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Symbolic resources affect social, cultural, and economic development. The value of being "Made in America" or "Made in Italy," for example, depends not only on the material advantages each place offers but also on the symbolic resources embedded in those places of production. Drawing on case studies that range from the vineyards of South Africa and the textiles of Thailand to the Mundo Maya in Latin America and tourist destinations in Tuscany, this...
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This book is the first of three in the Covid-war series. It is a factual account time lined and written as a diary of events of the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 to 2021 written by Andy Allwood, a retired fireman of 31 years and an observer of life on this planet. It combines tongue-in-cheek humor, factual evidence, fictional stories, observations of human behavior, historical insight, the theory of predictive analysis, the theory of consequence and many...
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Aunque garantizar el cumplimiento de los derechos humanos en cada nación es una decisión política, su práctica depende en gran medida de la dinámica psicosocial marcada por un entorno cultural. La protección de los derechos humanos no depende únicamente del diseño jurídico de normas, del consenso político favorable, o de las formas de control existentes, sino también del sentido que los pueblos les dan a los principios inherentes a cada...
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La question du travail du sexe fait toujours, aujourd'hui, l'objet de polémiques o le moralisme et les bons sentiments prévalent sur la discussion ouverte. La traite des femmes pour fins de « prostitution » et leur vulnérabilité physique face à la violence et à l'homicide débouchent souvent sur des demandes de répression accrue, et ce sont les travailleuses du sexe qui font les frais de ces discours prohibitionnistes et moralisateurs. Soucieux...
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#1 I was a credulous child. I believed the televangelists were right because somebody allowed them to speak on television, and my grandma nodded along while they spoke, grunting in agreement. I woke every morning with the fear that this could be the day people disappear.
#2 The ongoing movement for Black lives is a reflection of the world's reckoning with death-dealing...
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This book calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses continuing austerity, under-resourced organizations and a lack of social solidarity. Based on a research program by the Webb Memorial Trust, a key theme is power which shows that the way forward is to increase people's sense of agency in building the society that they want.
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#1 The Broward County, Florida, school system began testing all second graders in 2005. As a result, the number of gifted African American children in the district skyrocketed 80 percent, and that of gifted Hispanic children skyrocketed 130 percent.
#2 The widespread belief that IQ limits are innate and permanent affects the lives of people like Edgar, who are...
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Over the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have benefited from the lower cost of shrimp, domestic shrimp fishers have suffered, particularly in Louisiana. Most of the shrimp that we eat today is imported from shrimp farms in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. The flood of imported shrimp has sent dockside prices plummeting, and rising fuel costs have destroyed the profit margin...
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Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life?
In an analysis which challenges our understanding of capitalism, class and ideology, Richard Seymour shows how 'austerity' is just one...
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DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE Ideas, like blades of prairie grass, sprout in abundance everywhere. Equal at their inception, all of them have the potential to develop beneficially. From mere scribbled notes, to books blossoming from imprisoned authors, to worldly Montaignes, ideas can encourage us, even to flourish in inhospitable places. Ideas to fit our particular lives. Elementary thought, the ordinary, the eccentric, all are conditional at first. Cultivated...
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Praise for Measuring Sky Without Ground No one can write as you do without it being forged in the bliss of Her divine fire, no one comes to Her knowledge without being prepared to offer themselves in the flames... only they know the passion of this surrender! Beautiful poet, i salute you, for you are doing the work, the great work of preparing the vessel so She may flow through... oh how i too ardently long for there to be nothing left of me but the...
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La migración internacional es una de las problemáticas sociales más apremiantes de la actualidad. Requiere de la mirada y el análisis de los especialistas para ser comprendida en toda su complejidad. Migración en el nuevo milenio, la India y México, expone las causas, características y evolución de los flujos migratorios en los últimos treinta años. Realiza un estudio comparativo de los casos de México y la India, países que comparten...
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Zygmunt Bauman was a towering intellectual who saw and analyzed, right up to his death in early 2017, the great socio-political changes, often convulsive, in modern western society long before his peers. Here we highlight his prescient insights into what he dubbed 'liquid modernity' with 24 chapters on topics ranging from online loneliness via precarity/poverty/inequality to migration, fear of the 'Other' and the decline of the nation state. Chronicle...
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James L. Nolan, Jr., is Assiociate Professor of Sociology at Williams College. He is the author of The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End and the editor of Drug Courts: Theory and Practice.
Drug courts offer radically new ways to deal with the legal and social problems presented by repeat drug offenders, often dismissing criminal charges as an incentive for participation in therapeutic programs. Since the first drug court...
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"Winner of the George Terry Award" United States Army LTC Scott A. Snook serves as an Academy Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership at the United States Military Academy. He also directs West Point's Center for Leadership and Organizations Research.
On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard....
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For many Americans, eating is a religion. We worship at the temples of celebrity chefs. We raise our children to believe that certain foods are good and others are bad. We believe that if we eat the right foods, we will live longer, and if we eat in the right places, we will raise our social status. Yet what we believe to be true about food is, in fact, quite contradictory.
Part exposé, part social commentary, The Gospel of Food is a rallying cry...
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Le programme Sens et projet de vie a été développé afin d'accompagner les personnes de 45 ans et plus dans leur passage au mitan de leur vie. Cet ouvrage traite de ce programme universitaire novateur (historique, approche globale, parcours pédagogique, etc.), tout en abordant la quête de sens comme expérience culturelle et existentielle et en présentant des témoignages d'étudiants à propos de leur cheminement.
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#1 You are the first, and you have often been the only. You are the first Black woman in more educational settings or professional settings than you can count. You have accomplished more than most people in your family and community have.
#2 First and Only is a love letter, a manifesto for progress, and a leadership resource. It is the opening argument to a...
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Gary Alan Fine is Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming, Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work, and With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture.
Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own...
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#1 We all experience shame, and it is a silent, yet extremely destructive, force that affects everyone. It is the sense of worthlessness that comes from being embarrassed, and it can be triggered by someone else's criticism of you.
#2 The journey that opened my eyes to the insidious dominance of shame in our lives began when I was a pudgy girl living with her two overweight...
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