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Climate Resilient Cities

A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters

By: Neeraj Prasad,Federica Ranghieri,Fatima Shah,Zoe Trohanis,Earl Kessler,Ravi Sinha

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Climate Resilient Cities

A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters

By: Neeraj Prasad,Federica Ranghieri,Fatima Shah,Zoe Trohanis,Earl Kessler,Ravi Sinha

Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters' provides city administrators with exactly what they need to know about the complex and compelling challenges of climate change. The book helps local governments create training, capacity building, and capital investment programs for building sustainable, resilient communities. A step-by-step self-assessment challenges policymakers to think about the resources needed to combat natural disasters through an innovative hot spot risk and vulnerability identifi cation tool. This primer is unique from other resources in its treatment of climate change using a dual-track approach that integrates both mitigation (lowering contributions to greenhouse gases) and adaptation (preparing for impacts of climate change) with disaster risk management. The book is relevant both to cities that are just beginning to think about climate change as well as those that already have well established policies, institutions, and strategies in place. By providing a range of city-level examples of sound practices around the world, the book demonstrates that there are many practical actions that cities can take to build resilience to climate change and natural disasters.

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World Bank Publications

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0821377752

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9780821377758

Deviance

The Interactionist Perspective

By: Earl Rubington,Martin Weinberg

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Deviance

The Interactionist Perspective

By: Earl Rubington,Martin Weinberg

This highly successful reader presents the interactionist approach to the study of deviance, examining deviance as a phenomenon that is constituted through social interpretations and the reactions of persons caught up in this social process. This book focuses on issues such as how individuals interpret and label people, how people relate to one another based on these interpretations, and the consequences of these social processes. This perspective helps students understand both social process in general and the sociology of deviance in particular.

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Routledge

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1317348796

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9781317348795

Revitalizing Governance, Restoring Prosperity, and Restructuring Foreign Affairs

The Pathway to Renaissance America

By: Earl H. Fry

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Revitalizing Governance, Restoring Prosperity, and Restructuring Foreign Affairs

The Pathway to Renaissance America

By: Earl H. Fry

The American people generally perceive that the United States is headed in “the wrong direction,” US influence worldwide is waning, Capitol Hill is not adequately representing the public’s interests, and their personal economic wellbeing is in jeopardy. This book squarely tackles the list of “fault lines” currently facing the United States, including, among others, Beltway dysfunctionalism, concentrated wealth and income not seen since the late 1920s, an ultra-expensive and inefficient health-care system, runaway entitlement spending, stagnant upward mobility, debilitating “crony capitalism,” and incoherent foreign policy. Even more importantly, the book offers explicit policy recommendations for solving each fault line, relying extensively on “best practices” in the public and private sectors both at home and abroad. Moreover, the author emphasizes that the United States is entering a special period which provides it with advantages not found anywhere else in the world—a major energy boom, favorable demographics, unparalleled high-technology innovation, huge inward investment flows from abroad, the revival of its manufacturing sector, and its magnetism in attracting to its shores the very best and brightest from around the world. Dr. Fry asserts that it is quite reasonable to assume that the United States will enter a “Renaissance America” period by 2030. Doing so, however, will require painful short-term sacrifices, major policy changes, and the restoration of vibrant representative government. In effect, the American people must overwhelmingly embrace Abraham Lincoln’s vision of governance “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

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Lexington Books

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0739197479

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9780739197479

The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology

By: Earl Wright II,Edward V. Wallace

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology

By: Earl Wright II,Edward V. Wallace

The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America. Beginning with an examination of the project of Black Sociology, it offers studies of recent events, including the ‘Stand Your Ground’ killing of Trayvon Martin, the impact of Hurricane Katrina on emerging adults, and efforts to change voting requirements that overwhelmingly affect Blacks, whilst engaging with questions of sexuality and family life, incarceration, health, educational outcomes and racial wage disparities. Inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’s charge of engaging in objective research that has a positive impact on society, and organised around the themes of Social Inequities, Blacks and Education, Blacks and Health and Future Directions, this timely volume brings together the latest interdisciplinary research to offer a broad overview of the issues currently faced by Blacks in United States. A timely, significant research guide that informs readers on the social, economic and physical condition of Blacks in America, and proposes directions for important future research. The Ashgate Research Companion will appeal to policy makers and scholars of Africana Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology and Politics, with interests in questions of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, social inequalities, health and education.

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Routledge

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1317044029

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9781317044024

Classroom Culture and Dynamics

By: Earl P. Velliotis

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Classroom Culture and Dynamics

By: Earl P. Velliotis

The classroom is the primary laboratory for educational development and its culture and dynamics are of no small importance. This new book presents carefully selected global analyses of important issues in classroom development from emotional intelligence to information technology to presentation of learning styles and strategies and psychological motivation.

