Deborah Wright: 25 books
The Politics of the Encounter
Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains "important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics." And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since...
Black, White, and Green
Farmers Markets, Race, and the Green Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Farmers markets are much more than places to buy produce. According to advocates for sustainable food systems, they are also places to “vote with your fork” for environmental protection, vibrant communities, and strong local economies. Farmers markets have become essential to the movement for...
Development, Security, and Aid
Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Geopolitics concentrates on territory, borders, and strategic political and...
Fields and Streams
Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.
Stream restoration science and practice...
The Empires' Edge
Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China’s rising economic and military strength, North Korea’s nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia,...
Shadows of a Sunbelt City
The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century’s great urban successstories—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...
Geographical Diversions
Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.
How might we make connections between seemingly...
Calculating Property Relations
Chicago's Wartime Industrial Mobilization, 1940–1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II–era Chicago. Robert Lewis’s rich trove of material—drawn from research on more than six hundred...
by Deborah K. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
It is three days until Christmas. As the clock ticks slower than usual, Gracie, Natalie, and Ella wonder if Santa will ever arrive. Thankfully Bernard, the family’s beagle, is about to come to the rescue. Prompted by their mother, the girls’ father helps pass the time by weaving a captivating tale...
It Can Be Done in Government
An Approach for Improving Efficiency in the Public Sector
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
It Can Be Done: An Approach for Improving Efficiency in the Public Sector, provides a roadmap describing a simple approach for improving processes using teams. This book is ideal for process improvement initiatives, academic institutions, organizational change practitioners, public entities, and administrators...
by Myra Pontac, Sally Wright, Ruth Birnbaum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
If you are considering placing a child with special needs at a new school, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Should you choose a special school, or a special unit within a mainstream school? What will be the involvement of therapists? Maybe home schooling would be best? Whether the...
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