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Weapons of mass instruction
Compulsory schooling cripples imagination, critical thinking, and strips youth of their best qualities, producing a nation of employees. Weapons of Mass Instruction shows how to escape this trap and help develop more meaningful lives.
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Hey, shorty!
How to cope with sexual harassment in public schools and on the streets today.
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Creative ozone
A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists’ residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York’s cultural landscape for over fifty years In 1970, the former Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan was transformed into Westbeth, an ambitious experiment in urban renewal ...
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Work, ideology, and film under socialism in romania
Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania examines the cinematic architecture of work imaginary as developed through films produced between 1960 and 1989. This book provides rich insight into the intimate configuration of cinematic thinking of work and displays of this form of social ...
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The dispossessed generation: youth in the middle east and north africa
The Arab uprisings of the early 2010s raised hopes for the development of more democratic structures and better living conditions for millions in the region. Instead, they were followed by authoritarian backlash, civil wars, economic collapse and food and energy insecurity. Young people are often...
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Beyond microfoundations and macrofoundations of institutions
Transcending the limitations of Coleman’s “bathtub” metaphor, papers advance a multilevel theory of institutions as dynamic, recursive systems. Rather than privileging micro-action or macro-structure, contributors view institutions as a continuum where influence flows continuously across levels—f...
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Rape new york
A true story of sexual violence, a corrupt property market, and the fight for justice.
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Dumbing us down - 25th anniversary edition
John Taylor Gatto's radical treatise on public education, a bestseller for 25 years, continues to advocate for the unshackling of children and learning from formal schooling. Now, in a changing world with an explosion of alternative routes to learning, it's poised to continue to shake the world o...
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The day nina simone stopped singing
The wild ride of a young woman’s sexual rebellion in war-torn Beirut.
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Soul by soul
A journey through the fault lines of contemporary religious wars US-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many of us might be unaware. This book tells the story of Americans’ colossal mobilization to proclaim Christianity “to the ends of the Earth,” a movement that...
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An introduction to platform economy in india
Digital platforms garner both apprehension and admiration for their disruptive influence on social systems, structures, and everyday lives. The authors explore the operational socio-technical framework of India's growing platform economy at the confluence of numerous platform ecosystems developed...
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Teaching and making peace in every relationship
Dating and domestic violence are two the most frequently occurring forms of gender-based violence, both in the United States and globally. This book is intended to help address misconceptions about dating and domestic violence, thereby helping to inform readers who can and should be involved in p...
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Mobilization politics
How grassroots activism transforms contemporary urban politics in Philadelphia and beyondImmigration, gentrification, and the rise of an innovation-based economy are altering American cities. In Mobilization Politics, Stephen J. McGovern offers a new approach to analyzing contemporary urban polit...
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Fascism or whatever you want to call it
De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences provides a platform for disseminating topical analyses of current events, showcasing new theoretical, empirical or applied research across the social sciences and related fields. Through engaging storytelling and in-depth analysis, it presents new work that...
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Rx appalachia
An account of radical responses to the opioid crisis facing women in Central Appalachia.
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If you can't quit cryin', you can't come here no more
There’s another hillbilly elegy. It’s the reality of multi-generational trauma, poverty, and how our society has abandoned millions of Americans to suffer the ravages of a system they don’t control.On May 12, 2013, 48-year-old Vicky Isaac of rural Puxico, Missouri—a woman with a history of learni...
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The city in the distance
Nancy’s book offers nothing less than a philosophy of the city. Drawing on his widely discussed accounts of sense and of the fraught question of community, Nancy views the city as the site of a disposition that is constantly undergoing metamorphoses.
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Warped
With same-sex marriage now a national right, this timely volume insists on the continuation of the struggle for LGBT rights.
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Beyond the altar
Sheds light on how Ontario-based Canadian women religious overcome sexist subjugation by side-stepping the patriarchal power of the Roman Catholic Church and engendering women-led spiritual, governance and activist practices in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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The passenger: south korea
Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Hell Joseon by Elisa Shua Dusapin • The View from the North by Lee Hyeonseo • Lessons in Democracy by Jiyoung Choi • plus: the Samsung Republic and the most milit...
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Somewhere to live
Despite millions of people being lifted out of poverty during recent decades, finding somewhere decent and affordable to live is proving increasingly difficult in urban areas around the world.This is not by accident, but by design, since the forms of economic management that have held sway for fo...
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Eat local, taste global
Determines the demand for ethnocultural vegetables in Canada's largest city and identifies contradictions between the corporate food regime and the local food movement affecting ethnic groups’ access to their preferred vegetables. Policy changes are recommended to enhance healthy eating and multi...
