Social Policy category: 9249 books
by D. Ghanim
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East. It highlights the unobtainability of this cultural myth and its multilevel destructive influences on various aspects of social life.
Social Justice through Citizenship?
The Politics of Muslim Integration in Germany and Great Britain
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Lewicki examines how current salient discourses of citizenship conceptualize democratic relations and frame the 'Muslim question' in Germany and Great Britain. Citizenship is understood not as a static or monolithic regime, but as being reproduced through competing discourses that can facilitate or inhibit the reduction of structural inequalities.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time. This collection utilizes newly-available historical data along with spatially and temporally explicit analytical...
Chile in Transition
Prospects and Challenges for Latin America’s Forerunner of Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
The economic, political and social situation in Chile shows a country in transition. Some observers anticipate a broad “reboot” of the nation. While Chile is still seen by many as an example of progress in South America and of developmental potential in the global South, it faces a complex political...
Everyday Community Practice
Principles and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
Increasingly students and practitioners in human services are asked or seek to include community engagement, participation and capacity building in their work with groups. In this book expert authors Amanda Howard and Margot Rawsthorne provide guidance on the theory and practice of working with communities,...
by United Nations
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Cepal. Una de las principales constataciones que emergen de la reflexión impulsada por la CEPAL en los últimos años es que el desarrollo económico y el desarrollo social están íntimamente entrelazados y deben integrarse activamente en una política pública orientada a lograr una mayor igualdad....
A mosca azul
Reflexão sobre o poder
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: February 1, 2006
A mosca azul é uma obra de impacto. No Palácio do Planalto, Frei Betto ocupou, em 2003 e 2004, as funções de Assessor Especial do Presidente da República e coordenador da Mobilização Social do programa Fome Zero. Aqui ele partilha com o leitor observações e reflexões de quem esteve dentro...
by Karl Marx
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in German as Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions...
by Angela Y. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles,...
Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”—The New York Times Book Review
In 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system....
Denialism
How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
In this provocative and headline-making book, Michael Specter confronts the widespread fear of science and its terrible toll on individuals and the planet.
In Denialism, New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter reveals that Americans have come to mistrust institutions and especially the institution...
Dying of Whiteness
How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences -- even for the white voters they promise to help
Named one of the most anticipated books of 2019 by Esquire and the Boston Globe
In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are...
Vanishing New York
How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
"ESSENTIAL READING FOR FANS OF JANE JACOBS, JOSEPH MITCHELL, PATTI SMITH, LUC SANTE AND CHEAP PIEROGI."--VANITY FAIR
An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing...
Modernizing Democracy
Associations and Associating in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Modernizing Democracy brings together scholars focusing the role of associations and associating in contemporary societies. Organizations and associations have been identified as the “meso level of society” and as the “basic elements of democracy”. They are important providers of welfare services...