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Love Inspired Suspense January 2022 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Laura Scott,Liz Shoaf,Sami A. Abrams

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Love Inspired Suspense January 2022 - Box Set 2 of 2

By: Laura Scott,Liz Shoaf,Sami A. Abrams

Love Inspired Suspense brings you three new titles! Enjoy these suspenseful romances of danger and faith. This box set includes: ROCKY MOUNTAIN STANDOFF (A Justice Seekers novel) by USA TODAY Bestselling Author Laura Scott Someone will do anything to get Federal Judge Sidney Logan to throw a trial—even target her six-month-old foster daughter. And it’s up to US Deputy Marshal Tanner Wilcox to keep Sidney and little Lilly safe. But with a possible mole in the courthouse, trusting anyone could prove lethal… TEXAS RANCH REFUGE By Liz Shoaf After cowboy Mac Dolan and his dog, Barnie, stop an attempted abduction, Mac’s surprised to learn the target is Liv Calloway—the woman the FBI contracted him to investigate. Letting Liv hide from her pursuers on his ranch provides Mac the perfect cover. But is she a murderer…or a witness being framed? BURIED COLD CASE SECRETS By Sami A. Abrams Searching for her best friend’s remains could help forensic anthropologist Melanie Hutton regain her memories of when they were both kidnapped—and put her right back in the killer’s sights. But can Detective Jason Cooper set the past aside to help her solve his sister’s murder…and shield Melanie from the same fate? For more stories filled with danger and romance, look for Love Inspired Suspense January 2022 Box Set – 2 of 2

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0369716906

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A Revolution for Our Rights

Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952

By: Laura Gotkowitz

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A Revolution for Our Rights

Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952

By: Laura Gotkowitz

A Revolution for Our Rights is a critical reassessment of the causes and significance of the Bolivian Revolution of 1952. Historians have tended to view the revolution as the result of class-based movements that accompanied the rise of peasant leagues, mineworker unions, and reformist political projects in the 1930s. Laura Gotkowitz argues that the revolution had deeper roots in the indigenous struggles for land and justice that swept through Bolivia during the first half of the twentieth century. Challenging conventional wisdom, she demonstrates that rural indigenous activists fundamentally reshaped the military populist projects of the 1930s and 1940s. In so doing, she chronicles a hidden rural revolution—before the revolution of 1952—that fused appeals for equality with demands for a radical reconfiguration of political power, landholding, and rights. Gotkowitz combines an emphasis on national political debates and congresses with a sharply focused analysis of Indian communities and large estates in the department of Cochabamba. The fragmented nature of Cochabamba’s Indian communities and the pioneering significance of its peasant unions make it a propitious vantage point for exploring contests over competing visions of the nation, justice, and rights. Scrutinizing state authorities’ efforts to impose the law in what was considered a lawless countryside, Gotkowitz shows how, time and again, indigenous activists shrewdly exploited the ambiguous status of the state’s pro-Indian laws to press their demands for land and justice. Bolivian indigenous and social movements have captured worldwide attention during the past several years. By describing indigenous mobilization in the decades preceding the revolution of 1952, A Revolution for Our Rights illuminates a crucial chapter in the long history behind present-day struggles in Bolivia and contributes to an understanding of indigenous politics in modern Latin America more broadly.

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Duke University Press

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0822390124

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9780822390121

Harlequin American Romance June 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Cathy Gillen Thacker,Laura Marie Altom,Marin Thomas,Heidi Hormel

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Harlequin American Romance June 2015 Box Set

