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There are moments when the normal flow of time catches, hesitates, and shifts direction.
2020 was one of these moments.
Now, at this critical juncture, a new generation is coming of age and demanding a reckoning: Generation Z. Three billion strong, they're at the center of the most pivotal issues of our time, from reimagining how we live on our changing planet to enacting a new mandate for racial equity. The following decade will bring unparalleled...
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Understanding both Fethullah Gulen, a moderate Turkish Muslim scholar, and the Gulen Movement, a global network of volunteers, teachers, students, intellectuals and business people who are inspired by Gulen's philosophy based on dialog and peaceful coexistence, is vital to making any sort of predictions about the direction that Turkey might be headed in the next years. Who is Fethullah Gulen? What is Gulen’s worldview and what are his fundamental...
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Este libro es una crónica del funesto capítulo que está escribiendo Europa sobre la inmigración y de cómo el intento de conseguir una vida mejor por parte de los subsaharianos se ha convertido en el último holocausto europeo. En los últimos años más de 16.000 personas han muerto en el Mediterráneo cuando intentaban alcanzar Europa. El libro analiza los motivos que hacen que los inmigrantes se embarquen en un viaje de futuro incierto y por...
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This early work by Beatrice Potter Webb was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'My Apprenticeship Vol. I.' is the second volume of fascinating work on Victorian society. Beatrice Potter Webb was born in Gloucester, England in 1858. Both her mother and brother died early in her childhood leaving her to be raised by her father, Richard Potter. He was a successful businessman with large...
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#1 Raisuddin worked at a mini-mart in Dallas, selling Americans three tamales for a dollar. The economy around the store was desolate, and it wasn't the economy of the legendary firms where third-world boys like him fantasized about working.
#2 Raisuddin grew up with America on his television screen, and thought of the place as a land of opportunity. But when he first...
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For close to two hundred years, the ideas of Shakespeare have inspired incredible work in the literature, fiction, theater, and cinema of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. From the novels of Lao She and Lin Shu to Lu Xun's search for a Chinese "Shakespeare," and from Feng Xiaogang's martial arts films to labor camp memoirs, Soviet-Chinese theater, Chinese opera in Europe, and silent film, Shakespeare has been put to work in unexpected places, yielding...
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If you want to know why our nation's leaders have failed to solve America's crime problem, these essays expose a number of areas where either not enough thought is being given, or the thinking is just wrong. While crime dominates America's media and political scene, there is very little intelligent insight on the topic coming from those who would know most about it, criminals. These essays change that. The essays begin by addressing crime as part...
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Connected-by Nature's Law presents a comprehensive picture of reality and the process that humanity is undergoing. The book offers tools for using the major personal and social shifts we're going through to our benefit. It also offers a "healthcare program for humanity" by solidifying the ties between us on all levels-family, community, national, and international. The sooner we implement the program, the sooner we will find ourselves enjoying tranquil,...
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Social organism (MEMES) surround us - Families, corporations, religions, nations. One of the specific tasks of our memes is to captivate each of us into surrendering to our role in the Meme thus abandoning our own soulful self. This is why as you read news accounts of a happening you respond "How could he do such a thing?" in the past our answer was "The devil made me," or "God did it." BUT it's not so, the Meme demanded it and we respond - ITS MEME...
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This book urges respect for solitary dissent rather than censure. It equips a wide audience to understand what previously seemed unimaginable, much less comprehensible. It shows the reader how to reach beyond those first conclusions and into the heart of the matter.
The lone voice explains that something has been hidden away, something which the individual now dissenting can no longer acquiesce in. It raises the possibility that more may be seriously...
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Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative research: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case...
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The sociology of sports in the Middle East has been neglected compared to other world regions. This volume aspires to encourage a greater focus on this topic. Here are assembled papers that discuss various aspects of this subject. As it happens all deal with football (soccer) largely in Egypt but including other Middle Eastern countries. Some are historically or politically oriented while others take a more sociological approach. Papers deal with...
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In challenging social science's established orthodoxies, this first in a series of books is a call for its disciplines to embrace new theoretical paradigms and research methods to better, understand the reality of life in a post-COVID world. By offering a detailed insight into the harmful effects of neoliberalism before the pandemic, as well as the intervallic period the world is currently living through, the authors show how it is more important...
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What is CSR? Can there be a single definition possible?
What is CSR anyway?
Until, last few decades of twentieth century, there was no explicit mention of the term Corporate Social Responsibility or CSR anywhere, though it was present. So this book will give in-depth overview of the theoretical aspects such as definitions, evolution, and philosophical impetus of the term CSR.
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Imagine places ideas in society and gets readers thinking critically about their most cherished beliefs and values. The topics are vast and varied: abortion, immigration, gay rights, love, mentorship, and sustainable development. There is no right answer. We must come to our own conclusions. If we can listen and learn from each other, we can accept our differences. Everyone has ideas on how to make the world a better place and fill humankind with...
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Los avatares de las formas discursivas aludidas, serán abordados bajo unos interrogantes problematizadores que controvierten algunas de las formas en prejuicio racial hacia los y las afrodescendientes y sus reivindicaciones políticas y culturales. En lo que se refiere a la invención del negro(a), esta será abordada desde dos interrogantes: 1) hablar de negro(a), en cuanto forma discursiva bajo la que se ha definido a un ser humano, ¿nace con...
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#1 When I was 11, my father was forced to retire from the Navy after 25 years, and we moved to La Grange, North Carolina. My father began drinking heavily, and he took his rage and frustration out on my mother. We never knew when he was going to explode in anger and bitterness.
#2 I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, with my mother and two brothers after my father died....
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Methlahoma explains how the methamphetamine epidemic has adversely affected various people in Oklahoma. The opioid crisis has been well covered but the meth crisis may be worse. To better understand how a man-made drug like meth is destroying communities Methlahoma describes the history of the drug trade and how the United States uses the criminal justice system to fight the "war on drugs." Methlahoma describes how modern narcotics trafficking is...
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Robert Wuthnow is the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous articles and books on American religion and culture, including Acts of Compassion (Princeton) and Learning to Care: Elementary Kindness in an Age of Indifference.
The American Dream is in serious danger, according to Robert Wuthnow--not because of economic conditions,...
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Análisis de las relaciones entre el Estado y las poblaciones de Santiago de Lucanamarca, Sancos, Sacsamarca, Carapo, ubicadas en la provincia ayacuchana de Huanca Sancos, después del violento conflicto iniciado por Sendero Luminoso. Este libro nos permite entrar en el complejo mundo social de las víctimas, y las nuevas identidades y subjetividades que son un producto de las Comisiones de la Verdad. Ofrece una mirada íntima y comprensiva de las...
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