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Cardinal Dreams revitalizes the legacy of Charlie Peete, a key figure in integrating the minor leagues with the breakout potential to be the first established Black position player for the St. Louis Cardinals. Peete changed the world for the better and left a lasting impact on baseball before his tragic death at just 27 years old.

In a time of genetic editing, global warming, and a worldwide pandemic, the question of how freely science is and should be conducted is one that has significant practical consequences. Drawing on rigorous interdisciplinary methods, this book develops a model of scientific freedom as a human right.

A critical exploration of cisness and transphobia that pushes readers to grapple with what cisness means and the violence anti-trans oppression produces

This book shines a light on the unsung women of the Civil Rights Movement, women who overcame enormous odds to fight for the rights of Black Americans. The women profiled include Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Dorothy Height, Ruby Hurley, Gloria Richardson, Jo Ann Robinson, and more.

In recent decades social cohesion has emerged as a major concern of states, policymakers and researchers. Social cohesion is represented as a desirable policy goal and as the basis for everything from economic growth to individual well-being. At the same time, it is increasingly presented as a single substance, which can be measured, tracked, and compared across diverse societies. But why should we think of the complex ways in which we can live well together in terms of a single substance? Social Cohesion Contested challenges this way of thinking, suggesting that social cohesion has become a buzzword that obscures more than it illuminates.Dan Swain and Petr Urban trace the rise of the concept through the policy agendas of transnational and international bodies, and analyze the reactions of social researchers to the demands of policymakers for a clear and operationalizable concept. They argue that the term is frequently used in a way that assumes broad understanding and agreement, while in practice it is subject to contradictory definitions and often loaded with various implicit and explicit values, which become masked behind a veneer of scientific authority and normative legitimacy. The more that social cohesion is treated as a single substance with a clear and uncontroversial meaning, the more it narrows the space for debate and contestation around both the policies adopted in its name and the understanding of the social on which it rests. In contrast, if social cohesion is to mean anything it ought to be understood explicitly as a contested concept, and actively subject to contestation. The book thus provides not only a critique of a popular concept, but an example of engaged philosophical criticism of social research and policy.

The chapters of this book examine the history, theoretical conditions and connection points between aesthetics and other disciplines. At the same time we are also interested in practical clashes of methodology and agenda ¿ especially when it is not merely about the securing of the position of one or the other discipline

Arguing against incarceration by using feminist philosophy and moral psychology, Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap bring theoretical arguments about personhood and moral repair into conversation with the practice of abolition. They develop the concept of moral abandonment and contrast it with moral solidarity as they argue that it is inherent in our present carceral practices. Contemporary carceral systems in the United States and Canada fail to treat people as genuine moral agents in ways that also fail victims and their larger communities. As part of this argument, the book directly addresses one of the paradigm cases of wrongdoing often used to justify carceral systems: sexual violence. Current systems that treat sexual violence offenders as irredeemable monsters both obscure the reality of sexual violence and are harmful to everyone involved.As an alternative to carceral systems, Barrett and Yap argue for an orientation towards justice grounded in the requirements of moral repair. This incorporates elements of restorative justice, mutual aid, and harm reduction. Instead of advocating for one specific and universal approach, the authors argue for a multigenerational collective action that aims to build resilient communities that support the wellbeing of all.

From Emmy award-winning journalist Elisa Boxer comes an inspiring YA anthology of 35 trailblazing women from all walks of life, detailing their struggles and achievements and featuring a personal message from each woman written just for this book, telling their younger selves what they wish they had known growing up.

An affordable, practical, multicultural case-based resource for mental health practice with children and adolescents, connecting assessment, intervention goals, treatment protocols, and evaluation of outcomes for childhood disorders, by developmental age and stage, and with ready-to-use implementation resources.

This book aims to thoroughly examine noise¿s conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prospect of different ¿contextures¿ of a present made volatile by noise. Given our capacity to create robust, adaptable social systems, we need better control uncertainty, randomness, and noise.

This CSIS report offers one of the most comprehensive analyses to date of Chinese political warfare activities and examines Chinäs main actions, primary goals, and options for the United States and its partners.

Jean-Paul Sartre¿s work has been taken up by writers outside of Europe, particularly in the Global South, who have developed phenomenological and existential analyses of racism, colonialism, and other structures of domination. Sartre¿s philosophical concepts are fundamentally open, for instance his notions of humanism, bad-faith, and freedom. As a situational, committed thinker, Sartre worked to illuminate the urgent questions of his time at the concrete and the abstract level. The creolization of Sartrean thinking is consistent with the existential projects of engagement, authenticity, political commitment, and liberation from oppression. This volume asks how his European model of phenomenology was (and can be) transformed when it is taken up by thinkers who have lived experience with colonialism. They book also engages Sartre in his relation to key interlocutors (especially Beauvoir and Fanon) who were influenced by him and who influenced him in turn. The book demonstrates how Sartrean philosophy is productively related to Africana philosophy, Africana phenomenology, and Africana existentialism. This volume treats creolization not as a discrete topic, but as an interdisciplinary, global approach to reading and thinking. Each author¿s contribution embodies an aspect of creolizing thinking, understood as the articulation of cultural and conceptual hybridity under conditions of eurocentrism, epistemic colonialism and the legacies of slavery. Creolizing Sartre re-reads Sartrean texts to recast existential themes through the lens of Caribbean philosophies and the broader philosophies of the Global South.

This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind.

This book provides six different strategies for teaching the fundamentals of reading with social-emotional learning in mind.

In Being Muslim Today, author Dr. Saqib Qureshi silences the noise that obscures the message of Islam. He provides a compelling presentation of the faith¿s beginnings, its evolution throughout the last 1,400 years, and its relevance today. He simplifies complicated academic debates and reveals the heart and soul of a growing faith tradition.

Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views compares the views and principles of nine prominent ethical traditions, religious and secular, on their relationship with democracy and democratic ideals.

Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views compares the views and principles of nine prominent ethical traditions, religious and secular, on their relationship with democracy and democratic ideals.

Baseball¿s Great Expectations features the fascinating stories of baseball players who were on the cusp of greatness, who everyone expected to be the next superstar, but never quite lived up to the hype¿or through tragic circumstances, never had the chance.

Bringing together academics and news industry professionals, this daring book investigates and offers solutions to significant problems with the productive functioning of the mainstream news media. Each chapter offers a pathway for improvement for individual reporters, the institution more broadly, and the news consumer.

Bringing together academics and news industry professionals, this daring book investigates and offers solutions to significant problems with the productive functioning of the mainstream news media. Each chapter offers a pathway for improvement for individual reporters, the institution more broadly, and the news consumer.