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Black inventors : crafting over 200 years of success / by Holmes, Keith C.(CARDINAL)295761;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-158) and index.Henry E. Baker, the father of Black inventor research -- Early innovators and inventors -- Role of ancient African civilizations in the development of today's inventions and technologies -- Inventiveness and creativity are inherent in all races -- Definition of the word invention -- Africans develop their own innovations and inventions -- Black inventors' ancestral links to Africa -- World leaders in patents -- Census classification systems used to identify Black people -- What has changed from 1913 to the present? -- Black inventors educated and trained globally -- The increase in Black populations worldwide -- Earliest documented Black inventors -- Black inventors from 1769-2007 -- List of early Black inventors throughout the world, organized by state/country -- African, Caribbean and South American countries -- Pillars of American, Caribbean and South American economies -- Black inventors role in economic growth -- Influence of Black labor and inventions on the world -- Black inventors inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame -- Black inventors--pillars of industry -- Black inventors at historically Black colleges and universities -- Black inventors at colleges and universities in the United States -- Cities in the United States with Black inventors -- United States cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Native American inventors -- Black women innovators and inventors -- Prolific Black women innovators and inventors -- Prolific African innovators and inventors -- African countries with Black inventors -- African cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Prolific Black inventors from Australia -- Prolific Black Canadian innovators and inventors -- Canadian cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Prolific Black innovators and inventors from the Caribbean and Central America -- Caribbean and Central American cities and the number of Black inventor researched -- Prolific Black innovators and inventors in Europe -- European cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Black inventors in the United Kingdom -- United Kingdom cities and the number of Black inventors researched -- Design patents awarded to Black inventors -- Trademarks of Black innovators and inventors -- Black innovators on sports and their trademarks -- Black innovators in the video game industry -- Where does the Black inventor stand today? -- Global Black inventor research projects, Inc.Demographic study of Black inventors throughout the world with patents.

Subjects: Biographies.; Inventors, Black; Inventions; Inventors, Black;

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Grand transitions : how the modern world was made / by Smil, Vaclavauthor(CARDINAL)323599;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Epochal transitions -- Populations -- Agricultures and diets -- Energies -- Economies -- Environment -- Outcomes and outlooks."The modern world was created through the combination and complex interactions of five grand transitions. First, the demographic transition changed the total numbers, dynamics, structure, and residential pattern of populations. The agricultural and dietary transition led to the emergence of highly productive cropping and animal husbandry (subsidized by fossil energies and electricity), which eliminated famines, reduced malnutrition, and improved the health of populations but also resulted in enormous foodwaste and had many environmental consequences. The energy transition brought the world from traditional biomass fuels and human and animal labor to fossil fuel, ever more efficient electricity, lights, and motors, which transformed both agricultural andindustrial production and enabled mass-scale mobility and instant communication. Economic transition has been marked by relatively high growth rates of total national and global product, by fundamental structural transformation (from farming to industriesto services) and by an increasing share of humanity living in affluent societies, enjoying unprecedented quality of life. These transitions have made many intensifying demands on the environment, resulting in ecosystemic degradation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and eventually change on the planetary level, with global warming being the most worrisome development. This book traces the genesis of these transitions, their interactions and complicated progress as well as their outcomes and impacts, explaining how the modern world was made-and then offers a forward-thinking examination of some key unfolding transitions and appraising their challenges and possible results." --

Subjects: Civilization, Modern; Technology and civilization; Population; Economic history.; Human ecology;

