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The Niqab in France

Between Piety and Subversion

Agnès De Féo

Translated by Lindsay Turner

An intimate look at a fiercely controversial topic in contemporary Western culture and politics: a garment—the niqab, or full-face veil—and the women who choose to wear it

ISBN: 9781531504649

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Postindustrial DIY

Recovering American Rust Belt Icons

Daniel Campo

Chronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rustbelt. A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary...

ISBN: 9781531504687

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Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons

Pursuing Democracy’s Promise through Place-Based Activism

Sharon Egretta Sutton

A rare and powerful illustration of what it takes to become a sustainable, community-embedded organization that continually grows the next generation of compassionate leaders.This essential, timely...

ISBN: 9781531502829

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Curriculum by Design

Innovation and the Liberal Arts Core

Edited by Mary Thomas Crane, David Quigley and Andy Boynton

Contributor(s): Allison Adair, Lynne Anderson, Robert Bartlett, William Bole, Toby Bottorf, Andy Boynton, John Butler, Daniel Callahan, Mary Thomas Crane, Hanne Eisenfeld, Thomas Epstein, Brian Gareau, Tara Gareau, Elizabeth Graver, Stacy Grooters, Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, Gregory Kalscheur, Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Prasannan Parthasarathi, David Quigley, Brian Robinette, Juliet Schor, Sylvia Sellers-García, Elizabeth H. Shlala, Min Hyoung Song, Jenna Tonn, Holly VandeWall and Dunwei Wang

This book tells the story of how a team of colleagues at Boston College took an unusual approach (working with a design consultancy) to renewing their core and in the process energized administrators,...

ISBN: 9781531501334

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Medicine at the Margins

EMS Workers in Urban America

Christopher Prener

Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts over urban space from the cab of an ambulance.While we imagine ambulances as a site for critical care, the reality is far more complicated. Social...

ISBN: 9781531501082

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Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval

Edited by Matthew T. Eggemeier, Peter Joseph Fritz and Karen V. Guth

Contributor(s): Mary Doak, Nichole Flores, Ju Hui Judy Han, Kwok Pui-lan, Zayn Kassam, Jermaine McDonald, Donovan O. Schaefer, Devin Singh, C. Melissa Snarr and Mark Lewis Taylor

Represents some of the best, cutting-edge thinking available on multiple forms of social upheaval and related grassroots movements.From the January 2017 Women’s March to the August 2017 events in...

ISBN: 9780823299751

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The Roads to Hillbrow

Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants

Ron Nerio and Jean Halley

This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place.Since it was founded in 1894, amidst Johannesburg’s...

ISBN: 9780823299409

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Just Universities

Catholic Social Teaching Confronts Corporatized Higher Education

Gerald J. Beyer

Third Place, Catholic Media Association: Catholic Social Teaching Gerald J. Beyer’s Just Universities discusses ways that U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education have embodied or failed to...

ISBN: 9780823289974

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Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis

Political Nativism in the Antebellum West

Luke Ritter

Why have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America’s first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid...

ISBN: 9780823289851

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The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

Easy Essays from the Catholic Worker

Peter Maurin

Edited by Lincoln Rice

The definitive edition of Catholic Worker cofounder Peter Maurin's Easy Essays, including 74 previously unpublished worksAlthough Peter Maurin is well known among people connected to the Catholic Worker...

ISBN: 9780823287536

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Send Lazarus

Catholicism and the Crises of Neoliberalism

Matthew T. Eggemeier and Peter Joseph Fritz

Contrary to Catholicism’s commitment to mercy, today’s dominant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Central is treatment of four neoliberal-perpetuated and -exacerbated crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation.

ISBN: 9780823288007

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Uniquely Okinawan

Determining Identity During the U.S. Wartime Occupation

Courtney A. Short

Looks at how American soldiers, sailors, and Marines considered race, ethnicity, and identity in the planning and execution of the wartime occupation of Okinawa, during and immediately after the Battle of Okinawa, 1945-1946.

ISBN: 9780823287727

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Roman Catholicism in the United States

A Thematic History

Edited by Margaret M. McGuinness and James T. Fisher

Contributor(s): Jeffrey M. Burns, Roy Domenico, Una Cadegan, Christopher S. Shannon, James McCartin, Chester Gillis, Patrick Allitt, Timothy Matovina, Jeffrey Marlett, Robert Carbonneau, Anthony Smith, Cecilia Moore and Karen Davalos

A collection of essays examining Catholicism in the United States from a variety of perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections: “'Beyond the Parish,' 'Presence in the World,' and 'Prophetic Catholicism'.” Essay topics include: anti-Catholicism, women religious, Latino/a Catholicism, Catholicism and Popular Culture, and Rural Catholcism.

