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Oranges in the Sun: Short Stories from the Arabian Gulfedited and translated by Deborah S. Akers and Abubaker A. Bagader The stories in Oranges in the Sun capture a distinctly unique vision of the world, embodying the range of emotional and material concerns of the peoples of the Arab Gulf region.
The introduction to the collection provides historical context, as well as a broad overview of the selections. More > | |
Orphan Care: A Comparative ViewJo Daugherty Bailey, editor It is estimated that there are some 140 million orphans worldwide, most of them in transition countries such as Russia and Brazil or poorer regions of the developing world. In Orphan Care, contributors from Botswana, Brazil, China, Russia, Thailand, and Zimbabwe provide insider, on-the-ground perspectives on orphan care in their respective countries, covering the historical and socioeconomic More > | |
Otherwise Homeless: Vehicle Living and the Culture of HomelessnessMichele Wakin Privacy, mobility, dignity—living in a vehicle offers many advantages over life in a shelter or on the street. Michele Wakin broadens our understanding of homelessness by exploring the growing phenomenon of vehicle living and how it differs from other forms of makeshift housing.
Incorporating both quantitative data and ethnographic work in California, Wakin takes us into More > | |
Our Sun Will RiseAmelia Blossom House, with drawings by Selma Waldman A collection of forty-two poems that depict the pain and pathos, the political and personal struggles that marked South Africa during apartheid. House is acutely sensitive to the sometimes subtle, sometimes explosive tensions of her homeland—and to the hope that must accompany any movement toward liberation.
Eighteen full-page drawings by Selma Waldman are presented as visual responses to More > | |
Outsourcing Justice: The Role of Nonprofit Caseworkers in Pretrial Release ProgramsUrsula Castellano Do pretrial release programs, initiated and now operated by a range of nonprofit organizations to redress the inequalities of the bail system, affect the administration of justice? Specifically, do they lessen the barriers to justice often faced by poor and minority defendants? Ursula Castellano's ethnographic study of four pretrial release programs reveals the often unintended consequences of More > | |
Outsourcing National Defense: Why and How Private Contractors Are Providing Public ServicesThomas C. Bruneau Every year, the US Department of Defense allocates more than $400 billion to for-profit firms. Which raises the question: Where does the money go? Thomas Bruneau takes a deep dive into the murky waters of national defense outsourcing to answer that question. Moving beyond the issue of private military contractors, Bruneau investigates the scope, legality, and implications of the private More > | |
Over Land and Sea: Memoir of an Austrian Rear Admiral's Life in Europe and Africa, 1857-1909 [a memoir]Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel; Ronald E. Coons and Pascal James Imperato, editors; J. Winthrop Aldrich, consulting editor Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel lived a fascinating life—he was an Austrian subject who achieved distinction as an African explorer, a naval officer, and a courtier. The turbulent years preceding the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1918 are revived through Höhnel's vibrant memoir.
An explorer of East Africa in the era of Livingstone and Stanley, Höhnel mapped vast More > | |
Overselling the Web?: Development and the InternetCharles Kenny Opinion leaders in government and business routinely tout the Internet's power as a force for economic and social development, and programs designed to bridge the digital divide are springing up across the developing world. Many questions remain, however, about the effectiveness of such programs in fostering greater productivity and improving quality of life. Overselling the Web? offers a much More > | |
Pacific Asia in Quest of DemocracyRoland Rich What does democracy look like in Pacific Asia? Can democratic governance in the region survive the challenges of corruption, violence, and soft authoritarianism? What impact are economic pressures likely to have? These are among the broad questions tackled in Pacific Asia in Quest of Democracy, a comparative study of democratic structures and practices in Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, More > | |
Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other StoriesGhassan Kanafani, translated by Barbara Harlow and Karen E. Riley "Politics and the novel," Ghassan Kanafani once said, "are an indivisible case." Fadl al-Naqib reflected that Kanafani "wrote the Palestinian story, then he was written by it." His narratives offer entry into the Palestinian experience of the conflict that has anguished the people of the Middle East for more than a century.
In Palestine's Children, each story More > |