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1) The First 48
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A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
3) 60 Days In
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
60 Days In offers an unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days.
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English
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The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is...
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University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, processes and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy, and the historical development of feminist social movements. The book emphasizes feminist sociological approaches to analyzing structures...
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Publisher
Seismo
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Que signifie travailler dans la grande distribution aujourd’hui ? En Suisse, deux géants se partagent la quasi-totalité du marché. Pour tenir la concurrence, ils intensifient le travail, exigent davantage de disponibilité de la part de leurs employé·e·s et déqualifient certains postes. Dans ce contexte, comment les responsables de magasin atteignent-ils les objectifs de rentabilité malgré les contraintes ? Comment les caissières font-elles...
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VAN BENTHUYSEN & SONS' STEAM PRINTING HOUSE.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Hiram Chase is a well liked Reverend in a small ministry in Utica. When his mental and physical health deteriorates, he is taken to Utica lunatic asylum. After his stay in the asylum, Hiram documents his experiences and those of other patients in the asylum. He describes his daily routine and the negative experiences he had, along with praising certain individuals whom he met during his "Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum". (Good Reads...
Publisher
University of Windsor
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
What do we know about the world? Rhetorical and Argumentative Perspectives is a book trying to answer the title question by contributing to rhetorical and argumentative studies. It consists of papers presented at the “First International Conference on Rhetoric in Croatia: the Days of Ivo Škarić” in May, 2012, and subsequently revised for publication. Through a variety of different routs, the papers explore the role of rhetoric and argumentation...
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J.B. Lippincott Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe' by S. Baring-Gould is a fascinating account of the rock-dwellings, cliff-refuges, and underground sanctuaries that humans have built across Europe and beyond. From the Pueblo Indians in America to the limestone cliffs of Palestine, the book explores the remarkable human dwellings that have been carved out of the earth. The author draws from extensive research and his own experience to document the lives...
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
At a time when an emphasis on productivity in higher education threatens to undermine well-crafted research, these highly reflexive essays capture the sometimes profound intellectual effects that may accompany disrupted scholarship. They reveal that over long periods of time relationships with people studied invariably change, sometimes in dramatic ways. They illustrate how world events such as 9/11 and economic cycles impact individual biographies.
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University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The world of communication media has undergone massive changes since the mid-1980s. Along with the extraordinary progress in technological capability, it has experienced stunning decreases in costs; a revolutionary opening up of markets (a phenomenon exemplified by but not limited to the rise of the Internet); the advent of new business models; and a striking acceleration in the rate of change. These technological, regulatory, and economic changes...
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Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When rock star Bono told Oprah Winfrey that America is an ideal that is supposed to be contagious, the talk show host was moved to tears. Such an imagined America, rather than the nation-state USA, is the topic of Fabricating the Absolute Fake. Pop and politics become intertwined, as Hollywood, television, and celebrities spread the American Dream around the world. Using concepts such as the absolute fake and karaoke Americanism, the book examines...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which unfolded in the middle of the pandemic. It highlights how...
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Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Paradoxes of Social Capital critically examines the robustness of social capital theory as an analytical tool in explaining the various 'integration' patterns amongst Moroccans in London. The book also considers how structural factors impact on the ways in which Moroccans - across generations - sustain, access and use social capital at the levels of family, ethnic community, migrant associations and schools. Furthermore, this research elaborates on...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting-edge areas as well as core areas of contention. Divided in five...
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Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lucy Maynard Salmon (July 27, 1853 – February 14, 1927) was an American historian. She was a professor of history at Vassar College from 1889 until her death. She was the first woman to be a member of the executive committee of the American Historical Association. She published widely in historical journals and general magazines, and was highly active in civic affairs, supporting civil service reform and world and women suffrage.
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