Social Policy category: 9249 books
by José-Antonio Orosco
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2008
Cesar Chavez has long been heralded for his personal practice of nonviolent resistance in struggles against social, racial, and labor injustices. However, the works of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. have long overshadowed Chavez's contributions to the theory of nonviolence. José-Antonio Orosco...
Urbanization in China
The Path to Harmony and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
This book traces the history of urbanization in China and discusses major problems and challenges the country is facing as it undergoes a profound social transformation. The author argues that as China tries to build not just more but also better cities, i.e., cities that are not only economically...
by Louis G. Pol, Richard K. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The 1980s witnessed the emergence of an applied subdiscipline within de mography that is coming to be termed health demography. As yet there is no distinct body of research formally categorized under this heading, nor are there professionals who bear the title of health demographer. In fact, most...
by Hennie Lötter
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Poverty is one of the most serious moral issues of our time that does not yet get the appropriate response it deserves. This book first gives an in depth moral analysis and evaluation of the complex manifestations of poverty. It then offers a series of ethical reasons to motivate everyone to engage...
Surveillance Futures
Social and Ethical Implications of New Technologies for Children and Young People
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
From birth to adulthood, children now find themselves navigating a network of surveillance devices that attempt to identify, quantify, sort and track their thoughts, movements and actions. This book is the first collection to focus exclusively on technological surveillance and young people. Organised...
Floating City
A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and poor that secretly weaves together the whole...
How the Poor Can Save Capitalism
Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
John Hope Bryant, successful self-made businessman and founder of the nonprofit Operation HOPE, says business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize the stalled American economy: the poor. If we give poor communities the right tools, policies, and inspiration,...
Public Opinion
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Public Opinion exposes how media can shape public perception and how that perception changes society. Walter Lippmann is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and visionary.
The Cost of Cutting
A Surgeon Reveals the Truth Behind a Multibillion-Dollar Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Why is surgery so expensive?
Surgeon Paul A. Ruggieri reveals little-known truths about his profession—and the hidden flaws of our healthcare system—in this compelling and troubling account of real patients, real doctors, and how money influences medical decisions behind the scenes. Even many...
Dreamland
The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction
Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the...
American Fix
Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis - and How to End It
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Nearly every American knows someone who has been affected by the opioid crisis. Addiction is a trans-partisan issue that impacts individuals from every walk of life. Millions of Americans, tired of watching their loved ones die while politicians ignore this issue. Where is the solution? Where is the...
The Healing of America
A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
A New York Times Bestseller, with an updated explanation of the 2010 Health Reform Bill
Bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany,...
Victory
The Triumphant Gay Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
In the vein of Taylor Branch’s classic Parting of the Waters, Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit Linda Hirshman delivers the enthralling, groundbreaking story of the gay rights movement, revealing how a dedicated and resourceful minority changed America forever.
When the modern struggle...
Chasing the Scream
The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
The New York Times Bestseller
The Book Behind the Viral TED Talk
For the first time, the startling full story of the disastrous war on drugs--propelled by moving human stories, revolutionary insight into addiction, and fearless international reporting.
What if everything you think you...