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Beyond the modern age : an archaeology of contemporary culture / by Goudzwaard, B.,author.(CARDINAL)504931; Bartholomew, Craig G.,1961-author.(CARDINAL)536639;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Starting with our students' experiences -- The archaeology of modernity -- The classical modern worldview -- The structural and cultural critiques of modernity -- Modern ideologies and the postmodern worldview -- Evaluating modernity's four worldviews -- Transcendence and modernity: resources for moving beyond modernity -- Meaning from outside: reengagement with religion? -- Culture and religion: Philip Reiff's sacred sociology -- Becoming human: desire, violence, and René Girard -- Modernity, pluralism, and God -- The starving Christ and a preferential option for the poor -- Finding ways beyond modernity -- Engaging the contemporary crisis -- Ways forward for economic life and global climate change -- Bob Goudzwaard's faith-filled witness in politics.The modern age has produced global crises that modernity itself seems incapable of resolving--deregulated capitalism, consumerism, economic inequality, militarization, overworked laborers, environmental destruction, insufficient health care, and many other problems. The future of our world depends on moving beyond the modern age. Bob Goudzwaard and Craig G. Bartholomew have spent decades listening to their students and reflecting on modern thought and society. In Beyond the Modern Age they explore the complexities and challenges of our time. Modernity is not one thing but many, encompassing multiple worldviews that contain both the source of our problems and the potential resources for transcending our present situation. Through an archaeological investigation and critique of four modern worldviews, Goudzwaard and Bartholomew demonstrate the need for new ways of thinking and living that overcome the relentless drive of progress. They find guidance in the work of René Girard on desire, Abraham Kuyper on pluralism and poverty, and Philip Rieff on culture and religion. These and other thinkers point the way toward a solution to the crises that confront the world today. Beyond the Modern Age is a work of grand vision and profound insight. Goudzwaard and Bartholomew do not settle for simplistic analysis and easy answers but press for nuanced engagement with the ideologies and worldviews that shape the modern age. The problems we face today require an honest, interdisciplinary, and global dialogue. Beyond the Modern Age invites us to the table and points the way forward. --

Subjects: Christianity and culture.; Civilization, Modern.;

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Sex trafficking : the global market in women and children / by Farr, Kathryn.(CARDINAL)547427;

Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Introduction : size and scope -- Size and scope of sex trafficking around the world -- Regional volume : some examples -- Regional growth -- Sex industry growth -- The personal and the contextual -- The rise of sex trafficking from the former Soviet states -- Women from the NIS in foreign sex industries : size and scope -- Collapse of the Soviet Union and economic transition -- Decline in the status of women and vulnerability to traffickers -- Contributors to sex trafficking from a region in transition : conclusions -- Coming up -- Notes -- 2. Industry profits and debt bondage, or how traffickers make money from modern-day slavery -- Industry-wide profits and safeguards -- Regional profits -- The debt bondage system -- Debt amounts -- Living expenses and earnings -- Other charges : fines, medical costs, passport buybacks -- Living and working conditions -- Living quarters -- Work -- Control mechanisms : creating dependence -- Conditions vary -- Notes --3. Criminal networks and corrupt guardians : the trafficking industry -- Key structural components of the sex trafficking industry -- Networks and transnational crime -- One recruiter's trafficking network -- Trafficker roles -- Recruitment and transport -- Enforcement and extortion -- Corrupt guardians -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- 4. Sex trafficking and the changing face(s) of organized crime -- Key traditional and adaptive attributed of organized crime -- Characteristics of established and newer organized crime groups as sex traffickers -- Weak states and recognition of profitability : entrees for organized crime -- Established mafias active in sex trafficking -- The Russian mafia -- Other NIS organized crime -- Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads, and other East Asian crime groups -- Newer organized crime groups active in sex trafficking -- Eastern and Central European crime groups -- Crime groups and rings in, from, and around India -- Nigerian, other West African, and South African networks -- Latin American organized crime groups -- Summary comments -- Notes --5. From here to there : sex trafficking flows and the economic conditions that drive them -- Women's poverty, joblessness, and poor working conditions in source countries -- Conditions in developing and transitional source countries -- Conditions in affluent destination countries -- Globalization and its macrolevel ends -- Market privatization -- Market liberalization -- Spread of production through foreign investment -- Development policies : loans, debts, and austerity and structural adjustment programs -- Global and local conditions and sex trafficking flows : concluding comment -- Relationships between trafficking roles and countries' economic and gender status -- Measure of economic and gender status -- Human development level and primary trafficking roles -- Regional variations in economic and gender status and trafficking roles -- Conclusions from trafficking role and regional analyses [sic] -- Notes -- 6. Militarized rape and other patriarchal hostilities : fueling and legitimating male demand for sex trade -- War rape, wartime prostitution, and sex trafficking : connections -- Women as objects and property -- Making men out of boys : military socialization -- Battlefield rape and prostitution : one and the same -- Militarized rape, sexual enslavement, and patriarchy -- Patriarchy and masculine dominance -- Examples of wartime rape and sexual enslavement -- Organized religion, misogyny, and the sexual use of women -- Clerics and sexual enslavement -- Religious sexual enslavement -- Notes --7. The organization of military prostitution in modern times : building a sex trade from militarized demand -- Organized military prostitution and prostitution economies : an example -- The military's role in organizing prostitution in modern wars -- World War II -- The Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- Tentacles of organized military prostitution -- Congregational prostitution -- Racist images of sexualized "others" -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- 8. Tackling sex trafficking and enslaved prostitution now and into the future -- Defining sex trafficking and sexual exploitation as universal harms -- International conventions -- Cultural relativism versus universal human rights -- Immediate needs and long-term changes -- Support and help for victims of trafficking -- Problems and special needs of trafficked children -- National laws on prostitution and sex trafficking -- Tackling sex trafficking and enslaved prostitution through social change -- Activating social change -- Substantive societal change -- In conclusion -- Notes.

