Society and culture: general

States have tremendous power to protect their residents' health.

Rights of Nature laws are becoming a vital tool for addressing environmental injustice.

It's Monday morning and your editor assigns you a story about a housing project where several residents have been hospitalized because of heat stroke.

Best Books of 2024: Frerick's prose throughout is both direct and masterfully controlled, with every point supported by extensive references and notes.

Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation.

Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults generally speaking, people 65 or older.

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violenceand a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it.

How do you experience a public space?

Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation.

One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license.

In the US, police conduct millions of traffic stops for reasons unrelated to safety.

Consider your surroundings.

"e;The Draftsman Chronicles"e; are excerpts about what it is like to accept a "e; call"e; from God as what it is like with Denominational calls in the Seventh-day Adventist church within the Philippine archipelago.

What do you confess to a screen when you think nobody is watching?

This analytical study explores the calculated rise of Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, dissecting his 25 year journey through the lens of strategic conflict and narrative dominance.

Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been ';more, more, more' in terms of growth of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods.

Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been ';more, more, more' in terms of growth of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods.

Das Buch beschreibt anhand der Geschichte Changos, wie kompliziert der Umgang zwischen Staat, Institutionen, Basisbüros, Polizei, Sozialarbeit, Arbeitsamt, Gerichtsbarkeit und Individuum ist.

What happens when the cameras meant to capture your dreams instead expose your darkest intentions?

A poignant and moving story about reclaiming language and the enduring power of love, told though the eyes of a little girl on a quest to learn her grandfather's hidden first language.

Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it.

When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties.

America is facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation, with troubling effects on our mental and physical health.

Around the world, more than a hundred million dogs live without homes.

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violenceand a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century laterPolice Against the Movement shatters one of the most pernicious myths about the 1960s: that the civil rights movement endured police violence without fighting it.

Mr BaloyiTruth By Last EldersWhat happens when the last keepers of wisdom begin to disappear?

Rights of Nature laws are becoming a vital tool for addressing environmental injustice.

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer.

For more than fifty years, we have been waging, but not winning, the war on cancer.

Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely.

Consider your surroundings.

One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license.

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world.

Few places are more notorious for civil rightsera violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the 1964 Mississippi Burning murders.

Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely.

In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse.

At turns lyrical, ironic, and sympathetic, Mario Filhos chronicle of the beautiful game is a classic of Brazilian sports writing.

Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American Protestant mainline churches approach to race.

In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women.

Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities.

When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties.

A Child-Centred New World Order: People Power for Justice, Inclusion, and Equity presents a compelling vision for a more just and peaceful world—one built around the rights, dignity, and well-being of children.

Human beings do not begin life with a blank slate.

For too long, Native American people in the United States have been stereotyped as vestiges of the past, invisible citizens in their own land obliged to remind others, ';We are still here!

In the US, police conduct millions of traffic stops for reasons unrelated to safety.

Un exhaustivo estudio de los más de cien años de cine, desde las grandes producciones a las películas más desconocidas.

Homelessness is not just a social problem.

Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.

What if your rock bottom was actually the foundation for the life you were always meant to build?