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  • A Girl Named Lovely

    One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti

    by Catherine Porter ...
    An insightful and uplifting memoir about a young Haitian girl in post-earthquake Haiti, and the profound, life-changing effect she had on one journalist's life.In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was on the ground in the immediate aftermath. Moments after ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Justification

    Economies of Worth

    by Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Zbigniew Brzezinski

    America’s Grand Strategist

    by Justin Vaïsse ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    As National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski (1928–2017) guided U.S. foreign policy at a critical juncture of the Cold War. But his impact on America’s role in the world extends far beyond his years in the White House, and reverberates to this day. His geopolitical vision, scholarly writings, frequent media appearances, and policy advice to decades of presidents from ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Queer Turn in Feminism

    Identities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender

    by Anne Emmanuelle Berger ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Commonalities
    More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both “American” and “French,” thus ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    A Girl Named Lovely

    One Child's Miraculous Survival and My Journey to the Heart of Haiti

    by Catherine Porter ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 31 min

    An insightful and uplifting memoir about a young Haitian girl in post-earthquake Haiti, and the profound, life-changing effect she had on one journalist's life.In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was on the ground in the immediate aftermath. Moments after ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Mistletoe Wishes

    An Anthology

    by Carole Mortimer, Jane Porter, Catherine George ...
    The Billionaire's Christmas Gift by Carole MortimerNick Steele's heart is closed to everyone but his daughter. He will do anything to make this Christmas special for his little girl, though sharing the holidays with her impossibly attractive teacher wasn't at all what he had planned. But the lovely and vibrant Ms. Beth Morgan soon has Nick rethinking his own wish list. Might there be room for one ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Arachnean and Other Texts

    by Fernand Deligny ...
    Translated by Drew S. Burk, Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Univocal
    The network as a mode of beingIn 1968, Fernand Deligny established a “network” for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living; it was a milieu created out of a reflection on the mode of being autistic. What is a space perceived outside of language? What is the form of a movement without perspective or goal? How do we engage with a world that is not our ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

    by Michael Löwy, Robert Sayre, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Aging with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Health and Psychosocial Perspectives

    Edited by Mark Brennan-Ing, Kristen E. Porter, Jennifer E. Kaufman, Catherine MacPhail, Janet Seeley ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    With the development of effective antiretroviral therapies (ART) in the mid-1990s, HIV became a treatable although serious condition, and people who are adherent to HIV medications can attain normal or near-normal life expectancies. Because of the success of ART, people 50 and older now make up a majority of people with HIV in high-income countries and other places where ART is accessible. The ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • A Summer with Pascal

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law in fluid mechanics named after him. Meanwhile, the classic film My Night at Maud’s popularized Pascal’s wager, an invitation to faith that has ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Network Science In Education

    Transformational Approaches in Teaching and Learning

    Edited by Catherine B. Cramer, Mason A. Porter, Hiroki Sayama, Lori Sheetz, Stephen Miles Uzzo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Around the globe, there is an increasingly urgent need to provide opportunities for learners to embrace complexity; to develop the many skills and habits of mind that are relevant to today's complex and interconnected world; and to make learning more connected to our rapidly changing workplace and society. This presents an opportunity to (1) leverage new paradigms for understanding the structure ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Enrichment

    A Critique of Commodities

    by Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on the one hand, and, on the other, by the increased exploitation of certain resources that, while not entirely new, have taken on ... Read more

    Was $36.00 USD Now $20.00 USD