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Memoirs of a Black Philosopher is a history of both anti-Black racism and the author's indefatigable struggle to transcend it by educating himself. These memoirs demonstrate the value of academic philosophy's "upward path" from the ordinary to the sublime.

Hog Wash documents the decade-long effort of a group of international collaborators to 'solve' the waste problem from industrial animal farming which poisons lakes, rivers, and streams.

This book analyzes the facts and law as to nuclear weapons and the policy of deterrence. It demonstrates that such weapons cannot lawfully be used and that the policy of deterrence is risky and unlawful. It urges that the U.S. take the lead in delegitimizing these weapons and seeking abolition.

Using a remarkable cache of scrapbooks kept by Albert Haskell, Jr. through his lifetime, Martin A. Sweeny narrates a fascinating story of unwavering dedication to the public good. As a lawyer, politician, civic organizer, and economic developer, Haskell never turned away from an opportunity to do something beneficial for others.

This book is written from a practitioner's perspective and is designed for practitioners. Social change is guiding theme throughout each of the chapters. The book focused on elements such as cultural relevance, multiculturalism, learner centered, authentic assessment, and diversity, each chapter will be based on theory with a focus on practice.

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Garbage Gumbo is a well-researched and detailed account of one of the strangest political, environmental, and regulatory battles to have ever occurred in Louisiana. Although the crucial matter involves the permitting of a landfill, the lessons learned are most important to anyone wanting better governance in a state where wealth and power still count for more than protecting people or the environment. This is a tale of a decades-long struggle ...

Never forget. This stirring memoir of Polish Holocaust survivor Samuel Ron is structured as a Q&A, with students, in order to reflect the decades he has spent educating groups about his survival from four Nazi concentration camps, and his many contributions to the founding of the modern State of Israel.

Ernestine L. Rose: To Change a Nation relates the life of Ernestine L. Rose (1810 1892), a fearless human rights activist who fought for racial equality, women's rights and religious freedom. As America continues to struggle to live up to its democratic principles, Ernestine Rose's words are more relevant than ever.

This is a biography and remembrance of the late Norman R. Rich, who taught European history for many years at Brown University and Michigan State University, among other places. Norman Rich was an eminent historian, prolific writer, gifted teacher and warm friend to countless colleagues, students and neighbors.

This book uses theoretical applications and social narratives to push back against ideals associated with of the black monolith by examining the many ways in which black Americans struggle to cope with educational, cultural, and socio-economical expectations.

Singer's travel narrative of the Soviet Union offers a picture of pre-Holocaust Jewish life in the Pale of Settlement (urban and rural) under the young Communist regime.

In this sixty-seventh anniversary year of the groundbreaking Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case that outlawed segregation in the nation's public schools, research reveals that schools have undergone significant re-segregation. The anguish that many of us feel about this incredible failure of public policy underscores the layered aspect of achieving racial equality in America. In Florida, and across the nation, the s...

Using the insights provided by criminology, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines, Terrorism Inside America's Borders delivers a multi-faceted examination of the issues associated with domestic terrorism. Some of the issues explored include the similarities and differences between terrorism and other criminal activities, the roles that social institutions and social processes play in the creation and prevention of terrorism, the stages ...

An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir explores and highlights achievements and stories of success throughout the author's academic and administrative experiences. Specifically, this book includes photographs and personal narratives from early educational experiences to deanship. The information presented in this memoir will serve to provide role modeling, lessons of success, mentorship, and hope for other persons who aspire to become an...

This lively, accessible account of the problem-solving work of Harvard labor economist and former US Secretary of Labor John T. Dunlop illuminates its relevance to our present-day political and economic challenges.

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This book locates inner meaning, essential spirit, and underlying purposes of a set of basic Jewish ideas and practices. It unpacks what the great theologians of our time Martin Buber and Abraham Joshua Heschel have perceived as the "religiosity" embedded in Judaism's sacred thought and action-the seminal current all too often unrealized.