Death of Idealism. Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps, Paperback - Meghan Elizabeth Kallman

Why do Peace Corps volunteers often return having lost their idealism? In The Death of Idealism, Meghan Elizabeth Kallman details the combination o...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): H. S. HarrisNumber of pages: 456Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 227 x 149 x 25Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. When Jack Allison joined the Peace Corps in 1967, he never intended to write the number one hit song in Malawi or be described by Newsweek as more ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Meghan MarchNew York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author, Meghan March, continues the story of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Meghan MarchWho knew things could get even darker and dirtier in New Orleans? New York Times bestselling author Meghan Marc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Meghan MarchNew York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Meghan March concludes the story of he...

Reducere. Cameroon is a country in West Africa, directly south-east of Nigeria. Leigh Marie Dannhauser gets sent by the Peace Corps to be an agriculture volu...

Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist a...

A first-of-its-kind guide to social justice through the lens of the Enneagram--a popular personality typing system--that shows how people can use t...

On March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a...

Explains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-Ameri...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: MR Abraham TekluAuthor: Andrew TadrossThe Essential Guide to Amharic is a 150+ pages of grammar, phrases, and vocabulary fo...

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Reducere. The devotion of the Flame of Love of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was given to the Church for the specific purpose of blinding Satan so that he los...

This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for S...

Reducere. DescriptionFrontier Cabin Story is a rare architectural biography of a long-forgotten 18th-century log farmhouse in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. J...

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity...

Reducere. Living Between Iraq and a Hard Place is a real life twenty-first century adventure. Martin and Karen Feess, an American couple, spent two years imm...

3, 000 Years of War and Peace in the Maya Lowlands presents the cutting-edge research of 25 authors in the fields of archaeology, biological anthro...

DescriptionAlthough the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imp...

Reducere. The restrictions of an anti-inflammatory diet can make eating healthy feel like deprivation. Peace of Cake offers an easy, long-term solution that ...

Reducere. The murder of Athalia Ponsell Lindsley is notorious more than four decades after it occurred. The only eyewitness said a man attacked Lindsley with...

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The book traces the history of ACT UP/LA, whose members battled government and institutional neglect of the AIDS crisis during the 1980s and 1990s....

Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a reaction to the liberal democratic values of the West. He compares ...

This groundbreaking book challenges the dominant view of ideology held by both political scientists and political commentators. Rather than viewing...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Tejendra (UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK) PheraliNumber of pages: 240Publ...

Aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance ...

In Peace and Rural Development in Colombia: The Window for Distributive Change in Negotiated Transitions, Andres Garcia Trujillo investigates wheth...

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Reducere. In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for...

Description"Professor Alan Dershowitz highlights the bigotry of a fringe group of extremists who apply a clear double standard to Israel, the only ...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

Clearly and accessibly written, Dixon provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland conflict and of successive ...

Reducere. The course of true love never did run smooth.According to Myrtle, Eloise Crane set her cap for Miles long ago. Although Miles is now dating Eloise,...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Jose-Antonio (Oregon State University, USA) OroscoNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. DescriptionEXPANDED EDITION. This landmark work, originally published in 1992, traces the various stages of spiritual development and discusses how...

Reducere. A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By t...

In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabe...

As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a pr...

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Foreign aid is about charity. International development is about technical fixes. At least that is what we, as donors, are constantly told. The res...

Offers an account of development in action. Focusing on experts' attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, this title exposes th...

A withering analysis of how ill-conceived, poorly-executed interventionist peace deals often precipitate greater long term hostility.

The concept of hybridity highlights complex processes of interaction and transformation between different institutional and social forms, and norma...

This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portraya...

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality - Sundhya Pahuja

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Meghan March comes a new deliciously dangerous alpha hero in The Fall of Legend, the first book in the brand...