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Running on Hope: Female Community Health Labor in Rajasthan, India

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by Svea Closser (Author)This book is freely available in an open-access edition thanks to the generous support of Johns Hopkins University. Throughout India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) visit households in their communities to deliver essential health services and link community members with key health benefits. Like many other female Community Health Workers across the world, ASHAs are often portrayed as virtuous, passive volunteers, selflessly providing services to their nei...

For This I Survived?: Children of Survivors Beyond the Trauma

$33.75

by Bruria Lindenberg Cooperman (Author)Early studies in the sixties on Holocaust Survivors portrayed men and women who were so consumed and paralyzed by the ghosts of the past, they were unable to function. The literature also found that their children were greatly affected by the weight of their parents grief. However, interviews conducted with children of Survivors for a thesis in 2002, showed a different picture from the accepted psychology. These stories told of parents determined to give...

Clawing Back: Redistribution in Precarious Times

$42.75

by Deborah James (Author)The impulse to redistribute wealth is said to be a tool to counter inequalities, applied by the state or society to curb the worst excesses of capitalist exploitation and free trade. In settings where previous political regimes are reformed, or toppled and replaced by new ones, redistribution can also be a policy specifically oriented at redress, one exercised at the formal level of policy. Drawing on a comparative ethnography in South Africa and the United Kingdom, C...

$23.02

by Henry George (Author)In Progress and Poverty, Henry George confronts the paradox of rising wealth alongside deepening poverty. With clarity and passion, he proposes a bold remedy: the single tax on land. This influential work ignited a global movement and remains a powerful call for economic justice and reform. Number of Pages: 326 Dimensions: 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 23, 2025

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Culture and Diversity in the United States: So Many Ways to Be American

$84.22

by Jack David Eller (Author)This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography. It also considers the intersections between and the diversities within these categories.Author BiographyJack David Eller is a cultural anthropologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology with Woxsen University in Hyderabad, India. His research interes...

$179.91

by Svea Closser (Author), Surendra Singh Shekhawat (Author)This book is freely available in an open-access edition thanks to the generous support of Johns Hopkins University. Throughout India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) visit households in their communities to deliver essential health services and link community members with key health benefits. Like many other female Community Health Workers across the world, ASHAs are often portrayed as virtuous, passive volunteers, selfless...

$68.31

by Heather Walters (Author)Understanding the Ethical Concerns of Generative AI: A Practical Guide is designed to help readers navigate a world increasingly shaped by generative AI technologies. The text prepares readers to confront issues such as bias, sustainability, transparency, and privacy as these technologies become more ubiquitous in daily life. Emphasis is placed on developing a theoretical foundation for ethical behavior and understanding the new ethical concerns that emerge from the...

Fair Data Fair Africa Fair World: Internationalisation of the Health Data Space

$93.60

by Mirjam Van Reisen (Editor), Samson Yohannes Amare (Editor), Lauren Maxwell (Editor)FAIR Data FAIR Africa FAIR World: The Internationalisation of the Health Data Space is a pivotal work that highlights the transformative power of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data principles in global health. Focusing on Africa, it explores how inclusive data governance and digital cooperation can drive equity, innovation, and resilience in healthcare systems. The book underscores the...

Welcome, Friends: Stories of hope and hospitality with immigrants

$12.04

by Anton Flores-Maisonet (Author)WELCOME, FRIENDS is a book shaped by open doors, shared meals, late-night tears, and the unshakable belief that love crosses borders. In these pages, Anton Flores-Maisonet weaves powerful stories of welcoming immigrants-from the grief-soaked silence of detention centers and immigration courts to the everyday grace of a welcome table set for strangers who become friends. With the clarity of a social worker, the tenderness of a father, and the conviction of a fa...

African Agriculture and the World Bank. Development or Impoverishment?

$20.16

by Kjell Havnevik (Editor), Deborah Bryceson (Editor), Prosper Matondi (Editor)African smallholder family farming, the backbone of the continental economy throughout the colonial and early post-colonial period, has been destabilized and eroded over the past thirty years. Despite the World Bank's poverty alleviation concerns, agrarian livelihoods continue to unravel under the impact of economic liberalization and global value chains. Can African smallholders bounce back and compete? The World ...

Eve, Our Mythic Mother: Exposing the Lies of Patriarchy

$28.76

by Patricia Lynn Reilly (Author), Cissie Watson (Cover Design by)Eve the Mother of All Living was demoted by men to become the queen-pin of patriarchy's assault on womankind. Patriarchy could not justify its existence without a story that "proved" women's inferiority and gullibility, so it co-opted Eve. In Eve Our Mythic Mother, Patricia Lynn Reilly reclaims Eve's truth for all of us by exposing the lies of patriarchy. Claiming theological and intellectual authority, she dismantles the patria...

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