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Author
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, [the author] examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania -- from customary law to human rights -- as specific forms of justice that often reflect elite ideas about gender, culture, and social change. Drawing on evidence from Maasai communities,...
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
"Gripping narrative non-fiction with STEM and social justice themes that proves cities can be surprisingly wild places--and why understanding urban nature matters. What can city bees tell us about climate change? How are we changing coyote behavior? And what the heck is a science bike? Featuring the work of a diverse group of eleven scientists--herself included!--Dr. Cylita Guy shows how studying urban wildlife can help us make cities around the world...
Author
Publisher
Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This provocative, deeply personal book explores how women experience mental health care differently than men--and lays out how the system must change for women to flourish." --
"Why are so many women feeling anxious, stressed out, and depressed, and why are they not getting the help they need? Over the past decade, mood disorders have skyrocketed among women, who are twice as likely to be diagnosed as men. Yet in a healthcare system steeped in gender...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all considered...
Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This book examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities, especially in regard to gender, race, and class. The introductory section outlines the book's integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: the political economy of production, textual analysis, and audience response
Publisher
SAGE
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This provocative new edition examines the mass media as economic and cultural institutions that shape our social identities, particularly regarding gender, race and class. A comprehensive introductory section outlines the book's integrated approach to media studies, which incorporates three distinct but related areas of investigation: the political economy of production, textual analysis and audience response.
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Food and faith podcasters Derrick Weston and Anna Woofenden invite you into a kitchen where a passion for food, sharing meals, showing hospitality, and understanding cultures, and local foodways collide. Answer the call of a just kitchen, where meal preparation is as much an act of resistance against injustice as are marches and protests"--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
D. Graham Burnett recovers the strange story of Maurice v. Judd, an 1818 trial that pitted the new sciences of taxonomy against the then-popular--and biblically sanctioned--view that the whale was a fish. The immediate dispute was mundane: whether whale oil was fish oil and therefore subject to state inspection. But the trial fueled a sensational public debate in which nothing less than the order of nature--and how we know it--was at stake. Burnett...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's no secret that AI is changing the way we live, work, love, and entertain ourselves. Dating apps are using AI to pick our potential partners. Retailers are using AI to predict our behavior and desires. Rogue actors are using AI to persuade us with Twitter bots and fake news. Companies are using AI to hire us-or not. This is just the beginning. As AI becomes smarter and more humanlike, our societies, our economies, and our humanity will undergo...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning indictment of American capitalism--and the leaders that left us brutally unprepared for a global pandemic In 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could not adequately protect its citizens. Millions of Americans suffered--and over a million died--in less than two years, while government officials blundered; prize-winning...