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History along the Way
Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Texans love stories, and the 15,000 roadside markers along the state’s highways and byways testify to the abundance of tales to tell. History along the Way recounts the narratives behind and beyond more than one hundred Texas roadside markers.
Peopled with colorful characters—a national...
by DK Travel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Perfect for planning and enjoying a stress-free family holiday, this easy-to-use guide book is packed with insider tips and information on Florida's best family-friendly activities and attractions.
Explore the magic of Orlando's theme parks, experience flight simulation at Kennedy Space Center,...
Siva's Saints
The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara's Ragalegalu
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
Comprising more than twelve million people and renowned for their resistance to Brahminical values, the Virasaivas are a vibrant and unorthodox religious community with a provocative socio-political voice. The Virasaiva tradition has produced a vast and original body of literature, composed mostly...
NC 12
Gateway to the Outer Banks
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Connecting communities from Corolla in the north to Ocracoke Island in the south, scenic North Carolina Highway 12 binds together the fragile barrier islands that make up the Outer Banks. Throughout its lifetime, however, NC 12 has faced many challenges—from recurring storms and shifting sands to...
Indelible Inequalities in Latin America
Insights from History, Politics, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2010
Since the earliest years of European colonialism, Latin America has been a region of seemingly intractable inequalities, marked by a stark divide between the haves and the have-nots. This collection illuminates the diverse processes that have combined to produce and reproduce inequalities in Latin...
Greening Brazil
Environmental Activism in State and Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Greening Brazil challenges the claim that environmentalism came to Brazil from abroad. Two political scientists, Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, retell the story of environmentalism in Brazil from the inside out, analyzing the extensive efforts within the country to save its natural environment,...
by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2009
Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely...
Postcolonial Ecologies
Literatures of the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
The first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial literature, this volume offers rich and suggestive ways to explore the relationship between humans and nature around the globe, drawing from texts from Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the Pacific...
Contracultura
Alternative Arts and Social Transformation in Authoritarian Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Christopher Dunn's history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracultura was a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that...
by Nelson Mandela
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
"There is no easy way to walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires." -Nelson Mandela, September 1953
In spreading the message of freedom, equality, and human...
Neoliberalism from Below
Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other...
Waterways
Sailing the Southeastern Coast
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
When Jennifer Frick-Ruppert and her husband set sail for the first time in their newly purchased 37-foot sailboat, they were hoping to leave colder climes behind, learn something about sailing, and get away from the daily grind. What they didn’t expect was that nature would become a partner in their...
by John Biggar
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
'The Andes - A Guide for Climbers' is the only comprehensive guidebook to the peaks of the Andes.
This is the 4th English edition of the only comprehensive climbing guidebook to the peaks of the Andes. It covers many areas not described in any other source. This new edition has expanded coverage...
by John Biggar
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
'The Andes - A Guide for Climbers' is the only comprehensive guidebook to the peaks of the Andes.
This is the 4th English edition of the only comprehensive climbing guidebook to the peaks of the Andes. It covers many areas not described in any other source. This new edition has expanded coverage...