Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
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A gutsy, wholly original memoir of ragged grace and raw beauty. "Kirkus Reviews" (STARRED) From the...
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Coming to London aged thirteen from desperate poverty in Jamaica; pregnant at fifteen after being...
Journey of a Thousand Miles: An Extraordinary Life
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Born into poverty in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second...
Not the Whole Story: Challenging the Single Mother Narrative
Lea Caragata and Judit Alcalde
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Not the Whole Story is a compilation of sixteen stories narrated by single mothers in their own way...
Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier
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Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in Sulawesi, Indonesia, Tania Murray Li offers an...
Only in Australia: The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism
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This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy...
Politics and the Right to Work: India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act
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India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), passed in 2005, has been among the...
Globalization and Development: In Search of a New Development Paradigm: Volume III
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Globalization and Development is a "cross-national study" on the "interstate dispersion" of the...
Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change
Lee J. Alston, Marcus Andre Melo, Bernardo Mueller and Carlos Pereira
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Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth...
I am Because You are: How the Spirit of Ubuntu Inspired an Unlikely Friendship and Transformed a Community
Jacob Lief and Andrea Thompson
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In 1998, Jacob Lief, a 21-year-old American university student, met school teacher Malizole "Banks"...