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  • Olivia

    by Jan Brown ...
    Olivia is restless at home. Finally, her father agrees that she can go on a journey with a friend. They travel to Africa, but it does not go as expected. In her desperate longing for adventure, Olivia recklessly runs away. While on the run she is kidnapped by a disreputable sheikh. The intrigue deepens and Olivia gets enlightened in areas she least expected. ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • People like Us

    by Jan Brown ...
    The story of one woman’s life in rural mid Wales at the turn of the 20th c. Despite poverty and setbacks, she climbs the ladder to become Cook at Gregynog Hall - a real achievement. Marriage and widowhood see her succumb to the fate of many women at that time who had little or no control over their own lives. Although she slid into relative obscurity, she possessed great courage. ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transformative Learning

    Autoethnographies of Qualitative Research

    Edited by Frode Soelberg, Larry D. Browning, Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Frank Lindberg ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book contains a series of autoethnographies written by participants of a program on qualitative methods. It offers the stories of students-turned-professors and what they learned via autoethnographic writing as part of the course. The chapters provide insight into the application of a range of qualitative research techniques and, unlike typical works on qualitative methods, in a ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • The Essential June Jordan

    by June Jordan ...
    "...This volume of verse displays the undeniable legacy June Jordan left on both our literature and culture. Collected here are blazing examples of poetry as activism, stanzas that speak truth to power and speak out against violence against women and police brutality. But Jordan also speaks on the significance of hope, mixing, as Brown puts it, 'the doom and devastation made mundane through media ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Power of Place-Based Leadership in Social Value Creation

    Leading Places, Shaping Futures

    by Geena Whiteman, Rafaela Neiva Ganga, Christine Spriggs, John Eastwood, Hueiming Liu, Robin Miller, Jo Pretty, Emma Hill, Fiona Shaw, Jan Brown, Liz Edwards, Gerwyn Jones, Lisa Newson, Lucy Bridge, John Ghader, Paul Anderson ...
    This book explores the role of leadership in shaping places and driving sustainable urban and regional development. Moving beyond the traditional organizational focus of leadership studies, it uses inspiring case studies to show how place-based leadership can become more attuned to local needs, across sectors such as housing, healthcare, creative industries and environmental sustainability ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Wise Women

    From Pocahontas To Sarah Winnemucca, Remarkable Stories Of Native American Trailblazers

    by Lynn Bragg, Jan Cleere, Wynne Brown ...
    The story of Pocahontas saving John Smith is justly famous, as is the cross-country journey of Sacajawea with the Corps of Discovery, and Sarah Winnemucca earned fame by being a champion of her people as the old ways of life were disappearing. But there are lesser known stories of the Native American women who shaped their cultures and changed the course of American history. Illustrated with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Medieval Bruges

    c. 850–1550

    Edited by Andrew Brown, Jan Dumolyn ...
    Bruges was undoubtedly one of the most important cities in medieval Europe. Bringing together specialists from both archaeology and history, this 'total' history presents an integrated view of the city's history from its very beginnings, tracing its astonishing expansion through to its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. The authors' analysis of its commercial growth, industrial ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism

    A Postcolonial Chronicle of Dutch and Belgian Practice

    by Jan Breman ...
    Translated by Andy Brown ...
    For a long time, Europe’s colonizing powers justified their urge for expansion with the conviction that they were ‘bringing civilization to territories where civilization was lacking.’ This doctrine of white superiority and indigenous inferiority was accompanied by a boundless exploitation of local labor. Under colonial rule, the ideology that later became known as neoliberalism was free to ... Read more

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  • High North Stories in a Time of Transition

    Gutsy Narratives and Wild Observations

    Edited by Frode Soelberg, Larry Browning, Jan-Oddvar Sørnes ...
    The High North in a Time of Transition collects multiple perspectives on the lives of people in the High North of Norway at a point when the petroleum boom is no longer the dominant cultural feature of the region. Utilizing constructivist grounded theory, the volume contains a rich variety of narrative accounts of fieldwork conducted with those living above the Arctic circle in the city of Bodø. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus

    Ethnographies from the First Year of the Pandemic

    Edited by Larry D. Browning, Jan-Oddvar Sørnes, Peer Jacob Svenkerud ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The pandemic has created a crisis that has no equivalent in recent history, leading to a wide range of disruption across various social strata, highlighting and reinforcing inequality, and leading to profound organizational shifts. In this book, organizational communication scholars grapple with the implications of the pandemic for work and organizations, examining the immediate impact on their ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Web Cartography

    Edited by Jan-Menno Kraak, Allan Brown ...
    Maps and atlases are created as soon as information on our geography has been clarified. They are used to find directions or to get insight into spatial relations. They are produced and used both on paper as well as on-screen. The Web is the new medium for spreading and using maps. This book explains the benefits of this medium from the perspective ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Understanding the Lived Experiences of Persons with Disabilities in Nine Countries

    Active Citizenship and Disability in Europe Volume 2

    Edited by Rune Halvorsen, Bjørn Hvinden, Julie Beadle Brown, Mario Biggeri, Jan Tøssebro, Anne Waldschmidt ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Disability Studies
    Over the last three decades, a number of reforms have taken place in European social policy with an impact on the opportunities for persons with disabilities to be full and active members of society. The policy reforms have aimed to change the balance between citizens’ rights and duties and the opportunities to enjoy choice and autonomy, live in the community and participate in political decision ... Read more

    $66.99 USD