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Planetary Gentrification

By: Loretta Lees,Hyun Bang Shin,Ernesto López-Morales

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Planetary Gentrification

By: Loretta Lees,Hyun Bang Shin,Ernesto López-Morales

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most significant and socially unjust processes affecting cities worldwide today, and one that demands renewed critical assessment. Drawing on the 'new' comparative urbanism and writings on planetary urbanization, the authors undertake a much-needed transurban analysis underpinned by a critical political economy approach. Looking beyond the usual gentrification suspects in Europe and North America to non-Western cases, from slum gentrification to mega-displacement, they show that gentrification has unfolded at a planetary scale, but it has not assumed a North to South or West to East trajectory the story is much more complex than that. Rich with empirical detail, yet wide-ranging, Planetary Gentrification unhinges, unsettles and provincializes Western notions of urban development. It will be invaluable to students and scholars interested in the future of cities and the production of a truly global urban studies, and equally importantly to all those committed to social justice in cities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509505881

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9781509505883

The Wound and the Stitch

A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art

By: Loretta Victoria Ramirez

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The Wound and the Stitch

A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art

By: Loretta Victoria Ramirez

The Wound and the Stitch traces a history of imagery and language centered on the concept of woundedness and the stitching together of fragmented selves. Focusing particularly on California and its historical violences against Chicanx bodies, Loretta Victoria Ramirez argues that woundedness has become a ubiquitous and significant form of Chicanx self-representation, especially in late twentieth-century print media and art. Ramirez maps a genealogy of the female body from late medieval Iberian devotional sculptures to contemporary strategies of self-representation. By doing so, she shows how wounds—metaphorical, physical, historical, and linguistic—are inherited and manifested as ongoing violations of the body and othered forms of identity. Beyond simply exposing these wounds, however, Ramirez also shows us how they can be healed—or rather stitched. Drawing on Mesoamerican concepts of securing stability during lived turmoil, or nepantla, Ramirez investigates how creators such as Cherríe Moraga, Renee Tajima-Peña, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Amalia Mesa-Bains repurpose the concept of woundedness to advocate for redress and offer delicate, ephemeral moments of healing. Positioning woundedness as a potent method to express Chicanx realities and transform the self from one that is wounded to one that is stitched, this book emphasizes the necessity of acknowledgment and ethical restitution for colonial legacies. It will be valued by scholars and students interested in the history of rhetorics, twentieth-century Chicanx art, and Latinx studies.

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Penn State Press

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0271098546

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9780271098548

Paddling Everglades National Park

A Guide to the Best Paddling Adventures

By: Loretta Lynn Leda

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Paddling Everglades National Park

A Guide to the Best Paddling Adventures

By: Loretta Lynn Leda

Nothing compares to paddling Florida's Everglades. Covering more than 14,000 square miles—from the headwaters of the Everglades in Orlando and Big Cypress State Park in the southwest, to Biscayne National Park on the eastern edge and part of the Keys and the 10,000 Islands to the south—this tropical wetland offers beautiful ecosystems, fascinating habitats, and many diverse paddle routes. Paddling Everglades National Park introduces paddlers of all abilities to nearly fifty of the park's best paddling routes. It also provides brief yet intriguing accounts of the remnants of precolonial history one encounters along these routes and offers insight to the eight unique ecosystems that make up the Everglades. Replete with maps showing access points and river miles, this guide also gives campsite locations and related information for paddlers wishing to stay overnight, as well as information on the park's extraordinary angling opportunities.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762761598

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9780762761593

Robotic General Surgery

By: Yuman Fong,Loretta Erhunmwunsee,Alessio Pigazzi,Dina Podolsky,Dana Dale Portenier

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Robotic General Surgery

By: Yuman Fong,Loretta Erhunmwunsee,Alessio Pigazzi,Dina Podolsky,Dana Dale Portenier

Meeting the need for a practical, data-driven reference in this rapidly advancing field, Principles and Practice of Robotic General Surgery, edited by Drs. Yuman Fong, Alessio Pigazzi, Loretta Erhunmwunsee, Dina Podolsky, and Dana Dale Portenier, presents state-of-the-art content for surgeons at all levels of training and expertise. Section One covers the history, platforms, and the organization, operating room architecture, and training issues revolving around robotic surgery; Section Two contains more than two-dozen discipline-based chapters outlining common robotic procedures in general surgery.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975192656

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9781975192655

Orthopaedic Knowledge Update: Foot and Ankle: Ebook without Multimedia

By: Loretta B. Chou

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Orthopaedic Knowledge Update: Foot and Ankle: Ebook without Multimedia

By: Loretta B. Chou

This comprehensive text addresses all aspects of foot and ankle surgery in a single, convenient volume. OKU: Foot and Ankle 6 presents relevant, evidence-based information, discusses its practical application, and provides supporting references, all tailored to the needs of today’s practicing orthopaedic surgeons and trainees. Written, edited, and peer-reviewed by dedicated foot and ankle surgeons, it offers a complete guide to the diagnosis, treatment, and management of orthopaedic foot and ankle injuries and disorders, supported by the latest evidence.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975127404

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9781975127404

Undivided Rights

Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice

By: Loretta Ross,Elena GutiŽrrez,Marlene Gerber,Jael Silliman

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Undivided Rights

Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice

By: Loretta Ross,Elena GutiŽrrez,Marlene Gerber,Jael Silliman

Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice.

