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  Modern Hungers: Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany

  Alice A. Weinreb

  During World War I and II, modern states for the first time experimented with feeding--and starving--entire populations. Within the new globalizing economy, food became intimately intertwined with waging war, and starvation claimed more lives than any other weapon. As Alice Weinreb shows in Modern Hungers, nowhere was this new reality more significant than in Germany, which struggled through food blockades, agricultural crises, economic depressions, and wartime destruction and occupation at the same time that it asserted itself as a military, cultural, and economic powerhouse of Europe.
  
  The end of armed conflict in 1945 did not mean the end of these military strategies involving food. Fears of hunger and fantasies of abundance were instead reframed within a new Cold War world. During the postwar decades, Europeans lived longer, possessed more goods, and were healthier than ever before. This shift was signaled most clearly by the disappearance of famine from the continent. So powerful was the experience of post-1945 abundance that it is hard today to imagine a time when the specter of hunger haunted Europe, demographers feared that malnutrition would mean the end of whole nations, and the primary targets for American food aid were Belgium and Germany rather than Africa. Yet under both capitalism and communism, economic growth as well as social and political priorities proved inseparable from the modern food system.

  Drawing on sources ranging from military records to cookbooks to economic and nutritional studies from a multitude of archives, Modern Hungers reveals similarities and striking ruptures in popular experience and state policy relating to the industrial food economy. In so doing, it offers historical perspective on contemporary concerns ranging from humanitarian food aid to the gender-wage gap to the obesity epidemic.

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  Healing Earth Environmental Textbook

  Bill Anderson; Julie Belandres-Otadoy; Rev. John Braverman, S.J.; Leonard Chiti, S.J.; Nelida Naveros Corodova; John Crowley-Buck; Jo Beth D'Agostino; Patrick Daubenmire; William French; Veronic Gaylie; Clyde Goulden; Rachel Hart Winter; Ping Jing; Shannon Jung; Pedro Linares; Thomas Lovejoy; Jesse Manuta; Carolyn Martsberger; George McGraw; Stephen Mitten S.J.; Philip Nahlik; Christopher Peterson; Luiz Felipe Guanaes Rego; Hilly Ann Roa-Quiaoit; Lazar Savari; Jame Schaefer; Michael Schuck; David Slavsky; Jennifer L. Snyder; Jaime Tatay; Nicholas Tete, S.J.; Meghan Toomey; Nancy Tuchman; Pedro Walpole, S.J.; Sandra Wantuil; and Paulus Wiryono, S.J.

  Healing Earth is a free, online environmental science textbook for upper level secondary school students, beginning college students, and adult learners. We invite teachers around the world to use this resource in their classrooms and share their experience with us. Healing Earth is an ongoing project, so we hope that everyone—teachers, young students, adult learners—will join us in using and improving Healing Earth.

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  Caring Capitalism : The Meaning and Measure of Social Value

  Emily Barman

  Companies are increasingly championed for their capacity to solve social problems. Yet what happens when such goods as water, education, and health are sold by companies - rather than donated by nonprofits - to the disadvantaged and when the pursuit of mission becomes entangled with the pursuit of profit? In Caring Capitalism, Emily Barman answers these important questions, showing how the meaning of social value in an era of caring capitalism gets mediated by the work of 'value entrepreneurs' and the tools they create to gauge companies' social impact. By shedding light on these pivotal actors and the cultural and material contexts in which they operate, Caring Capitalism accounts for the unexpected consequences of this new vision of the market for the pursuit of social value. Proponents and critics of caring capitalism alike will find the book essential reading.

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  Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor and Imperial States in the Political Economy of Capitalism, ca. 1500-1914

  John Donoghue and Evelyn Jennings

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  Healthy Places, Healthy People: A Handbook for Culturally Informed Community Nursing Practice, 3rd Edition

  Melanie C. Dreher, Susan P. Lehmann, and Lisa E. Skemp

  At the clinic, in the classroom, and across the globe, nurses are at the forefront of leading change and promoting social justice in healthcare. But this doesn’t just happen. To provide the best possible patient care and effectively improve a community’s future health, nurses need practical advice, realistic strategies, and the core public health leadership competencies[md]community relationship-building, inquiry, assessment, analysis, planning, action, evaluation, and persuasion[md]that transcend categorical public health concerns.

  Healthy Places, Healthy People (3rd ed.) provides everything that current and future nurses need to prepare, gather, organize, and analyze basic community information to create a public health strategy. A well-crafted strategy enables public health workers to effectively mobilize citizen action, working with groups and individuals to build capacity for health equity and, ultimately, a healthier future.

