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The Political Economy of Disaster
Haiti, one of the least developed and most vulnerable nations in the Western Hemisphere, made the international headlines in January 2010 when an earthquake destroyed the capital, Port-au-Prince. More than a year later, little reconstruction has taken place, in spite of a strong international funding commitment. Mats Lundahl has written several seminal works on Haiti, and this volume brings together the best of his past work on Haiti’s economic and political history, along with a comprehensive introduction and two new chapters which bring the story right up to the present day. Together, the volume provides both historical background and explanation as to why Haiti was so badly affected by ...
Partnership Affairs
A Study of Educational Innovation, Leadership, and Politics The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC), on the Mexican border at the tip of South Texas, was an innovative partnership between a university and a community college. Yet just two decades after its establishment, this much-heralded “community university” fell to ruin in a paroxysm of suspicion, acrimony, and divisiveness. The reason for its collapse seemed obvious: a power struggle between a president disinclined to share power with her elected board of trustees, and a board that stubbornly insisted she do so. But as this book makes clear, that is only part of the story, only the proximate cause. The ultimate cause of the community university’s demise was the inherently unstable nature of the partnership itself. Partnership Affairs is the inside account of UTB/TSC’s fall, a remarkable tale of innovation and change, of organizational management and mismanagement, of the limits and pitfalls of leadership, all of it powered by high-octane Texas politics.
Medieval Clothing and Textiles
The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment.Historical dress and textiles, always a topic of popular interest, has in recent years become an academic subject in its own right, transcending traditional genre boundaries. This annual journal includes in-depth studies from a variety of disciplines as well as cross-genre scholarship, representing such fields as social history, economics, history of techniques and technology, art history, archaeology, literature, and language. The contents cover a broad geographical scope and a range of periods from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance....
The Kings Death
The Kings Death follows the Illician Sillik as he follows up after his partial victory in The Kings’ Assassin over the dragons of Ynak and the forces of Peol. Seeking to gather more allies, Sillik recruits the aid of the fliers of Aceon and the schools of Salone, where his cousin is wed to the king. Attacked by the monstrous schula and other dark creatures, Sillik moves decisively to gather certain artifacts needed to fight against the demons being summoned. Meanwhile in Illicia, a coup that will further destabilize Illicia and force his supporters to flee for their lives is underway. Dark Masters of the council of nine rise to oppose Illician interests. The final battle approaches as both sides rush to complete their preparations for a war that could reshape the world.
Jackie
This iconic volume features the most exquisite photographs ever taken of America's legendary First Lady. A sumptuous, oversized edition, this 272-page book includes more than 250 glamorous, dramatic and intimate images taken throughout her life, many never published before. Bringing readers into her exclusive and priveleged world, Jackie: a Life in Pictures begins with her upper class upbrining in the '30s and '40s and goes on to cover her courtship and marriage to JFK in 1953 and life as a politician's wife, through to her post-JFK days as the wife of Aristotle Onassis.
Mr. and Mrs. President
With a new chapter devoted to Hillary and Bill Clinton's tainted partnership in office and to the present First Lady's senatorial ambitions, this second edition offers fresh insights into America's paradoxical expectations for its presidential wives and husband. "Deeply engrossing."--"Publishers Weekly." 33 photos.
Fighting for Space
Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century—man or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holdin...
Jacqueline Kennedy
Noting how Jackie's celebrity and devotion to privacy have for years precluded a more serious treatment, Perry's story illuminates Kennedy's immeasurable impact on the institution of the first lady. Perry illustrates the complexities of Jacqueline Bouvier's marriage to John F. Kennedy, and shows how she transformed herself from a reluctant political wife to an effective, confident presidential partner. Perry is especially illuminating in tracing the first lady's mastery of political symbolism and imagery, along with her use of television and state entertainment to disseminate her work to a global audience.
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