The Unstoppable Shero is a powerful guide for women ready to rise above societal barriers and claim their rightful place as leaders. Drawing from her own experiences in male-dominated industries, Dr. Barbara Walker-Green delivers a compelling mix of personal anecdotes, social theory, and practical strategies. She shares how breaking glass ceilings is not only achievable but essential for women striving to reach their full potential.From confronting self-doubt to navigating...

The Unstoppable Shero is a powerful guide for women ready to rise above societal barriers and claim their rightful place as leaders. Drawing from her own experiences in male-dominated industries, Dr. Barbara Walker-Green delivers a compelling mix of personal anecdotes, social theory, and practical strategies. She shares how breaking glass ceilings is not only achievable but essential for women striving to reach their full potential.From confronting self-doubt to navigating...

What is life like for aid workers who gather from around the world to serve refugees who have fled their homes due to famine, political unrest, and disasters?Kiwi nurse-midwife, Barbara Walker – who spent 20 years working for international aid agencies – shares her dramatic, heart-rending, and inspiring stories of the situations she faced and the people she sought to help.From the Sakeo One Refugee Camp in Thailand, where she cared for those fleeing Pol Pot...

This volume explores the politics of memory involved in 'coming to terms with the past' of mass dictatorship on a global scale. Considering how a growing sense of global connectivity and global human rights politics changed the memory landscape, the essays explore entangled pasts of dictatorships.

Marigold "Goldie" Robbins is a vivacious and energetic sixty-six-year-old. Recently widowed and plagued with loneliness, she yearns for the companionship and romanticism she experienced as a younger woman. One day, while working out at her fitness center, Goldie meets a handsome, charismatic man who makes her feel young and desirable again. Despite the difference in their ages, Goldie quickly succumbs to his seductive charm and throws caution to the winds. She leaves the fitness center in ...

On a visit to Haiti, Barbara Walker noticed that a penned rooster had a better life than children living on the streets and in some orphanages. Follow this ordinary womans journey as she finds homes for almost two thousand abandoned and orphaned children and builds Ruuska Village for street women who had no means of survival for themselves and their children.Those first days were very hard, Barbara said. The women were used to fighting for everything they needed, and they had very ...

An exciting memoir of international Christian service in some of the world's most challenging hot spots. 8 hours of brilliant narration with an authentic Kiwi woman's voice.What is life like for aid workers who gather from around the world to serve refugees who have fled their homes due to famine, political unrest, and disasters?Kiwi nurse-midwife, Barbara Walker – who spent 20 years working for international aid agencies – shares her dramatic, heart-rend...

This is a deliously scary story about a boy who outsmarts an old witch-woman before she can have him and his brothers for dinner.

In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But as the free market reaches its extreme limits in the economic and environmental fallout, a reassessment of capitalism's most vigorous and eloquent enemy has never been more timely.Eric Hobsbawm provides a fascinating and insightful...

Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyses the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of White Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vl...

TRAVESTY is an anthropologist's personal story of working with foreign aid agencies and discovering that fraud, greed, corruption, apathy, and political agendas permeate the industry. It is a story of failed agricultural, health and credit projects; violent struggles for control over foreign aid; corrupt orphanage owners, pastors, and missionaries; the nepotistic manipulation of research funds; economically counterproductive food aid distribution programs that undermine the Haitian agricul...

Have you ever been in a situation where you feel frustrated because you are unable to express yourself in Chinese? This book can help you overcome the challenges of learning Chinese by providing you with necessary words, phrases, and sentences that can be applied to various real-life situations.This book covers 7 daily conversation situations: Introduction, Movie, Library, University, Roommate, Direction and Traffic with a total of 400 sentences, 250 phrases and words. In addition,...