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  • Questioning the 'Muslim Woman'

    Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality

    by Nida Kirmani ...
    Series series Religion and Citizenship
    The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated as a homogenous group with a common set of interests. Focusing on the narratives of women living in a predominantly Muslim colony in South Delhi, this book attempts to demonstrate the complexity of their lives and the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • A Hope in the Unseen

    An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

    by Ron Suskind ...
    The inspiring, true coming-of-age story of a ferociously determined young man who, armed only with his intellect and his willpower, fights his way out of despair.In 1993, Cedric Jennings was a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate was well into double digits and just 80 students out ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Heat Wave

    A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

    by Eric Klinenberg ...
    The "compelling" story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society ( Boston Globe).On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsettling the Commons

    Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism

    by Craig Fortier ...
    Drawing on interviews with 51 anti-authoritarian organizers to investigates what it means to struggle for “the commons” within a settler colonial context, Unsettling the Commons (ARP Books) interrogates a very important debate that took place within Occupy camps and is taking place in a multitude of movements in North America around what it means to claim “the commons” on stolen land. Travelling ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Diversity Studies

    Edited by Steven Vertovec ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    In recent years the concept of ‘diversity’ has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice and public policy worldwide. Although variously used, ‘diversity’ tends to refer to patterns of social difference in terms of certain key categories. Today the foremost categories shaping discourses and policies of diversity include race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexuality ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Storefront Church

    by John Patrick Shanley ...
    Some of Shanley’s sharpest comic writing in years… His intense engagement with questions of religion and ethics remains distinctive and invigorating.” - Charles Isherwood, New York TimesThere’s a deeper philosophical vein that the author mines, allowing his language to acquire the heft and timbre of a serious moral debate…We taste bitterness, but also much that is sweet.” - David Cote, TimeOut New ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Living Faith

    Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty

    by Susan Crawford Sullivan ...
    Series series Morality and Society Series
    Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women’s lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs and struggling to care for their children while surviving on welfare or working at low-wage service jobs and sometimes facing physical or mental health problems. But until now little attention has been paid to an ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Stain Removal

    Ethics and Race

    by J. Reid Miller ...
    Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed his dream that his children would "one day not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." In his vision, a person's ethical qualities would be understood in spite of his or her body rather than through it. In general, we think that a person's actions should not be judged according to their physical features, such as race ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • A House of Prayer for All People

    Contesting Citizenship in a Queer Church

    by David K. Seitz ...
    Perhaps an unlikely subject for an ethnographic case study, the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto in Canada is a large predominantly LGBT church with a robust, and at times fraught, history of advocacy. While the church is often riddled with fault lines and contradictions, its queer and faith-based emphasis on shared vulnerability leads it to engage in radical solidarity with asylum-seekers ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Debating Difference

    Group Rights and Liberal Democracy in India

    by Rochana Bajpai ...
    How can inequalities between groups be addressed, while at the same time sustaining common citizenship? Debating Difference offers a new approach to this key question for liberal democracies, demonstrating that argument and debate is crucial for reconciling the demands of group equality and civic unity. India offers a unique case of group-differentiated rights. Using landmark constitutional and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Planetary Atmospheres and Urban Society After Fukushima

    Edited by Christophe Thouny, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection examines the event of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics to portray the triple catastrophe of March 2011 as both a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider global community. The contributors examine how this new situation has been expressed in particular cultural forms (literature, film ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Role of Computer Education in the Social Empowerment of Muslim Minority Women in Greek Thrace

    by Keratso Georgiadou ...
    Series Book 12 - Europaeische Bildung im Dialog
    This book explores the Muslim minority women’s perceptions of how computer education can lead them to social participation. Moreover, it discusses the contribution of (administrative) members of the community to this effort. The analysis of quantitative findings shows that Muslim women in Greek Thrace exhibit a more western-oriented behavioural intention to use computers. By evaluating multiple ... Read more

    $70.49 USD