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An essential read for activists, community organizers, justice
scholars, and academic administrators, Critical Animal Studies and
Social Justice: Critical Theory, Dismantling Speciesism, and Total
Liberation is a collection that combines scholarship and activism
in nine ground-breaking and provocative chapters. The book includes
contributions from around the world influenced by critical theory,
feminism, social justice, political theory, media studies,
environmental justice, food justice, disability studies, and Black
liberation. By promoting total liberation and liberatory politics,
these essays challenge the reader to think about new approaches to
justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion . The contributors also
examine and disrupt many of the exclusionary assumptions and
behaviors by those working toward justice and liberation,
encouraging the reader to reflect on their own thoughts and
actions. They emphasize the direct links between exploitation of
animals, the planet, and people, the significance of which we can
no longer afford to ignore.
Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social
critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her
account of those years, working next to a man described by
the New York Times as “arguably the most important
intellectual alive today.†Through these pages we observe the
comings and goings of a constant and varied stream of visitors: the
historian Howard Zinn; activists Alex Carey, Peggy Duff, and Dorie
Ladner; the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners Lee; actors
Catherine Keener and Wallace Shawn; the writer Norman Mailer;
gaggles of fourteen-year-old school students, and the world’s
leading linguists. All make appearances in these stories. Many who
visit are as careless of their allotted time as Chomsky is generous
with his. Shepherding them out in mid-conversation is one of
Bev’s more challenging responsibilities. Other duties include
arranging lectures to overflow crowds around the world, keeping
unscrupulous journalists at bay, preventing teetering ziggurats of
paper and books from engulfing her boss, and switching on his
printer when it is deemed “broken†by a mind that is engaged
less by mundane technology than the realms of academia and
activism. Over the years, what has commenced as a formal working
arrangement blossoms into something more: a warm and enduring
friendship that involves work trips to Europe, visits with her
partner and dog to Noam’s summer home on Cape Cod, and a
mentorship that challenges Bev with all manner of intriguing mental
and practical puzzles. Published with the approval of its subject
and written with affection, insight and a gentle sense of
humor, Chomsky and Me describes a relationship between
two quite different people who, through the happenstance of work,
form a bond that is both surprising and reciprocally rich.
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created,
feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized
the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of
efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's
interests. At its core, the nascent field of feminist legal history
is driven by a commitment to uncover women's legal agency and how
women, both historically and currently, use law to obtain
individual and societal empowerment.
Feminist Legal History represents feminist legal historians'
efforts to define their field, by showcasing historical research
and analysis that demonstrates how women were denied legal rights,
how women used the law proactively to gain rights, and how,
empowered by law, women worked to alter the law to try to change
gendered realities. Encompassing two centuries of American history,
thirteen original essays expose the many ways in which legal
decisions have hinged upon ideas about women or gender as well as
the ways women themselves have intervened in the law, from
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's notion of a legal class of gender to the
deeply embedded inequities involved in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, a
2007 Supreme Court pay discrimination case.
Contributors: Carrie N. Baker, Felice Batlan, Tracey Jean
Boisseau, Eileen Boris, Richard H. Chused, Lynda Dodd, Jill Hasday,
Gwen Hoerr Jordan, Maya Manian, Melissa Murray, Mae C. Quinn, Margo
Schlanger, Reva Siegel, Tracy A. Thomas, and Leti Volpp
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created,
feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized
the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of
efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women's
interests. At its core, the nascent field of feminist legal history
is driven by a commitment to uncover women's legal agency and how
women, both historically and currently, use law to obtain
individual and societal empowerment.
Feminist Legal History represents feminist legal historians'
efforts to define their field, by showcasing historical research
and analysis that demonstrates how women were denied legal rights,
how women used the law proactively to gain rights, and how,
empowered by law, women worked to alter the law to try to change
gendered realities. Encompassing two centuries of American history,
thirteen original essays expose the many ways in which legal
decisions have hinged upon ideas about women or gender as well as
the ways women themselves have intervened in the law, from
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's notion of a legal class of gender to the
deeply embedded inequities involved in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, a
2007 Supreme Court pay discrimination case.
Contributors: Carrie N. Baker, Felice Batlan, Tracey Jean
Boisseau, Eileen Boris, Richard H. Chused, Lynda Dodd, Jill Hasday,
Gwen Hoerr Jordan, Maya Manian, Melissa Murray, Mae C. Quinn, Margo
Schlanger, Reva Siegel, Tracy A. Thomas, and Leti Volpp
Great strides in investigative methods in recent years have brought
much new information on micro circulation, particularly with
respect to the role of endothelial cells. Thus, subjects such as
micro circulation and pharmacology, micro circulation and omega 3
polyunsaturates, Ruscus and micro circulation are examined in this
book. The reader will find here the latest results of relevant
research in this field.
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Frank (Paperback)
Isaiah Boisseau
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R127
Discovery Miles 1 270
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Frank is a robot that wakes up on the moon with no memory of how he
got there or who made him. Frank begins a journey to discover who
he is and where he comes from while trying to cope with living on
the moon. Along the way he encounters an enemy he might not be able
to defeat alone, nasty bugs, deep holes, and unlikely friends.
This book is Non-Fictional, and can be very Motivational and
Inspirational through some of the most devastating times in our
lives, while yet the Lord can be on time in saving it. The thrill
of it all is reading about what others had to go through in order
to come through, and some just before death at their very last
breath. Murder's on the loose, Blood shed-blows to the head. Some
being killed just for the thrill to fulfill Ungodly lust.
Gangster's, pranksters, men, and women lusting for whatever it took
to survive, some barely making it our alive. A Novel of a suspended
thriller that will scare you straight, blood, sweats, and fears.
The mystery of what happens in the end is well worth the reading.
These stories are matters of fact, the truth about life, and death,
lies and deception. If you think life in this world is easy, and
you think you can handle it on your own, then baby you had better
think again . For we are not alone. From the High Rolling Jet
Setters, Big Balers the all time Shot callers, the Intellects, and
Derelicts, Rags to Riches even Ungodly Witches. From being married
To the Mob, now married to God. from Bedrooms to the Boardroom
while still yet so close to doom. With Dealing Drugs, yes even
about the Neighborhood Thugs. Here we have real life Testimonies of
Individuals growing up in the streets. (The hood) as some would
say, the music industry (entertainers) and even those going through
some everyday life targets, and strategies some even life
threatening. Real life situations of changes we ourselves may have
gone through or even now going through. But through it all these
individuals are praising the Lord for seeing them through. One
individual had survived whatsome would call the real life
crucifixion of death to the resurrection of life. "It's like the
walking dead being born again" one person said. Even through our
own trials and tribulations we never seem to know the reason why;
ours is just to Do of Die. I hope and I pray that this Book will
open the eyes of our Children be they young or old, to see how some
of life's dramatic experiences just don't have to be. But for those
who Are yet going through let us pray that its not to late for them
to come too. An Angle once said to me, no matter how hard things
may seem, or what someone may be going through, or even what he/she
may have gone through, Always remember to treat them with loving
kindness, and consideration. Because you never know when you may be
entertaining an Angle. If we don't come to the realization of the
true meaning of life, then we may be stuck with eternal death.
(It's never to late). We may be able to thank God for carrying us
through; but we still have to learn how to walk in the name of
Jesus.
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