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Underbelly

Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health

By: Rachel Hall-Clifford

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Underbelly

Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health

By: Rachel Hall-Clifford

An unsettling exploration of the hidden power dynamics of global health, seen through the lens of childhood diarrhea and its treatment within the Guatemalan context. Deaths from childhood diarrhea seem preposterous in high-income countries. Yet, for children under five years old in the rest of the world, diarrhea is the third highest cause of mortality. Despite a glut of prevention and treatment programming spanning more than forty years, this least glamorous of global health ills remains a critical problem. In Underbelly, Rachel Hall-Clifford takes a hard look at the pathways of global health funding and development policies and the outcomes they deliver for recipient individuals and communities. Drawing on fifteen years of ethnographic research in highland Guatemala, Hall-Clifford focuses on the provision of primary health care services as a critical exemplar of how global health and development programs fall short. Guatemala has a fragmented health system, the author explains, that guarantees health as a human right but also suffers from systemic racism, inadequate health services and access to those services, community distrust from a legacy of harm and violence, and a demeaning paternalism. Bringing together the discourses of global health and medical anthropology, Underbelly explores the ways in which global health—its actors, structures, and systems—perpetuates the challenges it purports to fix: this is the underbelly. Hall-Clifford argues that global health programs, conceived in offices distant from the places in which they are delivered, often have unintended consequences and contribute to pluralistic and exclusionary health systems that mirror neoliberal economies. She argues that if we are to fix this entrenched crisis of health inequity, we must use the immense resources of global health to center local communities as drivers of change. With a foreword written by Waleska López Canu, an Indigenous Maya medical director, and an afterword by Arthur Kleinman, renowned expert in global health, this book underscores the importance of looking deeper into what seems on its surface incontrovertibly “good” to understand the more complex realities on the ground and in people’s lives.

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MIT Press

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0262378299

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Until I Find You

Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

By: Rachel Nolan

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Until I Find You

Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

By: Rachel Nolan

The poignant saga of Guatemala’s adoption industry: an international marketplace for children, built on a foundation of inequality, war, and Indigenous dispossession. In 2009 Dolores Preat went to a small Maya town in Guatemala to find her birth mother. At the address retrieved from her adoption file, she was told that her supposed mother, one Rosario Colop Chim, never gave up a child for adoption—but in 1984 a girl across the street was abducted. At that house, Preat met a woman who strongly resembled her. Colop Chim, it turned out, was not Preat’s mother at all, but a jaladora—a baby broker. Some 40,000 children, many Indigenous, were kidnapped or otherwise coercively parted from families scarred by Guatemala’s civil war or made desperate by unrelenting poverty. Amid the US-backed army’s genocide against Indigenous Maya, children were wrested from their villages and put up for adoption illegally, mostly in the United States. During the war’s second decade, adoption was privatized, overseen by lawyers who made good money matching children to overseas families. Private adoptions skyrocketed to the point where tiny Guatemala overtook giants like China and Russia as a “sender” state. Drawing on government archives, oral histories, and a rare cache of adoption files opened briefly for war crimes investigations, Rachel Nolan explores the human toll of an international industry that thrives on exploitation. Would-be parents in rich countries have fostered a commercial market for children from poor countries, with Guatemala becoming the most extreme case. Until I Find You reckons with the hard truths of a practice that builds loving families in the Global North out of economic exploitation, endemic violence, and dislocation in the Global South.

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Harvard University Press

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0674294688

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The Children of China's Great Migration

By: Rachel Murphy

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The Children of China's Great Migration

By: Rachel Murphy

Rachel Murphy explores Chinese children's experience of having migrant parents and the impact this has on family relationships in China.

