Have you ever felt you aren't good enough?That no one truly loves you or believes in you, and you're no better than where you came from?If so, this book is for you ...Lisa Amarant knows how this feels; that was her childhood! She was predestined to be a failure, a self-fulfilling prophecy, and given her story, she didn't stand a chance.In Defying the Odds, Lisa presents an intimate and personal account of her childho...

This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. The intersection of these two processes took another step in April 2020, when Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a "New Health Silk Road" agenda of aid and investment that would wind through South America, extending the Eurasian-Africa...