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Author |
: Asale Angel-Ajani |
Publisher |
: Seal Press |
Total Pages |
: 675 |
Release |
: 2010-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580053792 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1580053793 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Trade by : Asale Angel-Ajani
Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in Italy's notorious Rebibbia Prison—and gained unprecedented access into the narcotics trade. Herself the daughter of a drug trafficker, Angel-Ajani brings a wrenching, deeply personal perspective to the account of these women's lives, and offers a nuanced understanding of the global context within which African women are entering the drug trade in ever-increasing numbers. Strange Trade follows Pauline and Mary as they traverse three continents, survive wars, poverty, and shattered families, secure drug shipments, and commit murder. Angel-Ajani paints rich, intimate, and profoundly surprising portraits without glamorizing, sanitizing, or offering judgment. The result is an unvarnished journey into a world that, until now, has remained hidden; and a glimpse into the motives that led these women to risk—and ultimately lose—everything.
Author |
: Kent H. Redford |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2021-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300230970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300230974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Natures by : Kent H. Redford
A groundbreaking examination of the implications of synthetic biology for biodiversity conservation Nature almost everywhere survives on human terms. The distinction between what is natural and what is human-made, which has informed conservation for centuries, has become blurred. When scientists can reshape genes more or less at will, what does it mean to conserve nature? The tools of synthetic biology are changing the way we answer that question. Gene editing technology is already transforming the agriculture and biotechnology industries. What happens if synthetic biology is also used in conservation to control invasive species, fight wildlife disease, or even bring extinct species back from the dead? Conservation scientist Kent Redford and geographer Bill Adams turn to synthetic biology, ecological restoration, political ecology, and de-extinction studies and propose a thoroughly innovative vision for protecting nature.
Author |
: Michael Strange |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2013-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136022807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136022805 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing Global Trade Governance by : Michael Strange
Writing Global Trade Governance operationalises a key post-structuralist methodology in order to expand understanding on the institution at the heart of the global political economy. Despite the WTO’s centrality and the growing popularity of methods utilizing discourse theory, no other text has yet demonstrated how these two fields of learning can be productively combined. The book seeks to move beyond existing literatures that assume the WTO to be a structure, institution or normative framework, in order to enquire into the discursive processes of identity formation that make the WTO both possible and contested. The book criticises conventional approaches that treat critical civil society as distinct to the WTO, arguing instead that it is only through including such social practices within the field of relations making the WTO that we can properly understand what makes the WTO work. The book presents an empirical analysis of the discursive character of the present-day WTO (including its formation and operation) and then moves on to evaluate how it is subject to change within a broader social context. The final stage of the book seeks to discuss the impact of the findings on future research, both on the WTO and other institutions. This work is a significant intervention in the literature on the World Trade Organization and the politics of global trade and social movements, and will be of great interest to students and scholars of global governance, discourse theory and international organizations
Author |
: Paul Di Filippo |
Publisher |
: Open Road Media |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 2014-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781497613188 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1497613183 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Trades by : Paul Di Filippo
“Full of storytelling that is untamed, writing that is superb, and tales that are expansive and suggestive . . . a wry romp worthy of your attention” (Strange Horizons). In these eleven stories, including Nebula Award finalist “Kid Charlemagne,” Paul Di Filippo applies his armamentarium of vastly varied literary skills to an examination and definition of the outer limits of an almost unbearably mundane-sounding subject: daily toil or, in a word, jobs. In “Spondulix,” Rory Honeyman, desperate to preserve the meager cash flow in his sandwich shop, starts offering store coupons that somehow take on a life of their own. “The Mill” is the only place in the universe where Luxcloth, treasured and worn by many, can be manufactured and only at the direction of one man. “The Boredom Factory” gives meaning to the phrase “living to work.” Keep reading—it will be the easiest job you’ve ever had. You can try to escape from the mundane, or with the help of Paul Di Filippo, you can take a brief, meaningful break from it. In the vein of George Saunders or Michael Chabon, Di Filippo uses the tools of science fiction and the surreal to take a deep, richly felt look at humanity. His brand of funny, quirky, thoughtful, fast‐moving, heart‐warming, brain‐bending stories exist across the entire spectrum of the fantastic from hard science fiction to satire to fantasy and on to horror, delivering a riotously entertaining string of modern fables and stories from tomorrow, now, and anytime. After you read Paul Di Filippo, you will no longer see everyday life quite the same. Strange Trades includes an introduction by Bruce Sterling.