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Sagebrush empire
Award–winning journalist Jonathan P. Thompson delves into the spectacular land, rich history, and twisted politics of a remote Utah county.
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The seed
Notes on desire, reproduction, and grief, and how feminism doesn’t support women struggling to have children.
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Street rebellion
In a style that bridges the divide between academia and activism, Street Rebellion develops a broader and more accurate understanding of how people struggle for liberation. We are living in a time of uprisings that routinely involve physical confrontation—burning vehicles, barricades, vandalism, ...
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Faith on trial
“Anyone who has ever been confused by a Supreme Court decision or unsure of how to embody religious freedom in their own life now has a lawyer, and a pastor, they can trust.” —Dan McKanan, author of Prophetic Encounters Books about religion and the law tend to be highly technical or aimed primar...
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American sociology and holocaust studies
The first résumé in English of up-to-date research on post-Holocaust Sociology. A single volume full of relevant tips to help a wide audience rethink the genocide in sociological tools and investigate the history of the same Sociology.
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Cities for human development
For the last 30 years, the idea of ‘cities as engines of growth’ has played a key role in capturing the imagination of decision-makers and encouraging public and private investments into cities. However, at the same time, the world has experienced the urbanisation of poverty and inequality. Urban...
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The passenger: thailand
Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Buddhism, the State, and Superpowers by Pitchaya Sudbanthad • The Country of Spirits by Emma Larkin • Monarchy Under Attack by Claudio Sopranzetti • plus: soft po...
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Axiomatic
Janet Malcolm meets The Empathy Exams, in a genre-bending work on how we understand the traumas we inherit.
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Narratives and spaces
Nye analyzes the transformation of the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls into tourist sites, the history of light shows at world's fairs, the New Deal programs designed to provide electricity to rural areas, and the Apollo 11 moon to reveal how the spaces we live in and the technology we use are int...
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Saints and cities in medieval italy
This book offers full translations of the Lives of seven saints (five men and two women) who lived in Italian cities between about 1150 and 1315. It will interest both students and other readers curious about medieval Italian history and about medieval popular religion and sainthood.
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Bringing back the social into the sociology of religion
Based on original empirical research, the contributions collected here make possible a fuller sociological understanding of power, emotions, the self, and ethnic relations in religious life.
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Common spaces of urban emancipation
This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future.
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Norse revival
Norse Revival offers a thorough investigation of Germanic Neopaganism (Asatru) through an international and comprehensive historical perspective.
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Hip hop's hostile gospel
Hip Hop’s Hostile Gospel is a wide-ranging and highly enjoyable attempt to unearth the theology of Hip Hop
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Revolutionary studies
Explores relevance of Marxism to emancipatory politics through critical examination of core concepts and key twentieth-century revolutionary figures and movements.
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The missionary, the catechist and the hunter
An engaging, well researched examination of the role played by Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland
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Working for each other
Deryn Thomas challenges the anti-work narrative by showing work not to be an individual need, but a collective one, a social activity that we do together with others, in response to their needs. Recognising this role is key to reimagining the promise of work as part of a good life.
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Cultural mavericks
Cultural Mavericks takes readers inside the world of independent bookselling in China, showing how a wide range of figures navigate the challenges of book retailing in the digital age amid rapidly shifting social, political, and economic dynamics.
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Images and objects of russia's war against ukraine
How do art, infrastructures, material culture, and media respond to and contest the Russo-Ukrainian War?
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The director and the manager
This text explores governance, addressing gaps when directors and managers from diverse backgrounds collaborate. It presents a decision-framework for law, market practice, and human nature, highlighting instinctive biases and the challenge of reconciling interests.
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Individualism and conformism in the united states
In Individualism and Conformism in the United States, Sartre probes the paradox at the heart of American identity: a culture that claims to exalt the self even as it channels that self into mass movements, uniform mores, and ideological frameworks.
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Methods of exhibition analysis
A tool kit for exhibition analysis packed with a diversity of methods to critically examine exhibitions from various angles.
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Urban contact zones
How does international urbanism manifest in the spaces where global trends touch ground and lived realities shape spatial transformation?
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Contingencies in urban future-making
How can cities be shaped in times of uncertainty? Through a range of case studies, this volume explores how contingency influences urban future-making.
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Civic refugee support
The aftermath of the 2015/16 refugee reception crisis in Germany – insights into the impact on the local infrastructure and a new perspective on the role of solidarity.
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Kaleidoscope
Catherine L. Albanese explores collisions between a white Protestant majority and the diversity of faiths flourishing beside it from the colonial era to the present, offering timely insights into transformations in American religion.
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Whistleblowing and freedom of expression in working life
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online With contributors from Europe, the United States, Australia, and Africa, chapters focus on factors that influence how different countries design and implement their whistleblower protection laws.
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