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Facing the future : the Indian Child Welfare Act at 30 /

Table of Contents: “…Organick / A decade of lessons learned : advocacy, education, and practice / LeAnne E. Silvey -- Where have all the children gone? …”
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Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…Franits -- Sharing stories: motherhood, autism, and culture / Rachel Robertson -- Nurturing the nurturer: reflections on an experience of breastfeeding, disability, and physical trauma / Heather Kuttai -- Vulnerable subjects: motherhood and disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherríe Moraga / Suzanne Bost -- From surrender to activism: the transformation of disability and mothering at Kew cottages, Australia / Corinne Manning -- History examined: one women's story of disability and advocacy / Marilyn Dolmage -- My mother's mental illness / Whitney Jones-Garcia -- A Schizo-ly situated daughter: a mother's labor / Elizabeth Metcalf -- Motherhood and activism in the dis/enabling context of war: the case of Cindy Sheehan / Abby M. …”
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Recentring Asia histories, encounters, identities /

Table of Contents: “…The dark passage : history, piracy and the Melaka Strait / Barbara Andaya -- In interesting times : Northeast Asia's tipping-point and its implications for the southern hemisphere / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Indians in the South Pacific : recentred diasporas / Jacqueline Leckie -- The legend of Minamoto no Tametomo : controversy and connections between Ryukyuan/Okinawan and Japanese histories / Ito Yushi -- Dislocated location and impersonal : the object of contemporary Chinese poetry / Jacob Edmond -- The city as a contact zone : Shanghai as a crossroad between China and Japan / Hasegawa Eiko -- From diasporic communities to "abandoned people" (kimin) / Roman Rosenbaum -- Hiding behind ambiguity : identifying an ethnicity / Anthony Shome -- Supporting foreigners in Japan : NGOs and advocacy / Nanami Akiko -- Indecent intimacies : Chinese men as sexual predators in New Zealand fiction, 1934 to 2006 / Kathy Ooi -- The trope of the ghost and cultural hybridity in Kim Sok Pom's Mandogi yurei kitan (The extraordinary ghost story of Mandogi) (1971) / Elise Foxworth -- Wartime tanka poetry : writing in extremis / Leith Morton -- Reaching out with chimugukuru : positioning Okinawan identity at the Fourth Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival and beyond / Miyahira Katsuyuki and Peter Petrucci -- Musical moves and transnational grooves : education, transplantation and Japanese taiko drumming at the International Pacific College, New Zealand / Henry Johnson.…”
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Giving 2.0 transform your giving and our world / by Arrillaga-Andreessen, Laura, 1970-

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Development and semi-periphery post-neoliberal trajectories in South America and Central Eastern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Development and dependency, developmentalism, and alternatives / José maurício Domingues -- Political culture, identity politics, and political contention -- Indigenous movements and their proposals in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / Xavier Albó -- Path dependency in identity politics in Estonia / Raivo Vetik -- Integration parliaments in Europe and Latin America : explaining variations / Juliana Erthal -- Ideas and the role of elites and advocacy networks : translating and legitimating the frontiers of institutional reforms -- Marketing professional expertise by (re)inventing states : professional rivalries between lawyers and economists as hegemonic strategies in the international market for the reproduction of national state elites / Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth -- Identity, policy preferences and the perception of the European integration process among the Hungarian elites / György Lengyel and Borbála Göncz -- Critical junctures, institutional legacies and epistemic communities : limits and possibilities of a development agenda in Brazil / Carlos Henrique Santana -- Economic reforms, public policies and development -- Development and citizenship in the semi-periphery : reflecting on the Brazilian experience / Krista Lillemets -- The periphery paradox in innovation policy : Latin America and Eastern Europe compared / Rainer Kattel and Annalisa Primi -- Lula's government as the Brazilian experiment with social democracy / Fabiano Santos.…”
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Libraries driving access to knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago / Marsha Winter and Stella Sandy -- Native language university digital textbook collection / Martin Hallik and Liisi Lembinen -- Balancing access to knowledge and respect for cultural knowledge : librarian advocacy with indigenous peoples' self-determination in access to knowledge / Loriene Roy, Kristen Hogan, and Spencer Lilley -- Access to knowledge as a social practice : information literacy education for MA students / Maria-Carme Torras i Calvo -- The discursive construction of the academic library as learning place in A2K / Catherine Closet-Crane -- A tale of two libraries : space and reading in Porto public libraries / Paula Sequeiros and Silvia Grünig -- University library premises : the evaluation of customer satisfaction and usage / Anne Lehto, Leena Toivonen, and Mirja Iivonen -- ILS vs. …”
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Facing the future : the Indian Child Welfare Act at 30 /