An Anthology

By: Cathy Gillen Thacker,Laura Marie Altom,Marin Thomas,Heidi Hormel

Harlequin American Romance brings you four new all-American romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin American Romance box set includes: LONE STAR DADDY (McCabe Multiples) by Cathy Gillen Thacker Rose McCabe wants to use Clint McCulloch's newly acquired ranch for blackberry farming, but the sexy cowboy wants it for pastureland for his herd. Can the two come to a temporary agreement…that eventually leads to love? THE SEAL'S MIRACLE BABY (Cowboy SEALs) by Laura Marie Altom Navy SEAL Grady Matthews and Jessie Long—the woman who broke his heart—are thrown together after a twister devastates their hometown. Can a baby girl found in the wreckage help them forget their painful past? A COWBOY'S REDEMPTION (Cowboys of the Rio Grande) by Marin Thomas Cruz Rivera is just looking to get his life and rodeo career back on track. But when he meets pretty widow and single mom Sara Mendez, he's tempted to change his plans… THE SURGEON AND THE COWGIRL by Heidi Hormel Pediatric surgeon Payson MacCormack knows his way around a corral, so certifying a riding therapy program should be easy. But the complicated past he shares with rodeo-riding director Jessie makes that easier said than done. If you love small towns and cowboys, watch out for 4 new Harlequin American Romance titles every month! Romance the all-American way!

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1460391462

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Charros

How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity

By: Laura R. Barraclough

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Charros

How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity

By: Laura R. Barraclough

In the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation’s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the indigenous and Mexican horsemen who already inhabited the region. The charro—a skilled, elite, and landowning horseman—was an especially powerful symbol of Mexican masculinity and nationalism. After the 1930s, Mexican Americans in cities across the U.S. West embraced the figure as a way to challenge their segregation, exploitation, and marginalization from core narratives of American identity. In this definitive history, Laura R. Barraclough shows how Mexican Americans have used the charro in the service of civil rights, cultural citizenship, and place-making. Focusing on a range of U.S. cities, Charros traces the evolution of the “original cowboy” through mixed triumphs and hostile backlashes, revealing him to be a crucial agent in the production of U.S., Mexican, and border cultures, as well as a guiding force for Mexican American identity and social movements.

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University of California Press

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0520289110

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Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]

The Evolution of Women's Roles in American Entertainment [2 volumes]

By: Laura L. Finley

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Women in Popular Culture [2 volumes]

The Evolution of Women's Roles in American Entertainment [2 volumes]

By: Laura L. Finley

Including more than 300 alphabetically listed entries, this 2-volume set presents a timely and detailed overview of some of the most significant contributions women have made to American popular culture from the silent film era to the present day. The lives and accomplishments of women from various aspects of popular culture are examined, including women from film, television, music, fashion, and literature. In addition to profiles, the encyclopedia also includes chapters that provide a historical review of gender, domesticity, marriage, work, and inclusivity in popular culture as well as a chronology of key achievements. This reference work is an ideal introduction to the roles women have played, both in the spotlight and behind it, throughout the history of popular culture in America. From the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age to the chart toppers of the 2020s, author Laura L. Finley documents how attitudes towards these icons have evolved and how their influence has shifted throughout time. The entries and essays also address such timely topics as feminism, the #MeToo movement, and the gender pay gap.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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A Scholarly Edition of Andrés de Li's Thesoro de la passion (1494)

By: Laura Delbrugge

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A Scholarly Edition of Andrés de Li's Thesoro de la passion (1494)

By: Laura Delbrugge

A Scholarly Edition of Andrés de Li’s Thesoro de la passion (1494) is the first new edition of this early Castilian Passion text in five hundred years. Originally published in 1494 by the prolific Zaragozan printer Pablo Hurus, this beautifully illustrated devotional offers the modern reader a glimpse into the complex social world of late fifteenth-century Spain. Li’s converso identity permeates his retelling of the Passion through expositions on hypocrisy, anti-Semitism, and false faith. This new, modernized edition of the Thesoro de la passion dramatically illustrates the unique confluence of social, religious, and cultural forces present during the emergence of Spain’s national identity via analyses of the Thesoro’s Classical, Castilian, and Catalan sources, its importance as an early printed book, Li’s portrayal of the Virgin Mary, Christ, and the Passion events, and the importance of Li’s converso perspectives throughout the work.

