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By Dustin Galer. 2023
The story of a mid-century working-class housewife whose extraordinary physical transformation empowered her to become a dynamic social activist who…
fueled a movement to create a more inclusive future for people with disabilities.By Robin Stevenson. 2024
Triumphant, relatable, and totally true biographies tell the childhood stories of a diverse group of international athletes who have captured…
the world’s attention at the Summer Olympics and Paralympics, like Simone Biles, Jesse Owens, Naomi Osaka, Tatyana McFadden, and 12 other incredible olympians.Athletes throughout history have dreamed of competing in the Olympics—and some were kids themselves when those dreams and plans began! In Kid Olympians: Summer, discover the childhood stories of legends such as: Usain Bolt, who used to skip practices to go to the arcade and play video games.Serena Williams, who sometimes hit her tennis ball over the fence on purpose!Tatyana McFadden, who had to fight to be allowed on her school’s track teamFeaturing kid-friendly text and full-color illustrations, you’ll be inspired to dream bigger, faster, and higher than ever before! The diverse and inspiring group also includes Michael Phelps, Yusra Mardini, Dick Fosbury, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Gertrude Ederle, Nadia Comaneci, Ellie Simmonds, Tommie Smith, Wilma Rudolph, and Megan Rapinoe.By Donovan Bailey. 2023
A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning…
world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to his sprint toward double Olympic gold for Canada in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent. But he also learned that in the bureaucratic world of Canadian sports, an athlete who didn't come up in the system needed to take charge of his fate if he was going to become the world’s best. As he ascended from outsider to dominant athlete, others didn’t always understand the rigour at work behind Bailey’s confident demeanour. He’d learned from watching Muhammad Ali that a champion needed to act like a champion. But media grew fixated on the sprinter’s immodesty, the likes of which they never saw from Canadian athletes, especially track athletes in the wake of the Ben Johnson doping scandal at Seoul in 1988. Bailey was having none of it, and when he called out Canada's subtle racism and contradicted the prevailing idea most Canadians had of their country, he left in his wake a media uproar and cracked wide open the nation’s moral complacency. In addition to his unforgettable 100-metre and 4x100 relay gold-medal sprints in Atlanta, Bailey's track career was a litany of records and rare accomplishments, including his audacious 1997 race in Toronto's SkyDome against American 200-metre Olympic champion Michael Johnson to determine who was really the world’s fastest man. There was no disputing the result. Bailey had been coached in success before he was seriously coached in athletics. Following the lead of his father, a machinist-turned-real estate investor, Bailey became a millionaire by the age of 21, an experience he continues to draw on as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Frank about his dominance on the track and unapologetic for expecting as much of those around him as he expects of himself, Undisputed is an athlete's story that refuses to settle for second best.By Kelly Hrudey, Kirstie McLellan Day. 2017
Few people have had a better front row seat to hockey history than Kelly Hrudey, whose former teammates include Mike…
Bossy, Denis Potvin, Jari Kurri, Paul Coffey and Wayne Gretzky, among many others of the game’s greats. In 1987, he stood tall in net during the Easter Epic, the longest playoff game in Islanders history. Kelly made seventy-three saves (to this day an NHL record for most saves made in a playoff game) against the Capitals before Pat LaFontaine scored the winner in the fourth overtime period of Game Seven at two o’clock in the morning. Later that year, Kelly was in the Canada Cup lineup of one of the most talented teams ever assembled on ice. In 1989, he joined Wayne Gretzky and Marty McSorley on a team that took Los Angeles by storm: the Kings went all the way to the Stanley Cup final against the Canadiens in 1993. Hrudey is now a well-respected hockey analyst and broadcaster and has watched with a keen eye as the game continues to evolve. Through it all, he has seen greatness and missed opportunities, inspiring moments and outright craziness. Working with bestselling author Kirstie McLellan Day, Kelly delivers a lively and thoughtful memoir, rich in behind-the-scenes anecdotes, humour and insight.By Dustin Galer. 2023
The story of a mid-century working-class housewife whose extraordinary physical transformation empowered her to become a dynamic social activist who…
