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Animals and society
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Control, privacy and safety in society
Disability: social aspects
Ethical issues and debates
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Housing and homelessness
Human trafficking
Migration, immigration and emigration
Poverty and precarity
Refugees and political asylum
Sex and sexuality, social aspects
Social attitudes
Social discrimination and social justice
Social forecasting, future studies
Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or
Social Integration and assimilation
Social mobility
Violence and abuse in society
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  • Mama Ain't Teach Me That Mama Ain't Teach Me That
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    Mama Ain't Teach Me That

    MAMA AIN'T TEACH ME THAT A true story about a little girl looking for love in all the wrong places... The age-old question adults ask children is, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Like most children, Renée gazed upward and rattled off the top...
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  • Diary of a Predator Diary of a Predator
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    Diary of a Predator

    When two lives collide . . .This groundbreaking tour de force presents the gripping true account of one of America's most notorious serial rapists and the tough female journalist assigned to cover his case.Following an exhaustive manhunt and his capture...
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  • When Adoption Fails When Adoption Fails
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    When Adoption Fails

    When Adoption Fails: Abuse, Autism, and the Search for My Identity is the story of Theresa Werba, an undiagnosed autistic adoptee who endured an abusive adoptive home, several identity changes, a disinheritance, and the discovery of her biological mother...
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  • The Luminous Darkness The Luminous Darkness
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    The Luminous Darkness

    The Luminous Darkness is a commentary on what segregation does to the human soul. First published in the 1960s, Howard Thruman's insights apply today as we still try to heal the wound of those days. Thurmna bares the evil of segregation and points to the...
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  • Imagining the Possibilities Imagining the Possibilities
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    Imagining the Possibilities

    This book explores creative methods of teaching various orientation and mobility techniques to persons who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities. Imagining the Possibilities is a hands-on teaching resource for...
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  • Walking Toward the Sunset Walking Toward the Sunset
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    Walking Toward the Sunset

    Walking toward the Sunset is a historical examination of the Melungeons, a mixed-race group predominantly in southern Appalachia. Author Wayne Winkler reviews theories about the Melungeons, compares the Melungeons with other mixed-race groups, and...
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  • Towards the "Other America" Towards the "Other America"
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    Towards the "Other America"

    ​Chris Crass calls on all of us to join our values to the power of love and act with courage for a world where Black lives truly matter. A world where the death culture of white supremacy no longer devours the lives of Black people and no longer deforms...
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  • The Cyberbully Self-Defense Handbook The Cyberbully Self-Defense Handbook
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    The Cyberbully Self-Defense Handbook

    Are you or your child facing the distressing reality of cyberbullying? In a world driven by digital interactions, it's crucial to arm yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to combat online abuse. Introducing "The Cyberbully Self-Defense...
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  • Ostracized Ostracized
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    Ostracized

    Ostracized is a book covering the abuse sustained in a particular family. Juss Shy, the author, goes in great detail telling how people's lives are impacted based upon certain types of abuse inflicted upon them from family members and other people.
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    Warning Signs Warning Signs
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    Warning Signs

    How do we prevent the next school shooting? By knowing the warning signs.Dr. Langman's timely book presents practical, research-based guidance on anticipating and preventing mass attacks. Warning Signs is for all members of a school community, including...
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  • Father Brown's Home for Boys Father Brown's Home for Boys
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    Father Brown's Home for Boys

    The 1960's were a turbulent time in our history.  Our leaders were assassinated, America was bogged down in Vietnam, casualty numbers fought for space with Anti-War and Civil Rights movements on the front pages of every newspaper and for the...
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  • Sanctuary? (Routledge Revivals) Sanctuary? (Routledge Revivals)
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    Sanctuary? (Routledge Revivals)

    In the ten years immediately following the Second World War, some 170 000 immigrants from Europe and Britain arrived in Australia. First published in 1988, this unique book recreates the experiences of those who fled a ravaged Europe to seek a new life...
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  • Housing and Health in Europe Housing and Health in Europe
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    Housing and Health in Europe

