Claire Sierra's Books

A Vengeful Bid

By: Brianna Claire Olson

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The McDougal siblings work in law enforcement in Bentonville, Arkansas. Ryan is a detective with the Bentonville Police Department. His sister, Eliana is a criminalist/forensic investigator with the Benton County crime lab. Their jobs are very challenging, but worth it when justice is served. After a few students at Bentonville State University are murdered, they need to solve the case before the body count grows.

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The Rough Guide to Cuba

By: Matthew Norman,Fiona McAuslan,Claire Boobbyer

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The Rough Guide to Cuba

By: Matthew Norman,Fiona McAuslan,Claire Boobbyer

The Rough Guide to Cuba is the perfect guide for all your travels across the dazzling country of Cuba. Its maps and tips will lead you to the best hotels, bars, clubs, shops and restaurants in the country. Discover all of Cuba's highlights with insider information ranging from Cuba's diverse music, scuba diving and colonial architecture to its world-class ballet and baseball, political history and captivating capital city, Havana. Clear maps will make your travels around this spectacular country easy and unforgettable. You will never miss a sight with the stunning photos included and detailed coverage of Cuba's vibrant cities, glittering beaches, lush countryside and addictive mixture of the Latin American and Caribbean cultures. The Rough Guide to Cuba will take your travels to new heights, ensuring that you don't miss the unmissable while you're there. Now available in ePub format.

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1409349012

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Artificial Hells

Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

By: Claire Bishop

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Artificial Hells

Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship

By: Claire Bishop

This searing critique of participatory art—from its development to its political ambitions—is “an essential title for contemporary art history scholars and students as well as anyone who has . . . thought, ‘Now that’s art!’ or ‘That’s art?’” (Library Journal) Since the 1990s, critics and curators have broadly accepted the notion that participatory art is the ultimate political art: that by encouraging an audience to take part an artist can promote new emancipatory social relations. Around the world, the champions of this form of expression are numerous, ranging from art historians such as Grant Kester, curators such as Nicolas Bourriaud and Nato Thompson, to performance theorists such as Shannon Jackson. Artificial Hells is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, known in the US as “social practice.” Claire Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina and Paris; the 1970s Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawel Althamer and Paul Chan. Since her controversial essay in Artforum in 2006, Claire Bishop has been one of the few to challenge the political and aesthetic ambitions of participatory art. In Artificial Hells, she not only scrutinizes the emancipatory claims made for these projects, but also provides an alternative to the ethical (rather than artistic) criteria invited by such artworks. Artificial Hells calls for a less prescriptive approach to art and politics, and for more compelling, troubling, and bolder forms of participatory art and criticism.

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Wanted! A Nation!

Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893

By: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti

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Wanted! A Nation!

Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893

By: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti

Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War. Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black republic was considered by free Black Americans as a place where full citizenship was at hand. Haiti was essentially viewed and concretely experienced as a refuge during moments when free Black Americans lost hope of obtaining rights in the United States. Haiti is also at the heart of this book, as Haitian leaders supported the American emigration to Haiti (in the 1820s and early 1860s), opposed the American geostrategic and diplomatic diktats in the 1870s and 1880s, and finally offered an international platform to Frederick Douglass at the 1893 Columbian World’s Fair, thus helping Black people who faced discrimination at home to fight first against slavery and the slave trade, and then for equal rights. By spanning the entire nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! presents a complex panorama of the emergence of African American identity and argues that Haiti should be considered as an essential prism to understand how African Americans forged their identity in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a variety of sources, Wanted! A Nation! goes far beyond the usual framework of national American history and contributes to the writing of an Atlantic and global history of the struggle for equal rights.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820362719

