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What does it mean to be poor in the UK and America? For decades the primary narrative about poverty in both countries is that it has been caused by personal flaws or "bad life decisions" rather than policy choices or economic inequality. This misleading account has become deeply embedded in the public consciousness with serious ramifications for how financially vulnerable people are seen, spoken about, and treated.

Happily Ever Older takes listeners inside nursing and retirement homes and shows novel approaches to community living. Investigative journalist Moira Welsh provides a blueprint for change and proof for industry leaders and governments that good care for seniors is attainable and necessary.

Episodi di sangue, violenza e intrighi da cui emerge il potere devastante della camorra. Protagonisti delle storie non sono soltanto i boss e i loro sicari alle prese con omicidi, stragi ed esecuzioni brutali, ma anche personaggi della società civile che hanno pagato un prezzo altissimo nel tentativo di opporsi alla logica della violenza e dell'illegalità: in questo libro si parla di gente perbene, vittime innocenti, poliziotti corrotti, killer pentiti, preti dalla doppia vita, politici collusi, eroi mancati, martiri ammazzati nell'indifferenza generale.

A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment As the effects of aggressive policing and mass incarceration harm historically marginalized communities and tear families apart, how do we define safety? In a...

In his new book, Barnyards and Birkenstocks: Why Farmers and Environmentalists Need Each Other, Don Stuart stresses collaboration. An attorney who has held director positions with American Farmland Trust, a commercial fisheries trade association, and the Washington Association of Conservation Districts, he argues that combining efforts could advance the economic needs of one group while furthering conservation activities of the other, and points out costs of continued political impasse.

Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the US welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to shape the debate within current and future administrations as they attempt to rethink the welfare system and its role in American society.

Covid, i primi vaccinati, la speranza di una vita normale: Vaccino, la risposta biotech dell'Occidente di Maurizio Molinari, La paura del vaccino e il senso della comunità di Massimo Recalcati.

Sir Lenny Henry rang up the Office for National Statistics to confirm something he'd been thinking about for a long time. They told him that only 29.5 per cent of the United Kingdom's population is made up of white, heterosexual, able-bodied men. So, he wonders, why do they still make up the vast majority of people we see in our media? Joining forces with the former chair of the Royal Television Society's Diversity Committee Marcus Ryder, he draws on decades of experience to reveal why recent efforts to diversify media have been thus far ineffective and why they are simply not enough.

An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What Is Politics?' Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society. 'COVID-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.'

Vaccino anti-Covid - Tempi e destinatari: Nell'hub del vaccino: "I sette passaggi chiave perché tutto funzioni", di Fabio Tonacci; Virus, sì della Ue al primo vaccino. Le consegne alla vigilia di Natale, di Alberto D'argenio; Noi, le tribù svelate dal vaccino, di Gabriele Romagnoli; Sì dell'Aifa, il vaccino arriva. Rischio furti, in campo i Servizi, di Giuliano Foschini e Fabio Tonacci; Peste, colera e vaiolo. Tutte le volte che i vaccini hanno cambiato la storia di Corrado Augias.

Power Shift charts the rise of Latino political power and its impact, from the breakthrough election of the first Mexican American to the Los Angeles City Council in 1949 to today’s leadership of California and its heavyweight role in polarized America. This inspiring story recounts the origins and development of 10 LA-based Latina and Latino leaders who transformed politics and government, forging a progressive political tradition in the process.

La lucha por las pensiones justas de un colectivo a menudo olvidado. Nadie esperaba mucho de ellos. Todos —políticos y sociólogos, analistas y politólogos— daban a los mayores españoles por amortizados y semienterrados. Habían sacado la cabeza entre las mareas de indignación que nos...

Ahead of the pivotal 2020 elections, momentum is building across America to revisit the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that struck down laws protecting unborn children and their mothers nationwide. Life is Winning: Inside the Fight for Unborn Children and Their Mothers tells the story of how the pro-life cause went from an orphaned political “problem” to a winning issue embraced at the highest levels of the Republican Party, thanks to a small-but-ambitious group of pro-life women.

"As a narrator, the reverence and tenderness Dyson communicates in his letters--addressed to victims of racist violence Elijah McClain, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, and the Rev. Clementa Pinckney--invoke the experience of listening in on a holy...

Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that’s been called “Bloody Lowndes” because of its violent, racist history. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers’s life’s work. It’s a fight to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste from their toilets, and, as a consequence, live amid filth. 

The Recovery of Family Life defends marriage and family life while exposing the limits and blind spots in these powerful revolutionary ideologies. After suggesting a general framework within which to understand the ends and means of family policy, Scott Yenor explores what a liberal society should seek to accomplish in marriage and family policy.

La crisis provocada por el COVID-19 nos hace vivir en un contexto lleno de incertidumbre. Muchos de nuestros países se encuentran en diferentes niveles de cuarentena y bloqueo y, ya trabajemos para un gobierno, para una empresa privada o para una universidad, sentimos una gran inseguridad respecto a cómo tendremos que proporcionar nuestros servicios o llevar a cabo nuestra planificación.

Più armi uguale più sicurezza. Un'equazione trasformata in slogan, una convinzione che ha spinto il 40 per cento degli italiani ad affermare che si sentirebbe più sicuro con una pistola in casa. Più armi uguale più femminicidi. Ecco un'altra equazione, ma questo non è uno slogan, è la semplice constatazione di una tragica realtà. Una pistola è costruita per sparare, per ferire o uccidere. O anche per uccidersi. Luca Di Bartolomei, figlio di Agostino, famoso calciatore che venticinque anni fa si suicidò con una Smith & Wesson 38 acquistata credendo di proteggere la sua famiglia.

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter “Excellent and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates.”—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker...

Person-Centred Counselling in Action, Fourth Edition will be an invaluable resource for those embarking on their first stages of training. Well-established practitioners and even seasoned scholars will continue to find much to interest and stimulate them.