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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point is that magical moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshhold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a sick individual in a crowded store can start can epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend or the popularity of a new restaurant to take off overnightor...
Circumcision and Human Rights
Circumcision and Human Rights

"There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don t exist," said Dr. Michael Wilks, Head of Ethics at the British Medical Association, who admitted that doctors have circumcised boys for "no good reason."

In the United States, parts of Africa, the Middle East,...

Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education: In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy
Conflicting Paradigms in Adult Literacy Education: In Quest of a U.S. Democratic Politics of Literacy
This book provides a broad overview of some of the major trends and issues shaping the theories, practices, research traditions, and politics of adult literacy in the United States since the mid-1980s. If anything, these have been diverse, conflicting, and often irreconcilable. Impinging factors—from the global economy to urban poverty, from...
Abortion Counseling: A Clinician's Guide to Psychology, Legislation, Politics, and Competency
Abortion Counseling: A Clinician's Guide to Psychology, Legislation, Politics, and Competency

The majority of women who have had abortions report feeling happy, satisfied, and relieved following their abortion. Some few women who have had an abortion may experience some feelings of guilt and sadness; however, this rarely lasts longer than a few days. Those very few women who present with prolonged feelings of sadness and mental health...

Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (New Directions in Critical Theory, 72)
Hermeneutics as Critique: Science, Politics, Race, and Culture (New Directions in Critical Theory, 72)
Hermeneutics has frequently been dismissed as useful only for literary and textual analysis. Some consider it to be Eurocentric or inherently relativistic and thus unsuited to social critique. Lorenzo C. Simpson offers a persuasive and powerful argument that hermeneutics is a valuable tool not only for critical theory but also for robustly...
Information Technology Policy: An International History
Information Technology Policy: An International History
This book brings together a series of country-based studies to examine, in depth, the nature and extent of IT policies as they have evolved from a complex historical interaction of politics, technology, institutions, and social and cultural factors. In doing so many key questions are critically examined. Where can we find successful examples of IT...
Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World
Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World
In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social networks of its people.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange has been branded “public enemy number one” by some in the United States for posting material on the World Wide
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Implementing the Climate Regime: International Compliance
Implementing the Climate Regime: International Compliance
Unlike most books on climate politics, this volume has a sharp focus on one particular aspect of the global climate regime – the system set up to improve compliance with commitments under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The design of a compliance system has been controversial ever since the adoption of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate...
The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World)
The Establishment of the Han Empire and Imperial China (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events of the Ancient World)
China's Han Dynasty created a prosperous empire from 206 BCE to CE 221, promoting a less harsh society than that of their Quin predecessors and developing technological advancements from the water mill to stoneware and paper. From elements of social change in Han times to kingdom problems and issues, its role in world society and politics, and its...
Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source
Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source
From downloading music and movies to accessing free software, digital media is forcing us to rethink the very idea of intellectual property.

While big companies complain about lost profits, the individual has never enjoyed such freedom and autonomy.

Berry explores this debate in a concise way, offering an ideal
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The Strategic Bond Investor, Third Edition: Strategic Tools to Unlock the Power of the Bond Market
The Strategic Bond Investor, Third Edition: Strategic Tools to Unlock the Power of the Bond Market
The bestselling bond investing classic?updated to help you profit today and position yourself for the post-COVID era and decade ahead

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the investing world has changed radically. Credit is more difficult to access, populations across the world are aging, and economic growth has
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Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption
In the spring of 1993, the White House announced an unprecedented plan for both promoting and
controlling the use of secret codes to keep communications private. The plan, formally called key
escrow but popularly known as "Clipper" after its star component, the Clipper chip, was to adopt a
new federal standard for
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