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Representing the Nation

Sport and Spectacle in Post-revolutionary Mexico

By: Claire Brewster,Keith Brewster

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Representing the Nation

Sport and Spectacle in Post-revolutionary Mexico

By: Claire Brewster,Keith Brewster

Mexico City’s staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico’s post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at ease with itself played proud host to a global celebration of youthful vigour. Representing the Nation argues, however, that from the moment that the city won the bid, the Mexican elite displayed an innate lack of trust in their countrymen. Beautification of the capital city went beyond that expected of a host. It included the removal of undesirables from sight and the sponsorship of public information campaigns designed to teach citizens basic standards of civility and decency. The book’s contention is that these and other measures exposed a chasm between what decades of post-revolutionary socio-cultural reforms had sought to produce, and what members of the elite believed their nation to be. While members of the Organising Committee deeply resented international scepticism of Mexico’s ability to stage the Games, they shared a fear that, with the eyes of the world upon them, their compatriots would reveal Mexico’s aspirations to first world status to be a fraud. Using a detailed analysis of Mexico City’s preparations for the Olympic Games, we show how these tensions manifested themselves in the actions of the Organizing Committee and government authorities. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

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Nevermore, Quoth the Raver

By: Brianna Claire Olson

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Nevermore, Quoth the Raver

By: Brianna Claire Olson

For One Raver, the Party Turned Deadly When a teenage boy is found dead outside an abandoned barn in Centerton, Arkansas, Bentonville Police Detective Ryan McDougal has been recruited by his prot�g� Marisol Hernandez-Sullivan to solve the case. With the town's mayor up for reelection breathing down his neck, it needs to be accomplished right away. Along with his sister Criminalist Eliana McDougal and her colleague Lisa Garcia, they gather the clues and evidence to find the killer. As they delve further into the investigation, they enter the world of rave parties. They also find out how perverse some aspects of human nature can be.

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0359954545

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Snow Country

Mountain Homes and Rustic Retreats

By: Elizabeth Claire Flood

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Snow Country

Mountain Homes and Rustic Retreats

By: Elizabeth Claire Flood

Flood takes readers on an intimate tour inside the quaint chalets, rustic cabins, and extravagant mountain retreats found in some of the top western ski resorts of the Colorado Rockies, California's Sierra Nevada, and Whistler, Canada. 200 color images.

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Curious Lessons in the Museum

The Pedagogic Potential of Artists' Interventions

By: Claire Robins

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Curious Lessons in the Museum

The Pedagogic Potential of Artists' Interventions

By: Claire Robins

Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct attention to the distinct contributions that twentieth and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer still that recognise the pedagogic potential of interventionist artworks in galleries and museums. This book fills that gap and demonstrates how artists have been making curious but, none-the-less, useful contributions to museum education and curation for some time. Claire Robins investigates in depth the phenomenon of artists' interventions in museums and examines their pedagogic implications. She also brings to light and seeks to resolve many of the contradictions surrounding artists' interventions, where on the one hand contemporary artists have been accused of alienating audiences and, on the other, appear to have played a significant role in orchestrating positive developments to the way that learning is defined and configured in museums. She examines the disruptive and parodic strategies that artists have employed, and argues for that they can be understood as part of a move to re-establish the museum as a discursive forum. This valuable book will be essential reading for students and scholars of museum studies, as well as art and cultural studies.

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Wild Horses

By: Claire McEwen

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Wild Horses

By: Claire McEwen

This wild stallion can't be tamed Todd Williams is still the naive idealist he was in college. Only now he's endangering lives—Nora Hoffman's to be exact. Nora hasn't seen Todd since he decided that saving the rain forest was more important than their relationship. Until the night she's nearly crushed by the stampede he causes. Now Todd is determined to make amends, for everything. She may not agree with his methods, but even Nora can't deny the importance of his fight to save the wild horses. With the attraction between them still sizzling and the fate of the horses in the balance, Nora must decide just how much she's willing to risk.

