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  • Haunted Hikes Great Smoky Mountains

    A Guide to the Spookiest Trails in the Region

    by Malorie Mackey, Michael Maldonado ...
    The Great Smoky Mountains are home to over 100 official hiking trails just waiting to be explored. But did you know that these mountains also hold a surprising number of myths, legends, and reported incidents of ghost activity? You heard right, the Great Smoky Mountains are filled with a diverse array of ghost stories, mythological tales, and legends just waiting to be investigated. This guidebook ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Secret Virginia

    A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

    by Malorie Mackey, Michael Maldonado ...
    Welcome to Virginia, the Old Dominion State. Virginia is for lovers . . . and also for the lovers of the unusual. With its rich, extensive history and deep ties to notable famous figures, Virginia is a treasure trove of weird, wonderful, and obscure locations just waiting to be discovered. Explore the unsettling remnants of several wars, from a cave in Yorktown that British General Cornwallis was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Challenging the Prevailing Paradigm of Displacement and Resettlement

    Risks, Impoverishment, Legacies, Solutions

    Edited by Michael M. Cernea, Julie K. Maldonado ...
    Development-caused forced displacement and resettlement (DFDR) is a critical problem on the international development agenda. The frequency of forced displacements is rapidly increasing, the sheer numbers of uprooted and impoverished people reveal fast accelerating trends, whilst government reporting remains poor and misleading. Challenging the Prevailing Paradigm of Displacement and Resettlement ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Military Spouses with Graduate Degrees

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thriving amidst Uncertainty

    by Marcia Bouchard, Catherine Cole, Henri E. Cooper, Elise Dixon, Alissa E. Harrison, Leandra Hinojosa Hernández, Georgia Jones, Lindsey Lee, Annette Maldonado, Michael Sollitto0, Karen Tannenbaum1, Beth Van Kan2, Precious Vida Yamaguchi3, Victoria McDermott4, Jennifer N. Belding5, Amy R. May7, Abby E. Murray8 ...
    With contributors in the fields of communication, psychology, English, law, and others, Navigating Life with a Graduate Degree as a Military Spouse: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Thriving amidst Uncertainty utilizes interdisciplinary theories, methods, and approaches to study the educational and career experiences of military spouses with advanced degrees.The ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • Photographing the Great Smoky Mountains: Where to Find Perfect Shots and How to Take Them (The Photographer's Guide)

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    by Jim Hargan ...
    Series series The Photographer's Guide
    Find countless opportunities to capture the beauty and natural diversity of America's most visited national park.On the border between North Carolina and Tennessee lie the forests and mountains of America’s most visited national park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Renowned for the diversity of its plant and animal life—the most biological diversity of any area in the world’s temperate zone ... Read more

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  • The Price of Rights

    Regulating International Labor Migration

    by Martin Ruhs ...
    Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both.Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Global Regulation

    Edited by Walter Mattli, Ngaire Woods ...
    Regulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be made to serve broader interests? This is the first book to examine systematically how and why such hijacking or "regulatory ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Globalization for Development

    Meeting New Challenges

    by Ian Goldin, Kenneth Reinert ...
    Globalization and its relation to poverty reduction and development are not well understood. This book explores the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. The book defines the big historical trends, identifies the main globalization processes - trade, finance, aid, migration, and ideas - and examines how each can contribute to economic development. By considering what ... Read more

    $53.09 USD

  • About Canada: Immigration

    by Nupur Gogia, Bonnie Slade ...
    Series Book 5 - About Canada
    Many Canadians believe that immigrants steal jobs away from qualified Canadians, abuse the healthcare system and refuse to participate in Canadian culture. In About Canada: Immigration, Gogia and Slade challenge these myths with a thorough investigation of the realities of immigrating to Canada. Examining historical immigration policies, the authors note that these policies were always ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Privatizing Water

    Governance Failure and the World's Urban Water Crisis

    by Karen Bakker ...
    Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector could provide better services at lower costs than governments; opponents questioned the risks involved in delegating control over a life-sustaining resource to for-profit companies. Private-sector activity was most concentrated—and contested—in large cities ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Cities in a Globalizing World

    Global Report on Human Settlements

    by Un-Habitat ...
    'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • Global Migration and Development

    Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Read more

    $70.99 USD