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Total Pages |
: 1160 |
Release |
: 1898 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:105090679 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Timber and Wood-working Machinery by :
Author |
: Christian Caryl |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2014-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465065646 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465065643 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Rebels by : Christian Caryl
Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would fuel globalization and radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings of the resistance movements in Eastern Europe and Afghanistan that ultimately led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. More than any other year in the latter half of the twentieth century, 1979 heralded the economic, political, and religious realities that define the twenty-first. In Strange Rebels, veteran journalist Christian Caryl shows how the world we live in today -- and the problems that plague it -- began to take shape in this pivotal year. 1979, he explains, saw a series of counterrevolutions against the progressive consensus that had dominated the postwar era. The year's epic upheavals embodied a startling conservative challenge to communist and socialist systems around the globe, fundamentally transforming politics and economics worldwide. In China, 1979 marked the start of sweeping market-oriented reforms that have made the country the economic powerhouse it is today. 1979 was also the year that Pope John Paul II traveled to Poland, confronting communism in Eastern Europe by reigniting its people's suppressed Catholic faith. In Iran, meanwhile, an Islamic Revolution transformed the nation into a theocracy almost overnight, overthrowing the Shah's modernizing monarchy. Further west, Margaret Thatcher became prime minister of Britain, returning it to a purer form of free-market capitalism and opening the way for Ronald Reagan to do the same in the US. And in Afghanistan, a Soviet invasion fueled an Islamic holy war with global consequences; the Afghan mujahedin presaged the rise of al-Qaeda and served as a key factor -- along with John Paul's journey to Poland -- in the fall of communism. Weaving the story of each of these counterrevolutions into a brisk, gripping narrative, Strange Rebels is a groundbreaking account of how these far-flung events and disparate actors and movements gave birth to our modern age.
Author |
: Christopher J Pine |
Publisher |
: Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages |
: 197 |
Release |
: 2013-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781907203657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1907203656 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pathways of the Druids by : Christopher J Pine
In AD 60 the Roman Empire occupies Britannia, destroying its ancient culture. Under the leadership of Boudicca, the Iceni rise up against Nero's forces but it is a losing battle. Yet the Druids are masters of nature, and in a final desperate strategy to avoid slavery, the priests summon their greatest magic to open a portal into an alternative world. One last Celtic tribe, the Ordoveteii, race to cross the threshold…
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Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 1874 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:555008563 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Local Preachers' Magazine and Christian Family Record by :
Author |
: John William Smith |
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Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 1872 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:35112104456787 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Selection of Leading Cases, on Various Branches of the Law by : John William Smith
Author |
: Tsega Endalew |
Publisher |
: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3447054425 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783447054423 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inter-ethnic Relations on a Frontier by : Tsega Endalew
Matakkal is a large region in Northwest Ethiopia along the Sudanese border. In former times it comprised nearly half of Goggam, although not counting more than 250.000 Inhabitants, who belonged to different ethnical groups. Members from all four Ethiopian language families (Semitic, Kushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharian) inhabit the area. Matakkal represents thus from ethno-linguistic view a pattern of Ethiopia. The special ethnical variety of this region goes back to demographic and political changes in the Horn of Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 16th century large subpopulations came into the region and led to an ethnical enriching. While Oromo, Sinasa and Agaw assimilated in most areas of Goggam to the dominant Amharic speaking population, in Matakkal the same subpopulations retained their ethnical identity to a large extent. The investigation is based on interviews with informants and fi eld research, as well as on documents and archives. The study is an interdisciplinary work, which combines history, anthropology and peace research. It deals with cultures and history of the peoples in the border area between Ethiopia and the Sudan from the last decade of the 19th century up to the end of the Ethiopian Revolution in 1991.