Written by top scholars in an accessible manner, this unique encyclopedia offers worldwide coverage of the origins, forms, practitioners, and effects of antisemitism, leading to the Holocaust and surviving to the present day.

Designed to empower readers to advocate for themselves and others, this wide-ranging encyclopedia reveals a surprising range of resources and options that consumers have at their disposal.

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This text offers a gendered and cross-cultural analysis of the experience of mental disorder and of society's response to people suffering from it. It discusses the differences and similarities between both legal and lay definitions of mental disorder and corresponding patterns of service provision and usage, including for those who commit crime.

A comprehensive and timely examination of the history and current status of immigrants and refugees-their stories, the events that led to their movement, and the place of these movements in contemporary history and politics.

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Why are western societies - and particularly Britain - becoming more deeply divided, more violent, more squalid Donnison draws on the experience of innovative civic leaders, community activists, local policy-makers and researchers to answer these pressing questions.

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This text examines the experience of feminists working with the effects of men's violence in a range of key areas: with rape survivors, with battered wives, with women whose children have been sexually abused, with prostitutes and with male abusers.

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This book looks at how youth homelessness is variously defined, measured and explained, as well as discussing the solutions which are usually proposed for it.

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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injustice

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In the wake of the French Revolution there was a fundamental shift in attitudes to poverty. Writers like Tom Paine suggested that poverty could be alleviated or even eliminated. Such thinking was robustly countered by Christian evangelicals. But the arguments surfaced again in the late-nineteenth century.

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A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.

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Miles Franklin award winner Alexis Wright describes the shocking effects of alcohol abuse and racism in this vivid portrayal of a small town in Northern Australia fighting to bring about change. Aboriginal elders and community advisors fought for years to put alcohol restrictions in place. Should alcohol be restricted Whose decision is it to make

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Claire Fox tackles the right to offend and political correctness in this forthright polemic, part of the Provocations series.

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This is the story of those who left behind their country of birth to become part of Australia's mass migration scheme in the years following World War II. Told from the perspective of these "new Australians", the story explores the hardships associated with resettlement in the 1950s.

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A groundbreaking book exploring homelessness in Britain today, filled with heartbreaking stories of struggle, survival and the life on our streets too many of us choose not to see.

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The first book of its kind, a collection bringing together leading Black scholars and experts for a policy-oriented approach to the fight for racial justice in America.

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A social history of prostitution in Kalgoorlie, where the local brothels and the police station have shared the same street for more than a century.

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Examines what drives Asian migrant parents' approaches to education. This book explores how aspirations for their children's future reinforce their anxieties about being newcomers in an unequal society.

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The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which "progress" has perverted the way people live: how they eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die.

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A report from the front lines of 'dirty work' in the United States labour that society considers essential, but morally compromised.