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Soul of a Citizenby Paul Rogat Loeb
St. Martin's Press 2010; US$ 9.99Soul of a Citizen has become the handbook for budding social activists, veteran organizers, and anybody who wants to make a change—big or small—in the world around them. At this critical historical time , Paul Loeb’s completely revised edition—and inspiring message—is more urgently important than ever. more...
Understanding Japanese Societyby Joy Hendry
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 43.95Fully updated, revised and expanded, this is a welcome new edition of this bestselling book providing a clear, accessible and readable introduction to Japanese society. more...
Pathologies of Powerby Paul Farmer
University of California Press 2003; US$ 12.95Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. more...
Islamic Activismby Quintan Wiktorowicz
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 19.95"... [Will] have an impact on two important fields of scholarship: social movement theory and the study of Islamic activist movements." -- John Voll, Georgetown University This volume represents the first comprehensive attempt to incorporate the study of Islamic activism into social movement theory. It argues that the dynamics, processes, and organization of Islamic activism can be understood as important elements of contention that transcend the specificity of "Islam" as a system of meaning and identity and a basis for collective action. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, the contributors show how social movement theory... more...
Social Movementsby Donatella Della Porta; Mario Diani
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2009; US$ 41.95Social Movements is a comprehensive introduction and critical analysis of collective action in society today. In this new edition, the authors have updated all chapters with the most recent scientific literature, expanded on topics such as individual motivations, new media, public policies, and governance. Draws on research and empirical work across the social sciences to address the key questions in this international field. New edition expands on topics such as individual motivations, new media, public policies, and governance. Has been redesigned in a more user-friendly format. more...
Making English Moralsby M. J. D. Roberts; Margot Finn; Keith Wrightson; Colin Jones
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 37.00Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. This book sets out to explore the world of these volunteer networks, their foci of concern, their patterns of recruitment, their methods of operation, and the responses they aroused. more...
Investigating Welfare State Change: The ?Dependent Variable Problem? in Comparative Analysisby J. Clasen; N.A. Siegel
Edward Elgar Publishing 2007; US$ 40.00Contemporary accounts of welfare state change have produced conflicting findings and incompatible theoretical explanations. By discussing the most salient aspects of the 'dependent variable problem', this work offers suggestions as to how the problem might be tackled within empirical cross-national analyses of modern welfare states. more...
Health and Welfare during Industrializationby Richard H. Steckel; Roderick Floud
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 39.00In this unique anthology, Steckel and Floud coordinate ten essays that bring a new perspective to inquiry about standard of living in modern times. These papers are arranged for international comparison, and they individually examine evidence of health and welfare during and after industrialization in eight countries: the United States, Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and Australia. The essays incorporate several indicators of quality of life, especially real per capita income and health, but also real wages, education, and inequality. And while the authors use traditional measures of health such as life expectancy and mortality rates, this volume stands alone in its extensive use of new "anthropometric" data—information... more...
Freedom From Wantby Ian Smillie
Stylus Publishing 2009; US$ 24.95BRAC, arguably the world?s largest, most diverse and most successful NGO, is little known outside Bangladesh, where it formed in 1972. Author Ian Smillie predicts, however, that this is bound to change. BRAC?s success and the spread of its work in health, education, social enterprise development and microfinance dwarfs any other private, government or non-profit enterprise in its impact on tens of thousands of communities in Asia and Africa. Freedom From Want traces BRAC?s evolution from more...
How to Win Campaignsby Chris Rose
Earthscan 2005; US$ 29.95'The definitive guide to the campaigner's arts a magisterial A to Z of how to win hearts and minds. Those without the time to read it from cover to cover will still find plenty to intrigue and enlighten them. The book should also be required reading in City boardrooms if Rose's potential targets want to know what's heading their way' Alex Kirby BBC 'Environmentalists have a bad habit of understanding more about the issues than they do about people. Then they wonder why their campaigns fail. Chris Rose not only knows about both he knows how to connect them' Tom Burke ex-Director of FoE and the Green Alliance co-founder of E3G Third Generation Environmentalism 'Rose is one of the top pros and this book is full... more...