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Report copyright infringementby John Morris Gillette (Author)Culture Agencies Of A Typical Manufacturing Group: South Chicago (1901) is a book written by John Morris Gillette. It provides a comprehensive overview of the cultural agencies that were present in South Chicago during the early 20th century. The book focuses on the manufacturing industry in the area and how it affected the cultural landscape of the community. Gillette explores various cultural institutions such as museums, librarie...

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Report copyright infringementby Augustus Mongredien (Author), Simon Sterne (Introduction by)Wealth Creation is a book authored by Augustus Mongredien that provides insights into the principles and strategies of creating wealth. The book covers a wide range of topics related to personal finance, including investment, savings, debt management, and budgeting. Mongredien's approach is practical and easy to understand, making it accessible to readers of all levels of financial literacy. The book a...

Poverty In Plenty - The Ethics of Income: With an Introductory Chapter From Problems of Poverty

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Report copyright infringementby John Atkinson Hobson (Author)"Poverty In Plenty - The Ethics of Income" is a 1931 essay by English social scientist and economist John Atkinson Hobson. Within it, Hobson analyses financial distribution during the early years of Twentieth Century Britain, exploring the important moral questions related to the necessary economic reforms of the period. Hobson argues that under-consumption, over-production, and unemployment are the result of unfair distribution of ...

Always Turned on: Sex Addiction in the Digital Age - Paperback

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by Robert Weiss (Author), Jennifer P. Schneider (Author)Technology has significantly changed our world. Sexual imagery and encounters can now be accessed anywhere, anytime, using portable electronic devices. Users can generate a stream of graphic pornography, a wide variety of virtual sexual activities, and casual, anonymous, or paid-for sexual encounters with a click or a tap. Simply put, we have greater access to highly stimulating sexual content, and potential sexual partners, with much le...

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Report copyright infringementby E. B. Drew (Author)Native Customs Trade Returns, Nos. 1-3 (1904) is a book written by E. B. Drew that provides a comprehensive analysis of the customs trade returns of native populations in the year 1904. The book is divided into three sections, each of which covers a different aspect of native customs trade. The first section provides an overview of the trade returns and highlights the major trends and patterns that emerged during the year. The second section ...

The Social System: A Treatise On The Principle Of Exchange (1831)

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Report copyright infringementby John Gray (Author)The Social System: A Treatise On The Principle Of Exchange is a book written by John Gray in 1831. The book focuses on the principle of exchange as a fundamental aspect of human social systems. Gray argues that exchange is the basis of all social interactions, from economic transactions to personal relationships. He explores the ways in which exchange shapes social hierarchies and power dynamics, and how it can be used to promote social justic...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward William Brabrook (Author)Building Societies is a book written by Edward William Brabrook and originally published in 1906. This book is a detailed examination of the history and development of building societies in the United Kingdom. Brabrook explores the unique features of these societies, including their role in enabling working-class people to own their own homes. He also discusses the legal and financial aspects of building societies, including thei...

The Professor and the Plumber: Conversations About Equality and Inequality

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Report copyright infringementby Eric W. Sager (Author), Hanna Melin (Illustrator)Two cousins meet for dinner. Who are they? Why is a plumber arguing with a professor? They begin to discuss one of the great problems of our time - inequality. Can they find solutions? Can they agree on the meaning of equality? Follow their conversation to its powerful conclusion. Number of Pages: 162 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 06, 2021

The Metaphysical Relation Between Person and Liberty: and Its Application to Historical Liberalism and Totalitarianism

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Report copyright infringementby Rudolf John 1910- Harvey (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is i...

Disability, Health and Human Development

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Report copyright infringementby Sophie Mitra (Created by)This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen's capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally comparable questions on disability for Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. It presents evidence on the prevalence of disability and its strong and consistent association with multidimensional poverty, mortality, economi...

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Report copyright infringementby Hernán Santa Cruz (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is imp...

Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future - Hardcover

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by Jason Stanley (Author)"I've never read a book that is as timely, urgent and essential as this one. A battle plan for keeping this nation from falling into fascism." --Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right's efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class. The human race finds itself again under threat of a rising global fasci...

Encounter on the Seine: Essays - Hardcover

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by James Baldwin (Author)"James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harlem, to sing it on the Left Bank in Paris. . . . He was a giant." -- Maya Angelou This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, delving into his years in France and Switzerland Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays, "Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown," "A Question of Identity," "Equal in Paris," and "Stranger i...

Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm - Paperback

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by Robin Diangelo (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressives cause the most daily harm to...

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - Paperback

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by David Graeber (Author), David Wengrow (Author)INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the origins of the state, democracy, and inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlik...

The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service - Paperback

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by Laura Kaplan (Author)The powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compelling testament to a woman's most essential freedom--control over her own body--and to the power of women helping women. - Also the subject of the acclaimed HBO documentary The Janes. The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of the Abortion Counseling Service, code name Jan...

Poverty As My Teacher: Learning to Create Sustainable Family Communities

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Report copyright infringementby Robert E. Miller (Author), Michael Hamers (Cover Design by), Daniel Raphael (Foreword by)Poverty As My Teacher describes the birth of the initiative: Leading the Way Out of Global Poverty(R) with Sustainable Family Communities(R) which are designed with the economic and social/cultural factors necessary to be repeatable, sustainable and scalable. This is an initiative that can truly eradicate poverty, one Community at a time, as opposed to what most projects do...

