Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Vintage
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Mar 1983 My Rating: 0
Summary: Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.
Publisher: Vintage
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Mar 1983 My Rating: 0
Summary: Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.
Author: Chicago Tribune
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1986 My Rating: 0
Summary: I picked up American Millstone on a bargain shelf at a local bookstore in Houston. I wrote to the Chicago Tribune for more copies but they had none. The chapters are an EXCELLENT source of short reading articles for a high school English class. I wish they would do a more up to date series as this book was written before the infamous "crack wave."
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1986 My Rating: 0
Summary: I picked up American Millstone on a bargain shelf at a local bookstore in Houston. I wrote to the Chicago Tribune for more copies but they had none. The chapters are an EXCELLENT source of short reading articles for a high school English class. I wish they would do a more up to date series as this book was written before the infamous "crack wave."
Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1997 My Rating: 0
Summary: Poetry. Fiction. Cultural Writing. Edited by Thomas Frank, featuring work by Paul Maliszewski, Ben Metcalf, Dan Kelly, T.C. Frank, Josh Glenn & A.S. hamrah, Marc Cooper, Kim Phillips-Fein, Kevin Mattson, Doug Henwood, Tom Vanderbilt, Mike O'Flaherty, Robert Nedelkoff, Michael Berube, Chris Lehmann, Mike Albo, Curtis White, Stephen Rodefer, John Tranter, Douglas Rothschild, Lisa Haney, Jessica Abel, Patrick Welch, David Berman, and Hunter Kennedy.
Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap)
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1997 My Rating: 0
Summary: Poetry. Fiction. Cultural Writing. Edited by Thomas Frank, featuring work by Paul Maliszewski, Ben Metcalf, Dan Kelly, T.C. Frank, Josh Glenn & A.S. hamrah, Marc Cooper, Kim Phillips-Fein, Kevin Mattson, Doug Henwood, Tom Vanderbilt, Mike O'Flaherty, Robert Nedelkoff, Michael Berube, Chris Lehmann, Mike Albo, Curtis White, Stephen Rodefer, John Tranter, Douglas Rothschild, Lisa Haney, Jessica Abel, Patrick Welch, David Berman, and Hunter Kennedy.
Author: Elizabeth Janeway
Publisher: Morrow, William Company In
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1975 My Rating: 0
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Publisher: Morrow, William Company In
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1975 My Rating: 0
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Author: Betsy Leondar-Wright
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Apr 2005 My Rating: 0
Summary:
Movements for social change could be more powerful if they had more class diversity-a factor that has limited their past size and clout. But attempting to cross class barriers has frequently left middle-class activists frustrated, with few resources to turn to for help.
Based on interviews with 40 diverse activists and thinkers, "Class Matters" fills this gap by demystifying this taboo topic. A guide to building bridges across class lines and collaborating more effectively in mixed-class social change efforts, it is designed in lively, highly readable short "bites," full of stories, ideas, quotations, tips and resources.
Economic justice activist Betsy Leondar-Wright is the communications director at United for a Fair Economy. She has worked in mixed-class movements for over 25 years.
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Apr 2005 My Rating: 0
Summary:
Movements for social change could be more powerful if they had more class diversity-a factor that has limited their past size and clout. But attempting to cross class barriers has frequently left middle-class activists frustrated, with few resources to turn to for help.
Based on interviews with 40 diverse activists and thinkers, "Class Matters" fills this gap by demystifying this taboo topic. A guide to building bridges across class lines and collaborating more effectively in mixed-class social change efforts, it is designed in lively, highly readable short "bites," full of stories, ideas, quotations, tips and resources.
Economic justice activist Betsy Leondar-Wright is the communications director at United for a Fair Economy. She has worked in mixed-class movements for over 25 years.
Author: Leslie W. Dunbar
Publisher: Pantheon
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Sep 1988 My Rating: 0
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Publisher: Pantheon
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Sep 1988 My Rating: 0
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Author: Don Adams, Arlene Goldbard
Publisher: The Rockerfeller Foundation
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2002 My Rating: 0
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Publisher: The Rockerfeller Foundation
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2002 My Rating: 0
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Author: Abe Fortas
Publisher: Signet
Genre: Social Issues
Release: May 1968 My Rating: 0
Summary: This book is a high-minded discussion of our right and duty as citizens to voice our opinions, and of the ways in which we might oppose those aspects of our government and laws that we firmly reject.
It belongs on the bookshelf of every American home, and should be required reading in every high school (mandatory) civics class.
Publisher: Signet
Genre: Social Issues
Release: May 1968 My Rating: 0
Summary: This book is a high-minded discussion of our right and duty as citizens to voice our opinions, and of the ways in which we might oppose those aspects of our government and laws that we firmly reject.
It belongs on the bookshelf of every American home, and should be required reading in every high school (mandatory) civics class.
Author: James D. Woods
Publisher: Free Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Aug 1993 My Rating: 0
Summary: "Examines the professional lives of gay men, exploring the various strategies they have developed for managing their sexual identity--from disguising or revealing it to avoiding the subject altogether. Studies the consequences of each choice."--ý zebraz
Publisher: Free Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Aug 1993 My Rating: 0
Summary: "Examines the professional lives of gay men, exploring the various strategies they have developed for managing their sexual identity--from disguising or revealing it to avoiding the subject altogether. Studies the consequences of each choice."--ý zebraz
Author: Vandana Shiva
Publisher: South End Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jul 2005 My Rating: 0
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Boldly confronting the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, world-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva responds with "Earth Democracy", or, as she prophetically names it, "The People's Project for a New Planetary Millennium." A leading voice in the struggle for global justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures and living democracies.
Starting from the initial enclosure of the commons-the privatization of six million acres of public land in eighteenth-century Britain-Shiva goes on to reveal how the commons continue to shrink as more and more natural resources are patented and fenced. Accompanying this displacement from formerly accessible territory, she argues, is a growing attitude of disposability that erodes our natural resources, ecological sustainability and cultural diversity. Worse, human beings are by no means safe from this assignment of disposability. Through the forces of neoliberal globalization, economic and social exclusion work in deadly synergy to perpetrate violence on vulnerable groups, extinguishing the lives of millions.
Yet these brutal extinctions are not the only trend shaping human history. Forthright and energetic, Vandana Shiva updates readers on the movements, issues and struggles she helped bring to international attention-the genetic engineering of food, the theft of culture and the privatization of natural resources-and deftly analyzes the successes and new challenges the global resistance now faces. From struggles on the streets of Seattle and Cancun and in homes and farms across the world has grown a set of principles based on inclusion, nonviolence, reclaiming the commons and freely sharing the earth's resources. These ideals, which Shiva calls "earth democracy," will serve as unifying points in our current movements, an urgent call to peace and the basis for a just and sustainable future.
Publisher: South End Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jul 2005 My Rating: 0
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Boldly confronting the neoconservative Project for the New American Century, world-renowned physicist and activist Vandana Shiva responds with "Earth Democracy", or, as she prophetically names it, "The People's Project for a New Planetary Millennium." A leading voice in the struggle for global justice and sustainability, here Shiva describes what earth democracy could look like, outlining the bedrock principles for building living economies, living cultures and living democracies.
Starting from the initial enclosure of the commons-the privatization of six million acres of public land in eighteenth-century Britain-Shiva goes on to reveal how the commons continue to shrink as more and more natural resources are patented and fenced. Accompanying this displacement from formerly accessible territory, she argues, is a growing attitude of disposability that erodes our natural resources, ecological sustainability and cultural diversity. Worse, human beings are by no means safe from this assignment of disposability. Through the forces of neoliberal globalization, economic and social exclusion work in deadly synergy to perpetrate violence on vulnerable groups, extinguishing the lives of millions.
Yet these brutal extinctions are not the only trend shaping human history. Forthright and energetic, Vandana Shiva updates readers on the movements, issues and struggles she helped bring to international attention-the genetic engineering of food, the theft of culture and the privatization of natural resources-and deftly analyzes the successes and new challenges the global resistance now faces. From struggles on the streets of Seattle and Cancun and in homes and farms across the world has grown a set of principles based on inclusion, nonviolence, reclaiming the commons and freely sharing the earth's resources. These ideals, which Shiva calls "earth democracy," will serve as unifying points in our current movements, an urgent call to peace and the basis for a just and sustainable future.
Author: Diana Mitlin
Publisher: Earthscan
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2004 My Rating: 0
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Publisher: Earthscan
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2004 My Rating: 0
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Author: Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Mar 2000 My Rating: 0
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In this startling and passionate book, Aristide demonstrates why those on the bottom will never lie down. A graphic revelation of what happens when "free" trade overruns local markets, eradicates local economies, and creates dependence on foreign charity.
Publisher: Common Courage Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Mar 2000 My Rating: 0
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In this startling and passionate book, Aristide demonstrates why those on the bottom will never lie down. A graphic revelation of what happens when "free" trade overruns local markets, eradicates local economies, and creates dependence on foreign charity.
Author: Sheila Tobias
Publisher: Westview Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1998 My Rating: 0
Summary: These days feminism is the new "F" word. Young women who have benefited from the women's movement of the 1960s and '70s shy away from labeling themselves feminists; right-wing commentators such as Rush Limbaugh refer to women's rights activists as "femi-nazis," and women on the right dismiss the need for a woman's movement while reaping its rewards. Despite these setbacks, Sheila Tobias, author of "Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement," maintains an optimistic attitude.
Tobias starts her review of the feminism's past 30 years with a brief history of its 19th-century underpinnings. This is not the first era in which feminism has splintered into several different camps; the same thing happened in the 1920s after the passage of women's suffrage. Tobias documents many difficult and divisive issues, from pornography to affirmative action, and takes an unflinching look at their failures as well as their achievements. "Faces of Feminism" is an important and worthwhile book on the state of feminism in the United States today.
Publisher: Westview Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1998 My Rating: 0
Summary: These days feminism is the new "F" word. Young women who have benefited from the women's movement of the 1960s and '70s shy away from labeling themselves feminists; right-wing commentators such as Rush Limbaugh refer to women's rights activists as "femi-nazis," and women on the right dismiss the need for a woman's movement while reaping its rewards. Despite these setbacks, Sheila Tobias, author of "Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement," maintains an optimistic attitude.
Tobias starts her review of the feminism's past 30 years with a brief history of its 19th-century underpinnings. This is not the first era in which feminism has splintered into several different camps; the same thing happened in the 1920s after the passage of women's suffrage. Tobias documents many difficult and divisive issues, from pornography to affirmative action, and takes an unflinching look at their failures as well as their achievements. "Faces of Feminism" is an important and worthwhile book on the state of feminism in the United States today.
Author: Martha R. Burt, Laudan Y. Aron, Edgar Lee
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jun 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: Homelessness has now been on the American policy agenda for close to two decades. In 1989, when Martha Burt wrote America's Homeless, (with Barbara Cohen, Urban Institute Press), policymakers and the public may have hoped that we could end the crisis relatively quickly. The arrival of the new millenium has not fulfilled that expectation. In this volume, Martha Burt and colleagues return to the issue with the most in-depth analysis of homelessness that has ever been published. Drawing on data from the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC), and extending their pioneering work, the authors examine every aspect of the issue, from how many homeless people there are, where they are, why they became homeless, and how long their homelessness lasts. They examine the programs that provide assistance to the homeless, and how they are configured within communities of different sizes. Finally, the authors explore what these data say about how policymakers have approached this problem, and about our prospects for effectively addressing it in the new millenium.
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jun 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: Homelessness has now been on the American policy agenda for close to two decades. In 1989, when Martha Burt wrote America's Homeless, (with Barbara Cohen, Urban Institute Press), policymakers and the public may have hoped that we could end the crisis relatively quickly. The arrival of the new millenium has not fulfilled that expectation. In this volume, Martha Burt and colleagues return to the issue with the most in-depth analysis of homelessness that has ever been published. Drawing on data from the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients (NSHAPC), and extending their pioneering work, the authors examine every aspect of the issue, from how many homeless people there are, where they are, why they became homeless, and how long their homelessness lasts. They examine the programs that provide assistance to the homeless, and how they are configured within communities of different sizes. Finally, the authors explore what these data say about how policymakers have approached this problem, and about our prospects for effectively addressing it in the new millenium.
Author: Tim Dunne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Mar 1999 My Rating: 0
Summary: There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume brings together leading scholars to evaluate this paradox. The contributors ask whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise. The book evaluates the philosophical basis of human rights, and reflects on the structures that affect the development of a global human rights culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Mar 1999 My Rating: 0
Summary: There is a stark contradiction between the theory of universal human rights and the everyday practice of human wrongs. This timely volume brings together leading scholars to evaluate this paradox. The contributors ask whether human rights abuses are a result of the failure of governments to live up to a universal human rights standard, or whether the search for moral universals is a fundamentally flawed enterprise. The book evaluates the philosophical basis of human rights, and reflects on the structures that affect the development of a global human rights culture.
