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  • Everyday Life in South Asia

    Edited by Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb ...
    Now updated: An "eminently readable, highly engaging" anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University).For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession

    Global Perspectives

    by Sarah Lamb, Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski, Anna Corwin, Toni Calasanti, Neal King, Abigail Brooks, Imani Woody, Emily Wentzell, Elana Buch, Janelle S. Taylor0, Aske Juul Lassen1, Astrid Pernille Jespersen2, Jason Danely3, Judith Farquhar4, Qicheng Zhang5, Janet McIntosh6, Annette Leibing7, Meika Loe8 ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Adventures of The Cooley Kids-Do You Believe In Gnomes

    by Dennis Seiler ...
    Illustrated by Carmen DeVeau ...
    Gnomes have invaded Mapleville. Are these mysterious sightings from actors playing a role to fool the townsfolk? Or could it be that gnomes really do exist? Their cousin Moxie, her yellow labrador retriever Sammie and her family move to Mapleville. Now there are six Cooley kids and three friends that make up the Cooley Kids Crew. They are determined to discover the truth behind this mystery.The ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • ADVENTURES OF THE COOLEY KIDS- MYSTERY IN MAPLEVILLE

    by Dennis Seiler ...
    Illustrated by Carmen DeVeau ...
    The Cooley kids have just started a new grade and they've been given a special assignment like no other: they have to solve a mystery that will not only affect their class, it will affect all of Mapleville.This book is filled with mystery, adventure, teamwork and fun. Adventures of the Cooley Kids Mystery In Mapleville is a book all ages can enjoy."Adventures of the Cooley Kids is reminiscent of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Opting Out

    Women Messing with Marriage around the World

    by Joanna Davidson, Dinah Hannaford, Julia Pauli, Jacqueline Solway, Sarah Lamb, Laura C. Nelson, Kimberly Walters, Melanie A. Medeiros, Carla Freeman0, Akiko Takeyama1, Brady G'Sell2, Carla Jones3 ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • White Saris and Sweet Mangoes

    Aging, Gender, and Body in North India

    by Sarah Lamb ...
    This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Louise

    by Sarah Lamb ...
    Narrated by Christopher Mayer ...
    Series Audiobook 16 - Rescue Me Mail Order Brides

    Unabridged

    2 hours 43 min

    The night before her wedding and honeymoon on Titanic's maiden voyage, Louise discovers the man she was to marry is a hardened criminal. Desperate to escape and protect her younger sister, she does the only thing she can think of to hide—become a mail order bride and mother to two young children. Louise knows nothing of mothering or managing a home, and it’s sure to be the perfect cover.But when ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Mathilda

    by Sarah Lamb ...
    Narrated by Christopher Mayer ...
    Series Audiobook 7 - Rescue Me Mail Order Brides

    Unabridged

    2 hours 48 min

    The last thing Mathilda thought she’d be doing was boarding the Titanic to escape the danger hot on her heels. With knowledge of important papers that could get her killed and a wad of money, she’s trying to get as far away as she can with her older sister.Fleeing for her life, she becomes a mail order bride. However, Mathilda discovers she might not be able to keep her past a secret. The man she ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Second Half

    Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty

    by Ellen Warner, Sarah Lamb ...
    Narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi, Hannah Choi, Carmen Jewel Jones ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    A frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty.The Second Half explores how the second half of life is experienced by women from many different cultures. From a French actress to a British novelist, from an Algerian nomad to a Saudi Arabian doctor, and an American politician, Ellen Warner traveled all over the world to interview women about their lives. She asked them what ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Great Awakening

    A Buddhist Social Theory

    by David R. Loy ...
    The most essential insight that Buddhism offers is that all our individual suffering arises from three and only three sources, known in Buddhism as the three poisons: greed, ill-will, and delusion. In The Great Awakening, scholar and Zen teacher David Loy examines how these three poisons, embodied in society's institutions, lie at the root of all social maladies as well. The teachings of Buddhism ... Read more

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