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  • Survivor Criminology

    A Radical Act of Hope

    by Reneè D. Lamphere, Jason M. Williams, Stacy L. Mallicoat, Alissa R. Ackerman, Babette J. Boyd, Steven Green0, Toniqua C. Mikell1, Monishia Miller2, Keenan Mundine3, Stacy Parks Miller4, Jennifer Ortiz5, Alexa D. Sardina6, Lauren J. Silver7, Carly Stanley8, Meredith G. F. Worthen9, Kimberly J. Cook0 ...
    Series series Applied Criminology across the Globe
    Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this volume explore our authors’ who have each had close personal encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As scholars, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sex Crimes

    Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives

    Edited by Alissa Ackerman, Rich Furman ...
    Sex crimes, such as rape, child sexual abuse, and intimate partner violence, are increasingly transnational in nature, introducing unique cross-border and cross-cultural challenges for police, the courts, and the law. Policy makers and practitioners are in need of a resource that explores the incidence, prosecution, and treatment of sexual crimes across different countries and cultures.This book ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The New Campus Anti-Rape Movement

    Internet Activism and Social Justice

    by Caroline Heldman, Alissa R. Ackerman, Ian Breckenridge-Jackson ...
    After 40 years of activists working to reduce sexual violence on college campuses, in 2014, the new Campus Anti-Rape Movement (CARM) finally put this issue on the national policy agenda. President Barack Obama credited “an inspiring wave of student-led activism” for catapulting campus rape into public consciousness. This book positions the new CARM within a long history of anti-sexual violence ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Sex and Gender in the 2016 Presidential Election

    by Caroline Heldman, Meredith Conroy, Alissa R. Ackerman, Juliet Williams ...
    Series series Gender Matters in U.S. Politics
    In order to understand the motivations for and implications of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the White House- and her subsequent defeat-the authors explore sexism and gender bias in U.S. political and social culture.While there is some indication that overt sexism toward women in politics is declining, whether this is true for women who run for the highest office in American politics remains ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • No Shortcuts

    Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

    by Jane F. McAlevey ...
    The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. Today's progressives now work for professional organizations more comfortable with the inside game in Washington DC (and capitols throughout the West), where they are outmatched and outspent by corporate interests. Labor unions now focus on the narrowest ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • News

    The Politics of Illusion, Tenth Edition

    by W. Lance Bennett ...
    Can real news survive in an era of social media and spin? An updated edition of the "smart, provocative introduction to media and American politics."—Paul Freedman, author of Campaign Advertising and American DemocracyFor over thirty years, News: The Politics of Illusion has not simply reflected the political communication field—it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Problem of the Media

    U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    by Robert D. McChesney ...
    The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known-a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media, gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and points a way forward for the growing media reform movement ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • One Nation After Trump

    A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

    by Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann, E. J. Dionne ...
    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERA call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Dollarocracy

    How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America

    by John Nichols, Robert W. McChesney ...
    Fresh from the first 10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from decades covering American and international media and politics, political journalist John Nichols and media critic ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

    by Fredrik deBoer ...
    An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future from Fredrik deBoer, “one of the sharpest and funniest writers on the internet” (The New York Times).In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, the United States was hit by a ripple of political ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • The End of White Politics

    How to Heal Our Liberal Divide

    by Zerlina Maxwell ...
    An MSNBC political analyst and former Hillary Clinton staffer examines the past and present problems of the Left—and makes a compelling case for how to take back our government and secure a better future for America.In the entire history of the United States of America, we've never elected a woman as our president. And we've only had one president who was not a white man.After working on two ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Ground Wars

    Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns

    by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen ...
    Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD