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...

Global studies is a fresh and dynamic discipline area that promises to reinvigorate undergraduate and postgraduate education in the social sciences and humanities. In the Australian context, the interdisciplinary pedagogy that defines global studies is gaining wider acceptance as a coherent and necessary approach to the study of global change. Through the Global Studies Consortium (GSC), this new discipline is forming around an impressive body of international scholars who define their exp...

In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are...

Introducing SWEET JEALOUSY, a hot new e-series from up-and-coming erotica author Morgan Garrity.Welcome to New York, where the only thing more demanding than the city is the men….Addison Maxwell is crushed when she loses her job writing an online tech column for Intuition Magazine. No job means no income, and no income means giving up her dream of living in New York City and being forced to move back to her small town in Georgia.Enter Nathan Sweet, ...

The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions regarding the newest superpower and offers a framework for understanding its meteoric rise.Focusin...

Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. Historical examples of such transborder alliances i...

She's over halfway through with the claiming, and Kitty must now find a way to love the bookworm. How can she love a man who spends all of his time in a book? But how can she give up on the pack?Stuart's brothers fear he will be the one to screw up the claiming, condemning them all to a lifetime of existing only as wolves. Stuart will not give up trying, though. The truth is, his need for Kitty runs deeper than any passion for his books. He wants Kitty, and he's going to have her.

Grand explanations of how to understand the complex twenty-first-century world have all fallen short–until now. In The Second World, the brilliant young scholar Parag Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, one that shows how America’s dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical marketplace wherein the European Union and China compete with the United States to shape world order on their own terms.This contest is hottest and most decisive in the Se...