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Wilkinson, Richard G.

Summary: This eye-opening UK bestseller shows how one single factor--the gap between its richest and poorest members--can determine the health and well-being of a society. The authors also outline a new political outlook in which a shift from self-interested consumerism to a friendlier, more sustainable society is paramount.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Press 2011

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Kaba, Mariame

Summary: "What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle." -- page [4] of cover.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2021

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KAB

Currie, Stephen

Summary: With no scientific knowledge to guide them, people of medieval times believed that diseases were supernatural phenomena or punishments from God. Thus medical treatments were usually primitive and often horrifying. But little by little, knowledge grewultimately leading to a more practical and scientific approach to understanding sickness and ways to treat it.

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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2015

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364 CUR

Hinshaw, Stephen P.

Contents: Impossible expectations -- Blue jeans and "blue" genes: depression and the triple bind -- Life in the pressure cooker: impossible expectations and the culture of busy-ness -- No place to run, no place to hide: the popular culture of "self-erasing identities" -- When virtue is its own punishment: how empathy and verbal skills may put our girls at higher risk -- Bratz dolls and pussycat dolls:...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.533 HIN

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