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Cambridge University Press

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110883485X

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Biz Common Sense (Entry-level)

By: Rachel Somer

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Biz Common Sense (Entry-level)

By: Rachel Somer

도서에 포함된 MP3(CD) 음원은 다락원 홈페이지(www.darakwon.co.kr)에서 무료 다운로드 가능합니다. 이 책의 개요 비즈니스와 관련된 다양한 주제를 미션 수행이라는 과정을 통해 학습하고, 현장에서 실제로 사용되고 있는 이메일, 온라인 채팅, 그리고 문자 메시지 등과 같은 여러 가지 커뮤니케이션 수단들에서 사용되는 영어 표현들을 중점적으로 익힐 수 있는 교재입니다. 이 책의 특징 - 실제 비즈니스 현장에서 자주 주어지는 12가지 과제로 12개의 유닛 구성 - 읽기/듣기 자료, 어휘 및 표현, 문법, 말하기 활동 등으로 각 유닛 구성 - 다양한 의사소통 도구(이메일, 메신저, 문자/음성메시지 등)를 활용한 읽기 자료 제시 - 유닛마다 유용한 비즈니스 관련 요령 제공 [도서 목차] Mission 01. Preparing for a Meeting Mission 02. Giving Directions Mission 03. Picking Up a Client at the Airport Mission 04. Ordering Office Supplies Mission 05. Applying for a Training Session Mission 06. Asking for Time Off Mission 07. Dealing with a Customer’s Inquiry Mission 08. Asking for Some Repairs Mission 09. Sending a Sample Mission 10. Preparing for a Business Trip Mission 11. Holding a Work Party Mission 12. Asking for Expense Reimbursement

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Darakwon

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8927759702

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MTV Best of Mexico

By: Sara Lieber,Jeff Spurrier,Liza Monroy,Ann Summa,Rachel Tavel

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MTV Best of Mexico

By: Sara Lieber,Jeff Spurrier,Liza Monroy,Ann Summa,Rachel Tavel

Get the inside scoop on Mexico. From beach parties on Cozumel and nightclubs in nonstop Mexico City to diving with sharks in Baja, MTV Best of Mexico shows you where you want to be, with choices for every budget to help you travel the way you want to. Alternative accommodations. Stay everywhere from a mega resort in Puerto Vallarta to a treehouse-inspired hotel in Playa del Carmen to one of the country's many open-air palapas. Cheap eats. Fuel up with bar-friendly snacks like tacos and tamales, sample cheap seafood at beachside loncherias, or splurge on a restaurant serving traditional mole. Great clubs, bars & hangouts. Find out where to go to listen to live mariachi music, groove to salsa, and chill with locals in town plazas. Offbeat attractions, world-class arts & adrenaline adventures. From paintings by Kahlo and Rivera and ancient Mayan ruins to cenote diving and race car driving, you'll discover Mexico's finest gems.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0764587757

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Bromley's Family Law

By: Nigel Lowe,Gillian Douglas,Emma Hitchings,Rachel Taylor

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Bromley's Family Law

By: Nigel Lowe,Gillian Douglas,Emma Hitchings,Rachel Taylor

Bromley's Family Law' is a well-established and popular textbook with students and practitioners alike. This edition has been updated to take into account recent developments in family law.

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Oxford University Press

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0198806698

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Caribbean Revolutions

Cold War Armed Movements

By: Rachel A. May,Alejandro Schneider,Roberto González Arana

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Caribbean Revolutions

Cold War Armed Movements

By: Rachel A. May,Alejandro Schneider,Roberto González Arana

A comprehensive history and comparative analysis of the most important Caribbean armed revolutionary movements during the Cold War era.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108424759

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9781108424752

Questioning Care in Higher Education

Resisting Definitions as Radical

By: Sally Baker,Rachel Burke

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Questioning Care in Higher Education

Resisting Definitions as Radical

By: Sally Baker,Rachel Burke

This book explores questions of care in higher education. Using Joan Tronto’s seven signs that institutions are not caring well, the authors examine whether students and staff consider universities to be caring institutions. As such, they outline how universities systematically, structurally, and actively ‘undercare’ when it comes to supporting students and staff, a phenomenon which was amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on scholarly ideas from the sociology of care, higher education, social justice, and feminist critique, and in dialogue with empirical insights gathered with people who work and study in universities in Australia, South Africa, and the UK, the book questions why people care, as well as why adopting a caring position in higher education can be viewed as radical. The authors conclude by asking what we can do to counter that view by thinking carefully about the purpose, power, and plurality of care, before imagining how we can create more caring universities.

