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by Michael B. Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that...
A Brief History of Doom
Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Financial crises happen time and again in post-industrial economies—and they are extraordinarily damaging. Building on insights gleaned from many years of work in the banking industry and drawing on a vast trove of data, Richard Vague argues that such crises follow a pattern that makes them both...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018, 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education or training. Teachers and civic leaders stress the value of study through high school and beyond,...
by Mary Robinson, Louise Arbour
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Few names are so closely connected with the cause of human rights as that of Mary Robinson. As former President of Ireland, she was ideally positioned for passionately and eloquently arguing the case for human rights around the world. Over five tumultuous years that included the tragic events of 9/11,...
by Lincoln A. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
From late 2003 through mid-2005, a series of peaceful street protests toppled corrupt and undemocratic regimes in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and ushered in the election of new presidents in all three nations. These movements—collectively known as the Color Revolutions—were greeted in the...
Tropical Whites
The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort—white sand, blue waters, and towering palms—become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the...
Madison Avenue and the Color Line
African Americans in the Advertising Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Until now, most works on the history of African Americans in advertising have focused on the depiction of blacks in advertisements. As the first comprehensive examination of African American participation in the industry, Madison Avenue and the Color Line breaks new ground by examining the history...
Dangerously Sleepy
Overworked Americans and the Cult of Manly Wakefulness
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Workers in the United States are losing sleep. In the global economy a growing number of employees hold jobs—often more than one at once—with unpredictable hours. Even before the rise of the twenty-four-hour workplace, the relationship between sleep and industry was problematic: sleep is frequently...
by Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong, Rosanne Lurie
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The Academic Job Search Handbook is the comprehensive guide to finding a faculty position in any discipline. Building on the groundbreaking success and unique offerings of earlier volumes, the fifth edition presents insightful new content on aspects of the search at all stages. Beginning with an overview...
Divided Cities
Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants...
Against the Wall
Poor, Young, Black, and Male
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
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...
Sex Work Politics
From Protest to Service Provision
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In San Francisco, the St. James Infirmary (SJI) and the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP) provide free, nonjudgmental medical care, counseling, and other health and social services by and for sex workers—a radical political commitment at odds with government policies that criminalize...
Beggar Thy Neighbor
A History of Usury and Debt
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The practice of charging interest on loans has been controversial since it was first mentioned in early recorded history. Lending is a powerful economic tool, vital to the development of society but it can also lead to disaster if left unregulated. Prohibitions against excessive interest, or usury,...
Slavery's Borderland
Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation apart, the region failed to split at this seam. In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physical...