Adoption
Rickie Solinger
in Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does adoption look like in the United States today?
In the middle of the twentieth century, adoption became a widespread practice in the United States when thousands of ...
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Advertising and Society
Mara Einstein
in Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the leading criticism against advertising?
Too much advertising tops most critics’ lists. Advertising is everywhere. Commercials interrupt television programming. ...
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Advertising in the Digital Age
Mara Einstein
in Advertising: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How come ads seem to follow me around the Internet?
This is what is known as retargeting. Remember we talked about the sales funnel? In that paradigm, marketers want to interact ...
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Advocacy Frameworks: Ending VAWG
Jacqui True
in Violence against Women: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What theories of social and behavioral change inform current advocacy to end VAWG?
Prevention of VAWG requires deep societal transformation in norms, structures, and institutions. ...
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Afghanistan Seen by Others
Barnett R. Rubin
in Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Through much of the twentieth century Afghanistan seemed to be a distant concern in the United States. “Afghanistanism” used to be journalistic shorthand for stories about distant places, ...
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Africa: The Last Frontier
Marcelo M. Giugale
in Economic Development: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Is Africa’s emergence for real?
Do you sometimes wish you had bought property in Mumbai, Shanghai, or Rio ten years ago? You would have more than tripled your money. Well, ten ...
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After September 11
John Prados
in The US Special Forces: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Brigadier General Stanley McChrystal stood near the door of a C-130J transport, ready for a practice parachute jump near Fort Bragg, when the air force jumpmaster leaned over to say ...
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Agribusiness, Food Companies, Supermarkets, and Fast Food
Robert Paarlberg
in Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
The farms that produce food are now just one small part
of our modern agri-food system. Large agribusiness companies supply machinery and chemicals to
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Agribusiness, Supermarkets, And Fast Food
Robert Paarlberg
in Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
What does the word “agribusiness” mean?
The term “agribusiness” was coined in 1957 by two professors at the Harvard Business School, Ray Goldberg and John H. Davis, in recognition ...
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Agriculture and Economy
Asher Orkaby
in Yemen:
This chapter assesses agriculture and economy in Yemen. Yemen was a latecomer to the Arabian oil
market, as significant reserves were discovered only in 1986 by the ...
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Agriculture and the Environment
Robert Paarlberg
in Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® (3 ed.)
Farming activities tend to damage the natural
environment in different ways in rich versus poor countries. In poor countries, farmers often
...
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Agriculture, Land, and the Rural Economy
Arthur R. Kroeber
in China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (2 ed.)
Why does agriculture matter?
It may seem odd to begin our discussion of a great industrial economy with agriculture. In China today, agriculture accounts for only 8 percent of GDP. ...
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Ahmadinejad, Rouhani and Iran now
Michael Axworthy
in Iran: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How did Ahmadinejad become president in 2005?
Among the presidents Iran has had since the revolution, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the joker in the pack. He was not part of the charmed ...
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Albanians
Tim Judah
in Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Although the focus of this book is Kosovo, it is also about the people of the Western Balkans, especially the Albanians and the Serbs, who do not fit neatly into the boundaries of the ...
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Alcohol and Health: Cheers!?
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is alcohol handled in the body?
Alcohol is among the only drugs consumed regularly in the diet other than caffeine. It is water-soluble and distributed into all tissues and ...
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Ali Abdullah Saleh’s Regime, Unification, and al-Qaeda
Asher Orkaby
in Yemen:
This chapter evaluates how Ali Abdullah Saleh was appointed president of Yemen in July of 1978.
In the months following the assassination of both al-Ghashmi and ...
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The Alt-Lite
George Hawley
in The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is Meant by Alt-Lite?
In 2016, as it became obvious to more observers that the Alt-Right was, at its core, a racist movement dedicated to white identity politics above all ...
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The Alt-Right and Conservatism
George Hawley
in The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What does it Mean to be Right Wing?
The Alt-Right is a right-wing movement, as is mainstream conservatism. Yet the two ideological camps do not overlap very much when it comes to ...
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The Alt-Right and Donald Trump
George Hawley
in The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Can Donald Trump be Classified as Alt-Right?
We cannot accurately describe President Donald Trump as part of the Alt-Right. He is a right-wing populist, whose rhetoric has appealed ...
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The Alt-Right and the Internet
George Hawley
in The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is the Internet so Important to White Nationalists?
The Internet is a valuable tool for anyone who wants to spread a message to a large audience quickly and inexpensively. It ...
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