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Social issues, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Despite its reputation as a carnival of vice, Tijuana was, until recently, no more or less violent than neighboring San… Diego, its sister city across the border wall. But then something changed. Over the past ten years, Mexico's third-largest city became one of the world's most dangerous. Tijuana's murder rate skyrocketed and produced a staggering number of female victims. Hundreds of women are now found dead in the city each year, or bound and mutilated along the highway that lines the Baja coast. When Dan Werb began to study these murders in 2013, rather than viewing them in isolation, he discovered that they could only be understood as one symptom among many. Environmental toxins, drug overdoses, HIV transmission: all were killing women at overwhelming rates. As an epidemiologist, trained to track epidemics by mining data, Werb sensed the presence of a deeper contagion targeting Tijuana's women. Not a virus, but some awful wrong buried in the city's social order, cutting down its most vulnerable inhabitants from multiple directions. Werb's search for the ultimate causes of Tijuana's femicide casts new light on immigration, human trafficking, addiction, and the true cost of American empire-building. It leads Werb all the way from factory slums to drug dens to the corridors of police corruption, as he follows a thread that ultimately leads to a surprising turn back over the border, looking northward. 2019
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Psychology, Religion, Social issues
A chilling expos of youth suicide driven by faith Tony Frost Tribune … Child and teen suicide is no stranger to this author I recall gazing at the stillness of my childhood friend in a coffin and the nun telling me that God had taken him back because he had been made of sin He had killed himself because word got out that he had been born out of wedlock Then there was that girl in my high school class who took the easy way out when she found herself with child A few months after I released my biography of John Paul I a gay teen called me and told me that my book had saved his life He had planned to take his life on that day because his faith condemned the person he happened to be During my years with the Children s Home and Hospital School I ve shared in the grief left in the wake of children s notes I have gone to live with Jesus Thousands of mentally and physically impaired among countless others have left the same legacy behind Then we have tragedies like F tima where two little children are saints today because their faith encouraged them to advance their deaths in slow and agonizing ways to suffer and die for sins of the flesh against the Immaculate Heart of Mary and a Catholic world that thinks it wonderful While through the years the preacher s hatred has taken its greatest toll in unwed mothers gay and transgender teens and other outcasts of religion his lure of heaven remains the leading cause of pre-puberty suicide today As for F tima I give you much more than the Vatican s beatification investigation which found these children tortured themselves with abrasive ropes and stinging nettles and abstained from drinking water on hot days As for me I must live out my days haunted by children s lives snuffed out by the preacher s irresponsible bluff because I had not acted sooner Thousands of tiny coffins lowered into the ground so that the preacher can sell his condominiums in the sky to sheep who lust for more Lucien Gregoire Though the author dismantles traditional concepts of heaven as peddled by preachers he leaves us with far greater opportunity as he proves the salvation tenet of the 33-Day Pope Don t knock yourself out over smart monkeys and Adam and Eve Each of us is responsible for our own evolution We can either choose to remain as mortal men or we can evolve as Gods
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General non-fiction, Social issues
In this powerful and culminating work about a group of inner-city children he has known for many years Jonathan… Kozol returns to the scene of his prize-winning books Rachel and Her Children and Amazing Grace and to the children he has vividly portrayed to share with us their fascinating journeys and unexpected victories as they grow into adulthood For nearly fifty years Jonathan has pricked the conscience of his readers by laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born to poverty within a wealthy nation A winner of the National Book Award the Robert F Kennedy Book Award and countless other honors he has persistently crossed the lines of class and race first as a teacher then as the author of tender and heart-breaking books about the children he has called the outcasts of our nation s ingenuity But Jonathan is not a distant and detached reporter His own life has been radically transformed by the children who have trusted and befriended him Never has this intimate acquaintance with his subjects been more apparent or more stirring than in Fire in the Ashes as Jonathan tells the stories of young men and women who have come of age in one of the most destitute communities of the United States Some of them never do recover from the battering they undergo in their early years but many more battle back with fierce and often jubilant determination to overcome the formidable obstacles they face As we watch these glorious children grow into the fullness of a healthy and contributive maturity they ignite a flame of hope not only for themselves but for our society The urgent issues that confront our urban schools - a devastating race-gap a pathological regime of obsessive testing and drilling students for exams instead of giving them the rich curriculum that excites a love of learning - are interwoven through these stories Why certain children rise above it all graduate from high school and do well in college while others are defeated by the time they enter adolescence lies at the essence of this work Jonathan Kozol is the author of Death at an Early Age Savage Inequalities and other books on children and their education He has been called today s most eloquent spokesman for America s disenfranchised But he believes young people speak most eloquently for themselves and in this book so full of the vitality and spontaneity of youth we hear their testimony
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Women biography, United States history, Social issues
Mill girl Harriet Jane Hanson worked in the booming textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1830s.