Author: Michael Korda
Publisher: Random House
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1973 My Rating: 0
Summary: Michael Korda writes brilliantly and irreverently about what male chauvinism means, why men act the way they do toward women in business, marriage and sex--ways men are finally being asked to, forced to, abandon.
He includes discussions with successful women such as Barbara Walters and Helen Gurley Brown.
"Here, with unflinching candor, rapier wit, factual case histories, Michael Korda strips bare the means by which American men put down, illuse, dominate American women." --Irving Wallace
Publisher: Random House
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1973 My Rating: 0
Summary: Michael Korda writes brilliantly and irreverently about what male chauvinism means, why men act the way they do toward women in business, marriage and sex--ways men are finally being asked to, forced to, abandon.
He includes discussions with successful women such as Barbara Walters and Helen Gurley Brown.
"Here, with unflinching candor, rapier wit, factual case histories, Michael Korda strips bare the means by which American men put down, illuse, dominate American women." --Irving Wallace
Author: Paul Kennedy
Publisher: Random House
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Feb 1993 My Rating: 0
Summary: Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges the gap between history, prophecy, and policy.
Publisher: Random House
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Feb 1993 My Rating: 0
Summary: Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to robotics to draw a detailed, persuasive, and often sobering map of the very near future--a bold work that bridges the gap between history, prophecy, and policy.
Author: Paul Findley
Publisher: Amana Publications
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: SILENT NO MORE; Confronting America's False Images of Islam
In his recently released book Silent No More: Confronting America's False Images of Islam, Paul Findley, a 22-year veteran of Congress, chronicles his long, far-flung trail of discovery through the World Of Islam: the false stereotypes that linger in the minds of the American people, the corrective actions that the leaders of America's seven million Muslims are undertaking, and the community's remarkable progress in mainstream politics.
It is an indispensable source for Muslims and for anyone who speaks, writes, or worries about human rights, interfaith harmony and global cooperation. With precise citations, Findley, a Christian, debunks in his narration, the stereotypes of Islam. The author of four other books, two of them on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Findley draws on his decade-long experience as the senior Republican on the House of Representatives subcommittee on the Middle East, his personal knowledge of the region and its leaders, as well as his nationwide acquaintance with U.S. Muslims.
He writes: “Most Americans have never read a verse from the Qur'an, nor met a person they knew to be Muslim. Their distorted images of Islam come from snippets of television news and headlines that falsely link Islam with terrorism and the degradation of women. They have no awareness of Islamic principles and beliefs—monotheism, peace, charity, compassion, interfaith tolerance, women's rights—common principles that should bind Muslims, Christians, and Jews together.” The book is published by Amana Publications and is available from the publisher or the main bookstores such as Amazon.com, Barnes and Nobles and Borders.
Quotes from Silent No More: The partisan arena: “After being quietly on the sidelines for years, [Muslims] are gaining prominence in government and demonstrating skill in politics. They are getting elected to public office, helping other candidates win, providing leadership in political party and government policy activities, and establishing a presence in the judicial branch of government.” [See page 221]
Bloc voting success: In November 7, 2000 presidential voting, “Muslims were the main new political element in Florida, whose twenty-five electoral votes finally settled the outcome of one of the most protracted presidential contests in history…. Bush benefited substantially from Muslim bloc voting. Florida Muslims provided him with a net margin that exceeded 60,000 votes, sixty times his winning margin.” [See pages 268-269]
“Muslim bloc voting brought about a major alteration of the American political landscape…. During the year, over seven hundred Muslims sought election as candidates…. One hundred and fifty-two were victorious…. In major political campaigns of the future, every serious contender for a major office will seek an interview with Muslim leaders. As Albert Gore lists errors in his presidential campaign, his failure to reschedule his cancelled date with [national Muslim] leaders may head the list.” [See pages 271-272]
“The Muslims who are engaged in organizational and public policy activities have made impressive strides in interfaith understanding, but they constitute only a small fraction of Islam's community in America.” [See page 218] Findley's advice to Muslims: “They must defend their faith aggressively and publicly against misconceptions and misrepresentations, especially those expressed by professed Muslims. Muslims should identify themselves publicly with Islam and seek ways to present the truth about their faith to non-Muslims…. Muslims can display their religious affiliation modestly but effectively by wearing a lapel pin, necklace, or ring that displays the word Allah, star-and-crescent, or some other visible linkage with Islam. [As a result of this display] their own good behavior and worthy accomplishments will be identified with Islam.” [See pages 282-284] “At present, television audi
Publisher: Amana Publications
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: SILENT NO MORE; Confronting America's False Images of Islam
In his recently released book Silent No More: Confronting America's False Images of Islam, Paul Findley, a 22-year veteran of Congress, chronicles his long, far-flung trail of discovery through the World Of Islam: the false stereotypes that linger in the minds of the American people, the corrective actions that the leaders of America's seven million Muslims are undertaking, and the community's remarkable progress in mainstream politics.
