Author: Adrienne Pine
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520941624
Size: 61.88 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Working Hard Drinking Hard

by Adrienne Pine, Working Hard Drinking Hard Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Working Hard Drinking Hard books, "Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas—violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry—Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans. She views their lives in the context of the vast economic footprint on and ideological domination of the region by the United States, powerfully elucidating the extent of Honduras's dependence. She provides a historically situated ethnographic analysis of this fraught relationship and the effect it has had on Hondurans' understanding of who they are. The result is a rich and visceral portrait of a culture buffeted by the forces of globalization and inequality.

Author: Tyler Shipley
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771133155
Size: 78.61 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Ottawa And Empire

by Tyler Shipley, Ottawa And Empire Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Ottawa And Empire books, In June 2009, the democratically elected president of Honduras was kidnapped and whisked out of the country while the military and business elite consolidated a coup d’etat. To the surprise of many, Canada implicitly supported the coup and assisted the coup leaders in consolidating their control over the country. Since the coup, Canada has increased its presence in Honduras, even while the country has been plunged into a human rights catastrophe, highlighted by the assassination of prominent Indigenous activist Berta Cáceres in 2016. Drawing from the Honduran experience, Ottawa and Empire makes it clear that Canada has emerged as an imperial power in the 21st century.

Author: Daniel J. Sage
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319739964
Size: 30.19 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Societies Under Construction

by Daniel J. Sage, Societies Under Construction Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Societies Under Construction books, This edited collection explores building construction as an inspiring, yet often overlooked, place to develop new knowledge about the development of human societies. Eschewing dominant engineering and management perspectives on construction, the book is purposefully broad in its scope, both empirically and theoretically, as reflecting the rich underexplored potential of studies of building construction to inform a wide span of intellectual debates across the social science and humanities. The seven chapters encompass contributions to theories of: spatiotemporal organization with wildlife on building sites; institutional change with building ruins; home with Mexican self-help housing; place with a suburban housing development; socio-materiality with the adaptation of a university library; migrant labour with the Parisian postwar construction boom; and gender with a female site manager in Sweden. This book seeks to develop a new critical sub-area for construction studies that focuses on the actual processes and practices of ‘constructing'. Bringing together diverse members of construction research communities working in a variety of contexts, it develops empirical engagements with building work to challenge its marginalization, relative to architectural studies, to provoke novel understandings of human history, geography and sociology.

Author: William Delia
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449738990
Size: 35.42 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Healing River

by William Delia, Healing River Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Healing River books, When Luther Cranstons cancer miraculously disappears after being baptized in the Jericho River, his healing brings hope to some and conflict and controversy to others. Somelike a young father paralyzed by a stroke, a terminally ill woman of faith, and a nine-year-old boy who suffers life-threatening seizureswonder, Do the healing waters of the Jericho hold a miracle for me? Otherslike a local newspaper editor and the pastor who baptized Lutherquestion if this healing is to be believed, especially when a prominent televangelist tries to capitalize on Luthers miracle. Together, they realize that all of us are in need of some form of healing. As Pastor J. C. Hale tells them, Some of us are broken and in need of healing. Some of us are empty and looking to be filled. Some of us are lost and hoping to be found. Some of us are burdened down and looking for relief. Some of us are hopeless and longing for some reason, any reason, to carry on. Some of us are questioning and looking for answers. Some of us believe but have doubts. Some of us do not believe and doubt that we ever will. Some of us need to forgive, and some of us need to be forgiven. But all of usall of usneed to know that we are loved by God.

Author: Eric Berne
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407056786
Size: 80.58 MB
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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What Do You Say After You Say Hello

by Eric Berne, What Do You Say After You Say Hello Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download What Do You Say After You Say Hello books, What Do You Say After You Say Hello? explains what makes the winners win, the losers lose, and the in-betweens so boring... In it, Dr Eric Berne reveals how everyone's life follows a predetermined script - a script they compose for themselves during early childhood. The script may be a sad one, it may be a successful one; it decides how a person will relate to his colleagues, what sort of person he will marry, how many children he will have, and even what sort of bed he will die in... What Do You Say After You Say Hello? demonstrates how each life script gets written, how it works and, more important, how anyone can improvise or change his script to make a happy ending...

