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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

Television and Nuclear Power: Making the Public Mind

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Report copyright infringementby Mallory Wober (Author), J. M. Wober (Other)This book is about how television may have helped its audience to know about nuclear fission. The contributors examine how television has tried to bring its viewers to consider something of the realities of nuclear war; and how television news and current affairs or in-depth analysis programs have tried to get across a grasp of some of the consequences of nuclear power. The studies contained in this volume will contrib...

The Iron Barons: A Social Analysis of an American Urban Elite, 1874-1965

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Report copyright infringementby John N. Ingham (Author), Unknown (Author)Tracing the rise of hundreds of men and families to positions of wealth and power in the rapidly expanding iron and steel industry of the late 19th century, Ingham examines the manner in which these families consolidated and improved their social positions during the 20th century, even though the original source of their wealth and power had slipped from their grasp. Number of Pages: 264 Dimensi...

Twenty Years of Public Housing: Economic Aspects of the Federal Program

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Moore Fisher (Author), Nancy Fisher (Author), Unknown (Author) Number of Pages: 303 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 10, 1975

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Report copyright infringementby Jib Fowles (Author), Robert Brent Fowles (Author), Unknown (Author)Author Biographywles /f Jib les /f Robert /i Brent Number of Pages: 822 Dimensions: 1.75 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: June 14, 1978

Personal Savings, Consumption and Tax Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Marvin H. Kosters (Author)This volume offers the views of 19 fiscal policy analysts well qualified to evaluate any attempt to raise national saving and domestically financed investment. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: April 23, 1992

Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance: The Incorporation of the Nineteenth Century English Working Class

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Report copyright infringementby Francis Hearn (Author), Frank Hearn (Author), Unknown (Author)This work uses the critical theory developed by Herbert Marcuse and Jurgen Habermas to analyze the English working class from 1750 to 1867, in particular its social protest activities. Number of Pages: 322 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 17, 1978

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Report copyright infringementby John Fitch (Author)This classic account of the worker in the steel industry during the early years of the twentieth century combines the social investigator's mastery of facts with the vivid personal touch of the journalist. From its pages emerges a finely etched picture of how men lived and worked in steel. In 1907-1908, when John Fitch spent more than a year in Pittsburgh interviewing workers, steel was the master industry of the region. It employed almost 80...

The Individual and the Communist: A Historical Analysis of the Motivating Factors of Social Conduct

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Report copyright infringementby Wen-K'Uei Liao (Author), Liao (Author), Unknown (Author) Number of Pages: 332 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 09, 1974

Pilot Project, India: The Story of Rural Development at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh

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Report copyright infringementby Albert Mayer (Author), Unknown (Author)Author Biographyyer /f Albert /i and others Number of Pages: 402 Dimensions: 0.88 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: March 21, 1973

The Orphaned Capital: Adopting the Right Revenues for the District of Columbia

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Report copyright infringementby Carol O'Cleireacain (Author)The nation's capital is in a fiscal and political crisis. By 1995 the District of Columbia did not have the cash to pay its bills and faced a growing operating deficit. It was effectively shut out of the capital markets and at least three of its government agencies were in receivership. On any given day, 30 percent of the police vehicles were in the shop for repairs and 25 percent of the school buses were inoperable. Nor were adequat...

Tensions of Economic Development in South-East Asia.

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Report copyright infringementby Unknown (Author), J. C. Daruvala (Editor)Author Biographyruvala /f J.C. /r ed. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 09, 1974

The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology - Paperback

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by Umberto Albarella (Editor), Mauro Rizzetto (Editor), Hannah Russ (Editor)Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites--zooarchaeology--has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology offers a cutting-edge compendium of zooarchaeology the world over that transcends environmental, economic, and social approaches, seekin...

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World - Paperback

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by Alan Downs (Author)This groundbreaking and empowering book examines the impact of growing up and surviving as a gay man in a society still learning to accept all identities. In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately describe the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior...

Negro Employment in Public Utilities: A Study of Racial Policies in the Electric Power, Gas, and Telephone Industries

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Report copyright infringementby Bernard E. Anderson (Author)This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. Number of Pages: 288 Dimensio...

Negro Employment in Basic Industry: A Study of Racial Policies in Six Industries

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Report copyright infringementby Herbert R. Northrup (Author), Richard L. Rowan (Author)Founded in 1921 as a separate Wharton department, the Industrial Research Unit has a long record of publication and research in the labor market, productivity, union relations, and business report fields. Major Industrial Research Unit studies as published as research projects are completed. This volume is Study no. 46. The industries covered are these six: automobile, aerospace, steel, rubber tire, petrole...