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Conor O'Clery
The Billionaire Who Wasn't

"Chuck Feeney is a remarkable role model, and the ultimate example of giving while living." ---Bill GatesThis bestselling book tells the inspiring life story of Chuck Feeney, known as the "…

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Beth Roy
Reclaiming Humanity

Both theoretical and narrative, the book draws on the author's long experience as a mediator and counselor to examine the ways in which members of society are dehumanized by institutional oppression and c…

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Philip Clarke
The Rise of the Stylist

Defines a unique period in British youth culture and lifestyle publishing, drawing on oral history, editorial analysis and existing fashion and subcultural theory to chart the emergence of the stylist in …

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Beth Roy
Reclaiming Humanity

Both theoretical and narrative, the book draws on the author's long experience as a mediator and counselor to examine the ways in which members of society are dehumanized by institutional oppression and c…

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Samuel A Moore
Publishing Beyond the Market

Developing a more ethical, noncommercial approach to open access publishing

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Pancho McFarland
Food Autonomy in Chicago

"Using ethnographic methods, the author explores important themes in the food justice/autonomy movement in Black Chicago. This autoethnography uses the author's 15+ years in the movement as data info…

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Katie J Wells, Kafui Attoh, Declan Cullen
Disrupting D.C.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was def…

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Paul Kohlbry
Plots and Deeds

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after mili…

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Noah Theriault
A Forest of Dreams

"After the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986, the Philippines became the first country in Asia to codify Indigenous rights. This hard-fought reform aimed to protect the ancestral lands of the archipe…

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Paul Kohlbry
Plots and Deeds

The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after mili…

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Liza Grandia
Kernels of Resistance

The story of how Mesoamerican food activists faced down Monsanto . . . and wonRight before the 2014 World Cup, US trade interests pressured Guatemala's legislature into lifting its national ban on genetic…

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Lydia Gan
Medical Tourism

Medical tourism, a complex interplay of healthcare, economics, and culture, offers both opportunities and challenges for patients, providers, and nations alike.

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Adeem Younis
Small Change, Big Difference - The Penny Appeal Story

Adeem built his fortune off the creation of the UK's most successful Muslim marriage App, SingleMuslim.com. From his success as a self-starter entrepreneur, he went on to found the charity, Penny Appeal, …

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Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-t…

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Julia Flint
We Were Promised

"Karen "Momma K" Gorrell did not consider herself to be an activist. But when those she cared about were wronged, she refused to remain silent. With the economy still reeling from the Great…

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Public Catastrophes, Private Losses

The essays in this collection expand the definition of catastrophe to include not only events like pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires but also slower-moving phenomena that have equally disastrous long-t…

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Erik Baker
Make Your Own Job

A sweeping new history of the changing meaning of work in the United States, from Horatio Alger to Instagram influencers.How Americans think about work changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth …

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Mariah Blake
They Poisoned the World

"Riveting . . . Blake's deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time [is] a book that none of us can afford to miss."---The Washington PostA gripping investigation of the che…

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The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation

This book is the first comprehensive academic treatment of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and employment rights, which has a global vocation demonstrated by ha…

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David Matthews
The Class Struggle and Welfare

A fresh look on the welfare system--with a view beyond the stateWith The Class Struggle and Welfare, David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon--a product …

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