fueled a movement to create a more inclusive future for people with disabilities.By Malcolm B. Hamilton. 1995
This clear introduction to the sociology of religion combines a discussion of key theorists with a modern emphasis on the…
diversity of religious beliefs and practices. Malcolm Hamilton's expanded second edition brings the discussion fully up-to-date, and extends its material on secularization and religious sects, giving a broad comparative view. Drawing on the insights of history, anthropology and sociology, he surveys classic and contemporary theory to give a full picture of the variety and scope of theoretical perspectives.By Michael J. Strada. 2009
Through the Global Lens uses a global perspective to analyze human affairs. This text looks at each of the six…
social sciences (sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, and geography), and uses case studies, feature film analyses, maps, and photos to highlight important historical events and concepts throughout.By Joel Rogers, Thomas Ferguson. 1984
The Political Economy is ideally suited as a supplementary text for courses in American government and politics, policy studies, business-government relations,…
and economic issues and policy making. It integrates selections from the very finest new and classical works of political and economic analysis, by distinguished scholars, into a comprehensive overview of the American political system.By Yonique Campbell, Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers. 2024
Gender Inequality and Women’s Citizenship combines cases across Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to highlight the range of…
systemic inequalities that impact women in the Anglo-Caribbean. Using empirical and secondary data and drawing on feminist theoretical insights, Yonique Campbell and Tracy-Ann Johnson-Myers examine a range of pertinent and intersecting social, political and economic challenges facing women in the Anglo-Caribbean. The issues explored include gender-based violence, barriers to women in politics, the effects of COVID-19 on women, and debates around the illegality of abortion rights and failure to protect the health of women by allowing them to exercise autonomy over their bodies. They raise questions about systemic inequalities resulting from patriarchal gender relations, heteronormativity, women's social and economic status, and state inaction. This book is unique in its interdisciplinary analysis of gender inequality in the Anglo-Caribbean, mapping the intersection of women’s multiple identities and positionalities to determine the obstacles they encounter. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of International Relations, Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Development Studies, Sociology and Anthropology.By Anthony Trotta. 2024
The growth and proliferation of technology in American society places new demands on the U.S. government and the health of…
its democracy, affecting both policymaking and public administration. Technology and American Democracy explores the underpinning democratic theories, including constitutional justifications, that guide decision makers during the application of Information Technology (IT) in governance to promote democratic principles such as transparency and accountability. The book examines the capacity of IT to facilitate deliberative democracy, alter modern bureaucratic structures and functions, and affect areas of public policy including public budgeting and performance measurement. Author Anthony Trotta demonstrates the ways in which technology creates new problems for contemporary government, including a discussion of virtual currency and its possible issues that must be addressed by the public sector. The discussion avoids highly technical language and confusing industry jargon, focusing instead on explaining important concepts in an accessible fashion, applicable to a broad spectrum of readers. Technology and American Democracy is required reading for students enrolled in courses on politics, public administration, and public policy.Das vorliegende Open-Access-Buch folgt der übergreifenden Fragestellung, ob ein Kritiklernen im institutionell gebundenen politischen Unterricht möglich ist. Diese Fragestellung wird…