Author: Clara Bingham
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400075882
Size: 61.21 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Class Action

by Clara Bingham, Class Action Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Class Action books, The true story of Lois Jenson, a petite single mother, who was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. Terrified of losing their jobs, the women kept their problems largely to themselves—until Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to file a complaint against the company in 1984. Despite all of the obstacles the legal system threw at them, Lois and her fellow plaintiffs enlisted the aid of a dedicated team of lawyers and ultimately prevailed. Weaving personal stories with legal drama, Class Action shows how these terrifically brave women made history, although not without enormous personal cost. Told at a thriller’s pace, this is the story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States, a legal milestone that immeasurably improved working conditions for American women.

Author: Clifton Ross
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604869003
Size: 57.26 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Until The Rulers Obey

by Clifton Ross, Until The Rulers Obey Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Until The Rulers Obey books, Bringing together voices from the movements behind the wave of change that swept Latin America at the turn of the 21st century, this unique collection of interviews features five dozen leaders and grassroots activists from 15 countries, presenting their work and debating pressing questions of power, organizational forms, and relations with the state. These movements have galvanized long-silent—or silenced—sectors of society: indigenous people, campesinos, students, the LGBT community, the unemployed, and all those left out of the promised utopia of a globalized economy. They have deployed a wide range of strategies and actions, sometimes building schools or clinics, sometimes occupying factories or fields, sometimes organizing political parties to take the reins of the state, and sometimes resisting government policies in order to protect their new-found power in community. This indispensable compilation of primary source material is organized in chapters by country, with each chapter introduced by a solidarity activist, writer, or academic with deep knowledge of the place. It addresses a wide range of issues, from fighting against mines and agribusiness to demanding equal participation through the recognition of language and culture, giving participants, students, and observers of social movements a chance to learn from their experiences.

Author: Malio Valente
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146914199X
Size: 36.78 MB
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Cord In The Kitchen

by Malio Valente, Cord In The Kitchen Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Cord In The Kitchen books, This story is about a thirteen year old boy who finds him-self living with a family of people who are half Native American and Half European. The boy had been abandoned by his birth parents and he had become a member of Oregons Foster Care System. He has difficulty adjusting to his life in foster care and almost finds himself being sent to reform school but his best friend ever, Kenny Proud-foot Schneider, saves him from being sent to reform school. Frankie Martin follows his nose and his heart and with the help of God and his Guardian Angel he finds himself working at a reform school as a Mechanical Drawing Teacher, where he discovers a startling fact about himself.

Author: James B. Minahan
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN: 1610691644
Size: 11.50 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
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Ethnic Groups Of The Americas An Encyclopedia

by James B. Minahan, Ethnic Groups Of The Americas An Encyclopedia Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Ethnic Groups Of The Americas An Encyclopedia books, Intended to help students explore ethnic identity—one of the most important issues of the 21st century—this concise, one-stop reference presents rigorously researched content on the national groups and ethnicities of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

Author: Javier Auyero
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190221488
Size: 60.21 MB
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Violence At The Urban Margins

by Javier Auyero, Violence At The Urban Margins Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Violence At The Urban Margins books, In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies. The inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety. They live in danger but the discourse about violence and risk belongs to, is manufactured and manipulated by, others--others who are prone to view violence at the urban margins as evidence of a cultural, or racial, defect, rather than question violence's relationship to economic and political marginalization. As a result, the experience of interpersonal violence among the urban poor becomes something unspeakable, and the everyday fear and trauma lived in relegated territories is constantly muted and denied. This edited volume seeks to counteract this pernicious tendency by putting under the ethnographic microscope--and making public--the way in which violence is lived and acted upon in the urban peripheries. It features cutting-edge ethnographic research on the role of violence in the lives of the urban poor in South, Central, and North America, and sheds light on the suffering that violence produces and perpetuates, as well as the individual and collective responses that violence generates, among those living at the urban margins of the Americas.