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Medicine, United States history, Social issues
Do you ever wish that you didn t have to go to school Not if you had been born during the Industrial Revolution
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Women biography, United States history, Social issues
In 1889, a wealthy Jane Addams saw people in her hometown who did not live as comfortably as she did and opened a settlement house to help them.
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Medicine, United States history, Social issues
Children were a large part of the work force during the Industrial Revolution and fought back for better working conditions higher pay and fewer hours
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Christianity, General non-fiction, Social issues
How can the Kingdom of God transform the powerlessness of the poor Jayakumar Christian argues that in order to provide… sustainable solutions to powerlessness poverty and oppression it is critical to challenge and redefine power from the perspective of the kingdom of God Only when we realise that we are all empty-handed before God can broken relationships be restored This is an important book Written by a deeply experienced and thoughtful practitioner it is theologically deep and fundamentally sound in terms of its social science This is a must-read for any Christian interested in working for transformation among the poor Dr Bryant L Myers Professor of International Development Fuller Theological Seminary Jayakumar has worked among the poor for more than 30 years and demonstrates a profound personal relationship with the God of the Empty-Handed This is a modern classic and this revised edition is a major contribution to development thinking and practice in the twenty-first century Revd Tim Costello CEO World Vision Australia
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Asian history, General non-fiction, Social issues
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is… made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. <P><P>Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. <P><P>But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. <P><P>With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget. <P><P>Winner of the National Book Award | The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award | The Los Angeles Times Book Prize | The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award | The New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • Newsday NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • People • Entertainment Weekly • The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe • The Economist • Financial Times • Newsweek/The Daily Beast • Foreign Policy • The Seattle Times • The Nation • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Denver Post • Minneapolis Star Tribune • Salon • The Plain Dealer • The Week • Kansas City Star • Slate • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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Journals and memoirs, Politics and government, Social issues
What's it like to grow up during war? To be a victim of violence or exiled from your homeland, culture,… family, and even your own memories? When America's talking heads talk about war, children and teenagers are often the forgotten part of the story. Yet who can forget images of the Vietnam "baby lift," when Amer-Asian children were flown out of Vietnam to be adopted by Americans? Who can forget the horror of learning that Iranian children were sent on suicide missions to clear landmines? Who wasn't captivated by stories of the "lost boys" of Sudan, traveling thousands of miles alone through the desert, seeking shelter and safety? From the cartel-terrorized streets of Juárez to the bombed-out cities of Bosnia to Afghanistan under the Taliban, from Nazi-occupied Holland to the middle-class American home of a Vietnam vet, this collection of personal and narrative essays explores both the universal and particular experiences of children and teenagers who came of age during a time of war.J.L. Powers is the editor of Labor Pains and Birth Stories and the author of two young adult novels, most recently This Thing Called the Future, an alternative fantasy set in post-apartheid South Africa. She began collecting essays on children and war while pregnant with her first child and says, "The experience was both painful and uplifting, not unlike giving birth. The most memorable aspect of these essays is their stark portrayal of both survival and hope in the midst of incredible suffering."
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Psychology, Social issues, Sports and games
Fair Fight? Not likely. Least of all from a criminal who is looking to make a quick profit at your… expense. A sad fact is that weapon-wielding thugs victimize 1,773,000 citizens every year in the United States alone. Even martial artists are not immune from this deadly threat. Consequently, self-defense training that does not consider the very real possibility of an armed attack is dangerously incomplete. Whether you live in the city or countryside, you should be both mentally and physically prepared to deal with an unprovoked armed assault at any time. Preparation must be comprehensive enough to account for the plethora of pointy objects, blunt instruments, explosive devices, and deadly projectiles that someday could be used against you. This extensive book teaches proven survival skills that can keep you safe on the street. A multitude of real-life scenarios and case studies analyzing violent encounters will help you to internalize this crucial knowledge. Contents include: * Awareness * Avoidance * De-escalation * Countervailing force * Armed conflict * Managing the aftermath of violence * Weapon features and functions If you are serious about self-defense this book is for you. Everyone, including experienced martial artists, security and law enforcement professionals, and concerned citizens will benefit from this vital information.
