Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Anthropologist in Venezuela, Paperback - Pei-Lin Yu

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The US foreign policy decisions behind six coup attempts against the Venezuelan government - and Venezuela's heightening precarity In March 2015, P...

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In 1985, Dr Nigel Barley taught himself Indonesian and set off for the relatively unknown island of Sulawesi. Here he hoped to find unsullied cultu...

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For several decades of the twentieth century, Venezuela enjoyed a prolonged period of low inflation, high growth, and social progress. During those...

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Working Woman Poetry by Claire L. Frankel is a delightful collection that asks the reader to ponder "What is a working woman's life?" Frankel invit...

It is the prostitute Rahab that lures in the spies of God. Not the king of Jericho, but a harlot that lives in the poor parts of the city who under...

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Elisabeth Parker comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband, Nate, to reunite with her father, who's struck gold on the Am...

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