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  • Medals & Memoirs: Please Rise

    by Scott Harding ...
    Despite the torments of time, their love endured. The receding tides could no longer hide the scars of loss and despair. For this, there was no remedy. Time is as unforgiving as the waves that tried to destroy their past. The portrait of truth was obvious as they stood together for now and for all times; soulmates lost in the sea of each other's love. Based on the conversations between a hospice ... Read more

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  • Human Rights-Based Community Practice in the United States

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    A transformative model for community social work rooted in basic social and economic rights is the basis of this timely Brief. With specific chapters spotlighting the rights to health care, nutritious food, and adequate and affordable housing, the book describes in depth the role of community practice in securing rights for underserved and vulnerable groups and models key aspects of rights-based ... Read more

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  • Economic Justice, Labor and Community Practice

    Edited by Louise Simmons, Scott Harding ...
    Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning better jobs, benefits from local development and better working conditions. A multi-disciplinary group of ... Read more

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  • Breaking the War Habit

    The Debate over Militarism in American Education

    Series Book 3 - Children, Youth, and War
    The Pentagon currently spends around $1.4 billion per year on recruiting and hundreds of millions annually on other marketing initiatives intended to convince the public to enlist—costly efforts to ensure a steady stream of new soldiers. The most important part of this effort is the Pentagon’s decades-long drive to win over the teenage mind by establishing a beachhead in American high schools and ... Read more

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  • The War Machine and Global Health

    In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by ... Read more

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  • Women and Wars

    Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

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    Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the ... Read more

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  • Maximum Moxie

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    Days before the Pearl Harbor attack plunges the U.S. into World War II, private eye Maggie Sullivan is hired to find a missing engineer in Dayton, Ohio. Has Gil Tremain been kidnaped, or has he turned traitor — to his employer and maybe his country?As Maggie pieces together his last movements, she finds there are secrets the man’s ex-wife and his employers don’t want uncovered. Maggie herself is ... Read more

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    Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for ... Read more

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  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights

    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
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