It is an indispensable source for Muslims and for anyone who speaks, writes, or worries about human rights, interfaith harmony and global cooperation. With precise citations, Findley, a Christian, debunks in his narration, the stereotypes of Islam. The author of four other books, two of them on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Findley draws on his decade-long experience as the senior Republican on the House of Representatives subcommittee on the Middle East, his personal knowledge of the region and its leaders, as well as his nationwide acquaintance with U.S. Muslims.
He writes: “Most Americans have never read a verse from the Qur'an, nor met a person they knew to be Muslim. Their distorted images of Islam come from snippets of television news and headlines that falsely link Islam with terrorism and the degradation of women. They have no awareness of Islamic principles and beliefs—monotheism, peace, charity, compassion, interfaith tolerance, women's rights—common principles that should bind Muslims, Christians, and Jews together.” The book is published by Amana Publications and is available from the publisher or the main bookstores such as Amazon.com, Barnes and Nobles and Borders.
Quotes from Silent No More: The partisan arena: “After being quietly on the sidelines for years, [Muslims] are gaining prominence in government and demonstrating skill in politics. They are getting elected to public office, helping other candidates win, providing leadership in political party and government policy activities, and establishing a presence in the judicial branch of government.” [See page 221]
Bloc voting success: In November 7, 2000 presidential voting, “Muslims were the main new political element in Florida, whose twenty-five electoral votes finally settled the outcome of one of the most protracted presidential contests in history…. Bush benefited substantially from Muslim bloc voting. Florida Muslims provided him with a net margin that exceeded 60,000 votes, sixty times his winning margin.” [See pages 268-269]
“Muslim bloc voting brought about a major alteration of the American political landscape…. During the year, over seven hundred Muslims sought election as candidates…. One hundred and fifty-two were victorious…. In major political campaigns of the future, every serious contender for a major office will seek an interview with Muslim leaders. As Albert Gore lists errors in his presidential campaign, his failure to reschedule his cancelled date with [national Muslim] leaders may head the list.” [See pages 271-272]
“The Muslims who are engaged in organizational and public policy activities have made impressive strides in interfaith understanding, but they constitute only a small fraction of Islam's community in America.” [See page 218] Findley's advice to Muslims: “They must defend their faith aggressively and publicly against misconceptions and misrepresentations, especially those expressed by professed Muslims. Muslims should identify themselves publicly with Islam and seek ways to present the truth about their faith to non-Muslims…. Muslims can display their religious affiliation modestly but effectively by wearing a lapel pin, necklace, or ring that displays the word Allah, star-and-crescent, or some other visible linkage with Islam. [As a result of this display] their own good behavior and worthy accomplishments will be identified with Islam.” [See pages 282-284] “At present, television audi
Author: Bob Blauner
Publisher: Temple University Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jul 2001 My Rating: 0
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Publisher: Temple University Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jul 2001 My Rating: 0
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Author: Theresa Funiciello
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Sep 1994 My Rating: 0
Summary: The Washington Post reported the Pulitzer-nominated "Tyranny of Kindness" to be one of the most important books on welfare and poverty to be published in the last thirty years. This book, part biography, part expose and part political theory, is an authoritative indictment of the welfare system in the United States. Funiciello's own first-hand experience with the "endless nightmare" of it as it was and in fact, continues to be under so-called "welfare reform" provides the emotional, heartrending backdrop to this powerful book. Acquainting us with the hard day to day realities of living on welfare, Funiciello exposes the absurdities of a system that hurts poor people -- espescially women and their children -- while spending most of its taxpayer dollars on an army of social welfare professionals whose interests are in fact alligned with the system -- not with poor people. Tyranny goes beyond an analysis of the injustices and inefficiencies of the system to offer a humane, sensible, cost-effective alternative.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Sep 1994 My Rating: 0
Summary: The Washington Post reported the Pulitzer-nominated "Tyranny of Kindness" to be one of the most important books on welfare and poverty to be published in the last thirty years. This book, part biography, part expose and part political theory, is an authoritative indictment of the welfare system in the United States. Funiciello's own first-hand experience with the "endless nightmare" of it as it was and in fact, continues to be under so-called "welfare reform" provides the emotional, heartrending backdrop to this powerful book. Acquainting us with the hard day to day realities of living on welfare, Funiciello exposes the absurdities of a system that hurts poor people -- espescially women and their children -- while spending most of its taxpayer dollars on an army of social welfare professionals whose interests are in fact alligned with the system -- not with poor people. Tyranny goes beyond an analysis of the injustices and inefficiencies of the system to offer a humane, sensible, cost-effective alternative.