nicht aus einer institutionen- und schulsoziologischen, sondern aus einer lerntheoretischen und politikdidaktischen Perspektive entwickelt. Der Analysefokus richtet sich damit auf die Frage, wie subjektorientierte Lernprozesse in einer Gesellschaft strukturiert werden können, die durch spezifische soziale Verhältnisse geprägt ist. Das Kernanliegen der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht in der Erschließung der Gedankenwelt Antonio Gramscis für die aktuelle lerntheoretische und politikdidaktische Debatte. Dabei soll der Nachweis der analytischen Ergiebigkeit zentraler Kategorien aus den Schriften Antonio Gramscis, insbesondere der Hegemonie und des Alltagsverstandes, über den Weg einer systematischen Reflexion einschlägiger Sinnbildkonstruktionen geführt werden, denen in der aktuellen Fachdebatte eine zentrale Bedeutung zukommt. Aus einer hegemonietheoretisch gestützten konstruktiven Kritik der Sinnbildkonstruktionen werden Schlussfolgerungen für eine Theorie von Bildungs- und Lernprozessen gezogen, die sich in den Kontext der kritischen politischen Bildung einordnen lassen.Dieses Buch handelt von dem Konzept der Macht im digitalen Raum. Konkret wurden mittels Textanalysen die Machtbegriffe von fünf verschiedenen…
Theorien, welche Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmodelle im Digitalen behandeln, identifiziert. Untersucht wurden dabei postkapitalistische, hyperkapitalistische und alternative Ansätze, welche in der Arbeit unter dem Begriff der Theorien der politischen Digitalökonomie zusammengefasst wurden. Die identifizierten Machtbegriffe wurden hinsichtlich ihrer theoretischen Vorannahmen (Vordenker*innen, Konzepte, Begriffe etc.) untersucht und kritisch diskutiert. Schlussendlich wurden die verschiedenen Konzeptionen untereinander verglichen, indem sie in verschiedene Machtkategorisierungen eingeordnet wurden.By Hartmut Frey, Michael Hirscher, Kay Golze, Michael Felderhoff. 2023
In diesem Buch sind die Besonderheiten von Wasserstoff als zukünftigen Energieträger im Rahmen der nationalen Wasserstoffstrategie Deutschland von ausgewiesenen Kennern…
in einer bisher ungekannte Bandbreite beleuchtet. Herstellung, die Bedeutung von Speichersystemen im Energiesystem sowie tiefgehende Details bei der Materialbetrachtung von verschiedenen Oberflächenproblemen sind ergänzt durch eine kurze Übersicht über den möglichen konkreten Einsatz von Wasserstoff. Dabei wird auf Möglichkeiten eingegangen, wie vor dem Hintergrund der globalen Klimaerwärmung der Treibhausgasausstoss praxis- und bürgernah abgesenkt werden kann.Der InhaltCharakteristika von Wasserstoff, Herstellungsverfahren, ProzesseGroßflächige nachhaltige Energieerzeugung zur Produktion des Energieträgers WasserstoffsWasserstoffspeicher und ihre AnwendungWie sicher ist die Nutzung von Wasserstoff?Speichertechnologien für WasserstoffMärkte für Wasserstoffspeicher und Bedeutung von Wasserstoff im Energiesystem und Technische Systeme für die NutzungWasserstoffnutzung in Gebäuden und kleinen SiedlungenDie ZielgruppenFachleute aus Industrie, Unternehmen und Politik, Architekten, Ingenieure, Studierende und Dozenten.Die AutorenProf. Dr. Hartmut Frey hat an der Universität Stuttgart Maschinenbau und Theoretische Physik studiert und in Plasmaphysik promoviert. Prof. Frey war Entwicklungsleiter der Leybold-Heraeus GmbH in Hanau und Köln. Er war Gastprofessor am Institut für Luftverkehr der Technischen Universität in Sofia (Bulgarien) und ist korrespondierender Professor an den Universitäten in Tomsk und Sofia.Kay Golze engagierte sich den 2010er für die Entwicklung der Elektromobilität. Im folgenden Jahrzehnt entwickelte er verschiedene Lösungen zur Anwendung von Wasserstoff im industriellem Maßstab. Als Mitglied des Wissenschaftsnetzwerk stellt er seine Analysen einer breiten Wissenschaftsgemeinde zur Verfügung, sowie anderen Wissenschaftlern und Unternehmen.Dr. Michael Hirscher ist seit 1987 wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter am MPI für Metallforschung (jetzt Intelligente Systeme) und seit1991 Gruppenleiter "Wasserstoffspeicherung" am MPI-MF/MPI-ISDr. Michael Felderhoff ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Seit 1999 befasst er sich mit der Synthese und Charakterisierung von Metallhydriden zur Speicherung von Wasserstoff und Wärme und der Umsetzung der Ergebnisse in Demonstrationsprojekte.An expertly woven history and critique of the ideas shaping transportation in the United States.Excruciating traffic jams. Struggling transit agencies.…
An epidemic of pedestrian fatalities. It is clear that transportation is not working in the United States and that we need to rethink our approach. In Shifting Gears, Susan Handy provides an in-depth history of the ideas embedded in American transportation policy and the emergence of new ways of thinking that could give us better transportation options. Weaving in bits of her own personal narrative, Handy gives readers a deeper and clearer understanding of our transportation system and the roots of its successes and failures.Handy covers the myriad costs of car ownership, the futility of expanding highways, and the misplaced faith in technological innovation. She offers new ideas and strategies that can improve the health of our car-centric transportation system—most crucially, the idea that communities across the country must create an array of choices for daily travel. Shifting Gears asserts that a diverse transportation ecosystem is essential for creating more just, sustainable communities, but getting there will take a dramatic shift in how we think about transportation.By Susan Watkins. 2023
