While much recent attention has been focused on the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis, little has been said about its radically-disparate impact. Drawing upon history as well as insight into the current crisis, this book shows that this crisis is not an anomaly, especially for people of color; nor is it over. People of color have been excluded from wealth-building opportunities via homeownership continuously throughout United States history, from the outright denial of credit and res...

This edited volume examines mass media portrayals of women leaders and other powerful women in popular culture. Contributors argue that increased media visibility and representation can lead to more widespread acceptance of women as societal leaders.The book employs an interdisciplinary, intersectional, and international approach to its coverage of these portrayals and their meanings for society and gender norms. Through a feminist lens, contributors examine these ...

Though children have never been absent from international studies discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children’s agency and to recognize the complex variety of childhoods and the global issues that affect them. Written by an international list of contributors from Europe, Africa, North America, and Australasia, chapters present highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods across global political time and sp...

Technology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to benefit human health and agriculture. Precise DNA modifications and gene drive have the power to make wild-type populations less harmful in ways that could never have been performed with previous tr...

A vengeful shadow. An obliging noblewoman. A mangled kingdom.Aelia is everything a noble woman should be – graceful, lovely, and quiet. But as a motherless, magicless foreigner, she’s often treated as no better than a well-dressed castle servant. Finding the herbs to make the queen’s healing potions becomes harder as the fire prince battles the violent shadow attacks from their enemy, the Shade. The battles poison the land, and the herbs are drying out. Aelia will ...

Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major anniversary was published.Chapters reflect on SIU’s successful athletics program, the various colleges and departments within the university, the diverse holdings and collections of the libr...

Vanessa’s love for plants is amazing. She could specifically identify each plant by its horticultural name. I watched her maneuver through Home Depot knowing which type of plants worked well with others. That’s when it hit me deeply, and I understood why God connected us. She reminded me so much of the mother I lost years ago, but God was orchestrating time events in His own way. He knew I needed Vanessa to step in and help me grow into a better woman. She’s tough and has had her moments o...

How far will you go to get what you wants?Bright, eager, and pining for adulthood, seventeen-year-old William Strait doesn't like being a virgin. He immediately gets entangled in a web of unimagined feelings he shares for a new girl in his class. He must do everything he can to get her, including asking his friends Freddy and Jean for advice. Will he find success in his pursuit or will he be left disappointed with Vanessa whom he feels renewed his belief in love an...

Was it murder, or was she cursed?Lady Alice died while reading an Egyptian Book of the Dead at her Rhinebeck estate when her nephew, Johnny Dodge, and his friend Percy were ten years old. The circumstances of her death have remained a mystery ever since and one they are determined to unravel.In this captivating audiobook, the award-winning debut novel of Ivan Obolensky, Eye of the Moon, is dramatically brought to life through the stellar p...

Research on children of incarcerated parents indicates that the loss of a parental figures, has a profound effect on minor children and adolescents. This book is meant to help these children discuss and understand their feelings.