Social and ethical issues

People with disabilities are among the most adversely affected during conflict situations or when natural disasters strike.

Ehrenamtliche und Fachkräfte in der Flüchtlingshilfe sind zahlreichen Belastungen ausgesetzt.

This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland.

Unsere Lebens- und Arbeitswelt befindet sich in einem radikalen Umbruch.

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For those who want to understand the challenges facing Black Americans as they fought for equality of education, Racial Discrimination against Black Teachers and Black Professionals offers an intimate look at the struggles within one urban school district.

The relationship between sport, medicine and health in our society is becoming increasingly complex.

Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada examines the changing contours of inequality and social justice in contemporary Canada.

Drugs in Society: Causes, Concepts, and Control, Eighth Edition, focuses on the many critical areas of America's drug problem, providing a foundation for rational decision-making within this complex and multidisciplinary field.

Ausgehend von den Dokumentarfilmen »Havarie« (Philip Scheffner, 2016) und »Purple Sea« (Amel Alzakout mit Khaled Abdulwahed, 2020) sowie journalistischem und literarischem Material protokolliert die Autorin Formen der Wassergewalt und entwickelt ein Denken des Flüssigen entlang des EUropäischen Grenzregimes.

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.

Pablo Abeita is the first biography of Pablo Abeita, a man considered the most important Native leader in the Southwest in his day.

Teamfähigkeit und Sozialkompetenz sind grundlegende Werte, die Einsatzkräfte von Feuerwehren und anderen Hilfsorganisationen erfüllen sollten.

WINNER OF 2024 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING'It raises the standard of nature writing.

Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of 'parenting'.

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI CHILDREN'S & YA BOOK PRIZE'An essential guide' LIZZIE HUXLEY-JONES'This book is perfect' WENN LAWSON'One of the most important books in autism literature' CHARLOTTE AMELIA POE'Wonderfully diverse and vibrant' FOX FISHERIn this empowering and honest guide for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens, Erin Ekins gives you all the tools you need to figure out and explore your gender identity and sexuality.

Late at night around the campfires, Seminole children safely tucked into mosquito nets used to listen to the elders retelling the old stories and legends.

This book is geared toward all ages and gives step-by-step instructions on scores of crafts and outdoor skills cultivated by various Native American tribes over the centuries.

Available in paperback for the first time, this milestone work offers an in-depth treatment of all aspects of the discipline and practice of social policy globally.

There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications.

Child sexual abuse is a global problem that negatively affects many women and girls.

Memory is seldom explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations.

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century, the English Old Poor Law was waning, soon to be replaced by the New Poor Law and its dreaded workhouses.

This book examines the inclusiveness of city planning and design to address gaps in policies, strategies and design guidelines for developing trans-generational urban communities in India.

Most labor and migration studies classify migrants with limited formal education or credentials as "e;unskilled.

A number of arguments have been made to explain the relative weakness of the American Left.

In the generations after emancipation, hundreds of thousands of African-descended working-class men and women left their homes in the British Caribbean to seek opportunity abroad: in the goldfields of Venezuela and the cane fields of Cuba, the canal construction in Panama, and the bustling city streets of Brooklyn.

This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour.

Das Standardwerk in überarbeiteter Neuausgabe - mit einem aktuellen Nachwort der Autorin: Wie sprechen wir über Vergewaltigung und welche Konzepte und Diskurse liegen dem zugrunde?

Sibling sexual abuse is considered to be one of the most common forms of child sexual abuse within the family setting, yet it is often ignored, downplayed or denied in spite the impact on survivors.

Librarians around the country are currently on a battleground, defending their right to purchase and circulate books dealing with issues of race and systemic racism.

Stem Cells: Promises and Reality will tell you everything you have always wanted to know about stem cells, but could not understand the field from elsewhere.

Philosophy of Psychology: Contemporary Readings is a comprehensive anthology that includes classic and contemporary readings from leading philosophers.

How can a deep engagement with disability studies change our understanding of sociology, literary studies, gender studies, aesthetics, bioethics, social work, law, education, or history?

The untold story, in their own words, of the contributions of Soviet and post-Soviet immigrants to the US innovation economy.

The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality.

Right after the Gezi Resistance, a new tendency of authoritarianism rapidly emerged in Turkey and AKP government started targeting anyone it perceives as a threat to its rule, especially academics, journalists, politicians, actors, directors, i.

A groundbreaking volume from leading scholars exploring disability studies using a political theory approach.

Focusing contemporary democratic theory on the neglected topic of punishment, Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury argues for increased civic engagement in criminal justice as an antidote to the American penal state.

For American children raised exclusively in wartime-that is, a Cold War containing monolithic communism turned hot in the jungles of Southeast Asia-and the first to grow up with televised combat, Vietnam was predominately a mediated experience.

When she turned ninety, my mother sprang a final surprise on us.

Leaving his abusive Irish boarding school after eight long years, Patrick Touher thought his troubles were over.

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How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticized role of Indians in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production?

Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices.

Nordic welfare states are known for a unique combination of equity and efficiency and for political institutions facilitating compromise and consensus between conflicting interests.

After hearing the words no one wants to hear--"e;you have cancer"e;--Jim Burns set out to articulate the most important principles for a life well lived and now shares them with you as a collection of essential truths for a healthy, balanced, and successful life.

What do human beings do when they work, how is work organized, and what are its multidimensional - economic, social, political, biographical, ecological - effects?