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The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperouse Blacks Still Have the Blues?A controversial and widely heralded look at the race-related pain and anger felt by the most respected, best educated, and wealthiest members of the black community.Author: Ellis CosePublisher: Harper PerennialPublished: 12/02/1994Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.02h x 5.33w x 0.49dISBN: 9780060925949About the AuthorCose, Ellis:...
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Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary AbortionWinner of the NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language Although Roe v. Wade identified abortion as a constitutional right in1973, it still bears stigma--a proverbial scarlet A. Millions of Americans have participated in or benefited from...
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Balancing Family-Centered Services and Child Well-Being: Exploring Issues in Policy, Practice, Theory and ResearchWith contributions ranging from academic and professional theorists and policy developers to independent social workers, this book explores the development of family-centered services, the processes by which these services are implemented, the problems the field now faces, and prospects for the future. Multi-faceted examinations...
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The Origins of the Cultural Revolution: The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-1966Why did Mao Zedong launch the cultural revolution that almost destroyed all that he had worked so long and so hard to create? In his highly praised study-now a classic-Roderick MacFarquhar seeks to answer that question by examining the politics, economics, culture, and international...
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Sexual Behavior in the Human MaleWhen published in 1948 this volume encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a scientific approach to the understanding of human sexual behavior. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his fellow researchers sought to accumulate an...
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Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet UkraineUkraine is the largest new state to appear on the map of Europe this century. With a population of more than 50 million people and a territory larger than France, the new Ukrainian state faces many challenges, not least of which is to forge...
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The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States, 1780-1860This comparative study analyses the emergence of feminist movements and their differing characters in Britain, France and the United States. Jane Rendall examines the social, economic and cultural factors which affected women's status in society, and led some women to act, individually and collectively,...
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Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian MythThe Making of the Christian MythCommencing in mid February 2004, SBS TV (Australia) will run a two-part documentary based on this title.In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Burton Mack brilliantly exposes how the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes...
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Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and IdentityThe groundbreaking oral history, Black, White, Other, made its mark by being the first book to ask black/white biracial people to speak for themselves on matters of race and identity. In the book, journalist Lise Funderburg presents the lives and views of forty-six adult...
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Just One of the Guys?: Transgender Men and the Persistence of Gender InequalityThe fact that men and women continue to receive unequal treatment at work is a point of contention among politicians, the media, and scholars. Common explanations for this disparity range from biological differences between the sexes to the conscious and unconscious biases that guide...
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Salsa: A Taste of Hispanic CultureThe daily routines, habits, beliefs, and values of the Hispanic culture that create unique human interactions in this society are revealed in this book. The book consists of 26 chapters relating to different themes that collectively provide an understanding of cultural responses. An anecdote...
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Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart CitiesThe city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter cities will bring in new revenue while...
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President Trump And The New World Order: The Ramtha Trump ProphecyTaking the lid off the pyramid of power, "President Trump And The New World Order" walks you through the veil behind which certain families and dynasties have spent generations, both publicly and behind the scenes, manipulating governments, politicians, and ordinary people alike in order...
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Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's classic account, first published in the early 1970s and regularly revised, that...
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Narrative of the IncasOne of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s when the remaining sixty-four chapters were discovered in the...
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Essential Business Skills for Social Work Managers: Tools for Optimizing Programs and OrganizationsMany social workers find themselves in management positions within a few years of graduating from MSW programs. Most of these jobs are in nonprofit human service organizations in which, increasingly, business acumen is necessary to maintain grants and donations, start new programs, market services...
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Secular CyclesMany historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong expansionist phases followed by periods of state failure, endemic sociopolitical instability,...
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Hindu MythsIndia has long been regarded as the home of Hinduism, its mythology constituting the backbone of Indian culture. Hindu myths have been adapted over the centuries to incorporate new or revised characters, and they continue to play a central role in modern Indian life....
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Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison EmpireIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. A pioneer in criminal justice severity--from assembly-line executions to supermax isolation, from mandatory sentencing to prison privatization--Texas is the most locked-down state in the most incarcerated country in the world. Texas Tough, a sweeping history...
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Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the UnbornIn earlier times, a woman knew she was pregnant when she experienced "quickening"--she felt movement within her. Today a woman relies on what she sees in a test result or a digital sonogram image to confirm her pregnancy. A private experience once mediated by...
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