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Matt and Christina Carter live an extremely busy life as a young married couple in Olympia, Washington. Barely having any time for one another, both find themselves in career paths that push them further away from one another until an auto accident leaves Matt paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair. Realizing they need to make changes in their lives to keep their marriage alive, the couple choose to move out of the bigger city and into a cabin in the heavily wooded area of Elwha, Washington. Peaceful and serene, the couple enjoy their new lifestyle of living off the grid while Christina accepts the roles of wife and caregiver to her husband, when one evening a stray dog wanders onto their front porch with a name tag that reads “Max”. After Max shows up, the following week of terror during the night hours is filled by visits from a group of large, hairy humanoid creatures, hell bent on the couple’s destruction. Matt and Christina must now work together and rely on one another in order to fend off the terrors that live beyond the grass fields and behind the thick blanket of darkness known as the heavily wooded forest of the Pacific Northwest’s Olympic Mountain Range. They will need to learn how to work together as a team of one in order to survive The Cabin at the End of Herrick Road.
The Political Economy of the BRICS Countries
Over the past 20 years, social scientists, government officials, and investors have expressed mounting interest in the BRICS countries, which include Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. These countries are widely viewed as both key actors in the global economy and important regional powers. The Political Economy of the BRICS Countries is a three-volume set that aims to address various crucial issues regarding these countries.Volume 1 analyzes whether economic growth in the BRICS countries has been broad-based and promoted equitable economic and social outcomes. The authors examine specific dimensions of growth in these five economies that constrain their ability to act effectively and cohesively in international affairs.Volume 2 considers how the BRICS have affected global economic governance and the international political economy.Volume 3 provides various approaches to economic informality in the BRICS. Moreover, the chapters deal with several connections between informality and important political, economic, and institutional phenomena such as economic globalization and international aid, economic development, political regimes, social capital, political networks and political participation, labor market rules, and social policy preferences.The BRICS countries have attracted rising attention over the past two decades. The volumes provide an in-depth analysis of various key issues regarding these countries and chart a course for future research.<b>Contents:</b> <ul><li><b><i>Volume 1: BRICS: The Quest for Inclusive Growth:</i></b><ul><li>BRICS: The Political Economy of Non-Inclusive Growth <i>(Biju Paul Abraham)</i></li><li>Future of BRICS as an Economic Block: Does Macroeconomic Heterogeneity and Unshared Political Mandate Stand in Its Way? <i>(Partha Ray)</i></li><li>China's and India's Economic Performance After the Financial Crisis: A Comparative Analysis <i>(R Nagaraj)</i></li><li>Inter-Group Disparities in Growing Economies: India Among the BRICS <i>(Achin Chakraborty and Simantini Mukhopadhyay)</i></li><li>Inequality and Poverty in India and Brazil Since the 1990s: A Comparative Analysis <i>(Sripad Motiram)</i></li><li>Sustainable Development and BRICS: Unity Amid Diversity? <i>(Anup Sinha)</i></li><li>Universal Health Coverage in BRICS: What India Can Learn from the BRICS Experience? <i>(Indrani Gupta and Samik Chowdhury)</i></li><li>Inclusive Finance: India Through the BRICS Lens <i>(Saibal Ghosh)</i></li><li>Gender, Education, and <i>Programma Bolsa Familia</i> in Brazil <i>(Aparajita Gangopadhyay)</i></li></ul></li><li><b><i>Volume 2: BRICS and the Global Economy:</i></b><ul><li><b>Understanding the BRICS Phenomenon:</b><ul><li>Brazil as a BRICS Country <i>(Cristiane Lucena Carneiro)</i></li><li>Russia in Global Economic Governance <i>(Thilo Bodenstein)</i></li><li>India and Global Governance <i>(Rajesh Kumar)</i></li><li>China and Global Economic Governance <i>(Ka Zeng)</i></li><li>South Africa, BRICS, and Global Governance: How SA Tried to Change the World and Succeeded in Changing Itself <i>(Philip Nel)</i></li></ul></li><li><b>Regionalism and Foreign Aid:</b><ul><li>Emerging Economies — But Regional Powers? The BRICS and Regionalism <i>(Tanja A Börzel and Thomas Risse)</i></li><li>BRICS and Foreign Aid <i>(Gerda Asmus, Andreas Fuchs, and Angelika Müller)</i></li></ul></li><li><b>Investment and Finance:</b><ul><li>BRICS and the Global Investment Regime <i>(Yoram Z Haftel)</i></li><li>Exchange Rate Policies of the BRICS <i>(Andrew X Li)</i></li><li>He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune: And the 'Relocation of the World's Credit Rating Center' Goes