Sabine C. Carey & Mark Gibney 
Politics of Human Rights [EPUB ebook] 
The Quest for Dignity

First published in 1998. As beneficiaries of aggressive affirmative action policies, Chicano doctors and lawyers educated in universities during the 1960s and early 1970s now dominate Mexican America …

Nearly 20% of all pregnancies in the U.S. end in miscarriage or stillbirth. Yet pregnancy loss is seldom acknowledged and rarely discussed. Opening the topic to a thoughtful and informed discussion, …

First published in 1998. Part of the Children of Poverty series which includes studies on the effects of single parenthood, the feminization of poverty and homelessness, this volume looks at the shor …

What role does consumption play in Japanese lives that are more than study, work and shopping? How have those lives changed since World War II as Japan has wrestled with the meaning of white-collar c …

Strong and Smart – Towards a Pedagogy for Emancipation tells the story of how Dr Chris Sarra overcame low expectations for his future to become an educator who has sought to change the tide of l …

First published in 2005. The first part of this book is an historical study of the Hebrew written production on women“s healthcare and of Jewish women“s lives and experiences regarding the care of …

Volume 2 in the 20-volume series reproducing over 300 key articles which explore the 200-year history of the rights of American citizens. This title contains 23 essays on development of the Bill of R …

In August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of a home that had been severely damaged or destroyed; frequently the …

Paul Teague explores the macro-economic, productive and institutional pressures faced by Europe“s social model and assesses a number of economic and political programmes aimed at resolving the crisi …

these are just two of the issues addressed by Les Johnston, who argues that policing, far from being the exclusive preserve of public personnel, is an activity undertaken by a mixture of public, priv …