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Social Sciences eBook Series

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  • The Death Care Industry and Urban Gun Violence

    Helping Profession Strategies for Engagement and Support

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths.Gun violence in the United States is a salient national problem with virtually no day that goes by without it occurring. Where gun violence occurs, in turn, must be ... Read more

    PHP7,104.19

  • Urban Public Spaces, Events, and Gun Violence

    Block Parties, Funerals, Mother's Day, and Other Community Events

    by Melvin Delgado ...
    Series series Social Sciences
    This book offers a new vision on urban gun violence that focuses on public space-centered concepts, events, and research. It builds on our existing knowledge base by viewing a "slice" of this problem through celebratory and solemn occasions and how violence at these events and spaces reflects on the state of urban gun violence. Understanding this context serves to inform us on how best to address ... Read more

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  • The Coddling of the American Mind

    How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

    by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt ...
    Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and afraid to speak honestly. How did this happen?First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt show how the new problems on campus have their origins in ... Read more

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  • The End of Bias: A Beginning

    The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

    by Jessica Nordell ...
    **Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lukas Book Prize, and the Royal Society Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by World Economic Forum, AARP, Greater Good, and** Inc.The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.Discussions of un ... Read more

    PHP663.59

  • The Behavioral Code

    The Hidden Ways the Law Makes Us Better . or Worse

    by Benjamin van Rooij, Adam Fine ...
    An American Psychology-Law Society’s Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book Award WinnerA 2022 PROSE Award finalist in Legal Studies and CriminologyA 2022 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award FinalistA Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Book of 2021Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior</... ... Read more

    PHP1,239.69

  • The Conversation

    How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations

    by Robert Livingston ...
    A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential tool for individuals, organizations, and communities of all sizes to jump-start dialogue on racism and bias and to transform well-intentioned statements on diversity into concrete actions—from a leading Harvard social psychologist.NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY ACHIEVEMENT • LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD ... Read more

    PHP452.99

  • Until We Reckon

    Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair

    by Danielle Sered ...
    The award-winning "radically original" (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called "totally sensible and totally revolutionary," grapples with the problem of violent crime in the movement for prison abolitionA National Book Foundation Literature for Justice honoreeA Kirkus "Best Book of 2019 to Fight Racism and Xenophobia"Winner of the National Association ... Read more

    PHP791.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys

    Edited by Eddie Moore, Ali Michael, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks ...
    Empower black boys to dream, believe, achieveSchools that routinely fail Black boys are not extraordinary. In fact, they are all-too ordinary. If we are to succeed in positively shifting outcomes for Black boys and young men, we must first change the way school is "done." That’s where the eight in ten teachers who are White women fit in . . . and this urgently needed resource is written ... Read more

    PHP2,097.89

  • Trauma-Informed Law

    A Primer for Practicing Lawyers and a Pathway for Resilience and Healing

    Edited by Helgi Maki, Marjorie Florestal, Myrna McCallum ...
    Trauma-Informed Law discusses the many intersections of trauma and law where it is often denied, ignored, covered up, or avoided. The book is intended for lawyers, law students, legal educators, and judges, as well as decision-makers, administrators, staff, and anyone impacted by the court.It is a collection of cases and situations with practice implications for other cases impacted by trauma, ... Read more

    PHP3,989.39

  • Black Fathers

    An Invisible Presence in America, Second Edition

    Edited by Michael E. Connor, Joseph White ...
    This book offers a broader, more positive picture of African American fathers. Featuring case studies of African-descended fathers, this edited volume brings to life the achievements and challenges of being a black father in America. Leading scholars and practitioners provide unique insight into this understudied population. Short-sighted social policies which do not encourage father involvement ... Read more

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  • Listening to the Movement

    Essays on New Growth and New Challenges in Restorative Justice

    Edited by Ted Lewis, Carl Stauffer ...
    Restorative justice is spreading like wildfire across the globe. How can we explain this burst of energy? This anthology makes the bold claim that restorative justice is a vibrant social justice movement. It is more than a great idea gone viral, more than the extension of the legal system, and more than enacting new legislation. Beginning in 2015, the contributors of this volume took part in a ... Read more

    PHP1,153.19 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Groups Encourage Misbehavior

    by Kevin Murphy ...
    Series series Applied Psychology Series
    How Groups Encourage Misbehavior explores the psychological and social processes by which groups develop a tolerance for and even encourage misbehavior. Drawing from decades of research on social, cognitive and organizational psychology, as well as a deep well of historical research, this book shows how commitment to groups, organizations and movements can turn moral individuals into amoral agents ... Read more

    PHP3,017.70