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

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Harlequin Superromance March 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Janice Kay Johnson,Tara Taylor Quinn,Claire McEwen,Cara Lockwood

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Harlequin Superromance March 2016 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Janice Kay Johnson,Tara Taylor Quinn,Claire McEwen,Cara Lockwood

Harlequin® Superromance brings you four new novels for one great price, available now! Experience powerful relationships that deliver a strong emotional punch and a guaranteed happily ever after. This Superromance box set includes: THE CLOSER HE GETS Brothers, Strangers Janice Kay Johnson Homicide detective Ryan Carter returns to his hometown determined to solve the twenty-five-year-old mystery of his sister's murder and is stunned to find his estranged brother, Bran Murphy, already a detective there. And then Ryan witnesses another cop beating an unarmed civilian to death. The second witness, a woman named Tess Granath, can't trust a cop after what she saw, even as Ryan must keep her safe. LOVE BY ASSOCIATION Where Secrets are Safe Tara Taylor Quinn An undercover assignment to prevent a domestic violence death transforms tough cop Chantel Harris into one of Santa Raquel's glamorous elite. Lawyer Colin Fairbanks is the in she needs to move in these circles, but he has secrets of his own…and a distrust of the police. WILD HORSES Sierra Legacy Claire McEwen Todd Williams broke Nora Hoffman's heart once before—she won't be a fool again. Besides, now that she's back in her hometown of Benson, California, her schedule is full with trying to resurrect the family ranch and building her career. But when Todd asks her to help him save the wild horses, how can she say no… THE BIG BREAK Cara Lockwood Kai Brady risks his life surfing the biggest waves in the ocean. But when he hires single mother Jun Lee to be his personal trainer, this playboy daredevil will find out that falling in love can be even more dangerous. Is the surfing superstar brave enough to chance losing his heart? Enjoy more story and more romance from Harlequin® Superromance with 4 new novels every month!

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1460395123

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Fast Facts: Myelofibrosis

Reviewed by Professor Ruben A. Mesa

By: Donal McLornan,Claire N. Harrison

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Fast Facts: Myelofibrosis

Reviewed by Professor Ruben A. Mesa

By: Donal McLornan,Claire N. Harrison

Myelofibrosis is a myeloproliferative neoplasm that has markedly heterogeneous features. The clinical phenotype can range from initial indolent presentation, which may be stable for many years, through to marked cytopenias, debilitating constitutional symptoms, massive splenomegaly and an inherent risk of leukemic transformation. Despite many advances regarding molecular classification, prognostication models and rapeutic options over the last few decades, allogeneic stem cell transplantation remains the only curative option, yet is suitable only for a minority of patients. ‘Fast Facts: Myelofibrosis’ is written for health professionals by two leading experts in the field, and provides up-to-date guidance on its accurate diagnosis, risk stratification and management. It also provides key insights into the molecular biology underpinning the disease. This concise handbook is an indispensable read for anyone wanting to get up to speed with best practice in the diagnosis and care of people with myelofibrosis. Table of Contents: • Presentation, classification and epidemiology • Molecular biology and pathogenesis • Clinical assessment and diagnosis • Prognostic models • Treatment approaches • Allogeneic stem cell transplantation • Management of blast-phase myelofibrosis • Therapies in development

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3318070807

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His Last Rodeo

By: Claire McEwen

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His Last Rodeo

By: Claire McEwen

Back in the saddle again… Tyler Ellis catches Kit Hayes completely off guard when he swaggers back home and into the bar she manages. Since high school, he's been a champion rodeo star…a notorious playboy…and now, apparently, a bar owner. She accepts his offer of a hefty bonus and helps him transform the place because she's desperate to escape their tiny town in the Sierras. She doesn't expect him to work this hard beside her. Where's the cocky cowboy he's supposed to be? Instead she discovers he's still the sweet, genuine young man she once knew. And so much more…including a threat to the adventurous life she craves.

