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Marlene Dietrich

by Maria Riva ...

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the landmark biography that tells the full-scale, riveting, and untold story of Marlene Dietrich.Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail, evoking Dietrich the woman, her legendary career, and her world. Opening with Dietrich’s childhood in Berlin, we meet an energetic, disciplined, and ambitious young actress, ... Read more

$11.99 USD

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the landmark biography that tells the full-scale, riveting, and untold story of Marlene Dietrich.Wildly entertaining, Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother in vivid detail, evoking Dietrich the woman, her legendary career, and her world. Opening with Dietrich’s childhood in Berlin, we meet an energetic, disciplined, and ambitious young actress,
... Read more
You Were There Before My Eyes

by Maria Riva ...

A richly imagined portrait of an immigrant woman in the heady and unpredictable first half of the twentieth century.Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village.When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for ... Read more

$9.99 USD

A richly imagined portrait of an immigrant woman in the heady and unpredictable first half of the twentieth century.Sweeping and panoramic, You Were There Before My Eyes is the epic and intimate story of a young woman who chafes at the stifling routine and tradition of her small, turn-of-the-century Italian village.When an opportunity presents itself for her to emigrate to America, her hunger for
... Read more
Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan

Everyday Stories of Intervention

by Althea-Maria Rivas ...

Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities. Analysis of the international intervention in Afghanistan following the post 9/11 invasion in 2001, one of the ... Read more

$64.99 USD

Security, Development, and Violence in Afghanistan provides a unique insight into the lived realities of the international intervention in Afghanistan and highlights the diversity, relationships, and interdependence of various groups including both external actors and Afghan communities. Analysis of the international intervention in Afghanistan following the post 9/11 invasion in 2001, one of the
... Read more
Imagining Asia in the Americas

by Debbie Lee-DiStefano, Kathleen López, Martin A. Tsang, Junyoung Verónica Kim, Adrian H. Hearn, José Amador, Julia Katz, Ann Kaneko, Roshni Rustomji-Kerns0, Ignacio López-Calvo1 ...

Series series Asian American Studies Today
For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas ... Read more

$23.09 USD

For centuries, Asian immigrants have been making vital contributions to the cultures of North and South America. Yet in many of these countries, Asians are commonly viewed as undifferentiated racial “others,” lumped together as chinos regardless of whether they have Chinese ancestry. How might this struggle for recognition in their adopted homelands affect the ways that Asians in the Americas
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Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean

by Luisa Marcela Ossa, Debbie Lee-DiStefano, Dania Abreu-Torres, Linda Aïnouche, Malathi Michelle Iyengar, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, Kathleen López, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Zelideth María Rivas0, Martin A. Tsang1, Lisa Yun2 ...

Series series Black Diasporic Worlds: Origins and Evolutions from New World Slaving
Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate ... Read more

$38.09 USD

Afro-Asian Connections in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the connections between people of Asian and African descent in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although their journeys started from different points of origin, spanning two separate oceans, their point of contact in this hemisphere brought them together under a hegemonic system that would treat these seemingly disparate
... Read more
Experiences in Researching Conflict and Violence

Fieldwork Interrupted

by John Heathershaw, Michael P. Broache, Fabio Cristiano, Sandra McEvoy, Henri Myrttinen, Corinna Jentzsch, Dr Paul Stubbs, Patrick James Christian ...

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices.It highlights the researchers’ own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of conflict research that goes ... Read more

$46.79 USD

This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices.It highlights the researchers’ own subjectivity and presents a nuanced view of conflict research that goes
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Marlene Dietrich

The Life

by Maria Riva ...

Narrated by Christa Lewis ...

Unabridged

33 hours 32 min

With intimate detail, author Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother, Marlene Dietrich, the charismatic star of stage and screen whose career spanned much of the twentieth century. Opening with Dietrich's childhood in Schöneberg, Riva's biography introduces us to an energetic, disciplined, and ambitious young actress whose own mother equated show business with a world of vagabonds and ... Read more

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With intimate detail, author Maria Riva reveals the rich life of her mother, Marlene Dietrich, the charismatic star of stage and screen whose career spanned much of the twentieth century. Opening with Dietrich's childhood in Schöneberg, Riva's biography introduces us to an energetic, disciplined, and ambitious young actress whose own mother equated show business with a world of vagabonds and
... Read more
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You Were There Before My Eyes

A Novel

by Maria Riva ...

Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

Unabridged

20 hours 38 min

A woman leaves her Italian village and enters a new world as an immigrant in Detroit in this sweeping novel by a New York Times bestselling author.In a small village in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century, Jane chafes at stifling routine and tradition. So when an opportunity presents itself to immigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind. Far away, in ... Read more

$30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A woman leaves her Italian village and enters a new world as an immigrant in Detroit in this sweeping novel by a New York Times bestselling author.In a small village in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century, Jane chafes at stifling routine and tradition. So when an opportunity presents itself to immigrate to America, her hunger for escape compels her to leave everything behind. Far away, in
... Read more

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Delta Wedding

by Eudora Welty ...

Narrated by Sally Darling ...

Unabridged

12 hours

Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for Dabney Fairchild's wedding. An only child whose ... Read more

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Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for Dabney Fairchild's wedding. An only child whose
... Read more

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Secret Lives of the Tsars

Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness from Romanov Russia

by Michael Farquhar ...

Narrated by Enn Reitel ...

Unabridged

12 hours 26 min

“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnistScandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating ... Read more

$22.50 USD

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“Michael Farquhar doesn’t write about history the way, say, Doris Kearns Goodwin does. He writes about history the way Doris Kearns Goodwin’s smart-ass, reprobate kid brother might. I, for one, prefer it.”—Gene Weingarten, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Washington Post columnistScandal! Intrigue! Cossacks! Here the world’s most engaging royal historian chronicles the world’s most fascinating
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Love Letters, The

A Novel

by Madeleine L'Engle ...

Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

Unabridged

14 hours 17 min

Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time.After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time.After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth
... Read more

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Ceremony of the Innocent

A Novel

by Taylor Caldwell ...

Narrated by Kate Rudd ...

Unabridged

23 hours 11 min

New York Times Bestseller: The quest for the American Dream soars to new heights in this coming-of-age story of a young woman and her country.Living with her aunt in poor, rural Preston, Pennsylvania, thirteen-year-old Ellen Watson loves books and music and is completely oblivious to her own beauty. But her extraordinary looks arouse envy and malice in the female townspeople—and lust in the males. ... Read more

$46.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

New York Times Bestseller: The quest for the American Dream soars to new heights in this coming-of-age story of a young woman and her country.Living with her aunt in poor, rural Preston, Pennsylvania, thirteen-year-old Ellen Watson loves books and music and is completely oblivious to her own beauty. But her extraordinary looks arouse envy and malice in the female townspeople—and lust in the males.
... Read more

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