The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality in North America is important to study, but as Alessandro Bonanno makes clear, we cannot limit ourselves to the study of one or two nation-states. We must take a global perspective when it...

Born in Hungary in 1927, Magda Hollander-Lafon was among the 437,000 Jews deported from Hungary between May and July 1944. Magda, her mother, and her younger sister survived a three-day deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; there, she was considered fit for work and so spared, while her mother and sister were sent straight to their deaths.Hollander-Lafon recalls an experience she had in Birkenau: “A dying woman gestured to me: as she opened her hand to reveal four scraps of moldy brea...

This book is designed to help practitioners understand the growing potential for the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) to improve Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) outcomes in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations sector. Through a series of cutting-edge practical cases, an international team of researchers and practitioners examine the benefits, barriers, and challenges associated with the introduction of new digital information technologies in OSH setti...

Trevor’s had a rough life. Growing up in the crime ridden suburb of Blacktown, struggling with PTSD from his tour in Afghanistan, and his girlfriend’s tragic overdose. All he wants is to get away from it all and find some peace. Opening a highway store in the remote outback seemed like a great opportunity for him. Little did he know, he wasn’t prepared for the unsavory characters that came his way. As these nefarious figures start to emerge, he is forced to confront a past he thought he ha...

Glitz. Heat. Power. Welcome to the world of outrageous luxury, irresistible chemistry, and billionaires who never play small. Fasten your seatbelt—temptation is taking you global.Perfect for fans of:Spice!Commanding Alpha heroesBillionairesUnexpected pregnanciesRoyalEnemies to loversMarriage of convenienceThis box set includes:BOSS’S BABY OF SCANDALby Lor...

Harlequin Presents brings you four full-length stories in one collection! Experience the glamorous lives of royals and billionaires, where passion knows no bounds. Be swept into a world of luxury, wealth and exotic locations.This box set includes:A SECRET HEIR TO SECURE HIS THRONEby USA TODAY bestselling author Caitlin CrewsGrief-stricken Paris Apollo is intent on getting revenge for his parents’ deat...

A collection of your favourite spicy royal romance titles! Includes 6 books – 12 stories!Perfect for fans of: Royal Billionaires Forced proximityBillion-Dollar TemptationsFake Engagement Arrangement by Melanie MilburnePrince She Shouldn't Crave by Kali AnthonyBound & CrownedRoyal Ring of Revenge by Louise Fuller...

Introduction by Kwame Anthony AppiahCommentary by Jean Fagan Yellin and Margaret FullerThis Modern Library edition combines two of the most important African American slave narratives—crucial works that each illuminate and inform the other.Frederick Douglass’s Narrative, first published in 1845, is an enlightening and incendiary text. Born into slavery, Douglass became the preeminent spokesman for his people during his life;...

Billion-dollar vows, inconvenient desire and irresistible alpha heroes – 12 red-hot, steamy romance stories of forbidden temptations and scandalForced To WedContains:The Prince's Unwanted Wife by Pippa RoscoeBetrayal That Binds by Tara PammiPerfect for fans of: Billionaire Marriage of convenience RoyalCaptured And CravedContains:...

A life in bondage. A mind that refused to be broken. A voice that changed history. In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass delivers one of the most important autobiographies in American literature, recounting his experiences as an enslaved person and his courageous journey toward freedom. Douglass vividly describes the brutality, injustice, and dehumanization of slavery, while also revealing how education, self-awareness, and determination became his tools of res...

In this enhanced/authenticated edition by Dr. Sue Eakin of the riveting true slave narrative that reads like a novel, you are transported to 1840’s New York, Washington, D.C., and Louisiana to experience the kidnapping and twelve years of bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE, published in 1853, was an immediate bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War. It validated Harriett Beecher Stowe’s fictional account of Southern slave...