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Enduring hardship
Faced with discrimination, early Chinese immigrants had little choice but to create their own economic niche. From the turn of the twentieth century into the 1950s, generations of Chinese immigrants toiled as laundry workers. This book poignantly describes why the Chinese laundry remains a symbol of hard work, sacrifice and enduring hardship.
The Ironmonger
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Message from the Exterior
Message from the Exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the desert's harsh environments, depicting abandoned houses--small, often eccentric huts, both humorous and a little forlorn. Ruwedel examines the desert regions east of Los Angeles as a palimpsest of cultural and natural histories, presenting an inventory of a particular, and poignant, form of vernacular architecture; each structure might be read as a clue to the lives of anonymous individuals, and the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitory. The first section, 'Desert Houses', comprises 68 desert structures, while the second section "Dusk" presents houses photographed after the sun had disappeared over the horizon, now rendered in subdued, dusky tones that suggest both present and absence, and the weight of isolation.
Goals for Academic Writing
This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers present a detailed framework to describe these goals from the perspectives of the students as well as their instructors. The goals are analyzed for groups of students from particular backgrounds internationally, for changes over time, and in relation to the ESL and academic courses. The authors use activity theory, goal theory, various sociolinguistic concepts, and multiple data sources (interviews, observations, stimulated recalls, questionnaires, and text analyses) to provide a contextually-grounded perspective on learning, teaching, writing, second-language development, and curriculum policy. The book will interest researchers, educators, and administrators of ESL, university, college, and literacy programs around the world.
Girls in Global Development
Many scholars have critiqued the neocolonial assumptions embedded in global development agendas. These often focus on the bodies and lives of poor, racialized adolescent girls in the global south as ideal sites for intervention based on these girls’ potential to multiply investment, interrupt intergenerational poverty, and predict economic growth. Girls in Global Development presents case studies from established and emerging scholars to collectively theorize and examine the concept of “Girls in Development” (GID), a distinctive way of approaching notions of girls and girlhoods in locations around the globe, at various points in history, through a critical feminist lens.
Blood Moon Rising (Willow Point 14)
[Siren Publishing: The Lynn Hagen ManLove Collection: Erotic Romance Contemporary, Alternative, Paranormal, Werewolves, Shape-shifters, Romantic Suspense, MM, HEA] Liam’s world came crashing down around him, and now he’s in witness protection from a ruthless criminal who slaughtered Liam’s entire family. Not all of them. Now Liam has custody of his four-year-old nephew who witnessed the murders. Liam is thrust into a small town called Willow Point and has no idea what to do or how to raise a child. When Bruno Rawbone finds out where Liam is hiding, Liam turns to the man who inserts himself into Liam’s life. His knight in furry armor. Gatlin never thought to find his mate. In truth, he never thought to have one. Not when he holds a dark secret that is a mark on his soul. But when he discovers Liam and Morgan renting Braylon’s childhood home, and learns the two are in hiding, Gatlin will protect them with his life. But trouble finds them, and now Liam is missing. It’s up to Gatlin to save his mate and bring him home where he belongs. Lynn Hagen is a Siren-exclusive author.
The Yale Review
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