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  • Lazy Dogs Dance

    by Barbara Rose Brooker ...
    Lazy Dogs Dance is a novel about Rachel Rosenbloom who writes a book about her ex-husband who left her fifty years ago on her wedding night. When the novel is made into a movie, and as Rachel's career evolves, she falls in love with Max Taylor, a film producer. Struggling with her conflict about love, the industry, daughters, loving two men, and letting go of her obsession, Rachel is faced with ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love, Sometimes

    A Novel About Risk, Hollywood, and Controversial Love

    by Barbara Rose Brooker ...
    After publishing many books, and many failed TV opportunities, Bette Roseman finally signs a network contract for a TV series based on her novel, The Viagra Diaries, and dreams of a hit show. But when WC Network changes her protagonist’s age from sixty to twenty-something, Bette angrily confronts Network CEO Joshua Bitterman. She demands that her protagonist maintain her original age, but he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Viagra Diaries

    by Barbara Rose Brooker ...
    A funny, fearless, and inspiring novel about dating after the age of sixty.THE NOVEL THAT PROVES THERE’S PLENTY OF LIFE—AND HOT SEX—AFTER SIXTY!Just because Anny Applebaum qualifies for a senior discount doesn’t mean she’s ready for retirement. But if she wants to keep her job at the San Francisco Times, she’ll have to find a way to spice up her lifestyle column. Even if it means posting her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Oysters and Angels and Writing Aerobics

    by Barbara Rose Brooker ...
    Anecdotes of a writer's personal journey as a author, as she ascends into the world of agents, publishing, publications, Hollywood, editors, and a bestseller. The author's Writing Aerobics are exercises that guide the writer from title, premise, table of contents, outline, dialogue, story, scene, point of view, and all elements of craft, into a beginning, middle, and end."I have never seen the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Waging War, Making Peace

    Reparations and Human Rights

    Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston, Susan Slyomovics ...
    Humans are good at making war—and much less successful at making peace. Genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes against humanity are gross violations of human rights that are frequently perpetrated and legitimized in the name of nationalism, militarism, and economic development. This book tackles the question of how to make peace by taking a critical look at the primary political mechanism ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Water, Culture, and Power

    Local Struggles In A Global Context

    Edited by John Donahue, Barbara Rose Johnston ...
    According to some estimates, at least 1.7 billion people do not have an adequate supply of drinking water and as many as 40% of the world's population face chronic shortages. Yet water scarcity is more than a matter of terrain, increased population, and climate. It can also be a byproduct or end result of water management, where the building of dams, canals, and complicated delivery systems ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Color of Being/El Color del Ser

    Dorothy Hood, 1918–2000

    by Susie Kalil ...
    Born in Bryan, Texas, and raised in Houston, Dorothy Hood won a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 1930s, then worked as a model in New York to earn money for classes at the Art Students League. On a whim, she drove a roadster to Mexico City with friends in 1941 and ended up staying for more than twenty years.Hood was front and center at the cultural, political, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Disappearing Peoples?

    Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia

    Edited by Barbara Brower, Barbara Rose Johnston ...
    South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of change including environmental degradation, population growth, land loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Life and Death Matters

    Human Rights, Environment, and Social Justice, Second Edition

    Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston ...
    The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of actors respond to them. This second edition, fully updated with both expanded and new chapters, once again provides a benchmark for the field and opens ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Who Pays the Price?

    The Sociocultural Context Of Environmental Crisis

    by Jason Clay, Roy Rappaport, Gregory Button, William Derman, Debra Schindler, Susan Dawson, Susan Stonich, Margaret A. Byrne, Leslie Sponsel, John Bodley, Bruce Albert, Erling Berge, Daniel Jorgenson, Norman A. Chance ...
    Drawing from a Society for Applied Anthropology study on human rights and the environment, Who Pays the Price? provides a detailed look at the human experience of environmental crisis. The issues examined span the globe -- loss of land and access to critical resources; contamination of air, water and soil; exposure to radiation, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous wastes. Topics considered in ... Read more

    $46.09 USD

  • Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

    The Rongelap Report

    by Barbara Rose Johnston, Holly M Barker ...
    The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly Barker provide incontrovertible evidence of physical and financial damages to individuals and cultural and psycho-social damages to the community through use of declassified government documents, oral histories and ethnographic ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • New Directions in Anthropology and Environment

    Intersections

    by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Luisa Maffi, Willett Kempton, Don D. Fowler, Michael R. Dove, Thomas L. Leatherman, Barbara Rose Johnston, J Peter Brosius, Leslie Sponsel, Kathryn R. Winthrop, Alice E. Ingerson, Bonnie J. McCay, Eric C. Poncelet, Donald L. Hardesty ...
    Carole L. Crumley has brought together top scholars from across anthropology in a benchmark volume that displays the range of exciting new work on the complex relationship between humans and the environment. Continually pursuing anthropology's persistent claim that both the physical and the mental world matter, these environmental scholars proceed from the holistic assumption that the physical ... Read more

    $46.99 USD