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Shelby Lee Adams: Salt & Truth$39.69Shelby Lee Adams first encountered the communities of the Appalachian mountains as a child, while accompanying his doctor uncle on his rounds. In the mid-1970s he started to photograph in the region, using a 4 x 5 camera, gaining and building a special trust among its often impoverished people, who have tended to not always welcome would-be documentarians. Adams not only records their lives and hardships with great empathy, but also depicts the grace and humanity of his subjects, photographing with an ease evident in the results.
Transforming Undergraduate Education: Theory that$24.69Pick up any major newspaper or news magazine, and there's bound to be an article or two about the problems in higher education today. Go to the blogs, newspapers, and journals devoted to higher education, and you'll see daily debates on the direction of the Academy. There has been no lack of identification of problems.; solutions, however, have been much more elusive, which makes what Donald Harward has done all the more remarkable.
One Must Also Be Hungarian$12.22The only country in the world with a line in its national anthem as desperate as “this people has already suffered for its past and its future,” Hungary is a nation defined by poverty, despair, and conflict. Its history, of course, took an even darker and more tragic turn during the Holocaust.
Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American$97.70The Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American Societies provides a comprehensive and in-depth documentation of how Native American societies met the challenges of adapting to the varied ecosystems of North America over the past 10,000 years. The contributors identify a number of recurrent themes and questions which have shaped debates regarding the nature of Native American interaction with and impact on their local environments throughout the Holocene.
On the Water: Palisade Bay$31.71On the Water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners and students to imagine a "soft infrastructure" for the New York/New Jersey Upper Bay by developing interconnected infrastructures and landscapes which rethink the thresholds of water, land andcity. The proposal is sited on the water, along the coastal edge and within the local communities.
Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and R$12.46They baked New England's Thanksgiving pies, preached their faith to crowds of worshippers, spied for the patriots during the Revolution, wrote that human bondage was a sin, and demanded reparations for slavery. Black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.
50 Interviews: Young Entrepreneurs What it Takes toSOLD OUTWhat it Takes to Make More Money than Your Parents features interviews with the world’s smartest, richest, and most successful young entrepreneurs – from India to the U.K. to your backyard. If you think that these teen moguls don’t have any business secrets to share, it’s because no one else has ever asked them. The stories and insights of these bright, fresh minds are guaranteed to empower young people to get off the couch and realize their full entrepreneurial potential.
Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New SouthSOLD OUTSince 1974, there has been an unprecedented wave of democratization in the world. This trend has been particularly extensive in South America. But the problems confronting these new democracies are staggering, and the prospects for building consolidated democratic regimes are far from uniformly good.