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Jean Jackson narrates her remarkable journey as an anthropologist in Colombia for over 50 years.,.

Both a professor of philosophy and a committed political leftist, Burgis wades through a host of contemporary examples, arguing that the common arguments for capitalism and against socialism often rely on questionable logic that can be debated...

Sikkink puts forward a framework of rights and responsibilities; moving beyond the language of rights that has come to dominate scholarship and activism...

Pollin and Chomsky's plan attempts to keep the planet from heating up too much while simultaneously redressing the economic wrongs that they blame substantially on unfettered capitalism...

Snyder-Grenier chronicles Henry Street’s sweeping history from 1893 to today...

Race now drives American political feeling. What does this mean for American democracy today?

Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society...

Posner explores the fascinating and complex history of pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. It is an industry like no other and a story like no other...

This book is thus a wake-up call for European-descended restorative justice practitioners as it is validating for Indigenous practitioners and practitioners of color and enlightening for anyone wishing to explore the intersections of indigeneity, racial justice, and restorative justice...

Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...

Waitoller highlights the challenges faced by students of color who have special needs and their parents who evaluate their educational options...

Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....

McCoy provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century...

Why Do Unnecessary and Often Counter-Productive Medical Interventions Happen So Often?

Rancor reigns in American politics. It is possible these days to regard politics as an arena that enriches and ennobles?

Mayeux explores the rise, both in the idea and practice, of the public defender throughout the 20th century...

Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis, every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every thirty seconds malaria kills a child...

Mary Augusta Brazelton examines the PRC's public health campaigns of the 1950s to explain just how China managed to inoculate almost six hundred million people against this and other deadly diseases...

Soqotra, the largest island of Yemen's Soqotra Archipelago, is one of the most uniquely diverse places in the world...

Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated...

What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity?

Have we destroyed the public university? Christopher Newfield thinks so...

Winling casts higher education as the beneficiary and catalyst of the century's monumental state building projects--receiving millions in New Deal construction funds, even more from WWII-era military research, and directing the bulldozer's path during urban renewal schemes around the country...

Lapavitsas contends that the EU's response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts...