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Fear Did This is the first book in a series of documented, raw
facts presented in the cold light of day. It is the story of the
transition of a carefree, innocent young man to an inmate within
Ohio due to a totally corrupt judicial system in Trumbull County,
Ohio. What follows after murder, attempted murder and arrest is an
investigation by the author that exposes the corrupt judicial
practices of a system that puts Winning Above Justice!
THE BOOK TAKES A GLIMPSE OF HEALTH CARE ISSUES FROM THE AUTHORS
PERSPECTIVE DURING HIS FORMATIVE YEARS, HIS YEARS IN PRACTICE, AND
WHAT HE CALLS THE CURRENT DARK WALLS OF MEDICINE-- AS WE HAVE SOME
47 MILLION AMERICANS WITHOUT HEALTH CARE INSURANCE, NUMEROUS OTHERS
WHO ARE UNDERINSURED, THE RISING COST OF HEALTH CARE, AND HOW THESE
SITUATIONS HAVE LED TO HIS STRONG BELIEF THAT WE NEED AN OVERHAUL
IN THE WAY HEALTH CARE IS DELIVERED IN THIS NATION. THE AUTHOR SETS
FORTH A PROPOSAL THAT HE FEELS WOULD ALLOW FOR UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL, WHILE ENSURING QUALITY AND COST EFFECTIVE
SERVICES. HE TAKES A LOOK AT HOW HEALTH CARE IS DELIVERED IN OTHER
NATIONS AS WELL. FINALLY HE LOVES AMERICA AND BELIEVES THAT WE CAN,
AS A NATION, CONTINUE TO BE THE LEADER IN HEALTHCARE IN THE WORLD.
From grassroots to global activism, the untold story of the world's
first domestic workers' movement. Domestic workers exist on the
margins of the world labor market. Maids, nannies, housekeepers, au
pairs, and other care workers are most often 'off the books,'
working for long hours and low pay. They are not afforded legal
protections or benefits such as union membership, health care,
vacation days, and retirement plans. Many women who perform these
jobs are migrants, and are oftentimes dependent upon their
employers for room and board as well as their immigration status,
creating an extremely vulnerable category of workers in the growing
informal global economy. Drawing on over a decade's worth of
research, plus interviews with a number of key movement leaders and
domestic workers, Jennifer N. Fish presents the compelling stories
of the pioneering women who, while struggling to fight for rights
in their own countries, mobilized transnationally to enact change.
The book takes us to Geneva, where domestic workers organized,
negotiated, and successfully received the first-ever granting of
international standards for care work protections by the United
Nations' International Labour Organization. This landmark victory
not only legitimizes the importance of these household laborers'
demands for respect and recognition, but also signals the need to
consider human rights as a central component of workers' rights.
Domestic Workers of the World Unite! chronicles how a group with so
few resources could organize and act within the world's most
powerful international structures and give voice to the wider
global plight of migrants, women, and informal workers. For anyone
with a stake in international human and workers' rights, this is a
critical and inspiring model of civil society organizing.
Gender and Pop Culture provides a foundation for the study of
gender, pop culture, and media. This newly updated edition is
comprehensive and interdisciplinary, providing both text-book style
introductory and concluding chapters written by the editor. The
text includes eight original contributor chapters on key topics and
written in a variety of writing styles, discussion questions,
additional resources, and more. Coverage includes: - Foundations
for studying gender and pop culture (history, theory, methods, key
concepts). - Contributor chapters on social media, technology,
advertising, music, television, film, and sports. - Ideas for
activism and putting this book to use beyond the classroom. -
Pedagogical features. - Suggestions for further readings on topics
covered and international studies of gender and pop culture. Gender
and Pop Culture was designed with students in mind, to promote
reflection and lively discussion. With features found in both
textbooks and anthologies, this sleek book can serve as a primary
or supplemental reading in courses across disciplines.
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective
Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 analyzes how collective memory
regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen
crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in
Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019. Drawing on data gathered through
multiple sources such as news reports, digital media content,
on-site vigil surveys, population surveys, and in-depth interviews
with activists, rally participants, and other stakeholders, it
identifies six key processes in the dynamics of social remembering:
memory formation, memory mobilization, memory institutionalization,
intergenerational transfer, memory repair, and memory
balkanization. The book demonstrates how a socially dominant
collective memory, even one the state finds politically irritable,
can be generated and maintained through constant negotiation and
efforts by a wide range of actors. While Memories of Tiananmen
mainly focuses on the interplay between political changes and the
Tiananmen commemoration in the historical period within which the
society enjoyed a significant degree of civil liberties, it also
discusses how the trajectory of the collective memory may take a
drastic turn as Hong Kong's autonomy is abridged. The book promises
to be a key reference for anyone interested in collective memory
studies, social movement research, political communication, and
China and Hong Kong studies.
