Social Policy category: 9249 books
A World in Chaos
Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2003
A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions. Through an analysis of films such as American Beauty, Blade Runner, Natural Born Killers, and Thelma and Loiuse, Carl Boggs and Thomas Pollard...
Black Man with a Gun
Justifiable Force Is a Constitutional Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
AMERICAS WORST NIGHTMARE IS AN ARMED BLACK AMERICANS WE APONRY OF EDUCATION. Shooting his ammunition of applied knowledge. Th e ability to articulate the Black opinion fi red through his pen and paper as direct force to protect his family and self from the wicked actions of others. Black Man with...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Engaged Buddhism is founded on the belief that genuine spiritual practice requires an active involvement in society. Engaged Buddhism in the West illuminates the evolution of this new chapter in the Buddhist tradition - including its history, leadership, and teachings - and addresses issues such as...
by Andrew Edgar
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
An independently minded champion of ‘the project of modernity’ in a supposedly post-modern age, Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) is one of the most widely influential thinkers of our times.
An easy-to-use A-Z guide to a body of work that spans philosophy, sociology, politics, law and cultural theory,...
American Hunger
The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Series
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow traveled across the country over the course of a year—from Florida and Texas to Rhode Island and Tennessee—to examine the personal and political implications...
by Ira Katznelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The urban crisis of the 1960s revived a dormant social activism whose protagonists placed their hoped for radical change and political effectiveness in community action. Ironically, the insurgents chose the local community as their terrain for a political battle that in reality involved a few strictly...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Written by over 200 leading experts from over seventy countries, this handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the latest theory and research on volunteering, civic participation and nonprofit membership associations. The first handbook on the subject to be truly multinational...
Growing Up in Poverty
Findings from Young Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
This book presents the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study of children and poverty. It shows how the persistence of inequality amid general economic growth is leaving some extremely poor children behind, despite the promises of the Millennium Development Goals.
Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies
Globalization, Environment, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.
The Craft of Knowledge
Experiences of Living with Data
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from different disciplines have come together to explore what really matters to them in the process of doing qualitative research.
China's Economic Growth: Towards Sustainable Economic Development and Social Justice
Volume I: Domestic and International Economic Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present. The author investigates China's domestic and international policies, the impact of these policies on economic growth, and their effect on the quality of life for the people of China. In the first volume, the...
Reversing Population Growth Swiftly and Painlessly
A Simple Two-Credit System to Regulate Birth Rates and Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Population growth hastens the depletion of natural resources, degrades the environment, increases poverty and conflict, and debases the human spirit. This book offers an antidote. It prescribes a simple and practical credit-based system that can gradually reduce the size of any population to an optimal...
by D. C. Zook
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Although most people think first of politics when they think of diversity, history plays a surprisingly powerful and influential role in the creation of diversity as well. Identity is to a certain extent a narrative we tell about who we are and where we came from, and since diversity is primarily...
Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life
Pacific Traversals Online
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
In this ground-breaking study M.I. Franklin explores the form and substance of everyday life online from a critical postcolonial perspective. With Internet access and social media uses accelerating in the Global South, in-depth studies of just how non-western communities, at home and living abroad,...