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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
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...
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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
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...
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Indigenous policy is a diverse and complex domain motivated by a range of social, cultural, political and economic issues. One central component of current Indigenous policy is the Australian Government’s stated aim to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous outcomes. This focus on Indigenous disadvantage is not new and has a considerable pre-history. Under the Hawke government in the 1980s there was considerable concentration on ‘statistical...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and development studies to provide a comprehensive examination of food consumption trends in the cities of Asia and the Pacific, including household food consumption, eating out and food waste....
Author
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided.
Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers
...Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This volume, which grows out of a research project on women and philanthropy sponsored by the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the City University of New York, expands our understanding of female beneficence in shaping diverse political cultures. The contributors examine the role of philanthropy, the giving of time, money, and/or valuables for public benefiting shaping nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, and women's political...
17) Gendering Talk
Author
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Men and women are not from separate planets. Making an original and significant argument, Gendering Talk puts gendered communication in perspective by showing that the problem with male/female communication is not how men and women talk to each other, but in how they listen.
By closely examining the details of actual conversations between women and men―particularly the conversations of people “coupling”―Hopper draws on theories of arousal,...
Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Contents:
1. The Bara of Madagascar
2. The Person
3. Residence and Corporation: Shared Values
4. Residence and Corporation: Individual Actions
5. The Marriage of a Brother and Sister
6. Incest, Marriage, and Society
7. Trance and Feminine Power
8. Caveats and Conclusions
Author
Publisher
OpenStax
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Introduction to Sociology 3e aligns to the topics and objectives of many introductory sociology courses. It is arranged in a manner that provides foundational sociological theories and contexts, then progresses through various aspects of human and societal interactions. The new edition is focused on driving meaningful and memorable learning experiences related to critical thinking about society and culture. The text includes comprehensive coverage...
Author
Publisher
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Do you believe that girls should like to work at home, to cook and clean house and mind the baby? Do you believe that a girl should like to take care of her clothes and be able to make them; that she should know how to be thrifty and to conserve the family money in buying and using food and clothing; that she should play a fair game and put the group above her personal interests? Do you believe that she should value a strong healthy body above clothes...
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