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  Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed-Status Families

  Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz

  There are approximately eleven million undocumented people living in the United States, and most of them have family members who are U.S. citizens. There is a common perception that marriage to a U.S. citizen puts undocumented immigrants on a quick-and-easy path to U.S. citizenship. But for people who have entered the U.S. unlawfully and live here without papers, the line to legal status is neither short nor easy, even for those with spouses who are U.S. citizens. Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed-Status Families follows mixed-status couples down the long and bumpy road of immigration processing. It explores how they navigate every step along the way, from the decision to undertake legalization, to the immigration interview in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to the effort to put together a case of "extreme hardship" so that the undocumented family member can return. Author Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz also discusses families' efforts to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of immigration processing--both for those who are successful and those who are not.

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  A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators

  Joseph Janangelo

  A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators helps writing program administrators and writing center directors understand how their work is fueled and constrained by institutional mission. It offers provocations for reflection, conversation, and strategic stewardship of writing programs and writing centers. Mission is a central concept in millennial academe. For many two- and four-year colleges, mission denotes the distinctive institutional history and traditions of practice colleges use to serve students. Yet some traditions may be at odds with marketplace drivers, such as recruitment and retention, institutional rebranding, and social change. WPAs and writing center directors may struggle to reconcile historical practice with contemporary work in civic engagement, undergraduate research, academic advancement, general education, LGBTQI advocacy, and support for students of color.

  In A Critical Look at Institutional Mission: A Guide for Writing Program Administrators, contributors discuss the complications of teaching and administrating within specific institutional cultures. Reflecting on the restrictions they face, these scholars remind us that our work is rarely ours alone—that we work in community with others, for others, and within institutional contexts and imperatives. Con­tributors include Nicholas N. Behm, Anita R. Cortez, Dominic DelliCarpini, Anita M. DeRouen, Andrea Rosso Efthymiou, Lauren Fitzgerald, Kristine Hansen, Jason Hoppe, Joseph Janangelo, Andrew Jeter, Joyce Kinkead, Jeffrey Klausman, Rita Malenczyk, Steve Price, Lauren Rosenberg, and Farrell J. Webb.

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  The World Scientific Handbook of Futures Markets

  Anastasios G. Malliaris

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  School Social Work: Practice, Policy, & Research

  Carol Rippey Massat, Michael Kelly, and Robert T. Constable

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  The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism

  Hugh Nicholson

  This book examines the role of social identity processes in the development of two counterintuitive religious concepts. The first of these is the Christian claim that the Son is of the same substance as the Father, a concept which forms the basis of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity. The second is the Buddhist doctrine of No-self, the claim that the personality is reducible to its impersonal physical and psychological constituents. Both doctrines are massively counterintuitive in the sense that they violate the default expectations that human beings spontaneously make about basic categories of things in the world. The book argues that the development of counterintuitive doctrines like No-self and consubstantiality can be understood in terms of the social psychological principle that, all things being equal, members of a group will seek to maximize the contrast with the dominant out-group. The Christian doctrine of consubstantiality was the product of the effort of “pro-Nicene” Christians of the fourth century to maximize, over against their “Arian” rivals, the contrast with Christianity’s archetypal “other,” Judaism. In a similar way, the book argues, the Buddhist doctrine of No-self may have been motivated by an effort to maximize, over against the “Personalist” (Pudgalavāda) schools of Buddhist thought, the contrast with Brahmanical Hinduism, defined by its concept of an unchanging and eternal self or ātman.

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  Christianity and Social Work: Readings on the Integration of Christian Faith and Social Work Practice , 5th Edition

  T. Laine Scales and Michael S. Kelly

  The fifth edition of Christianity and Social Work is written for social workers whose motivations to enter the profession are informed by their Christian faith, and who desire to develop faithfully Christian approaches to helping.

  Christianity and Social Work is organized around four themes: a) 1. Christian Roots of the Social Work Profession; b) 2. Christians Called to Social Work: Scriptural Basis, Worldviews and Ethics; c) 3. Human Behavior and Spiritual Development in a Diverse World; d) 4. Christians in Social Work Practice: Contemporary Issues. Chapters address a breadth of curriculum areas such as social welfare history, human behavior and the social environment, social policy, and practice at micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

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  A Greek Reader for Chase and Phillips: Selections from Antiquity

  Brian Schmisek

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  Ancient Faith for the Modern World

  Brian Schmisek

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  Multicultural Social Work Practice: A Competency-Based Approach to Diversity and Social Justice

  Derald Wing Sue, Mikal N. Rasheed, and Janice M. Rasheed

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  Defending Women's Rights in Europe : Gender Equality and EU Enlargement

  Olga A. Avdeyeva

  Between 2004 and 2007, ten post-communist Eastern European states became members of the European Union (EU). To do so, these nations had to meet certain EU accession requirements, including antidiscrimination reforms. While attaining EU membership was an incredible achievement, many scholars and experts doubted the sustainability of accession-linked reforms. Would these nations comply with EU directives on gender equality? To explore this question, Defending Women's Rights in Europe presents a unique analysis of detailed original comparative data on state compliance with EU gender equality requirements. It features a comprehensive quantitative analysis combined with rigorous insightful case studies of reforms in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Lithuania. Olga A. Avdeyeva reveals that policy and institutional reforms developed furthest in those states where women's advocacy NGOs managed to form coalitions with governing political parties. After becoming members of the EU, the governments did not abolish these policies and institutions despite the costs and lack of popular support. Reputational concerns prevented state elites from policy dismantling, but gender equality policies and institutions became marginalized on the state agenda after accession.

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  Defending Women's Rights in Europe: Gender Equality and EU Enlargement

  Olga A. Avdeyeva

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  Reimagining Biomedicalization, Pharmaceuticals, and Genetics: Old Critiques and New Engagements

  Susan E. Bell and Anne E. Figert

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  Promoting Youth Sexual Health: Home, School, and Community Collaboration

  Gina Coffee and Pamela Fenning

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  Interventions for Reading Problems: Designing and Evaluating Effective Strategies

  Edward J. Daly, Sabina Neugebauer, Sandra Chafouleas, and Christopher H. Skinner

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  Suicide in Schools: A Practioner's Guide to Multi-Level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention

  Terri A. Erbacher, Jonathan B. Singer, and Scott Poland

  Suicide in Schools provides school-based professionals with practical, easy-to-use guidance on developing and implementing effective suicide prevention, assessment, intervention and postvention strategies. Utilizing a multi-level systems approach, this book includes step-by-step guidelines for developing crisis teams and prevention programs, assessing and intervening with suicidal youth, and working with families and community organizations during and after a suicidal crisis. The authors include detailed case examples, innovative approaches for professional practice, usable handouts, and internet resources on the best practice approaches to effectively work with youth who are experiencing a suicidal crisis as well as those students, families, school staff, and community members who have suffered the loss of a loved one to suicide. Readers will come away from this book with clear, step-by-step guidelines on how to work proactively with school personnel and community professionals, think about suicide prevention from a three-tiered systems approach, how to identify those who might be at risk, and how to support survivors after a traumatic event--all in a practical, user-friendly format geared especially for the needs of school-based professionals.

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  Listening to Killers: Lessons Learned from my Twenty Years as a Psychological Expert Witness in Murder Cases

  James Garbarino

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  The Crime of Writing: Shared Meanings and Criminal Narratives in Contemporary Syria

  Zouhair Ghazzal

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  Democratic Intergovernmental Organizations? : Normative Pressures and Decision-making Rules

  Alexandru V. Grigorescu

  This work posits that, over the past two centuries, democratic norms have spread from domestic politics to intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Grigorescu explores how norms shaped IGO decision-making rules such as those driving state participation, voting, access to information, and the role of NGOs and transnational parliaments. The study emphasizes the role of 'normative pressures' (the interaction between norm strength and the degree to which the status quo strays from norm prescriptions). Using primary and secondary sources to assess the plausibility of its arguments across two centuries and two dozen IGOs, the study focuses on developments in the League of Nations, the International Labor Organization, the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union, and the World Trade Organization.

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  Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Modern Balkans

  Edin Hajdarpasic

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  Jesuit Polymath of Madrid : The Literary Enterprise of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658)

  D. Scott Hendrickson

  In Jesuit Polymath of Madrid D. Scott Hendrickson offers the first English-language account of the life and work of Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595-1658), a leading intellectual in Spain during the turbulent decades of the mid-seventeenth century. Most remembered as a prominent ascetic in the neo-Platonic tradition, Nieremberg emerges here as a writer deeply indebted to the legacy of Ignatius Loyola and his Spiritual Exercises. Hendrickson convincingly shows how Nieremberg drew from his formation in the Jesuit order at the time of its first centenary to engage the cultural and intellectual currents of the Spanish Golden Age. As an author of some seventy-five works, which represent several genres and were translated throughout Europe and abroad, Nieremberg’s literary enterprise demands attention.