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Haymarket Books

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1608466175

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9781608466177

Merchants of Men

How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business

By: Loretta Napoleoni

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Merchants of Men

How Jihadists and ISIS Turned Kidnapping and Refugee Trafficking into a Multi-Billion Dollar Business

By: Loretta Napoleoni

A powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. The new breed of criminals that controls it has risen out of the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring. These merchants of men are intertwined with jihadist armed organizations such as al Qaeda in the Maghreb. They have prospered smuggling cocaine from West Africa and kidnapping Westerners. More recently, the destabilization of Syria and Iraq coupled with the rise of ISIS offered them new business opportunities in the Middle East, from selling Western hostages to jihadist groups to trafficking in refugees numbering in the millions. Overall, the kidnapping industry today is bigger than the illegal drug trade and worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Merchants of Men is based on exclusive access to hostage negotiators actively involved in ransom negotiations and rescue missions, counter-terrorism experts, members of security services, and former hostages, among many others. The reader will discover that the protocols of prevention and rescue change according to the type of abduction and the designated targets, and will come to know first hand the range of experiences of kidnapping victims. Will the West once again reap the benefits of the political chaos it has sown in its own backyard? From colonization to the advent of "friendly" dictatorial regimes, today's fast-aging European nations are buyers on the refugee market. New workers are needed, and the merchants of men are supplying them. But only skilled, highly educated refugees are wanted. As a tsunami of migrants and refugees floods Europe, new questions almost too numerous to count must be answered.

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188

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Seven Stories Press

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160980709X

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9781609807092

Key West in History

By: Rodney Carlisle,Loretta Carlisle

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Key West in History

By: Rodney Carlisle,Loretta Carlisle

Key West is a unique travel destination whose history is so rich, it can be confusing for first-time visitors. Tourists walk through a mix of nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first‒century historic homes and attractions in a blur of fascinating impressions. They get no clear picture of the evolution of the city from its beginnings to the present and no sense of how all of the sites fit into history nor of the significance of Key West in American social, military, and intellectual history. Key West in History changes all of that. More than a typical, site-by-site guidebook, this book presents over 50 Key West sites in historical context—an invaluable resource for the visitor or student who wants a deeper understanding of how the city represents different eras of American and Floridian history, and how specific sites reflect important periods and trends in the past. Each chapter describes the events of a period of Key West history, and is accompanied by photographs of selected sites that represent that period. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561648620

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9781561648627

The Bully of Tenth Street

By: Loretta Acosta

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The Bully of Tenth Street

By: Loretta Acosta

In every school across the United States, at least one child is being bullied, or we have heard of it at least. At times, teachers, parents, or children witness bullies at their school. Usually, the students attention is called in, and the student is reprimanded. This does not stop the behavior though. As educators and parents, its important to look into what is causing childrens or students behaviors. Once we tap into the problem, we could work on changing the behavior. No one likes to be bullied, but it happens. These bullies are the ones that we would love to stomp flat as an ant. Reality sets in, and you cant do it out of fear. Fear is the evil of silence, which only gives the bully more ammunition to carry on with their bulling. Encourage students to analyze the cause of bullying, and let me come up with a solution to stop it. Empower students, and they shall deliver. Jose and Hector are best friends who fear another student named Rafael. There is not a day of the week that goes by that Rafael doesnt get into trouble. Rafael is the bully of the school and doesnt care what consequences he is given. A group of friends is tired of his bullying and wants to do something about it. They seek advice from one of their teachers, who gets them to thinking about Rafaels behavior. They find that there are underlying reasons why Rafael behaves the way he does. They make a plan to help him stop being a bully.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1503581756

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9781503581753

Motion, Transfer and Transformation

The Grammar of Change in Lowland Chontal

By: Loretta O'Connor

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Motion, Transfer and Transformation

The Grammar of Change in Lowland Chontal

By: Loretta O'Connor

Typologies are critical tools for linguists, but typologies, like grammars, are known to leak. This book addresses the question of typological overlap from the perspective of a single language. In Lowland Chontal of Oaxaca, a language of southern Mexico, change events are expressed with three types of predicates, and each predicate type corresponds to a different language type in the well-known typology of lexicalization patterns established by Talmy and elaborated by others. O'Connor evaluates the predictive powers of the typology by examining the consequences of each predicate type in a variety of contexts, using data from narrative discourse, stimulus response, and elicitation. This is the first detailed look at the lexical and grammatical resources of the verbal system in Chontal and their relation to semantics of change. The analysis of how and why Chontal speakers choose among these verbal resources to achieve particular communicative and social goals serves both as a documentation of an endangered language and a theoretical contribution towards a typology of language use.

