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Race, Incarceration, and American Values
"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater th…
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Spaceflight :a concise history
A concise history of spaceflight, from military rocketry through Sputnik, Apollo, robots in space, space culture, and human spaceflight today. Spaceflight is one of the greatest human achievements of the twentieth century. The Soviets launched Sputnik, the first satellite, in 1957; less than twelve years later, the American Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon. In this volume of the MIT Press E…
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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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