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A lifelong liberal from the San Francisco Bay Area, David Yamane became a new gun owner as a 42-year-old and embarked on an immersive twelve-year study of American gun culture. Weaving together his personal experiences and sociological observations to explain why guns make sense to those who own them, he illuminates defensive gun ownership, the risk of negative outcomes associated with firearms, and what responsible gun ownership looks like in the twenty-first century. This book lowers the heat on America’s inflamed arguments about firearms and models the civil discussions we desperately need.

Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn't. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote. To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics.

Many of us grew up believing in a meritocracy, where hard work and a good education brings rewards. Go to university, get a job, put in the hours and things will be OK. That’s what we were told – but the reality is that life chances and opportunities are no longer shaped by what we learn or earn but by whether we have access to the Bank of Mum and Dad. We’re living in an inheritocracy, where parental support is what matters most – whether that’s covering the cost of university, stumping up for a house deposit or helping with childcare.

Steve Grant was laid off in March of 2020. He was fifty and had cancer, so he needed health insurance, fast. Which is how he found himself a rural letter carrier in Appalachia, back in his old hometown. Suddenly, he was the guy with the goods, delivering dog food and respirators and lube and heirloom tomato seeds and Lord of the Rings replica swords. He transported chicken feed to grandmothers living alone in the mountains and forded a creek with a refrigerator on his back. But while he carried the mail, he also carried a whole lot more than just the mail.

In this groundbreaking book, Esther Armah argues that the crucial missing piece to racial healing and sustainable equity is emotional justice—a new racial healing language to help us do our emotional work. This work is part of the emotional reckoning we must navigate if racial healing is to be more than a dream. We all—white, Black, Brown—have our emotional work that we need to do. But that work is not the same for all of us.

Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America, who made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans.

Let Them & Our Selves Unite is your essential guide. This book offers a visionary yet practical roadmap to transform your families, organizations, and communities into vibrant, resilient social ecosystems. Grounded in emotional intelligence, cultural fluency, and ethical innovation, it provides actionable strategies for today's complex dynamics.

Si alguna vez has cedido por miedo al rechazo o al conflicto, este libro es para ti. La complacencia no es solo un rasgo de la personalidad, sino también un mecanismo de respuesta aprendido, el cual puede estar arraigado en el trauma, el miedo al abandono o la necesidad de validación externa. Más que un simple compendio de autoayuda, este libro es una invitación a un proceso de transformación personal.

Il s'agit d'un ouvrage académique complet et critique qui explore comment le consumérisme est devenu une force structurante des subjectivités, des relations sociales et des inégalités au XXIe siècle. S'appuyant sur une approche interdisciplinaire articulant psychologie sociale, sociologie critique, technologie numérique et théorie de la consommation, le livre propose une analyse approfondie des mécanismes symboliques, affectifs et algorithmiques qui façonnent le comportement des consommateurs à l’ère des plateformes numériques.

Как меняются герои нашего времени? Почему многих притягивает советское прошлое, которое мы так и не сумели понять? Почему мы любим идеализировать бандитов? Почему все больше люди добровольно выставляют свою частную жизнь на публичное обозрение? На примере известных кинофильмов и сериалов – от «Шоу Трумана» до «Доктора Хауса» – социолог, доктор экономических наук, автор исследования о миленниалах Вадим Радаев размышляет о жизненных вопросах, которые волнуют каждого из нас.

In a world fractured by uncertainty, resilience is no longer optional—it’s survival. *Diamond: The Unbreakable Will* shatters conventional thinking about strength, revealing how clarity and grit forge an unbreakable human spirit. JD Arden dissects the mechanics behind endurance, peeling back layers of philosophy, psychology, and real-world examples to expose the core of what resists collapse under relentless pressure. This is not a self-help primer soaked in platitudes. It’s a sharp, unflinching exploration of how individuals, societies, and movements transcend chaos, emerging refined...

On a 90-degree day in Los Angeles, bus riders across the city line up behind the shadows cast by street signs and telephone poles, looking for a little relief from the sun’s glaring heat. Every summer such scenes play out in cities across the United States, and as Sam Bloch argues, we ignore the benefits of shade at our own peril. Heatwaves are now the country’s deadliest natural disasters with victims concentrated in poorer, less shady areas. Public health, mental health, and crime statistics are worse in neighborhoods without it. For some, finding shade is a matter of life and death.

Glancing deep thoughts on Polish geniuses vs jokes, tattooed skin lampshades, Golda Meir, Gertrude Stein, Jerzy Kosinski, David Irving, Fred Leuchter, Mein Kampf, Weimar madness, Ho Chi Minh as a Taiwanese Hakka, Marguerite Duras, Mekong Delta playboys, attachment to Puget Sound and a wandering Aussie.

" Les événements racontés dans ce livre se déroulent sur plus de vingt ans. Pendant toutes ces années, je me suis tu. Aujourd'hui, j'écris en pensant à toutes celles et ceux, des centaines de milliers, peut-être des millions, qui souffrent en silence du même mal.

With poetic grit and unfiltered honesty, Fisher chronicles his backbreaking daily grind on the Atlantic Ocean, only to be blindsided by the cold fist of bureaucracy: the ice-hearted Pease Port Authority. Ultimately, his 30 years as a commercial fisherman collapses simply because of a clerical misstep that the Authority, blind to his desperate pleas, refuses to ignore.

On the 24th of February 2007, my husband Stuart drowned himself at sea, leaving me widowed with two young daughters, aged six and four. I knew it wasn't an accident, even though the medics and police never suspected suicide. Stuart had been talking about ending his life for a year. His most recent suicide attempt had been only three weeks earlier. Afterwards, he described that day as the most peaceful day of his life. Sitting next to the dam, he smoked his last cigarette. He drank a hundred sleeping pills and did a final check to make sure everything would look like an accident. The last ...

From New Year’s resolutions to Christmas consumerism, Halloween sugar rituals to birthday performance pressure, The Holiday Business walks you month-by-month through the cultural con. This isn’t a book about hating holidays. It’s about reclaiming them. It’s about seeing how sacred rituals became revenue events, how love got priced, and how freedom got scheduled. If you’ve ever felt strange about the way we celebrate —this is your permission to stop pretending.

If Jenn had known her husband's family before they'd gotten married, there might never have been a wedding at all. Now she has to confront the reality that her new family holds ignorant—and, at times, racist—views, and that spending time around them triggers her ingrained trauma of growing up Black in the U.S. Why is it so hard for her to speak out against their prejudice? And, more importantly, what does it mean that her husband is silent in the face of all this?

Being the Change is based on the idea that people can develop skills and habits to serve them in the comprehension of social issues. Sara K. Ahmed identifies and unpacks the skills of social comprehension, providing teachers with tools and activities that help students make sense of themselves and the world as they navigate relevant topics in today’s society.

Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their education, harming the students, their families, and their schools. Black students suffer most within this broken system, experiencing a far greater risk of school punishment and the significant harms that accompany it. Many activists and scholars have considered how school punishment increases racial inequity, but few have thought to ask why.