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Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Epistemic Communities and Security Governance

By: Andrea Schneiker

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Humanitarian NGOs, (In)Security and Identity

Epistemic Communities and Security Governance

By: Andrea Schneiker

Increasingly humanitarian NGOs operate in the context of armed conflicts where the security risks are higher than in contexts of natural disaster. Working in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is particularly dangerous for humanitarians. This existential threat affects the physical existence of aid workers and the implementation of humanitarian programs, and the core beliefs of humanitarians and the underlying principles of humanitarian action. For NGOs it is difficult to accept that they are attacked despite their good intentions, sometimes even by the very communities they seek to help. For these reasons, humanitarian NGOs have to change their approaches to security by not only adapting their policies, procedures and structures to the changing environment, but also reviewing the underlying principles of their work. This book contributes to debates by demonstrating how issues of (in)security affect humanitarian NGOs and the humanitarian identity, situating the structural changes within the humanitarian NGO community in the context of conflict aid governance and explains how non-state actors establish their own governance structures, independent from state-sponsored solutions, and contributes to the emerging literature on the redefinition of the concept of epistemic communities.

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Routledge

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1317119525

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Horizon, Sea, Sound

Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation

By: Andrea A. Davis

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Horizon, Sea, Sound

Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation

By: Andrea A. Davis

In Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Andrea Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations, including multicultural citizenship, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and the hierarchical nuclear family. Drawing on Tina Campt’s discussion of Black feminist futurity, Davis offers the concept future now, which is both central to Black freedom and a joint social justice project that rejects existing structures of white supremacy. Calling for new affiliations of community among Black, Indigenous, and other racialized women, and offering new reflections on the relationship between the Caribbean and Canada, she articulates a diaspora poetics that privileges our shared humanity. In advancing these claims, Davis turns to the expressive cultures (novels, poetry, theater, and music) of Caribbean and African women artists in Canada, including work by Dionne Brand, M. NourbeSe Philip, Esi Edugyan, Ramabai Espinet, Nalo Hopkinson, Amai Kuda, and Djanet Sears. Davis considers the ways in which the diasporic characters these artists create redraw the boundaries of their horizons, invoke the fluid histories of the Caribbean Sea to overcome the brutalization of plantation histories, use sound to enter and reenter archives, and shapeshift to survive in the face of conquest. The book will interest readers of literary and cultural studies, critical race theories, and Black diasporic studies.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810144603

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9780810144606

Charles White

By: Andrea Barnwell Brownlee,Charles White

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Charles White

By: Andrea Barnwell Brownlee,Charles White

One of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, Charles White (1918-1979) --with amazing spirit, vision, and brilliance--devoted both his life and work to portraying the African American community. With pencil and brush, in black and white or in color, he captured not only the poverty, strife, and despair of the black people but their strength of community, the joy of enlightenment, and the tenderness of kinship as well, rejecting the usual stereotypes of black people as inferior. His canvases, woodcuts, monumental drawings, and murals convey his strong social consciousness and impart the inherent dignity of his subjects.Andrea Barnwell chronicles the highlights of White's career, discusses several of the artist's famous works, and introduces many works from private collections that never before have been examined. Although White's works are in the collections of major museums and libraries, including Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Flint Institute of Art, his place in the annals of art history has never been fully realized.

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Pomegranate

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0764921290

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9780764921292

Critical Care Nursing

By: Leanne Aitken,Andrea Marshall,Wendy Chaboyer

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Critical Care Nursing

By: Leanne Aitken,Andrea Marshall,Wendy Chaboyer

- Increased global considerations relevant to international context of critical care nursing alongside its key focus within the ANZ context - Aligned to update NMBA RN Standards for Practice and NSQHS Standards - An eBook included in all print purchases

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729587177

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9780729587174

Compensating Asbestos Victims

Law and the Dark Side of Industrialization

By: Andrea Boggio

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Compensating Asbestos Victims

Law and the Dark Side of Industrialization

By: Andrea Boggio

This book traces the emergence and transformations of asbestos compensation to explore the wider issue of to what extent legal systems have converged in the era of globalization. Examining the mechanism by which asbestos compensation is delivered in Belgium, England, Italy and the United States, as well as the cultural forces and actors which contribute to its emergence and transformations, the book advances our understanding of how law operates within cultural norms, routines, and institutional relations of capitalist societies. With material gathered from 50 interviews and from primary and secondary sources, the author considers law as a cultural phenomenon, national styles of legal culture and the convergence and divergence of legal cultures, and law as a form of institutionalized power.

