Melissa Wright: 35 books
by Melissa Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Brianna can see her future, but it's the past that haunts her. Plans laid in place centuries ago are threatening not only her and her sister, but all of the Seven Lines. As the shadows plot their way to old rule, the visions shift again. Her power has led to some hard choices—and the occasional...
by Melissa Wright
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2019
Diana Coulton doesn’t have time for love. She’s got Bad Medicine—the family herb & book shop—to take care of, not to mention her chaotic sisters and censorious cat. No matter what Diana might want, romance is on the backburner for this Coulton sister.
Until the night well-meaning...
by Melissa Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Everyday, around the world, women who work in the Third World factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within and beyond factory walls, through the telling of a simple story: the myth of the disposable Third World...
by Melissa Wright
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Twenty-two-year-old Aern is done watching his brother destroy the only thing that matters. He never wanted to take Morgan’s place among council, never wanted to rule their hidden world. But when the key to the prophecy is found, a young girl named Brianna whom Morgan will destroy, Aern knows he...
Territories of Poverty
Rethinking North and South
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront...
Precarious Worlds
Contested Geographies of Social Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work...
Spaces of Danger
Culture and Power in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of...
Faith Based
Religious Neoliberalism and the Politics of Welfare in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Faith Based explores how the Religious Right has supported neoliberalism in the United States, bringing a particular focus to welfare—an arena where conservative Protestant politics and neoliberal economic ideas come together most clearly. Through case studies of gospel rescue missions, Habitat...
Information Literacy in the Digital Age
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
This book examines the various types of literacy that are important in the Digital Age of rapid technological change and proliferating information resources in a variety of formats. According to the American Library Association (www.ala.org), “information literacy is a set of abilities requiring...
Pain, Pride, and Politics
Social Movement Activism and the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009. Amarnath Amarasingam analyzes the reactions of diasporic Tamils in Canada at a time when the separatist Tamil...
The Politics of the Encounter
Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains "important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics." And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since...
They Saved the Crops
Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming...
Black, White, and Green
Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Farmers markets are much more than places to buy produce. According to advocates for sustainable food systems, they are also places to “vote with your fork” for environmental protection, vibrant communities, and strong local economies. Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for...
Development, Security, and Aid
Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Geopolitics concentrates on territory, borders, and strategic political and...