Public Policy, Prevention Science, ACEs – alle Bücher, Seite 5

Linda Gordon
Seven Social Movements That Changed America

How do social movements arise, wield power and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a ground-breaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential tw…

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Asad Asad
Engage and Evade

How everyday forms of surveillance threaten undocumented immigrants---but also offer them hope for societal inclusionSome eleven million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, carving out li…

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Aja Couchois Duncan
The Intimacy Trials

A post-apocalyptic Native poetry collection that creates possibility for repair and reconciliation by holding the simultaneity of a violent past and a hopeful future.Aja Couchois Duncan's third book of po…

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Nazia Nazeer, Rajah Rasiah
Industrial Upgrading in the Textiles and Clothing Industry

The path towards charting industrial policy towards economic catch up increasingly recognizes the importance of a profound knowledge of firms, including their location, industry, and time specificities. G…

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Mariangelica Groves
Extreme Weather and Climate Change

A guide to understanding the relationship between climate change and the growing severity and frequency of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, floods, droughts, and wildfires around the world.

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Mikaela Loach
It's Not That Radical

From a star of the climate justice movement, a fresh, radical perspective for real climate action and "an indispensable toolkit for a new generation of activists" (Naomi Klein). For too long, re…

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Elspeth Hay
Feed Us with Trees

What if the future of food grew on trees---and had been with us all along?From acorns to chestnuts, hazelnuts, and beyond, discover the ancient staple crops that could nourish people andheal the planet.Wh…

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Mikaela Loach
It's Not That Radical

From a star of the climate justice movement, a fresh, radical perspective for real climate action and "an indispensable toolkit for a new generation of activists" (Naomi Klein). For too long, re…

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Matthew D Lassiter
The Suburban Crisis

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilita…

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A Mechele Dickerson
The Middle-Class New Deal

"We are at a moment of reckoning as a country, and this bold and ambitious book should be at the center of the conversation on what can be done to make the American Dream more realistic for the many-…

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Rebecca Solnit
The Beginning Comes After the End

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring be…

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Violent Atmospheres

"In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who…

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Rebecca Solnit
The Beginning Comes After the End

Rebecca Solnit offers a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. In this sequel to her enduring be…

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Andrew Dan Selee, Valerie Lacarte, Diego Chaves-Gonzalez, Ariel G Ruiz Soto
On the Move

The Americas is a region on the move and is both the source and recipient of some of the largest migrations in the world today. While much scholarship and public commentary focus on the considerable movem…

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Unravelling Maid in Canada

Since its legalization in 2016, health care professionals in Canada have provided more state-facilitated euthanasia and assisted suicide, or MAID, than in any other country. MAiD has quickly become one of…

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Lauren Woodard
Ambiguous Inclusion

Ambiguous Inclusion examines how migrants and state officials in Primorskii krai -- Russia's Far Eastern border with China and North Korea -- draw on legacies of inclusion as migrants apply for Russian ci…

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Japonica Brown-Saracino
The Death and Life of Gentrification

A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its ownSociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in …

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Kevin Fagan
The Lost and the Found

A "riveting, deeply compassionate" (The New York Times) narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope .Award-winning San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan has been covering homelessness …

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Messy Cities

Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly…

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The Domestic Savings Shortfall in Sub-Saharan Africa

Domestic Savings Shortfall in Sub-Saharan Africa aims to increase knowledge about the key drivers of domestic saving rates in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as well as whether alternative approaches, such as p…

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