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1317162943

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Parenting and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

By: Marc H. Bornstein,W. Andrew Rothenberg,Andrea Bizzego,Robert H. Bradley,Kirby Deater-Deckard,Gianluca Esposito,Jennifer E. Lansford,Diane L. Putnick,Susannah Zietz

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Parenting and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

By: Marc H. Bornstein,W. Andrew Rothenberg,Andrea Bizzego,Robert H. Bradley,Kirby Deater-Deckard,Gianluca Esposito,Jennifer E. Lansford,Diane L. Putnick,Susannah Zietz

This compelling volume advances the understanding of what parenting and related sociodemographic, demographic, and environmental variables look like and how they are associated with child development in low- and middle-income countries around the world. Specifically, expert authors document how child growth, caregiving practices, discipline and violence, and children’s physical home environments, along with child and primary caregiver sociodemographic characteristics and household and national development demographic characteristics, are associated with central domains of early childhood development across a substantial fraction of the majority world using contemporary 21st-century data from the UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and the UNICEF Early Childhood Development Index. The lives of nearly 160,000 girls and boys aged 3 to 5 years in nationally representative samples from 51 low- and middle-income countries are sampled to address 7 principal questions about children, caregiving, and contexts. Parenting and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries takes an authentically international approach to parenting, the environment, and child development in cultural contexts that more fully characterize the world’s diversity. Parenting and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries is essential reading for researchers and students of parenting, psychology, human development, family studies, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as governmental and non-governmental professionals working with families in low- and middle-income countries.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000686507

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9781000686500

The Capital of Basketball

A History of DC Area High School Hoops

By: John McNamara,Andrea Chamblee,David Elfin

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The Capital of Basketball

A History of DC Area High School Hoops

By: John McNamara,Andrea Chamblee,David Elfin

Washington DC isn't celebrated for basketball. But the Washington area stands second to none in its contributions to the game. Countless figures who have had a significant impact on the sport over the years have roots in the region, including E.B. Henderson, the first African-American certified to teach physical education in public schools in the United States and Earl Lloyd, the first African-American to take the court in an actual NBA game. The District of Columbia's Spingarn High School produced two players - Elgin Baylor and Dave Bing - that are recognized among the NBA's 50 greatest at the League's 50th anniversary celebration. No other high school in the country can make that claim. These figures and many others who have been a part of Washington's basketball past are chronicled in this book, the first-ever comprehensive look at the great high school players, teams and accomplishments in the DC metropolitan area. Based on more than 150 interviews, The Capital of Basketball is first and foremost a book about basketball. But in discussing the trends and evolution of the game, the books also uncovers the turmoil in the lives of the players and area residents as they dealt with issues such as prejudice, education, politics, and the ways the area has changed through the years.

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1626167206

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV

4th International Workshop, ESAW 2003, London, UK, October 29-31, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

By: Andrea Omicini

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World IV

4th International Workshop, ESAW 2003, London, UK, October 29-31, 2003, Revised Selected and Invited Papers

By: Andrea Omicini

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World, ESAW 2004, held in London, UK in October 2004. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement for inclusion in the book; also included are 2 invited papers by leading researchers in order to round of the coverage of the relevant topics. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: - multidisciplinary for agent societies - coordination, organization, and security of agent societies - abstractions, methodologies, and tools for engineering agent societies - applications of agent societies

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540222316

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9783540222316

Making School Count

Promoting Urban Student Motivation and Success

By: Andrea Debruin-Parecki,Karen Manheim Teel

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Making School Count

Promoting Urban Student Motivation and Success

By: Andrea Debruin-Parecki,Karen Manheim Teel

Making School Count reports on four years of classroom research in which alternative teaching strategies, designed to motivate under-achieving inner-city, African-American middle school students were used and evaluated. The book offers insights into the discrepancy between students' academic dreams (their high performance aspirations) and the realities of their classroom performance. Issues include: *the authors' convictions that the disproportionate under-achievement of African-American students is the result of inappropriate teaching strategies *the prevalent use of a Eurocentric curriculum *results of the authors' research *a guide for teachers wishing to carry out their own research *a study of the collaboration between a university and a schools in an attempt to bring about change from the ground up.

