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Perceptions of Cuba

Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective

By: Lana Wylie

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Perceptions of Cuba

Canadian and American Policies in Comparative Perspective

By: Lana Wylie

In 1976, with the US trade embargo against Cuba underway, Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau visited the island nation, befriended his counterpart, and exclaimed publicly "Long live Prime Minister Fidel Castro!" During the past half-century of communist rule in Cuba, Canada's policy of engagement with the country has contrasted sharply with the United States' policy of isolation. Based on a series of interviews conducted in Havana, Washington, and Ottawa, Perceptions of Cuba moves beyond traditional economic and political analyses to show that national identities distinct to each country contributed to the formation of their dissimilar foreign policies. Lana Wylie argues that Canadians and Americans perceive Cuba through different lenses rooted in their respective identities: American exceptionalism made Cuba the polar opposite of the United States, while Canada's self-image as a good international citizen and as 'not American' has allowed the country to engage with the Cuban government. By acknowledging that competing national identities, perceptions, and ideas play a major role in foreign policies, Perceptions of Cuba makes a significant contribution to our understanding of international relations.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442699086

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9781442699083

Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness in Parkinson's Disease

A Case-Based Guide to Diagnosis and Management

By: Lana Chahine

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Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness in Parkinson's Disease

A Case-Based Guide to Diagnosis and Management

By: Lana Chahine

Patients with Parkinson's disease commonly struggle with sleep disorders that which negatively affect their quality of life. Sleep Considerations in the Management of Parkinson's Disease provides a comprehensive overview of common sleep issues and related topics in in this complex field. Each chapter begins with a case that describes a typical scenario related to a sleep problem in Parkinson's disease, followed by a discussion of both the sleep problem and the specifics of the case, providing practical, real-world information to help you provide better patient care. - Includes concise chapters authored by Dr. Lana Chahine, each carefully reviewed and supplemented by expert contributors in the specific field. - Addresses a wide variety of topics including sleep-onset insomnia, nocturnal manifestations of anxiety disorders, REM sleep behavior disorder, restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements, and excessive daytime sleepiness. - Consolidates today's available information and experience in this important area into one convenient resource.

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164

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323673759

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9780323673754

Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

A Re-examination of Gender

By: Sarah Wendt,Lana Zannettino

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Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

A Re-examination of Gender

By: Sarah Wendt,Lana Zannettino

Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women’s experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities. Concentrating on the various forms of domestic abuse and its occurrence and manifestations within different contexts, it argues that gender is centrally implicated in the unique factors that shape violence across all these areas. Individual chapters outline the experiences of: Mothers Older women Women with religious affiliations Refugee women Rural women Aboriginal women Women in same-sex relationships Women with intellectual disabilities. Exploring how domestic violence across varying contexts impacts on different women’s experiences and understandings of abuse, this innovative work draws on post-structural feminist theory and how these ideas view, and potentially allow, gendered explanations of domestic violence. Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts is suitable for academics and researchers interested in issues around violence and gender.

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233

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Routledge

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1317616529

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9781317616528

New Money

How Payment Became Social Media

By: Lana Swartz

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New Money

How Payment Became Social Media

By: Lana Swartz

A new vision of money as a communication technology that creates and sustains invisible—often exclusive—communities One of the basic structures of everyday life, money is at its core a communication media. Payment systems—cash, card, app, or Bitcoin—are informational and symbolic tools that integrate us into, or exclude us from, the society that surrounds us. Examining the social politics of financial technologies, Lana Swartz reveals what’s at stake when we pay. This accessible and insightful analysis comes at a moment of disruption: from “fin-tech” startups to cryptocurrency schemes, a variety of technologies are poised to unseat traditional financial infrastructures. Swartz explains these changes, traces their longer histories, and demonstrates their consequences. Getting paid and paying determines whether or not you can put food on the table. She shows just how important these invisible systems are. The data that payment produces is uniquely revelatory—and newly valuable. New forms of money create new forms of identity, new forms of community, and new forms of power.

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270

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Yale University Press

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0300252455

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9780300252453

Bella Goes Hollywood

By: Lana Perez

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Bella Goes Hollywood

By: Lana Perez

When Bella DeLuca gets a message telling her to act like a princess, her life takes an unexpected turn, and she ends up in a once-in-a-lifetime role in a Hollywood movie, but as soon as she arrives, strange things begin happening.

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Mirrorstone

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0786940301

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9780786940301

The Emergence of Start-ups

By: David Heller,Sylvain de Chadirac,Lana Halaoui,Camille Jouvet

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The Emergence of Start-ups

By: David Heller,Sylvain de Chadirac,Lana Halaoui,Camille Jouvet

In France, the number of young start-ups has soared since the beginning of the 2010s, leading the government to encourage their development and make France the “start-up nation”. This book contributes to a better understanding of the emergence of these companies by studying the influence of the ecosystem on their development and the modes of financing that they use. The financing of start-ups remains a major challenge insofar as they are often faced with refusal from the banks. Successful financing depends largely on the geopolitical and economic environment. Through a comparative study of models from both France and English-speaking countries, the authors explore possible financing solutions for France. The book concludes with a discussion of equity crowdfunding, which proves to be a successful financing alternative. Including theoretical and empirical studies, this book provides concrete solutions aimed at developing innovative entrepreneurship in France.

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104

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John Wiley & Sons

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111961841X

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9781119618416

Stirrings

How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice

By: Lana Dee Povitz

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Stirrings

How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice

By: Lana Dee Povitz

In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into poverty, and hunger reached levels unseen since the Depression. In response, New Yorkers set the stage for a nationwide food justice movement. Whether organizing school lunch campaigns, establishing food co-ops, or lobbying city officials, citizen-activists made food a political issue, uniting communities across lines of difference. The charismatic, usually female leaders of these efforts were often products of earlier movements: American communism, civil rights activism, feminism, even Eastern mysticism. Situating food justice within these rich lineages, Lana Dee Povitz demonstrates how grassroots activism continued to thrive, even as it was transformed by unrelenting erosion of the country's already fragile social safety net. Using dozens of new oral histories and archives, Povitz reveals the colorful characters who worked behind the scenes to build and sustain the movement, and illuminates how people worked together to overturn hierarchies rooted in class and race, reorienting the history of food activism as a community-based response to austerity. The first book-length history of food activism in a major American city, Stirrings highlights the emotional, intimate, and interpersonal aspects of social movement culture.

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UNC Press Books

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1469653028

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9781469653020

Figure in the Frost

By: Lana Perez

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Figure in the Frost

By: Lana Perez

The Knights of the Silver Dragon are delighting in a snow day, but the weather soon spells trouble for the city of Curston, where people are freezing and vicious winter wolves circle the city walls.

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Mirrorstone

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0786935871

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Book's by Lana Perez

Perceptions of Cuba

Perceptions of Cuba

Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness in Parkinson's Disease

Disorders of Sleep and Wakefulness in Parkinson's Disease

Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts

New Money

New Money

Bella Goes Hollywood

Bella Goes Hollywood

The Emergence of Start-ups

The Emergence of Start-ups

Stirrings

Stirrings

Figure in the Frost

Figure in the Frost

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