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  • Uprooting Bias in the Academy

    Lessons from the Field

    Edited by Linda F. Bisson, Laura Grindstaff, Lisceth Brazil-Cruz, Sophie J. Barbu ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book analyzes barriers to inclusion in academia and details ways to create a more diverse, inclusive environment. It describes the implementation of UC Davis ADVANCE, a grant program funded by the National Science Foundation, to increase the hiring and retention of underrepresented scholars in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and foster a culture ... Read more

    Free

  • Risk, Courage, and Women

    Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry

    Edited by Karen A. Waldron, Janice H. Brazil, Laura M. Labatt ...
    This unique collection of narratives, essays, and poems includes an original interview with Maya Angelou and pieces by Naomi Shihab Nye, Pat Mora, Rosemary Catacalos, and many others. Each work relates how women have demonstrated courage by taking a risk that has changed their lives. The Introduction explores courage not as a battlefield quality, but as the result of thoughtful choices ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross

    Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil

    Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty ...
    by Laura de Mello e Souza ...
    Series series LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series
    Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts from Inquisition trials, Mello e Souza reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    Love's Fortune

    by Laura Frantz ...
    Narrated by Angela Brazil ...
    Series series Ballantyne Legacy

    Unabridged

    13 hours 3 min

    Sheltered since birth at her Kentucky home, Rowena Ballantyne has heard only whispered rumors of her grandfather Silas's vast fortune and grand manor in Pennsylvania. When her father receives a rare letter summoning him to New Hope, Rowena makes the journey with him and quickly finds herself in a whole new world—filled with family members she's never met, dances she's never learned, and a new side ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unraveling Transnational Merchant Networks, ca. 1685–1825

    Roots of an American Commercial Presence in Brazil

    by Laura Jarnagin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    This book examines merchant networks from the unique perspective of moving backward in time from a specific outcome—the founding of an American commission house in Brazil in the early 1800s—to uncover a century-and-a-half’s worth of the transnational networking that led to its existence.Individuals, their networks, and the times in which they lived constitute this study’s methodological framework. ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    Love's Reckoning

    by Laura Frantz ...
    Narrated by Angela Brazil ...
    Series series Ballantyne Legacy

    Unabridged

    13 hours 55 min

    On a bitter December day in 1785, Silas Ballantyne arrives at the door of master blacksmith Liege Lee in York, Pennsylvania. Just months from becoming a master blacksmith himself, Silas is determined to finish his apprenticeship and move west. But Liege soon discovers that Silas is a prodigious worker and craftsman and endeavors to keep him in York. Silas becomes interested in both of Liege's ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Love's Awakening

    by Laura Frantz ...
    Narrated by Angela Brazil ...
    Series series Ballantyne Legacy

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    Ellie Ballantyne, youngest child of Silas and Eden, has left finishing school. But back at her family home in Pittsburgh, Ellie finds that her parents are away on a long trip and her siblings don't seem to want her to stay. When she opens a day school for young ladies, she begins tutoring the incorrigible daughter of the enemy Turlock clan. The Turlocks are slaveholders and whiskey magnates, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Confederados

    Old South Immigrants in Brazil

    by Cecil Ataide Melo, Elizabeth Weisbrod, Eugene C. Harter, James M. Gravois, Laura Jarnagin, William C. Griggs, John Charles Dawson, Michael B. Montgomery, Dr. Wayne Flynt ...
    The story of exiles from the Confederate South who fled to Brazil after the US Civil War. The collection includes a previously unpublished narrative by an original settlerIn the wake of the American Civil War, thousands of disillusioned Southerners sought refuge far from Reconstruction’s reach—many found it in Brazil. The Confederados is a compelling exploration of this little-known migration, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Untrusting

    In Pursuit of Democratic Policing in Brazil

    by Marta-Laura Haynes ...
    What does it mean to trust in a world shaped by violence and inequality? This book investigates the fraught pursuit of democratic policing in Brazil, where trust is both a necessity and a precarious gamble. Marta-Laura Haynes follows police officers and favela residents through patrols, crime scenes, fishing trips, drumming circles, and neighborhood gatherings to reveal how trust is not simply ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Trade Policy of Emerging Powers

    Strategic Choices of Brazil and India

    by Laura Mahrenbach ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    As emerging powers deepen their involvement in world trade and global governance, it is crucial to explore the what and the why of their strategic choices vis-a-vis the World Trade Organization. This book does just that, examining the trade policy decisions of two emerging power states, Brazil and India, since 2001. In this timely work, Laura Carsten Mahrenbach develops a broad-based analytical ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • A Confluence of Transatlantic Networks

    Elites, Capitalism, and Confederate Migration to Brazil

    by Laura Jarnagin ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    Examines the qualitative nature of capitalism’s processes through the lens of social networksA Confluence of Transatlantic Network demonstrates how portions of interconnected trust-based kinship, business, and ideational transatlantic networks evolved over roughly a century and a half and eventually converged to engender, promote, and facilitate the migration of southern elites to Brazil in the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Brazil

    Media from the Country of the Future

    by Laura Robinson, Shelia R. Cotten ...
    Series Book 13 - Studies in Media and Communications
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume assembles the contributions of a dynamic editorial team composed of leading scholars from Brazil and the United States. Volume 13 provides an unparalleled compilation of research on Brazilian media and communication studies guided by the expert hands ... Read more

    $173.99 CAD