Social Policy category: 9249 books
Yet a Stranger
Why Black Americans Still Don't Feel at Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2009
In a provocative examination of the state of race relations today, Deborah Mathis provides personal and sociological perspective on what it feels like for African Americans who continue to be segregated spiritually and emotionally from the rest of the country. Mathis airs mutual fears and suppositions...
International Perspectives on Suburbanization
A Post-Suburban World?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions across the world. This book examines the processes of post-suburbanization in international perspective, exploring how developments across the world might be considered post-suburban.
KARL MARX: MISÈRE DE LA PHILOSOPHIE
philosophie et économie
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Misère de la philosophie est une réponse à la philosophie de la misère de M. Proudhon est une œuvre de Karl Marx parue en juin 1847 à Bruxelles en son exil. Son titre constitue une reprise inversée de l'ouvrage de Proudhon, Philosophie de la misère....
by Jean Jaurès
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 4, 2012
11 Oeuvres de Jean Jaurès Homme politique français (1859-1914)
Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 11 Oeuvres de Jean Jaurès éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement...
by CA Reuben
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
This novel weaves contemporary mental fabric from off-the-hook thought involving our planet’s most intensely fragile ecological, economical, and technological eras. Insane social reality becomes apparent to a woman who lives for the mind, a man who lives for experience and a narrator confronting...
The Shadow of Unfairness
A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In this sequel to his prize-winning book, The Eyes of the People, Jeffrey Edward Green draws on philosophy, history, social science, and literature to ask what democracy can mean in a world where it is understood that socioeconomic status to some degree will always determine opportunities for civic...
by Eric Alterman
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
It is, as he writes in the preface, “an attempt to move beyond the day-to-day headlines that dominate our political debate. By placing Bill de Blasio’s words, and the actions of his administration, into a political, cultural, social, and intellectual context, we can see just how daunting the task...
Threads
From the Refugee Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
A heartbreaking, full-color graphic novel of the refugee drama
In the French port town of Calais, famous for its historic lace industry, a city within a city arose. This new town, known as the Jungle, was home to thousands of refugees, mainly from the Middle East and Africa, all hoping, somehow,...
Nobody
Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Named a Best Book of 2016 by Kirkus Reviews
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
Nautilus Award Winner
“A worthy and necessary addition to the contemporary canon of civil rights literature.” —New York Times
In this “thought-provoking and important” (Library Journal) analysis...
The Toughest Beat
Politics, Punishment, and the Prison Officers Union in California
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has exploded, 'law and order' interest groups have also grown -- in numbers and political clout. In The Toughest Beat, Joshua Page argues in crisp, vivid prose that the Golden State's prison boom fueled the rise...
Mr. Smith Goes to Prison
What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America's Prison Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The fall from politico to prisoner isn't necessarily long, but the landing, as Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith learned, is a hard one.
In 2009, Smith pleaded guilty to a seemingly minor charge of campaign malfeasance and earned himself a year and one day in Kentucky's FCI Manchester. Mr....
The Moral Geographies of Children, Young People and Food
Beyond Jamie's School Dinners
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book takes Jamie Oliver's campaign for better school meals as a starting point for thinking about morally charged concerns relating to young people's nutrition, health and well-being, parenting, and public health 'crises' such as obesity. The authors show how these debates are always about the moral project of the self.
This Immigrant Nation: Perspectives on an American Dilemma
Articles from The Nation 1868-the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
This unvarnished collection of articles traces evolving issues and provides a unique history of the long-running national immigration dilemma.
American immigration has been debated in the pages of The Nation almost since its founding in 1865. The magazine has generally come down on the inclusive...
Becoming a Citizen Activist
Stories, Strategies & Advice for Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
From post-inauguration rallies to #NoDAPL and the Black Lives Matter movement to the global Women’s March on Washington, the people are exercising their power through protest and community organizing in a way that hasn’t been seen in years. For those looking to organize for the first time or for...