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The characters, situations, and places in Land - Home - Mountain View are gently brought to life as real estate agent Ingrid Fromm tries to find the perfect property for her clients in California’s last frontier—Siskiyou County. This remote area of California with its spectacular mountains, wilderness areas, rivers, and high desert has always attracted those looking for a new life. Fromm’s own hopes and longings unfold as she encounters the Vietnam veteran who searches for human connection, the spiritualist who dreams of building a center for healing that someday will host the Dalai Lama, the San Francisco artist looking for creative inspiration, the homeless man wishing to buy his place in the sun, and others with stories to reveal.
WINNER, 2017 RACHEL CARSON PRIZE, SOCIETY FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a decadelong civil war. Seeking international attention and development aid, its government faced a dilemma. Though devastated by conflict, Sierra Leone had a low prevalence of HIV. However, like most African countries, it stood to benefit from a large influx of foreign funds specifically targeted at HIV/AIDS prevention and care. What Adia Benton chronicles in this ethnographically rich and often moving book is how one war-ravaged nation reoriented itself as a country suffering from HIV at the expense of other, more pressing health concerns. During her fieldwork in the capital, Free...
So phänomenal und unerwartet Heide Simonis zur ersten Ministerpräsidentin gekürt wurde, so grotesk war das Ende ihrer politischen Karriere, als ein unbekannter Abweichler aus den eigenen Reihen ihr viermal seine Stimme für die Wiederwahl verwehrte.Zwölf Jahre regierte die Sozialdemokratin Simonis Schleswig-Holstein und war erste und lange Zeit einzige Ministerpräsidentin Deutschlands. Ihr Aufstieg zur ersten Landeschefin war begünstigt durch den Rücktritt von Björn Engholm als Folge der 'Barschel-Affäre'. Die Rheinländerin, die sich oft unkonventionell, authentisch und bodenständig gab, erfreute sich als Landesmutter in Schleswig-Holstein durchaus großer Beliebtheit. Doch mit ih...
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