Hypertext Review: A Literary Anthology of Contemporary Writing, Spring 2019, , Schreck Karen Halvorsen
Автор: Schreck Karen Halvorsen Название: Broken Ground ISBN: 1476794839 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476794839 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 19310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: When a young oil rig widow escapes her grief and the Texas Dust Bowl, she discovers a surprising future--and new passion--awaiting her in California in this lyrically written romance by the author of Sing for Me. Newly married to her childhood sweetheart, twenty-one-year-old Ruth Warren is settling into life in a Depression-era, East Texas oil town. She's making a home when she learns that her young husband, Charlie, has been killed in an oil rig accident. Ruth is devastated, but then gets a chance for a fresh start: a scholarship from a college in Pasadena, CA. Ruth decides to take a risk and travel west, to pursue her one remaining dream to become a teacher. At college Ruth tries to fit into campus life, but her grief holds her back. When she spends Christmas with some old family friends, she meets the striking and compelling Thomas Everly, whose own losses and struggles have instilled in him a commitment to social justice, and led him to work with Mexican migrant farmworkers in a camp just east of Los Angeles. With Thomas, Ruth sees another side of town, and another side of current events: the numerous forced deportations without due process of Mexicans, along with United States citizens of Mexican descent. After Ruth is forced to leave school, she goes to visit Thomas and sees that he has cobbled together a night school for the farmworkers' children. Ruth begins to work with the children, and establishes deep friendships with people in the camp. When the camp is raided and the workers and their families are rounded up and shipped back to Mexico, Ruth and Thomas decide to take a stand for the workers' rights--all while promising to love and cherish one another.
Автор: Tor Halvorsen, Teresita Cruz-del Rosario, Chris Tapscott Название: The Democratic Developmental State: North-South Perspectives ISBN: 383820915X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783838209159 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 91380.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policy makers in many emerging economies in the global South. What is noticeable in this discourse is how little attention has been paid to a discussion of the essence of a democratic developmental state, and much of what passes for theory is little more than policy speak and political rhetoric. This volume fills a gap in the literature on the democratic developmental state. Analyzing the different approaches to the implementation of democratic developmental states in various countries in the South, it evaluates the extent to which these are merely replicating the central tenets of the East Asian model of the developmental state or if they are succeeding in their attempts to establish a new and more inclusive conceptualization of the state. In particular, the authors scrutinize to what degree the attempts to build a democratic developmental state may be distorted by the imperatives of neoliberalism. The volume broadens the understanding of the Nordic model of a democratic developmental state and shows how it represents an additional, and perhaps contending understanding of the developmental state derived from the East Asian experience.
Автор: Halvorsen Lyn Название: Anton the Viking & the King of Crumbly Castle ISBN: 1786235137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786235138 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8570.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
Anton the little Viking is restless and yearns for adventure. He sets off on a long voyage to England where he meets his charming and eccentric English cousin King Cuthbert of Crumblyshire. Here he helps out with unusual English customs and encourages the kindly Cuthbert to take off his crown occasionally and relax. Anton soon notices that Crumbly Castle is in need of repairs and sets out to give it a makeover with the help of Princess Lavender and the Crumbly village people.
