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This book responds to a previously unmet need: unlocking the mysteries of Social Security disability programs and providing medical and mental health clinicians, as well as advocates, with the information necessary to act in the best interests of their clients.

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Draws on a fieldwork - including interviews with politicians, immigrant leaders, and militants - to analyze interactions between states and immigrants in France and Germany. This book argues that states contribute to the elaboration of immigrants' identity, in part by articulating the grounds on which their groups are granted legitimacy.

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Examining the concept and social phenomenon of discrimination from economic and sociological perspectives, this text brings together the work of a wide range of sociologists and economists and provides a spectrum of methodological and ideological views on this topic.

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New Arenas for Violence examines the history, nature, and causal factors of occupational homicidemurder in the workplacewith a view to the development of a comprehensive understanding of the issue and the introduction of prevention measures designed to establish a safer work environment for the American worker.

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This collection brings together new critical approaches to diaspora studies, branching out to areas such as literary studies, visual culture, and museum studies, and explores them in relation to a variety of fictional works, cultural traditions, theoretical paradigms, and geo-political contexts.

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This volume offers a comprehensive examination of current theory, research, and practice concerning people with serious mental illness and their families.

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Explores the sources and directions of public opinion toward new immigrants in four Western democracies. The author explains that the acceptance and integration of immigrants are functions of attitude rather than geography, national history or economic context.

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An examination of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension, including its desirability, unequal access, and the threat of overpopulation.

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This work describes the fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent and dreamed their affluence would go on for ever. It turns the experience of this poverty into sociological theory and social statistics to provoke reflection about families today and the risks of being poor.

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This work describes the fall of individuals and countries who used to be affluent and dreamed their affluence would go on for ever. It turns the experience of this poverty into sociological theory and social statistics to provoke reflection about families today and the risks of being poor.

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Insofar as the new immigration is both structurally and functionally distinct from the old immigration of peasants and artisans, the author dispenses with the traditional paradigm of a folk-to-urban transition and focuses instead on such macroscopic features as the internal political and economic problems, social structure, and foreign policy of th

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This book presents thought-provoking research and data about pornography that will prompt readers to reconsider their positions on a highly controversial and current issue.

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Analyzes current and projected future socioeconomic trends in New York State and in the nation as a whole.

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With skill and compassion, Sarah Hafner, a recovering alcoholic, elicits from 18 women their struggles and triumphs as they fought alcoholism in a society where women cross-section of women, Hafner makes readily available the identification process found so helpful in various recovery programs.

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With skill and compassion, Sarah Hafner, a recovering alcoholic, elicits from 18 women their struggles and triumphs as they fought alcoholism in a society where women cross-section of women, Hafner makes readily available the identification process found so helpful in various recovery programs.

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[Mezey] enriches her study with a brief history of federal disability policy and provides a review of contending arguments over public policy and judicial activism. By examining the effects of the courts on social policy, this case study offers new perspectives on the role of the federal courts in the political system.

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No Longer Homeless is a powerful look at a group of people we rarely hear aboutthose who have formerly been on the streetssharing the details of their lives to help individuals, organizations, and communities learn to better support the ongoing challenges of homelessness.

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This book argues the Anti-Imperialist movement, led by the Anti-Imperialist League, followed an evolving path of ethical witnessing where leaders empathically considered the perspective of imperialist violence in the Philippines as expressed by marginalized ant-imperialists.

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Through interviews with 20 homeless and addicted women over a time frame of five years, the author vividly demonstrates how sexual abuse, sexism, and racism are at the base of their problems and how both neo-conservative and neo-liberal theories and prescriptions for solving their problems are unworkable.

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This book embraces two centuries of the history of non-violence, reconstructing the great historical crises that this movement has faced. In this book the historical reconstruction is intertwined with the philosophical and psychological analysis of the moral dilemmas that great historical crises inevitably imply.

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Non-Western Colonization, Orientalism, and the Comfort Women examines the collective memory of sexual slavery under the Japanese Imperial Military, a topic euphemistically known as the "comfort women." Examining various artifacts in Japan over the past decades, the author argues that Korean women were exoticized similarly to "Orientals" by Western Orientalists.