Distinguished Austrian sociologist Reinhold Knoll's letters to his
grandchildren, written daily during the Covid-19 pandemic, evolved
into an obituary of European culture, politics, and society. They
also embody a gesture of thanks to the United States, which took a
different path from Europe and then saved it in World War I and
World War II. Like Beethoven's piano sonatas, some of Professor
Knoll's letters are light and humorous while others plumb the
depths of the human psyche. But each brings the past into the
present, often enhanced by Viennese ironic wit, with recondite and
penetrating observations on enlightenment and revolution, art and
music, social thought, the devolution of the museum, the status of
the church, migration, fashions in pedagogy, and the role of
technology in society. This is the remarkable work of a balanced
conscience in troubled times. America owes most of its cultural and
spiritual traditions to the erstwhile European stewardship of a
legacy that goes back to Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome - the subject,
verb, and predicate of our human story, - though Europe now finds
itself in a crisis of confidence with profound warnings for the
American reader.
Inner-City Public Schools is a beacon call for everyone to take a
close look at how effective our inner city public schools have
been. Dr. Diop shares some of his life stories and how the public
schools in his neighborhood shaped his thinking. With education
reformists extolling the value and achievement of charter schools,
to the peril of public schools- Dr. Diop is honest in his
evaluation of the schools he has led and how he and his teachers
set and achieved immense goals, resulting in the highest math
scores in the school's history. Dr. Diop is also candid as he
discussed the emotional struggles faced by his sister and how those
struggles enabled him to relate to the anguish many of his students
face daily. This book will show everyone, that there is value in
our nation's inner city public schools and his life is living proof
Latino and Muslim in America examines how so called "minority
groups" are made, fragmented, and struggle for recognition in the
U.S.A. The U.S. is currently poised to become the first nation
whose collective minorities will outnumber the dominant population,
and Latinos play no small role in this world changing demographic
shift. Even as many people view Latinos and Muslims as growing
threats, Latino Muslims celebrate their intersecting identities
both in their daily lives and in their mediated representations
online. In this book, Harold Morales follows the lives of several
Latino Muslim leaders from the 1970's to the present, and their
efforts to organize and unify nationally in order to solidify the
new identity group's place within the public sphere. Based on four
years of ethnography, media analysis and historical research,
Morales demonstrates how the phenomenon of Latinos converting to
Islam emerges from distinctive immigration patterns and laws, urban
spaces, and new media technologies that have increasingly brought
Latinos and Muslims in to contact with one another. He explains
this growing community as part of the mass exodus out of the
Catholic Church, the digitization of religion, and the growth of
Islam. Latino and Muslim in America explores the racialization of
religion, the framing of religious conversion experiences, the
dissemination of post-colonial histories, and the development of
Latino Muslim networks, to show that the categories of race,
religion, and media are becoming inextricably entwined.
This book reconstructs the connection between religion and
migration, drawing on post-colonial perspectives to shed light on
what religion can contribute to migrant encounters. Examining the
resources and motives for hospitality as lived in Christian
contexts in the Nordic region, it addresses the content of talk
about "religion" in public discourse, the concept having become
something of an empty signifier in debates surrounding migration.
Multidisciplinary in approach, this volume demonstrates that
"religion" is not, in fact, an empty signifier, but gains substance
through practice and interpretation. Considering the undeveloped
potentiality of religion and the manner in which the unseen
religious perspective in secularity becomes manifest in practice,
this volume will appeal to social scientists and scholars of
religion with interests in migration, refugee studies, theology,
and Christian practice.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
The impetus for this volume comes from reflecting on many years of
experience, successes and failures in development evaluation in
Asia and Africa, and from recent work supported by the Rockefeller
Foundation on Rethinking, Reshaping, and Reforming Evaluation. The
concepts, frameworks and ideas presented in this volume are a
useful contribution to the ongoing efforts at rethinking, reforming
and reshaping international development evaluation. They come from
leading thinkers and practitioners in development, evaluation,
research and academia who have recognized that development
evaluation must evolve if it is to respond to the challenges of the
21st Century and play a meaningful role in social and economic
transformation. This volume will be of great interest to evaluation
scholars, practitioners, and students, particularly to those
interested in international development projects, programs, and
policies. This book will be appropriate for a wide range of
courses, included Introduction to Evaluation, International
Development Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Policy Evaluation, and
evaluation courses in International Development, International
Relations, Public Policy, Public Health, Human Services, Sociology,
and Psychology.
Survey of Sociology: From Hobbes to Hip-Hop provides students with
articles that introduce them to key concepts in sociology. Students
learn how and why scholars study society, as well as how cultural
systems, economics, systems of power, and art influence society and
our everyday world. The anthology is divided into four parts. Part
I includes readings that invite students to begin thinking like a
social scientist and introduce various data collection methods. In
Part II, students learn about the effects of cultural systems,
including religion and perspectives on gender and sexuality, on
society. The readings in Part III address big-picture issues,
including economics, power, capitalism, and ecology. In the final
part, students examine perspectives that relate to the individual
and everyday life, including the "inner dialogue" between our sense
of self and our projection of society's expectations,
exchange-behavior in business culture, and how art, literature, and
music can transcend the material experiences of inequality and
injustice and transform society. Insightful and timely, Survey of
Sociology is an ideal supplementary textbook for introductory
courses within the discipline.
