Society and culture: general

Lisa Gay Nichols is the mom of a former difficult teen and learned the biggest lessons of her life, which she shares in Surviving Your Out-of-Control Teen.

Although water is nature's most important molecule; its regulation and management are among the most challenging public policy issues for any society.

10 Publishing Myths offers authors the chance to succeed in the publishing world by giving them practical tools they can use to succeed and dodge the myths of the industry.

This comprehensive guide brings together the diverse experiences of supervisors and supervisees following the music therapy career journey from the first training placement to an established and nuanced career.

Cristina's son was about to embark on gender-affirming care that would likely cause infertility, when she realised the need to support both her child and the adult he would become, and give him the right to have children of his own.

"e;A competent, thorough assessment from a veteran expert in the field.

Essays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: "e;Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book.

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 histories of enslavement and in Black womens history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality.

Liquor was essential to military culture as well as healthcare regimens in both the Union and Confederate armies.

In this book, Abby L.

While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict.

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

This book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South.

In this interdisciplinary work, Stacy J.

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination.

Romare Bearden (19111988), one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century,richly depictedscenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience.

Despite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth-century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan and the United States.

In this book, Amy K.

In the first book-length history of Puerto Rican civil rights in New York City, Sonia Lee traces the rise and fall of an uneasy coalition between Puerto Rican and African American activists from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Hemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.

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.

This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates todays best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influential and innovative practitioners from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

The volume studies, from different perspectives, the relationship between ancient thought and biopolitics, that is, theories, discourses, and practices in which the biological life of human populations becomes the focal point of political government.

The volume studies, from different perspectives, the relationship between ancient thought and biopolitics, that is, theories, discourses, and practices in which the biological life of human populations becomes the focal point of political government.

In histories of enslavement and in Black womens history, coercion looms large in any discussion of sex and sexuality.

Making Connections with Vulnerable Children and Families is the practical go-to resource for practitioners looking to build effective relationships and engage meaningfully with vulnerable children and their families.

Binding is a crucial strategy in many transgender and non-binary people's lives for coping with gender dysphoria, yet the vast majority of those who bind report some negative physical symptoms.

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how far we as a European society still are from the proclaimed Union of Equality.

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed how far we as a European society still are from the proclaimed Union of Equality.

'I know that living with a chronic illness in this inaccessible world is tough.

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.

Examining why society should pool and spread the financial risk that individual families now bear.

What racist rumors about Barack Obama tell us about the intractability of racism in American politics.

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.

Learn the craft of documentation for each step in the software development lifecycle, from understanding your users’ needs to publishing, measuring, and maintaining useful developer documentation.

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.

We are often told that social media well-being is simply the result of individual users making healthy digital choices.

Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Cultural Studies - Basics and Definitions, grade: 1 (A), University of Leeds (Department for Communication and Cultural Studies), course: Communication & Cultural Studies, language: English, abstract: After, what has been a `very long, uneven and complicated process and is currently called globalisation', world capitalism and the underlying system of sovereign states have become `the first historical system to include the entire globe within its geography'.

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

Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World takes a unique approach to the issue of gender equality in corporations in the 21st century.

Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World takes a unique approach to the issue of gender equality in corporations in the 21st century.