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Who Is Jeff Kinney? By Patrick Kinney, read by Ramón de Ocampo. Listen to find out more about a boy who played practical jokes and made up funny stories, a college student with a popular...
Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformation
From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories. In Taiwan Lives, Niki J. P. Alsford presents a comprehensive examination of the island nation's rich and complex past, told through the life stories of those who have lived it.
A merchant, an exile, an
Who Is Bob Dylan? By Jim O’Connor; read by MacLeod Andrews. Listen to find out more about a boy named Bobby Zimmerman from Hibbing, Minnesota; a folksinger in Greenwich Village in the 1960s; and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who Was Frida Kahlo? By Sarah Fabiny; read by Marisol Ramirez. Listen to find...
Who Was Lucille Ball? By Pamela D. Pollack and Meg Belviso; read by Tara Sands. Listen to find out more about a young girl from New York who loved to perform, a model and dancer who moved to Hollywood to become a movie star, and one of the most famous comedians of all time, who starred in her own hit TV show.
Who Was Walt Disney? By Whitney Stewart;...
Who Was Roberto Clemente? By James Buckley Jr., read by Ron Butler. Listen to find out more about a boy from Puerto Rico who loved baseball;...
Who Was Frederick Douglass? By April Jones Prince, read by John H. Mayer. Listen to find out more about a boy born into slavery who taught himself to read and write, a young man who escaped to freedom in the North, and the father of the civil rights movement.
Who Was Nelson Mandela? By Pam Pollack & Meg Belviso, read by Mark Bramhall. Listen...
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Feeling constantly rushed isn't only your problem - it's a social issue.
This book examines how societal norms, the disappearance of collective rhythms and constant connectivity create chronic time pressure. Combining international comparisons and sociological analyses, it explores how busyness affects physical and mental wellbeing, why mothers carry extra burdens and the
...The History of the Shtetl after 1945 is the first book-length social history of the aftermath of the Holocaust in the Eastern European countryside and of the mass-scale repopulation, domestication and adaptation of vacated Jewish spaces. After the Holocaust, the shtetl began to be perceived in terms of "an East European Atlantis." Against the background of this grand narrative of obliteration and discontinuity, this book argues that the shtetl
...Forced migration is an international problem impacting global powers as well as smaller resource-constrained countries. The rhetoric, globally and locally is rife with a confusing tangle about war, violence, persecution, vulnerability, victimhood, thievery, welfare leaching, and economy recking. Arts Initiatives by Refugees for Refugees is a narrative-driven book based in global multi-site research about the arts and cultural dimension
...From modern slavery to environmental breakdown, the most urgent challenges of our time demand approaches that can work with complexity, rapidly adapt, and catalyse lasting change through the agency of ordinary people.
This book introduces Systemic Action Research (SAR) – a participatory methodology designed to transform "hard to shift" patterns and dynamics in systems. Having implemented more than 30 large-scale SAR programmes worldwide,
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Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?
Drawing on extensive archival research in the UK and the US, this book uncovers how Cold War planners planned to keep capitalism alive even after a nuclear apocalypse.
Through scenario planning, US officials anticipated capitalist recovery, while UK strategies prioritised preserving elite power
...At the book's core lies a quiet but radical idea: matter does not merely serve human thought; it participates in how we think, build, and understand our environments. Fibers, surfaces, and tools from tree bark, fungi, and wool to digital data and clouds become active partners in perception and design processes, co-producing knowledge across laboratories, workshops, studios, and archives, and opening new pathways for human–material interaction.
...A must-read for higher education leaders committed to equity, Ivory Towers Have Glass Ceilings examines faculty members' experiences in promotion to full professorship. This volume discusses how structures, practices, processes, and policies pertaining to promotion from associate professor to full professor both presume and reproduce racialized and gendered inequity.
Women's teaching and service loads are often quantitatively
...In Artistic Art Histories of Southeast Asia, Roger Nelson asks what knowledge is produced when contemporary artists engage—within their artworks—with overlooked histories of modern art. Through close readings of artworks by artists living and working across Southeast Asia and in the region's diasporas, Nelson argues that their practices contribute to decolonizing art history, drawing on the discipline's distinctive
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This groundbreaking book is the first to put housing, property and planning data at the centre of critical analysis. While such data shape key decisions about housing and urban development, little attention has been paid to the politics and praxes of their production and use.
Bringing together international and interdisciplinary perspectives, the book examines how governments,
...An ethnography about the practice of ingesting the Qur'an as medicine in Zanzibar
Tacit Textuality is an ethnography about the practice of kombe in Zanzibar, in which Qurʾanic verses are liquefied and consumed across religious divides for afflicted bodies to be healed. Primarily based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in two Zanzibari healing rooms, the book investigates three foci. Firstly, it delves into the minute
The Menzerath–Altmann law can be traced back to 1928, when it was observed that long German words tend to consist of short syllables, and vice versa. The law was later generalized to be applicable to all languages. In essence, the Menzerath–Altmann law constitutes a mathematical model for the relation between sizes of linguistic constituents and constructs. It is almost ubiquitous, both across languages and across different types of
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