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Bishkek boys
Pioneering: 1st long-term ethnographic study on an urban neighbourhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Unique embedding of author: linking detailed micro-level insights from everyday encounters in a particular urban neighbourhood to larger-scale changes in Kyrgyz society, such as migration, econo...
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'city of the future'
First ethnographic monograph of Astana; Bringing together a focus on the materiality of the built environment with attention to the workings of discourses and representations; hence, combining materialist and ideationalist (‘social-constructivist’) approaches to place and space in social...
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Delirious naples
An encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity in economic and political decline, despite its revival in the 1990s, that, nonetheless, produces a vital and profound intellectual life and a brilliant and exuberant artistic, lit...
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Sultana's dream
Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopiaa tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."T...
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Juggling
Gould's story personifies the struggles that women still face in combining careers with family life.
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Substance use and the family
Featuring a broad variety of chapters across the many issues pertaining to substance use and addiction, topics include those such as spousal addiction and marital quality, parenting and substance use, financial tolls of addiction upon families, coping with adolescent substance use and addiction, ...
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I-minds - 2nd edition
Engaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing our brains and exploring positive steps to take to embrace new...
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The battle for boston
How Mayor Ray Flynn’s leadership and a coalition of activists transformed Boston, challenging established powers and setting new precedents for urban governance The Battle for Boston captures the remarkable era under Mayor Ray Flynn, whose election in 1983 marked the beginning of a profound shift...
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Islanders
First published in 1927, Islanders tells the story of an indomitable woman. The novel begins as Ellen's lover, brother, and father go off to the gold rush in California in 1849; it concludes as Ellen's grandniece waits for her lover to go off and fight in World War I in 1917. In between, other me...
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The rural blind spot
The Rural Blind Spot: Bridging the Knowledge Gap in Education Finance and Policy confronts the persistent marginalization of rural education in state and local policy debates, where the dominant urban-suburban lens often obscures the distinct needs and challenges of rural schools.
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Research in social movements, conflicts and change
Volume 49 presents a rigorous and timely examination of contemporary social change, conflict, and collective action across global contexts. Through peer-reviewed chapters, it explores how individuals and communities respond to systemic challenges and engage in constructive interventions aimed at ...
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Join the conspiracy
Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of division and dissent in American history: the late 1960s. A...
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If a tree falls
A revealing memoir of a family and a “wrenching journey into deafness from the standpoint of a mother, a wife, a daughter, a philosopher, and a Jew” (Ilan Stavans, author of On Borrowed Words: A Memoir of Language).When her daughters were born deaf, Jennifer Rosner was stunned. Then she discover...
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The emerald handbook of family and social change in the global south
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This handbook presents chapters on the family in the Global South, acknowledging gender differences and their impact on individuals and societies in those nations and cultures.
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Navigating black joy for black women leaders in higher education
Through deeply personal narratives, critical storytelling, and intersectional analysis, Navigating Black Joy for Black Women Leaders in Higher Education explores how Black women cultivate, sustain, and embody joy as a transformative force in higher education and beyond.
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Digital society, interaction order and automation
Digital Society, Interaction Order and Automation advances our understanding of how interactionist thinking can be leveraged as a conceptual and methodological resource for approaching digital societies in relation to automation and the emerging contours of interaction order in the 21st century.
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Elder care and the family
This collection covers topics such as financial strains of elder care, healthcare decision making, family communication, mobility and family residence, stress and burnout, gender differences in the provision of elder care, elder abuse, mental deterioration and family care, stressors related to ca...
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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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