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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “katharine summers”
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  • Education and Development in Central America and the Latin Caribbean

    Global Forces and Local Responses

    by Vanessa Pietras, Tobias Roberts, Matthew Aruch, Nanette Archer Svenson, María Carolina Bodewig, Loida M. Martínez-Ramos, Kate Maloney Williams, Kristin Rosekrans, Katharine Summers, Celia Margarita Morán, Alejandro Caravaca, Wim Savenije, Felix Alvarado, Xavier Bonal, Mariana Leon, Rachel Dyl, Changha Lee, Shue-kei Joanna Mok, Michael Lisman ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
    Rooted in an international political economy theoretical framework, this book provides unique insights into the global forces and local responses that are shaping education systems in Central America and the Latin Caribbean (CALC).The book covers all Spanish-speaking countries of the CALC region and examines the effects of macro-economic pressures, geopolitical intervention, neo-colonial ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Accessing Quality Education

    Local and Global Perspectives from Refugees

    by Bernhard Streitwieser, Katharine Summers, Jessica Crist, Olufikayo Abiola Akintola, Alexander Erickson, Isabelle Hoagland, Ciara Hoyne, Olivia Issa0, Ashley J. Mitchell1, Caroline Rakus-Wojciechowski2, Haley Skeens3, Savannah Smith4, Brittany Troupe5 ...
    This book shares the experiences of refugees settled in the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia area (DMV) over the last ten years and their journeys back into education. What motivated their paths to access and success in education? What were their dreams and aspirations? What obstacles stood in their way and how did they overcome them? Who helped them along the way? What advice do they have ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

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    Haze

    by Katharine Kerr ...
    Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer ...
    Series series Haze

    Unabridged

    13 hours 9 min

    Three thousand years in the future, a starship pilot battling addiction becomes the unexpected key to unraveling a mystery that threatens the very foundation of space travel. Haze transports listeners to a multi-alien society governed by the Rim Council, a loose republic of planets protected by the formidable military force known simply as The Fleet. Interstellar civilization hinges on the use of ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

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    Royal Gambit

    A Novel

    by Daniel O'Malley ...
    Narrated by Moira Quirk ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Rook Files

    Unabridged

    16 hours 24 min

    A delightful and hilarious supernatural adventure featuring a lady-in-waiting who must keep the court safe from murder, from the author of The Rook.Alexandra Dennis-Palmer-Hudson-Gilmore-Garnsey (call me “Alix”), the twelfth Lady Mondegreen, has never had any control of her life. Her ability to shatter bones with a touch made her the automatic property of the Checquy, the secret British government ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Dilemmas of Difference

    Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

    by Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • High-Risk Feminism in Colombia

    Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts

    by Julia Margaret Zulver ...
    High-Risk Fe**minism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots women’s organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the aftermath of Colombia’s armed conflict. In doing so, it illustrates a little-studied phenomenon: women whose experiences with violence catalyze them to mobilize and resist as feminists, even in the face of grave danger. Despite a well-established ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Neoliberalism and Urban Development in Latin America

    The Case of Santiago

    Edited by Camillo Boano, Francisco Vergara-Perucich ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the state to its minimum and actively suppressed civil society. Chicago economist Milton Friedman was heavily involved in developing this model, and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Indigenous Development in the Andes

    Culture, Power, and Transnationalism

    by Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie, Sarah A. Radcliffe ...
    As indigenous peoples in Latin America have achieved greater prominence and power, international agencies have attempted to incorporate the agendas of indigenous movements into development policymaking and project implementation. Transnational networks and policies centered on ethnically aware development paradigms have emerged with the goal of supporting indigenous cultures while enabling ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Urban Design Under Neoliberalism

    Theorising from Santiago, Chile

    by Francisco Vergara Perucich ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Urban Studies
    This book discusses the status of urban design as a disciplinary field and as a practice under the current and pervasive neoliberal regime.The main argument is that urban design has been wholly reshaped by neoliberalism. In this transformation, it has become a discipline that has neglected its original ethos – designing good cities – aligning its theory and practice with the sole profit-oriented ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • European Union Support for Colombia's Peace Process

    Civil Society, Human Rights and Territorial Peace

    Edited by Karlos Pérez de Armiño ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the EU's crucial support for the implementation of the Havana Peace Agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP. It explores the use of new approaches and instruments that, despite some limitations and criticisms, could go beyond conventional liberal peace and provide useful lessons. Particular attention is paid to three ... Read more

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  • Protest State

    The Rise of Everyday Contention in Latin America

    by Mason W. Moseley ...
    Why is social protest a normal, almost routine form of political participation in certain Latin American democracies, but not others? In light of surging protests in countries like Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, this book answers this question through a focus on recent trends in the quality of governance and socioeconomic development in the region. Specifically, it argues that increasingly engaged ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Reorganizing Popular Politics

    Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America

    Edited by Ruth Berins Collier, Samuel Handlin ...
    A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations replaced party-affiliated labor unions as the predominant organizations to which the lower classes ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD