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This book explores the trajectory of gender equality in institutions' engagement with the Women, Peace, and Security agenda at the intersection of global, regional, and national governance, shedding light on opportunities and challenges for a meaningful change in peace and security.

In a society of strangers, there develops what can be called crimes of mobility -- forms of criminality rare in traditional societies: bigamy, the confidence game, and blackmail, for example. What they have in common is a kind of fraudulent role-playing, which the new society makes possible.

Through clients¿ stories and historical perspectives, Andrea D. Lyon explains what¿s wrong with the criminal justice system and makes the case that the United States needs someone who represents the poor and disenfranchised, who is part of discussions of policy, funding, or the administration of justice¿a Defender General.

This book combines advice from certified autism travel professionals, parents, and advocates to restructure every aspect of vacations for those with autism/ASD or mood/distraction disorders, though the tips can be used to soothe any child¿s travel anxieties.

Difficult presents detailed stories of how women balance their desire to protect their challenging adult children alongside feelings of resentment, helplessness, isolation, shame, and fear for their children¿s future and their own safety.

This book tells the inspiring story of the 1984 U.S. men's Olympic volleyball team. After many years playing as underdogs, a maverick coach would take over and push the players to their physical and emotional limits. Their journey to the Olympics reveals the value of teamwork, never giving up, and trusting in an innovative style of leadership.

This book lays out the purpose of libraries and, building upon that: creates a discursive practice within which conversations about essential political issues; details how the analysis of discourse can enable the conversations;sets forth a philosophical framework for the librarians and facilitators of the conversations, and more.

In this book, John L. Kater traces the process by which Anglican ministry evolved over time from the Reformation in dialogue with social and political changes and the ways in which Anglicans in multiple contexts have contributed to the emergence of a globally diverse and unique way of practicing the Church¿s ministry.

This second edition of Day Trips from the Twin Cities is your guide to hundreds of exciting things to do, see, and discover in your own backyard. With full trip-planning information and tips on where to eat, shop, and stop along the way, you can make the most of your time off and rediscover the simple pleasures of a day trip.

"[I]deal for readers seeking a more comprehensive look at information dissemination technology, its context, and its impact on the way in which we now live." Library Journal, Starred Review ¿ Explore how the tools of our information age grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present day.

This book explores the strategic influence campaigns deployed by Iran to support and export their culture of resistance.

This book explores how changes in the structure of the international system and technology incentivize major powers to adopt different types of military power¿either the traditional threat and use of force or ¿shaping¿ through the non-warfighting use of military organizations¿to manage threats in world politics.

The Con and the FBI Agent is the story of an unlikely alliance between two diametrically opposed people that results in one of the most successful undercover cases in Boston FBI history.

Hear the call to overcome today¿s culture of hate and bring healing and hope into our life together. While right-wing conservatives dare to call themselves Christians as they tear down equality and justice, commit horrific acts of violence, and fan the flames of fascism in America, Carter Heyward issues a call to action for Christians to truly hear God¿s message of peace and love.Heyward shows how American Christians have played a major role in building and securing structures of injustice in American life. Rising tides of white supremacy, threats to women¿s reproductive freedoms and to basic human rights for gender and sexual minorities, the widening divide between rich and poor, and increasing natural disasters and the extinction of Earth¿s species--all point to a world crying out for God¿s wisdom.Followers of Jesus must first call out these ingrained and sinful attitudes for what they are, acknowledging what the culture of white Christian nationalism is doing to our country and our world, and commit ourselves ever more fully to generating justice-love, whoever and wherever we are.

For a period of time in the 1970s, the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the Cincinnati Reds was one of the best rivalries in Major League Baseball. This book takes a fresh look at these two powerhouses and the players that made them so pivotal, including Johnny Bench, Steve Garvey, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Don Sutton, and Ron Cey.

This book explores the fascinating influence of intelligence work during World War II on spy fiction, as well as the important roles many spy novelists played during the war and the sustained influence of spy fiction on intelligence operations after World War II and during the Cold War.

This resource advances the scholarship in academic research about the experiences of parole officers' occupational challenges, including exposure to potentially psychologically traumatic events, and provides evidence-based recommendation for meeting the mental health needs of correctional workers broadly.

This book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism. The new method enables global epistemics to cope with multiplex challenges coming from geohistorical as well as epistemological standpoints whose methodological potential remains unexplored.

This book explores the implications of creolizing Hannah Arendt and thinking for: action, liberation, freedom, power, democracy, identity, racism, prejudice, totalitarianism, immigration, judgment, revolution, decolonial politics, the human, modern traditions of Caribbean political thought, Africana philosophy, and existential phenomenology.