What's the Problem? A Brief Guide to Thinking Critically

Name: What's the Problem? A Brief Guide to Thinking Critically
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ISBN: 9781429242189

ISBN-10: 1429242183

ISBN-13: 9781429242189

Edition: 2011

Authors: Paula S. Rothenberg

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Worth Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.32" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English



About the Author


Introduction: What's the Problem?



Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You



Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You-Fighting the Corporations Will



Questions for 1.1



A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food



Questions for 1.2



Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger to Inequality



Questions for 1.3



Does Shopping for a Good Cause Really Help? Activism and the New Chic



The Rage Over (Red)



Questions for 2.1



Gift-Wrapped Guilt? My Adventure with Ethical Shopping



Questions for 2.2



Ethical Shopping Is Just Another Way of Showing How Rich You Are



Questions for 2.3



It Didn't Happen and Besides, They Deserved It



Sand Castles and Snake Pits: Homelessness, Public Policy, and the Law of Unintended Consequences



Questions for 3.1



"Everyone Deserves a Place to Sleep at Night"



Questions for 3.2



Hope for the Homeless?



Questions for 3.3



Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health



Health Policy Placebos



Questions for 4.1



Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health



Questions for 4.2



Inequality: Bad for Your Health: An Interview with Social Epidemiologist Ichiro Kawachi



Questions for 4.3



Crime and Punishment



I Am Not the Enemy



Questions for 5.1



Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests



Questions for 5.2



The Harm of "Get Tough"Policies



Questions for 5.3



Abstinence: Whose Privilege, Whose Power?



Would You Pledge Your Virginity to Your Father?



Questions for 6.1



Red Sex, Blue Sex



Questions for 6.2



Is the Pope Crazy?



Questions for 6.3



"Hello Central, Give Me Heaven"



Moms in Touch with God



Questions for 7.1



Stress Test: Why Americans Want to Believe That Our Mental States Can Control Our Physical Maladies



Questions for 7.2



Is Prayer Good for Your Health?



Questions for 7.3



It's the Solution, Not the Problem



Human Greed Lies at the Root of Economic Crisis: Interview with



Questions for 8.1



The Lesson from the [Fiscal] Crisis: Regulations Are Worthless



Questions for 8.2



It's the Solution, Not the Problem



Questions for 8.3


Conclusion: What's the Problem? Questions and Answers


Acknowledgments


Index