Table of Contents: “…Organick / A decade of lessons learned : advocacy, education, and practice / LeAnne E. Silvey -- Where have all the children gone? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Disability and mothering : liminal spaces of embodied knowledge /

Table of Contents: “…Franits -- Sharing stories: motherhood, autism, and culture / Rachel Robertson -- Nurturing the nurturer: reflections on an experience of breastfeeding, disability, and physical trauma / Heather Kuttai -- Vulnerable subjects: motherhood and disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherríe Moraga / Suzanne Bost -- From surrender to activism: the transformation of disability and mothering at Kew cottages, Australia / Corinne Manning -- History examined: one women's story of disability and advocacy / Marilyn Dolmage -- My mother's mental illness / Whitney Jones-Garcia -- A Schizo-ly situated daughter: a mother's labor / Elizabeth Metcalf -- Motherhood and activism in the dis/enabling context of war: the case of Cindy Sheehan / Abby M. …”
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Empowering female climate change activists in the Global South : the path toward environmental social justice / by Spitzer, Peggy Ann

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Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements / by Singh, Julietta, 1976-

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Disability Studies and Spanish Culture : Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition / by Fraser, Benjamin

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Defending Women's Rights in Europe : Gender Equality and EU Enlargement / by Avdeyeva, Olga A., 1976-

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Public Feminisms : From Academy to Community /

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Responsible marine aquaculture

Table of Contents: “…Contending with Criticism: Sensible Responses in an Age of Advocacy -- Terrence R. Tiersch and John A. Hargreaves.…”
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Body evidence intimate violence against South Asian women in America /

Table of Contents: “…Julie Rajan -- Silences that prevail when the perpetrators are our own / Grace Poore -- The violence that dares not speak its name : invisibility in the lives of lesbian and bisexual South Asian American women / Prajna Paramita Choudhury -- The trap of multiculturalism : battered South Asian women and health care / Sunita Puri -- Ahimsa and the contextual realities of woman abuse in the Jain community / Shamita Das Dasgupta and Shashi Jain -- A communicative perspective on assisting battered Asian Indian immigrant women / Mandeep Grewal -- Law's culture and cultural difference / Sharmila Rudrappa -- Middle class, documented, and helpless : the H-4 visa bind / Shivali Shah -- Battered South Asian women in U.S. courts / Shamita Das Dasgupta -- Navigating gender, immigration, and domestic violence : advocacy with work visa holders / Rupaleem Bhuyan -- Local and global undivided : transnational exploitation and violence against South Asian women / Sujatha Anbuselvi Jesudason -- From Dhaka to Cincinnati : tracing the trajectory of a transnational violence against women campaign / Elora Halim Chowdhury.…”
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Empowering female climate change activists in the Global South : the path toward environmental social justice / by Spitzer, Peggy Ann

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Public Feminisms : From Academy to Community /

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Unthinking Mastery : Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements / by Singh, Julietta, 1976-

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Disability Studies and Spanish Culture : Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition / by Fraser, Benjamin

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Defending Women's Rights in Europe : Gender Equality and EU Enlargement / by Avdeyeva, Olga A., 1976-

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