Social and ethical issues

Conflicting claims about culture are a familiar refrain of political life in the contemporary world.

Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.

A close look at the aftereffects of the Mount Laurel affordable housing decisionUnder the New Jersey State Constitution as interpreted by the State Supreme Court in 1975 and 1983, municipalities are required to use their zoning authority to create realistic opportunities for a fair share of affordable housing for low- and moderate-income households.

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Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries.

A provocative new approach to race in the workplaceWhat role should racial difference play in the American workplace?

The quotable Ai WeiweiThis collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life.

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine.

The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future.

In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death.

Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal.

This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race.

A groundbreaking exploration of how race in America is being redefinedThe American racial order-the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities-is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s.

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape.

Over the last several decades, employers have increasingly replaced permanent employees with temporary workers and independent contractors to cut labor costs and enhance flexibility.

Corporate CEOs are headline news.

A sweeping history of social theories about war and peace, from Hobbes to the twenty-first centuryThis book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present.

In the early twentieth century, a time of political fragmentation and social upheaval in China, poverty became the focus of an anguished national conversation about the future of the country.

What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate?

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil.

Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era.

Today the United States has one of the highest poverty rates among the world's rich industrial democracies.

In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.

More than any other advanced industrial democracy, the United States is besieged by firearms violence.

Why corporate stars often lose their luster after changing jobsIt is taken for granted in the knowledge economy that companies must employ the most talented performers to compete and succeed.

Unlike the 1930s, when the United States tragically failed to open its doors to Europeans fleeing Nazism, the country admitted over three million refugees during the Cold War.

Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed.

Cost-effective methods for improving crime control in AmericaSince the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults-a rate unprecedented in American history and unmatched anywhere in the world.

How America can achieve greater racial equality in the post-civil rights eraWith the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage.

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less.

Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West.

What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious?

What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats?

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade.

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms.

Die Geschichte der Pornographie reicht weit in die Vergangenheit zurück und spiegelt dabei die kulturellen, sozialen und technologischen Entwicklungen der Gesellschaft wider.

Today, in violence-torn regions across the globe, 20 million children have been uprooted, orphaned, or injured by war, famine, and poverty.

Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly BestsellerLearn success secrets from original remote work pioneers on the mindset and strategies they developed to build and grow successful organizations from the ground up.

This critical resource gives managers, HR, and anyone who may come into contact with someone in traumaincluding workplace violence, harassment, assault, illness, addiction, fraud, bankruptcy, and morethe tools they need to be prepared for what lies ahead.

Empower yourself with the knowledge to keep up with the rapidly changing technical world of work, as two workforce productivity and technology experts lay out a clear picture of the?

Highly skilled 10x talent brings at least 10 times the value to your organization.

Employers who don't adapt to the expectations of younger generations are losing top talent, as they leave for positions at companies with modern practices.

Mission Transition is an essential career-change guide for any transitioning veteran that wants to avoid false starts and make optimal career choices following active duty.

Culture transformation expert Siobhan McHale defines culture simply: ';It's how things work around here.

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Virtual work and teams have become normal in organizations around the world.

How can coaching and mentoring approaches be applied in individual, team and organizational contexts to increase performance?

This brand-new book from HRM expert and bestselling author, Michael Armstrong, is an ideal companion for those studying learning and development (L&D) at third year undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as practitioners in L&D roles in the workplace.

';Koa Beck writes with passion and insight about the knotted history of racism within women's movements and feminist culture, past and present.

The author of The Modern Girl's Guide to Life asks fifty experts, artists, business leaders, trendsetters, doctors, athletes, environmentalists, and intellectualsWhat will the next decade look like?