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More than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American president. Some would a

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The Impulsive, Disorganized Child: Solutions for Parenting Kids with Executive Functioning Difficulties helps parents pinpoint weak executive functions in their children, then learn how to help their kids overcome these deficits with practical, easy solutions.

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This book explores changing notions of political and personal virtue in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and offers a new account of masculinity and citizenship in English culture. -- .

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Does the Information Age promise egalitarianism and democracy, or will it simply reinforce long-standing and economic inequalities This collection of essays analyzes the emerging role of African-Americans in post-industrial society from a variety of communications research perspectives.

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Using the profiles of women living in a retirement community, the author explores the information and social worlds of aging women. The role that information professionals can play in bringing information to populations such as the one examined here adds insight to the studies of information use and user needs.

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Written for human resources managers, trainers, and supervisors, this groundbreaking study examines whether gender-based differences are pervasive in the workplace and, if so, how they influence the work practices of men and women.

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Cities around the world are facing increasingly diverse populations as a result of migration, both from rural areas within their own national borders and from other countries.

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By offering relevant demographic, research, and sociocultural data as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing vignettes, Dr. Brown investigates how mixed race people cope in a world that has shoehorned them into a racial category that denies half of their physiological and psychological existence.

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By offering relevant demographic, research, and sociocultural data as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing vignettes, Dr. Brown investigates how mixed race people cope in a world that has shoehorned them into a racial category that denies half of their physiological and psychological existence.

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This cutting-edge book is an interdisciplinary collection of theoretical writings on intersectional liberation of nonhuman animals, the environment, and those with disabilities, adding to the rapidly growing eco-ability movement. If you are interested in social justice, inclusion, disability rights, and animal advocacy this is a must-read book.

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This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.

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This book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.

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Analyzes the effect of the Israel visit/experience upon the ethnic identity of American Jews.

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Most Jews who now live in Germany have lived elsewhere. Forty thousand of them are members of official Jewish communities in today's Germany. As a study in the formation of minority communities within European national matrices, Cohn's work has interest for sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists as well.

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Esther Benbassa tells the tale of the social, economic, and cultural vicissitudes of a people in diaspora. She reveals the diversity of Jewish life throughout France's regions, while showing how Jewish identity has constantly redefined itself in a country known for both the Rights of Man and the Dreyfus affair.

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The subsequent decline of the community in the mid-13th century was also attributable to economic and political factors, as well as a growing church influence.

The Jews of Medieval France: The Community of Champagne also offers an in-depth analysis of women's place in the Jewish and gentile worlds of medieval France.

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"[The] report responds to Executive Order 11365, issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 29, 1967, and to the personal charge given to us by the President."--Foreword.

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The Key to (Almost) Everything is an engaging, contemporary and concise approach to sociology written for adults, students and just about anybody who could profit from knowing about the discipline of sociology.