Author: Michael Katz
Publisher: Pantheon
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1990 My Rating: 0
Summary: For the first time in over twenty-five years. the issue of poverty -- and our failure to deal with it -- is back at the top of the policy agenda and on the front page of the news. In this magisterial overview social historian Michael B. Katz, examines the ideas and assumptions that have shaped public policy from the sixties War on Poverty to the current war on welfare. Closely argued and lucidly written. The Undeserving Poor transcends the barriers that have channeled the American discussion of poverty and wealth into a narrow, self-defeating course, and points the way to a new, constructive approach to our major social problem.
Publisher: Pantheon
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 1990 My Rating: 0
Summary: For the first time in over twenty-five years. the issue of poverty -- and our failure to deal with it -- is back at the top of the policy agenda and on the front page of the news. In this magisterial overview social historian Michael B. Katz, examines the ideas and assumptions that have shaped public policy from the sixties War on Poverty to the current war on welfare. Closely argued and lucidly written. The Undeserving Poor transcends the barriers that have channeled the American discussion of poverty and wealth into a narrow, self-defeating course, and points the way to a new, constructive approach to our major social problem.
Author: Francois Fortier
Publisher: Verso
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the new economy they herald are generally either glorified as unprecedented opportunities for post-industrial enfranchisement, or vilified as a mirage conjured up for their own ends by those who run the world. This book sets out to review the relationship between information technologies and society. It examines the development of ICTs, and explores the ways in which they are used to subjugate workers, manipulate consumers, and extend media monopolies and commercial control. Fortier argues that, in their predominant forms, ICTs do little more than polarize economic and political power in an anti-democratic fashion. Yet alternative uses of ICTs already exist and have been promoted by progressive social sectors for nearly two decades. Concluding with a study of these initiatives, Fortier shows how they are aimed at facilitating rather than obstructing democracy.
Publisher: Verso
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2001 My Rating: 0
Summary: Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the new economy they herald are generally either glorified as unprecedented opportunities for post-industrial enfranchisement, or vilified as a mirage conjured up for their own ends by those who run the world. This book sets out to review the relationship between information technologies and society. It examines the development of ICTs, and explores the ways in which they are used to subjugate workers, manipulate consumers, and extend media monopolies and commercial control. Fortier argues that, in their predominant forms, ICTs do little more than polarize economic and political power in an anti-democratic fashion. Yet alternative uses of ICTs already exist and have been promoted by progressive social sectors for nearly two decades. Concluding with a study of these initiatives, Fortier shows how they are aimed at facilitating rather than obstructing democracy.
Author: Stephanie Golden
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Sep 1993 My Rating: 0
Summary: Drawing upon four years' experience as a volunteer in a shelter, Stephanie Golden offers a stark and startling new portrait of homeless women. Taking us inside shelters, out on the streets, and into the lives of homeless women, "The Women Outside" uses wide-ranging scholarship to integrate a number of perspectives--historical, sociological, psychological, literary, and mythic--in a wholly original, incisive investigation.
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Sep 1993 My Rating: 0
Summary: Drawing upon four years' experience as a volunteer in a shelter, Stephanie Golden offers a stark and startling new portrait of homeless women. Taking us inside shelters, out on the streets, and into the lives of homeless women, "The Women Outside" uses wide-ranging scholarship to integrate a number of perspectives--historical, sociological, psychological, literary, and mythic--in a wholly original, incisive investigation.