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Nova Publishers

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1604562366

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9781604562361

The Other Truth about the Middle East Conflict

By: Earl Thorpe

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The Other Truth about the Middle East Conflict

By: Earl Thorpe

Three Examples of the "Other Truth:"In 1967, Israel occupied and colonized the last remaining land on which the Palestinians lived. This included the land on which the Palestinians had been the overwhelming majority population for the last 2,000 years.Jews engaged in terrorism against the British just prior to the establishment of the Jewish state. The Jews called themselves "freedom fighters", and the British called them terrorists. The Jews were as misguided in 1946 and 1947 as the Palestinian militants are today.U.S. foreign policy supports the Israeli viewpoint without question even though Israel has repeatedly reneged on implementing signed peace agreements.Do you support U.S. foreign policy because, "there must be a reason for it?" Well, there is, but it may not be for the reasons you think or trust are fair.

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Lulu.com

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1411696468

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9781411696464

Tuberculosis

A Comprehensive International Approach, Second Edition,

By: Lee B. Reichman,Earl S. Hershfield

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Tuberculosis

A Comprehensive International Approach, Second Edition,

By: Lee B. Reichman,Earl S. Hershfield

This completely revised and expanded Second Edition thoroughly examines tuberculosis from historical, theoretical, and clinical perspectives, including the most current discoveries. Containing 35 revised, rewritten, rearranged, and new chapters by nationally and internationally renowned experts, the updated Second Edition presents expande

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CRC Press

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0824745302

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9780824745301

Medieval Christian Literary Imagery

A Guide to Interpretation

By: Robert Earl Kaske,Arthur Groos,Michael W. Twomey,University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies

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Medieval Christian Literary Imagery

A Guide to Interpretation

By: Robert Earl Kaske,Arthur Groos,Michael W. Twomey,University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies

If a reader of Chaucer suspects that an echo of a biblical verse may somehow depend for its meaning on traditional commentary on that verse, how does he or she go about finding the relevant commentaries? If one finds the word 'fire' in a context that suggests resonances beyond the literal, how does that reader go about learning what the traditional figurative meanings of fire were? It was to the solution of such difficulties that R.E. Kaske addressed himself in this volume setting out and analyzing the major repositories of traditional material: biblical exegesis, the liturgy, hymns and sequences, sermons and homilies, the pictorial arts, mythography, commentaries on individual authors, and a number of miscellaneous themes. An appendix deals with medieval encyclopedias. Kaske created a tool that will revolutionize research in its designated field: the discovery and interpretation of the traditional meanings reflected in medieval Christian imagery.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802066631

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9780802066633

Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities

By: Earl Shorris

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Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities

By: Earl Shorris

You've been cheated," Earl Shorris tells a classroom of poor people in New York City. "Rich people learn the humanities; you didn't. . . . It is generally accepted in America that the liberal arts and humanities in particular belong to the elite. I think you're the elite." In this groundbreaking work, Shorris examines the nature of poverty in America today. Why are people poor, and why do they stay poor? Shorris argues that they lack politics, or the ability to participate fully in the public world; knowing only the immediacy and oppression of force, the poor remain trapped and isolated. To test his theory, Shorris creates an experimental school teaching the humanities to poor people, giving them the means to reflect and negotiate rather than react. The results are nothing short of astonishing. Originally published in hardcover under the title New American Blues.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393343731

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9780393343731

In Their Own Interests

Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia

By: Earl Lewis

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In Their Own Interests

Race, Class and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia

By: Earl Lewis

Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to promote their own interests at home and in the workplace. In Their Own Interests presents a cross-section of southern urban blacks—the power-brokers and lesser-knowns, Garvey followers and communist enthusiasts—who came to live in Norfolk between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Lewis seeks to recreate the texture of African-American life by examining the lives of the people after they moved to the city—the jobs and assistance they secured, the houses, families, and institutions they built, the battles they waged, and the culture they shared. In Their Own Interests moves African-American urban and social history beyond the current intellectual crossroads. Drawing on a variety of sources, Lewis tells the interconnected story of race, class, and power in twentieth-century Norfolk. His study has far-reaching implications and should be of wide interest. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991. Since the Civil War, African Americans have made great efforts to empower themselves. Focusing on Norfolk, Virginia, Earl Lewis shows how blacks have had to balance competing inclinations for conscious inaction and purposeful agitation as they sought to p

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0520914503

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9780520914506

In Denial

Historians, Communism, and Espionage

By: John Earl Haynes,Harvey Klehr

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In Denial

Historians, Communism, and Espionage

By: John Earl Haynes,Harvey Klehr

In this brilliant and impassioned work, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr document how, beginning in the late 1960s, the study of American communism was taken over by "revisionist" historians who attempted to portray the United States as the aggressor in the Cold War and saw the American Communist Party (CPUSA) as an admirable force for promoting democratic values. Today, more than a decade after the death of communism, revisionists remain dismissive of Stalin's crimes and seriously understate the degree to which the CPUSA apologized for Stalinism and gave assistance to Soviet espionage. Under their influence, the leading historical journals persist in teaching that America's rejection of the Communist Party was a tragic error, that American Communists were actually unsung heroes working for democratic ideals, and that those anticommunist liberals and conservatives who fought against the CPUSA in the 1950s were contemptible.

