Socio-political – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Michael David-Fox
Crucibles of Power

The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century's most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their experiences under Stalinist and Nazi rule to unravel the threads of authoritariani…

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John Mcphee
They're in the River (Picador Shorts)

A master chronicler of American life introduces us to the iconic and most curious American shad. A pithy, humorous, and illuminating standalone extract from John McPhee's twenty-sixth book, The Founding F…

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Alvin Ntibinyane
Investigative Journalism in Africa

Investigative Journalism in Africais a window into the murky world of Africa's democratic watchdogs, telling the story of perseverance in the face of ubiquitous threats, imprisonment, and harassment throu…

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Gert Tinggaard Svendsen, Christian Bjørnskov
Social Trust in the Nordic World

Study after study has shown that Scandinavia is the most trusting region in the world. Danes in particular trust other people and organizations---including strangers, businesses, governments, law enforcem…

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Planetary Portals Collective
Planetary Portals

A speculative theory for mapping the colonial afterlives of extractive industries across southern Africa.Planetary Portals focuses on the colonial afterlives of extraction in southern Africa and its colon…

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Laura Mauldin
In Sickness and in Health

An urgent and deeply affecting account of America's failure to provide meaningful support to its chronically ill and disabled citizens and our resulting reliance on the unpaid caregiving labor of spouses …

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Corinna Barrett Lain
Secrets of the Killing State

Lethal injection is nothing like what people think. This is its untold story. In the popular imagination, lethal injection is a slight pinch and a swift nodding off to forever-sleep. It is performed by we…

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Howard A Husock
The Projects

How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help --- and how to fix it As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, e…

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Sophia Balakian
Unsettled Families

"How the family unit exists simultaneously as a focus of humanitarian compassion and of securitized suspicion. Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis, Unsettled Families investigates the p…

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Ko-Lin Chin
Counterfeited in China

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Jonathan Balcombe
Fish Sense (Picador Shorts)

A quirky, intimate, and eye-opening look into the ways of thinking like a fish. An extract from the much-loved modern classic on the subject of fish consciousness, What a Fish Knows. Do fishes think? Do t…

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Gianna Toboni
The Volunteer

"A riveting account of one death row inmate's quest to die-and a fearless look at how America's system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve. When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada's d…

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We Are Civic Media

Through the experiences of grassroots practitioners working across a range of mediums and disciplines, this book offers accessible insights for those interested in understanding, respecting, and practicin…

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Marion Nestle
The Fish Counter (Picador Shorts)

America's leading nutritionist teaches you how to navigate the fish counter. A standalone extract from the newly revised edition of her groundbreaking What to Eat (which is being reissued as What to Eat N…

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Ko-Lin Chin
Counterfeited in China

Forthcoming Spring 2025

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Godwin Danjuma Kwalbe
A History of the Nikyob (Kaninkon) People from Earliest Times to 2000

This book A History of the Nikyob (Kaninkon) People from Earliest Times to 2000 is a pioneer work on the hitherto unexplored history of the group inhabiting the present day Jema'a Local Government Area in…

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George Yancy
Until Our Lungs Give Out

A 2023 Library Journal Best Social Sciences Title From Library Journal's Starred Review: "All readers stand to learn something from this compelling book." Award-winning author, scholar, and soci…

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Sophia Balakian
Unsettled Families

"How the family unit exists simultaneously as a focus of humanitarian compassion and of securitized suspicion. Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis, Unsettled Families investigates the p…

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Richard D Kahlenberg
Class Matters

"Richard Kahlenberg has been on a lifelong journey to expand social and economic opportunity and provide a much wider group of people the opportunity to have a place at the table. In this highly pers…

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National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee On National Statistics,
Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency

The 8th Edition of Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency supports the essential role of relevant, credible, trusted, independent, and innovative government statistics. Since 1992, this…

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