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The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in the United States. The contributors study social and political mechanisms in disaster response and relief that enable natural disasters to worsen inequalities in America.

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Explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society.

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The Impulsive, Disorganized Child: Solutions for Parenting Kids with Executive Functioning Difficulties helps parents pinpoint weak executive functions in their children, then learn how to help their kids overcome these deficits with practical, easy solutions.

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This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture. -- .

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The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series continues to prove that there are plenty of things in this world no one needs to know about. Here is the most fascinatingly trivial collection of factoids yet compiled to satisfy idle curiosities.

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Does the Information Age promise egalitarianism and democracy, or will it simply reinforce long-standing and economic inequalities This collection of essays analyzes the emerging role of African-Americans in post-industrial society from a variety of communications research perspectives.

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Using the profiles of women living in a retirement community, the author explores the information and social worlds of aging women. The role that information professionals can play in bringing information to populations such as the one examined here adds insight to the studies of information use and user needs.

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As author Osborne explains, Existing approaches to preventing youth suicide have had little impact on reducing the number of suicides and suicide attempts across America.

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A book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher, and on the role of emotions and social relations in research based on the author's reflections from a life as a researcher and on interviews with leading scientists about their work and careers.

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A book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher, and on the role of emotions and social relations in research based on the author's reflections.

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Written for human resources managers, trainers, and supervisors, this groundbreaking study examines whether gender-based differences are pervasive in the workplace and, if so, how they influence the work practices of men and women.

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A systematic study of China's television system. Hong focuses on changes in television since China's reform to reflect the evolution of the Communist Party's ideology and the society, and the implications, limitations, and future trends of that evolution.

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This book explores digital media produced from the favelas, urban occupations, and in the countryside of Brazil. It looks as the ways that members of the marginalized social periphery are able to use new media to vocalize historical demands for social justice and better public services, and to denaturalize inequality overall.

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This is a collection of essays which attempt to push forward a particular view of what culture is, what role it plays in social life and how it ought to be properly studied. What emerges is this book - a treatise in cultural theory developed through a series of concrete analyses.

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By offering relevant demographic, research, and sociocultural data as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing vignettes, Dr. Brown investigates how mixed race people cope in a world that has shoehorned them into a racial category that denies half of their physiological and psychological existence.

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By offering relevant demographic, research, and sociocultural data as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing vignettes, Dr. Brown investigates how mixed race people cope in a world that has shoehorned them into a racial category that denies half of their physiological and psychological existence.

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This cutting-edge book is an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical writings on intersectional liberation of nonhuman animals, the environment, and those with disabilities, adding to the rapidly growing eco-ability movement. If you are interested in social justice, inclusion, disability rights, and animal advocacy this is a must-read book.

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This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.

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This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.

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