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  • True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars

    "The story of the search itself as told by Miss Baker's pen is fascinating...those of the captives who were not redeemed, mixing with their captors...lived out their pathetic romantic lives and in those Canadian villages lie buried in nameless graves." -The Buffalo Commercial, May 22, 1897"Most of the surviving men and women were recovered; but a large proportion of the children remained in Canada ... Read more

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  • This Fragile Life

    A Mother's Story of a Bipolar Son

    Charlotte Pierce-Baker did everything right when raising her son, providing not only emotional support but the best education possible. At age twenty-five, he was pursuing a postgraduate degree and seemingly in control of his life. She never imagined her high-achieving son would wind up handcuffed, dirty, and in jail.The moving story of an African American family facing the challenge of bipolar ... Read more

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  • Surviving the Silence

    Black Women's Stories of Rape

    In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.It opens with the author's harrowing and courageous account of her rape and includes the stories of the author's own family's response, plus the voices of black men ... Read more

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  • Activating Arts to Understand Disability in Africa

    Inclusive Explanations

    Series series Interdisciplinary Disability Studies
    While Disability Studies has become more diversified in recent years, contemporary debates still favour the Northern Hemisphere, ignoring the lived experience of disabled people in much of the global South. Few theoretical studies pay sufficient attention to the range of beliefs and attitudes towards disability in specific African contexts, despite the fact that beliefs and explanations for ... Read more

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  • Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa

    Narratives of Change

    Series Book 2 - Disability, Media, Culture
    «The authors in this inspiring volume focus on the socially transformative potential narrative has to shape understandings of albinism in Africa. Scholars and activists, they reflect on how traditional beliefs, literary fiction, radio, music, photography, film and the arts can bring about social change, and also educate publics about albinism.»(Carli Coetzee, Editor, Journal of African Cultural ... Read more

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  • Cases on Digital Learning and Teaching Transformations in Higher Education

    Colleges and universities throughout the United States are reimagining teaching and learning processes to best match the personalized needs of the 21st century learner in the present digital age. Applying various digital education strategies within undergraduate and graduate settings and identifying the metrics that can be used to effectively determine learning outcomes are all critical to ... Read more

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  • Neoliberalism and Terror

    Critical Engagements

    Terrorism and neoliberalism are connected in multiple, complex, and often camouflaged ways. This book offers a critical exploration of some of the intersections between the two, drawing on a wide range of case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, and the European Union. Contributors to the book investigate the impact of neoliberal technologies and intellectual paradigms upon ... Read more

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  • Prosthetics

    A Graphic History

    Illustrated by Charlotte Baker ...
    Series series Amazing Inventions
    Modern prosthetics are sophisticated wearable tech, but artificial limbs date all the way back to ancient Egypt! From the Greville Chester toe to modern-day running blades, prosthetics help people all over the world enhance their quality of life. In this graphic history, learn about the earliest prosthetics, their increased importance after the World Wars, the Paralympics, and how technology could ... Read more

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  • Counter-Radicalisation

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    Series series Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
    This book offers a wide-ranging and critical examination of recent counter-radicalisation policies, using case studies from several countries.Counter-radicalisation policies, such as the UK ‘Prevent’ strategy, have been highly controversial and increasingly criticised since their introduction. In this edited volume, voices from disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology and ... Read more

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    Fifty Shades of August

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    1 hour 17 min

    The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite ways regardless of our need to keep a count of where we expect her to be.Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment.1 - Fifty Shades of August - An Introduction2 - Stanzas For ... Read more

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  • Yorkshire People

    The largest county in England, Yorkshire encompasses modern cities, industrial heritage, historic towns and villages, wide landscapes of hill and moorland, fertile agricultural regions, a long and unspoiled coastline, and much more, in which the people of Yorkshire are at work daily. In this book professional photographer Charlotte Graham celebrates Yorkshire life in all its variety in a ... Read more

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    This book is an introduction to critical approaches to terrorism studies.While there is a growing body of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) literature devoted to empirical examples and conceptual development, very little has been written about how to systematically carry out this kind of research. Critical Terrorism Studies fills this gap by addressing three key themes:The position of terrorism ... Read more

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