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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith / by Hammer, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Keith -- College life: West Virginia State College -- "The finest man I've ever known" -- 1943: war in the streets/war overseas -- Howard University School of Law: the West Point of civil rights -- Leaping the bar -- Rachel -- Taking a chance: life as a young lawyer -- A room on the second floor: rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- "Get out on your own": how Damon Keith became his own start-up -- A leader emerges: from Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- Detroit 1967: the fire this time -- Approaching the bench: the long and winding politics of becoming a judge -- Into the maelstrom: busing in Pontiac -- Housing in Hamtramck and discrimination at Detroit Edison -- Taking on the Nixon White House: the Keith case -- Affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department -- "Tell him Thurgood's on the line" -- "Here, boy, park this car" -- Strange bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- Swimming upstream: ideological and political shifts in the courts -- "Democracies die behind closed doors" -- The Keith law clerk family -- Friends along the way: from Rosa to Russia -- "I don't work on your plantation!"…”
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Transition and justice : negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The Role of Refugee Aid in Shaping New Beginnings in Mauritania Marion Fresia 4 Conflicting Logics of Exceptionality: New Beginnings and the Problem of Police Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa Steffen Jensen 5 The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid Steven Robins 6 New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa? …”
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Global and European trade union federations a handbook and analysis of transnational trade union organizations and policies / by Platzer, Hans-Wolfgang

Table of Contents: “…international (BWI) -- UNI global union descriptive profiles -- Public services international (PSI) -- International textile, garment and leather workers federation (ITGLWF) -- International union of food, agricultural, hotel, restaurant, catering, tobacco and allied workers' associations (IUF) : organizational overviews -- Education international (EI), international federation of journalists (IFJ), international arts and entertainment alliance (IAEA) -- European metalworkers' federation (EMF) -- European mine, chemical, and energy workers' federation (EMCEF) -- European transport workers' federation (ETF) -- European federation of building and woodworkers (EFBW) -- Union network international : Europa (UNI-Europa) descriptive profiles -- European public services union (EPSU) -- European trade union federation of textiles, clothing and leather -- European federation of food, agriculture and tourism trade unions (EFFAT) -- Organizational overviews -- European trade union committee for education (ETUCE), European federation of journalists (EFJ), European arts and entertainment alliance (EAEA), European confederation of police (EUROCOP) -- The global and european trade union federations : comparative perspectives -- On organization and strategy -- New fields and instruments of trade union activity at global level -- Organizational development and functional profiles of the global union federations : contours and trends -- New areas and instruments of trade union policy in the European Union -- Organizational development and functional profiles of the European industry federations : contours and trends.…”
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Crusader for justice : federal judge Damon J. Keith / by Hammer, Peter J.

Table of Contents: “…Keith -- College life: West Virginia State College -- "The finest man I've ever known" -- 1943: war in the streets/war overseas -- Howard University School of Law: the West Point of civil rights -- Leaping the bar -- Rachel -- Taking a chance: life as a young lawyer -- A room on the second floor: rebuilding Detroit's NAACP -- "Get out on your own": how Damon Keith became his own start-up -- A leader emerges: from Jack Kennedy to Willie Horton -- Detroit 1967: the fire this time -- Approaching the bench: the long and winding politics of becoming a judge -- Into the maelstrom: busing in Pontiac -- Housing in Hamtramck and discrimination at Detroit Edison -- Taking on the Nixon White House: the Keith case -- Affirmative action in the Detroit Police Department -- "Tell him Thurgood's on the line" -- "Here, boy, park this car" -- Strange bedfellows: Damon Keith and Clarence Thomas -- Swimming upstream: ideological and political shifts in the courts -- "Democracies die behind closed doors" -- The Keith law clerk family -- Friends along the way: from Rosa to Russia -- "I don't work on your plantation!"…”
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Transition and justice : negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The Role of Refugee Aid in Shaping New Beginnings in Mauritania Marion Fresia 4 Conflicting Logics of Exceptionality: New Beginnings and the Problem of Police Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa Steffen Jensen 5 The 2011 Toilet Wars in South Africa: Justice and Transition between the Exceptional and the Everyday after Apartheid Steven Robins 6 New Law against an Old State: Land Restitution as a Transition to Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa? …”
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The French right between the wars : political and intellectual movements from conservatism to fascism /

