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Contrary to popular belief, solutions that can remake the US into the land of economic opportunity for all already exist. Over the past ten years, Ben Hecht has watched leaders in local communities, fed up with the political paralysis in Washington, D.C., and unable to ignore growing disparities in their own backyards, experiment with new ways of solving old problems.

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This collection of papers by prominent feminist thinkers advances the positive feminist project of remapping the moral by developing theory that acknowledges the diversity of women.

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Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations is a personal narrative of an applied anthropologist's experience in working with indigenous peoples of Canada. Nadia Ferrara calls for all North Americans to engage in "restorying" their nation's history by acknowledging the injustices that indigenous peoples have faced and continue to face.

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This book identifies the physical, emotional, and psychological adjustments many boys have been forced to navigate alone during their most vulnerable, formative years and provides adjustments that adults must make to assist them in these transitions.

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Based on unique and previously undiscovered sources, this is the first book to tell the story of the oppression of LBGT people in the USSR.

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These stories introduce an emerging generation of women writers, including Chen Ran, Bikwan Wong and Chen Xue. By presenting fiction from the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the collection deliberately maps the literary contours of same-sex intimacy in cultural rather than purely political terms.

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This ground-breaking text explores the intersection between dominant modes of critical educational theory and the socio-political landscape of American Indian education. Grande asserts that, with few exceptions, the matters of Indigenous people and Indian education have been e...

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The early returns from Census 2000 data show that the United States continued to undergo dynamic changes in the 1990s, with cities and suburbs providing the locus of most of the volatility.

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Results from Census 2000 have confirmed that American cities and metropolitan areas lie at the heart of the nation's most pronounced demographic and economic changes.

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This book provides insight into the emotion of anger from a theoretical and empirical standpoint and from the viewpoint of fifty ordinary women and men who share their experiences, beliefs, and perceptions of anger in their own and others' lives.

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Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space examines DIY urbanism from an intersectional feminist analytical framework. The racialized, classed, gendered, and sexualized aspects of DIY urbanism, including its activities, its actors, and its spaces are highlighted, as well as the connections between DIY urbanism and urban political agendas.

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This book sheds light on Africas urban refugee spaces and is an expose and critical analysis of staterefugee relations in Nairobi, Kenya. The author employs Henry Lefebvres work on right to the city to explore and qualify whether the literature on urban citizenship can speak to Nairobis context.

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This volume develops a comprehensive multivariate paradigm of the process of aging, delineating the factors underlying age-related degeneration.

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This book uses the Peoplehood Model to argue for a more consistent recognition process grounded in indigenous methodology. The text centers on four aspects of peoplehoodlanguage, sacred history, territory/place, and ceremonial cycleand shows how they inform the Lumbee identity and counter arguments derived from the Western Colonial Model.

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An inspiring collection of portraits of young rural Australians, whose visions for the future of our country may just change our nation s destiny.

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Relational Engagements of the Indigenous Americas critically examines our current understanding of relational theory and the ontological turn in archaeological studies of the pre-contact Americas.

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This book presents a portrait of a congregation that blends therapy and religion, producing a therapeutic religion in which the role and meaning of religion are open to interpretation, religious identities are shaped by life experiences, and healing of the person is underscored. The book also highlights some of the tensions this produces.

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Based on fieldwork, interviews and surveys conducted in the aftermath of the 2014 Gaza War, this book explores what is it like to come of age as a secular millennial in Israel after the failure of the Oslo peace process, when Palestinian and Israeli leaders have used ethnicity and religion to divide. It sheds new light on why peace may be further than ever.

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Religion plays a key role in everyday affairs in Indonesia - including governance at the local, regional and national level. This book investigates local governance landscape of the world's largest Muslim majority state, Indonesia, and its local governance landscape by providing a detailed account of local communities and religious authority on the eastern Indonesian island of Lombok.

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This book shows how contemporary religious groups arrange very different sorts of rituals in order to achieve collective encounters with the spirit. Mixed-methods analysis of rituals across a diverse range of religious traditions shows how Randall Collins interaction ritual theory opens new pathways for the sociology of religion.