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  All-American Flag Act : report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, to accompany S. 1214, to require the purchase of domestically made flags of the United States of America for use by the federal government. by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs author. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014. CATALOG PAGE...

by Doug Meyer Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community—white, middle class men—and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence—racial minorities, the poor, and women. In Violence against Queer People, sociologist Doug Meyer offers the first investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses on the role played by race, class, and gender. Drawing on...

Christopher E. Bell, Christopher E. Bell (Editor) Harry Potter has given the study of popular culture a unique platform for exploring the nature of human identity. “Potter Studies” is developing into a vibrant interdisciplinary field of scholarship. This collection of new essays examines issues surrounding race, class, gender, sexual orientation and personal virtue, both in the wizarding world and in our own. The contributors discuss an array of meanings and contexts in the Harry Potter universe relating to identity issues,...

John P. Crank & Linda S. Jacoby Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resources can escalate to state and non-state actors, resulting in wars, asymmetrical warfare, and terrorism. Crank and Jacoby apply criminological theory to each aspect of this complicated web, helping readers to evaluate conflicting claims about global warming and to analyze evidence of the current and potential impact of climate change on conflict and crime. Beginning...