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This work investigates how ethnic minority groups in the United States suffer and die from disease at higher rates than the general population. It also offers bibliographic data. Such groups include African-Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Americans, Hispanics and Pacific Asian Americans.

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A History of Children investigates the treatment of children throughout the millennia, examining and comparing, in the timeline from prehistory to the present, cultural codes, and societal laws.

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Looks at the changes in women's mass circulation journals since at the end of the 19th century.

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Offering the six historical essays from the out-of-print Bicentennial volume originally published by the U.S. Department of Labor, this book tells the richly dramatic and rewarding story of the working men and women who built the nation, from colonial settlement and the beginning of the republic through the modern labor movement and the space age.

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The failure of increasing numbers of young people to attain even minimum levels of literacy signals a catastrophe at the deepest levels of our culture. A Is for Ox is an important and impassioned work that both proves this conclusion and suggests what can be done to change it.

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The work gives special attention to what Washington calls Destiny Studies, an approach which allows a people to concentrate on their past, present, and future possibilities, and to view the experience of a race as a coherent unity, rather than a set of fragmented historical happenings.

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Thirty-four English-language stories from many different cultures (and one Spanish-language tale from Mexico) all share a common theme: a dangerous character knocks at the door and pretends to be a familiar, protective family member or friend to those inside who have been warned not to open the door to strangers.

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The political and academic program of Identity, Diversity, and Multiculturalism is not a progressive social movement and, in fact, works against the principles and values of the Left. Race against Reason critiques the key tenets of the program and offers a genuinely leftist way forward.

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Drawing on a wide range of historical sources - court records, newspaper reports, medical records, novels, oral histories and personal papers - A Lesbian History of Britain presents the extraordinary history of lesbian experience in Britain.

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Now more than ever, we live in a society where we covet new and shiny things. Not only has consumption risen dramatically over the last 60 years, but we are damaging the environment at the same time. That is why buying quality and why Tara Buttons Buy Me Once brand has such popular appeal.

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Over the course of a year, he and his family set out to discover whether it was possible to live a 'normal life' - job, mortgage, kids, holidays - while at the same time making each daily choice or decision an 'ethical' one - for the family, their neighbours and the environment.

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Engages an assortment of people in the worlds of politics, society, art, sport, music and architecture.

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Tells the story of how military-civil relations have evolved in Germany. Focusing on the introduction and development of military conscription, this book looks at its relationship to state citizenship, nation building, gender formation and the concept of violence. This book examines how civil society deals with institutionalized violence.

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Tells the story of how military-civil relations have evolved in Germany. Focusing on the introduction and development of military conscription, this book looks at its relationship to state citizenship, nation building, gender formation and the concept of violence. This book examines how civil society deals with institutionalized violence.

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Not all groups have equally found America to be a land of opportunity, and the successes of some groups have come at the expense of others. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and overviews the experiences of one group or a cluster of related groups.

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First published in the United States of America in a dual-language edition as A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out = Mi opinion sobre las libertades, derechos y deberes de la mujer by Arte Publico Press 2004. English translation published in Penguin Books 2021.

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While other books deal with the contemporary issue of the right to die, no attempt has been made to demonstrate substantially the historic nature of this question beyond the borders of the United States.

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Argues that, since individuals are wholly formed by their environment, education is the crucial factor in transforming them. This work then adopts far more radical position, proposing nothing less than 'the emancipation of mankind' and the creation of a 'new moral world', and a full-scale reorganization of British society.

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Topics examined include migration, ecology, settlement patterns and modes of production, social and religious values, and the interplay between individual experience and social convention.