Migration stigma :understanding prejudice, discrimination, and exclusion

"Scholars from migration and stigma research introduce the concept of "migration stigma" to deepen understanding and inform future action"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Green card soldier :between model immigrant and security threat

"Immigrant service members are simultaneously held up as the exemplary immigrants and treated with suspicion as potential spies or infiltrators. The Green Card Soldier leverages the intersection between two key American institutions-the military and immigration-to understand how their overlap helps build a vision of the nation rooted in militarized citizenship and empire"--OCLC-licensed vendor …

Seed activism :patent politics and litigation in the global south

"Seed Activism is an ethnography of court challenges to corporate intellectual property (IP) rights and practices in Brazil and India. Based on a wealth of interviews with a diverse range of actors-from farmers and plant breeders to corporate lawyers-the book offers the first detailed ethnographic account of the legal disputes that have arisen in the past decade around patents and royalties on …

Doing economics :what you should have learned in grad school-but didn't

"A practical guide for research economists to navigate the non-research aspects of their work, including university service, mentorship, and grant writing"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

AI assistants

"A brief introduction to the technology, the issues and future of virtual agents such as Siri, Alexa and the Google Assistant"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Smokestack diplomacy :cooperation and conflict in East-West environmental pol…

Many environmental problems cross national boundaries and can be addressed only through international cooperation. In this book Robert Darst examines transnational efforts to promote environmental protection in the USSR and in five of its successor states--Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania--from the late 1960s to the present. The core of the book is a c…

Phytocosmetics and Phytopharmaceuticals from African Medicinal Plants