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Paid to Care
An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences. Paid domestic work in Latin America is often undervalued, underpaid, and underregulated. Exploring a wave of Latin American cultural texts since the 1980s that draw on the personal experiences of paid domestic work or intimate ties to domestic employees, Paid to Care offers insights into the struggles domestic workers face through an analysis of literary testimonials, documentary and fiction films, and works of digital media. From domestic workers’ experiences of unionization i...
The Unexpected in Oral History
How is an oral historian to react when the unexpected emerges, whether in field research or interview analysis? Answers tend to be scattered throughout the scholarly literature or confined to backstage conversations. This book brings the unexpected to the center of the scene and promotes a collective reflection about ways of dealing with uneasy encounters, surprises, and interviews that seem to have gone off the rails. The contributors come from a dozen countries, especially Brazil, where a classic piece about a “great liar” paved the way for this discussion. Rather than eccentric descriptions of unusual situations, these chapters evoke a dense web of reflections about dialogue, the production of oral sources, and the complexities of personal narratives. Theoretically informed but written in an engaging language, the book presents readers with fascinating case studies of the eruptions of the unexpected that occur in oral history research.
A Late Summer's Breeze
Elisha Spencer had spent the last ten years of her life balancing school and preparing for the Miss USA Pageant. Nothing could stop her from taking the crown, until disaster walked into her life. Elisha's coach, Clarence Yates fell to his knees during Elisha's rehearsal. It seemed as though his years of fast-paced pageantry work had finally caught up with him. Distraught, Elisha turns to her best friend and fellow pageant contestant, Luciana for support, only to find that Luciana has been taking prescription sleeping pills to deal with the stress of the pageant and school. Weeks before the pageant, Luciana finds out she didn't get into Juilliard as her parents planned. Unable to handle the p...
Wyntier's Rise
A new generation begins… It has been a decade since Keanu was rescued from the clutches of a madman intent on enslaving the realm. Nearly sixteen years of age, Keanu and his friends seek to recover from the trauma of their childhood, but war is brewing, and pain has just begun. The villain who kidnapped him as a child is now rising to become a rival king in a fellow nation, and he will stop at nothing to obtain power. People are disappearing, brainwashed by magic, and cities fall to the rule of a tyrant. No one who stands against the new regime is allowed to live. Keanu and his friends gather together, vowing to bring this monster to his knees and stop the king’s rule. But how can a group of teenagers stop the most ruthless villain the realm has ever known? To save their world, Keanu and his friends vow to come together to do what others will not— assemble the resistance.
Fairy Godfather
In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, includ...
Acoustic Communication
In order to communicate, animals send and receive signals that are subject to their particular anatomical, psychological, and environmental constraints. This SHAR volume discusses both the production and perception of acoustic signals. Chapters address the information that animals communicate, how the communication is developed and learned, and how communication systems have adapted and evolved within species. The book will give examples from a variety of species.
Married into the Family
When “I Do” equals more than you two, what are you supposed to do? When you love someone, it’s easy to see yourself spending the rest of your life with that person. But what about that person’s parents? What if your in-laws just aren’t your type? And what if you aren’t theirs? The in-law dilemma is real. Whether your in-law relationship is cold or crowded, Dave and Ashley Willis want you to know there is hope. In Married into the Family, these authors share that with a little bit of understanding and a whole lot of patience, you can: · Communicate and be heard · Problem-solve on the go · Find peace in the dysfunction · Protect the unity of your marriage You can grow in love, even for the in-laws you didn’t (exactly) choose.
The Musical World
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Cancer and the Politics of Care
This timely volume responds to the epic impacts of cancer as a global phenomenon. Through the fine-grained lens of ethnography, the contributors present new thinking on how social, economic, race, gender and other structural inequalities intersect, compound and complicate health inequalities. Cancer experiences and impacts are explored across eleven countries: Argentina, Brazil, Denmark, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Senegal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The volume engages with specific cancers from the point of primary prevention, to screening, diagnosis, treatment (or its absence), and end-of-life care. Cancer and the Politics of Care traverses new theoretical terra...
Creatures of the Lands: The Complete Series Box Set
DRAGONS. FAIRIES. MAGIC. A fae princess desperate to save her realm. A dragon rider running from a dark past. Together, they inspire a new generation... one that will begin a rebellion. Enter a six-part fantasy epic where animals can speak, fairies rule, and the land of the dead has power over the realm of the living. Elves battle shifter-vampire hybrids, wolves run the pack, and magic is king in a realm where kings and queens go to war. In this special box set of forbidden love and captivating realms, true love is put to the test in an emotional saga that believes friendship can conquer even death. Will you survive a world where a tyrant king reigns? Join the adventure and binge the complet...