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Routledge

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1134581319

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Kansas City

A Food Biography

By: Andrea L. Broomfield

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Kansas City

A Food Biography

By: Andrea L. Broomfield

While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. Throughout its history, thousands of Kansas Citians have also made their living providing meals and hospitality to travelers passing through on their way elsewhere, be it by way of a steamboat, Conestoga wagon, train, automobile, or airplane. As Kansas City’s adopted son, Fred Harvey sagely noted, “Travel follows good food routes,” and Kansas City’s identity as a food city is largely based on that fact. Kansas City: A Food Biography explores in fascinating detail how a frontier town on the edge of wilderness grew into a major metropolis, one famous for not only great cuisine but for a crossroads hospitality that continues to define it. Kansas City: A Food Biography also explores how politics, race, culture, gender, immigration, and art have forged the city’s most iconic dishes, from chili and steak to fried chicken and barbecue. In lively detail, Andrea Broomfield brings the Kansas City food scene to life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442232897

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9781442232891

Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

By: Curtis Fogel,Andrea Quinlan

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Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport

By: Curtis Fogel,Andrea Quinlan

Sexual assault by and against athletes is a pervasive and long-standing problem in Canada, but reports are commonly minimized, doubted, and dismissed by sport administrators, police, and judges. Through a detailed examination of over 300 cases appearing in news media and legal files across Canada from 1990 to 2020, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport uncovers an enduring institutional tolerance of sexual assault in Canadian sport – and the betrayal that many victims experience by those same institutions. Curtis Fogel and Andrea Quinlan argue further that both the Canadian sport system and the criminal legal system have failed to ensure victims’ safety and often undermine sexual assault prevention and trauma-informed care. Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport opens new avenues for critical dialogue about sport, law, masculinities, and gender-based violence. Crucially, it also offers constructive strategies to increase safety in sport.

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UBC Press

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0774869151

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9780774869157

Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine

By: A. Joseph Layon,Andrea Gabrielli,Mihae Yu,Kenneth E. Wood

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Civetta, Taylor, & Kirby's Critical Care Medicine

By: A. Joseph Layon,Andrea Gabrielli,Mihae Yu,Kenneth E. Wood

Covering every problem encountered in today’s intensive care unit, this leading critical care textbook presents the knowledge and expertise of more than 350 global experts in this fast-changing field. Beginning with the social aspects of medicine, it then discusses monitoring and organ system pathobiology followed by specific diseases states/syndromes. Each chapter begins with immediate concerns and proceeds to broader-based discussions of relevant pathophysiologic and clinical issues.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1469889854

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9781469889856

Surface Ice Rescue

By: Walt Hendrick,Andrea Zaferes

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Surface Ice Rescue

By: Walt Hendrick,Andrea Zaferes

This book provides practical, up-to-date information on training, team management, equipment, and techniques for ice rescue teams.

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PennWell Books

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0912212853

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9780912212852

Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M Ferriero,Nina F Schor,Richard S. Finkel,Andrea L. Gropman,Phillip L Pearl

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Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology E-Book

Principles and Practice

By: Kenneth F. Swaiman,Stephen Ashwal,Donna M Ferriero,Nina F Schor,Richard S. Finkel,Andrea L. Gropman,Phillip L Pearl

Since 1975, Dr. Kenneth Swaiman's classic text has been the reference of choice for authoritative guidance in pediatric neurology, and the 6th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with thorough revisions that bring you fully up to date with all that's new in the field. Five new sections, 62 new chapters, 4 new editors, and a reconfigured format make this a comprehensive and clearly-written resource for the experienced clinician as well as the physician-in-training. - Nearly 3,000 line drawings, photographs, tables, and boxes highlight the text, clarify key concepts, and make it easy to find information quickly.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323374816

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9780323374811

Seen That, Now What?

The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Video You Really Want to Watch

By: Andrea Shaw

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Seen That, Now What?