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BRILL

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9004201203

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Busting the Barricades

What I Saw at the Populist Revolt

By: Laura Ingraham

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Busting the Barricades

What I Saw at the Populist Revolt

By: Laura Ingraham

Previously published as Billionaire at the Barricades. Americans didn’t just go to the polls in 2016. They joined a movement that swept the unlikeliest of candidates, Donald Trump, into the Oval Office. Can he complete his agenda? Or will his opponents in the media, protestor class, and political establishment block his efforts and choke off the movement he represents? In Busting the Barricades, Laura Ingraham gives readers a front row seat to the populist revolution as she witnessed it. She reveals the origins of this movement and its connection to the Trump presidency. She unmasks the opposition, forecasts the future of the Make America Great Again agenda and offers her own prescriptions for bringing real change to the swamp of Washington. Unlike most of her media colleagues, Ingraham understood Trump’s appeal and defied those who wrote his political obituary. Now she confronts the president’s critics and responds to those who deny the importance of his America First agenda. With sharp humor and insight she traces the DNA of the populist movement: from Goldwater’s 1964 campaign, to Nixon’s Silent Majority, to Reagan’s smashing electoral victories. Populism fueled the insurgency campaigns of Buchanan and Perot, the election of George W. Bush, and the Tea Party rallies of the Obama presidency. But a political novice—a Manhattan billionaire—proved to be the movement’s most vocal champion. This is the inside story of his victory and the fitful struggle to enact his agenda.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250150655

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Fire Dreams

Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

By: Laura McTighe

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Fire Dreams

Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

By: Laura McTighe

For thirty-five years, the New Orleans-based Black feminist collective Women With A Vision (WWAV) has fought for the liberation of their communities through reproductive justice, harm reduction, abolition feminism, racial justice, and sex workers' rights. In 2012, shortly after one of WWAV's biggest organizing victories, arsonists firebombed and destroyed its headquarters. Fire Dreams is an innovative collaboration between WWAV and Laura McTighe, who work in community to build a social movement ethnography of the organization’s post-arson rebirth. Rooting WWAV in the geography of the South and the living history of generations of Black feminist thinkers, McTighe and WWAV weave together stories from its founders’ pioneering work during the Black HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s and its groundbreaking organizing to end criminalization in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina---with other movements for liberation as accomplices. Together, the authors refuse the logics of racial capitalism and share WWAV’s own world-building knowledges, as well as their methods for living these Black feminist futures now. Fire Dreams is a vital toolkit for grassroots organizers, activist-scholars, and all those who dream to make the world otherwise.

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Duke University Press

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147802769X

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ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation

Interests, Balancing and the Role of the Vanguard State

By: Southgate, Laura

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ASEAN Resistance to Sovereignty Violation

Interests, Balancing and the Role of the Vanguard State

By: Southgate, Laura

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Examining how the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) has responded to external threats over the past 50 years, this book provides a compelling account of regional state actions and foreign policy in the face of potential sovereignty violation. The author draws on a large amount of previously unanalysed material, including declassified government documents and WikiLeaks cables, to examine four key cases since 1975. Taking into account state interests and the role of external powers, the author develops the ‘vanguard state theory’ to explain ASEAN state responses to sovereignty violation, which, it is argued, has universal applicability and explanatory power.

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Policy Press

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1529202221

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Mentoring Undergraduate Students

ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 43, Number 1

By: Gloria Crisp,Vicki L. Baker,Kimberly A. Griffin,Laura Gail Lunsford,Meghan J. Pifer

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Mentoring Undergraduate Students

ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 43, Number 1

By: Gloria Crisp,Vicki L. Baker,Kimberly A. Griffin,Laura Gail Lunsford,Meghan J. Pifer

