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Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist...

In response to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and war in Afghanistan, the Fulbright New Century Scholars program brought together social scientists from around the world to study sectarian, ethnic, and cultural conflict within and across national...

By 1944 a large part of Eastern Europe had already been liberated by the Red Army, and the Allied forces were continuing to move in from the west after success at Normandy. Yet, in Lower Silesia, Germany more than sixty new forced labor camps were...

Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book is a personal, yet hopefully objective, and sociological, reflection on all aspects of caring for my...

"The Complete Article Writer: How To Write Magazine Articles" will tell you everything you need to know to become a published article writer.Writing for the magazine market is one of the easiest ways to become a published writer. But only if you can come...

Is your family geographically scattered? Has globalisation made your family a Distance Family? This book tells the candid story of how Distance Parents and Distance Grandparents struggle - and succeed - to adapt to their new reality. This isn't family...

Kapyate can run like a cheetah, which earns him respect from the feral youths known as 'Street Kings'. It also saves him from the many horrendous experiences suffered by 'streetkids', living miserable existences in Jinja, Uganda. Steven Mudusu was...

Yorkshire 2035 - The New assembly, is the final book in The Yorkshire Trilogy, completing the journey from feasibility study (Yorkshire, The Case For Independence), through gaining a degree of recognition (Yorkshire 2027, A Strategy For Tomorrow) to...

For nearly twenty years, Glasgow has been coined Europe's murder capital, and identified as having the continent's highest drug harms. The Contemporary History of Drug-Based Organised Crime in Scotland examines converging multiple complexities...

Anthropologists working in Italy are at the forefront of scholarship on several topics including migration, far-right populism, organised crime and heritage. This book heralds an exciting new frontier by bringing together some of the leading...

In the practice of constructing the idea of home and the emotions surrounding it, sensory experiences and materiality intertwine to form layers of memory and affective atmospheres. People in different life stages and situations create continuity and a...

Contemporary screen industries such as film and television have become primary sites for visualizing borders, migration, maps, and travel as processes of separation and dislocation, but also connection. Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen pulls...

Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as...

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume...

Edges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent "neo-noir" revival between 1973 and 1981. The 1960s, regardless of critical neglect, include some of the most provocative films of the post-World War II...

Tracing women's experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less 'real' or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive...

This is the first book that engages with the history of diagrams in physical, evolutionary, and genetic anthropology. Since their establishment as scientific tools for classification in the eighteenth century, diagrams have been used to determine but...

A Life Hidden from View is a candid look at my life through my eyes. I had a somewhat unconventional childhood, living a very secluded, mostly in solitude, life. Going to school wasn't without its dramas. Once the other children found out I was...

All the friends who know Jennifer are fond of her. They all have such a nice, sweet camaraderie amongst them. Jennifer is a well-loved and pampered Granddaughter.On Jennifer's birthday she receives a gift, a ring from her beloved Grandmother. This ring...

How did nineteenth-century French women imagine and represent their relationships in fiction? Situated at the intersection of feminist cultural history and Belle Epoque literary studies, this book explores fictional representations of female...

Are you ready to start your healing journey from childhood sexual abuse consequences, even if you face barriers to seeking help? Then, keep reading.Childhood sexual abuse is more common than many realize and is often perpetrated by someone close to the...

Michelle is a renowned business and performance mentor, specialising in guiding women from conception to realisation of their business ideas through her pioneering business incubation process. She exudes a vibrant energy dedicated to empowering women...

"For dock lovers and daydreamers"One wealthy family.One beautiful cottage.Many summers of secrets.More than a decade after tragedy strikes, Colin Montgomery returns to the Wynward's Muskoka cottage to spend one last summer with the marvelous Miss...

"The question hung in the air as if she'd typed the words on a manual typewriter and left that one sentence on a blank sheet of paper for all to see."She was just eighteen. A naïve country girl all alone in the big wide world for the first time. Soon,...

