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African Americans in the History of Mass Communication: A Reader

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Report copyright infringementby David Copeland (Other), Clark Naeemah (Editor)African Americans in the History of Mass Communication offers a variety of stories focusing on how African Americans use the media to educate, advocate, empower, and serve others. Stories ranging from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era, which include different forms of media from cinema and music to newspapers and public relations, offer perspectives that have yet to be told.Author BiographyNaeemah Clark received...

Visualising Slavery: Art Across the African Diaspora

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Report copyright infringementby Celeste-Marie Bernier (Editor), Hannah Durkin (Editor)The purpose of this book is to excavate and recover a wealth of under-examined artworks and research materials directly to interrogate, debate and analyse the tangled skeins undergirding visual representations of transatlantic slavery across the Black diaspora. Living and working on both sides of the Atlantic, as these scholars, curators and practitioners demonstrate, African diasporic artists adopt radical ...

The Routledge Companion to African American Art History

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Report copyright infringementby Eddie Chambers (Editor)This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and professors and may be used in African American art, visual culture, and culture classes.Author BiographyEddie Chambers is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, at the University of Texas, Austin. Number of Pages: 522 ...

Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes

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Report copyright infringementby Roger W. Caves (Author), J. Barry Cullingworth (Author)Extensively revised, this textbook continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use, urban planning, and environmental protection policies, it explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified, defined, and approached.Author BiographyRoger W. Caves is Professor Emeritus of City Planning at the S...

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Report copyright infringementby Mollie Thomas (Author)Gain inspiration from Bigfoot and his friends with this fun miniature cryptid magnet set featuring 13 different cryptids! Specifications: 13 adorable full-color rubber magnets featuring Bigfoot, Yeti, Mothman, the Loch Ness monster, and more with inspirational quotes Display backdrop: A 2-sided magnetic background to build fun scenes of cryptids in their natural habitats Illustrated Mini Book: Includes background on cryptid lore and ...

Blue-Green Rehabilitation: Urban Planning, Leisure and Tourism in River Cities

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Report copyright infringementby Philip Hayward (Editor)In recent decades there has been a burgeoning interest in the development of blue-green corridors: areas where waterways are complemented by adjoining green spaces and related paths and leisure facilities. Urban planners have increasingly favoured such zones as a means of refreshing inner-city spaces. In many cases, such projects have involved the rehabilitation of former industrial and/or otherwise polluted waterways and adjacent land. T...

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Report copyright infringementby David Hudson (Author)Global Finance and Development describes and explains the variety of relationships between finance and development. Finance is broken down into its various aspects in separate chapters on aid, debt, portfolio investment, FDI, microfinance and remittances. The text will help the reader develop a critical understanding of the nature of finance and development. Throughout the text the reader is encouraged to see financial processes as embedded...

Chinese Capitalism in a Global Era: Towards a Hybrid Capitalism

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (Author)Yeung examines 'overseas' Chinese capitalism in East and Southeast Asia in a time of accelerated globalization and the evolution of Chinese capitalism through the participation of political and business elites in the global economy.Author BiographyHenry Wai-chung Yeung is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. He was a recipient of the Commonwealth Fellowship, the Fulbright...

Alternatives to Privatization: Public Options for Essential Services in the Global South

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Report copyright infringementby David A. McDonald (Editor), Greg Ruiters (Editor)There is a vast literature for and against privatizing public services. Those who are against privatization are often confronted with the objection that they present no alternative. This book takes up that challenge by establishing theoretical models for what does (and does not) constitute an alternative to privatization, and what might make them 'successful', backed up by a comprehensive set of empirical data on...

Housing Under Platform Capitalism: The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Aguilera (Author), Francesca Artioli (Author), Claire Colomb (Author)Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the world's cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodation--a phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories. Drawing on mixed-method, multi-level comparative research in twelve large European cities, coauthors Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb ...

Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence

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Report copyright infringementby Jens Ludwig (Author)What if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later, the answers aren't what he expected. Unforgiving Places is Ludwig's revelatory portrait of gun violence in America's most famously maligned city. Disproving the popular narrative that ...

