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A Turbulent Time
"Stimulating, incisive, insightful, sometimes revisionist, this volume is required reading for historians of comparative colonialism in an age of revolution." —Choice "[An] eminently original and intellectually exciting book." —William and Mary Quarterly This volume examines several slave societies in the Greater Caribbean to illustrate the pervasive and multi-layered impact of the revolutionary age on the region. Built precariously on the exploitation of slave labor, organized according to the doctrine of racial discrimination, the plantation colonies were particularly vulnerable to the message of the French Revolution, which proved all the more potent because it coincided with the emergence of the antislavery movement in the Atlantic world and interacted with local traditions of resistance among the region's slaves, free coloreds, and white colonists.
What Were We Thinking
The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Many of these, he’s found, are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right. In What Were We Thinking, Lozada uses these books to tell the story of how we understand ourselves in the Trump era, using as his main characters the political ideas and debates at play in America today. He dissects works on the wh...
Track Down
Two precocious eight year olds meet on a soccer fi eld in Jerusalem. They form a life long bond. University completed, its time to go to work and the lads seek career opportunities as agents for Interpol. Success follows them in their new profession. The Secretary General of Interpol decides to capitalize on his new recruits talents and they are given the assignment of heading up a task force to recover stolen art looted by the Nazis during WWII. This task brings them into conflict with dangerous organizations still today lumbered with the misplaced devotion to the great WWII evil Nazis.
Assisted Reproduction Across Borders
Today, it often seems as though Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have reached a stage of normalization, at least in some countries and among certain social groups. Apparently some practices – for example in vitro fertilization (IVF) – have become standard worldwide. The contributors to Assisted Reproduction Across Borders argue against normalization as an uncontested overall trend. This volume reflects on the state of the art of ARTs. From feminist perspectives, the contributors focus on contemporary political debates triggered by ARTs. They examine the varying ways in which ARTs are interpreted and practised in different contexts, depending on religious, moral and political app...
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Preservation of Human Oocytes
Oocyte cryopreservation entails important potential advantages for humanIVF, offering a less ethically disputable alternative to embryo cryopreservation,simplifying and making safer oocyte donation, and giving an opportunity forfertility preservation to women at risk of premature ovarian failure as an effectof genetic factors or chemo- or radiother
Making Race in the Courtroom
No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people of color did not belong to the same race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were “negroes,” free people of color were gens de couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles. New Orleans’s creoles of color remained legally and culturally distinct from “negroes” throughout most of the nineteenth century until state mandate...
When Race Trumps Merit
Does your workplace have too few black people in top jobs? It’s racist. Does the advanced math and science high school in your city have too many Asians? It’s racist. Does your local museum employ too many white women? It’s racist, too. After the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, prestigious American institutions, from the medical profession to the fine arts, pleaded guilty to “systemic racism.” How else explain why blacks are overrepresented in prisons and underrepresented in C-suites and faculty lounges, their leaders asked? The official answer for those disparities is “disparate impact,” a once obscure legal theory that is now transforming our world. Any traditional stand...
Full Moon Over Kabul
Did Colette not understand that falling in love was forbidden? Kabul, 1998 Colette takes a job teaching French to Afghan men in Kabul. She meets Abdul Hannan, a handsome and courteous man and her best pupil, who also happens to be a Taliban Commander’s son. Despite the Islamist regime, Colette and Abdul grow close and fall in love, which inevitably causes drama. Bedfordshire, 1999 Pursued by terrorist threat, Colette goes home to rural Bedfordshire. With the help of her friend Davina, a florist in a dynamic London flower company, Colette starts a new life. But she cannot forget who she left behind in Kabul, nor will the Taliban let her. When Gilbert, the lodger, steals her Kabul story for his own aggrandisement, she quickly learns that one should not provoke a Taliban Commander.