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1488017026

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The Nature of Home

Taking Root in a Place

By: Greta Claire Gaard

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The Nature of Home

Taking Root in a Place

By: Greta Claire Gaard

ÒAs long as humans have been around, weÕve had to move in order to survive.Ó So arises that most universal and elemental human longing for home, and so begins Greta GaardÕs exploration of just precisely what it means to be at home in the world. Gaard journeys through the deserts of southern California, through the High Sierras, the Wind River Mountains, and the Northern Cascades, through the wildlands and waterways of Washington and Minnesota, through snow season, rain season, mud season, and lilac season, yet her essays transcend mere description of natural beauty to investigate the interplay between place and identity. Gaard examines the earliest environments of childhood and the relocations of adulthood, expanding the feminist insight that identity is formed through relationships to include relationships to place. ÒHomeÓ becomes not a static noun, but an active verb: the process of cultivating the connections with place and people that shape who we become. Striving to create a sense of home, Gaard involves herself socially, culturally, and ecologically within her communities, discovering that as she works to change her environment, her environment changes her. As Gaard investigates environmental concerns such as water quality, oil spills, or logging, she touches on their parallels to community issues such as racism, classism, and sexism, uncovering the dynamic interaction by which Òhumans, like other life on earth, both shape and are shaped by our environments.Ó While maintaining an understanding of the complex systems and structures that govern communities and environments, GaardÕs writing delves deeper to reveal the experiences and realities we displace through euphemisms or stereotypes, presenting issues such as homelessness or hunger with compelling honesty and sensitivity. GaardÕs essays form a quest narrative, expressing the process of letting go that is an inherent part of an impermanent life. And when a person is broken, in the aftermath of that letting go, it is a place that holds the pieces together. As long as we are forced to moveÑby economics, by war, by colonialismÑthe strategies we possess to make and redefine home are imperative to our survival, and vital in the shaping of our very identities.

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0816525765

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More Than a Rancher

By: Claire McEwen

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More Than a Rancher

By: Claire McEwen

A chance meeting with small-town chef and rancher Sandro Salazar leads ballroom dancer Jenna Stevens to reconsider her plans to give up on finding love.

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0373608713

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The Snowshoe Experience

By: Claire Walter

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The Snowshoe Experience

By: Claire Walter

A beginner's guide to winter fitness offers a step-by-step instructional handbook on the art of showshoeing, discussing the low-impact sport's health benefits, as well as safety precautions, equipment selection, techniques for novices and experts alike, trail etiquette, basic navigational skills, and more. Original.

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Storey Publishing

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1580175414

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Gender and Peacebuilding

By: Claire Duncanson

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Gender and Peacebuilding

By: Claire Duncanson

Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. It draws on a wide range of examples from across the world to offer a nuanced account of the UNs attempts to mainstream gender into peace operations via Security Council Resolution 1325, and assesses the successes and failures of this effort to enhance the participation and protection of women and girls in peacebuilding operations. In presenting this mixed picture of progress and ongoing challenges, the book argues for bold steps forward that will enable peacebuilding to contest the current neoliberal order, address structural inequalities, and bring about feminist visions of peace and security. It is only by focusing attention on the economic empowerment of women and its ability to temper the dangers of neo-liberalism in post-conflict contexts that feminists can hope to achieve these aims. Timely, critical and engaged, this book provides an invaluable guide to the issues for students of peace and conflict studies, and sets the agenda for future scholarship and advocacy.

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0745682537

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A/AS Level Geography for AQA Student Book

By: Ann Bowen,Andy Day,Victoria Ellis,Alan Parkinson,Paul Hunt,Claire Kyndt,Rebecca Kitchen,Garrett Nagle,Nicola Walshe,Helen Young

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A/AS Level Geography for AQA Student Book

By: Ann Bowen,Andy Day,Victoria Ellis,Alan Parkinson,Paul Hunt,Claire Kyndt,Rebecca Kitchen,Garrett Nagle,Nicola Walshe,Helen Young