To? <i>(Giulia Mennillo)</i></li><li>Treaty Shopping and Unintended Consequences: BRICS in the International System <i>(Julia Gray)</i></li></ul></li><li><b>Climate Negotiations and Energy Goverance:</b><ul><li>BRICS in the International Climate Negotiations <i>(Axel Michaelowa and Katharina Michaelowa)</i></li><li>The BRICS, Energy Security, and Global Energy Governance <i>(Matteo Fumagalli)</i></li></ul></li><li><b>Representation, Fragmentation, and Legitimacy:</b><ul><li>BRICS and the International Financial Institutions: Voice and Exit <i>(Ayse Kaya)</i></li><li>The Representation of BRICS in Global Economic Governance: Reform and Fragmentation of Multilateral Institutions <i>(Michal Parízek and Matthew D Stephen)</i></li></ul></li></ul></li><li><b><i>Volume 3: Political Economy of Informality in BRIC Countries:</i></b><ul><li>Introduction: Political Economy Approaches to Informality and Recent Trends in BRIC Countries <i>(Santiago López-Cariboni)</i></li><li><b>Tax Revenue, Globalization, and Informality in BRIC Countries:</b><ul><li>A Comparative Analysis of Tax System in the BRICs and the Challenges Ahead: Informality and the Fiscal Contract <i>(Laura Seelkopf and Armin von Schiller)</i></li><li>Is Informal Work Eroding Compliance? <i>(Sarah Berens and Irene Menéndez)</i></li><li>Can Tax Aid Broaden the Base? International Assistance, Taxation, and the Informal Sector in the BRICs <i>(Ida Bastiaens and Laura Seelkopf)</i></li></ul></li><li><b>Informal Settlements and Basic Service Provision:</b><ul><li>Social Capital, Leadership Accountability and Public Services in the Slums of India <i>(Guadalupe Rojo)</i></li><li>Informal Electricity Consumption and Political Regimes: Implications for Political Change in BRIC Countries <i>(Santiago López-Cariboni)</i></li></ul></li><li><b>Labor Market Informality, Mobilization, and Preferences:</b><ul><li>How the Labor Force is Mobilized: Patterns in Informality, Political Networks, and Political Linkages in Brazil <i>(Soledad Artiz Prillaman and Jonathan Phillips)</i></li><li>Redistributive Preferences in Contemporary Brazil <i>(Luis Maldonado and María Constanza Ayala)</i></li><li>Understanding Informality in China: Institutional Causes and Subsequent Measurement Issues <i>(Yujeong Yang and Wei-Ting Yen)</i></li><li>Insiders, Outsiders, and the Politics of Employment Protection: Insights from the Brazilian Case <i>(Santiago López-Cariboni)</i></li><li>Conclusions <i>(Santiago López-Cariboni)</i></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><br><b>Readership:</b> Academics, professionals and graduates interested in the political economy of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). BRICS;Brazil;Russia;India;China;South Africa;Political Economy;Inclusive Growth;Emerging Markets;Development Policy;Global Economy0<b>Key Features:</b><ul><li>Up-to-date analysis of a wide variety of pressing and current issues surrounding the BRICS countries by leading authors</li></ul>
Pagan Time
With little more than a run-down Jeep and their newborn baby in tow, author Micah Perks' parents set out in 1963 to build a school and a utopian community in the mountains. The school would become known as a place to send teens with drug addictions and emotional problems, children with whom Micah and her sister would grow up.This complex memoir mixes a moving celebration of the utopian spirit and its desire for community and freedom with a lacerating critique of the consequences of those desires — especially for the children involved. How could the campaign for a perfect home and family create such confusion and destruction? The '60s, for many, became a laboratory of hope and chaos, as young idealists tested the limits of possibility.Micah Perks has cast her unflinching and precise eye on her own history and has illuminated not only those years of her childhood, but a wide-open moment that marked our culture for all time.
Another Turn of the Crank
"A Kentucky farmer and writer, and perhaps the great moral essayist of our day, Berry has produced one of his shortest but also most powerful volumes." ― The New York Review of Books «The rarest (and highest) of literary classes consist of that small group of authors who are absolutely inimitable . . . One of the half-dozen living American authors who belongs in this class is Wendell Berry.» ― Los Angeles Times «Berry is a philosopher, poet, novelist, and an essayist in the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau . . . like Thoreau, he marches to a different drummer, a drummer we would do well to be aware of, if not to march to.» ― San Francisco Chronicle From modern health care to the practice of forestry, from local focus to national resolve, Wendell Berry argues, there can never be a separation between global ecosystems and human communities—the two are intricately connected, and the health and survival of one depends upon the other. Provocative, intimate, and thoughtful, Another Turn of the Crank reaches to the heart of Berry's concern and vision for the future, for America and for the world.