Subjects: Child prostitution.; Children; Forced labor.; Human trafficking.; Organized crime.; Prostitution.; Slave trade.; Transnational crime.; War crimes.; Women; Children.; Female prostitution.; Prostitution.; Women.; Womyn.;

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Beer : a global journey through the past and present / by Arthur, John Wood,1965-Author(DLC)no2007026097;

Includes bibliography (pages 237-284) and index.Introduction: Beer is food -- The diversity of beer production -- The Near East and East Asia : funerary stone pits, red-crown crane flutes, ancient hymns, and bear hunting rituals -- Africa : where beer feeds the living and the dead -- Europe : ancient Henge rituals, beer beakers, Celtic funerary urns, Vikings, and witchcraft -- Meso- and South America : runners, roads, and feasts -- Tapped out."Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present offers a comprehensible and readable worldwide perspective on the dynamic origin and impact of beer, as well as rich descriptions of its continued importance among Indigenous societies today. Ancient and contemporary beers from the Near East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas document the remarkable influence Indigenous beers have had in shaping the development of food production, state level societies, and is an essential food for contemporary Indigenous societies inspiring their social and economic actions. In the past and present beer was and is more than an intoxicating substance, it was and is an essential food integral to maintaining good health. Control over the technological knowledge and resources to produce beer created space for status differentiation and its use as capital motivated laborers. Beer also serves to unite people and connects the living with their ancestral past. The innovations by Indigenous brewers are now transforming the types of ingredients and flavors produced by the global craft brew industry. This unique book focuses on past and present non-industrial beers highlighting its significance in peoples' lives through four themes: innovating new technologies, ensuring health and well-being, building economic and political statuses, and imbuing life with ritual and religious connections"--.

Subjects: Beer; Beer; Beer;

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Africa & Africans / by Bohannan, Paul.(CARDINAL)123148; Curtin, Philip D.(CARDINAL)124766;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index.Part 1: African Background -- 1: Myths and facts -- 2: African continent -- 3: Mapping Africa -- Part 2: African Institutions -- 4: African arts -- 5: African families -- 6: Land and labor -- 7: African politics and courts -- 8: African trade and markets -- 9: African religion -- Part 3: African History -- 10: Peopling of Africa -- 11: Farms and iron -- 12: Africa in world history -- 13: End of isolation -- 14: Era of the slave trade -- 15: Secondary empires of the pre-colonial century -- 16: Commerce and Islam: the dual revolution in West Africa -- 17: Forms and conditions of conquest -- 18: Colonial era -- 19: Toward independence -- Part 4: Epilogue -- 20: Africa since independence -- Photograph captions and credits -- Further reading -- Index.Product Description: Africa and Africans keeps a watchful eye on what has happened in Africa and on what has happened in the rest of the world that shapes how people look at Africa. The world's perception of Africa is an entanglement of myth and reality-both reflecting and changing with the times. This highly informative yet concise volume, written by two authors intimately familiar with Africa, presents the facts about African society-past and present. Readers wishing to explore Africa's historical events and rich traditions will discover that Africans want to keep what they value in their old way of life as they find themselves in an emerging global culture.

