A A Fair: 13 books
by A. A. Fair
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
THE RIMLEY RENDEZOUS was a back-street bistro where a tired businessman could drop in for a pick-up, no questions asked.
The cover charge was steep, Blackmail was the major part of the tab. It was a lucrative business—until a murderer cut into the profits...and left his weapon in Donald Lam’s...
by A. A. Fair
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
EMERALDS ARE FOR EVIL
Shirley was sultry, sexy, smashing—a sweet young thing to make a sugar daddy’s mouth water. This luscious lass loved pretty baubles, so no wonder men showered her with jewels. But when a deluge of emeralds turned into a reign of terror, Shirley needed someone to bail...
Economic Apartheid In America
A Primer On Economic Inequality & Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
This updated edition of the widely touted Economic Apartheid in America looks at the causes and manifestations of wealth disparities in the United States, including tax policy in light of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts and recent corporate scandals.
Published with two leading organizations dedicated...
by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs,...
Genocide
Truth, Memory, and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic “truth” about the...
Living with Bad Surroundings
War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Since 1986, the Acholi people of northern Uganda have lived in the crossfire of a violent civil war, with the Lord’s Resistance Army and other groups fighting the Ugandan government. Acholi have been murdered, maimed, and driven into displacement. Thousands of children have been abducted and forced...
Thinking Beyond the Test
Strategies for Re-Introducing Higher-Level Thinking Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance...
Thinking Ahead
Engaging All Teachers in Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book addresses a very important aspect of teacher training, as well as the training of educational administrators, school counselors and other educational allied professionals, an aspect that is too often overlooked. That aspect is role modeling a deliberative mind. A deliberative mind is one...
Focus on Thinking
Engaging Educators in Higher-Order Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
In the wake of initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and the use of high-stakes testing, the emphasis in schools has been on drill and practice for the test. Genuine understanding and critical thinking have been increasingly shortchanged. As a result, students have fewer opportunities to advance...
Strange Enemies
Indigenous Agency and Scenes of Encounters in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, a group of Wari’ Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari’ announced, “We touched their bodies!” Meanwhile the...
The Making of a Human Bomb
An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have...
Unsettling Accounts
Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian military...
by Captain Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2008
Sometimes referred to as the first published manual of guerrilla warfare, Bernardo de Vargas Machuca’s Indian Militia and Description of the Indies is actually the first known manual of counterinsurgency, or anti-guerrilla warfare. Published in Madrid in 1599 by a Spanish-born soldier of fortune...