Take a critical look at the theory and recent empirical research specific to mentoring undergraduate students. This monograph: Explains how mentoring has been defined and conceptualized by scholars to date, Considers how recent mentoring scholarship has begun to distinguish mentoring from other developmental relationships, Synthesizes recent empirical findings, Describes prevalent types of formalized programs under which mentoring relationships are situated, and Reviews existing and emerging theoretical frameworks. This monograph also identifies empirical and theoretical questions and presents research to better understand the role of mentoring in promoting social justice and equity. Presenting recommendations for developing, implementing and evaluating formal mentoring programs, it concludes with an integrated conceptual framework to explain best-practice conditions and characteristics for these programs. This is the first issue of the 43rd volume of the Jossey-Bass series ASHE Higher Education Report. Each monograph is the definitive analysis of a tough higher education issue, based on thorough research of pertinent literature and institutional experiences. Topics are identified by a national survey. Noted practitioners and scholars are then commissioned to write the reports, with experts providing critical reviews of each manuscript before publication.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119382327

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Somebody's Children

The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption

By: Laura Briggs

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Somebody's Children

The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption

By: Laura Briggs

A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.

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Duke University Press

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0822351617

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Taking Children

A History of American Terror

By: Laura Briggs

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Taking Children

A History of American Terror

By: Laura Briggs

You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about "crack babies." In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful corrective to American history.

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Univ of California Press

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0520385772

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His Christmas Baby

An Anthology

By: Laura Marie Altom,Marin Thomas

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His Christmas Baby

An Anthology

By: Laura Marie Altom,Marin Thomas

Find your Happily Ever After with two feel-good stories of dogs unleashing romance in small-town settings. A baby for Christmas? The Cowboy SEAL’s Jingle Bell Baby Rowdy Jones loves the rush that comes from being a navy SEAL, but finding out he’s about to become a dad? That trumps everything. While he and former rodeo queen Tiffany Lawson shared only one night, he’s determined to do right by her and their baby. But Tiffany’s already picked out the perfect adoptive parents. Rowdy’s next mission—to win Tiffany and keep his son—might be his toughest yet… The Surgeon’s Christmas Baby After a tour in Afghanistan and years as a trauma surgeon, Alonso Marquez needs to get out of Albuquerque and away from his past. A trip seems like the perfect solution, but he doesn’t make it far. When Alonso stops to help gorgeous rancher Hannah Buck fix her car, his road trip is cut short by one very hot night…with some very real consequences…

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1488035725

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Moving Beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain

By: Aitor Ibarrola Armendáriz,Alberto Lázaro Lafuente,Alejandro Peraza Díaz,Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo,Amaia Soroa Bacaicoa,Ángel Chaparro Sainz,Ángeles Jordán Soriano,Bárbara Arizti Martín,Celestino Deleyto,Celia Fullana,Cristina Aliaga-García,Daniela Pettersson-Traba,David Hernández Coalla,David Walton,Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo,Elena Dobre ,Ester Díaz Morillo,Eva Darias Beautell,Fabián Orán Llarena,Georgina Alvarez-Morera,Gorka Braceras Martínez,Ingrid Mora-Plaza,Irene Repiso Rodríguez,Isabel González Díaz,Isabel Oltra-Massuet ,Ismael Ibáñez Rosales,Iván Tamaredo Meira ,Joan Carles Mora,José Francisco Fernández ,Laura Gutiérrez González,Laura Martínez-García,Laura Monrós-Gaspar,Lin Pettersson ,Luz Mar González-Arias,Mar Nieves Fernández,María Heredia-Torres,María Isabel Marqués López,María Jesús Llarena Ascanio,Mario Serrano Losada,Miguel Sebastián-Martín,Mireia Ortega,Miriam Borham-Puyal,Neil Campbell,Noelia Castro Chao,Nora Rodríguez-Loro ,Óscar Alonso Álvarez,Rosa Haro Fernández,Rosario Arias,Sara Albán Barcia ,Yolanda Fernández-Pena

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Moving Beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain

Moving beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain" contains the Proceedings of the 44th AEDEAN (Asociación española de estudios anglo-norteamericanos) Conference held in November, 2021 at the University of Cantabria, Spain. The volume is structured into four different sections: “Plenary Speakers”, “Language and Linguistics”, “Literature and Culture” and “Round Tables”. The “Plenary Speakers” section includes papers written by two outstanding figures in the fields of Western Studies and Film Studies, respectively: Neil Campbell’s “An Inventory of Echoes”: Worlding the Western in Trump Era Fiction and Celestino Deleyto’s Transnational Stars and the Idea of Europe: Marion Cotillard, Diane Kruger. The “Language and Linguistics” section includes eleven papers that tackle a variety of issues concerning synchronic and diachronic phenomena in the English language of either native or non-native speakers at the phonetic, lexical, or grammatical level. These studies are indicative of the various current methodological approaches to research in subfields such as language teaching, contrastive linguistics, language contact or language variation, to name but a few. The “Literature and Culture Studies” section contains nineteen papers on topics as diverse as the field itself, ranging from Irish, Canadian, South African, Australian, American or English Literature to Film, Television and Cultural Studies. Finally, the “Round Tables” section comprises four round tables on Literature, Music, Film and Cultural Studies. The contributions included in this volume are a representative and significant sample of the quality of the research being carried out at present in Spanish Universities in the fields of English and American Studies, and are solid evidence that our field is moving beyond the pandemic and is in excellent health.

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Ed. Universidad de Cantabria

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8419024155

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9788419024152

Provenance in Databases

Why, How, and Where

By: James Cheney,Laura Chiticariu,Wang-Chiew Tan

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Provenance in Databases

Why, How, and Where

By: James Cheney,Laura Chiticariu,Wang-Chiew Tan

Reviews research over the past ten years on why, how, and where provenance, clarifies the relationships among these notions of provenance, and describes some of their applications in confidence computation, view maintenance and update, debugging, and annotation propagation

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Now Publishers Inc

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1601982321

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T.C. Boyle's "The Tortilla Curtain"

Urban Conditions, Racism, and Ecological Disaster in Fortress Los Angeles

By: Laura Schomaker

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T.C. Boyle's "The Tortilla Curtain"

Urban Conditions, Racism, and Ecological Disaster in Fortress Los Angeles

By: Laura Schomaker

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,1, University of Duisburg-Essen (Department of Anglophone Studies), course: American Studies, language: English, abstract: Los Angeles, the Californian megalopolis, is famous for its sunny weather, for the Hollywood film studios and for being the residence of the rich and beautiful. And although – or, precisely because – all this is more illusion than reality, the city frequently serves as setting for various pieces of fiction. However, Los Angeles does not only play a huge role in the media, but since lately also in the realm of urban studies. Having long been a kind of ‘outsider’ in the field, it is now regarded as a prototypical example for urban development by the L.A. School. In this context, its image is less sunny and positive, but reveals a deep-rooted racism against Latin-American immigrants in combination with a fortress mentality on the part of its white population as well as a unique urban ecology, in which natural catastrophes seem to be regular occurrences. This paper now intends to outline the significance of Los Angeles in urban studies and trace the thereby acquired findings in a fictional representation of the city: T.C. Boyle’s novel "The Tortilla Curtain". In the process, it is shown how urban conditions, racism and nature, especially in the form of ecological disasters, intersect and influence each other. All in all, this work brings together urban studies and fiction. Thereby, it examines how "The Tortilla Curtain", as a fictitious representation of Los Angeles, partly reflects the reality of the metropolis as well as urban theory. In this sense, it is concluded that fiction can be an important account of urban problems and their possible solutions and that "The Tortilla Curtain" has therefore a social and a political message.

