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  • Helpless
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    Helpless

    The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three young children, Janie turns to experienced foster carer Cathy Glass. Helping the family each morning, Cathy soon uncovers how dangerous their situation has...
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    First-Time Manager
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    First-Time Manager

    The essential resource for new managers who want to foster a safe, inclusive, and productive space for their teams.Being an inclusive manager boils down to finding ways to balance power and love day-to-day. When do we prioritize the needs of an...
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    Beyond Vietnam

    With a new foreword by Viet Thanh NguyenA beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "Beyond Vietnam,” part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.At New York City's Riverside Church in 1967, Dr. King...
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    Inverse Cowgirl

    "One of the most brilliant thought leaders I have been able to share space with."—Jonathan van Ness, from the foreword"The must-read memoir of fall 2023."—Them"Powerful and vital."—Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Song of...
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    Neon Girls

    NPR's Best Books of 2020"Galvanizing and urgent....a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle."  –National Public RadioA riveting true story of a young woman’s days...
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  • Desert Solitaire
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    Desert Solitaire

    ‘My favourite book about the wilderness’ Cheryl Strayed, author of WildIn this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey ventures alone into the canyonlands of Moab, Utah, to work as a seasonal ranger for the United States National...
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    Burn This Book

    Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.As Americans we often take our...
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    In the Hot Zone

    Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first...
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    Girl Unbroken

    In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie’s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival.They were five kids...
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  • Please Don't Take My Baby
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    Please Don't Take My Baby

    ‘I’m going to love my baby and give her lots of attention,’ Jade said. ‘I’ll show my mum she’s wrong.’Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she’s brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her baby, but little more than a child...
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  • Another Forgotten Child
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    Another Forgotten Child

    A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass.Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at...
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  • Knowledge is Beautiful
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    Knowledge is Beautiful

    In this mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works. We are living in the Information Age, in which...
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  • Can't Someone Fix What Ails Me? Can't Someone Fix What Ails Me?
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    Can't Someone Fix What Ails Me?

    The two people who compiled (and contributed) their own stories have over a dozen chronic illnesses between them. They and the other 19 writers want you to know what it's like. How do they, as "chronics," deal with walking into a medical office and being...
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  • Beyond the Monkey Bars Beyond the Monkey Bars
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    Beyond the Monkey Bars

    Resiliency and a Positive Outlook Win Out ... Why would a mother tell doctors that her young son was mentally and physically ill when he wasn't? This startling memoir recounts the son's difficult and unusual childhood journey that included extended stays...
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    The Nation and Its Peoples

    With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge. Focusing on the shifting and contradictory meaning of race, The Nation and Its Peoples underscores the persistence of structural...
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  • Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11
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    Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11

    In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot...
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    Youth Culture and the Media

    This expansive, lively introduction charts the connections between international youth cultures and the development of global media and communication. From 1950s drive-ins and jukeboxes to contemporary social media, the book examines modern youth...
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  • Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts
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    Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

    Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women's experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities. Concentrating on the various forms of domestic...
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  • Ideology and the Fight Against Human Trafficking Ideology and the Fight Against Human Trafficking
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    Ideology and the Fight Against Human Trafficking

    Human trafficking has become one of the most spoken-of problems of our day, and fighting it has grown into a multi-million-dollar project sector. This book is about how we all come to name various exploitative migratory experiences "human...
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  • Mexico's Drug-Related Violence Mexico's Drug-Related Violence
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    Mexico's Drug-Related Violence

    This book explores and explains how traditional and alternative media have framed the issues of gun trafficking into Mexico, drug related violence, and spillover violence. It reveals how gun trafficking and drug related violence are social problems for...
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  • Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century
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    Midwifery from the Tudors to the 21st Century

    This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for childbearing women.With a particular focus on sixteenth and twentieth century midwifery practice, it includes...
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  • Deviance Today Deviance Today
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    Deviance Today

    The second edition of Deviance Today is a contemporary collection of original chapters in the field of deviant behavior. This new edition has 16 new chapters. All of the chapters reflect the current trend in the sociology of deviance. This...
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  • Lesbians and White Privilege Lesbians and White Privilege
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    Lesbians and White Privilege

    This volume challenges, recognizes, and questions whiteness, with the intention that it encourages us to do the same, in our own lives, practices, behaviors, and disciplines.
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  • Shopping While Black Shopping While Black
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    Shopping While Black

    Winner of the 2022 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award!Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America lays out the results of nearly two decades of research on racial profiling in retail settings.Gabbidon and...
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  • "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?" "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?"
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    "Can You Run Away from Sorrow?"