Table of Contents: “…Collective psychology, anti-southern prejudice and constitutional reform in 1930s France : the Stavisky affair and the riots of 6 February 1934 / Kevin Passmore -- Avec une brutalit�e toute particuli�ere : fascist sympathies, racial violence, and the municipal : police and gendarmerie in Oran, 1936-37 / Samuel Kalman -- The veterans and the extreme right : the Union nationale des combattants, 1927-1936 / Chris Millington -- Pacifism, the fascist temptation and the ligue des droits de l'homme / Norman Ingram -- Right-wing feminism and conservative women's militancy in interwar France / Magali Della Sudda -- Gender, the family, and the fascist temptation : visions of masculinity in the natalist-familialist movement, 1922-1940 / Cheryl A. …”
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Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels / by Zanfagna, Christina, 1980-

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Being Human during COVID /

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The French right between the wars : political and intellectual movements from conservatism to fascism /

Table of Contents: “…Collective psychology, anti-southern prejudice and constitutional reform in 1930s France : the Stavisky affair and the riots of 6 February 1934 / Kevin Passmore -- Avec une brutalit�e toute particuli�ere : fascist sympathies, racial violence, and the municipal : police and gendarmerie in Oran, 1936-37 / Samuel Kalman -- The veterans and the extreme right : the Union nationale des combattants, 1927-1936 / Chris Millington -- Pacifism, the fascist temptation and the ligue des droits de l'homme / Norman Ingram -- Right-wing feminism and conservative women's militancy in interwar France / Magali Della Sudda -- Gender, the family, and the fascist temptation : visions of masculinity in the natalist-familialist movement, 1922-1940 / Cheryl A. …”
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Being Human during COVID /

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Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels / by Zanfagna, Christina, 1980-

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Dirty assets : emerging issues in the regulation of criminal and terrorist assets /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jackie Harvey -- Corruption, the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and asset recovery / Indira Carr and Robert Jago -- Terrorism financing and the policing of charities : who pays the price? / Clive Walker -- Us efforts to stem the flow of funds to terrorist organizations : export controls, financial sanctions, and material support / Laura K. …”
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Dirty assets : emerging issues in the regulation of criminal and terrorist assets /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jackie Harvey -- Corruption, the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) and asset recovery / Indira Carr and Robert Jago -- Terrorism financing and the policing of charities : who pays the price? / Clive Walker -- Us efforts to stem the flow of funds to terrorist organizations : export controls, financial sanctions, and material support / Laura K. …”
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Soldiering under occupation processes of numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada / by Grassiani, Erella

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Israeli soldiers -- Israel: a militarized society -- Uprisings -- Soldiers as perpetrators -- Misbehaviour and violence -- Conclusion -- Studying soldiers -- Becoming or being a perpetrator -- Space, power, (mis)behaviour and morality -- Physical closeness and distance -- Constructed moralities in speech -- Moral disengagement and denial -- Perpetrators' accounts -- Conclusion -- Checkpoints, arrests and patrols: spaces of occupation -- Policing by soldiers: dirty work -- Checkpoints: obstruction of passage -- Arrests and 'straw widows': entering the private Palestinian domain -- Patrolling -- Conclusion -- Performing as occupiers: operational dynamics -- Routine -- Relations of power -- Tired, bored and scared: emotional, physical and cognitive numbing -- Anger, boredom, frustration and more: the emotional dimension -- Hot, cold and tired: the physical dimension -- Unclear categories and uncertainty: implications of the cognitive dimension -- Conclusion -- Blurring morals: the numbed moral competence of soldiers -- Moral professionalism -- Cognitive blurring -- Detachment: 'not thinking about it' -- Conclusion -- Morality in speech: discursive strategies of soldiers -- The minimization of moral agency -- Professionalism (miktsoayut) -- Bottom-up: soldiers' talk -- Strategic talk -- Ideology -- No need for explanation -- Critical voices: moral re-sensitizing -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- The systemic approach: taking the Israeli case outside of its borders.…”
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Soldiering under occupation processes of numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada / by Grassiani, Erella

Table of Contents: “…Understanding Israeli soldiers -- Israel: a militarized society -- Uprisings -- Soldiers as perpetrators -- Misbehaviour and violence -- Conclusion -- Studying soldiers -- Becoming or being a perpetrator -- Space, power, (mis)behaviour and morality -- Physical closeness and distance -- Constructed moralities in speech -- Moral disengagement and denial -- Perpetrators' accounts -- Conclusion -- Checkpoints, arrests and patrols: spaces of occupation -- Policing by soldiers: dirty work -- Checkpoints: obstruction of passage -- Arrests and 'straw widows': entering the private Palestinian domain -- Patrolling -- Conclusion -- Performing as occupiers: operational dynamics -- Routine -- Relations of power -- Tired, bored and scared: emotional, physical and cognitive numbing -- Anger, boredom, frustration and more: the emotional dimension -- Hot, cold and tired: the physical dimension -- Unclear categories and uncertainty: implications of the cognitive dimension -- Conclusion -- Blurring morals: the numbed moral competence of soldiers -- Moral professionalism -- Cognitive blurring -- Detachment: 'not thinking about it' -- Conclusion -- Morality in speech: discursive strategies of soldiers -- The minimization of moral agency -- Professionalism (miktsoayut) -- Bottom-up: soldiers' talk -- Strategic talk -- Ideology -- No need for explanation -- Critical voices: moral re-sensitizing -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- The systemic approach: taking the Israeli case outside of its borders.…”
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Beyond discrimination : racial inequality in a postracist era / by Harris, Fredrick C., Lieberman, Robert C., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Warren -- A measure of justice : what policing racial bias research reveals / Phillip Atiba Goff -- The social psychology of symbolic firsts : how Barack Obama's presidency may affect student achievement and perceptions of racial progress in America / Valerie Purdy-Vaughns, Richard P. …”
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Beyond discrimination : racial inequality in a postracist era / by Harris, Fredrick C., Lieberman, Robert C., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Warren -- A measure of justice : what policing racial bias research reveals / Phillip Atiba Goff -- The social psychology of symbolic firsts : how Barack Obama's presidency may affect student achievement and perceptions of racial progress in America / Valerie Purdy-Vaughns, Richard P. …”
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Out behind the desk workplace issues for LGBTQ librarians /

Table of Contents: “…/ Paul Blobaum -- Out all over : giving voice to lgbts on campus / Donna Braquet & Roger Weaver -- Managing outside the closet : on being an openly gay library administrator / Matthew Ciszek -- Homophobia in San Antonio / David Allen White -- Leather librarianship / John Bradford -- Gender changer / Jim Van Buskirk -- The secret life of bis : on not quite being out and not quite fitting in / BWS Johnson -- Pronoun police : a guide to transitioning at your local library / K.R. …”
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Out behind the desk workplace issues for LGBTQ librarians /

Table of Contents: “…/ Paul Blobaum -- Out all over : giving voice to lgbts on campus / Donna Braquet & Roger Weaver -- Managing outside the closet : on being an openly gay library administrator / Matthew Ciszek -- Homophobia in San Antonio / David Allen White -- Leather librarianship / John Bradford -- Gender changer / Jim Van Buskirk -- The secret life of bis : on not quite being out and not quite fitting in / BWS Johnson -- Pronoun police : a guide to transitioning at your local library / K.R. …”
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Independent Man : The Life of Senator James Couzens / by Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982

Table of Contents: “…The Job-Seeker Again -- 16. The Police Commissioner -- 17. The Odd Candidate -- 18. …”
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