The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Video You Really Want to Watch

By: Andrea Shaw

You've never used a video guide like this before. You loved Chariots of Fire and you want to see something like it. Where do you start? Look up Chariots of Fire in the index, and find it in Drama. There you'll see it listed under White Flannel Films: Welcome to the glory days of the British empire when the ruling class rode horses on large country estates, servants were in plentiful supply, and only an adulterous lover questioned the status quo. As in other costume dramas, the period details are celebrations of all that was brilliant and luxurious, with the camera sweeping over British, Indian, or African countryscapes and exquisite turn-of-the-century interiors. But all this lush upholstery doesn't cover up the intelligent, thoughtful stories -- usually based on Lawrence, Forster, and Waugh novels -- played by stellar British actors. In White Flannel Films there are concise, witty reviews of select movies like A Room with a View A Passage to India Heat and Dust The Shooting Party Out of Africa White Mischief and more There is also a unique ratings system that helps you distinguish the bombs from the sleepers. But the key is that all these films offer the same kind of viewing experience -- if you like one, chances are good you'll like the others, too. Seen That, Now What? is your own personal video genius, who knows everything about movies and exactly what you like to watch.

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Simon and Schuster

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068480011X

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9780684800110

Sugarbaker's Adult Chest Surgery, 3rd edition

By: David J. Sugarbaker,Raphael Bueno,Bryan M. Burt,Shawn S. Groth,Gabriel Loor,Andrea S. Wolf

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Sugarbaker's Adult Chest Surgery, 3rd edition

By: David J. Sugarbaker,Raphael Bueno,Bryan M. Burt,Shawn S. Groth,Gabriel Loor,Andrea S. Wolf

The most authoritative, comprehensive, and clinically focused guide to operative thoracic surgery – updated with the latest techniques and technologies A Doody's Core Title for 2023! Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery is a thorough, hands-on guide to the practice of general thoracic surgery. The book covers the entire range of thoracic surgical techniques and management, along with crucial preoperative evaluation, staging, and postoperative strategies. Broad in scope and straightforward in style and presentation, this classic is an outstanding reference for any clinician in need of a comprehensive description of the clinical nature of general thoracic surgery. The focus of this third edition is on providing cutting-edge and up-to-date procedural and clinical management instructions in a field that is constantly changing. The previous edition highlighted minimally invasive, endoscopic, and robotic techniques, and this new edition will even further emphasize these developing technologies. More than 600 full color illustrations, drawn specifically for this book, enhance the text. Essential for residents preparing for a case, surgeons seeking management tips, and surgeons preparing for board recertification, Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery features a logical organization based on anatomy, and each section has an overview chapter summarizing the relevant anatomy, pathophysiology, and diagnostic and procedural options. Operations and diagnostic procedures are highlighted throughout the book in succinct, illustrated technique chapters.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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1260026949

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9781260026948

An Elastic Model for Volcanology

By: Andrea Aspri

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An Elastic Model for Volcanology

By: Andrea Aspri

This monograph presents a rigorous mathematical framework for a linear elastic model arising from volcanology that explains deformation effects generated by inflating or deflating magma chambers in the Earth’s interior. From a mathematical perspective, these modeling assumptions manifest as a boundary value problem that has long been known by researchers in volcanology, but has not, until now, been given a thorough mathematical treatment. This mathematical study gives an explicit formula for the solution of the boundary value problem which generalizes the few well-known, explicit solutions found in geophysics literature. Using two distinct analytical approaches—one involving weighted Sobolev spaces, and the other using single and double layer potentials—the well-posedness of the elastic model is proven. An Elastic Model for Volcanology will be of particular interest to mathematicians researching inverse problems, as well as geophysicists studying volcanology.

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136

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Springer Nature

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3030314758

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9783030314750

Quiet!

By: Andrea Lisa Brown

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Quiet!

By: Andrea Lisa Brown

“Mum is certainly the word... But only after you’ve had your say!” The melodic voices of many rings with the sounding of the vivid accounts of life experience and delightful assumptions that are beautifully illustrated here. These insightful words and artful drawings are what life connections are truly about. Each one beautifully depicts personal experience through, inspirational vignettes, quotes, interviews, poems, and illustrations. All in which has been brilliantly arranged. You will be amazed by how effortlessly each foster self discovery. “Quiet” is filled with stories of hope, pain, courage, struggle, love and laughter. It is both delightful and challenging. So go ahead, shout at these pages as often as you like. Because ”hush yo’ mouth,” “silence,” or plain ol ‘”Shut Up!” ain’t welcome here. “Mum” is certainly the word. But only after you’ve had your say! This is all ‘in your face’ enjoyment!

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350

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Xlibris Corporation

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1477177019

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Horizon, Sea, Sound

Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation

By: Andrea A. Davis

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Horizon, Sea, Sound

Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation

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