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276

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027231060

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9789027231062

The Mini Rough Guide to Miami & the Florida Keys

By: Loretta Chilcoat

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The Mini Rough Guide to Miami & the Florida Keys

By: Loretta Chilcoat

We bring together the best that non-stop Miami and the glorious Keys has to offer, from hanging in hip South Beach to snorkeling the Sambrero Reef. Rough Guides trademark reviews of the best value-for-money hotels, bars and restaurants as well as all the sights are keyed to full-color maps.

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185828547X

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9781858285474

City Girls

By: Loretta Lopez

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City Girls

By: Loretta Lopez

Readers of Lucky Broken Girl, Hurricane Child, and The House on Mango Street, will love this debut middle grade novel about finding sanctuary with friends who understand the enormous changes life can throw at you when you're 11. What Elisa, Lucia, and Alice see–and judge–of each other from the outside is drastically different from how each girl feels inside. They attend the same classes in the same New York City middle school, but no one knows that Elisa is trying to navigate the bewildering asylum process having just arrived from El Salvador; or that Lucia, who also speaks Spanish and brims with self-confidence, is caught in the middle of her parents’ heartbreaking divorce; or that Alice, who appears to be a rebel in combat boots, carries the burden of her mother’s progressing cancer. Narrated by each girl in alternating chapters, City Girls captures the vulnerability of being a middle schooler and the relief and joy of finding friendship where you least expect it.

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Seven Stories Press

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1644213435

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9781644213438

The Rough Guide to Florida

By: Loretta Chilcoat,Rona Gindin,Mick Sinclair

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The Rough Guide to Florida

By: Loretta Chilcoat,Rona Gindin,Mick Sinclair

From the Florida Keys to the theme parks, the beauty of the Everglades and the excitement of Miami, this guide covers one of America's most popular states. With informed accounts and lively reviews, the guide lays bare the state's history, modern life, culture and points of interest. Hundreds of places to eat, sleep, and drink, to suit every taste, are included as is expert guidance on outdoor activities from swimming with dolphins to snokelling in Florida's reef.

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524

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1858287243

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9781858287249

What Everyone Should Know about Loretta

By: Loretta Knapp

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What Everyone Should Know about Loretta

By: Loretta Knapp

I was seventeen when I started writing my short stories. They deal with my childhood, family, friends, feelings, and different stages of my life and my recovery. I always dreamed of writing a book, and now it came true. Hope you enjoy reading it as much as I wanted to write it. Remember . . . it was my life.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466930306

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9781466930308

Planetary Gentrification

By: Loretta Lees,Hyun Bang Shin,Ernesto López-Morales

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Planetary Gentrification

By: Loretta Lees,Hyun Bang Shin,Ernesto López-Morales

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509505881

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9781509505883

Sweet Loretta Modern

By: Loretta Jones

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Sweet Loretta Modern

By: Loretta Jones

After suffering a workplace injury, Loretta Jones faced the harsh realities of a workers’ compensation system that provided a mere £120 a week for her and her young son, a situation that led them into homelessness. But her hardships didn’t stop there. Loretta found herself ensnared in a web of surveillance abuse that landed her in the hospital multiple times, stripping away her freedom and peace of mind. Amidst the unseen torment inflicted by clandestine technologies and unwarranted animosity, it was her unyielding resolve that kept her afloat amidst the storm of adversity. Now, with the backing of various supportive agencies, Loretta has reclaimed her life, rising above the harassment that once threatened to engulf her. Through every challenge, her indomitable spirit shines as a beacon of resilience.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1528958780

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9781528958783

Woman on Top

The Art of Smashing Stereotypes and Breaking All the Rules

By: Loretta Chen

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Woman on Top

The Art of Smashing Stereotypes and Breaking All the Rules

By: Loretta Chen

A daring biography by one of Singapore’s most prominent entertainment personalities, Dr Loretta Chen, as she shares her heartbreaks and valuable life lessons. Laugh and cry together with her as she recounts her colourful life, from growing up with a famous sibling (MediaCorp actor Edmund Chen), being open about being a lesbian in staid Singapore and engaging in civic politics, to heart-wrenching accounts of having both parents stricken with life-threatening illnesses, dealing with her partner’s suicide and her very public failed business venture. But just like a phoenix that emerges from fiery ashes, Loretta takes it all in her Jimmy Choo-clad stride and inspires readers with her positivity and zest for life!

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Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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9814634697

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9789814634694

Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust

My Friendship with Patsy Cline

By: Loretta Lynn

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Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust

My Friendship with Patsy Cline

By: Loretta Lynn

Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust shares the"important and inspiring" (Miranda Lambert) never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death. Full of laughter and tears, this eye-opening, heartwarming memoir paints a picture of two stubborn, spirited country gals who'd be damned if they'd let men or convention tell them how to be. Set in the heady streets of the 1960s South, this nostalgia ride shows how Nashville blossomed into the city of music it is today. Tender and fierce, Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust is an up-close-and-personal portrait of a friendship that defined a generation and changed country music indelibly--and a meditation on love, loss and legacy.

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1538701685

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9781538701683

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