Starting my new job at Groveton College felt like a dream come true. Helping the students in the hockey program stay in the program as their Athletics Student Advisor.Then, I f*cked up without even realizing it.Within a matter of seconds my freedom was...

A true story filled with humor, sadness, sarcasm, grief, and redemption! Reading this story will make you laugh, cry, get angry, and take a deeper look into your own life.De tells her "not so good childhood" story from early identity confusion, poverty,...

Do you dare? You might never see my name in lights or flashed across the stage, but my roots were southern, my eyes bright, and my sass a mix of feisty-sweet. I was ready to take on anything life had to throw at me... until it did.I used to be a...

A vampire, a mage, and a monster hunter try to save a town from an evil fae queen. And try not to fall in love. A polyamorous, paranormal horror/romance story!Wilderwood is a haven for those who have been cast out of "proper" society: academics, artists,...

Musician's Heart Journey is a journaling course and daytimer for musicians who enjoy journaling and desire to get in touch with the voice of the inner musical muse. This important inner resource illuminates the next step on your unique musical path, week...

Susan Oberg has written a heartfelt memoir that is more than just her story about dealing with aging parents, grief, and loss. It's a story that many people can relate to and be greatly helped by reading. Susan's extensive background in theater came into...

Where are we heading? Worldwide there are legends of an ancient catastrophic deluge that drowned all mankind except for a few survivors. Tracing the ancestry of the world from that global flood all the way to the beginning of New York City in 1626 -...

Books exist about slavery, injustice, racism, and hatred. Authors try to captivate with trendy words, catch phrases and rhetoric However, the question    Are We Free Yet? is no catch phrase. African American cries in the...

Black Mystery presents an opportunity behind the scenes to hear directly from Black people. It included thoughts about white people, perceptions of other Black groups, consideration of revenge, and solutions to systemic racism.

They say love conquers all, but can it conquer time?Emmeline, a driven young woman, has withdrawn from friends and family since her adored father died suddenly. Traveling by train to visit her sister in a small Colorado town, she steps from 2022 into...

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Brendan Joyce's full-length poetry collection Love & Solidarity examines the powder keg of the pre-pandemic American political economy, the sudden destabilization of mass unemployment in the pandemic and the brief but beautiful solutions put forth by...

"Mom, I'm trans." When Karen Lander's thirteen-year-old daughter announced she was transgender and explained that she was really a boy and then firmly insisted that she now be referred to as he, Karen felt like she'd fallen down into a bottomless hole...

Once upon a time an American girl moved to a little town in Slovakia. And she fell in love with the country, and with a boy. And then another boy. And then about a dozen boys fell in love with her. Many linguistic and romantic antics ensued, and a happy...

Yella Box & The Art of The Exit is the intense and astonishing journey of one man’s fight to find his purpose and free his children from a lifetime of deadly abuse, trauma, mental illness and a kidnapping that plagued his family with...

You can't change the past, but you can learn from it if you are willing to open your eyes to the deeper meaning of each story you're holding onto. Andi Franklin was eight years into her happily ever after when her husband literally shook her world...

Beset with health problems, loss, and a peculiar sense of unfamiliarity after retirement, the paths for some through the golden years is at times rocky. But for others, caring for family, loving grandchildren, celebrating friendships, enjoying hobbies,...

Circumcision Scar is one of the most controversial books ever written.Did you know amputated foreskins are sold to cosmetic companies for $100,000, or that circumcision was alleged to cure brain tumors? It also has a history of megalomania - doctors...

Does the reality of your singleness weigh heavily on you? Do you feel like you’re past your prime for a romantic relationship? In a world that still treats marriage as an accomplishment, Ethleen Sawyerr found herself conflicted about the arrival of...

There’s no such thing as perfect love. Nina Chandler knows this to be true. Even so, love is the one thing missing from her almost perfect life. With a medical degree and new house, she’s worked hard to twist and tug her dreams into...