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GRIN Verlag

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3656487219

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Philip Pullman

By: Laura La Bella

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Philip Pullman

By: Laura La Bella

Philip Pullman is an award-winning author perhaps best known for his epic trilogy, His Dark Materials, one of the few fantasy classics to feature a strong female central protagonist. Pullman is a creator of new worlds and the captain of adventures, spinning intricate and fantastical yarns. His life story is every bit as fascinating as the tales he has created from life, transforming them with storytelling magic into classics of fantasy literature. This is the life story of a master storyteller, and readers will receive a privileged glimpse into the mind and working methods of a creative genius. This supports Common Core standards for the reading of biographies.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1477717668

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Teenagers and Community Service

A Guide to the Issues

By: Maureen Kenny,Laura A. Gallagher

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Teenagers and Community Service

A Guide to the Issues

By: Maureen Kenny,Laura A. Gallagher

Community service is increasingly recognized as an important vehicle for promoting positive development among adolescents. This book provides teenagers, parents, teachers, professionals, and concerned adults with current and useful information. Included are resources for middle school, high school, and college students. Those organizing and running programs will find a wealth of material for development and improvement, including: • An examination of the characteristics of effective programs, the young people who engage in service, and those who benefit • Practical strategies for those looking to start programs • A look at current controversies, such as mandatory service A chronology provides the historical context for understanding the current status of community service, completing this practical and accessible guide to understanding and implementing good community service programs.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313057508

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9780313057502

Wine Country Chef's Table

Extraordinary Recipes from Napa and Sonoma

By: Roy Breiman,Laura Borrman

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Wine Country Chef's Table

Extraordinary Recipes from Napa and Sonoma

By: Roy Breiman,Laura Borrman

Centered on the world’s premier winemaking region and renowned culinary destination, Wine Country Chef’s Table offers an intimate look at a region that thousands of travelers often just “taste.” It is a regional cookbook and travelogue, offering gems of recipes along with restaurant, winery, and farm stories to both locals and visitors alike. The book features great chefs, farmers, and food artisans from the distinct parts of the California wine country—spanning both the Napa and Sonoma valleys.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762791209

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9780762791200

The Death Penalty as State Crime

Who Can Kill?

By: Laura L. Finley

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The Death Penalty as State Crime

Who Can Kill?

By: Laura L. Finley

This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses the death penalty, showing how the state not only authorizes a system and a practice that tortures human beings, but is also aware of its deep flaws and chooses not to address them. Building on the vast literature on state crime together with case examples and interviews with activists seeking to abolish the death penalty, this book offers a new and innovative critique of state punishment in the US. It draws on a range of issues and topics such as arbitrariness, inadequate counsel, racial bias, mental illness, innocence, conditions on death row, the protocols, and the equipment used for executions. It emphasizes the need for abolition of the death penalty and highlights efforts being made to do so, with a focus on successful elements of abolition campaigns. The Death Penalty as State Crime is essential reading for all those engaged with capital punishment, human rights, and state crime, and will be of interest to criminologists, sociologists, legal scholars and political scientists alike.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040001076

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The Case of the Prank that Stank

By: Laura J. Burns,Melinda Metz

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The Case of the Prank that Stank

By: Laura J. Burns,Melinda Metz

This is an introduction to the branch of fluid mechanics concerned with the production of sound by hydrodynamic flows. It is designed for a one semester introductory course at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Great care is taken to explain underlying fluid mechanical and acoustic concepts, and to describe fully the steps in a complicated derivation. The discussion deals specifically with low Mach number flows, which enables the sound produced by `vortex-surface' interactions to be analyzed using the `compact Green's function'. This provides a routine procedure for estimating the sound, and an easy identification of those parts of a structure that are likely to be important sources of sound.

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159514014X

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9781595140142

Cruising the Caribbean

A Passenger's Guide to the Ports of Call

By: Laura Rapp,Diane Rapp

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Cruising the Caribbean

A Passenger's Guide to the Ports of Call

By: Laura Rapp,Diane Rapp

As pursers on a major cruise line, the authors of this book were constantly bombarded with the same questions from cruise ship passengers: Where's the nearest beach? Do I have to get a cab there? Do I have time to go shopping? Where are the best shops, anyway? Tired of repeating the same answers time after time, Laura & Diane Rapp, a mother-and-daughter team, came up with the unique idea of providing the passengers with a book answering every question they might have.

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328

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Hunter Publishing (NJ)

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ISBN 10

158843205X

ISBN 13

9781588432056

Book's by Laura Cruz

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