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Springer Nature

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3031418298

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9783031418297

The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction

By: Rachel Haywood Ferreira

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The Emergence of Latin American Science Fiction

By: Rachel Haywood Ferreira

A fantastic voyage through the early science fiction of Latin America Early science fiction has often been associated almost exclusively with Northern industrialized nations. In this groundbreaking exploration of the science fiction written in Latin America prior to 1920, Rachel Haywood Ferreira argues that science fiction has always been a global genre. She traces how and why the genre quickly reached Latin America and analyzes how writers in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico adapted science fiction to reflect their own realities. Among the texts discussed are one of the first defenses of Darwinism in Latin America, a tale of a time-traveling history book, and a Latin American Frankenstein. Latin American science fiction writers have long been active participants in the sf literary tradition, expanding the limits of the genre and deepening our perception of the role of science and technology in the Latin American imagination. The book includes a chronological bibliography of science fiction published from 1775 to 1920 in all Latin American countries.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819570834

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Public Scholarship in Literary Studies

By: Rachel Arteaga

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Public Scholarship in Literary Studies

By: Rachel Arteaga

Public Scholarship in Literary Studies demonstrates that literary criticism has the potential not only to explain, but to actively change our terms of engagement with current realities. Rachel Arteaga and Rosemary Johnsen bring together accomplished public scholars who make significant contributions to literary scholarship, teaching, and the public good. The volume begins with essays by scholars who write regularly for large public audiences in primarily digital venues, then moves to accounts of research-based teaching and engagement in public contexts, and finally turns to important new models for cross-institutional partnerships and campus-community engagement. Grounded in scholarship and written in an accessible style, Public Scholarship in Literary Studies will appeal to scholars in and outside the academy, students, and those interested in the public humanities. "There are books of literary criticism that attempt to reach crossover audiences but none that take this particular public-humanities-focused-on-literary criticism perspective."--Kathryn Temple, Georgetown University Contributions by Rachel Arteaga, Christine Chaney, Jim Cocola, Daniel Coleman, Christopher Douglas, Gary Handwerk, Cynthia L. Haven, Rosemary Erickson Johnsen, Anu Taranath, Carmaletta M. Williams, and Lorraine York.

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Amherst College Press

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1943208220

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Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams

Kali and Uma in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal

By: Rachel Fell McDermott

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Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams

Kali and Uma in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal

By: Rachel Fell McDermott

This book chronicles the rise of goddess worship in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on the goddesses Kali and Uma, McDermott examines lyrical poems written by devotees from Ramprasad Sen (ca. 1718-1775) to Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976).

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Oxford University Press

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0198030711

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Tacit Love

By: Rachel Villatoro

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Tacit Love

By: Rachel Villatoro

Graciela Lombardi, an ambassador's daughter with great potential, finds herself without a family and in danger when her family is assassinated by the Mafia boss Federico Desoto. Cristobal Santos has been chasing the infamous murderer ever since his own family was brutally killed by the man. In a providential turn of events, the two cross each other's paths and immediately connect. When Cristobal Santos and Graciela Lombardi are each faced with their tragedy, Cristobal buries himself in the pursuit of justice while Graciela is emotionally overwhelmed with shock. Immediately they form a tacit love due to their shared experiences, but will their love be enough to heal their wounded spirits, or do they need something beyond human comprehension? As God becomes real in their lives, will their relationship with Him carry them through the impending trials they will face?

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1685706290

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News of War

Civilian Poetry, 1936-1945

By: Rachel Judith Galvin

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News of War

Civilian Poetry, 1936-1945

By: Rachel Judith Galvin

A new work of scholarship that considers several of the most prominent poets writing from the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II.

