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All in Stride

A Journey in Running, Courage, and the Search for the American Dream

By: Johanna Garton

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All in Stride

A Journey in Running, Courage, and the Search for the American Dream

By: Johanna Garton

All in Stride tells the inspiring stories of runners Shadrack Kipchirchir and Elvin Kibet and their journeys from rural Kenyan villages to American colleges, their service as U.S. soldiers, and becoming professional athletes. Their stories examine issues of race, gender, culture, and the ever-changing landscape of what it means to be American.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538184605

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9781538184608

Edge of the Map

The Mountain Life of Christine Boskoff

By: Johanna Garton

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Edge of the Map

The Mountain Life of Christine Boskoff

By: Johanna Garton

Edge of the Map is equal parts inspiring, dramatic, and heartbreaking. One of America’s greatest high altitude mountaineers, Christine Boskoff was at the top of her career when she and her partner died in an avalanche in 2006. Charismatic, principled, and humble, Boskoff was also a deeply loved role model to her climbing partners and the Sherpa community. Edge of the Map traces the sharp twists and turns in Boskoff’s life, from her early years as a Lockheed engineer, through her first successes in the climbing world, to her purchase of Seattle-based Mountain Madness after owner and climber Scott Fischer died in the 1996 Everest disaster. Her life was one of constant achievement mixed with personal tragedy. The story follows Boskoff as she perseveres and moves on to even bigger peaks, earning acclaim as a world-class mountaineer, then later as she finds an alpine partnership with legendary Colorado climber Charlie Fowler.

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Mountaineers Books

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1680512897

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All in Stride

A Journey in Running, Courage, and the Search for the American Dream

By: Johanna Garton

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Markets in the Name of Socialism

The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism

By: Johanna Bockman

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Markets in the Name of Socialism

The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism

By: Johanna Bockman

The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas and radical criticisms of the state. Rather than focusing on the agency of a few prominent, conservative economists, Markets in the Name of Socialism reveals a dialogue among many economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These discussions led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism. This book takes a truly transnational look at economists' professional outlook over 100 years across the capitalist West and the socialist East. Clearly translating complicated economic ideas and neoliberal theories, it presents a significant reinterpretation of Cold War history, the fall of communism, and the rise of today's dominant economic ideology.

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Stanford University Press

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0804778965

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9780804778961

Scrambling for Africa

AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science

By: Johanna Tayloe Crane

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Scrambling for Africa

AIDS, Expertise, and the Rise of American Global Health Science

By: Johanna Tayloe Crane

Countries in sub-Saharan Africa were once dismissed by Western experts as being too poor and chaotic to benefit from the antiretroviral drugs that transformed the AIDS epidemic in the United States and Europe. Today, however, the region is courted by some of the most prestigious research universities in the world as they search for “resource-poor” hospitals in which to base their international HIV research and global health programs. In Scrambling for Africa, Johanna Tayloe Crane reveals how, in the space of merely a decade, Africa went from being a continent largely excluded from advancements in HIV medicine to an area of central concern and knowledge production within the increasingly popular field of global health science. Drawing on research conducted in the U.S. and Uganda during the mid-2000s, Crane provides a fascinating ethnographic account of the transnational flow of knowledge, politics, and research money—as well as blood samples, viruses, and drugs. She takes readers to underfunded Ugandan HIV clinics as well as to laboratories and conference rooms in wealthy American cities like San Francisco and Seattle where American and Ugandan experts struggle to forge shared knowledge about the AIDS epidemic. The resulting uncomfortable mix of preventable suffering, humanitarian sentiment, and scientific ambition shows how global health research partnerships may paradoxically benefit from the very inequalities they aspire to redress. A work of outstanding interdisciplinary scholarship, Scrambling for Africa will be of interest to audiences in anthropology, science and technology studies, African studies, and the medical humanities.

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Cornell University Press

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0801469066

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9780801469060

Cognitive Development and Education

By: Johanna Turner

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Cognitive Development and Education

By: Johanna Turner

Children think in a different way to adults. They also think differently at different ages. This book, originally published in 1984, studies the growth of those processes by means of which thinking evolves from infancy through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. It covers perception, memory, language and, above all, the development of mental ‘programmes’, or strategies, through which people structure and hence comprehend the information coming to them from their environment. The study of cognitive development has obvious educational implications. Development in the pre-school period, the appropriateness of schooling for levels of cognitive competence, and the significance of ageing are just some of the issues considered.

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Routledge

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1351806300

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Edge of the Map

The Mountain Life of Christine Boskoff

By: Johanna Garton

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All in Stride

All in Stride

Edge of the Map

Edge of the Map

All in Stride

All in Stride

Markets in the Name of Socialism

Markets in the Name of Socialism

Scrambling for Africa

Scrambling for Africa

Cognitive Development and Education

Cognitive Development and Education

Edge of the Map

Edge of the Map

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