    In this cross-disciplinary research David Ormandy and expert contributors explain the nature and development of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe. In-depth analysis provides new evidence of links between the health...
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  • Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
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    Life After Cancer in Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Adolescence and young adulthood is often a difficult enough time without serious illness. However, research has shown that cancer, and surviving cancer, at this age presents distinctive problems medically, socially and psychologically. This important...
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  • International Migration and Security International Migration and Security
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    International Migration and Security

    Every day newspapers in the Western world carry articles about illegal immigrants, asylum seekers and other migrants. The focus of these articles varies greatly from migrants as a threat to one or another important social or societal interest, to...
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  • Reforming Child Protection Reforming Child Protection
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    Reforming Child Protection

    Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children's lives and family life are seen to be at stake. Vital as child protection work is, this book argues that there is a pressing need for...
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  • Truth on Trial in Thailand Truth on Trial in Thailand
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    Truth on Trial in Thailand

    Since 2005, Thailand has been in crisis, with unprecedented political instability and the worst political violence seen in the country in decades. In the aftermath of a military coup in 2006, Thailand's press freedom ranking plunged, while arrests for...
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  • Biobanks Biobanks
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    Biobanks

    In recent years, a number of large population-based biobanks - genetic databases that combine genetic information derived from blood samples with personal data about environment, medical history, lifestyle or genealogy - have been set up in order to...
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  • The New NHS The New NHS
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    The New NHS

    Dr Alison Talbot-Smith, an experienced doctor and researcher, and Professor Allyson M. Pollock, one of the UKs leading authorities on the NHS, give a lucid and incisive account of the new NHS - which has emerged from a far-reaching programme of...
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  • Equalising Opportunities, Minimising Oppression Equalising Opportunities, Minimising Oppression
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    Equalising Opportunities, Minimising Oppression

    Anti-Racist Practice (ARP), Anti-Discriminatory Practice (ADP) and Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP) form a trinity of concepts, nested into one another, which have evolved in welfare services over the last fifteen years. They tend to have developed as...
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  • Anthropology of Tobacco Anthropology of Tobacco
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    Anthropology of Tobacco

    Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commoditites on the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious, global story in...
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  • Sex and Gender in the Pacific Sex and Gender in the Pacific
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    Sex and Gender in the Pacific

    This book examines sex, sexuality, gender and health in the Pacific with a focus on three key sets of issues: young people, culture and education; sexual and reproductive health and well-being; and belonging, connectedness and justice. Bringing together...
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  • Environmental Radioactivity and Emergency Preparedness Environmental Radioactivity and Emergency Preparedness
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    Environmental Radioactivity and Emergency Preparedness

    Radioactive sources such as nuclear power installations can pose a great threat to both humans and our environment. How do we measure, model and regulate such threats? Environmental Radioactivity and Emergency Preparedness addresses these topical...
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  • Voices of Intimate Partner Homicide Voices of Intimate Partner Homicide
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    Voices of Intimate Partner Homicide

    In the USA, law, policy, policing, and prevention work addressing domestic and intimate partner violence is created and enacted based on a violence model. This book takes a critical look at these misconceived notions and sheds light on multiple...
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  • The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa
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    The Societies of the Middle East and North Africa

    The second edition of this well-regarded volume explores the societies of the Middle East and North Africa. Presenting original studies written by the world's leading MENA scholars, it sheds light upon the organizing structures, human vulnerabilities,...
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  • Disaster and Emergency Management Methods Disaster and Emergency Management Methods
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    Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

    Find the answers to disaster and emergency management research questions with Disaster and Emergency Management Methods. Written to engage students and to provide a flexible foundation for instructors and practitioners, this interdisciplinary textbook...
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  • Rural, Regional and Remote Social Work Rural, Regional and Remote Social Work
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    Rural, Regional and Remote Social Work

    This book gives voice to the direct practice experience of social workers working in rural and remote contexts using Australia as the primary case-study. The authors undertake a qualitative research project, conducting in-depth interviews to examine...
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  • Lacan and Race Lacan and Race
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    Lacan and Race