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Oxford University Press

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0190623926

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Theories of Development

Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives

By: Richard Peet,Elaine Rachel Hartwick

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Theories of Development

Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives

By: Richard Peet,Elaine Rachel Hartwick

Widely adopted, this unique text critically evaluates the leading theories of international economic development, from classical economic and sociological models to Marxist, poststructuralist, and feminist perspectives. No other book provides such comprehensive coverage or links the theories as incisively to contemporary world events and policy debates. Reexamining neoliberal conceptions of economic growth, the authors show what a more just and democratic form of development might look like today. New to This Edition: Revised to reflect evolving global economic realities Updated with the latest concepts and empirical data Additional chapter on classical and neoclassical economics Increased coverage of real-world policy issues Now more accessible to undergraduates.

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Guilford Press

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1606230662

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2022 - Box Set

By: Marie Ferrarella,Rachel Lee,Addison Fox,Anna J. Stewart

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Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2022 - Box Set

By: Marie Ferrarella,Rachel Lee,Addison Fox,Anna J. Stewart

Coming soon! Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2022 - Box Set by Marie Ferrarella\Rachel Lee\Addison Fox\Anna J. Stewart will be available Jan 25, 2022.

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0369713931

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Gender Based Violence in Malawi

Critiquing Beliefs and Practices that Impede Gender Equality

By: Rachel Fiedler,Chrispin Mphande

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Gender Based Violence in Malawi

Critiquing Beliefs and Practices that Impede Gender Equality

By: Rachel Fiedler,Chrispin Mphande

Endemic worldwide and strong in Malawi, Gender Based Violence permeates all structures of society. So lecturers and students of Mzuzu University in Northern Malawi have worked together to find the reality and any attempts to remedy it. The articles represent research in different communities of the three regions of Malawi. One article presents the background study from which the Mzuzu University Gender Policy was developed, another shows the role of a Police Victim Support Unit, and the final article relates Muslim teaching that should reduce the incidence of Gender Based Violence in Muslim communities. The role of religion is addressed with negative and positive examples.

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African Books Collective

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999607613X

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The Never-Ending Party

By: Joe Corallo,Rachel Pollack

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The Never-Ending Party

By: Joe Corallo,Rachel Pollack

Twenty-five years after losing her lover Lulu in a cult ritual for Dionysus gone wrong, Mindy Morrow is trying to live her life and put the past behind her. Unfortunately for Mindy, the past won’t let her go. While she’s taking care of her friend Flavia, her frenemy Kate is trying to lure Mindy back into the old club scene, and something more ancient and terrifying awaits them all. From Joe Corallo and Rachel Pollack, the winner of The World Fantasy Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and a Nebula nominee comes a story about dark pasts and the supernatural. Collects The Never-Ending Party #1–#5 from the ComiXology original digital series, in print for the first time!

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Dark Horse Comics

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1506732763

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International Bestsellers and the Online Reconfiguring of National Identity

By: Rachel Noorda,Millicent Weber,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold

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International Bestsellers and the Online Reconfiguring of National Identity

By: Rachel Noorda,Millicent Weber,Melanie Ramdarshan Bold

International bestsellers are the ideal sites for examining the complicated relationship between literary culture and national identity. Despite the transnational turns in both literary studies and book history, place is still an important configurer of twenty-first-century book reception. Books are crucial to national identity and catalysts of nationalist movements. On an individual level, books enable readers to shape and maintain their own national identities. This Element explores how contemporary readers' understandings of nation, race/ethnicity, gender, and class continue to shape their reading, using as case studies the online reception of three bestseller titles-Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies (Australia), Zadie Smith's NW (UK), and Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians (USA). In doing so, this Element demonstrates the need for and articulates a transnational conceptualisation of the relationship between reader identity and reception.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009117793