    How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however, this wasn't an option. In this powerful and moving work, Ivana...
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  • Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration
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    Moral Economy of Welfare and Migration

    Britain's coalition government of 2010-2015 ushered in an enduring age of austerity and a ""moral mission"" of welfare reform as part of a drive for deficit reduction. Stricter controls were applied to both domestic welfare and international migration...
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  • Send Them Here Send Them Here
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    Send Them Here

    The United States and Canada have historically accepted approximately three-quarters of resettled refugees, leading the world in this key aspect of global refugee protection. Between 1945 and 1980, both countries transformed their previous policies of...
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  • The Indomitable Queen The Indomitable Queen
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    The Indomitable Queen

    The Indomitable Queen is the story of a young woman who rose above childhood of feeling unheard and unseen and adulthood filled with abuse, betrayal, toxicity, and traumatic experiences. After a plethora of life-changing events, the author initiated a...
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  • No Safe Place Special Edition No Safe Place Special Edition
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    No Safe Place Special Edition

    For most of her life, Christa Hernandez had no safe place . Brutally abused, sexually molested, ritually abused, mind controlled and constantly hopping from house to house as her life turned inside out over and over again, Christa grew up without knowing...
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  • Shifting Me Softly Shifting Me Softly
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    Shifting Me Softly

    I did not have to call into question how I lived my life until it I had to defend it in court.Two years ago, I won a legal case of relocating with my boys to Te Arai, freeing us from the restrictions my ex placed on us. The legal battle lasted five...
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  • Dis/ability Studies Dis/ability Studies
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    Dis/ability Studies

    In this ground-breaking new work, Dan Goodley makes the case for a novel, distinct, intellectual, and political project - dis/ability studies - an orientation that might encourage us to think again about the phenomena of disability and ability. Drawing...
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  • Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability
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    Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability

    This book provides a multifaceted exploration of changing social attitudes toward disability. Adopting a tripartite approach to examining disability, the book looks at historical, cultural, and education studies, to break down some of the unhelpful...
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  • Medicine, Health and the Arts Medicine, Health and the Arts
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    Medicine, Health and the Arts

    In recent decades, both medical humanities and medical history have emerged as rich and varied sub-disciplines. Medicine, Health and the Arts is a collection of specially commissioned essays designed to bring together different approaches to these...
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  • Branding and Designing Disability Branding and Designing Disability
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    Branding and Designing Disability

    Over the past fifty years, design and branding have become omnipotent in the market and have made their way to other domains as well. Given their potential to divide humans into categories and label their worth and value, design and branding can wield...
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  • Poverty and Development in China Poverty and Development in China
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    Poverty and Development in China

    China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally...
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  • Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia
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    Ultra-Low Fertility in Pacific Asia

    This book brings together work on the low fertility countries of East Asia with an analysis of trends in fertility, what we know about their determinants and consequences, the policy issues and how these are being addressed in the various countries.
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  • Race, Law, and American Society Race, Law, and American Society
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    Race, Law, and American Society

    This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall's seminal work , tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at...
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    Alice had a Palace

    Based on true life, a story that begged to be told. Dysfunction and abuse on a ten plus scale. Homicidal violence, bank robbery, excitement and intrigue on every page. Described as emotionally riveting, a page turner, armour piercing, this tale of a...
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    Jeckyll and Hyde

    Over 62 years of abuse by siblings, theirfriends, husband, uncle, and kids. Whathappened, how and why. Sufferingthrough financial, physical, mental,verbal, sodomizing, drowning andstrangulation, sexual assault by brotherin law, who later stole from her...
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    Migrant Mothers in the Digital Age

    This book explores the experiences of migrant mothers through the lens of the online communities they have created and participate in. Examining the ways in which migrant mothers build relationships with each other through these online communities and...
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    Birth of a White Nation

    Birth of a White Nation, Second Edition examines the social construction of race through the invention of white people. Surveying colonial North American law and history, the book interrogates the origins of racial inequality and injustice in American...
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  • Archival Silences Archival Silences
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    Archival Silences

    Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign 'silence' is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within...
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