Social and ethical issues

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In this fascinating study of race, politics, and economics in Mississippi, Chris Myers Asch tells the story of two extraordinary personalities--Fannie Lou Hamer and James O.

A sweeping account of Southern political economy in the New Deal era.

This book examines 21st-century South African autobiographical writing that addresses the nation's socio-political realities, both past and present.

This book explores the intersection between healthcare delivery and national economic health, using Nigeria as case study and window into the world.

This book focuses on how group-based microcredit programs in India facilitate women''s empowerment through the mechanism of group participation and networking.

In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress "e;ended welfare as we know it"e; and trumpeted "e;workfare"e; as a dramatic break from the past.

The Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry: A Paradigm for Integrated Care is the first book to provide insight into the interface between the psychiatric, medical, and social dimensions of HIV and AIDS and the need for a compassionate, integrated approach to the HIV pandemic with an emphasis on humanizing and destigmatizing HIV.

Spanning almost a century of penal policy and practice in England and Wales, this book is a study of the long arc of the rehabilitative ideal, beginning in 1895, the year of the Gladstone Committee on Prisons, and ending in 1970, when the policy of treating and training criminals was very much on the defensive.

Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions revises some of the major perspectives in victimization theory, applies theoretical perspectives to the victimization of vulnerable populations, and carves out new theoretical territory that is clearly needed but has yet to be developed.

Values such as ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ are unquestioned in the contemporary educational landscape.

Die enorme Anzahl der Menschen, die auf der Flucht vor Verfolgung, Bürgerkrieg und sozialem Elend in Europa Schutz suchen, wird zur Herausforderung für den Zusammenhalt des Kontinents und für die politische Stabilität Deutschlands.

This book of specially commissioned essays by distinguished housing scholars addresses the big issues in contemporary debates about housing and housing policy in the UK.

Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice.

Originally published in 1979.

Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?

Earthquakes are a huge global threat.

This is the first major book to explore uniquely Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and specifically Oneida, components in the Native American oral narrative as it existed around 1900.

Eine mitreißende Biografie über Martin Luther King von Alois Prinz.

What can diversity management offer those concerned with ethnic inequality, racial discrimination, and issues of social and economic inclusion and exclusion?

Using international case study material, this book examines how ideas of visionary leadership have been developed and discusses their applicability to the public sector.

Perspectives in Social Work was originally published in 1977 and provides a text for social workers in training to use.

Drawing together multidisciplinary research exploring everyday life in Europe during times of economic crisis, this book explores the ways in which austerity policies are lived and experienced - often alongside other significant social, political and personal change.

Spatial planning is at a crossroads, with government reform undermining the traditional vision of state-employed planners making decisions about urban development in a unified public interest.

This book critically examines the colonial dimensions of restorative justice through the lens of justice policy reform in Jamaica.

This book is open access and available on www.

Is white privilege real?

First published in 1988, Alcoholism Etiology and Treatment provides a stimulating discussion concerning an understanding of the etiology and treatment of alcoholism.

Ein rastloser, wortgewandter Autor und ein origineller DenkerDie Weltlage ist zum Verzweifeln.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

The coronavirus has rattled humanity, tested resolve and determination, and redefined normalcy.

Beyond the Horizon is the heart-wrenching debut novel by award-winning author Ammo Darko, telling the tale of a young Ghanaian woman tricked into a life of exploitation by her husband.

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd.

Selvaratnam very bravely and compellingly uses her personal experience to shine a light on the global crisis of violence against women.

This go-to resource on substance abuse supplies the broad background knowledge and historical information needed to understand this important sociological issue and provides readers with a range of additional sources for continuing their study of the topic.

Most discussions of health care center on medical advances, cost, and the roles of insurers and government agencies.

This collection represents the first sustained attempt to grapple with the complex and often paradoxical relationships between surveillance and democracy.

An innovative, interdisciplinary anthology arguing that we are unable to fully understand slavery - then and now - without attending to children''s roles in slavery''s machinations.

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn.

First published in 1978, The Working Class in Welfare Capitalism looks at the position of the working class in the Swedish pattern of welfare capitalism and compares it with other capitalist industrial countries.

This book critically confronts perceptions that social media has become a 'wasteland' for young people.

Die Zukunft von Mensch und MaschineIm neuen Buch des renommierten Zukunftsforschers und Technologie-Visionärs Ray Kurzweil wird eine faszinierende Vision der kommenden Jahre und Jahrzehnte entworfen – eine Welt, die von KI durchdrungen sein wird.

Aggressive and violent patients are an increasing concern for mental health professionals.

With large numbers of people migrating to other countries after World War II, a substantial amount of scholarship has focused on the status, problems, and successes of women immigrants since 1945.

Get the latest research on the processes underlying the long term effects of psychological and emotional abuse The effects of the emotional abuse of children are not necessarily seen immediately.

This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable sector of the global migrant community - women.

Black males face several active and inactive discriminations across society.