    This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation, conceptualizing race, racial identity, and racism in ways that go beyond traditional modes of...
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  • Health, Food and Social Inequality Health, Food and Social Inequality
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    Health, Food and Social Inequality

    Health, Food and Social Inequality investigates how vast amounts of consumer data are used by the food industry to enable the social ranking of products, food outlets and consumers themselves, and how this influences food consumption patterns.This book...
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  • Ethiopians in an Age of Migration Ethiopians in an Age of Migration
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    Ethiopians in an Age of Migration

    The migration of Ethiopians across international borders is a recent phenomenon because of the limited integration of the country and society to the global economy. Since it was never colonized - aside from the Italian occupation of 1936-1941 -...
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  • AnthropoScene AnthropoScene
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    AnthropoScene

    A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring current scholarship on the history of human identification. Examines how techniques of identification are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation.
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  • Artificial Women Artificial Women
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    Artificial Women

    Enhanced by artificial intelligence, today's simulated females are becoming ever more lifelike as the virtual vies with the real. They have already had a dramatic impact on personal relationships, on our views of women, and our ideas about what it means...
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  • The Book of Vice The Book of Vice
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    The Book of Vice

    Somewhere, somebody is having more fun than you are.Orso everyone believes. Peter Sagal, a mild-mannered, Harvard-educated radio host--the man who puts the second "l" in "vanilla"--decided to find out if it's true. From strip clubs to gambling halls to...
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  • Pornography and Genocide Pornography and Genocide
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    Pornography and Genocide

    One out of every thirty five women born is killed for cultural or sexual reasons. In the twentieth century more women were killed for those reasons than all the people who died in wars. Women everywhere live in the higher stages of Gregory Stanton's...
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  • Shades of Intolerance Shades of Intolerance
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    Shades of Intolerance

    Shades of Intolerance: How Capitalism and Terrorism Shape Discrimination examines issues related to power dynamics and diversity within the United States and globally. The book is designed to enhance readers' understanding of primary motivations...
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  • Pekoe Pekoe
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    Pekoe

    The little kitten was cold, alone and afraid. When a kind voice and the smell of food entices him to come out of the woods, he finds himself taken to a warm kitchen. Unable to keep him, his rescuer contacts her neighbor asking if she would be willing...
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  • Spanking Is a Global Phenomenon Spanking Is a Global Phenomenon
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    Spanking Is a Global Phenomenon

    Spanking Is a Global Phenomenon looks at this traditional method of corporal punishment from a deep perspective, placing it in its historical context, and from a wide point of view, comparing changing attitudes across cultures and generations. The result...
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  • Through the Lens of the World Health Crisis Part 1 Through the Lens of the World Health Crisis Part 1
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    Through the Lens of the World Health Crisis Part 1

    From neo-classical economic theory which one should we choose? Should we say YEY or NEY? Where should we stand when determination of profit comes first before social responsibilities? Should we make sure that social responsibility comes first before...
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  • Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs
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    Mobile Chinese Entrepreneurs

    Shuttling Nomads in Mobile Times.-Research Methodology.-Identity, Interpersonal Networking, and Enterprise Management.-Seven Vignettes.-The Spatial Triangulation of Immigrant Entrepreneurship.-Association: Mediating Self-Identities.-The Double-Edged...
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  • Ageing of the Oppressed Ageing of the Oppressed
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    Ageing of the Oppressed

    Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersectional Injustice explores what it is like to grow older with accumulating and intersecting discrimination. It condemns ageism and other "isms."
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  • Inside Immigration Law Inside Immigration Law
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    Inside Immigration Law

    Inside Immigration Law analyses the practice of implementing immigration law, examining the different political and organisational forces that influence the process. Based on unparalleled academic access to the German migration management system, this...
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  • HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia
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    HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia

    Russia and a few other Eurasian countries have been home to the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the world over the last several years. This volume offers country-specific accounts, authored by the leading players in the analysis of the situation and...
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