the Digital...
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From the Margins to the Mainstream: Women in Film and TelevisionThis book explores the various issues raised by women's fraught integration into the mainstream in film and television, whether it be off screen as filmmakers and film critics or on screen in film and TV series. Marianne Kac-Vergne and Julie Assouly consider the varied...
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From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United StatesThe era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of "law and order," referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system has been and remains...
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Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe V. Wade Volume 8A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States. Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn...
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Engraved on Our Nations: Indigenous Economic TenacityA testimony to Indigenous resilience in business Despite investments in nation building, self-autonomy, and cultural resurgence, Indigenous economic development has remained an underexplored and underestimated area of research. Engraved on Our Nations overturns the discouraging deficit perspective too common in policy and academia and...
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Defund: Conversations Toward AbolitionA collection of illuminating interviews with leading abolitionist organizers and thinkers, reflecting on the uprisings of summer 2020, the rise of #defund, and the work ahead of bridging the divide between reform and abolition. The 2020 uprisings against police violence launched a nation conversation...
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Called by the Wild: The Dogs Trained to Protect WildlifeAn epic of modern-day African wildlife conservation, filled with courage, adventure and romance.Conraad de Rosner is a pioneering game ranger, working with dogs to protect wildlife against poachers - both 'bushmeat' poachers, who use cruel snares to trap animals, and criminal syndicates killing for...
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Brasil do amor ao terror: Golpe de Estado HíbridoConvido voc? a entender de que maneira, em pleno s?culo XXI, nas duas maiores democracias da Am?rica, permitiu-se a implementa??o de medidas pr?prias ? regimes de exce??o, b?rbaros e totalit?rios. As autoridades por tr?s dessas iniciativas dizem atuar em nome da pr?pria democracia, para...
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Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised EditionHighlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movementBlack Power, Jewish Politics charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. It shows how, in...
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Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing CrisisWhen landlords always win and renters pay the price, what can be done? Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are...
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Wise Women: Myths and Stories for Midlife and BeyondA beautifully written collection of stories from European myth and folklore that celebrate women in the second half of life, retold by the award-winning author of Hagitude From early childhood, we learn about the world and its possibilities through myths and fairy tales. The...
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Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust BeltHalf a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But today, these places are not ghost towns. People still call these communities home, even as they struggle with unemployment, poverty, and other social and economic crises. Why do people remain in...
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Where We Live: Environmental Activists' Fight to Save Their CommunitiesDrawing on extensive interviews he conducted with environmental activists across rural and urban Appalachia and the Midwest, Randy Cunningham analyzes what motivates activists, how they strategize, and what issues they encounter. An indispensable guide to the on-the-ground realities of environmental activism in contemporary America....
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When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of CollapseSpiritual and community lessons for embracing collective care, co-creating sustainable worlds, and responsibly meeting uncertain futures--a Zen and Indigenous take on building better, more balanced ways of being For readers of Hospicing Modernity, When Things Fall Apart, and Zen and the Art of Saving...
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