Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Wild and the Toxic
Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, or what health even means. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health. Thomson traces four strands of activism from the 1970s to the present: the environmental lobby, en...
Bullying
Offers parents the tools to identify whether their child is being bullied, explains why children are bullied and how parents can prevent it from happening. This book provides methods on how to help the bullied child boost their self-esteem. It also explores the different forms of bullying that exist.
GM Crops and the Global Divide
Attitudes to GM crops continue to generate tension, even though they have been grown commercially for over 20 years. Negative sentiment towards their development limits their adoption in Western countries, despite there being no evidence of harm to human health. These unfounded concerns about genetically modified crops have also inhibited uptake in many countries throughout Africa and Asia, having a major impact on agricultural productivity and preventing the widespread cultivation of potentially life-saving crops. GM Crops and the Global Divide traces the historical importance that European attitudes to past colonial influences, aid, trade and educational involvement have had on African lea...
Abortion Law and Political Institutions
This book provides a comprehensive study of abortion politics and policy in Northern Ireland. Whilst there is a substantial amount of literature on abortion in Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom, there has been scant academic attention paid to the situation in Northern Ireland. Adopting a feminist institutionalist framework, the book illustrates the ways in which abortion has been addressed at both the national institution at Westminster and the devolved institution at Stormont. Covering the period from early peace process in the 1980s to the present day, the text will be of interest to politics scholars, but also sociologists, historians and students of Irish studies.
Picking Cotton
The New York Times best selling true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she incorrectly identified as her rapist and sent to prison for 11 years. Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence that put him behind bars. After eleven years, Ronald was allowed to take a DNA test that proved his innocence. He was released, after serving more than a decade in prison for a crime he never committed. Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face-- and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. With Picking Cotton, Jennifer and Ronald tell in their own words the harrowing details of their tragedy, and challenge our ideas of memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness.
The Case for Scottish Independence
Traces the development of the ideology of modern Scottish nationalism from the 1960s to the independence referendum in 2014.
Bang to Writes
In 2010 call girl Jennifer Thompson hit the headlines after her infamous affair with Manchester United football megastar Wayne Rooney. Since then the middle-class girl from Bolton and her scandalous lifestyle has barely been out of the tabloid press in the past three years. Now in her first explosive confessional book "Bang to Writes" Jennifer lifts the lid on her days as a high class escort and recounts her liaisons with many famous Premiership players. The novel is a true autobiography chartering her life from a young naive 'Daddy's girl' into one of the most famous hookers in Britain, mixed up in a world of cocaine, cash and sexually charged clients. With shocking candour, Jennifer detail...
Gender, Politics and Institutions
Political institutions profoundly shape political life and are also gendered. This groundbreaking collection synthesises new institutionalism and gendered analysis using a new approach - feminist institutionalism - in order to answer crucial questions about power inequalities, mechanisms of continuity, and the gendered limits of change.
Vile City
DI Duncan Waddell has big problems. He's borderline diabetic. Thepaperwork is piling up faster than the underwear at a porn shoot.Now his best pal DC Stevie Campbell, who's in a coma after beingattacked by a suspect, has started to talk to him. Trouble is, onlyWaddell can hear him.The last thing he needs is the country's biggest case to land on hislap.Three women have gone missing in the city he used to love, but is fastcoming to despise, victims of the GLASGOW GRABBER, as theirassailant has been dubbed by local hack and all round thorn inWaddell's backside, Catriona Hastie.Shelley Craig is the latest victim, snatched as she and her boyfriendtook a shortcut through Glasgow city centre.And she'll do anything to make it home.
Feminisms
How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism? Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has achieved its aim of female liberation, it has been continually redefined as new generations of women campaign against the gender inequity of their age. In this absorbing book, historian Lucy Delap challenges the simplistic narrative of 'feminist waves' - a sequence of ever more progressive updates - showing instead that feminists have been motivated by the specific concerns of their historical moment. Drawing on an extraordinary range of examples from Japan to Russia, Egypt to Germany, Delap explores different feminist projects to show that those who are part of this movement have not always agreed on a single programme. This diverse history of feminism, she argues, can help us better navigate current debates and controversies. A tour de force from an award-winning expert, Feminisms shows that a rich relationship to the past can infuse today's activism with a sense possibility and inspiration.
