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  • Answer the Call

    Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centers

    What happens over time to Indians who spend their working hours answering phone calls from Americans—and acting like Americans themselves? To find out, the authors of Answer the Call conducted long-term interviews with forty-five agents, trainers, managers, and CEOs at call centers in Bangalore and Mumbai from 2003 to 2012. For nine or ten hours every day, workers in call centers are not quite in ... Leer más

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  • Power Lines

    On the Subject of Feminist Alliances

    Like the complex systems of man-made power lines that transmit electricity and connect people and places, feminist alliances are elaborate networks that have the potential to provide access to institutional power and to transform relations. In Power Lines, Aimee Carrillo Rowe explores the formation and transformative possibilities of transracial feminist alliances. She draws on her conversations ... Leer más

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    Stories of Life in Havana

    Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Leer más

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  • Violence Girl

    East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story

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    East L.A. punk pioneer Alice Bag tells the raw, feminist memoir of survival, music, and the birth of West Coast punk. Violence Girl is the memoir of Alicia Armendariz—better known as Alice Bag—frontwoman of The Bags and one of the earliest voices of the Los Angeles punk scene. Raised in East L.A. by Mexican-born parents and shaped by a turbulent, often violent home life, Armendariz crossed ... Leer más

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  • What's Next

    Essays on Geopolitics That Matter (A Penguin Special from Portfolio)

    From the world’s leading experts on geopolitical risk, a guide to the major global issues and policies sure to dominate headlines in the next few years.In the last four years, the world has suffered a financial market meltdown and subsequent global recession. The eurozone crisis looms, the Middle East is in turmoil, and a shifting power balance between emerging markets and developed economies is ... Leer más

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  • From Coveralls to Zoot Suits

    The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front

    During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new means to exercise control over their lives in the home, workplace, and nation. In From Coveralls to ... Leer más

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  • Glass Houses

    Privacy, Secrecy, and Cyber Insecurity in a Transparent World

    de Joel Brenner ...
    A chilling and revelatory appraisal of the new faces of espionage and warfare on the digital battlegroundShortly after 9/11, Joel Brenner entered the inner sanctum of American espionage, first as the inspector general of the National Security Agency, then as the head of counterintelligence for the director of National Intelligence. He saw at close range the battleground on which adversaries are ... Leer más

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  • Cesar's Wars

    The Rise of America's Special Forces

    CESARS WARS is based on the true story of Roberto Csar Montiel, a Special Forces soldier and CIA operative who made American history for 35 years: The portable atomic bomb. The creation of Special Forces. The Bay of Pigs. The School of the Americas. Korea. Vietnam. Operation Phoenix. Operation Condor. The Contras. Non-official Cover. Interrogations. Torture. Through it all, his family paid the ... Leer más

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  • An Organizer's Tale

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    The first major collection of writings by civil rights leader Cesar ChavezOne of the most important civil rights leaders in American history, Cesar Chavez was a firm believer in the principles of nonviolence, and he effectively employed peaceful tactics to further his cause. Through his efforts, he helped achieve dignity, fair wages, benefits, and humane working conditions for hundreds of ... Leer más

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  • States and the Reemergence of Global Finance

    From Bretton Woods to the 1990s

    Most accounts explain the postwar globalization of financial markets as a product of unstoppable technological and market forces. Drawing on extensive historical research, Eric Helleiner provides the first comprehensive political history of the phenomenon, one that details and explains the central role played by states in permitting and encouraging financial globalization.Helleiner begins by ... Leer más

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  • Global Entertainment Media

    Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization

    A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to political economy and cultural studies. Among other topics, Mirrlees examines:Paradigms of global ... Leer más

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