African Americans and the Integration of the National Football League
In American football, seven out of ten players are black, but few are fully aware of the struggle to achieve equal rights. This text examines how sports laid a foundation for social change by integrating black and white athletes in the National Football League.
The question of women in the armed services is hotly debated. Exploring the perspectives of feminist antimilitarists and feminist soldiers, this text situates the combat controversy in the context of US political change and analyzes women's inclusion in the armed forces.
This edition takes readers on a trip around the world with Australia's top and emerging writers. Poetry and fiction take them to China, the Americas, Malaysia and Paris. Critical articles visit Brian Castro's Toyko and Peter Carey's 19th century London.
Although new immunomodulating treatments have made dramatic inroads into lessening the impact of Multiple Sclerosis, no cure is yet in sight. Most patients will progress, and dealing with their many complex symptoms and issues requires many levels of medical and rehabilitative care. This important book focuses on symptom control and clinical ......
Identifying a profoundly male bias in the law, this text recommends a reasonable woman standard for measuring behaviour, arguing that a woman-based legal standard would help rectify the imbalance in how society and its legal system view sexual and gender-based crime.
Recommendations for Treatment, Training, and Privileging (A Task Force R
The updated format and content of this second edition make it a remarkably practical guide for the safe and effective use of ECT. Its chapters closely integrate recommendations with their justifications, making the material easy to read, understand, and use.
In this thought provoking work, Hobbs traces the avant garde from its origins to its eventual appropriation by a conservative political agenda, consumer culture and the institutional world of art.
Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation
Considers immigration in the context of the global and national economy, examining such often-overlooked issues as the competition between immigrants and African Americans, inter-group tension, and ethnic separatism.
