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  • Anthropologists in the SecurityScape

    Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity

    Edited by Robert Albro, George Marcus, Laura A McNamara, Monica Schoch-Spana ...
    As the military and intelligence communities re-tool for the 21st century, the long and contentious debate about the role of social scientists in national security environments is dividing the disciplines with renewed passion. Yet, research shows that most scholars have a weak understanding of what today's security institutions actually are and what working in them entails. This book provides an ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Cultural Awareness in the Military

    Developments and Implications for Future Humanitarian Cooperation

    Edited by R. Albro, B. Ivey ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.S. military's effort to account for culture and increase its cultural capacity over the last decade. Contributors to this work consider some of the key challenges, lessons learned, and the limits of such efforts. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Church, Cosmovision and the Environment

    Religion and Social Conflict in Contemporary Latin America

    Edited by Evan Berry, Robert Albro ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Environment
    Though currently only partially understood, evolving interactions among Latin American communities of faith, governments, and civil societies are a key feature of the popular mobilizations and policy debates about environmental issues in the region. This edited collection describes and analyses multiple types of religious engagement with environmental concerns and conflicts seen in modern Latin ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Unexpected Dante

    Perspectives on the Divine Comedy

    by Lucia Alma Wolf, Francesco Ciabattoni, Bernardo Piciché, Kristina M. Olson, Sylvia Rodgers Albro ...
    Dante Alighieri’s long poem The Divine Comedy has been one of the foundational texts of European literature for over 700 years. Yet many mysteries still remain about the symbolism of this richly layered literary work, which has been interpreted in many different ways over the centuries.The Unexpected Dante brings together five leading scholars who offer fresh perspectives on the meanings and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Reaching an Understanding

    Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment

    by John Sabatini, Elizabeth Albro, Tenaha O'Reilly ...
    Reaching an Understanding: Innovations in How We View Reading Assessment builds upon the editors previous book Measuring Up: Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability by representing some early attempts to apply theory to help guide the development of new assessments and measurement models. Reaching an Understanding is divided into two sections: “assessment, learning, and instruction: connecting ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Measuring Up

    Advances in How We Assess Reading Ability

    by John Sabatini, Elizabeth Albro, Tenaha O'Reilly ...
    In recent decades, the science of reading acquisition has been advancing through interdisciplinary research in cognitive, psycholinguistic, developmental, genetic, neuroscience, cross-language, and experimental comparison studies of effective instruction. Some of the science of reading has emerged from the theory and research into the realm of practice and policy. Yet the science and practice of ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Vacant to Vibrant

    Creating Successful Green Infrastructure Networks

    by Sandra Albro ...
    Vacant lots, so often seen as neighborhood blight, have the potential to be a key element of community revitalization. As manufacturing cities reinvent themselves after decades of lost jobs and population, abundant vacant land resources and interest in green infrastructure are expanding opportunities for community and environmental resilience. Vacant to Vibrant explains how inexpensive green ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Railroads Triumphant

    The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force

    by Albro Martin ...
    In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was still so slow, painful, and expensive that most Americans lived all but rooted to the spot, with ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Railroads Triumphant

    The Growth, Rejection, and Rebirth of a Vital American Force

    by Albro Martin ...
    In 1789, when the First Congress met in New York City, the members traveled to the capital just as Roman senators two thousand years earlier had journeyed to Rome, by horse, at a pace of some five miles an hour. Indeed, if sea travel had improved dramatically since Caesar's time, overland travel was still so slow, painful, and expensive that most Americans lived all but rooted to the spot, with ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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    Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

    by Jessica Hernandez Ph.D. ...
    **A 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & TechnologyAn Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors.**Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most ... Read more

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  • Gender, War, and Conflict

    by Laura Sjoberg ...
    Series series Gender and Global Politics
    From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men, throughout the history of warfare, but only recently have they been allowed to join state militaries, insurgent groups, and terrorist ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Mixtec Evangelicals

    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    by Mary I. O'Connor ...
    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Read more

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