A new series of full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2016 A/AS Level Geography specification. This full-colour Student Book covers all core and optional units for the AQA AS and A Level Geography specification for first teaching from September 2016. Students are encouraged to develop links between physical and human topics, understand systems, processes, and acquire geographical skills. Helping to bridge the gap from GCSE to A Level, it also provides support for fieldwork skills and for the geographical investigation at A Level. A 'Maths for geographers' feature helps students develop and apply their mathematical and statistical skills, and a range of assessment-style questions support students in developing their exam skills.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316606325

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Electronic Literature in Latin America

From Text to Hypertext

By: Claire Taylor

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Electronic Literature in Latin America

From Text to Hypertext

By: Claire Taylor

This book explores one of the most exciting new developments in the literary field to emerge over recent decades: the growing body of work known as ‘electronic literature’, comprising literary works that take advantage of the capabilities of digital technologies in their enactment. Focussing on six leading authors within Latin(o) America whose works have proved pioneering in the development of these new literary forms, the book proposes a three-fold approach of aesthetics, technologics, and ethics, as a framework for analyzing digital literature.

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3030309886

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Harlequin Superromance September 2014 - Bundle 2 of 2

An Anthology

By: Jennifer Lohmann,Claire McEwen,Kathleen Pickering

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An Anthology

By: Jennifer Lohmann,Claire McEwen,Kathleen Pickering

Harlequin Superromance brings you three new novels for one great price, available now! Experience powerful relationships that deliver a strong emotional punch and a guaranteed happily ever after. This Harlequin Superromance bundle includes Winning Ruby Heart by Jennifer Lohmann, More Than A Rancher by Claire McEwen and Desert Heat by Kathleen Pickering. Enjoy more story and more romance from Harlequin Superromance with 6 new novels every month!

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Uncertain Peril

Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds

By: Claire Hope Cummings

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Uncertain Peril

Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds

By: Claire Hope Cummings

Life on earth is facing unprecedented challenges from global warming, war, and mass extinctions. The plight of seeds is a less visible but no less fundamental threat to our survival. Seeds are at the heart of the planet's life-support systems. Their power to regenerate and adapt are essential to maintaining our food supply and our ability to cope with a changing climate. In Uncertain Peril, environmental journalist Claire Hope Cummings exposes the stories behind the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. She examines how farming communities are coping with declining water, soil, and fossil fuels, as well as with new commercial technologies. Will genetically engineered and "terminator" seeds lead to certain promise, as some have hoped, or are we embarking on a path of uncertain peril? Will the "doomsday vault" under construction in the Arctic, designed to store millions of seeds, save the genetic diversity of the world's agriculture? To answer these questions and others, Cummings takes readers from the Fertile Crescent in Iraq to the island of Kaua'i in Hawai'i; from Oaxaca, Mexico, to the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. She examines the plight of farmers who have planted transgenic seeds and scientists who have been persecuted for revealing the dangers of modified genes. At each turn, Cummings looks deeply into the relationship between people and plants. She examines the possibilities for both scarcity and abundance and tells the stories of local communities that are producing food and fuel sustainably and providing for the future. The choices we make about how we feed ourselves now will determine whether or not seeds will continue as a generous source of sustenance and remain the common heritage of all humanity. It comes down to this: whoever controls the future of seeds controls the future of life on earth. Uncertain Peril is a powerful reminder that what's at stake right now is nothing less than the nature of the future.