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The Long Way Home

By: Rachel Spangler

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The Long Way Home

By: Rachel Spangler

They say you can't go home again, but Raine St. James doesn't know why anyone would want to. Rory St. James was disowned after she came out at seventeen. She rebounded by moving to Chicago, changing her name to Raine and putting down her hometown to audiences around the country. Now, ten years later, too old to be considered a gay youth, broke, evicted, and fresh off a much needed break-up, Raine St. James is forced to accept a job teaching at Bramble University in Darlington, the town she's been publicly bashing for the last decade. Beth Devoroux was born and raised in Darlington. Despite losing her parents at a young age, she is well loved by everyone who knows her. She leads a comfortable life with good job at Bramble University, a long-term but closeted relationship, friends that she can count on, and everything she thinks she wants, so why is she so drawn to a rabble-rouser like Raine St. James? Can Raine and Beth face their pasts and come to terms with their differences in order to have any hope for a future together?

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Bold Strokes Books Inc

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1602824770

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Planet/Cuba

Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island

By: Rachel Price

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Planet/Cuba

Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island

By: Rachel Price

Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era Cuba has been in a state of massive transformation over the past decade, with its historic resumption of diplomatic relations with the United States only the latest development. While the political leadership has changed direction, other forces have taken hold. The environment is under threat, and the culture feels the strain of new forms of consumption. Planet/Cuba examines how art and literature have responded to a new moment, one both more globalized and less exceptional; more concerned with local quotidian worries than international alliances; more threatened by the depredations of planetary capitalism and climate change than by the vagaries of the nation’s government. Rachel Price examines a fascinating array of artists and writers who are tracing a new socio-cultural map of the island.

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Verso Books

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1784781223

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Designing More-Than-Human Smart Cities

Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation

By: Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Sara Heitlinger,Professor of Urban Informatics Marcus Foth,Course Leader Ba Design for Climate Justice Design School Rachel Clarke

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Designing More-Than-Human Smart Cities

Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation

By: Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Sara Heitlinger,Professor of Urban Informatics Marcus Foth,Course Leader Ba Design for Climate Justice Design School Rachel Clarke

Drawing from existing theory, policy, practice and speculative design about how cities may evolve, the book illustrates key concepts using case studies that respond to the complex relationships between human and non-human others (such as animals and plants, as well as soil, rivers, data and sensors) in urban space.

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Oxford University Press

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0192884166

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Tokens

The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

By: Rachel O'Dwyer

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Tokens

The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

By: Rachel O'Dwyer

**Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year** --- Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket Wherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data-the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities? Tokens opens up this new and expanding world. Exploring the history of extra- monetary economies, Rachel O'Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always haunted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon's Turk workers are getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers trade in wishlists. Foreign remittances are sent via phone credit. Bitcoin, gift cards, NFTs, customer data, and game tokens are the new money in an evolving economy. It is a development challenging the balance of power between online empires and the state. Tokens may offer a flexible even subversive route to compensation. But for the platforms them- selves they can be a means of amassing frightening new powers. An essential read for anyone concerned with digital money, inequality, and the future of the economy.

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1839768355

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South Sudan’s Injustice System

Law and Activism on the Frontline

By: Rachel Ibreck

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South Sudan’s Injustice System

Law and Activism on the Frontline

By: Rachel Ibreck

Coming into existence amid a wave of optimism in 2011, South Sudan has since slid into violence and conflict. Even in the face of escalating civil war, however, the people of the country continue to fight for justice, despite a widespread culture of corruption and impunity. Drawing on extensive new research, Rachel Ibreck examines people's lived experiences as they navigate South Sudan's fledgling justice system, as well as the courageous efforts of lawyers, activists, and ordinary citizens to assert their rights and hold the government to account. In doing so, the author reveals how justice plays out in a variety of settings, from displacement camps to chiefs' courts, and in cases ranging from communal land disputes to the country's turbulent peace process. Based on a collaborative research project carried out with South Sudanese activists and legal practitioners, the book also demonstrates the value of conducting researching with, rather than simply about those affected by conflict. At heart, this is a people's story of South Sudan - what works in this troubled country is what people do for themselves.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786993414