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European history, Customs and cultures, General non-fiction, Social issues
Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for… their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan's riveting account of the year and a half he spent with these young right-wing extremists in East Berlin, reveals how they contest contemporary notions of national identity and defy the clichés that others use to represent them.Shoshan situates them within what he calls the governance of affect, a broad body of discourses and practices aimed at orchestrating their attitudes toward cultural difference--from legal codes and penal norms to rehabilitative techniques and pedagogical strategies. Governance has conventionally been viewed as rational administration, while emotions have ordinarily been conceived of as individual states. Shoshan, however, convincingly questions both assumptions. Instead, he offers a fresh view of governance as pregnant with affect and of hate as publicly mediated and politically administered. Shoshan argues that the state's policies push these youths into a right-extremist corner instead of integrating them in ways that could curb their nationalist racism. His point is certain to resonate across European and non-European contexts where, amid robust xenophobic nationalisms, hate becomes precisely the object of public dispute.Powerful and compelling, The Management of Hate provides a rare and disturbing look inside Germany's right-wing extremist world, and shines critical light on a German nationhood haunted by its own historical contradictions.
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United States history, History, Laws and statutes, Social issues
New medical technologies, women’s willingness to talk online and off, and tighter judicial reins on state legislatures are shaking up… the practice of abortion. As talk becomes more transparent, Carol Sanger writes, women’s decisions about whether to become mothers will be treated more like those of other adults making significant personal choices.
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Business and economics, Politics and government, Social issues
A winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor offers his vision of an… emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planet Muhammad Yunus who created microcredit invented social business and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty is one of today s most trenchant social critics Now he declares it s time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality massive unemployment and environmental destruction We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force just as powerful as self-interest Is this a pipe dream Not at all In the last decade thousands of people and organizations have already embraced Yunus s vision of a new form of capitalism launching innovative social businesses designed to serve human needs rather than accumulate wealth They are bringing solar energy to millions of homes in Bangladesh turning thousands of unemployed young people into entrepreneurs through equity investments financing female-owned businesses in cities across the United States bringing mobility shelter and other services to the rural poor in France and creating a global support network to help young entrepreneurs launch their start-ups In A World of Three Zeros Yunus describes the new civilization emerging from the economic experiments his work has helped to inspire He explains how global companies like McCain Renault Essilor and Danone got involved with this new economic model through their own social action groups describes the ingenious new financial tools now funding social businesses and sketches the legal and regulatory changes needed to jumpstart the next wave of socially driven innovations And he invites young people business and political leaders and ordinary citizens to join the movement and help create the better world we all dream of
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Social issues, General non-fiction
Arquitecto Tucci a neighborhood in Buenos Aires is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday… realities Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket and in the emergency room there victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight In Harm s Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in Arquitecto Tucci examining the sources uses and forms of interpersonal violence among the urban poor at the very margins of Argentine society Drawing on more than two years of immersive fieldwork sociologist Javier Auyero and Mar a Berti an elementary school teacher in the neighborhood provide a powerful and disarmingly intimate account of what it is like to live under the constant threat of violence They argue that being physically aggressive becomes a habitual way of acting in poor and marginalized communities and that violence is routine and carries across various domains of public and private life Auyero and Berti trace how different types of violence--be it criminal drug related sexual or domestic--overlap intersect and blur together They show how the state is complicit in the production of harm and describe the routines and relationships that residents particularly children establish to cope with and respond to the constant risk that besieges them and their loved ones Provocative eye-opening and extraordinarily moving In Harm s Way is destined to become a classic work on violence at the urban margins
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European history, General non-fiction, Social issues
In the wake of modern genocide we tend to think of violence against minorities as a sign of intolerance… or even worse a prelude to extermination Violence in the Middle Ages however functioned differently according to David Nirenberg In this provocative book he focuses on specific attacks against minorities in fourteenth-century France and the Crown of Aragon Aragon Catalonia and Valencia He argues that these attacks--ranging from massacres to verbal assaults against Jews Muslims lepers and prostitutes--were often perpetrated not by irrational masses laboring under inherited ideologies and prejudices but by groups that manipulated and reshaped the available discourses on minorities Nirenberg shows that their use of violence expressed complex beliefs about topics as diverse as divine history kinship sex money and disease and that their actions were frequently contested by competing groups within their own society Nirenberg s readings of archival and literary sources demonstrates how violence set the terms and limits of coexistence for medieval minorities The particular and contingent nature of this coexistence is underscored by the book s juxtapositions--some systematic for example that of the Crown of Aragon with France Jew with Muslim medieval with modern and some suggestive such as African ritual rebellion with Catalan riots Throughout the book questions the applicability of dichotomies like tolerance versus intolerance to the Middle Ages and suggests the limitations of those analyses that look for the origins of modern European persecutory violence in the medieval past