Since the turn of the century, New Left Review has published a score of editorials on contemporary world politics, each…
departing from conventional positions. This collection brings together a selection of NLR&’s interventions in these years of US unipolarity and late-capitalist boom and bust, the War on Terror and the rise of China, the asymmetrical recovery from the financial crisis and the fraught politics of the energy transition. Bookended by surveys reviewing the broader political-intellectual conjuncture in which the journal is publishing, they examine both the ideas and the on-the-ground operations of liberal-internationalist rule, from the Middle East peace process to the new cold war, analysing the character of the EU and the record of Obama, the meaning of Donald Trump and the explanation for Brexit – as well as tracking counter-movements from street to ballot box, the Arab Spring to Corbyn, Sanders and Podemos.The ultimate goal of environmental policy is reducing pollution. Attention to environmental problems in the social sciences has brought some…
bold generalizations about causes of good results, but almost no systematic cross-national studies that flesh out major theoretical arguments and test those claims with data. This study makes a seminal contribution to that effort in two ways. First, by taking environmental outcomes over the last thirty years as the central dependent variable, it provides a basis for evaluating national performance in reducing environmental problems. Second, by developing a data set including performance in a number of countries and elaborating on major explanations of environmental performance found in the literature, this study provides the most rigorous available analysis of the determinants of environmental performance. In so doing, it challenges what is probably the conventional wisdom in the social sciences.By Jutta Ecarius, Anja Schierbaum, Dominik Krinninger, Uwe Uhlendorff. 2023
Das Buch fragt: Familie wozu? und dokumentiert konzeptionelle und theoretische Perspektiven, Entwicklungen und Kontroversen in der erziehungswissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Familie.…
Mit der Frage Familie – wozu? werden gezielt Themen zu Familie und Gesellschaft, Familienbeziehungen und -konstellationen, privater und öffentlicher Erziehung und Bildung aufgegriffen und diese aus spezifischen erziehungswissenschaftlichen Perspektiven diskutiert.By Peter Baldwin. 1992
This book examines the social bases of the European welfare state, and the interests developed in or against social policy…
by various classes of society, during the period 1875-1975 in Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. By analyzing the competing concerns of different social "actors" that lie behind the evolution of social policy, it explains why some nations had an easy time in developing a generous and solidaristic welfare state while others fought long and entrenched battles. In particular, the book examines the period after the Second World War and looks in detail at the state developed by the bourgeoisie in welfare policies. By casting its net across five nations and a whole century, the book attempts to establish a broad logic of interest behind the welfare state based on a very extensive range of archival material.Why has labor played a more limited role in national politics in the United States than it has in other…
advanced industrial societies? Victoria Hattam demonstrates that voluntarism, as American labor's policy was known, was the American Federation of Labor's strategic response to the structure of the American state, particularly to the influence of American courts. The AFL's strategic calculation was not universal, however. This book reveals the competing ideologies and acts of interpretation that produced these variations in state-labor relations.By Caster Semenya. 2023
World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and career, and her trailblazing battle to…
compete on her own terms. Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya’s win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are. Told with captivating speed and candor, The Race to Be Myself is the journey of Semenya’s years as an athlete in the public eye, and her life behind closed doors. From her rural beginnings running free in the dust, to crushing her opponents in record time on the track, to the accusations and falsehoods spread about her in the press, the legal trial she went through in order to compete, and the humiliation she has been forced to endure publicly and privately. This book is a searing testimony for anyone who has been forced to stop doing what they love.