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Water, Race, and Disease
A qualitative and quantitative analysis of the effect of public water and sewer systems on African American life expectancy in the Jim Crow era.Why, at the peak of the Jim Crow era early in the twentieth century, did life expectancy for African Americans rise dramatically? And why, when public officials were denying African Americans access to many other public services, did public water and se…
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- 9780262285186
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 251 pages) :illustrations.
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The Global Biopolitics of the IUD: How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users…
This is a biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD. The book illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262298452
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages).
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Get off my neck :Black lives, white justice, and a former prosecutor's quest …
"An examination of the historical and present racial inequities of the prosecutorial system and a blueprint for transforming the system to one of fairness and justice"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262378147
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Waiting to inhale :cannabis legalization and the fight for racial justice
"Tells the stories of those who suffered during the worst social and political failure in the continent's history-the War on Drugs-and what we can do to right the wrongs of the past"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373128
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Running smart :how science can improve your endurance and performance
"A runner and science journalist seeks to find the scientific basis for much of the commonly transmitted wisdom that exists in the running community"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365197
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The barbarian invasions :a genealogy of the history of art
How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion--the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262355742
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- 1 online resource (288 pages).
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Contraception :a concise history
"This book is a history of contraceptive technologies from the opening of the first birth control clinic in Amsterdam in 1882 to the present. It argues that tracing access to, research and development of, and use of contraceptive technologies is an outward measure of how a society values human selfhood and autonomy. It traces the research, development, manufacturing, distribution, and use of co…
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Everything Man The Form and Function of Paul Robeson
From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson's continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and ho…
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Antioxidants in Health and Disease
Antioxidants in Health and Disease discusses the effects of dietary antioxidants and antioxidant supplementation in humans. It reviews the latest evidence-based research in the area, principally through prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials. The book assesses major dietary antioxidants and discusses their use in diseases such as cancer, diabetes, stroke, coronary heart dis…
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A Somaesthetics of Performative Beauty Tangoing Desire and Nostalgia
actions, aesthetics, Argentine tango, awareness, dance studies, enactivism, eros, Falk Heinrich, freedom, grace, movements, performance studies, performative beauty, phenomenology, poiesis, social dancing, somaesthetics
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