The American College of Switzerland Zoo
The American College of Switzerland Zoo is a book about a journey of inner growth and the struggles of being a Quaker Army brat…living everywhere and nowhere. James, a young man on his adventures across Europe, finds himself attending a school like nothing he has ever seen before. This book follows the rites of passage into adulthood in the amazing country of Switzerland and all of his hiccups and misadventures along the way. You will enjoy this book and perhaps become a better you from reading it.
Before the Origin
Much has changed. Climate change has inspired a new generation of discrimination – one where the mutation of a hereditary gene has become the greatest crime. The others – a minority kept silent for years are now up to something sinister. Agent Amy Taff has moved through the world unnoticed until the recent disturbances in an otherwise perfect utopia require her expertise. Desperate to make her mark, Amy is hurled into a world of mystery and magic, deeply rooted in ancient African folklore. Discoveries that threaten her life and could not only change her reality but hold far-reaching implications for everyone on the face of a lone continent. Follow her into an epic tale that begins with accepting a new job at Scythe. Where it ends could swing the scales of balance toward life or death.
Child of the Sun
Far beyond molten Mercury flashed the Patrol-pursued Falcon....Out to where black Vulcan whirled his hidden orbit, and a flame-auraed last child of Sol played his cosmic game.
Leigh Brackett was the undisputed Queen of Space Opera and the first women to be nominated for the coveted Hugo Award. She wrote short stories, novels, and scripts for Hollywood. She wrote the first draft of the Empire Strikes Back shortly before her death in 1978.
Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle
Recent archaeological discoveries, coupled with long-lost but now available epigraphical evidence, and a more expansive view of literary sources, provide new and dramatic evidence of the emergence of rhetoric in ancient Greece. Many of these artifacts, gathered through onsite fieldwork in Greece, are analyzed in this revised and expanded edition of Greek Rhetoric Before Aristotle. This new evidence, along with recent developments in research methods and analysis, reveal clearly that long before Aristotle’s Rhetoric, long before rhetoric was even stabilized into formal systems of study in Classical Athens, nascent, pre-disciplinary “rhetorics” were emerging throughout Greece.
Doing Ethnographic Research
This workbook is loaded with exercises, how-to sections and checklists, all designed to serve as a supplemental support for students to apply the principles and concepts learned from the textbook it accompanies. With instructions and explanations written in a conversational style, it will help the student understand why the assignments are being used, why the skills they are developing are relevant and how the exercises relate to the textbook content.
Blue Is the Warmest Color
A New York Times bestsellerThe original graphic novel adapted into the film Blue Is the Warmest Color, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film FestivalIn this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages that bristles with the energy of youth and rebellion and the eternal light of desire.First published in France by Glénat, the book has won several awards, including the Audience Prize at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Europe's largest.The live-action, French-language film version of the book, entitled Blue Is the Warmest Color, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013. Directed by director Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos, the film generated both wide praise and controversy. It will be released in the US through Sundance Selects/IFC Films.Julie Maroh is an author and illustrator originally from northern France."Julie Maroh, who was just 19 when she started the comic, manages to convey the excitement, terror, and obsession of young love—and to show how wildly teenagers swing from one extreme emotion to the next … Ultimately, Blue Is the Warmest Color is a sad story about loss and heartbreak, but while Emma and Clementine’s love lasts, it’s exhilarating and sustaining." —Slate.com"A beautiful, moving graphic novel." —Wall Street Journal"Blue Is the Warmest Color captures the entire life of a relationship in affecting and honest style." —Comics Worth Reading"Delicate linework conveys wordless longing in this graphic novel about a lesbian relationship." —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)"A tragic yet beautifully wrought graphic novel." —Salon.com"Love is a beautiful punishment in Maroh’s paean to confusion, passion, and discovery … An elegantly impassioned love story." —Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)"A lovely and wholehearted coming-out story … the illustrations are infused with genuine, raw feeling. Wide-eyed Clementine wears every emotion on her sleeve, and teens will understand her journey perfectly." —Kirkus Reviews «The electric emotions of falling in love and the difficult process of self-acceptance will resonate with all readers … Maroh’s use of color is deliberate enough to be eye-catching in a world of grey tones, with Emma’s bright blue hair capturing Clementine’s imagination, but is used sparingly enough that it supports and blends naturally with the story.» —Library Journal (STARRED REVIEW)"It's not just the French who have a better handle on sexy material than Americans – Canadians do, too … Who's publishing it? Not an American publishing house but by Arsenal Pulp Press, a Canadian independent." —Los Angeles Times