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"HIV is God's Blessing"
University of California Press 2010; US$ 24.95This provocative study examines the role of today?s Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world?80 percent from intravenous drug use?and the Church remains its only resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the reader into a Church-run treatment center... more...
A 1980s Childhood
The History Press 2012; US$ 7.28Do you remember trying to solve a Rubik's Cube whilst dressed in your He-Man picture pyjamas? Did you try to make 'cool' sound effects with your mouth like Jones from the Police Academy films? Or maybe you swooned over Scott and Charlene (aka Jason and Kylie)'s wedding of the year? If that sounds like you, there's no mistaking that you were a child... more...
50+
St. Martin's Press 2006; US$ 7.9950+ is a call to arms. It's a groundbreaking look at the revolution that's going on right now among seventy-eight million American baby boomers. From age 50+ on up, Americans are refusing to rock away their retirement. They're starting new careers, rallying for causes close to their hearts, raising grandchildren, becoming more active in their... more...
The ACLU vs. America
B&H Publishing Group 2005; US$ 14.99Educates readers as to the culture wars afoot and equips them to become effectived agents for liberty and freedom against the ACLU's onslaught. more...
The Abundant Community
Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2010; US$ 19.95" We need our neighbors and community to stay healthy, produce jobs, raise our children, and care for those on the margin. Institutions and professional services have reached their limit of their ability to help us. The consumer society tells us that we are insufficient and that we must purchase what we need from specialists and systems outside... more...
Access to History for the IB Diploma: Civil rights and social movements in the Americas
Hodder Education 2013; US$ 22.38This series has taken the clarity, accessibility, reliability and in-depth analysis of our best-selling Access to History series and tailor-made it for the History IB Diploma. more...
Accompanying
PM Press 2012; US$ 9.99To better understand the impact of social movements in recent years, this analysis distinguishes strategies of social change into two parts: organizing, which is characteristic of the 1960s movement in the United States, and accompaniment, which was articulated by Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador. Both are valuable tools for understanding and... more...
Active Aging in Economy and Society
Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung 2010; US$ 10.77Hauptbeschreibung Germany currently finds itself amidst profound demographic change. The tasks of the future workplace will fall on the shoulders of a smaller and older potential workforce. The 2006 Carl Bertelsmann Prize for Active Aging in Economy and Society is founded on the belief that combining growth and innovation with a high employment... more...
Activist Wisdom
University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 32.95Peace marches, protest demonstrations and campaigns for or against every cause imaginable have long been part of the Australian social and political landscape. This lively book blends the voices and experiences of insiders involved in particular causes with a bigger picture that analyses successes and failures, communication of ideas and social and... more...
The Adaptable Peasant
BRILL 2007; US$ 116.00Analyses how in early colonial times, the peasant society of Sri Lanka underwent fundamental changes in the land tenure system as it faced the arrival of the Dutch East India Company administration's merchant capitalism. This study also reveals the dynamics of caste formation as a result of the early colonial encounter. more...