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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India

Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights

By: Rachel Sturman

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The Government of Social Life in Colonial India

Liberalism, Religious Law, and Women's Rights

By: Rachel Sturman

This book analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the relationship between state and society.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107010373

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American National Security

By: Michael J. Meese,Suzanne C. Nielsen,Rachel M. Sondheimer

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American National Security

By: Michael J. Meese,Suzanne C. Nielsen,Rachel M. Sondheimer

This classic text provides a rich and nuanced discussion of American national security policymaking. American National Security remains the ideal foundational text for courses in national security, foreign policy, and security studies. Every chapter in this edition has been extensively revised, and the book includes discussion of recent security policy changes in the Trump administration. Highlights include: • An updated look at national security threats, military operations, and homeland security challenges • An analysis of the evolving roles of the president, Congress, the intelligence community, the military, and other institutions involved in national security • A revised consideration of the strengths, limitations, and employment of instruments of national power, including diplomacy, information, economic tools, and armed forces • An exploration of the economic and national security implications of globalization • An enhanced examination of the proliferation of transnational threats, including security challenges in space and in cyberspace • A new assessment of how international, political, and economic trends may change US leadership of the post–World War II international order • A comprehensive update on changing dynamics in key states and regions, including Russia, China, East Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America An authoritative book that explains US national security policy, actors, and processes in a wide-ranging yet understandable way, American National Security addresses key issues, including challenges to the free and open international order, the reemergence of strategic competition among great powers, terrorism, economic and fiscal constraints, and rapid advances in information and technology.

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JHU Press

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1421426781

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South Sudans Injustice System

Law and Activism on the Frontline

By: Rachel Ibreck

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South Sudans Injustice System

Law and Activism on the Frontline

By: Rachel Ibreck

An outstanding feat based on in-depth research in a difficult setting ... this book uncovers the dysfunctions of law and the bravery of South Sudan’s activists struggling for justice.' Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Nutrition in Clinical Practice

By: David Katz,Yeh Ming-Chin,Joshua Levitt,Kofi D. Essel,Shivam Joshi,Rachel Summer Clair Friedman

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Nutrition in Clinical Practice

By: David Katz,Yeh Ming-Chin,Joshua Levitt,Kofi D. Essel,Shivam Joshi,Rachel Summer Clair Friedman

Designed for busy clinicians struggling to fit the critical issue of nutrition into their routine patient encounters, Nutrition in Clinical Practice translates the robust evidence base underlying nutrition in health and disease into actionable, evidence-based clinical guidance on a comprehensive array of nutrition topics. Authoritative, thoroughly referenced, and fully updated, the revised 4th edition covers the full scope of nutrition applications in clinical practice, spanning health promotion, risk factor modification, prevention, chronic disease management, and weight control – with a special emphasis on providing concisely summarized action steps within the clinical workflow. Edited by Dr. David L. Katz (a world-renowned expert in nutrition, preventive medicine, and lifestyle medicine) along with Drs. Kofi D. Essel, Rachel S.C. Friedman, Shivam Joshi, Joshua Levitt, and Ming-Chin Yeh, Nutrition in Clinical Practice is a must-have resource for practicing clinicians who want to provide well-informed, compassionate, and effective nutritional counseling to patients.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Environmental Litigation in China

A Study in Political Ambivalence

By: Rachel E. Stern

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Environmental Litigation in China

A Study in Political Ambivalence

By: Rachel E. Stern

This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions, why lawyers take cases, and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership's mixed signals and political ambivalence play out on the ground - propelling some, such as the village doctor who fought a chemical plant for more than a decade, even as others back away from risk. Yet this remarkable book shows that even in a country where expectations would be that law wouldn't much matter, environmental litigation provides a sliver of space for legal professionals to explore new roles and, in so doing, probe the boundary of what is politically possible.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107310954

