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  • Building Collective Leadership for Culture Change

    Stories of Relational Organizing on Campus and Beyond

    by Maria Avila ...
    Series series Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, Practices
    Building Collective Leadership for Culture Change shows how five community engagement research projects in the greater Los Angeles area were able to create more collaborative and participatory cultures in their academic institutions and nonacademic settings by using community organizing, research in action, and narrative inquiry. These projects focused on incorporating civic engagement into the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Transformative Civic Engagement Through Community Organizing

    by Maria Avila ...
    Maria Avila presents a personal account of her experience as a teenager working in a factory in Ciudad Juarez to how she got involved in community organizing. She has since applied the its distinctive practices of community organizing to civic engagement in higher education, demonstrating how this can help create a culture that values and rewards civically engaged scholarship and advance higher ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • PAR EntreMundos

    A Pedagogy of the Américas

    Edited by Jennifer Ayala, Julio Cammarota, Margarita I. Berta-Ávila, Melissa Rivera, Louie F. Rodríguez, María Elena Torre ...
    Series Book 15 - Critical Studies of Latinxs in the Americas
    PAR EntreMundos: A Pedagogy of the Américas challenges the standard narratives of "achievement" to think about how Latinx students can experience an education that forges new possibilities of liberation and justice. Growing Latinx student populations have led to concerns about "assimilating" them into mainstream academic frameworks. This book offers an alternative, decolonizing approach that ... Read more

    $48.09 USD

  • La guerra de los tres años Historiografía de la Guerra de los Mil Días en Colombia (1898-1902)

    Historia de Colombia, #93

    by José María Vesga y Ávila ...
    Series Book 93 - Historia de Colombia
    En la obra titulada La Guerra de los Tres Años, el autor José María Vesga y Ávila uno de los jefes de las fuerzas liberales que en 1899 se levantaron en armas contra el gobierno conservador y republicano de Manuel Sanclemente en Colombia, hace un amplio recorrido histórico por gran parte de los escenarios de horror y violencia que caracterizaron ese enfrentamiento bélico más conocido como la ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tourism and Gender-based Violence

    Challenging Inequalities

    by Laura Aguilera Ávila, Sara Ali Abdelghani, Zaid Alrawadieh, Yaxin Chen, Donna Chambers, Jannick Friis Christensen, Derya Demirdelen, Ayla Deniz, Isis Arlene Díaz-Carrión, Lauren Duffy, Jocelyn Finniear, Ching-hua Ho, Ismail Kervankiran, Ellen Koppa, Tenia Kyriazi, Nigel J Morgan, Ana María Munar, Alberto Jonay Rodríguez Darias, Dimitrios Stylidis, Hande Turkoglu, Elaine Chiao Ling Yang ...
    Gender based violence (GBV) in travel and tourism is embedded within wider social structures of gender inequalities and discrimination. This book focuses on the multiple and interconnected manifestations of violence that women and girls encounter in tourism consumption and production, such as physical, sexual, emotional or socio-economic abuse. The book adopts a multidisciplinary perspective in ... Read more

    $95.49 USD

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  • Collaborating for Our Future

    Multistakeholder Partnerships for Solving Complex Problems

    by Barbara Gray, Jill Purdy ...
    Organizations turn to multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) to meet challenges that they cannot handle alone. By tapping the resources of diverse stakeholders, MSPs develop the capability to address complex issues and problems, such as health care delivery, poverty, human rights, watershed management, education, sustainability, and innovation. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Black, Brown, Bruised

    How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation

    by Ebony Omotola McGee ...
    2022 PROSE Award FinalistDrawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM. Based on this extensive research, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile ... Read more

    $24.39 USD

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  • Putting Knowledge to Work

    Edited by Luc Mougeot ...
    Producing knowledge that is relevant and can be acted upon is essential for international development. There is a renewed urgency for knowledge from the civil society sector, particularly non-academic organizations, to be acknowledged and recorded, to be distilled and leveraged, in order to help the sector retain its relevance. Deep transformations are affecting the sector and global North CSOs ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Role of Community Colleges in Skills Development

    Lessons from the Canadian Experience for Developing Asia

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This book presents key features, attributes and defining characteristics of Canadian Community Colleges and Institutes of Technology and the lessons they offer to developing countries in Asia. Internationalization initiatives of Community Colleges suggest that partnerships in skills and human capital development are possible in countries at various stages of development and are in fact the ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burdens of Aspiration

    Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley

    by Elsa Davidson ...
    During the tech boom, Silicon Valley became one of the most concentrated zones of wealth polarization and social inequality in the United States—a place with a fast-disappearing middle class, persistent pockets of poverty, and striking gaps in educational and occupational achievement along class and racial lines. Low-wage workers and their families experienced a profound sense of exclusion from ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Radical Care

    Leading for Justice in Urban Schools

    by Rosa L. Rivera-McCutchen ...
    Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typically described and enacted, is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Brown children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. Drawing from 20 years of researching and working in New York City public ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A New Synthesis of Public Administration

    Serving in the 21st Century

    by Jocelyne Bourgon ...
    Series Book 81 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    In an increasingly interconnected environment, shocks, crises, cascading failures, and surprising breakthroughs are features of our age. The ability to anticipate, intervene, innovate, and adapt is now seen as essential for governments. Public officials serve in an expanded public space that is being reshaped by the rise of social networking and modern information and communication technologies. ... Read more

    $41.39 USD