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Sexual Harassment of Working Women
A Case of Sex Discrimination
Häftad, 1979
350 kr
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Sexual harassment of working women has been widely practiced and systematically ignored. Men’s control over women’s jobs has often made coerced sexual relations the price of women’s material survival. Considered trivial or personal, or natural and inevitable, sexual harassment has become a social …
Usable Knowledge
Social Science and Social Problem Solving
Häftad, 1979
345 kr
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The problem that gives rise to this book is dissatisfaction with social science and social research as instruments of social problem solving. Policy makers and other practical problem solvers frequently voice disappointment with what they are offered. And many social scientists and social …
Who Votes?
Av Raymond E. Wolfinger, Steven J. Rosenstone
Häftad, 1980
363 kr
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Elections are at the heart of the American political system, but in 1976 only 54 percent of the voting age population went to the polls. The question of who votes matters greatly to everyone involved in politics and to all those concerned about the current and future state of American democracy. …
Clean Coal/Dirty Air
or How the Clean Air Act Became a Multibillion-Dollar Bail-Out for High-Sulfur Coal Producers
Av Bruce A. Ackerman, William T. Hassler
Häftad, 1981
360 kr
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A pioneering study of dynamics of politics and technocracy that generated mistaken policies that still haunt environmental law today.
New American Dilemma
Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation
Häftad, 1984
451 kr
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Conventional wisdom and democratic theory hold that the best way to achieve controversial policy changes is in small, cautious steps and with participation of the various groups involved. Yet America’s thirty years of experience with school desegregation shows this belief to be false. In this …
Demise of Nuclear Energy?
Lessons for Democratic Control of Technology
Av Joseph G. Morone, Edward J. Woodhouse
Häftad, 1989
382 kr
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Three Mile Island, Seabrook, Diablo Canyon: their controversies have come to symbolize the unhappy fate of American nuclear power. Three decades of effort and an investment of several hundred billion dollars have culminated in wide-spread public fear, huge financial losses, an unworkable regulatory …
National Security Constitution
Sharing Power after the Iran-Contra Affair
Häftad, 1990
565 kr
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Was the Iran-Contra affair caused by executive lawlessness or legislative folly? Or did it result instead from structural defects in our national security decision-making system? In this important book, Harold Hongju Koh argues that the affair was not aberrational but symptomatic of a chronic …
AIDS Benefits Handbook
Everything you need to know to get Social Security, Welfare, Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps, Housing...
Häftad, 1990
473 kr
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"I know of no other publication that serves the function that this book provides. It is invaluable."—David Barr, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, New YorkPersons with AIDS and with AIDS-Related Complex (ARC) must cope with pressing income and health needs. The U.S. social welfare system …
AIDS Disaster
The Failure of Organizations in New York and the Nation
Av Mauro F. Guillén, Charles Perrow
Häftad, 1991
431 kr
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The seriousness, potential dimensions, and likely victims of the AIDS epidemic were known as early as 1981, yet the reaction of public and private organizations was shockingly slow and feeble and is even now woefully inadequate. Basing their analysis largely on the hardest hit city, New York, …
Understanding Health Care Reform
Häftad, 1994
532 kr
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The reform of American medical care is the most important topic on the nation's domestic agenda and the centerpiece of the Clinton administration's plans for social policy and long-term economic development. This book, written by a preeminent analyst of medical politics and policy who is a frequent …
Medicine's Dilemmas
Infinite Needs versus Finite Resources
Häftad, 1994
403 kr
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Can the United States provide a health care program that offers a comprehensive package of the highest-quality health benefits to all Americans while containing health care costs? In this important book, Dr. William L. Kissick says that it cannot: no society in the world has sufficient resources to …
Forgotten Children of the AIDS Epidemic
Av Shelley Geballe, Janice Gruendel m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
525 kr
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"Mommy, why can`t the doctors make you better?"..."You won`t be there, will you? Who`ll take care of me?"—Rachel, age 5AIDS breaks the rules of dying. It strikes the young rather than the old, decimating families and devastating communities. It will leave as its legacy a generation of …
Poverty of Welfare Reform
Häftad, 1995
382 kr
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Once again, America is getting tough on welfare. Democrats and Republicans at both the national and state levels seem to have agreed that paying public funds to the poor—particularly to single mothers and their children—perpetuates dependency and undermines self-sufficiency and the work ethic.In …
We the Poor People
Work, Poverty, and Welfare
Av Joel F. Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld
Häftad, 1997
510 kr
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Current welfare reforms—including recently enacted federal legislation—are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face is not the spread of welfare but the spread of poverty among the working …
Thinking Ecologically
The Next Generation of Environmental Policy
Av Marian Chertow, Marian R. Chertow m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
506 kr
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Twenty-five years ago, the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was so contaminated that it caught fire, air pollution in some cities was thick enough to taste, and environmental laws focused on the obvious enemy: large American factories with belching smokestacks and pipes gushing wastes. Federal legislation …
Tamoxifen and Breast Cancer
Av Michael W. DeGregorio, Valerie J. Wiebe
Häftad, 2000
219 kr
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Tamoxifen is one of the most widely prescribed drugs used to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer. A nonsteroidal antiestrogen, it has been successful in treating postmenopausal women at nearly all stages of breast cancer. Despite its popularity, disturbing questions remain about the use of this …
