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Donnacha Seán Lucey
Healthcare in Northern Ireland, 1921-73

This book focuses on the policies, politics and management of health care in Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1973. It explores the development of Northern Irish health care from its highly localist and frag…

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Periloux C Peay
Riptides

How does state-level policymaking contribute to the perpetual state of racial volatility in America? Riptides examines racialized policy diffusion through a unique framework that captures what motivates t…

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Family and Disability Activism

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Periloux C Peay
Riptides

How does state-level policymaking contribute to the perpetual state of racial volatility in America? Riptides examines racialized policy diffusion through a unique framework that captures what motivates t…

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Elissa Strauss
When You Care

In this "urgent and necessary book" (Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author), journalist Elissa Strauss explores the powerful role caring for others plays in our individual and comm…

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Matthew Greenslade
Beyond the World Bank

In this open access book, Matthew Greenslade sheds some much-needed light on the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence on pursuing a poverty-targeted approach to social protection in lower inco…

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Stephen Starring Grant
Mailman

An uproarious and "utterly charming" (The Washington Post) memoir by a mailman in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, who found that working for the post office saved his life, taught him who …

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Elizabeth Clark Wessel
The Eighth House

'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it' -- Daisy Johnson - author of Everything Under In the archives of the national library, a resea…

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Jennifer Randles
Living Diaper to Diaper

A revealing account of parenting in a country that neglects the needs of poor families--through the humble diaper.Many of us take diapers for granted. Yet diaper insecurity is a common, often hidden conse…

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Stephen Starring Grant
Mailman

"Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old homet…

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Mary Dunn
Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See

An exploration of early modern accounts of sickness and disability-and what they tell us about our own approach to bodily differenceIn our age of biomedicine, society often treats sickness and disability …

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Policing Not Protecting Families

"Policing Not Providing: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance critically analyzes how the U.S. child welfare system surveils and polices poor families, especially poor Black and Native fami…

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Anna Di Lellio, Garentina Kraja
The Strongest Link

In The Strongest Link, Anna Di Lellio and Garentina Kraja present an oral history of women who survived weaponized rape during the Kosovo War. In their own voices, twenty women describe the war's terror, …

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The Social Life of Things

The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropolog…

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Elliot Haspel
Raising a Nation

Raising a Nation offers a new framework for thinking about a comprehensive, inclusive child care system: one that supports families in all their diversity, whether they want to utilize a licensed child ca…

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Crisiswork

The world's attention has often turned to Lebanon in moments of crisis, including, recently, during the Beirut Port Explosion in 2020 and the 2024 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Less told is the story of ho…

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Chantelle Jessica Lewis, Jason Arday
We See Things They'll Never See

How neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion---and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarityAbleism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially,…

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Paul Morrow
Seeing Atrocities

In the 21st century, it is impossible to avoid seeing atrocities. Pictures of grievous death populate the pages of newspapers and aggregators almost daily. Billboards and banner ads for humanitarian organ…

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Sheerine Alemzadeh
Survivor Genius

A powerful call to recognize that those who have suffered gender-based violence are essential to ending it, by the co-founder of Healing to Action In an era in which presidential candidates can be elected…

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Matthew Madaus
No Crash Landings

In a society experiencing concerning levels of prevalence and intensity of mental health distress among young people, No Crash Landings serves as a practical guide for current and emerging leaders of beha…

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