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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. -- .

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Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in Arquitecto

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Gives a unique perspective on approaches to problem drinking among Aboriginal people, and the role that cultural difference has played. It finds that in the 1980s there was an innovative and lively international debate about addictions, yet these understandings and potential solutions did not find their way into Aboriginal programs.

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Teaches you that the criminal justice system may actually be making the problem of domestic violence worse. Addressing the real dynamics of intimate abuse and incorporating proven methods of restorative justice, this work focuses on healing and transformation rather than shame or punishment.

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"Takes readers on a ... cross-country journey, introducing [them] to the people challenging America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new communities"--

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Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juarez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence

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Through the voices of high school girls in Ciudad Juarez, understanding how education can promote self-empowerment and resistance against injustice and violence

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A literary and political encounter between an Innu poet and Quebecois-American novelist who engage in a taboo-free conversation about racism.

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Even today, as revealed by the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, and the national soul-searching it precipitated, lynching continues to pervade America's collective memory.