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Encounter Books

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159403088X

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9781594030888

The Ground Has Shifted

The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America

By: Walter Earl Fluker

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The Ground Has Shifted

The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America

By: Walter Earl Fluker

Honorable Mention, Theology and Religious Studies PROSE Award A powerful insight into the historical and cultural roles of the Black church If we are in a post-racial era, then what is the future of the Black Church? If the US will at some time in the future be free from discrimination and prejudices that are based on race how will that affect the church’s very identity? In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker passionately and thoroughly discusses the historical and current role of the Black church and argues that the older race-based language and metaphors of religious discourse have outlived their utility. He offers instead a larger, global vision for the Black church that focuses on young Black men and other disenfranchised groups who have been left behind in a world of globalized capital. Lyrically written with an emphasis on the dynamic and fluid movement of life itself, Fluker argues that the church must find new ways to use race as an emancipatory instrument if it is to remain central in Black life, and he points the way for a new generation of church leaders, scholars and activists to reclaim the Black church’s historical identity and to turn to the task of infusing character, civility, and a sense of community among its congregants.

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NYU Press

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1479897183

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9781479897186

What America Watched

Television Favorites from the Cornfields to the Cosmos, 1960s-1990s

By: Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser

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What America Watched

Television Favorites from the Cornfields to the Cosmos, 1960s-1990s

By: Marsha Ann Tate,Earl Houser

Although television critics have often differed with the public with respect to the artistic and cultural merits of television programming, over the last half-century television has indubitably influenced popular culture and vice versa. No matter what reasons are cited--the characters, the actors, the plots, the music--television shows that were beloved by audiences in their time remain fondly remembered. This study covers the classic period of popular television shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, focusing on how regular viewers interacted with television shows on a personal level. Bridging popular and scholarly approaches, this book discovers what America actually watched and why through documents, footage, visits to filming locations, newspapers, and magazine articles from the shows' eras. The book features extensive notes and bibliography.

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McFarland

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1476644659

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9781476644653

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

By: William Earl Weeks,Walter LaFeber,Akira Iriye,Warren I. Cohen

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The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

By: William Earl Weeks,Walter LaFeber,Akira Iriye,Warren I. Cohen

This book explores the conditions of international relations from the end of WWII to the present, focusing on the American determination to provide world leadership.

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0521763622

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9780521763622

African American Families

By: Angela J. Hattery,Earl Smith

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African American Families

By: Angela J. Hattery,Earl Smith

Bravo to the authors! They have done an excellent job addressing the issues that are critical to community members, policy makers and interventionists concerned with Black families in the context of our nation." —Michael C. Lambert, University of Missouri, Colombia "African American Families is a timely work. The strength of this text lies in the depth of coverage, clarity, and the ability to combine secondary sources, statistics and qualitative data to reveal the plight of African Americans in society." —Edward Opoku-Dapaah, Winston-Salem State University "African American Families is both engaging and challenging and is perhaps one of the most important works I have read in many years. This book will most certainly move the discourse of the socio-economic conditions of black families forward, beyond the boundaries already set by other books in the market. African American Families is an excellent book whose time has come, and one that I would most definitely adopt." —Lateef O. Badru, University of Louisville African American Families provides a systematic sociological study of contemporary life for families of African descent living in the United States. Analyzing both quantitative and qualitative data, authors Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith identify the structural barriers that African Americans face in their attempts to raise their children and create loving, healthy, and raise the children of the next generation. Key Features: Uses the lens provided by the race, class, and gender paradigm: Examples illustrate the ways in which multiple systems of oppression interact with patterns of self-defeating behavior to create barriers that deny many African Americans access to the American dream. Addresses issues not fully or adequately addressed in previous books on Black families: These issues include personal responsibility and disproportionately high rates of incarceration, family violence, and chronic illnesses like HIV/AIDS. Brings statistical data to life: The authors weave personal stories based on interviews they′ve conducted into the usual data from scholarly(?) literature and from U.S. Census Bureau reports. Provides several illustrations from Hurricane Katrina: A contemporary analysis of a recent disaster demonstrates many of the issues presented in the book such as housing segregation and predatory lending practices. Offers extensive data tables in the appendices: Assembled in easy-to-read tables, students are given access to the latest national agencies data from agencies including the U.S. Census Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, and Bureau of Justice Statistics. Intended Audience: This is an ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as African American Families, Sociology of the Family, Contemporary Families, and Race and Ethnicity in the departments of Human Development and Family Studies, Sociology, African American Studies, and Black Studies.

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SAGE Publications

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1483316882

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Climate Resilient Cities

Climate Resilient Cities

Deviance

Deviance

Revitalizing Governance, Restoring Prosperity, and Restructuring Foreign Affairs

Revitalizing Governance, Restoring Prosperity, and Restructuring Foreign Affairs

The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology

The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology

Classroom Culture and Dynamics

Classroom Culture and Dynamics

The Other Truth about the Middle East Conflict

The Other Truth about the Middle East Conflict

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Medieval Christian Literary Imagery

Medieval Christian Literary Imagery

Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities

Riches for the Poor: The Clemente Course in the Humanities

In Their Own Interests

In Their Own Interests

In Denial

In Denial

The Ground Has Shifted

The Ground Has Shifted

What America Watched

What America Watched

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations

African American Families

African American Families

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