Sarah M : 419 books
Indigenous Homelessness
Perspectives from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Being homeless in one’s homeland is a colonial legacy for many Indigenous people in settler societies. The construction of Commonwealth nation-states from colonial settler societies depended on the dispossession of Indigenous peoples from their lands. The legacy of that dispossession and related...
by Luis M. Mr. Cubeddu, Alexander Mr. Culiuc, Ghada Ms. Fayad
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
After a short-lived slowdown in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis and a swift rebound, emerging markets (EM) are now entering a period of slower growth. In fact, growth is now lower than the post-crisis peak of 2010-11, as well as the rates seen in the decade before the crisis....
Muslim Spaces of Hope
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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. The increased mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim...
Street-Level Sovereignty
The Intersection of Space and Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Street-Level Sovereignty: The Intersection of Space and Law is a collection of scholarship that considers the experience of law that is subject to social interpretation for its meaning and importance within the constitutive legal framework of race, deviance, property, and the communal investiture...
by Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina, Mike Adeyeye, Joseph Kingsley Adjei
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
The democratization process which bolstered a culture of periodic elections has also fostered election-related violent conflicts. As democratic transitions gained currency in the new millennium, orderly transitions through the ballot boxes began replacing military coups but deaths and destructions...
Tackling Child Neglect
Research, Policy and Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
With contributions from internationally recognized experts, this edited volume presents original thinking on the theory, research and practice surrounding child neglect.
Comprehensive and current, the book takes an expansive look at how we can better address this prevalent issue. It explores...
Corey Village and the Cayuga World
Implications from Archaeology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy,
a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting
much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their
nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga
endured...
by Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention...
Apocalyptic Chic
Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity’s...
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education
Successes and Challenges within Local and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Promoting Global Competence and Social Justice in Teacher Education addresses the growing concern that few practicing teachers in the United States are prepared to handle the demands of educating students for our changing global context. This book advocates for preparing teacher candidates to develop...
Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Climate Engineering
Calming the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Calming the Storm presents diverse perspectives on some of the most vital questions raised by climate engineering: Who has the right to make decisions about such global technological efforts? What have we learned from the decisions that caused the climate to change that might shed light on efforts...
by Loreen N. Olson, Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner, Jessica M. Wilson-Kratzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, for example, severe acts of violence to more subtle forms of conflict. In addition to offering a working definition of the concept of the "dark side"...
Latinas in American Politics
Changing and Embracing Political Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The challenges that women face as political candidates can be compounded by race. In the case of Latinas, stereotypes as well as national media coverage and labeling of “Latino” issues potentially creates an electoral burden for Latina candidates at the local, state, and national level. The intersection...