Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC)
1.
Shadow work
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
152 pages ; 22 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Boston ; London : M. Boyars, 1981.
Call Number
306.3 I29
Publication Date
1981
Language
English
ISBN
9780714527116 9780714527109
A history of the world in seven cheap things :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xiii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Production / Publication Information
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Summary
"Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding--and reclaiming--the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.
Call Number
303.44 PAT
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
ISBN
9780520293137
Secrets of the sprakkar :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
x, 277 pages : map ; 22 cm
Production / Publication Information
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2022]
Summary
"Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman-but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing battle, from electing the world's first female president to passing legislation specifically designed to help even the playing field at work and at home? And how can we learn from what Icelanders have already discovered about women's powerful place in society and how increased fairness benefits everyone? [The author] examines her adopted homeland's attitude toward women-the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement"--Provided by publisher.
Call Number
305.4094 REI 2022
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
ISBN
9781728242163
4.
The gift :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
pages cm.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition
Production / Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, 1983.
Call Number
306.32 HYDE
Publication Date
1983
Language
English
ISBN
9780394715193
5.
The gift :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxxix, 435 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, 2019.
Call Number
306.32 HYD
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9781984897787
We are a rainbow =
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
1 volumes (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, c1995.
Call Number
SP E FRIENDS TAB
Publication Date
1995
Language
English Spanish
ISBN
9780881068146 9780881068139
The strange death of Europe :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
343 pages ; 24 cm
Production / Publication Information
©2017
Summary
This book is not only an analysis of demographic and political realities in Europe, but also an eyewitness account of a continent in self-destruct mode. It includes reporting from across the entire continent, from the places where migrants land to the places they end up, from the people who appear to welcome them in to the places which cannot accept them.
Call Number
940.56 MURRAY
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781472942241 9781472954855
The human network :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York : Pantheon Books, [2019]
Summary
Examines how human networks drive inequality, social immobility, and political polarization and are often overlooked factors in success and failure, examining the role of social structures in patterns ranging from disease outbreak to financial crises.
Call Number
302.3 JAC
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
ISBN
9781101871430
In defense of nature :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
243 pages ; 23 cm
Production / Publication Information
Steubenville, Ohio : Emmaus Road Publishing, [2017]
Call Number
202.12/WIK
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781945125416
Fisherman's blues :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Riverhead Books, 2018.
Summary
"An intimate account of life in a West African fishing village, tugged by currents ancient and modern, and dependent on an ocean that is being radically transformed. The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere. For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find. Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable--between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story. Fisherman's Blues immerses us in a community navigating a time of unprecedented environmental, economic, and cultural upheaval with resilience, ingenuity, and wonder"--
Call Number
307.762 BAD
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781594634864
Pathologies of power :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxxvi, 402 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition
Pbk. edition
Production / Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Summary
Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life--and death--in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.
Electronic Access
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2004010906.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal051/2004010906.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/ucal051/2004010906.html
Call Number
305 FAR
Publication Date
2005
Language
English
ISBN
9780520243262
Pathologies of power :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xxiv, 402 pages ; 24 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
Call Number
305 FARMER
Publication Date
2003
Language
English
ISBN
9780520235502
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