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This is a timely exploration of the traffic between design and activism in the context of precarity - a social and material condition brought about by the growth of temporary, informal and irregular work. The book shows how design objects and practices open up possibilities to recode and reconfigure the effects of precarity. -- .

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Using Game Theory (a theory based on the rationale that everyone acts in their own self-interest) he can foretell and even engineer events.

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This book provides students with information on how pregnancy and giving birth are transformative personal and social events.

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The first book to propose a philosophy of miscarriage exploring the meaning of pregnancy without birth and linking theory to real, lived experience.

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By analyzing the history and current practice of two prewedding rituals commonly practiced by women in North-eastern Scotland, this book provides fresh insights into identity, gender, social class, contemporary attitudes to ritual, and what it means to approach marriage in the twenty first century.

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This second edition of Boyd and Brackenridge's acclaimed history of Presbyterian women in America traces women's affiliation with Presbyterianism for more than two centuriesfrom 1789 to the present.

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An examination of the history and current situation in California as it struggles to deal with the ethnic and racial change that will make it the first American state to have a non-white majority. The authors analyze the impact for both California and the rest of the USA.

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Reviews the historical development of press criticism since the 1880s in each of ten categories: muckrakers, journalism reviews, columnists and authors, television press critics, press councils, advocacy groups, scholars, ombudsmen, bloggers, and satirists. This book also provides nine case studies of press criticism campaigns.

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The prevailing neo-prohibitionist approach to reducing alcohol problems is generally ineffective, often counter-productive, and is doomed to failure. The thesis is that a socio-cultural approach would be effective, and therefore, that public policy should promote this approach.

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Having established laws removing many children from the marketplace, turn-of-the-century America was discovering new, sentimental criteria to determine a child's monetary worth. This book traces the emergence of the modern child, at once economically 'useless' and emotionally 'priceless,' from the late 1800s to the 1930s.

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Primetime Pundits explores the ascent of punditry and offers a new approach for understanding how social issues are covered in the changing media landscape. Based on extensive research of primetime news coverage of social issues, Letukas analyzes how pundits have come to dominate our national political dialogue over the past thirty years.

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Primetime Pundits explores the ascent of punditry and offers a new approach for understanding how social issues are covered in the changing media landscape. Based on extensive research of primetime news coverage of social issues, Letukas analyzes how pundits have come to dominate our national political dialogue over the past thirty years.

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Authors highlight a number of important comparatives. Whereas for the British and Americans held by the Germans and Japanese, the end of the war meant a swift repatriation and demobilization, for the Germans it heralded the beginning of an imprisonment that, for some, lasted until 1956.

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Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms examines the changing nature of privacy and exposure with regard to online perceptions, expectations, and behavior. Yuval Karniel and Amit Lavie-Dinur incorporate case studies to illustrate the various ways that ...

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This book examines the changing nature of privacy and exposure with regard to online perceptions, expectations, and behavior. Yuval Karniel and Amit Lavie-Dinur incorporate case studies to illustrate the various ways that individuals negotiate the boundaries between their private and public selves across different media platforms.

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This data-rich work examines today's most compelling and controversial public health issues, including alcohol and drug abuse, AIDS, abortion, black and infant mortality, drug-affected babies, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, and cigarette smoking.

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This book explores the role of student media in private K12 schools in the United States. It argues that student media offers strong support to the mission-based private school experience and environment, and can be an asset toward preparing young people for lives of service and citizenship.

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Asserts that government is constitutionally constrained to formulate abortion policy that is at once pro-choice and anti-abortion. The liberal teachings of John Locke that were so influential to the framers of the Constitution are covered and applied to the major issues of the abortion controversy.

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This work aims to provide a comprehensive listing of all periodical and monographic publications on pro-choice and pro-life issues published between 1990 and 1994. It includes all materials fitting parameters of research in ethical, legal, moral, religious and social arenas.

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A comprehensive listing of all periodical and monographic publications on pro-choice and pro-life issues between 1972 and 1989. The items listed are widely accessible in public, academic and school libraries, offering the tools to reach an informed opinion on the subject.