Author: Susan Faludi
Publisher: Anchor
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Sep 1992 My Rating: 4
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for "The Wall Street Journal", Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally "not" husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction.
Publisher: Anchor
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Sep 1992 My Rating: 4
Summary: A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for "The Wall Street Journal", Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally "not" husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental and it earned the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction.
Author: Scott Hunt
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Aug 2004 My Rating: 5
Summary:
In this illuminating journey around the globe, Scott A. Hunt takes us face to face with true heroes including: the Dalai Lama; the famed dissident of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi; and the activist who brought peace to Latin America, Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, who share their historic struggles and show us how to find optimism in the face of anguish, and compassion in the place of animosity.
What does it mean to fight for peace? From the riotous streets in Burma to a prison cell in Vietnam, from the bombed-out streets of Belfast to the refugee camps of Palestine, Scott A. Hunt travels across the globe, often under arduous conditions, to report from the major battles that shaped and continue to shape our world.
Recounting histories that were not taught in school, and uncovering lessons which may have been brushed aside, Scott A. Hunt coaxes out in intimate conversations staggering stories from Vietnam's leading dissident Thich Quang Do, famed primate specialist and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall, Cambodia's Supreme Patriarch Maha Ghosananda, Ireland's Nobel Peace Laureate John Hume and other great leaders who have battled to end the brutality against the people and causes they cherish.
In the end, The Future of Peace reveals what it means to remain steadfast to a vision of compassion, to be a leader, and to preserve peace in our own day-to-day lives.
The Future of Peace is an extraordinary investigation that offers far-ranging insights and invaluable lessons - a book that changes the way we think about the world and our responsibility toward one another.
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Aug 2004 My Rating: 5
Summary:
In this illuminating journey around the globe, Scott A. Hunt takes us face to face with true heroes including: the Dalai Lama; the famed dissident of Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi; and the activist who brought peace to Latin America, Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, who share their historic struggles and show us how to find optimism in the face of anguish, and compassion in the place of animosity.
What does it mean to fight for peace? From the riotous streets in Burma to a prison cell in Vietnam, from the bombed-out streets of Belfast to the refugee camps of Palestine, Scott A. Hunt travels across the globe, often under arduous conditions, to report from the major battles that shaped and continue to shape our world.
Recounting histories that were not taught in school, and uncovering lessons which may have been brushed aside, Scott A. Hunt coaxes out in intimate conversations staggering stories from Vietnam's leading dissident Thich Quang Do, famed primate specialist and humanitarian Dr. Jane Goodall, Cambodia's Supreme Patriarch Maha Ghosananda, Ireland's Nobel Peace Laureate John Hume and other great leaders who have battled to end the brutality against the people and causes they cherish.
In the end, The Future of Peace reveals what it means to remain steadfast to a vision of compassion, to be a leader, and to preserve peace in our own day-to-day lives.
The Future of Peace is an extraordinary investigation that offers far-ranging insights and invaluable lessons - a book that changes the way we think about the world and our responsibility toward one another.
Author: Jonathan Rauch
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Apr 1995 My Rating: 5
Summary: Tracing attacks on free speech from Plato's Republic to America's campuses and newsrooms, Jonathan Rauch provides an engaging and provocative attack on those who would limit free thought by restricting free speech. Rauch explores how the system for producing knowledge works in a liberal society, and why it has now become the object of a powerful ideological attack. Moving beyond the First Amendment, he defends the morality, rather than the legality, of an intellectual regime that relies on unfettered and often hurtful criticism. "Kindly Inquisitors" is a refreshing and vibrant essay, casting a provocative light on the raging debates over political correctness and multiculturalism.
"Fiercely argued. . . . What sets his study apart is his attempt to situate recent developments in a long-range historical perspective and to defend the system of free intellectual inquiry as a socially productive method of channeling prejudice."--Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times"
"Like no other, this book restates the core of our freedom and demonstrates how great, and disregarded, the peril to that freedom has become."--Joseph Coates, "Chicago Tribune"
"The philosophical defense of free speech and free thought that seems to have been forgotten. . . . A powerful argument."--Diane Ravitch, "Wall Street Journal"
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Apr 1995 My Rating: 5
Summary: Tracing attacks on free speech from Plato's Republic to America's campuses and newsrooms, Jonathan Rauch provides an engaging and provocative attack on those who would limit free thought by restricting free speech. Rauch explores how the system for producing knowledge works in a liberal society, and why it has now become the object of a powerful ideological attack. Moving beyond the First Amendment, he defends the morality, rather than the legality, of an intellectual regime that relies on unfettered and often hurtful criticism. "Kindly Inquisitors" is a refreshing and vibrant essay, casting a provocative light on the raging debates over political correctness and multiculturalism.
