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1) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
3) 60 Days In
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
60 Days In offers an unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days.
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Language
English
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Description
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
For ten years before Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's death, he and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky had been working to help free another wrongfully convicted man, David McCallum. McCallum was eventually exonerated and freed after serving twenty-nine years in prison. This is the story of how Carter and Klonsky, along with a group of committed friends and professionals, managed to secure McCallum's release. It details their many struggles, from founding...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For a long time, when people asked Dr. Meera Shah what she did, she would tell them she was a doctor and leave it at that. But over the last few years, Shah decided it was time to be direct. “I'm an abortion provider,” she will now say. And an interesting thing started to happen each time she met someone new. One by one, people would confide—at BBQs, at jury duty, in the middle of the greeting card aisle at Target— that in fact they'd had...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
LETTERS TO A YOUNG FEMINIST is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it, and helps the next generation reclaim feminism for itself. Chesler examines sisterhood, sex, families, motherhood, work, feminist heroism, and the economics of power, providing guidance to the generation...
Author
Publisher
Motivational Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A compilation of true stories of having conversations with racists and the things I learned. These were while I was in the Navy. The information in timely.The rest of the book is from my experience as Equal Opportunity Advisor/Diversity Officer. Some of this information is also from the Navvy but they are applicable to anyone anywhere.
Author
Publisher
SKS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
More than half a million Swedes – one in twenty – is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a Finnish family in Sweden? Who are ‘real Finns’ and what does it take to be(come) one? Is a shared minority language essential for the survival of the minority, or can a minority culture stay viable without it? What is Finnishness...
14) Identities in Practice: A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh Immigrants in Finland and in California
Author
Publisher
SKS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration studies is the contrast it provides between experiences at two Sikh migration destinations. By using an ethnographic approach, Hirvi reveals how practices carried out in relation to work, dress,...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this study was to analyze the socioeconomic factors that influence the beekeeping process and describe the current situation in beekeeping technology development in the south and southeast regions of Jalisco. The study was conducted by reviewing secondary sources of documentary information and the primary information was obtained by means of a survey, analyzing demographic, social, technological, and economic variables. From January...
Publisher
Springer Open
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This text presents information about museums and museology in present-day Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Asian countries today have developed or are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models. This book provides readers with carefully chosen examples of museum activities - for example, exhibition and sharing information, database construction, access to and...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities.Seventy-five years ago, First Nations peoples began a significant post-war period of relocation to cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Purpose of the studyMedia records are a common source when reporting incidence of sports-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The incidence of OHCA increases with age, and OHCA in older age groups might be less likely to cause media attention. Our purpose was to assess the incidence of OHCA related to sport in the Norwegian Cardiac Arrest Registry (NorCAR) depending on age, and compare this with media reports.- from Introduction
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This collection of essays examines the contexts within which anthropological knowledge in general, and such knowledge about Asia in particular, is produced and disseminated. It also explores the question of how professionalization within the realm of academic, socio-cultural anthropology replicates national, cultural, and international peculiarities.
Author
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can embrace an awareness of ethnic and local differences. It disputes the utopianism of colorblind universalism and argues for the persistence of “race” and racialized thinking in lived experience. The essays...
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