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by Luis Alberto Villamarin Pulido
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 31, 2018
La suerte de los expósitos es una versión novelada que reconstruye con nombres de personas y lugares diferentes adonde ocurrieron los hechos, es una descripción histórica de las penurias que han padecido las madres de hijos no reconocidos por sus progenitores, a los que de manera displicente se...
Home Now
How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
A moving chronicle of struggle, transformation, and who belongs in America.
The once-thriving city of Lewiston had fallen on hard times--mills closed, jobs gone. It was mostly white, and the young were leaving. Then thousands of African Muslim immigrants came to town.
Over the past 15...
A World of Its Own
Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Tracing the history of intercultural struggle and cooperation in the citrus belt of Greater Los Angeles, Matt Garcia explores the social and cultural forces that helped make the city the expansive and diverse metropolis that it is today.
As the citrus-growing regions of the San Gabriel and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
In an era of globalization, population growth, and displacements, migration is now a fact of life in a constantly shifting economic and political world order. This book contributes to the discourse on the beneficiaries, benefactors, and the casualties of African displacement. While the few existing...
Women, Livestock Ownership and Markets
Bridging the Gender Gap in Eastern and Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This book provides empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique and from different production systems of the importance of livestock as an asset to women and their participation in livestock and livestock product markets. It explores the issues of intra-household income management and economic...
In My Father's House
A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.
The United States currently holds the distinction...
by Haroldo Conti
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
‘Neither the old man nor Boga ever said more than was needed. And yet they understood each other perfectly.’ Over the course of a season, Boga and the old man work side by side on the sandbanks of the Paraná Delta, cutting reeds to sell to local basketweavers. But when the old man falls sick...
Food, Agriculture and Social Change
The Everyday Vitality of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
In recent years, food studies scholarship has tended to focus on a number of increasingly abstract, largely unquestioned concepts with regard to how capital, markets and states organize and operate. This has led to a gulf between public policy and people’s realities with food as experienced in homes...
Animal Intimacies
Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.
Built on extensive ethnographic...
Du dandysme et de G. Brummell
( Edition intégrale ) annoté
Language: French
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Publié pour la première fois en 1845, ce livre est à la fois une biographie et un essai philosophique. Barbey définit, avant Baudelaire, le dandysme. Mêlant références historiques et détails anecdotiques, il brosse le portrait d'un homme qui soumit à son goût, pendant vingt ans, la high...
by Camille Lemonnier
Language: French
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 22, 2014
LE jour de la kermesse arriva. Dès le matin, une fermentation remplit le village. Les cabaretiers s’étaient approvisionnés de bières. Des pains d’épice avaient été étalés par tas à la fenêtre des épiciers....
Class Reunion
The Remaking of the American White Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Noted scholar Lois Weis first visited the town of "Freeway" in her 1990 book, Working Class Without Work. In that book we met the students and teachers of Freeway's high school to understand how these working-class folks made sense of their lives. Now, fifteen years later, Weis has gone...
Globalization and the City
Two Connected Phenomena in Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide,...
Sustainable Food Futures
Multidisciplinary Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Securing sustainable food for everyone is one of the world's most pressing challenges, but research, policy, and programmes remain fragmented, and effective solutions have been slow to emerge. This book takes on these challenges by proposing a range of solutions that can advance pathways towards sustainable...