The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, Paperback - Michael Grunwald

Reducere. The Everglades was once reviled as a liquid wasteland, and Americans dreamed of draining it. Now it is revered as a national treasure, and American...

Reducere. The men and women who settled in the Florida Everglades before the Civil War thrived in an environment that was dangerous and wild and ever changin...

Reducere. DescriptionFor five days in December 1908 the body of Cyrus Teed lay in a bathtub at a beach house just south of Fort Myers, Florida. His followers...

Reducere. Death in the Everglades chronicles the demise of one of 20th-century Florida's most enduring folk heroes. The murder of Guy Bradley represents a mi...

Reducere. In the nearly 500 years since the Florida Keys were discovered by Christopher Columbus in his search for the Fountain of Youth, Key West has been t...

Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence. Through...

Reducere. In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist ...

Reducere. This is the heralded "definitive history" of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the crazin...

Reducere. "Shows how colonialism and slavery created sustained critiques of American capitalism and created the conditions for chronic resistance. These comm...

Reducere. How tourism shaped the Sunshine State"An enlightening journey through Florida's diverse and evolving tourism history, illustrating the changing fac...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cathy SalustriIn the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project sent mostly anonymous writers, but also Zora Neale Hurston and Ste...

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

Reducere. In the nearly 500 years since the Florida Keys were discovered by Christopher Columbus in his search for the Fountain of Youth, Key West has been t...

Reducere. Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when...

Reducere. Florida's famous swamps--from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell--serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. May...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice -A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.---Salon Michael Eric D...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

Traces the socioeconomic and environmental changes taking place in the Gran Chaco, a biodiverse region at the intersection of Argentina, Bolivia, B...

Reducere. A magnificent coming-of-age saga about two sisters from an aristocratic Egyptian family who rebel against tradition. Inside a beautiful mansion on ...

Reducere. When Anna discovers she's with child, it doesn't feel as wonderful as she'd imagined. She quickly feels trapped between the doctors blaming her for...

A stand-alone novel from the author of the crime series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, now available in paperback. It follows a young Veneti...

An urgent and pertinent exploration of how and why the suicide bomber has shaped the modern age, written by a multi-award winning investigative jou...

A thrilling new adventure series: what would the world look like if dinosaurs had never died out?Imagine a world where dinosaurs have survived and ...

This gripping novel from an award-winning writer tells the story of a child trapped in a religious community spiralling towards disaster - in Jones...

Reducere. Caribbean Studies Association Barbara T. Christian Literary Award Negotiating Respect is an ethnographically rich investigation of Pentecostal Chri...

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

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Lee GramlingNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 21Cover type: Paperback / s...

Focusing on the didactic nature of the work of Reinaldo Arenas, this book demonstrates the Cuban writer's influence as public pedagogue, mentor, an...

Any observer of Dominican political and literary discourse will quickly notice how certain notions of hyper-masculinity permeate the culture. In th...

After surveying Milton's recurrent struggle as a reconciler of conflicting ideals, this Primer undertakes a book-by-book reading of Paradise Lost, ...

A mesmerising novel set in the Louisiana heartland from award-winning author James Lee Burke.

Reducere. This Side of Paradise (1920) is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published at the very beginning of Fitzgerald's career as a leading writer of Ameri...

American Gods meets The Chronicles of Narnia in this adult fantasy about the Biblical Adam recovering the lost pieces of the Garden of Eden. Many m...

Reducere. In Jesus and the Politics of Mammon, Phelps uses contemporary critical theory, continental philosophy, and theology to develop a radical reading of...

Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the 2018 IRDA for fantasy #1 Best Seller in Canadian Dark Fantasy 99% liked it (Goodreads) A deformed genius plots vengeance w...

This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine as he grows from pampered childhood to young adulthood, and learns to know himself better. F....

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Thomas N. SmithNumber of pages: 443Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 38Cover t...