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Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation-international NGO and state-sponsored conservation efforts on the one hand and the neoliberal private investment in tourism on...
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Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban success stories-a place that has grown enormously through "creative class" strategies emphasizing tolerance and environmental consciousness. In Shadows of a Sunbelt City, Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar story by exploring the racial and environmental underpinnings of the postindustrial knowledge economy. He is particularly attentive to how the University of Texas-working...
83) Sweet Desire
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Fate can only be avoided for so long. Gessilyn's time is up.
She has been living a quiet life, pretending to be human for many years, but now she's a witch on the run. Her old coven has found her-and they want Gessilyn dead.
If she's to survive, Gessilyn must return to her roots and learn magic from a father she never knew. The power within her reveals itself to be stronger than she can handle. As a result, Gessilyn finds herself more of a risk...
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The disciples and early Christians faced doubt, opposition, and threats--just like many Christians do today. In Together with the World, Michael Wagenman shows how the book of Acts can help modern Christians respond to crisis and critique in our contemporary world. The book of Acts is about more than simply the beginning of church history. In Together for the World we find a group of disciples, empowered by the Holy Spirit, following God's call to...
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Aimerais-tu savoir ce que Louca fera du fabuleux trésor des loups-garous des mines? Ouvre ce livre et tu te retrouveras une fois de plus dans le corps du brave loup de mer. Quand son monde plongera au coeur d'une nuit sans fin, c'est toi qui auras pour mission de ramener le soleil. Une pierre magique, le coeur de la déesse Sedna, te guidera d'un long fleuve à une fabuleuse forêt tropicale. L'ennui, c'est que certains animaux, nocturnes et dangereux,...
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The book of Judges can pose many puzzles for readers today: who were the "judges"? Why was this book written, and how does it fit into the biblical narrative? And how can the story it tells--one of bloodshed, intrigue, and rejection of Yahweh's authority--change our understanding of God today? Deserting the King guides readers through the difficulties that the book of Judges can pose for readers as it traces both the evil and redemption present in...
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Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom struggle there to reckon with its unfinished business. Reading contemporary policies of abandonment against the grain, Clyde Woods explores how Hurricane Katrina brought long-standing structures of domination into view. In so doing, Woods delineates the roots of neoliberalism in the region and a history of resistance....
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Nowhere has the U.S. military established more bases, lost more troops, or spent more money in the last thirty years than in the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions fall under the purview of United States Central Command (CENTCOM); not coincidentally, they include the most energy-rich places on earth. From its inception, CENTCOM was tasked with the military and economic security of this key strategic area, the safeguarding of commercial opportunities...
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This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change.
Debates about radical democracy, Barnett argues, have become trapped around a set of oppositions between deliberative and agonistic theories-contrasting...
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La magicienne Cornélia doit choisir son héritière, celle qui sera un jour la protectrice du marais o vit Énalla. L'intrépide demoiselle-fée est-elle digne de cet honneur? Pour l'aider à prouver sa valeur, ouvre ce livre et emprunte une fois de plus son corps. Tu devras déjouer les sournoiseries de la fée-chauve-souris, car elle s'amuse à détraquer le temps qu'il fait, perturbant de pauvres animaux de ferme. Dans la neige, le brouillard...
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Good Christian doctrine is not simply getting the facts right: it is something transformative, brought to life in obedience to Christ. In his letter to Titus, the Apostle Paul implores the reader to take truth seriously and to ensure that the good news of gospel is being passed on in its full force. Solid Christian doctrine and a passion for godly Christian life are twin themes weave their way throughout this short epistle.In Living Doctrine, Danny...
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Based on original fieldwork in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico, this book offers a bridge between geography and historical sociology. Chris Hesketh examines the production of space within the global political economy. Drawing on multiple disciplines, Hesketh's discussion of state formation in Mexico takes us beyond the national level to explore the interplay between global, regional, national, and sub-national articulations of power. These are linked through...
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In the first age, 'The Age of Innocence', the Guardians fought a series of battles against the Shadows that transform this realm. For thousands of years, through their desire and their will, these three worlds, Caldon, Earth and Udica become the support of the entire galaxy...
In the second age, 'The Age of Knowledge', the Shadow One is hell bent on the conquest of Pern after losing Udicia. After failing in the initial wave with the loss of his Queen,...
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Humans and Transformers are at war and Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving humanity's future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
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We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty. First coined by La Via Campesina (a global movement whose name means "the peasant's way"), food sovereignty is a concept that expresses the universal right to food. Amy Trauger uses research combining ethnography, participant observation, field notes, and interviews to help us understand the material and definitional struggles surrounding the decommodification...
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Brings psychoanalytic concepts to the notion of childhood development with a keen eye to discussions of social justice and human dignity.
Childhood beyond Pathology offers an account of the ways that psychoanalytic concepts can inform ongoing challenges of representing development, belonging, and relationality, with a focus on debates over how children should be treated, what they might know, and who they should become. Drawing from fiction, clinical...
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Doreen Massey was a creative scholar, inspiring teacher and restless activist. Her path-breaking thinking about space, place, politics and economy changed not only geography but the critical social sciences, initiating new ways of seeing, understanding and indeed transforming the world.
This collection of commissioned essays, including from Doreen Massey's long-time interlocutors and collaborators, explores both the generative sources and the continuing...
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Doreen Massey (1944—2016) changed geography. Her ideas on space, region, labour, identity, ethics and capital transformed the field itself, while also attracting a wide audience in sociology, planning, political economy, cultural studies, gender studies and beyond. The significance of her contributions is difficult to overstate. Far from a dry defence of disciplinary turf, her claim that “geography matters” possessed both scholarly substance...
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Readers are introduced to the perils of famine and drought and the lasting effects they have on Earth's geography and human population. This captivating text brings forth how famine and drought happen, what measures are taken to avoid them, and how they have impacted different parts of the world. Additional information is provided through enlightening fact boxes and simple diagrams to enhance readers' knowledge of these crucial subjects. Illuminating,...
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The ancient book of Ruth speaks into today's world with astonishing relevance. In four short episodes, readers encounter refugees, undocumented immigrants, poverty, hunger, women's rights, male power and privilege, discrimination, and injustice. In Finding God in the Margins, Carolyn Custis James reveals how the book of Ruth is about God, the questions that surface when life falls apart, and how God reaches into the margins and chooses two totally...
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