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Undocumented : how immigration became illegal / by Chomsky, Aviva,1957-(CARDINAL)391810;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-237) and index.Where did illegality come from? -- Choosing to be undocumented -- Becoming illegal -- What part of "illegal" do you understand? -- Working (part 1) -- Working (part 2) -- Children and families -- Solutions."This book looks at the role illegality or undocumentedness plays in our society and economy. It shows how the status was created, and how and why people, especially Mexicans and Central Americans, have been assigned this status. The first three chapters look at the histories of social exclusion. One looks specifically at the Mexican and Guatemalan contexts to understand why such large numbers of people from these countries enter the United States without documents, and how those who do so understand their own motivations. Two chapters focus on the role of illegality in the economy. Undocumented people tend to work in three different kinds of jobs: jobs that have been historically marginalized, like those in agriculture; jobs that have been downgraded from well-paid, unionized work to low-wage labor, like meatpacking; and newly booming job categories that underlie post-war consumerist prosperity like landscaping and childcare work. One chapter looks at children and families, focusing especially on the experiences of undocumented youth and youth with undocumented parents, and at the leadership role that undocumented youth have taken in the undocumented rights movement. One looks at the dizzying complexity of status to point out that virtually nobody really understand what "illegal" means. It looks at the detention system and the interests behind it. Finally, the last chapter explores the different "solutions" to the problem of undocumentedness that have been proposed and implemented over time, and shows why they have failed. Undocumentedness is deeply imbedded in global and national political and economic systems, and the concept itself must be understood and challenged in order to create a more just system. "--

Subjects: Noncitizens; Illegal immigration;

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Made in China : when US-China interests converged to transform global trade / by Ingleson, Elizabeth O'Brien,1989-author.(CARDINAL)890400;

Includes bibliographical references and index."Elizabeth Ingleson explores the roots of bilateral trade between the United States and China. Telling the story of the 1970s US activists and entrepreneurs who pressed for access to China's vast labor market, Ingleson shows how not just Chinese reform but also US deindustrialization fueled a dramatic, unanticipated shift in global capitalism"--

Subjects: Globalization; Deindustrialization; Globalization; Capitalism;

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Where our food really comes from [videorecording]/ by Barnes, Brad,lecturer.(CARDINAL)464838; Teaching Company,publisher.(CARDINAL)349444;

Lecturer: Brad Barnes."Where Our Food Really Comes From, an eight-lecture course that explores the history, design, technology, and labor behind the foods you know and love."--Publisher's promotional description.DVD, NTSC.

Subjects: lectures.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Lectures.; Nonfiction films.; Food.; Aliments.; food.;

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Bella Abzug : how one tough broad from the Bronx fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, pissed off Jimmy Carter, battled for the rights of women and workers, rallied against war and for the planet, and shook up politics along the way : an oral history / by Levine, Suzanne.(CARDINAL)403991; Thom, Mary.(CARDINAL)756568;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297) and index.The early years: a passion for social justice -- Civil rights and civil liberties - and raising a family - The Willie McGee case -- Building a peace movement -- Transforming local politics - Running and winning: building a new coalition -- An outsider on the inside - Peace protesters at the capitol -- Building a political women's movement -- Becoming a legislative force in congress -- Running and losing - and regrouping -- Mobilizing American women voters -- Building an agenda for women - one meeting, conference, march at a time -- Loss, poker, and family politics - Bella does Marlene -- Going global.For more than fifty years, Bella Abzug championed the powerless and disenfranchised, as an activist, congresswoman, and leader in every major social initiative of her time--from Zionism and labor in the 40s to the ban-the-bomb efforts in the 50s, to civil rights and the anti-Vietnam War movements of the 60s, to the women's movement in the 70s and 80s, to environmental awareness and economic equality in the 90s. Her political idealism never waning, Abzug gave her final public speech before the U.N. in March 1998, just a few weeks before her death. Presented in the voices of both friends and foes, of those who knew, fought with, revered, and struggled alongside her, this oral biography is the first comprehensive account of a woman who was one of our most influential leaders.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Biographies.; Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998.; United States. Congress. House; Women legislators; Legislators; Political activists; Social reformers;

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