Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “adrienne pine”
Skip side bar filters

  • Asylum for Sale

    Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry

    Edited by Siobhán McGuirk, Adrienne Pine ...
    Series series Kairos
    This explosive new volume brings together a lively cast of academics, activists, journalists, artists, and people directly impacted by asylum regimes to explain how current practices of asylum align with the neoliberal moment and to present their transformative visions for alternative systems and processes.Through essays, artworks, photographs, infographics, and illustrations, Asylum for Sale: ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Working Hard, Drinking Hard

    On Violence and Survival in Honduras

    by Adrienne Pine ...
    "Honduras is violent." Adrienne Pine situates this oft-repeated claim at the center of her vivid and nuanced chronicle of Honduran subjectivity. Through an examination of three major subject areas—violence, alcohol, and the export-processing (maquiladora) industry—Pine explores the daily relationships and routines of urban Hondurans. She views their lives in the context of the vast economic ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Asylum For Sale

    Edited by Siobhan McGuirk, Adrienne Pine ...
    Through essays, artworks, photographs, infographics, and illustrations, Asylum for Sale offers a fresh and wholly original perspective by challenging readers to move beyond questions of legal, moral, and humanitarian obligations that dominate popular debates regarding asylum seekers. Digging deeper, the authors focus on processes and actors often overlooked in mainstream analyses and on the trends ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The War Machine and Global Health

    by Abigail E. Adams, Hans A. Baer, Avram Bornstein, Patrick F. Clarkin, Scott Harding, Elaine A. Hills, G Derrick Hodge, Rohit Karki, Brandon A. Kohrt, Kathryn Libal, Judith Pettigrew, Adrienne Pine, Wietse A. Tol, David Vine, Dahlia S. Wasfi ...
    In the contemporary world, war rivals infectious disease as a global cause of morbidity and mortality. Since the end of World War II, there have been at least 160 wars around the world with as many as 25 million (and probably many more) people killed, most of them civilians. Directly or indirectly, war touches the lives of most people on the planet, often with lasting and costly impact. Framed by ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • We Are the Face of Oaxaca

    Testimony and Social Movements

    by Lynn Stephen ...
    A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and participatory political vision for the state. Testimonials were broadcast on radio and television ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

    by Alex Mintz, Karl DeRouen Jr ...
    Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that are woven into the text. The cases and examples, which are written in an accessible style, include decisions made by leaders of the ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Chicano Movement For Beginners

    by Maceo Montoya ...
    Series series For Beginners
    As the heyday of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s to early 70s fades further into history and as more and more of its important figures pass on, so too does knowledge of its significance. Thus, Chicano Movement For Beginners is an important attempt to stave off historical amnesia. It seeks to shed light on the multifaceted civil rights struggle known as “El Movimiento” that galvanized the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Women and Wars

    Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

    Edited by Carol Cohn ...
    Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to wars. As the pages of this book tell, though, those accounts are far from complete. Women can be found at every turn in the ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Economies of Desire

    Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

    by Amalia L. Cabezas ...
    Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists—in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash—merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex—and the effects of capitalism and globalization—nothing is as simple as it might seem.Based on ten years of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Unfinished Revolution

    Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights

    Edited by Minky Worden ...
    “It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the world’s population.” —Christiane Amanpour, from the forewordThe Unfinished Revolution tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Hillary Doctrine

    Sex and American Foreign Policy

    by Patricia Leidl, Valerie Hudson ...
    Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. Known as the Hillary Doctrine, her stance was the impetus behind the 2010 Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review of U.S. foreign policy, formally committing America to the proposition that the empowerment of women is a stabilizing force for ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights

    by Olivia Ball, Paul Gready ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    Since the Declaration of Human Rights over fifty years ago, we acknowledge that universal rights exist, but what does this mean to someone who is tortured or denied education, work, or asylum?This No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights looks at the theories of rights and universalism. It explores the difficult task of trying to protect human rights in war, the legal advances that have led to some ... Read more

    $9.99 USD