Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Audiobook

    Windswept [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Windswept 1

    Series series Windswept

    Unabridged

    8 hours 17 min

    Labor organizer Padma Mehta is on the edge of space and the edge of burnout. All she wants is to buy out a little rum distillery and retire, but she's supposed to recruit 500 people to the Union before she can. She's only thirty-three short. So when a small-time con artist tells her about forty people ready to tumble down the space elevator to break free from her old bosses, she checks it out -- ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waging War, Making Peace

    Reparations and Human Rights

    Humans are good at making war—and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism, and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political mechanism ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Park Avenue Scandals Bundle

    An Anthology

    Welcome to 721 Park Avenue...the ultimate address for high-price secrets!This luxurious building on Manhattan's tony upper east side is up for historical landmark status, and its tenants include the movers and shakers of New York City and the cr?me de la cr?me of society. But it's the secrets hidden behind its closed doors that fill this fascinating residence with mystery, drama and romance. And ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

    The Rongelap Report

    The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Dynasties: The Elliotts Miniseries

    Series series The Elliotts
    When sexy, suave, millionaire spy Bryan Elliott rescued her, banker-turned-mole Lucy Miller knew his alias was well deserved. The dashing agent simply took her breath away. With danger at her doorstep, Bryan whisked her to safety at his pricey Manhattan penthouse, gave her a new name and a new look, taking her from plain Jane to gorgeous sophisticate. Gone was shy little Lucy Miller from Kansas. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Life and Death Matters

    Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, Second Edition

    Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston ...
    The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Water, Culture, and Power

    Local Struggles In A Global Context

    According to some estimates, at least 1.7 billion people do not have an adequate supply of drinking water and as many as 40% of the world's population face chronic shortages. Yet water scarcity is more than a matter of terrain, increased population, and climate. It can also be a byproduct or end result of water management, where the building of dams, canals, and complicated delivery systems ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Disappearing Peoples?

    Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia

    South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of change including environmental degradation, population growth, land loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Archipelago

    A Reader

    Archipelago is one of the most important and influential literary magazines of the lasttwenty years. Running to twelve editions, it was edited by Andrew McNeillie, with theassistance later of James McDonald Lockhart, and began as an attempt to reimagine therelationships between the islands of Ireland and Britain. Archipelago has brought togetherestablished and emerging artists in creative ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Color of Being/El Color del Ser

    Dorothy Hood, 1918–2000

    by Susie Kalil ...
    Born in Bryan, Texas, and raised in Houston, Dorothy Hood won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1930s, then worked as a model in New York to earn money for classes at the Art Students League. On a whim, she drove a roadster to Mexico City with friends in 1941 and ended up staying for more than twenty years.Hood was front and center at the cultural, political, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Who Pays the Price?

    The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis

    Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in ... Read more

    $48.29 USD

  • Resilience and Ageing

    Creativity, Culture and Community

    Series series Connected Communities
    Understanding how creative interventions can help develop social connectivity and resilience for older people is vital in developing a holistic cross-sector approach towards ageing well.Academics with a wide range of expertise critically reflect on how the built environment, community living, cultural participation, lifelong learning, and artist-led interventions encourage older people to thrive ... Read more

    $55.99 USD