Социология
5875 кн.
In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws brilliantly on an immense theoretical literature to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
| Автор | Michel de Certeau |
The New Food Activism explores how food activism can be pushed toward deeper and more complex engagement with social, racial, and economic justice and toward advocating for broader and more transformational shifts in the food system. Topics examined include struggles against pesticides and GMOs, efforts to improve workers’ pay and conditions throughout the food system, and ways to push food activism beyond its typical reliance on individualism, consumerism, and private property. The...
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Patricia M. Speck, DNSc и др.
200 pages, 153 images, 7 contributors<BR><BR> <B>Child Sexual Abuse Assessment</B> provides self-directed exercises that guide readers through the process of identifying documented injuries and developing a plan of action for evidence collection and subsequent medical care unique to each case. Readers will have the opportunity to analyze case histories of child sexual abuse and accompanying photographs of the patients’ physical examinations.<BR><BR> Features...
| Автор | Patricia M. Speck, DNSc и др. |
Don’t trash that stash! Ask Ed: Marijuana Gold—Trash to Stash offers some little-known ways to get more magic out of each and every plant.This book shares some highly efficient and successful methods for transforming leaf or trim, into THC treats, naturally. Rescue unused parts from the garbage safely with equipment from your own kitchen. Ask Ed: Marijuana Gold is conversational in style, explaining each method in down-to-earth language that anyone can understand and follow....
| Автор | Ed Rosenthal |
Are you letting your past rob you of your future? Vulnerability, insecurity, anger, resentment and depression led Mistie into the arms of cocaine. Held hostage by addiction for ten years, she fell from becoming a surgeon in medical school to sporting black eyes, committing crimes and facing forty years in prison for taking someone’s life. Left BROKEN, DEPRESSED and LOST, she found strength to PULL HERSELF UP by sharing the RAW TRUTH about addiction, domestic abuse, and shame to IMPACT others. In...
| Автор | Mistie Layne |
In 1948, the Orioles, a Baltimore-based vocal group, recorded «It's Too Soon to Know.» Combining the sound of Tin Pan Alley with gospel and blues sensibilities, the Orioles saw their first hit reach #13 on the pop charts, thus introducing the nation to vocal rhythm & blues and paving the way for the most successful groups of the 1950s. In the first scholarly treatment of this influential musical genre, Stuart Goosman chronicles the Orioles' story and that of myriad other black...
| Автор | Stuart L. Goosman |
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Typically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle that includes active discrimination, unemployment, violence, crime, prison, and early death. This toxic mixture has given rise to wider stereotypes that limit the social capital of all young black males. Edited and with an introductory chapter by sociologist Elijah Anderson, the essays in Against the Wall describe...
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The Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own first-hand experiences as an operator, reveal the complex ways operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, deception and belief. The Fantasy Factory raises provocative questions about the manufacture of artificial intimacy and the...
| Автор | Amy Flowers |
At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line—mostly female—flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together, working women whipping up a meal in under an hour, dieters happy to find a lowfat ice cream that tastes great. In everything from billboards and product packaging to cooking shows,...
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In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns. In this book Jane Adams and contributors—anthropologists and political scientists among them—analyze the political dynamics that have transformed agriculture in the United States and Canada since the 1920s. The contributors demonstrate...
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