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Framing a Revolution

Narrative Battles in Colombia's Civil War

By: Rachel Schmidt

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Framing a Revolution

Narrative Battles in Colombia's Civil War

By: Rachel Schmidt

Rhetorical contests about how to frame a war run alongside many armed conflicts. With the rise of internet access, social media, and cyber operations, these propaganda battles have a wider audience than ever before. Yet, such framing contests have attracted little attention in scholarly literature. What are the effects of gendered and strategic framing in civil war? How do different types of individuals - victims, combatants, women, commanders - utilize the frames created around them and about them? Who benefits from these contests, and who loses? Following the lives of eleven ex-combatants from non-state armed groups and supplemented by over one hundred interviews conducted across Colombia, Framing a Revolution opens a window into this crucial part of civil war. Their testimonies demonstrate the importance of these contests for combatants' commitments to their armed groups during fighting and the Colombian peace process, while also drawing implications for the concept of civil war worldwide.

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1009219561

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Titanium

Metallic Pollutants in the Aquatic Environment

By: Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis

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Titanium

Metallic Pollutants in the Aquatic Environment

By: Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis

This book engages readers in an integrated and holistic discussion on titanium properties, applications, bioanalytical approaches and toxicity. Key issues include environmental titanium exposure and associated health risk concerns for both humans and aquatic organisms, exploring ecotoxicological effects. The book delves into the intricate web of ecotoxicological effects, offering valuable insights for researchers and professionals alike. With a broad appeal, this book is an indispensable resource for those immersed in the realms of oceanography, geochemistry, ecotoxicology, and environmental and public health, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the intricate interplay between titanium and the natural world.

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1040092454

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Paid to Care

Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture

By: Rachel Randall

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Paid to Care

Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture

By: Rachel Randall

The book analyzes post-1980 films, texts, and digital media produced in collaboration with paid domestic workers or inspired by their experiences to explore such workers' sociocultural status and struggles"--

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University of Texas Press

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1477327703

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Race and Sports

A Reference Handbook

By: Rachel Laws Myers

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Race and Sports

A Reference Handbook

By: Rachel Laws Myers

Race and Sports: A Reference Handbook provides a breadth and depth of discussion about minority athletes, coaches, sports journalists, and others in U.S. sport. This volume examines race and sports and connected issues, from the integration of professional sports to the present day. It also explores the history of minority involvement in sports at every level: the barriers broken, the stereotypes that have been shattered, and the difficulties that these pioneers have endured. One of the most valuable aspects of the book is that it surveys the history of race and sports in a manner that helps readers identify key issues. An extensive background on the topic of race and sports, including a review of the history and an introduction to its technical aspects, is followed by a discussion of controversies, problems, and possible solutions. Essays from various contributors showcase different aspects of race and sports, while a substantial amount of the volume is dedicated to reference material — such as biographical sketches, a chronology, an extensive annotated bibliography, and a glossary — helpful in further study of the topic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Sustainable Value Chains in the Global Garment Industry

By: Rachel Alexander,Peter Lund-Thomsen

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Sustainable Value Chains in the Global Garment Industry

By: Rachel Alexander,Peter Lund-Thomsen

The widespread prevalence of economically, socially, and environmentally unsustainable practices in global value chains is a pressing international challenge. The way to improve systems and practices in the complex networks that characterize contemporary production processes is not clear cut. Finding solutions requires innovation. This Element examines the structures of garment value chains and explores how innovation related to sustainability is taking place in these chains. Furthermore, it identifies barriers and opportunities for innovations to break through and stimulate industry-wide change.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009217747

