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Major changes of direction that affect whole societies occur very rarely. We are on the cusp of an epochal change which promises to transform the world as we have known it. The building blocks of this change have been put in place over the past decade. Cheryl Kernot's lead essay explores what this may mean for the future.

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Edited and introduced by multi-platinum musician Moby, this is an irresistible guide to setting down the sirloin and reaching for the tofu.

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Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women's movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems and structural violence, working to establish the principle that health is a right.

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This perspecive on effective social change is illustrated with how-to examples.

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Offers an overview of the use of drugs among Aboriginal people and surveys the extant international literature. This book also gives descriptions of the interaction between the setting and the users, examines the substance itself, and canvasses a range of possible intervention programs.

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In the gripping first-person accounts ofHigh Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly in the heart of our national identity.

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In the gripping first-person accounts ofHigh Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly in the heart of our national identity.

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"Sponsored by Quadrant's Health and Society group (advisory board: Susan Craddock, Jennifer Gunn, Alex Rothman, and Karen-Sue Taussig), and by the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota."

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Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Based on interviews of imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters, this title provides an account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers'.

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What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right knowledge and skills--the right "human capital"--reap the majority

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A group of Australia's leading thinkers examine the relations between social science and research, informed public opinion and the policy community. This book presents a challenging and important analysis of practice and argues for how to achieve more workable policy of broad social as well as political benefit.

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Movements for social change are by their nature oppositional, as are those who join change movements. How people negotiate identity within social movements is one of the central concerns in the field. This volume offers new scholarship that explores issues of diversity and uniformity among social movement participants.

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A harrowing collection of sixty narrativescovering over fifty years of shootings in Americawritten by survivors.

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In the last decade Ireland's immigrant population grew to more than one in ten. This is the first major academic book to offer a detailed account of how immigrants in Ireland are faring and is the first to address the challenge of integration and social cohesion. -- .