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Social issues
La novela best seller en la que se basa la nueva serie de Netfilx No puedes poner freno al… futuro Ni reescribir el pasado La nica forma de revelar los secretos es darle al Play Una caja trece caras de casete trece culpables y una v ctima Apenas han pasado dos semanas desde el suicido de Hanna cuando Clay encuentra una misteriosa caja en la puerta de su casa La caja contiene unos casetes que ser n el comienzo de un perverso juego que involucrar a todos los responsables de la muerte de Hanna Rese as Inquietante bella y devastadora Chicago Tribune Una visi n fascinante de la mente de alguien que tomar a esta terrible decisi n Brillante e hipn tico Kirkus Review Ritmo trepidante y emoci n vertiginosa School Library Journal
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Medicine, Politics and government, Social issues, General non-fiction
We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding… distance separating the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical—their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost all other Americans. In nearly four decades as a doctor at hospitals serving some of the poorest communities in Chicago, David Ansell has witnessed firsthand the lives behind these devastating statistics. In The Death Gap, he gives a grim survey of these realities, drawn from observations and stories of his patients. While the contrasts and disparities among Chicago’s communities are particularly stark, the death gap is truly a nationwide epidemic—as Ansell shows, there is a thirty-five-year difference in life expectancy between the healthiest and wealthiest and the poorest and sickest American neighborhoods. If you are poor, where you live in America can dictate when you die. It doesn’t need to be this way; such divisions are not inevitable. Ansell calls out the social and cultural arguments that have been raised as ways of explaining or excusing these gaps, and he lays bare the structural violence—the racism, economic exploitation, and discrimination—that is really to blame. Inequality is a disease, Ansell argues, and we need to treat and eradicate it as we would any major illness. To do so, he outlines a vision that will provide the foundation for a healthier nation—for all. Inequality is all around us, and often the distance between high and low life expectancy can be a matter of just a few blocks. But geography need not be destiny, urges Ansell. In The Death Gap he shows us how we can face this national health crisis head-on and take action against the circumstances that rob people of their dignity and their lives.
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Medicine, Social issues, General non-fiction
The urban built environment is a prime setting for microbial transmission because just as cities serve as hubs for… migration and international travel components of the urban built environment serve as hubs that drive the transmission of infectious disease pathogens The risk of infectious diseases for many people living in slums is further compounded by their poverty and their surrounding physical and social environment which is often overcrowded is prone to physical hazards and lacks adequate or secure housing and basic infrastructure including water sanitation or hygiene services To examine the role of the urban built environment in the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases that affect human health the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine planned a public workshop This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop
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Social issues
A powerful collection of essays from actors activists athletes politicians musicians writers and teens… including Senator Amy Klobuchar actress Alia Shawkat actor Maulik Pancholy poet Azure Antoinette teen activist Gavin Grimm and many many more each writing about a time in their youth when they were held back because of their race gender or sexual identity--but persisted Aren t you a terrorist There are no roles for people who look like you That s a sin No girls allowed They ve heard it all Actress Alia Shawkat reflects on all the parts she was told she was too ethnic to play Former NFL player Wade Davis recalls his bullying of gay classmates in an attempt to hide his own sexuality Teen Gavin Grimm shares the story that led to the infamous bathroom bill and how he s fighting it Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr tells of her harrowing time in Aushwitz where she watched her family disappear one by one What made them rise up through the hate What made them overcome the obstacles of their childhood to achieve extraordinary success How did they break out of society s limited view of who they are and find their way to the beautiful and hard-won lives they live today With a foreword by Minnesota senator and up-and-coming Democratic party leader Amy Klobuchar these essays share deeply personal stories of resilience faith love and yes persistence Each tale is a soulful testament to the endurance of the human spirit and reminds readers that they are not alone in their search for self An unflinchingly honest book that should be required reading for every young person in America --Kirkus Starred review An invaluable collection of snapshots of American society --VOYA Starred review A gem of a book There s a lot to study here and talk about on the way to becoming kinder more empathetic and most important compassionate --Booklist Readers encountering injustice in their own lives may be compelled to take heart--and even action --Publishers Weekly A powerful collection of voices --SLJ