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Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns
political economy to green criminology and examines how the
expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and
justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological
withdrawals and ecological additions. The Treadmill of Crime is
written by acclaimed experts on the subject of green criminology
and examines issues such as the crime in the energy sector as well
as the release of toxic waste into the environment and its impact
on ecosystems. This book also sets a new research agenda by
highlighting problems of ecological disorganization for animal
abuse and social disorganization. This book will be of interest to
students, researchers and academics in the fields of criminology,
political science, environmental sociology, and natural resources.
In December 1989, VOclav Havel and a relatively small group of
intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the
communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the
Velvet Revolution. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the
Revolution of 1989 brings together the personal narratives of
eleven former dissidents who, though close associates of Havel,
operated without his international celebrity. The narratives, based
on interviews conducted by the author in Prague and Berlin, relate
each individual's personal experiences on topics such as growing up
in Czechoslovakia, life as a dissident, the Velvet Revolution, and
the achievements and failures of the Czech Republic since 1989.
Through their many voices we come to understand that the life of a
dissident is one of hardship, uncertainty, and constant
surveillance; yet at the same time life in the underground allows a
certain degree of freedom unattainable in official society. For
more information about the book, please visit Michael Long's
website.
Drawing on the work of Allan Schnaiberg, this book returns
political economy to green criminology and examines how the
expansion of capitalism shapes environmental law, crime and
justice. The book is organized around crimes of ecological
withdrawals and ecological additions. The Treadmill of Crime is
written by acclaimed experts on the subject of green criminology
and examines issues such as the crime in the energy sector as well
as the release of toxic waste into the environment and its impact
on ecosystems. This book also sets a new research agenda by
highlighting problems of ecological disorganization for animal
abuse and social disorganization. This book will be of interest to
students, researchers and academics in the fields of criminology,
political science, environmental sociology, and natural resources.
In December 1989, Vaclav Havel and a relatively small group of
intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the
communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the
Velvet Revolution. Making History: Czech Voices of Dissent and the
Revolution of 1989 brings together the personal narratives of
eleven former dissidents who, though close associates of Havel,
operated without his international celebrity. The narratives, based
on interviews conducted by the author in Prague and Berlin, relate
each individual's personal experiences on topics such as growing up
in Czechoslovakia, life as a dissident, the Velvet Revolution, and
the achievements and failures of the Czech Republic since 1989.
Through their many voices we come to understand that the life of a
dissident is one of hardship, uncertainty, and constant
surveillance; yet at the same time life in the underground allows a
certain degree of freedom unattainable in official society. For
more information about the book, please visit Michael Long's
website.
From the March on Washington to March for Our Lives to Black Lives
Matter, the powerful stories of kid-led protest in America. ? Kids
have always been activists. They have even launched movements. Long
before they could vote, kids have spoken up, walked out, gone on
strike, and marched for racial justice, climate protection, gun
control, world peace, and more.? Kids on the March tells the
stories of?these protests, from the March of the Mill Children, who
walked out of factories in 1903 for a shorter work week, to
1951’s Strike for a Better School, which helped build the case
for Brown v. Board of Education, to the twenty-first century’s
most iconic movements, including March for Our Lives, the Climate
Strike, and the recent Black Lives Matter protests reshaping our
nation. ? Powerfully told and inspiring, Kids on the March shows
how standing up, speaking out, and marching for what you believe in
can advance the causes of justice, and that no one is too small or
too young to make a difference.
In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of
food crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food
insecurity, agricultural labour, livestock welfare, genetically
modified foods, food sustainability, food waste, food policy, and
food democracy, they problematize current food systems and
criticize their underlying ideologies. Bringing together the best
contemporary research in this area, they argue for the importance
of thinking criminologically about food and propose radical
solutions to the realities of unjust food systems.
Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved
in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production,
distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions
have significant consequences on public health and well-being,
nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously. In
this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food
crime. Through discussions of food safety, food fraud, food
insecurity, agricultural labour, livestock welfare, genetically
modified foods, food sustainability, food waste, food policy, and
food democracy, they problematize current food systems and
criticize their underlying ideologies. Bringing together the best
contemporary research in this area, they argue for the importance
of thinking criminologically about food and propose radical
solutions to the realities of unjust food systems.
In tough economic times and with rising unemployment, people are
looking to take the bull by the horns and start their own
home-based businesses.... From GPP's enormously successful "How to
Start a Home-Based Business "series (more than half a million
copies sold!), comes the essential guide to starting up a
home-based Bookkeeping business.
This book collects the columns which baseball legend Jackie
Robinson wrote for the New York Post and the New York Amsterdam
News, as well as excerpts of letters between Robinson and
politicians such as Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy. The brevity
of the columns and Robinson's vivid imagery and compelling voice
make this an absorbing and very moving read.
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Whither am I Traveling (Hardcover)
Donald Kimmel; Afterword by Michael Long; Cover design or artwork by Brenna Long
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R1,018
Discovery Miles 10 180
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Fred Rogers was one of the most radical pacifists of contemporary
history. We do not usually think of him as radical, partly because
he wore colorful, soft sweaters made by his mother. Nor do we
usually imagine him as a pacifist; that adjective seems way too
political to describe the host of a children's program known for
its focus on feelings. We have restricted Fred Rogers to the realm
of entertainment, children, and feelings, and we've ripped him out
of his political and religious context. Rogers was an ordained
Presbyterian minister, and although he rarely shared his religious
convictions on his program, he fervently believed in a God who
accepts us as we are and who desires a world marked by peace and
wholeness. With this progressive spirituality as his inspiration,
Rogers used his children's program as a platform for sharing
countercultural beliefs about caring nonviolently for one another,
animals, and the earth. To critics who dared call him
aEUROoenamby-pamby,aEURO Rogers said, aEUROoeOnly people who take
the time to see our work can begin to understand the depth of
it.aEURO This is the invitation of Peaceful Neighbor, to see and
understand Rogers's convictions and their expression through his
program. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, it turns out, is far from
sappy, sentimental, and shallow; it's a sharp political response to
a civil and political society poised to kill.
"Beautiful Monsters" explores the ways in which 'classical' music
made its way into late twentieth-century American mainstream
culture - in pop songs, movie scores, and print media. Beginning in
the 1960s, Michael Long's entertaining and illuminating book
surveys a complex cultural field and draws connections between
'classical music' (as the phrase is understood in the United
States) and selected 'monster hits' of popular music. Addressing
such wide-ranging subjects as surf music, Yiddish theater,
Hollywood film scores, Freddie Mercury, Alfred Hitchcock,
psychedelic, rap, disco, and video games, Long proposes a holistic
musicology in which disparate musical elements might be brought
together in dynamic and humane conversation. "Beautiful Monsters"
brilliantly considers the ways in which critical commonplaces like
nostalgia, sentiment, triviality, and excess might be applied with
greater nuance to musical media and media reception. It takes into
account twentieth-century media's capacity to suggest visual and
acoustical depth and the redemptive possibilities that lie beyond
the surface elements of filmic narrative or musical style, showing
us what a truly global view of late twentieth-century music in its
manifold cultural and social contexts might be like.
This authoritative and comprehensive anthology contains classic,
ground-breaking articles which present the rationale behind current
methodology and identify specific applications suitable for a wide
range of teaching situations. Introductory notes, written by the
volume editors, precede each section and provide a cohesive
overview of subjects treated. Discussion questions and suggestions
for further reading give in-depth attention to each topic and alert
readers to important differences of opinion.
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