Sociology

Naomi R. Williams (Author)

A Blueprint for Worker Solidarity: Class Politics and Community in Wisconsin

Editura: UNIV OF ILLINOIS PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

Like many Midwestern factory towns, deindustrialization damaged Racine in the 1970s and 1980s. But t

Murray Carpenter (Author)

Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick

Editura: MIT PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

8,How Coca-Cola makes Americans sick--and makes sure we don't know it. If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The Coca-Cola Company has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure we don't find out, as this damning expos? makes patently clear. Marshaling the findings of extensive research and deep investigative reporting, Murray Carpenter describes in Sweet and Deadly the damage Coke does to America's health--and the remarkable campaign of disinformation conducted by the company to keep consumers in the dark. Sugar-sweetened beverages are the single item in the American diet that most contributes to the epidemic of chronic disease--in particular, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease--and Coca-Cola is America's favorite sugar-sweetened beverage, by far. Carpenter details how the Coca-Cola corporation's sophisticated shadow network has masterfully spread disinformation for decades to hide the health risks of its product from consumers--risks disproportionately borne by Black, brown, and low-income communities. Working from a playbook of obfuscation and pseudoscience that has worked ...

Karen Weingarten (Editor)

Abortion Stories: American Literature Before Roe V. Wade

Editura: PENGUIN GROUP

Anul aparitiei: 2025

6,A one-of-a-kind, intersectional volume of abortion representation in American literature before Roe v. Wade that compellingly proclaims: when abortion is illegal, women's lives are always more precarious and limited A Penguin Classic One of Ms. Magazine's Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025 Abortion Stories is the first volume of its kind to bring together a diverse collection of writings on abortion published before 1973, when Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in every American state. These stories, poems, essays, and memoirs reflect a range of representations and responses to abortion during this era, but when read together, they demonstrate how when abortion is illegal, women's lives are always more precarious and limited. In this volume, you will read stories that will elucidate and enrich a view of abortion as one element of human experience--woven into stories of love and death and medicine and motherhood and enslavement and emancipation. Featuring luminaries like Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edgar Allan Poe, Lucile Clifton, Eugene O' Neill, and Shirley Chisholm, as well as rare firsthand accounts of abortion providers and seekers, this reproductive justice-minded ...

Lilie Chouliaraki (Author)

Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

Editura: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have

Lilie Chouliaraki (Author)

Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood

Editura: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Why is being a victim such a potent identity today? Who claims to be a victim, and why? How have

Amanda McMillan Lequieu (Author)

Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt

Editura: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Half a century ago, deindustrialization gutted blue-collar jobs in the American Midwest. But toda

Jesse A. Fivecoate (Editor)

Whispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society

Editura: UNIV OF WISCONSIN PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

2,Whispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society makes the case that conspiracy theories are fundamentally a folklore genre, akin to and often involving other belief narratives like rumor and legend. The editors and contributors show that studying conspiracy theories using the tools of folkloristics is a fruitful and necessary analytical exercise. The volume's three parts lay out folkloristic approaches to conspiracy theories; ways folkloristics can help us understand how conspiracy theories are constructed; and how the genre of conspiracy theories interacts with particular, contemporary political contexts. This timely volume complements studies from political science, sociology, psychology, history, and more, while also crucially calling for the field of folklore studies to engage more assertively with conspiracy theories as a genre. Focusing on modern iterations of sometimes quite ancient conspiracy motifs and themes, the editors and contributors forcibly illustrate the crucial relevance of this prevalent and influential form of folklore in today's interconnected world. Contributors: Matthew D. Atkinson, John Bodner, Ian Brodie, ...

Narrative Therapy with Older Adults: Stories, Wisdom, Resilience

Editura: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

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Discovering World Geography, Spanish Student Edition

Editura: GLENCOE SECONDARY

Anul aparitiei: 2017

- Focus on the big ideas with an accessible print student text built around Essential Questions, end

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Discovering Our Past: A History of the World - Early Ages, Spanish Student Edition

Editura: GLENCOE SECONDARY

Anul aparitiei: 2017

- Focus on the big ideas with an accessible print student text built around Essential Questions, end

Richard Jessor (Author)

Perspectives on Behavioral Science: The Colorado Lectures

Editura: ROUTLEDGE

Anul aparitiei: 2024

The behavioral sciences--anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, political scienc

Julius Fabos (Author)

Planning the Total Landscape: A Guide to Intelligent Land Use

Editura: ROUTLEDGE

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Rapid changes in land use, especially in growing metropolitan areas, have created problems that i

Marin Kosut (Author)

Art Monster: On the Impossibility of New York

Editura: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

Why do people choose the life of an artist, and what happens when they find themselves barely scr

Mariana Chilton (Author)