"Fiercely argued. . . . What sets his study apart is his attempt to situate recent developments in a long-range historical perspective and to defend the system of free intellectual inquiry as a socially productive method of channeling prejudice."--Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times"
"Like no other, this book restates the core of our freedom and demonstrates how great, and disregarded, the peril to that freedom has become."--Joseph Coates, "Chicago Tribune"
"The philosophical defense of free speech and free thought that seems to have been forgotten. . . . A powerful argument."--Diane Ravitch, "Wall Street Journal"
Author: David Zucchino
Publisher: Scribner
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Feb 1999 My Rating: 5
Summary: Welfare moms are "the most hated women in America," says Cheri Honkala, a dynamic activist from Philadelphia who is profiled in the engrossing "Myth of the Welfare Queen". As the American mood toward welfare turned mean in the mid-1990s and politicians worked to radically change who got benefits and for how long, Honkala used her considerable talents in guerrilla theater to fight bureaucrats on behalf of a rising tide of dispossessed women and children. She keeps the TV news spotlight on the homeless with a host of inspired acts: a long-term tent city for displaced families, the takeover of a church, a grungy encampment next to the Liberty Bell. Nonetheless, folks dispute how helpful such confrontations are. Odessa Williams, a resourceful, resilient woman who supports four grandchildren and then doubles that number when new troubles strike, is the other sympathetic subject in this tough, humanizing portrait of women on welfare by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor David Zucchino.
Publisher: Scribner
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Feb 1999 My Rating: 5
Summary: Welfare moms are "the most hated women in America," says Cheri Honkala, a dynamic activist from Philadelphia who is profiled in the engrossing "Myth of the Welfare Queen". As the American mood toward welfare turned mean in the mid-1990s and politicians worked to radically change who got benefits and for how long, Honkala used her considerable talents in guerrilla theater to fight bureaucrats on behalf of a rising tide of dispossessed women and children. She keeps the TV news spotlight on the homeless with a host of inspired acts: a long-term tent city for displaced families, the takeover of a church, a grungy encampment next to the Liberty Bell. Nonetheless, folks dispute how helpful such confrontations are. Odessa Williams, a resourceful, resilient woman who supports four grandchildren and then doubles that number when new troubles strike, is the other sympathetic subject in this tough, humanizing portrait of women on welfare by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper editor David Zucchino.
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher: Owl Books
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2002 My Rating: 5
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Publisher: Owl Books
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Jan 2002 My Rating: 5
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Author: Mark Zepezauer
Publisher: South End Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Apr 2004 My Rating: 5
Summary: Thank God the U.S. government has begun to cut funding of the arts, humanities, and social services ... but what are they going to do with all that surplus cash? Although the popular media has been largely mum about it, most of the welfare payments go to large corporations in the form of tax write-offs, subsidies, and plain old handouts. This frightening and enlightening book by the editor of "The Tucson Comic News" (a monthly collection of comic strips and panels) traces the flow of money into such worthy projects as subsidizing nuclear power plants (the last one was finished in 1973, but that doesn't stop the U.S. government from spending $7.1 billion a year on this vapor industry), tax breaks for the tobacco industry ($41 million last year), and corporate expense account write-offs ($5.5 billion last year). Read it and weep.
Publisher: South End Press
Genre: Social Issues
Release: Apr 2004 My Rating: 5
Summary: Thank God the U.S. government has begun to cut funding of the arts, humanities, and social services ... but what are they going to do with all that surplus cash? Although the popular media has been largely mum about it, most of the welfare payments go to large corporations in the form of tax write-offs, subsidies, and plain old handouts. This frightening and enlightening book by the editor of "The Tucson Comic News" (a monthly collection of comic strips and panels) traces the flow of money into such worthy projects as subsidizing nuclear power plants (the last one was finished in 1973, but that doesn't stop the U.S. government from spending $7.1 billion a year on this vapor industry), tax breaks for the tobacco industry ($41 million last year), and corporate expense account write-offs ($5.5 billion last year). Read it and weep.