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"Rosenthal and Kubby offer crisp, well-reasoned arguments for legalizing marijuana." -Mike Tribby, Booklist

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A prize-winning investigative expose of the poverty and injustice experienced by China's 900 million peasants, told through a series of dramatic personal narratives.

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Explores key factors that cause teenagers to join youth gangs and ways teens, parents, teachers, and communities can prevent the tyranny of these gangs.

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Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United Statesthe most affluent country in the worldthis book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.

American history is replete with efforts to alleviate poverty.

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Applying lessons from history to the reality of poverty today in the United Statesthe most affluent country in the worldthis book analyzes contributing factors to poverty and proposes steps to relieve people affected by it.

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Using womanism, a framework that centers the worldviews of women of color, this book examines the experiences of Black women AIDS activists from across the United States. The authors conducted interviews with activists across the nation to examine the ways in which race, gender, and identity influence their work.

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Work on female drinking and female drug and alcohol abuse is proliferating because interest and productivity in alcohol research has expanded. In this work, the editors' primary focus is on the abuse of alcohol, its biological effects, behavioral effects, abuses, and problems.

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Work on female drinking and female drug and alcohol abuse is proliferating because interest and productivity in alcohol research has expanded. In this work, the editors' primary focus is on the abuse of alcohol, its biological effects, behavioral effects, abuses, and problems.

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With large numbers of people migrating to other countries after World War II, scholarship has focused on the status, problems, and successes of women immigrants since 1945. This bibliography is an international compilation which reveals the breadth of work on feminist immigration issues.

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There are narratives describing women's social, cultural and political networks before and after immigration, the isoilated struggles of individuals, their work as legal or illegal aliens abroad, and their involvement with underground resistance movements.

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Women, Society, the State, and Abortion takes an unbiased look at the abortion issue, examining it from a cross-disciplinary perspective comprising history, politics, law, biology, philosophy, theology, and medicine.

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Looks at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. This work explores the barriers of stigma in relation to political participation, and demonstrates how stigma can be effectively challenged and redirected.

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This work is a longitudinal study of a large sex work industry - and Thailand, the most prominent nation in the rapidly growing sex tourism industry. It examines considerations of health, behaviour, economics, morality, religion, and worker safety.

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This work is a longitudinal study of a large sex work industry - and Thailand, the most prominent nation in the rapidly growing sex tourism industry. It examines considerations of health, behaviour, economics, morality, religion, and worker safety.

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Throughout the 1980s, the issue of substance abuse testing became increasingly important to employers. The first addresses the intricacies of substance abuse and testing, presenting six chapters that survey substance abuse in the workplace; The second section covers the issue of AIDS and AIDS testing through four chapters: AIDS in the workplace;

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World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it.

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This is the first comprehensive, worldwide bibliography of racism. The work concludes with an author index and a subject index.

Due to the many ways racism manifests itself, this bibliography will be of great value to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines from economics and education to sociology and history.

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Violence of any kind is hard for most people to understand, but crimes against children and crimes committed by children are perhaps the most difficult to comprehend.

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A human story of the rise of the antiabortion movement, its role in the creation of the Religious Right, and the movement's descent into violence.

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Poverty is not a state of nature, but, as Stepanek shows, can be ascribed to manmade institutions that reflect self-serving and self-indulgent ideologies, poorly tested theories and policies, weak governments, and poverty alleviation programs that are questionably designed and poorly administered.

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This book analyzes the help-seeking behaviors of young urban street males who engage in prostitution. Findings indicate that the majority receive high levels of emotional support from family and friends, while traditional social and mental health services are not effectively reaching street males.

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"Zero tolerance" began as a prohibition against guns, but quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in American schools. This text presents a passionate, multifaceted argument against the militarization of US schools.