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Lorece V Edwards
Redlining Childhood

"This work discusses the cost youths pay for trying to survive in under resourced communities"--

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Christine Sargent
Making Down Syndrome

Making Down Syndrome: Motherhood and Kinship Futures in Urban Jordan draws on ethnographic research conducted primarily in Jordan's capital city of Amman to explore how the label and identity of Down synd…

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Christopher Ojeda
The Sad Citizen

For many citizens, politics is depressing. How has this come to be the norm? And, how is it influencing democracy?From rising polarization to climate change, today's politics are leaving many Western demo…

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Angela Garbes
Essential Labor

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"Angela Garbes has given us the definitive explanation for something we all share: the sense that something is not right about our society's treatment of parenting. Essential Labor…

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Susan Newman
Just One

Discover why having one child is not only a preferred family size, but also a most enriching path to creating a thriving, happy family.Drawing from groundbreaking new research and interviews with over 100…

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Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
Fool Proof

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and S…

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Brendan Borrell
The First Shots

The full inside story of the high-stakes, global race for the lifesaving vaccine to end the pandemicHeroic science. Chaotic politics. Billionaire entrepreneurs. Award-winning journalist Brendan Borrell br…

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Tamara Lea Spira
Queering Families

"The intimacies of queer family formation can deviously embody the very ideological assumptions that support capitalist heteropatriarchy and its essential reliance on the perpetuation of racism. As T…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The liv…

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Teresa Ghilarducci
Work, Retire, Repeat

A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States--and how we can fix it.While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age, workers i…

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Rebecca Neusteter
911, What's Your Emergency?

A groundbreaking history and critique of a little-explored aspect of American law enforcement: the often deadly 911 emergency response system The world knows George Floyd as the man whose murder launched …

lieferbar ab 15.9.2026.

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René Esparza
From Vice to Nice

Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormative political strategies weaponized the AIDS crisis to f…

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Nina Mackert
Inventing the Calorie

Traces how the calorie became America's way to quantify food, police bodies, and moralize behaviorFrom packaged foods, to lifestyle magazines, and public health discussions, calories are deeply woven into…

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Anna Louie Sussman
Inconceivable

For generations, creating a family was an ordinary part of human life. But today, there's a marked gap between how many children people want to have, and how many they actually will. As birth rates plumme…

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Andy Norman
Mental Immunity

Why do people reject science and believe online conspiracy theories? How are people radicalized online and go on to commit acts of violence? Why is our society so politically polarized?Astonishingly irrat…

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William C Cockerham
The Social Causes of Health and Disease

This masterful guide to the social determinants of health has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. In this updated edition…

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William C Cockerham
The Social Causes of Health and Disease

This masterful guide to the social determinants of health has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. In this updated edition…

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Marion Nestle, Lisa Sutherland
Sugar Coated

Pioneering scholar Marion Nestle joins forces with former cereal executive Lisa Sutherland to examine what cereal boxes reveal about American culture and food politics.If you want to understand how the fo…

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Donatella Della Porta, Stella Christou
The Contentious Politics of Global Health Movements

While much research has addressed the regressive anti-vax protests, this Element focuses on campaigns by progressive social movements to promote the development of vaccines for Covid-19 and ensure their e…

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