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Markets and Cultural Voices

Author : Tyler Cowen

Publisher : University of Michigan Press

Page : 217 pages

File Size : 11,46 MB

Release : 2009-11-10

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0472024124

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This intriguing work explores the world of three amate artists. A native tradition, all of their painting is done in Mexico, yet, the finished product is sold almost exclusively to wealthy American art buyers. Cowen examines this cultural interaction between Mexico and the United States to see how globalization shapes the lives and the work of the artists and their families. The story of these three artists reveals that this exchange simultaneously creates economic opportunities for the artists, but has detrimental effects on the village. A view of the daily village life of three artists connected to the larger art world, this book should be of particular interest to those in the fields of cultural economics, Latino studies, economic anthropology and globalization.







Alive

Author : Mario Blaser

Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 50,29 MB

Release : 2023-01-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3775756248

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Leben hat viele Formen und ist vielfältig verflochten. Das Buch macht die Koexistenz verschiedener Wesen und Welten anhand von Dingen, Geschichten und Kunstwerken sichtbar. Es zeigt, dass die Mitwelt in vielen Regionen der Erde lebendig und aktiv erfahren wird: Berge und Flüsse sind nicht nur Ressource oder Kulisse, sondern wirkmächtige Quellen des Lebens; Pflanzen und Tiere sind nicht allein Nahrung, sondern Gefährten; Ahnen und Geistwesen beeinflussen den lebendigen Alltag. So verstanden, vermitteln lokale Perspektiven und alternative Formen des Miteinanders Wege in gemeinsame Zukünfte. Eine Vielfalt internationaler Autor*innen erzählt hier Geschichten von Geflechten des Lebendigen, die empathisch und informiert dazu einladen, unsere Beziehungen zur Mitwelt zu überdenken und neu zu knüpfen.



Keats and Spenser

Author : William Alexander Read

Publisher :

Page : 74 pages

File Size : 18,16 MB

Release : 1897

Category : English poetry

ISBN :

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A Dam for Africa

Author : Stephan F. Miescher

Publisher : Indiana University Press

Page : 598 pages

File Size : 23,24 MB

Release : 2022-07-12

Category : History

ISBN : 0253059968

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Since its construction in the early 1960s, the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam across the Volta River has exemplified the possibilities and challenges of development in Ghana. Drawing upon a wealth of sources, A Dam for Africa investigates contrasting stories about how this dam has transformed a West African nation, while providing a model for other African countries. The massive Akosombo Dam is the keystone of the Volta River Project that includes a large manmade lake 250 miles long, the VALCO aluminum smelter, new cities and towns, a deep-sea harbor, and an electrical grid. On the local level, Akosombo has meant access to electricity for people in urban and industrial areas across southern Ghana. For others, Akosombo inflicted tremendous social and environmental costs. The dam altered the ecology of the Lower Volta, displaced 80,000 people in the Volta Basin, and affected the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Ghanaians. In A Dam for Africa, Stephan Miescher explores four intersecting narratives: Ghanaian debates and aspirations about modernization in the context of decolonization and Cold War; international efforts of the US aluminum industry to benefit from Akosombo through cheap electricity for their VALCO smelter; local stories of upheaval and devastation in resettlement towns; and a nation-wide quest toward electrification and energy justice during times of economic crises, droughts, and climate change.



Writing Violence on the Northern Frontier

Author : José Rabasa

Publisher : Duke University Press

Page : 382 pages

File Size : 29,14 MB

Release : 2000

Category : History

ISBN : 9780822325673

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Explores the representations of violence in colonial Nuevo Mexico as seen in history and fiction literature of the period.





Hunting the Forsaken

Author : W. J. May

Publisher : W.J. May

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 37,27 MB

Release : 2024-09-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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"War coming to Sanlow, and I'll do anything to prevent it." Only a short while ago, Bastian was under the impression that he had one notorious parent. The revelation that his mother, Amate, was the monster that all monsters feared—the vampire who singlehandedly took over the city of Sanlow and decimated entire cities just to wipe out any vampires hiding within—was a blow he's still struggling to comprehend. He has no time to accept the fact before the foretold war between vampires and witches breaks out with the introduction of an entirely new monster—a Forsaken. With the capabilities of a witch and the strength of a vampire, they pose a threat to the witch city of Dawnhaven. At the same time, one of the old coven leaders of Sanlow is launching an attack on Amate out of revenge. With the help of friends new and old, he must save both cities before too many lives are lost. The odds are overwhelmingly against him, but one thing is certain: Bas is the only one who can stop the war. Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives... Dusk to Dawn Series Prequel: Enchanted - Book of Spells Book 1 - Awakening the Night Book 2 - Surviving the Eclipse Book 3 - Hunting the Forsaken Search Terms: Fae, fantasy witches, fantasy new adult, paranormal shifter romance, shifter romance, coming of age, vampires, vampires and witches, shifters, shifter, dark fantasy, superhero fantasy ebooks, witches, superhero, paranormal fantasy, paranormal romance, New Adult & College Romance Paranormal, Fairy, new adult, new adult and college, New Adult & College Romance, w.j. may, chronicles of kerrigan, supernatural, romance, mystery, superpowers, paranormal, boarding school, series, magic, fairytale, fairy tale, sequel series, sequel, Arthurian, dragons, urban fantasy, werewolf series, Young Adult, suspense, horror, horror romance, werewolves, werewolf romance, paranormal new adult romance, young adult paranormal, vampire romance, shapeshifter wolf romance, young adult fantasy, werewolf



Dreams of Power

Author : K. van Walraven

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 590 pages

File Size : 20,70 MB

Release : 2019-01-04

Category : History

ISBN : 0429640285

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Originally published in 1999, this book was the first study to provide a systematic reconstruction of the OAU's ideological ground-work. It is based on OAU documents; a corpus of African perceptions of OAU functioning collected from governmental and non-governmental newspapers and publications from more than thirty African countries; and on interviews held with African diplomats and OAU officials. It was also the first study to pay attention to the OAU's role in the political psychology of state elites, which comes to the fore in the areas of OAU co-operation discussed in this book: the OAU's internal functioning; the former struggle against apartheid and colonialism; conflict management; and the OAU's role in representing collective African viewpoints in global fora. This study was originally a Ph.D. thesis, which was considered to be among the best three dissertations in political science in The Netherlands in 1997.