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Today people more than ever are overwhelmed by worry about current events. Why are some people devoured by hatred and bigotry? Can we avoid the next economic crisis? Can we prevent the next global war? Will computers take over our civilization any time soon? Even though Vertical Progress does not have all answers, it provides readers with plenty of new ideas to open the debate. Vertical Progress offers a hypothesis and rationale that provides not...
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State Phobia and Civil Society draws extensively upon the work of Michel Foucault to argue for the necessity of the concept of the state in political and social analysis. In so doing, it takes on not only the dominant view in the human sciences that the concept of the state is outmoded, but also the large interpretative literature on Foucault, which claims that he displaces the state for a de-centered analytics of power. Understanding Foucault means...
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From broadsheet newspapers to television shows and Hollywood films, capitalism is increasingly recognised as a system detrimental to human existence. Colin Cremin investigates why, despite this de-robing, capitalism remains a powerful and seductive force.
Using materialist, psychoanalytic and linguistic approaches, Cremin shows how capitalism, anxiety and desire enter into a mutually supporting relationship. He identifies three ways in which...
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Con motivo del 50.º aniversario de la implantación de los estudios de Sociología en la Facultat d'Economia de la Universitat de València, se llevaron a cabo diversas actividades para ahondar en el conocimiento de la institucionalización de esta como disciplina científica y como profesión. Uno de los principales actos fue la conferencia impartida por Manuel Pérez Yruela, cuyo contenido, ampliado, es el texto sobre el que se articula este libro,...
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South End Community Development Inc. was a new idea when Whittlesey accepted its directorship. He worked with the United South End Settlements staff on a successful proposal to rehabilitate South End houses in one of Boston's urban renewal areas. They received a grant from the Us Federal Housing and Home Agencies for $205,000 matched with a contribution of $50,000 from the United South End Settlements and $75,000 from the Committee of the Permanent...
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James L. Nolan, Jr., is Assiociate Professor of Sociology at Williams College. He is the author of The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End and the editor of Drug Courts: Theory and Practice.
Drug courts offer radically new ways to deal with the legal and social problems presented by repeat drug offenders, often dismissing criminal charges as an incentive for participation in therapeutic programs. Since the first drug court...
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"Winner of the George Terry Award" United States Army LTC Scott A. Snook serves as an Academy Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences & Leadership at the United States Military Academy. He also directs West Point's Center for Leadership and Organizations Research.
On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Air Force F-15 fighters accidentally shot down two U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopters over Northern Iraq, killing all twenty-six peacekeepers onboard....
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"A mediados de los años cincuenta se empieza a observar la proliferación de las llamadas urbanizaciones piratas y las invasiones de terrenos en Bogotá. En un primer momento, la respuesta desde el Estado se centró en su erradicación, pero luego dio paso a los programas de legalización y regularización de asentamientos informales. Una de las organizaciones más importantes en materia de apoyo a la población "destechada" en Colombia ha sido la...
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Praise for Measuring Sky Without Ground No one can write as you do without it being forged in the bliss of Her divine fire, no one comes to Her knowledge without being prepared to offer themselves in the flames... only they know the passion of this surrender! Beautiful poet, i salute you, for you are doing the work, the great work of preparing the vessel so She may flow through... oh how i too ardently long for there to be nothing left of me but the...
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La migración internacional es una de las problemáticas sociales más apremiantes de la actualidad. Requiere de la mirada y el análisis de los especialistas para ser comprendida en toda su complejidad. Migración en el nuevo milenio, la India y México, expone las causas, características y evolución de los flujos migratorios en los últimos treinta años. Realiza un estudio comparativo de los casos de México y la India, países que comparten...
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En esta obra se analizan varios procesos de educación, acción colectiva, inclusión social, territorio, memoria e identidad, como resultado de los proyectos de investigación- intervención desarrollados por docentes y estudiantes de la Facultad de Sociología de la Universidad Santo Tomás. Gracias a la articulación con diferentes sectores sociales y comunidades, principalmente madres, lideresas comunitarias, adultos mayores, campesinos, niños,...
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Puede que Ulises triunfara sobre las sirenas, pero las sirenas han conquistado nuestra imaginación: desde su primera aparición ha estado en la mente de poetas, pintores, exploradores y románticos empedernidos. Esta es la historia de la vida de las sirenas a través de los siglos, de cómo nacieron siendo malvadas mujer-pájaro, y las múltiples formas, prestigios y hechizos que las rodearon hasta llegar al siglo XXI convertidas en seductoras mujer-pez.
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Zygmunt Bauman was a towering intellectual who saw and analyzed, right up to his death in early 2017, the great socio-political changes, often convulsive, in modern western society long before his peers. Here we highlight his prescient insights into what he dubbed 'liquid modernity' with 24 chapters on topics ranging from online loneliness via precarity/poverty/inequality to migration, fear of the 'Other' and the decline of the nation state. Chronicle...
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#1 In 2014, Sharnalle Mitchell was arrested and brought to court because she owed the city of Montgomery money for traffic tickets. The judge ordered her to pay or stay in jail. She decided to stay in jail to protect her children.
#2 There are 2. 2 million people confined in prison and jail cells in the United States today. About 500,000 of those people are presumptively...
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The fact that a journalist of the written press, an editor for more than thirty years, suddenly starts writing with pictures, taking photos, can only mean two things: either he is gone mad or the world has been so reversed that it is not recognizable anymore.
Jordi Panyella (Barcelona, 1966) is still writing in the newspaper El Punt Avui, as he always has, but the world has now changed radically. And specially in his city, following the brutal impact...
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For 150 years, up and down the country, from large cities to rural areas and the remotest islands and highlands, district nurses have been visiting the sick in their own homes. Here they have provided healthcare, and given moral support and advice to people of all ages the length and breadth of Britain.
Follow the story of how, in the 1860s, the Liverpool philanthropist William Rathbone VI set up an experiment in home nursing in his home city, aimed...
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Les innovations sociales, à la manière de bougies d'allumage, engendrent des actions collectives qui proposent des solutions différentes de celles des pratiques dominantes en mettant l'économie au service des personnes et de la société. Or la simple multiplication des innovations sociales ne peut générer la transformation sociale à elle seule. La mise en relation des mouvements sociaux et de leur visée émancipatoire est nécessaire pour...
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This book is a compendium of commentaries on twelve contentious topics that intersect in a perplexing social matrix. These are complex issues that impact directly on the lives of all Australians in the 21st century. Each essay attempts to unravel the complex array of those interactions into a common-sense blueprint of their interactive nature and their inevitable influence on every citizen. This book is a compendium of twelve essays that offer perspicacious...
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#1 The definition of testosterone is a hormone made in the testes that stimulates the development of male sex organs, secondary sexual traits, and sperm. However, this definition is misleading, because it makes it seem like T is only made by male bodies for male traits.
#2 The importance of context is crucial when discussing the singularity of T. T is a multiplicity...
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Alex Sangha has an impressively broad range of knowledge on issues that affect the world, and challenges problems that most people have come to accept. Sangha doesn't just point out the troubles in this world, but thinks of bold solutions for them. - Jenny Uechi, Managing Editor, Vancouver Observer Alex Sangha has produced a critical, yet positive, book that covers a range of topics, from environmental conservation to reconciling religion and sexuality...
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