Karen Hansen: 8 books
by Karen Hansen, Kent Zenobia
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
A well-written, hands-on, single-source guide to the professional practice of civil engineering
There is a growing understanding that to be competitive at an international level, civil engineers not only must build on their traditional strengths in technology and science but also must acquire...
Nevertheless We Persisted
Tales of Loss, Love, and Finding Your Own Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
NEVERTHELESS WE PERSISTED is the ebook companion to a special audio-first anthology of poems, essays, and stories that explores themes of loss, love, and finding your own power. It's an astonishing collection filled with heart, tears, laughter, and ultimately hope.
Pieces include:
A...
Encounter on the Great Plains
Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian...
Think in Public
A Public Books Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
Africa's Informal Workers
Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Africa's Informal Workers is a vigorous examination of the informalization and casualization of work, which is changing livelihoods in Africa and beyond. Gathering cases from nine countries and cities across sub-Saharan Africa, and from a range of sectors, this volume goes beyond the usual focus on...
The Model Bakery Cookbook
75 Favorite Recipes from the Beloved Napa Valley Bakery
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This definitive baking guide is the much-anticipated cookbook from the Model Bakery, a mother-daughter–run baking destination with a huge local following that's been wowing the Wine Country for years. And this book of sensational artisan baked goods makes clear why there are lines out the door!...
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering
Trauma, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors...
Social Memory Technology
Theory, Practice, Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Memory is a fundamental aspect of being and becoming, intimately entwined with space, time, place, landscape, emotion, imagination and identity. Memory studies is a burgeoning field of enquiry drawing from a range of social science, arts and humanities disciplines including human geography, sociology,...