Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
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The Ocean Blue and YouDuring a light rain, a child dozes on a sandy ocean-side beach, snuggling in her mother's arms. But while the sand beneath her is soft and still, there's a whirlwind of activity in the sea next to her. The waves roll back and forth...
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The Lion and the MouseWhen Mouse wakes up Lion he's in big trouble! But one day, Lion might need Mouse's help...Author: Diane MarwoodPublisher: Crabtree ClassicsPublished: 05/31/2012Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.20dISBN: 9780778779056Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 1.1Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 156906...
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The High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed OceanIn this "essential guide to the half of our blue planet we call the high seas" (Will McCallum, author of How to Give Up Plastic), one of the world's leading voices on the issue tracks the race to exploit and protect our last frontier....
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The Flight of the Wild Gander: Explorations in the Mythological Dimension -- Selected Essays 1944-1968In The Flight of the Wild Gander, renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the individual and geographical origins of myth, outlining the full range of mythology from Grimm's fairy tales to Native American legends. Originally published in 1969, this first collection of Campbell's essays describes...
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Reppin': Pacific Islander Youth and Native JusticeFrom hip-hop artists in the Marshall Islands to innovative multimedia producers in Vanuatu to racial justice writers in Utah, Pacific Islander youth are using radical expression to transform their communities. Exploring multiple perspectives about Pacific Islander youth cultures in such locations as Aotearoa New...
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Melanesian Mainstream: Stringband Music and Identity in VanuatuCitizens of Vanuatu (ni-Vanuatu) perceive stringband music as a marker of national identity, an indicator of their cultural, stylistic, and musical heritage. Through extensive field and ethnographic research, Melanesian Mainstream offers a detailed historical record of the roots, context, evolution, and impact of stringband...
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Laboratories of Learning: Social Movements, Education and Knowledge-Making in the Global South'Outstanding ... This book is a must-read for scholars and activists interested in the impact of grassroots knowledge-making on individuals, institutions and society' -- Rebecca Tarlau, author of Occupying Schools, Occupying Land 'In social movements, people [learn how to] re-imagine their worlds. This powerful...
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In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los AngelesIn the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), believing that it could remedy society's ills. Lisa Messeri offers an ethnographic exploration of this community, which conceptualized VR as an "empathy machine" that...
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Having People, Having Heart: Charity, Sustainable Development, and Problems of Dependence in Central UgandaBelieving that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures--like those in rural Uganda, where Having People, Having Heart takes place--people...
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Funk the Clock: Transgressing Time While Young, Perceptive, and BlackFunk the Clock is about those said to be emblematic of the future yet denied a place in time. Hence, this book is both an invitation and provocation for Black youth to give the finger to the hands of time, while inviting readers to...
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Emerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust LiteratureEmerging Trends in Third-Generation Holocaust Literature offers fresh approaches to understanding how grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators treat their traumatic legacies. The contributors to this volume present a two-fold perspective: that the past continues to live in the lives of the third generation...
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A Winning Dialect: Reinventing Linguistic Tradition in Rural NorwayA Winning Dialect tells the story of linguistic and cultural change in rural Norway over the last two decades.Author: Thea R. StrandPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 06/22/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781487545963
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African Friends and Money Matters: Observations from Africa, Second EditionAfrican Friends and Money Matters grew out of frustrations that Westerners experience when they travel and work in Africa. Africans have just as many frustrations relating to Westerners in their midst. Each manages money, time, and relationships in very different ways, often creating friction...
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What's Race Got To Do With It?: How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality, Second EditionWhat's Race Got To Do With It? Second Edition examines neoliberal education reforms as they are being rolled back (or reworked) to track the changes and continuities of recent years-revealing the ways in which market-driven education reforms work with and through race-and share grassroots...
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Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood Into the FutureRelationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations' governance. Focusing on the unique history and context of Osage nation building efforts,...
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Untold Stories: Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later LifeFeaturing a community of Spanish labour migrants in France who were born at the time of Spain's civil war and came of age during General Francisco Ferdinand's dictatorship, Untold Stories reveals how legacies of authoritarianism circulate in the lives of older adults.Author: David DivitaPublisher:...
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Trapped: Life Under Security Capitalism and How to Escape ItExploring the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states. Calls to defund the police or to stop brutal police violence, argue Mark Maguire and Setha Low, will never succeed as long as there are those who enjoy and take comfort...
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The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America Before IndependenceAfter the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years' War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions,...
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The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore EssaysThe Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explanation of folklore. Can we confidently regard jokes as the catharsis of sexual and aggressive impulses? What is the basis for characterizing...
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Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese CitySeeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells...
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