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Narrating Political Reconciliation

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By: Claire Moon

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Narrating Political Reconciliation

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

By: Claire Moon

Narrating Political Reconciliation advances a distinctive discourse analysis of South Africa's reconciliation process by enquiring into the politics of the following: writing national history, confessional, and testimonial styles of truth, and reconciliation as theology and therapy. Moon argues that the TRC was the catalyst for, and shaped the parameters of, what is now powerful 'reconciliation industry, ' and her insights provide a theoretical framework through which to think and problematise the politics of transitional justice in post-conflict and democratizing states more generally

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Responding to Crisis in Contemporary Mexico

The Political Writings of Paz, Fuentes, Monsiváis, and Poniatowska

By: Claire Brewster

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Responding to Crisis in Contemporary Mexico

The Political Writings of Paz, Fuentes, Monsiváis, and Poniatowska

By: Claire Brewster

Regarded as among modern Mexico’s foremost creative writers, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Monsiváis, and Elena Poniatowska are also esteemed as analyzers of society, critics of public officials, and both molders and mirrors of public opinion. This book offers a reading of Mexican current affairs from 1968 to 1995 through a comparative study of these four writers’ political work. In hundreds of articles, essays, and comments published in the Mexican press—Excélsior, La Cultura en México, La Jornada, Proceso, and many other publications—these writers tackled current affairs as events unfolded. Yet the lack of detailed examination of their contributions in the press has left a gap in our understanding of their vital role in raising awareness of national concerns as they were happening. Claire Brewster has mined direct quotations from a host of publications to illustrate the techniques that they used in combating government and editorial restraints. Brewster first addresses the Student Movement of 1968—the violent suppression of which was a watershed in the relationship between the Mexican government and people—and illustrates the ways in which the student crisis affected the writers’ relationships with presidents Luis Echeverría Alvarez and José López Portillo. She next considers the profound social and political repercussions of the 1985 earthquake as described by Poniatowska and Monsiváis and the consequent emergence of Mexican civil society. She then outlines Paz’s and Monsiváis’s vociferous responses to the 1988 presidential election campaigns and their highly contentious result, and lastly she examines the Chiapas rebellion from January to July 1994. The eloquent Zapatista spokesman, Subcomandante Marcos, challenged Mexican writers to a duel of words, and Brewster analyzes the ways in which the four writers took up the gauntlet—and in so doing reveals the development of their political thoughts and their relationships with the Mexican people and the federal government. The work of these four authors charts an important historical era, and a close examination of their essays reveals their maturation as writers and provides an understanding of the development of Mexican society. By bringing their opinions and attitudes to light, Brewster unearths a rich lode of insight into the inner workings of Mexican intellectuals and invites observers of contemporary Mexico to reconsider their role in reflecting social change.

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0816550522

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Dangerous Crossings

Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age

By: Claire Jean Kim

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Dangerous Crossings

Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age

By: Claire Jean Kim

Dangerous Crossings offers an interpretation of the impassioned disputes that have arisen in the contemporary United States over the use of animals in the cultural practices of nonwhite peoples. It examines three controversies: the battle over the 'cruelty' of the live animal markets in San Francisco's Chinatown, the uproar over the conviction of NFL superstar Michael Vick on dogfighting charges, and the firestorm over the Makah tribe's decision to resume whaling in the Pacific Northwest after a hiatus of more than seventy years. Claire Jean Kim shows that each dispute demonstrates how race and species operate as conjoined logics, or mutually constitutive taxonomies of power. Analyzing each case as a conflict between single optics (the optic of cruelty and environmental harm vs the optic of racism and cultural imperialism), she argues for a multi-optic approach that takes different forms of domination seriously, and thus encourages an ethics of avowal among different struggles.

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Harlequin Superromance May 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Tara Taylor Quinn,Claire McEwen,Kristina Knight,Sharon Hartley

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Harlequin Superromance May 2017 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Tara Taylor Quinn,Claire McEwen,Kristina Knight,Sharon Hartley

Harlequin® Superromance brings you a collection of four new novels, available now! Experience powerful relationships that deliver a strong emotional punch and a guaranteed happily ever after. This Superromance box set includes: THE FIREMAN’S SON Where Secrets are Safe By Tara Taylor Quinn Fire chief Reese Bristow is blindsided with the news that his new paramedic is the same woman who left him nine years ago. Like it or not, Faye Walker is back in his life…and she has a son. HIS LAST RODEO Sierra Legacy By Claire McEwen Rodeo star Tyler Ellis is ready for his next challenge: running a bar. Thing is, he knows nothing about the business, so he’ll need the expertise of Kit Hayes. Unfortunately, she’s in no hurry to work with him. And the spark between them isn’t part of the arrangement she grudgingly agrees to. FAMOUS IN A SMALL TOWN A Slippery Rock Novel By Kristina Knight After a disgrace in Nashville unexpectedly slams the brakes on Savannah’s music career, she finds herself back in the town she was trying to escape—is still trying to escape. Slippery Rock is Collin Tyler’s home, and while Savannah is irresistible, she’s also dangerously unpredictable…and he’s not going anywhere. STRANDED WITH THE CAPTAIN The Florida Files By Sharon Hartley Cat Sidran and her friends get more than they bargained for when they charter a sailboat, sexy captain Javi Rivas included. When disaster strikes, she and Javi have to work together to save the day. But once the excitement is over, can their love weather the storm? Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Superromance!

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1488017050

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9781488017056

Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

By: Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman

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Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

By: Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman

This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin American(ist) discourses, as well as their often contestatory positioning with respect to Western hegemonic discourses as they circulate online. The intellectual rationale for the volume is located at the crossroads of two, equally important, theoretical strands: theories of digital culture, in their majority the product of the anglophone academy; and contemporary debates on Latin American identity and culture.

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280

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Routledge

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1135085552

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9781135085551

Beyond the Barricades

The Americas Trade and Sustainable Development Agenda

By: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger

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Beyond the Barricades

The Americas Trade and Sustainable Development Agenda

By: Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger

Beyond the barricades surrounding recent economic meetings, a constructive agenda is being developed on trade and sustainability issues in the Americas. This book brings together a diversity of perspectives and expertise on environment and development issues from governments, civil society and businesses in the Western Hemisphere. The book reviews specific areas where trade, environment and social policies intersect in the Americas, proposing that more integrated laws and policies could strengthen hemispheric progress toward sustainable development. It identifies new means of implementing this agenda, including changes to proposed trade agreements such as the FTAA, and ways to strengthen environmental and social cooperation mechanisms in the region, laying out future directions for law and policy in the region. The volume incorporates a variety of perspectives with policy options and research results from across the Americas. Critical yet constructive, it will appeal to students and scholars interested in the Americas integration process, as well as to development professionals and NGOs on the ground.

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372

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1351162624

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Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development

By: Claire Auplat

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Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development

By: Claire Auplat

Public institutions, academic researchers and financial analysts among others hail nanotechnologies as one of the most promising sectors of social and economic development. Calculations predict that it will become a trillion euro industry by 2015 and that it will bring about economic change of at least the same magnitude as the industrial revolution. Nanotechnology is recent, younger by some thirty years than biotechnology, but it appears at a point in time in human history where there is a convergence between the globalization of access to information and increasing awareness of the importance of sustainable development. Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development explores the ways in which this convergence leads to a change in the management of innovation âe" and ultimately a reshaping of technological democracy. The scope of the study is global, with a particular focus on Europe and the United States, utilizing several case studies of stakeholders including entrepreneurs, commentators, end users, scientists, and policy makers.

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0415891825

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9780415891820

The Herons of Europe

By: Claire Voisin

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The Herons of Europe

By: Claire Voisin

Although the majority of the world's Herons live in the tropics and subtropics, Europe is home to nine species, some large, some small, some colonial, some solitary breeders. Highly specialized birds, they exhibit many interesting differences in their behaviour and ecology and are a favourite group for many ornithologists. Voisin begins her book with a general description of the family before going on to treat each species in more detail. The species accounts summarize such topics as field characters, distribution, population size, breeding and feeding ecology and behaviour. Numerous figures and tables are accompanied by fine drawings of behaviour by P. L. Suiro and colour and black and white pictures of each species by Gunnar Brusewitz.

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A&C Black

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1408135825

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