US+102+(Spring+2017)+Ahearn

= US 102 - Ahearn =

= Using the Library Catalog to Find Books & E-Books =

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 * Gender/Race Pay Gap in Nursing **

Reference Books: Women and equality in the workplace : a reference handbook (Ref HD 6095 .G48 2003 -- Also available as an ebook) Gender and women's leadership : a reference handbook (Ref HQ 1233 .G452 2010)

Circulating Book: A woman's wage : historical meanings and social consequences (HD 6061.2 .U6 K47 2014)

E-Book: Handbook on well-being of working women

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 * (pay* OR wage OR income OR salary) AND (inequal* OR equal* OR discrep* OR gap) AND nurs* AND (United States OR US OR America)


 * Gender Pay Gap in Women's Sports **

Reference Books: Women and equality in the workplace : a reference handbook (Ref HD 6095 .G48 2003 -- Also available as an ebook) Gender and women's leadership : a reference handbook (Ref HQ 1233 .G452 2010) Modern sports ethics : a reference handbook (Ref GV 706.3 .L84 2009)

Circulating Book: Gender relations in sport (GV 709 .G46 2013)

E-Book: Handbook on well-being of working women

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 * (pay* OR wage OR income OR salary) AND (sport* OR athlet* ) AND (wom*n or female)


 * Tamir Rice Shooting in Cleveland **

Reference Book: Battleground : criminal justice (Ref HV 7411 .B38 2007)

Circulating Book: Should race matter? : unusual answers to the usual questions (HT 1521 .B634 2011)

E-Book: Race, place, and suburban policing : too close for comfort

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 * (police brutality OR police use of force OR police misconduct) AND (race OR ethnicity OR ethnic OR racial OR racism) AND (United States OR US OR America)


 * Police Brutality Against Black Women / Sandra Bland **

Reference Book: Battleground : criminal justice (Ref HV 7411 .B38 2007)

E-Books: The social history of crime and punishment in America : an encyclopedia Encyclopedia of contemporary American social issues

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 * (African American OR black) AND (wom*n OR female*) AND (police brutality OR police use of force OR police misconduct OR "racial profiling" OR "law enforcement")


 * Black Lives Matter Movement in Canada **

Reference Book: Encyclopedia of human rights (Ref JC 571 .E673 2009)

E-Books: Revisiting multiculturalism in Canada : theories, policies and debates The international handbook of the demography of race and ethnicity

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 * (African Canadian* OR Black Canadian*) AND (social change* OR social movement* OR activism OR "civil rights")
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 * Immigration Ban in the United States / Dr. Abushamma **

Reference Books: Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world (Ref BP 40 .E525 2016) Immigrants in American history : arrival, adaptation and integration (Ref JV 6450 .I5536 2013)

Circulating Book: Islamophobia in America : the anatomy of intolerance (E 184 .M88 I65 2013)

E-Book: Fear of Muslims? : international perspectives on Islamophobia

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 * Islamophobia AND (United States OR America OR USA OR U.S)
 * (Islam OR Muslim OR Islamic) AND xenophobia AND (United States OR America OR USA OR U.S)