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Transparency

New Trajectories in Law

By: Rachel Adams

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Transparency

New Trajectories in Law

By: Rachel Adams

This book critiques the contemporary recourse to transparency in law and policy. This is, ostensibly, the information age. At the heart of the societal shift toward digitalisation is the call for transparency and the liberalisation of information and data. Yet, with the recent rise of concerns such as 'fake news', post-truth and misinformation, where the policy responses to all these phenomena has been a petition for even greater transparency, it becomes imperative to critically reflect on what this dominant idea means, whom it serves, and what the effects are of its power. In response, this book provides the first sustained critique of the concept of transparency in law and policy. It offers a concise overview of transparency in law and policy around the world, and critiques how this concept works discursively to delimit other forms of governance, other ways of knowing and other realities. It draws on the work of Michel Foucault on discourse, archaeology and genealogy, together with later Foucaultian scholars, including Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Judith Butler, as a theoretical framework for challenging and thinking anew the history and understanding of what has become one of the most popular buzzwords of 21st century law and governance. At the intersection of law and governance, this book will be of considerable interest to those working in these fields; but also to those engaged in other interdisciplinary areas, including society and technology, the digital humanities, technology laws and policy, global law and policy, as well as the surveillance society.

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Routledge

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1000036340

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A Refuge in Thunder

Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness

By: Rachel E. Harding

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A Refuge in Thunder

Candomblé and Alternative Spaces of Blackness

By: Rachel E. Harding

[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identity." —Sheila S. Walker The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candomblé nevertheless developed as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Drawing principally on primary sources, such as police archives, Rachel E. Harding describes the development of the religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks could gain a sense of individual and collective identity in opposition to the subaltern status imposed upon them by the dominant society.

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Indiana University Press

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0253216109

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Make the Fireflies Dance

By: Rachel Bateman

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Make the Fireflies Dance

By: Rachel Bateman

In this rom com from the author of Someone Else's Summer, a hopeless romantic juggles senior year stress, family problems, and faulty friendships around the end of senior year and prom. Quincy Walker is a hopeless romantic, so when she's kissed by a stranger in a dark theater, her rom-com obsessed imagination begins plotting the perfect movie-version ending to her senior year (which ends, like all great high school rom-coms, with the prom). With the help of her friends, Operation Mystery Kisser is born: a plan to set Quin up on dates with all the guys who were at the theater that night so she can discover who kissed her. The only problem? Her friends insist on blind dates, and Quin hates letting go of control--just ask the members of her group for her final project for film class. As prom draws nearer, Quin is no closer to finding who her mystery kisser was, and she's not sure she wants to continue looking. Maybe it's her dad's failing health and her brother's absence; maybe it's the fact that she's fighting with her best friend; or maybe--just maybe--it's that she's falling for a guy who definitely isn't the one she's been looking for.

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Running Press Kids

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0762478934

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Military Geographies

By: Rachel Woodward

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Military Geographies

By: Rachel Woodward

Military Geographies is about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. A book about how local space, place, environment and landscape are shaped by military presence, and about how wider geographies are touched by militarism. Sets a new agenda for the study of military geography with its critical analysis of the ways in which military control over space is legitimized. Explores the ways in which militarism and military activities control development, the use of space and our understanding of place. Focuses on military lands, establishments and personnel in contemporary peacetime settings. Uses examples from Europe, North America and Australasia. Draws on original research into the mechanisms by which the British government manages the defence estate. Illustrated with maps, plans and other figures.

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John Wiley & Sons

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144439987X

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A Savage Order

How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security

By: Rachel Kleinfeld

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A Savage Order

How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security

By: Rachel Kleinfeld

The most violent places in the world today are not at war. They are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places—from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia—have been able to recover. Taking on existing literature and popular theories about war, crime, and foreign intervention, A Savage Order is a blistering yet inspiring investigation into what makes some countries peaceful and others war zones, and a blueprint for what we can do to help. Drawing on fifteen years of study and firsthand field research—interviewing generals, former guerrillas, activists, politicians, and law enforcement in countries around the world—Rachel Kleinfeld tells the stories of societies, including our own, that successfully fought seemingly ingrained violence and offers penetrating conclusions about what must be done to build governments that are able to protect the lives of their citizens.

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Vintage

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0525432965

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