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“virginia abernethy”

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  • Population Politics

    The Choices That Shape Our Future

    by Virginia Abernethy, Garrett Hardin ...
    International efforts to regulate fertility rates so that populations do not grow beyond the earth's capacity have included technical assistance and capital; improved health care conditions to lower the risk of infant mortality; increased opportunities to develop literacy; the democratization of governments; and several decades of liberal immigration and refugee policies favoring third world ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Vanishing American Dream

    Immigration, Population, Debt, Scarcity

    by Virginia Deane Abernethy ...
    The United States has gone off track, allowing domestic and foreign aid policies to be co-opted by a government—abetted by mass media—that serves special interests rather than the greater national good. Americans' tendencies to trust, play fair, and help have been abused and require replacement by a realistic outlook.The Vanishing American Dream posits solutions to get America back on the right ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Population Pressure and Cultural Adjustment

    by Virginia Deane Abernethy ...
    Integrating research from anthropology, biology, and history, this provocative, brilliant book proposes a theory of demographic equilibrium. The author's hypothesis is that human beings, like many other species, are able to adjust their population numbers to the carrying capacity of the environment. Abernethy points out that in response to perception of scarcity or abundance of resources, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Getting Better

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  • Colorblind

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    by Tim Wise ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    How "colorblindness" in policy and personal practice perpetuate racial inequity in the United States today.Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era.Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to ... Read more

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  • Disabling Professions

    by Ivan Illich ...
    In this fascinating and controversial collection of essays Ivan Illich, Irving K Zola, John McKnight, Jonathan Caplan and Harley Shaiken challenge the power and mystery of professions. Why do we put so much resource into medicine, education and the law with so little apparent result? Why do we hold the professions in awe and allow them to set up what are in effect monopolies? By analyzing these ... Read more

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  • Population and Society

    An Introduction

    by Gregg Lee Carter ...
    This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of social phenomena once thought to be largely the products of culture, politics, or the economy.Five key chapters concentrate on (1) ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Radical Transformation

    Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization

    by Kevin MacKay ...
    Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization’s impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, democratic groups that existed in symbiotic relationship with their environments. Increasing complexity led to the emergence of oligarchy, in which societies became captive to the logic of domination, exploitation, ... Read more

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  • African Politics in Comparative Perspective

    by Goran Hyden ...
    This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated ... Read more

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  • The Law and Society Reader II

    by Erik Larson, Patrick Schmidt ...
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    "A cornucopia of knowledge and insight on the biggest questions in the sociolegal tradition . . . an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers." —Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship, University of WashingtonLaw and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. ... Read more

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  • Mobilizing for Human Rights

    International Law in Domestic Politics

    by Beth A. Simmons ...
    This volume argues that international human rights law has made a positive contribution to the realization of human rights in much of the world. Although governments sometimes ratify human rights treaties, gambling that they will experience little pressure to comply with them, this is not typically the case. Focusing on rights stakeholders rather than the United Nations or state pressure, Beth ... Read more

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