How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class (16pt Large Edition)

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Report copyright infringementby John Hope Bryant (Author)John Hope Bryant, successful self - made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re - energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration, he argues, they will be able to lift themselves up into the middle class and become a new generation of customers and entrepreneurs. ...

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Report copyright infringementby Li Yining (Author)Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind. Cultural economics set out to examine the nature and social benefits of cultural products and phenomena as they exist in the market.This volume is the masterpiece of Li Yining, one of the best-known Chinese economists, active in devoting his attention to the role of culture in the economy since the 1950s. Considering the importance of culture in t...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Sackrey (Author)In this book, Charles Sackrey analyzes the problem of urban poverty, pointing out the severe limitations of all existing data. He explains the different theories of the principal causes of urban poverty, in particular the poverty among urban blacks. Considerable attention is devoted to different methods of studying poverty and the important role each plays in determining the solutions finally offered for public consideration. There have ...

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent - Paperback

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by Katherine Angel (Author)A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women's desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what women--and their bodies--want. Meanwhile, sexual violence abounds. How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they w...

Contending Issues in African Development: Advances, Challenges, and the Future

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Report copyright infringementby Obioma M. Iheduru (Editor)Taking a forward-looking approach, this book critically examines the issues and dynamics central to Africa's problematic development and situates these issues within the contents unique cultural, political, economic, and social milieu. Moving away from a simple litany of problems bedeviling Africa's economy, the book is the culmination of several scholars' efforts to identify specific causative factors. Each chapter delineates a specif...

Arab Employment in Israel: The Quest for Equal Employment Opportunity

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Report copyright infringementby Benjamin W. Wolkinson (Author)Although in the 1960s and mid-1970s scholars began to question the ability of Israeli Arabs to find equal employment opportunities, there has been no systematic study of employment discrimination against Arabs. Based on demographic data and fieldwork in 48 large Israeli corporations, this study fills that void. While the demographic data indicates the Arabs' disadvantaged position, Wolkinson also provides new insights obtained from...

Exchange, Action, and Social Structure: Elements of Economic Sociology

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Report copyright infringementby Milan Zafirovski (Author)This unique volume provides a new interpretation and synthesis of network exchange theory in an effort to contribute to a neo-Weberian economic sociology. Arguing against commonly held assumptions about network exchange theory and its interpretation of all social actions as economic exchanges, Zafirovski seeks to explain these processes by employing an interdisciplinary approach and by examining the impact of social and institutional st...

A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie a. Schuster (Author)In this study of the life and work of Saint-Nazaire's shipbuilding workers in the 30 years before World War I, Schuster shows that the consequences of industrial production for workers differed sharply according to their resources and experiences. She details the competing identities and divergent values maintained by shipbuilding workers, demonstrating that they were fostered by the interaction between state programs, industrial prod...

Demography, Education, and the Workforce

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Lerman (Author), Stephanie Cellini (Author)Leading experts demystify demographics and show how population changes affect everything from government policy to business opportunities to educational standards. Demographics, as Peter Drucker famously pointed out, is one of the seven sources of entrepreneurial opportunity. Why are demographics so important? Consider the quality and quantity of the U.S. labor force. Birth rates largely determine the size of th...

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Report copyright infringementby R. Sooryamoorthy (Author), K. Gangrade (Author)Focusing on NGOs that work in the areas of rural development, women, and children, the authors' goal is to shed light on the contributions of the sector in the spheres of social welfare, empowerment, service, and rural development. In addition, the problems and difficulties experienced by NGOs are analyzed and explained. This important new book traces the rise of NGOs in India and their transformation over the year...

Climatic Effects on Individual, Social, and Economic Behavior: A Physioeconomic Review of Research Across Disciplines

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Report copyright infringementby Philip M. Parker (Author), Unknown (Author)This first interdisciplinary review on how climate affects human behavior provides an introductory framework for research in the field, surveys climatic data around the world, and covers over 3,000 sources. The bibliography is organized topically into chapters dealing with physiological, psychological, sociological, and economic effects of climate on people. The bibliography identifies important sources relating to acc...

Britain's Sterling Colonial Policy and Decolonization, 1939-1958

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Report copyright infringementby Allister Hinds (Author)Arguing that Britain's sterling policy had a significant impact on its colonial economic policy, this book focuses on the connection between Britain's sterling and balance of payments policy, colonial economic policy, and the British government's decision to transfer power to colonial peoples. The volume considers such factors as sterling policy and the state of the British economy, U.S. and Western European pressure for multilateralism i...

Rural Development Research: A Foundation for Policy

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Report copyright infringementby Glenn Nelson (Author), J. Norman Reid (Author), Thomas Rowley (Author)Currently, the research community lacks the capacity to provide accurate, up-to-date information about conditions and trends in rural areas. Bringing together some of the best known rural development researchers, this volume begins to build an information base that can serve as a foundation for rural development policy. It deals with four components of development--education, entrepreneurship...

State Against Development: The Experience of Post-1965 Zaire

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Report copyright infringementby Mondonga M. Mokoli (Author)This study evaluates the state-initiated policies in post-1965 Zaire and their impact on the Zairean people. The author ascertains the overt and underlying relevancy of the priority that the state has accorded the agricultural and rural sector for socioeconomic development, and he examines the indicators provided by conventional agricultural and rural development theories. These indicators show that the sector has not received suffici...

Resources for the Future: An International Annotated Bibliography

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Report copyright infringementby Alan J. Mayne (Author)Whatever profession one might be in today, the overriding priority is to anticipate future developments--political, economic, and social--in order to keep pace with this headlong, accelerating era. This book is designed with this priority explicitly in mind. It offers a one-stop source of extremely up-to-date information on books, journals, CD-ROMs, software, networks, organizations, foundations, and charities--indeed, on any activity whic...

Police Under Pressure: Resolving Disputes

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Report copyright infringementby Robert Coulson (Author)What is it like to be a cop in America today in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict? In a risky environment when dangerous weapons are used and snap decisions are required? How should police officers be treated and their grievances be resolved? A long-time expert in the settlement of disputes writes in a popular vein for those engaged in or studying police administration, labor arbitration, or industrial relations. He uses real cases...

Business Finance in Less Developed Capital Markets

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Report copyright infringementby Klaus P. Fischer (Editor), George J. Papaioannou (Editor), Klaus P. Fischer (Other)Business finance in less developed economies cannot be analyzed or measured by the approaches utilized in countries, such as the United States and Great Britain, where stock markets can assess worth and channel capital with reasonable accuracy. Most economic theory dealing with business finance has been developed in precisely this latter environment. By bringing together economis...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard F. America (Author), Richard F. America (Editor)Contributing authors provide vital information on how contribution programs can be used in community-based development with satisfying results for all. Essay topics include how senior corporate managers are encouraged to go beyond traditional giving and to consider other areas, concrete suggestions for the development of philanthropic organizations, and community involvement initiatives. For companies and ...

Index to International Public Opinion, 1991-1992

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Hann Hastings (Editor), Philip K. Hastings (Editor)This is the fourteenth annual volume of the Index to International Public Opinion. It includes data from public opinion polls from more than 130 countries and geographical regions. All tables contain total sample results, and many also include analysis by various population sub-groups such as age, sex, level of education, etc. The survey questions deal with social, political, and economic issues of bo...

Rural Change in the Third World: Pakistan and the Aga Khan Rural Support Program

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Report copyright infringementby Mahmood Hasan Khan (Author), Shoaib Sultan Khan (Author), Mahmood Hasan Khan (Author)This study examines a particularly successful rural development program: the partnership of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) and the small farmers of northern Pakistan. The Aga Khan Rural Support Program was established in 1982 to act as a catalyst for the development of rural people living in the high mountain valleys of the Himalayas, Karakorum, and Hindu Kush. The ...

Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System

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Report copyright infringementby Ravi Arvind Palat (Editor), Ravi Arvind Palat (Other)By the late 1970s, scholars and journalists were quick to proclaim the dawn of a new era--the Age of the Pacific. The 1980s--with the economic growth of Japan and the Four Dragons, the industrialization of several Southeast Asian states, the growth of new industries on the West Coast of North America and decline of industry in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast, and the collapse of centrally planned economies--se...