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Sustainable Communities for a Healthy Planet presents an unconventional collection of ideas, practices, and ways of living together with the potential to enable long-term human and planetary health. Grounded in first-hand accounts from researchers, health practitioners, and social innovators across diverse fields, Katharine Zywert’s book argues that the most promising approaches often depart substantially from the incentive structures, goals, and mindsets that define the status quo and do not necessarily align with mainstream sustainability discourses. The book instead presents promising approaches that disrupt dominant ideas about mental health, ageing, and chronic illness; circumvent exp...
Presents the 2005 supplement to "West's Encyclopedia of American Law," featuring 145 alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on people, cases, statutes, and issues in U.S. law.
Profiles nearly eight hundred judicial proceedings.
Welcome to the World of Criminal Justice. The individual entries in this ready-reference source explain in concise, detailed, and jargon-free language some of the most important topics, theories, discoveries, concepts, and organizations in criminal justice. Brief biographical profiles of the people who have made a significant and lasting impact on the field of criminal justice and society in general are also included. More than 320 photographs, statistical charts, and graphs aid the reader in understanding the topics and people covered in the reference work.
This annual supplement to West's Encyclopedia of American Law update and expand the content with dozens of new topics. The 2002 edition covers: Major legal issues surrounding the September 11th Attacks: U.S. v. John Walker Lindh, Daniel Pearl kidnapping and murder, changes in civil liberties in the wake of the attacks, status of POWs held by U.S. military forces, new legislation like the PATRIOT Act and the Air Transportation Safety and Stabilization Act, trials of men accused of orchestrating bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, etc. The Enron scandal The Andrea Yates's murder trial Revocation of Mumia Abu-Jamal's death sentence Firestone/Ford Explorer tire blowout lawsuits Major League Ba...
When working with Indigenous people, the helping professions —education, social work, health care and justice — reinforce the colonial lie that Indigenous people need saving. In White Benevolence, leading anti-racism scholars reveal the ways in which white settlers working in these institutions shape, defend and uphold institutional racism, even while professing to support Indigenous people. White supremacy shows up in the everyday behaviours, language and assumptions of white professionals who reproduce myths of Indigenous inferiority and deficit, making it clear that institutional racism encompasses not only high-level policies and laws but also the collective enactment by people withi...
Nearly 800 cases, mostly argued before te Supreme Court, that have shaped American law.