Law, Social And Behavioral Sciences – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 8

Nicholas Carr
Superbloom

From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the …

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Elizabeth Chiarello
Policing Patients

An inside look at the culture of surveillance that pits healthcare providers against their patientsDoctors and pharmacists make critical decisions every day about whether to dispense opioids that alleviat…

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Renee Bracey Sherman, Regina Mahone
Liberating Abortion

"A gift to future generations."---Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble"Our storytellers meet the moment with powerful insight and testimonials."---Congresswoman Ayanna PressleyA gal…

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A C Grayling
Who Owns the Moon?

As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet?'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKERSilicon for m…

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Josephine Ensign
Way Home

"This is a work of narrative nonfiction set in Seattle-King County, Washington, that explores the contemporary landscape of homelessness with an emphasis on innovative local solutions"--

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N Katherine Hayles
Bacteria to AI

"Humans are driving the planet toward catastrophe, and yet humans are the only species capable of taking positive actions on a global scale to prevent collapse. For N. Katherine Hayles, human hubris …

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Narrating Transitional Justice

Narrating Transitional Justice asks: what are the discourses embedded in the varied stories of reconciliation actors, and how do these function as acts of state-making after atrocity?

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Deana Heath
Colonial Terror

This title explores the legal role of torture and other violence as it was used in colonial ruling. It rigorously attempts to theorize the nature of this violence, including its materiality and its effect…

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Ko-Lin Chin
Counterfeited in China

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Madeleine Beekman
The Origin of Language

In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care f…

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Marissa Grass
A Kids Book about Civic Engagement

What is something that makes your community special? What's one thing you'd change to make your community even better? Improvements and growth in the places we live are made possible through civic engagem…

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Mariame Kaba, Jane Ball,
Prisons Must Fall

From Mariame Kaba, New York Times -bestselling author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us , and social worker Jane Ball comes a powerful book showing the harm that prisons cause and exploring alternatives, gorg…

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Ko-Lin Chin
Counterfeited in China

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Mark O'Connell
Year Science Changed Everything

In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earth's greatest mysteries---and changed science forever.The International Geophysi…

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Madeleine Beekman
The Origin of Language

In a radical new story about the birth of our species, The Origin of Language argues that it was not hunting, fighting, or tool-making that forced early humans to speak, but the inescapable need to care f…

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Crystal Woodman Miller
A Kids Book about School Shootings

Help kids better understand what school shootings are and the emotions that come with the 'what if?'.This is a kids' book about school shootings. School shootings have become an increasingly common and tr…

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Jo Marchant
In Search of Now

What is Now? This immediate moment, what we're experiencing right now ... it bathes us like air, or gravity. Yet when we try to grasp this quality, to scrutinize it or bring it into focus, it vanishes, sl…

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Daniel R Brooks, Salvatore J Agosta
A Darwinian Survival Guide

How humanity brought about the climate crisis by departing from its evolutionary trajectory 15,000 years ago---and how we can use evolutionary principles to save ourselves from the worst outcomes.Despite …

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William Von Hippel
The Social Paradox

From the author of The Social Leap comes this thought-provoking exploration into humans' two core evolutionary needs, for connection and autonomy, how the modern world has thrown them out of whack, and ho…

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David R Samson
The Sleepless Ape

How the unique sleep habits of early humans fostered survival, innovation, and social evolution---and how this evolutionary legacy holds insights into how we sleep todayDespite sleep's critical role in ma…

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