ISBN: 9780823282777

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Sacred Shelter

Thirteen Journeys of Homelessness and Healing

Edited by Susan Greenfield

Thirteen formerly homeless New Yorkers tell their life stories, describing their joys as well as torments, their broken-heartedness and faith. At a time when national homelessness is on the rise, and when the discriminatory and punitive social conditions that create it are getting worse, Sacred Shelter celebrates the personal dignity of each and every individual and insists on our communal need to listen to each other.

ISBN: 9780823281190

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Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life

Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia's New York

Robert Weldon Whalen

Murder, Inc. and the Moral Life: Gangsters and Gangbusters in La Guardia’s New York tells the story of the notorious 1930s Brooklyn gang nicknamed “Murder, Inc.” Murder, Inc. is as well an extended moral reflection on the phenomenon of gangsters in general and the Murder, Inc. gang in particular.

ISBN: 9780823282739

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Zonas Peligrosas

The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America

Tom Hare

Zonas Peligrosas: The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America examines indicators of orderliness and security in El Salvador, shows how policies and programs based on disorganization...

ISBN: 9780823280919

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Journey into Social Activism

Qualitative Approaches

Joshua D. Atkinson

The book covers qualitative approaches that can be utilized by students and scholars in their research endeavors concerning social activism in contemporary society. Specifically, the book illustrates different strategies for using qualitative methods to observe activism within organizations, networks, events, and alternative media.

ISBN: 9780823274147

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City of Gods

Religious Freedom, Immigration, and Pluralism in Flushing, Queens

R. Scott Hanson

City of Gods is a history and ethnography of Flushing, Queens in New York City. An important site in colonial America for its place in the history of religious freedom, Flushing is now perhaps the most striking case of religious and ethnic pluralism in the world—and an ideal place to explore how America's long experiment with religious freedom, immigration, and religious pluralism began and continues.

ISBN: 9780823271603

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Affliction

Health, Disease, Poverty

Veena Das

Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. It traces the unfolding of illness within families, local communities, neighborhood markets and in occult worlds. Privileging the experience of people living in these neighborhoods it asks how can global health be made to take this experience into account rather than escape from it?

ISBN: 9780823261819

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The Digital Condition

Class and Culture in the Information Network

Robert Wilkie and Rob Wilkie

Each generation of scholars produces a book that remaps the state of knowledge. Rob Wilkie's The Digital Condition: Class and Culture in the Information Network is the book of a new generation of cultural theorists who grew up under digital conditions and now is redrawing the boundaries of digital cultural analysis. In a wide ranging study of cultural texts and situations—from William Gibson's novels and the iPad, to the writings of Antonio Negri, Jacques Derrida, Manuel Castells, Donna Haraway, and Bruno Latour—Wilkie argues that machines are not technological, but social. They are the extension of social relations which means that the "digital condition" is ultimately the class condition.

ISBN: 9780823234233

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The Digital Condition

Class and Culture in the Information Network

Robert Wilkie

ISBN: 9780823234240

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As Bad as They Say?

Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx

Janet Grossbach Mayer

Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.

ISBN: 9780823234172

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Understanding Evil

Lessons from Bosnia

Keith Doubt

Understanding Evil seeks to articulate the evil that happened in Bosnia within the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Its analysis centers on the question of whether it is possible to...

ISBN: 9780823227006

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Social Work in the Era of Devolution

Toward a Just Practice

Rosa Perez-Koenig and Barry Rock

While economic indicators in recent years have shown an unprecedented level of prosperity, social indicators tell a different story: growing economic disparity, increasing numbers of Americans lacking...

ISBN: 9780823220816

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The Essential William H. Whyte

Albert LaFarge

The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation...

ISBN: 9780823220267

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The Niqab in France

Postindustrial DIY

Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons

Curriculum by Design

Medicine at the Margins

Religion, Protest, and Social Upheaval

The Roads to Hillbrow

Just Universities

Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis

The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin

Send Lazarus

Uniquely Okinawan

Roman Catholicism in the United States

Sacred Shelter

Murder, Inc., and the Moral Life

Zonas Peligrosas

Journey into Social Activism

City of Gods

Affliction

The Digital Condition

The Digital Condition

As Bad as They Say?

Understanding Evil

Social Work in the Era of Devolution

The Essential William H. Whyte

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