The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know--And Start Again

Editura: MIT PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

7,A radical and urgent new approach to how we can solve the problems of hunger and poverty in the US. Most people think hunger has to do with food: researchers, policymakers, and advocates focus on promoting government-funded nutrition assistance; well-meaning organizations try to get expired or wasted food to marginalized communities; and philanthropists donate their money to the cause and congratulate themselves for doing so. But few people ask about the structural issues undergirding hunger, such as, Who benefits from keeping people in such a state of precarity? In The Painful Truth about Hunger in America, Mariana Chilton shows that the solution to food insecurity lies far beyond food and must incorporate personal, political, and spiritual approaches if we are serious about fixing the crisis. Drawing on 25 years of research, programming, and advocacy efforts, Chilton compellingly demonstrates that food insecurity is created and maintained by people in power. Taking the reader back to the original wounds in the United States caused by its history of colonization, genocide, and enslavement, she forces us to reckon with hard questions about why people in the US allow hunger to ...

Katie Davis (Author)

Technology's Child: Digital Media's Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up

Editura: MIT PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

How children engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to twentysomething

Narrative Therapy with Older Adults: Stories, Wisdom, Resilience

Editura: COLUMBIA UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2025

Ariel Slick (Author)

Egyptian Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of Ancient Egypt

Editura: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2024

6, Immerse yourself in the dark and complex mythology of Ancient Egypt. Alongside the mummies and the great treasure-filled burial chambers of the Pyramids are the many gods, heroes, monsters and legends that defined their universe. Atum, the first being -- who then begat Nut, the sky goddess and Geb, the god of the land -- and their union in turn producing Osiris, Seth, Isis and Nephthys. Explore Ancient Egypt's creation myths, including the Book of the Dead, and the evolution of pictograms and hieroglyphs, which documented many aspects of Egyptian life. Read how, across the long duration of the Ancient Egyptian age, animals such as cats, falcons, baboons and scarab beetles became sacred, and how species like the jackal, lion and the Nile crocodile became intertwined with the gods. Death and the afterlife occupied a central place in the Ancient Egyptian belief system, and this well-illustrated book explores the extraordinary lengths and care given to funerary practices, including the Weighing of the Heart and the elaborate rituals to ensure the successful passage of the deceased pharaohs into the afterlife -- to live in Paradise with Osiris. Fully illustrated with photographs ...

Finn D. Moore (Author)

Norse Mythology: The Gods, Heroes, Monsters and Legends of the Viking Culture

Editura: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2024

1, The Norsemen of old Scandinavia were a tough and hardy people, best known today for their prowess in bloody combat and storytelling. Because they had no writing, the frightening reputation of warriors survives, but Norse mythology -- all storytelling -- is less known. This book documents the Norse myths that were sources of entertainment, comfort and explanations of the universe -- from animals to the seasons to the afterlife. Given that there are no surviving texts, the remaining myths have been changed through hundreds of years of oral tradition. Norse Mythology draws on Prose Edda and Poetic Edda, the two earliest and most faithful recordings of Norse myths. The chapters include: An introduction to Norse history and culture -- Vikings, long ships, and raiding Cyclical time: Runes, the creation of the Cosmos, First Gods Yggdrasil and the Nine Realms The Aesir Gods (Odin, Thor, Loki, Sif, Baldur, Idun) The Vanir Gods (Njord, Freyr, Freyja, The Mighty Thor) The Jotnar (Hela, Skadi, Skoll and Hati) Monsters and other creatures (Dwarves, light elves Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse, Kraken, trolls) Other myths (why is the sea salty?) Ragnarok and the Rebirth of the ...

Theodore Brasser (Author)

Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History

Editura: FIREFLY BOOKS LTD

Anul aparitiei: 2024

9, "The book's large format and beautiful color images make this title a worthy addition to any collection in need of information about Native American art and customs, or clothing tradition and design." --Library Journal More than five centuries of native peoples' artistry. Native Americans crafted beautiful clothing out of skins, pigment, quills and sinew. The collection of photographs in this outstanding reference celebrates this decorative genius. Many of the 300 photographs from more than 60 leading museums and private collections have never been published previously. The book describes the clothing in fascinating detail, from moccasins and tunics to sashes, bags and ceremonial and burial costumes. Theodore Brasser explains who made what and how, as well as the meanings of the different kinds of decoration, such as beadwork, embroidery, appliqu?, patchwork, weaving and dyeing. There are also many examples of native pottery and other historic artifacts that depict themes used in the clothes. Native American Clothing provides a thorough historical background of the many influences on this clothing, including: Mythology Climate Social status Geography Political standing ...

Ois Wall (Author)

Prisoners' Bodies: Activism, Health, and the Prisoners' Rights Movement in Ireland, 1972-1985 Volume 11

Editura: MCGILL QUEENS UNIV PR

Anul aparitiei: 2024

In the early 1970s Irish prisons were overcrowded - there were few rehabilitation programs, medical