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Series
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Through case studies of college faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals engaged in inquiry using the Equity Scorecard, the book clarifies the “muddled conversation” that colleges and universities are having about equity. Synthesizing equity standards based on three theories of justice―justice as fairness, justice as care, and justice as transformation―the authors provide strategies for enacting equity in practice on college...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Probing behind the "wide-open city" moniker Butte has worn so well, Mining Cultures shows how the western city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew. Mary Murphy's engagingly written book is the first serious look at how women worked and spent their leisure time in a city dominated by men's work - mining. In bringing...
Author
Series
Program on environment and behavior volume monograph 41
Publisher
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 49
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
28) The ax fight
Series
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A four-part analysis of a fight that broke out between the Yanomamo Indian villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village in 1971. The fight involved clubs, axes, and machetes. This video includes an unedited record of the event; a slow-motion replay of the fight; a discussion of the kinship structure of the fight; and an edited version.
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English
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When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants,...
Author
Publisher
NTC Business Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
"Written for professionals at multinational organizations who are struggling with how to integrate their communication strategies both internally and across borders, Communicating Globally provides readers with the knowledge and skills they need in the emergent subject of integrated global marketing communication (IGMC)." "How can a company effectively communicate its message to customers and prospects all over the world or ensure that its branding...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In 2014, the arrest and detention of thousands of desperate young migrants at the southwest border of the United States exposed the U.S. government's shadowy juvenile detention system, which had escaped public scrutiny for years. This book tells the story of six Central American and Mexican children who are driven from their homes by violence and deprivation, and who embark alone, risking their lives, on the perilous journey north. They suffer coercive...
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 29
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Institute
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Author
Series
Working paper volume 89
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Publisher
Not Supplied
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Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Focusing on Levi Strauss & Co., this program follows the relocation of garment production from Western countries to nations such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and Turkey where low wages are the rule and employee rights are nonexistent.
Author
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 18
Publisher
[University of Colorado, Institute of Behavioral Science]
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
40) Our usual landslide: ubiquitous hazard and socioeconomic causes of natural disaster in Indonesia
Author
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 40
Publisher
[Institute of Behavioral Science, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Institute, University of Colorado]
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English