Some friendships aren’t chosen—they’re forged to survive.Summer 1927. Jo’s mother is in prison, her stepfather’s temper has left more than one bruise, and every grown-up in her Midwestern city seems to be looking the other way. Sam is an orphan riding the rails, safer dressed as a boy than as the girl she is. They meet on a vacant-lot baseball field in caps and knickers, hiding who they are from the boys around them—and from the men who think girls are theirs to us...

Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state’s territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by particular people than others. This book i...

Kenny Bowen is an ex-convict fresh out of prison because of a drug conviction; he goes home to live with his invalid mother, a strong-willed ex-nurse who lost her husband when her children were youngsters and ended up in an abusive relationship. He has two sisters. Rachel, the oldest, is hiding an interracial relationship. His baby sister is Susan. Having a prison record, its hard to go straight. Jerry, an old friend, introduces him to Carol, a high-class madam, who turns him into a prize ...

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world’s largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns. The nexus approach, conceptualized as attention to resource connections and their governance ramifications, calls attention to the sustainability of contemporary consumer resource use, lifestyles and supply chains. This book sets out an analytical framework for understandi...

Connectivity, as well as conflict, characterizes Eurasia. This edited volume explores dynamic geopolitical and geo-economic links reconfiguring spaces from the eastern edge of Europe through the western edge of Asia, seeking explanation beyond description. The ancient Silk Road tied together space, much as pipelines, railroads, telecommunications infrastructure, and similar cultural and constructed links ease the mobility of people and products in modern Eurasia. This book considers Eurasi...