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26861) Financial Instruments to Strengthen Women's Economic Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risks
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Gender inequalities and limited access to resources constrain women's ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks and economic distress arising from natural hazards. Recognizing the importance of financial inclusion in addressing the issue, this publication explores good practices in the use of financial instruments to enhance women's disaster resilience. This includes the identification of appropriate distribution channels to reach low-income...
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This book examines how language is a central resource in transforming migrant women into transnational domestic workers. Focusing on the migration of women from the Philippines to Singapore, the book unpacks why and how language is embedded in the infrastructure of transnational labor migration that links migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries. It sheds light on the everyday lives of transnational domestic workers and how they draw on their...
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Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world, and how these shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from philosophical concepts developed by two phenomenological philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patočka, and putting them in conversation with ethnographic analysis of the lives of contemporary Czechs, Susanna Trnka examines how embodiment is crucial for understanding our being-in-the-world.
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In 1927, before the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), the United Left Opposition, in accordance with the party's charter, tried to state in detail its position and proposals for correcting the policy of building a socialist society. However, it failed to publish its platform, and the opposition was condemned only on the basis of indiscriminate accusations. This document ("Statement of the Thirteen", or "Draft Platform of...
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Conflicts over currency valuations are a recurrent feature of the modern global economy. To strengthen their international competitiveness, many countries resort to buying foreign currencies to make their exports cheaper and their imports more expensive. In the first decade of the 21st century, for example, China's currency manipulation practices were so flagrant that they produced a backlash in the United States and other trading partners, prompting...
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A history of the division among state leaders surrounding secession, and those who opposed it before the Civil War.
This book tells the story of those state leaders in North Carolina who remained loyal to the Union, because they saw the potential for compromise with Northern states. William Alexander Graham helped broker the Compromise of 1850. John Motley Morehead and Jonathan Worth led the campaign against secession in early 1861. Most, though,...
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New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city-roughly double the national average-but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation, New York today is home to a large and growing precariat-workers with little or no employment security who are often excluded from the basic legal protections...
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With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in settings that range from the local to the transnational,...
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Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt changed America with a government on the side of the people that put Americans back to work and inspired confidence that the nation could overcome the Great Depression.
This is the story of their progressive legacy when FDR was Governor during the era of Prohibition and the advent of radio in the Roaring Twenties, a decade that ended with the Great Depression upending life for most Americans. This is the story of how...
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With expert storytelling skills, historian Jules Archer recounts the complete story of Watergate, from that first fateful predawn Saturday morning-June 18, 1972-when night watchman Frank Willis discovered "burglars" inside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee to President Richard Nixon's disgraced resignation two years later. This story dives into the cover-ups, the payoffs, the blackmailing, the scapegoats, and Nixon's impending...
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In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernandez Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, offers a riveting investigation of these armed self-defense groups that sprang up around the time of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. Available in English for the first...
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Découvrez l'histoire d'un des couples français les plus célèbres: Napoléon et Joséphine, qui marquèrent la France à jamais.
Napoléon et Joséphine se sont inscrits dans la lignée des amoureux mythiques comme Marc-Antoine et Cléopâtre ou Héloïse et Abélard. Durant treize ans, ils vécurent une aventure sans pareil qui les mena au faîte de la gloire, faisant d'eux des héros de la mythologie moderne.
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Originally published in 1904, “Commanders of the Dining Room” features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head waiters and front-of-house restaurant staff, giving insight into the traditions and personalities that shaped these culinary institutions. Maccannon, himself an African American and a former head waiter, also offers a brief portrait of the Head and Second Waiters' National Benefit Association (a union for the industry...
26875) Spoils of War
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The first-person account of an American intelligence officer working in Moscow for a billionaire investor during the privatization of the Russian economy and Vladimir Putin's rise to power. The turbulent period following the dissolution of the Soviet Union was a pivotal moment in history, offering an incredible opportunity to reset East-West relations after seventy years of hostilities embodied by the Cold War. But something went awry. Russia's brief...
26876) The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning
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The New York Times bestselling author of My Grandmother's Hands surveys America's deteriorating democracy and offers embodied practices to help us protect ourselves and our country.
"All of us need to read this book-and then act on it."-Angela Rye, NPR political analyst and former CNN commentator
". . . a volume our country, our bodies, and our humanity desperately need."-Michael Eric Dyson, author of Entertaining Race and Long Time Coming
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To explain the British attack on the French fleet at anchor in the harbor at Mers-el-Kébir [3. July.1940], Sir Winston Churchill said, "What matters are events, not words." His uncharacteristic humility vastly understates the enormous power his words held in those dark days during the summer of 1940. Through the prism of the selected documents and speeches, placed in the context of surrounding events, as Churchill succinctly noted, we see the evolution...
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Part architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City's skyline as well as its streets.
New York City's penchant for building skyward has reached new heights with its crop of supertall towers-those that rise at least 984 feet above the sidewalk. The city that never sleeps is also the city that never stops building ever higher, from the Woolworth and Chrysler buildings...
26879) Almost Islands
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Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis's friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb-now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last published book in 1990-as well as an extended meditation on literary ambition and failure, poetry and politics, choice and chance, place, colonization, and climate change-the struggle that is writing, and the end of writing. "I go to see her because she is poetry's old...
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Few Americans are aware of the economic system that supports our country's supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in a number of ways-none of them good. Though we only pay a few dollars per pound of meat at the grocery store, we pay far more in tax-fueled government subsidies-$38 billion more, to be exact. And subsidies are just one layer of meat's hidden cost. But in Meatonomics, lawyer and sustainability advocate David Robinson Simon...
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