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Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom
Mimi ShellerThis work starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery.
Cultures in Motion
PreviewThis chapter is based on my, Aluminum Dreams: Lightness, Speed, Modernity ( Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming); and draws on Mimi Sheller, “Metallic Modernities in the Space Age: Visualizing the Caribbean, Materializing the Modern,” ...
Aluminum Dreams: The Making of Light Modernity
Mimi ShellerHow aluminum enabled a high-speed, gravity-defying American modernity even as other parts of the world paid the price in environmental damage and political turmoil.
Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies
Mimi ShellerDemonstrates how colonial exploitation of the Caribbean led directly to contemporary forms of consumption of the region and its products, aiming to trouble innocent indulgence in the pleasures of thoughtless consumption.
Tourism Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play
Mimi ShellerAs places around the world are being interpreted and made fit for tourist consumption, this fascinating book analyzes tourist performances, and studies why (and indeed how) some places become global centres whilst others don't.
The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
PreviewPeter Adey, David Bissell, Kevin Hannam, Peter Merriman, Mimi Sheller. First published 2014 by Routledge 2 ParkSquare, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN andby Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an ...
Mobile Technologies of the City
PreviewA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Mobile technologies of the city/(edited by) Mimi Sheller and John Urry. p. cm. – (The networked cities series) 1. City and ...
Dialogues on Mobile Communication
Adriana de Souza e SilvaElite Mobilities Edited by Thomas Birtchnell and Javier Caletrío Family Mobility Catherine Doherty, Wendy Patton, Paul Shield Mobility and Locative Media Edited by Adriana de Souza e Silva and Mimi Sheller Cargomobilities Moving Materials ...
Mobility and Locative Media: Mobile Communication in Hybrid ...
Adriana de Souza e SilvaMobile Communication in Hybrid Spaces Adriana de Souza e Silva, Mimi Sheller. First published 2015 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 ...
He Wanted the Moon: The Madness and Medical Genius of Dr. ...
Mimi BairdMimi Baird grew up never fully knowing this story, as her family went silent about the father who had been absent for most of her childhood.
Mimi Malloy, At Last!: A Novel
Julia MacDonnellMimi Malloy, At Last! is an unforgettable novel, alive with humor, unexpected romance, and the magic of hard-earned insight: a poignant reminder that it's never too late to fall in love and that one can always come of age a second time.
Beyond Monogamy: Polyamory and the Future of Polyqueer ...
Mimi SchippersIn Beyond Monogamy, Mimi Schippers asks these and other questions to explore compulsory monogamy as a central feature of sexual normalcy.
Claudia and mean Janine
Ann M. MartinClaudia's participation in the Baby-sitters Club is curtailed when Grandmother Mimi suffers a stroke and Claudia finds herself "Mimi-sitting" and fighting more frequently with her sister.
Mimi Malloy, At Last!: A Novel
Julia MacDonnellThe book's narrator calls to mind a Boston-Irish Olive Kitteridge, as peppery as she is big-hearted."—Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz and The Late, Lamented Molly Marx Mimi Malloy was born into an Irish-Catholic brood of seven, ...
Surprising Designs from Traditional Quilt Blocks
Carole Fure... Awash with Colour • Judy Turner Baltimore Bouquets • Mimi Dietrich Bargello Quilts • Marge Edie Basic Quiltmaking Techniques for Hand Applique • Mimi Dietrich Beyond Charm Quilts • Catherine L. Mclntee & Tammy L. Porath Blockhender ...
John Steinbeck: The Years of Greatness, 1936-1939
PreviewSee Mimi Reisel Gladstein, The Indestructible Woman in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck (Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1986), and Bobbi Gonzales and Mimi Reisel Gladstein, "The Wayward Bus: Steinbeck's Misogynistic ...
The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of JosŽ ...
JosŽ Antonio BurciagaSelected Works of JosŽ Antonio Burciaga JosŽ Antonio Burciaga Mimi Reisel Gladstein, Daniel Chac—n. About the Editors MIMI REISEL GLADSTEIN is the author of four books and coeditor of one. Her scholarly articles, covering subjects as ...
Still Just Grace
Charise Mericle HarperA fun new boy has just moved in next door to Grace’s best friend, Mimi.
Mischievous Mimi Explores Seabrook Island
Catherine Goodman FarleyWhat happens when a newborn fawn decides to follow some children horseback riding on a sandy trail?
The Ayn Rand companion
Mimi Reisel GladsteinA guide that analyzes the plots and characters in Rand's novels and her underlying philosophy.
Ich bin zu alt für diesen Scheiß: Roman
Julia MacDonnellMimi Malloy, patent und frisch im Ruhestand, lebt gerne in den Tag hinein.
Blazing Midsummer Nights
Leslie KellyMarketing director Mimi Burdette is not sure if it is the tea she drank, her fortune cookie's predictions, or just plain magic that is filling her days and her dreams with an irresistible attraction to her next-door neighbor and firefighter ...
Busy But Balanced: Practical and Inspirational Ways to ...
Mimi DoeCombines anecdotes, advice, quotes, and other resources in a guide to balancing the demands of one's family and children with those of one's job, offering tips on eliminating stress, too many obligations, and other hindrances to a better ...
Atlas Shrugged: Manifesto of the Mind
Mimi Reisel GladsteinThis approach allows students to arrive at sound analyses of their own, based on in-depth studies of popular literature.Each volume: -- Illuminates themes and concepts of a classic text-- Uses clear, conversational language-- Is an ...
Melville Unfolding: Sexuality, Politics, and the Versions of ...
John Bryant... to those at the New York Public Library who from as early as 1986 have given me direct access to the Typeemanuscript and permission to reproduce images of it: they are Lisa Browar, Mimi Bowling, William Stingone, and Thomas Lisanti.
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