Funding Sources for Community and Economic Development

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Report copyright infringementby Ed S. Louis S. Schafer (Editor)This essential guide offers countless tips and resources that citizen groups, government agencies, non-profits, community foundations and trusts, and individuals can access for grants. Number of Pages: 1182 Dimensions: 2.31 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: August 01, 2011

The Revolution Will Be Improvised: Critical Conversations On Our Changing World

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Report copyright infringementby Mike Freedman (Author), David Cromwell (Introduction by), David Edwards (Introduction by)Filmmaker and writer Mike Freedman speaks with a range of experts from a variety of backgrounds about what the future has in store for humanity.Post-growth economics, sustainability, water privatisation, rejuvenation biotechnology, cyber-security and the war on drugs are some of the topics covered, featuring new insights from diverse thinkers including Richard Heinberg, Der...

An Investigation of the Theory of the Commodity and Its Application to Critical Media Studies

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey R. Young (Author)The theory of the commodity is used by critical theorists to explain the general organization and development of capitalist society. It was originally proposed by Marx, and subsequently developed by Lukacs and later Adorno and the Frankfurt School. Media scholars such as Dallas Smythe, Judith Williamson, Robert Goldman and Eileen Meehan have identified the commodity structure in several forms throughout the process of mass communication...

Sex Discrimination in the Legal Profession

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard F. Lentz (Author), David N. Laband (Author)The results of this extremely data-rich study reveal that women attorneys are victimized by less obvious forms of discrimination. Based on results of surveys conducted by the ABA in 1984 and 1990, this work challenges the notion that legislation outlawing discrimination actually works. Setting controls for a whole host of individual, firm, and locational characteristics, the study determined that although hourl...

Regulatory Interventionism in the Utility Industry: Fairness, Efficiency, and the Pursuit of Energy Conservation

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara R. Barkovich (Author)During the 1970s and early 1980s utility regulators moved from largely unintrusive regulatory practices towards more aggressive and intrusive strategies. This study explores the reasons for the change and examines the trade-offs involved between seeking fairness to customers and efficiency of operations as primary goals of regulatory policies. An extended case study of the California Public Utilities Commission's conservation polici...

Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Sutherland (Author)Globalization theorists predict that the forces of globalization will divide the countries of the world into a few winners and many losers. This book challenges that idea and suggests that the very margins of the global world system--where the construction of local relations and group identities within a deterritorialized, transnational political economy allows for a creative postmodernism--may become the areas of the most creative cultu...

Applied Anthropology: An Introduction-- Third Edition

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Report copyright infringementby John Van Willigen (Author)Applied Anthropology: An Introduction (3rd edition) is a text focused on the use of the methods and theories of anthropology to solve the practical problems of human communities. It addresses a wide range of problem-solving practices in two large categories: development and research. The development-focused chapters include action research/participatory action research, cultural action, collaborative research, cultural brokerage, and s...

Of Moses and Marx: Folk Ideology and Folk History in the Jewish Labor Movement

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Report copyright infringementby David P. Shuldiner (Author), Paul Buhle (Foreword by)The Jewish Labor Movement was a radical subculture that flourished within the trade union and political movements in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. Jewish immigrant activists--socialists, communists, anarchists, and labor Zionists--adapted aspects of the traditions with which they were raised in order to express the politics of social transformation. In doing so, they created a ...

Class, Power and Austerity: The New York City Fiscal Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Lichten (Author)The athor views the fiscal crisis as both a product and the process of class struggle. . . . Interview data and documents are combined to present a useful and interesting counter-perspective sensitive to the contingencies of struggle. Choice Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: March 30, 1986

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Report copyright infringementby James H. Schulz (Author)Still the definitive book on the subject, this volume has been thoroughly revised to cover rapidly changing aspects of the economics of aging. It provides an in-depth examination of the nation's evolving private and public policies on retirement, pension, and health, including, for instance, the dramatic changes in employer-sponsored pensions. New attention is given to the retirement of baby boomers and the financial situation of older w...

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Report copyright infringementby Cynthia M. Duncan (Author), Cynthia M. Duncan (Other)Nine million people in the United States live in rural poverty. This large segment of the population has generally been overlooked even as considerable attention, and social conscience, is directed to the alleviation of urban poverty. This timely, needed volume focuses on poor, rural people in poor, rural settings. Rural poverty is not confined to one section of the country or to one ethnic group. It is a nat...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles B. Hennon (Editor), Suzanne Loker (Editor), Rosemary Walker (Editor)Gender often influences the type of occupation that individuals choose, as well as the way they work and the outcomes of that work. Home-based employment is no different. The proximity of these workers to their families' living activities provides an unique opportunity to study the effects of work-at-home on family interaction and the role that gender plays in this traditionally female-...

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Report copyright infringementby Dorienne Rowan-Campbell (Author)These papers taken from the journal Development in Practice cover topics as diverse as mainstreaming versus specialization, methodologies for introducing gender analysis into planning and evaluation, limitations of gender training and how institutional policies to promote gender enquiry can be tacitly undermined by patriarchal interests. Number of Pages: 212 Dimensions: 0.54 x 8.51 x 5.47 IN ...

Challenges to Social Security: An International Exploration

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Report copyright infringementby James B. Midgley (Editor), Martin B. Tracy (Editor)Social security systems throughout the world are faced with unprecedented challenges in response to growing criticisms about unacceptable expenditures for government programs and questions about the appropriate role of government in providing social protection through social insurance and social assistance programs. The challenges are also a result of dramatic demographic, social, and cultural changes around th...

Imperial Revenue, Expenditure and Monetary Policy in the Fourth Century A.D.: The Fifth Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History

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Report copyright infringementby C. E. King (Editor) Number of Pages: 290 Dimensions: 0.79 x 11.69 x 8.27 IN Publication Date: June 01, 1980