The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano), describing the behaviour
of the ideal courtier (and court lady) was one of the most widely
distributed books in the 16th century. It remains the definitive
account of Renaissance court life. This edition, Thomas Hoby's 1561
English translation, greatly influenced the English ideal of the
"gentleman." Baldesar Castiglione was a courtier at the court of
Urbino, at that time the most refined and elegant of the Italian
courts. Practising his principles, he counted many of the leading
figures of his time as friends, and was employed on important
diplomatic missions. He was a close personal friend of Raffaello
Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, who painted the
sensitive portrait of Castiglione on the cover of this edition.
This new edition of the landmark text Law and Society exposes
readers to the dominant theoretical perspectives and sociological
methods that are used to explain the interplay between law and
society. This twelfth edition continues to preserve Professor
Vago's voice, while Steven E. Barkan's use of chapter outlines and
summaries, learning objectives, key terms, and additional readings
maintains the text's accessibility for today's readers. The book's
foundational approach is brought fully up-to-date with current
events and new studies throughout that illustrate how legal forces
shape and influence society, and vice versa. These additions
include: Updated data on trial and conviction data in federal
district courts Updated data on sexual harassment of attorneys and
new data on representation of women and people of color among law
school faculty New discussions of legal issues arising from the
Covid-19 pandemic. The twelfth edition of Law and Society is a
cornerstone companion for one-semester undergraduate courses in Law
and Society, Sociology of Law, and Introduction to Law offered
within departments of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Political
Science.
The Paleolithic Paradigm takes us one step further in the
nature/nurture debate. Certainly a certain percentage of our
behaviors are biologically based. However, culture has the power to
override much in genetic commands. The Amish exemplify this, no
matter how much "we" qualify them as "quaint." Painting with a wide
post-modern paint brush, Stocker takes on a journey through four
cultures to show how different people can be. He offers the
analogy: our genetic structure is the framework of any house. How
we cover and decorate that frame is often the product of ancient
traditions. However, we are all products of the same cognitive
processes, thus explaining why we take ideas put into our heads as
children to the grave whether we accept them, reject them, or alter
them. It is this commonality the author examines. Accordingly, he
wants to know, if we understand our cognition processes, can we
change out behavior at will?
Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China offers a thorough
analysis of the profound regeneration of the State and its intense
interaction with the external projections of Russia and China. In
the international political scene, leaderships are under constant
negotiation. Financial crisis, social and cultural transformations,
values setting and migration flows have a deep impact on global
powers, leading to the appearance of new actors. At present, the
assumed rise of a new axis between two emerging powers, such as
Russia and China, effaces their different backgrounds, leading to
misinterpretations of their positioning in the geopolitical arena.
This book is an essential and multifaceted guide aimed at
understanding the deep changes that affect these two countries and
their global aspirations. Contributors are: Marco Puleri; Andrea
Passeri; Marco Balboni; Carmelo Danisi; Mingjiang Li; Mahalakshmi
Ganapathy; Rosa Mule; Olga Dubrovina; Evgeny Mironov; Yongshun Cai;
Vasil Sakaev; Eugenia Baroncelli; Sonia Lucarelli; Nicolo Fasola;
Stefano Bianchini; Stanislav Tkachenko; Vitaly Kozyrev; Marco
Borraccetti; Francesco Privitera; Antonio Fiori, Massimiliano
Trentin; Arrigo Pallotti; Giuliana Laschi; Michael Leigh.
In Migration and Membership Regimes editors Ulbe Bosma, Gijs
Kessler and Leo Lucassen bring together ten essays in an analytical
framework which looks beyond the Transatlantic migration of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a deliberate attempt to
incorporate the experience of earlier periods and other continents
into historical migration studies. The focus of analysis is on the
mechanisms of interaction between polities, from city-states and
emerging statehoods to empires, and migrants joining or taking over
these polities, by force, choice or co-optation. It
reconceptualises the migrant-state relationship as an engagement
over the terms of membership and explores the variety of different
outcomes this has had across time and space. Contributors include:
Nicholas Breyfogle, Derek Heng, Ralph W. Mathisen, Christel Muller,
Mu-chou Poo, Susan Elizabeth Ramirez, Ibrahima Thiaw, Maartje van
Gelder, Mark D. Varien.
For social studies teachers reeling from the buffeting of top-down
educational reforms, this volume offers answers to questions about
dealing with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Each chapter
presents and reviews pertinent standards that relate to the social
studies. Each chapter also deals with significant topics in the
social studies from various social sciences to processes such as
inquiry to key skills needed for success in social studies such as
analysis and literacy. The most important aspect of these chapters
though is the array of adaptable activities that is included in
each chapter. Teachers can find practical approaches to dealing
with CCSS across the social studies panorama. The multiple
authorships of the various chapters mean a variety of perspectives
and viewpoints are presented. All of the authors have fought in the
trenches of K-12 public education. Their activities reflect this in
a way that will be useful to novice or veteran teachers.
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