“The best book to explain the world J. D. Vance came from is Max Fraser’s Hillbilly Highway.”—Jessica Wilkerson, author of To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social JusticeOver the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "h...

Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by historians. In Hillbilly Highway, Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this mass...

This book brings fresh insights into how social spaces shape the way we experience and understand security. Chapters unite voices from critical security studies, urban geography, criminology and political science to rethink the link between security and space, from neighbourhood crime to global conflict.By viewing security through a spatial lens, the book uncovers the social, economic and political forces that shape security issues in everyday life offering vital insights for curre...

Dieser Band enthält folgende Western: Farley und die Rancherin: Western (Alfred Bekker) Marshal Logan und die harte Rancherin (Pete Hackett) Grainger und tausend Stangen Dynamit (Barry Gorman) Die Spur führt zum Red River (Pete Hackett) Marshal Logan und der Hass des Siedlers (Pete Hackett) Die Spur der Gold-Wölfe (W.A.Fraser) Marshal Logan und die tödliche Quittung (Pete Hackett) Marshal Logans Wettlauf gegen die Zeit (Pete Hackett) Blutiger Weg nach Baton Rouge (Thomas West) Marshal Loga...

Simon Fraser University went from an idea in 1963 to opening its doors in 1965, a feat that led it to be dubbed “the instant university.” This multi-authored history chronicles the excitement of that first radical decade of the arts at SFU.The 1960s were famously a decade of cultural revolution, and Simon Fraser University was a creature of its time. The counter-culture spirit infected all levels of society, but none more than the new university and its innovative ...

Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity? Globalizing Critical Theory collects essays by scholars at the forefront of Critical Theory as they confront this timely topic. This book offers readers a chance to see contemporary Cri...

You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbors to improve your town and neighborhood; you can use it to design an office, a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide you in the actual process of construction.After a 10-year silence, Christopher Alexander and his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure are now publishing a major statement in the form of three books which will, in their ...

Gerechte Lebens- und Arbeitsbedingungen für alle Frauen – nicht nur für einige wenige gut ausgebildete Karrierefrauen. Das ist der Kampf, zu dem die Autorinnen dieses leidenschaftlichen Manifests aufrufen, in knappen Thesen und in einer klaren Sprache, die keine Missverständnisse zulässt. Die strukturelle Benachteiligung von Frauen steht in direktem Zusammenhang mit allen Formen von Ungleichheit. Feminismus für die 99% ist der zeitgemäße Aufruf zur Abschaffung des Kapitalismus. Der Arbeite...

Nattergrün.Die Farbe ihrer Wut.Als Synästhetikerin ist alles, was Mhairi Gilmour fühlt, mit Farben verknüpft.Mhairis Welt leuchtet im gesamten Farbspektrum ihrer Abneigung, als Alexej Sorokin in ihr Heimatdorf zurückkehrt, wo er sich in die Sanierung ihrer geliebten Apotheke einmischt. Doch der begnadete Schriftsteller bringt mit seinen Worten etwas tief in ihr zum Klingen und Nattergrün weicht einer ganz anderen Farbe ...