![]() ![]() Lockard's many published books, articles, essays and reviews cover a wide spectrum of topics, including world and comparative history Southeast Asian history, politics and society Asian emigration and diasporas the Vietnam War and folk, rock, popular and world music. in Comparative World and Southeast Asian History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1973). in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii (1967) and a Ph.D. After undergraduate studies at the University of Redlands in California, including study abroad experiences in Austria and Hong Kong, he earned an M.A. He has taught at SUNY-Buffalo, SUNY-Stony Brook and the University of Bridgeport, and he twice served as a Fulbright-Hays Professor of History at the University of Malaya in Malaysia. Lockard is Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of History Emeritus in the Social Change and Development Department at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where from 1975 to 2010 he taught undergraduate courses on Asian, African, comparative and world history as well as popular culture. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The chapters in Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life explore transnational commercial gestational surrogacy and how its practice is changing concepts of parenthood across the globe. In a globalized world economy, where the movement and transfer of people and commodities are increasing to serve the interests of capitalism, gamete donation and surrogate birth can traverse innumerable geographic, socioeconomic, racialized, and political borderlands. In the twenty-first century, parenthood is no longer achieved only through gestation, adoption, or traditional surrogacy, but also via ARTs. In our modern age, however, the advent and accessibility of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), and the ease with which they have traversed global borders, have fundamentally altered the meaning of even childbearing and parenting. "From computer support and hotel reservations to laboratory results and radiographic interpretations, it seem everything can be 'outsourced' in our globalized world. ![]() ![]() After all, it's not as if he actually worked to attain his wealth and status. And she couldn't care less about Hadrian's title. But Natalie doesn't have time to be swept off her feet by a handsome duke who must be a spoiled scoundrel like every other British lord. She's the opposite of what a man of his high rank should desire in a wife-an outspoken American who has never even set foot in a London ballroom. That is, until he meets the lovely, free-spirited Natalie Fanshawe. ![]() "I find Miss Fanshawe to be quite charming-for an American."-The Prince Regent Hadrian Ames, the Duke of Clayton, needs a bride. About the Book The Duke of Clayton falls for an outspoken American who is planning to open a school.įorever My Duke is the second novel in a brand new Regency romance series from Olivia Drake about rakish dukes and the governesses who steal their hearts. ![]() ![]() It was a political union-the two met for the first time on their wedding day-but a fruitful one Queen Charlotte gave birth to 15 children. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Born and educated in this country,” he said, “I glory in the name of Britain.”Ī year after his coronation, George was married to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the daughter of a German duke. In his accession speech to Parliament, the 22-year-old monarch played down his Hanoverian connections. George III became king of Great Britain and Ireland in 1760 following his grandfather George II’s death. He was cared for in relative isolation by his mother and tutored by the Scottish nobleman Lord Bute. On his father’s death in 1751, the 12-year-old George became Prince of Wales. His parents were Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.ĭid you know? The planet Uranus was originally named "Georgium sidus," the Georgian Star, after King George III of England, who had funded the 40-foot telescope William Herschel used in its discovery. George III was the first Hanoverian king born in England rather than Germany. The Georgian era (1714-1830) spanned the combined reigns of the five British monarchs from the Electorate of Hanover, a member state of the Holy Roman Empire. ![]() ![]() When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes-one that might just be killer…. With the help of a lots of her family and friends, will Lila come away unscathed? Lila is working in her Auntie Rosa’s kitchen when her ex-Derek drops dead.However, I think in an effort to keep the series going, there were quite a few things that were introduced without more explanation that will probably be going into future books. As such, it was hard to really connect until the middle. It took me quite a bit of the book to really lock into all the characters and how they were related.There are a few really good twists in this book which, coupled with the humorous situations is a solid good time! I will definitely be picking up more in the this series as they are released. ![]() ![]() ![]() Strasser, a prolific writer for children and teenagers, writes with purpose and economy and structures his book intelligently. It thrums along with finely wrought atmosphere and gripping suspense. For all its horror, this is a superb entertainment suitable for any tough-minded kid over the age of 10. ![]() ![]() But even worse is the question of what will - and won't - remain when the door is opened again. With not enough room, not enough food, and not enough air, life inside the shelter is filthy, physically draining, and emotionally fraught. When the unthinkable happens, neighbors force their way into the shelter before Scott's dad can shut the door. But Scott's dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually builds a bomb shelter. ![]() Riveting." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. About the Book When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.īook Synopsis "Combines terrific suspense with thoughtful depth. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the time, Steele became aware of a large “achievement gap” between white and black students at the university. Steele began researching the impact of stereotypes on behavior in the 1980s, when he was beginning his career as a professor at the University of Michigan. For more than twenty years, Steele has conducted psychological research suggesting that the mere threat of a stereotype is so powerful that it can change human behavior. Human beings judge one another according to their identities-not just their race but their class, their age, their health, etc. ![]() It’s significant, Steele argues, that he first became aware of his own race while being treated negatively-being turned away from a swimming pool on a hot day. Steele tried to get into a public swimming pool, but was told that the pool was only open to white people that day. ![]() He begins by recalling his childhood in 1950s Chicago, and the day when he first truly became aware that he was black. In Whistling Vivaldi, Claude Steele describes the powerful role that stereotypes play in human behavior. ![]() ![]() ![]() * The DAW hardcover edition of Otherland has over 120,000 copies in print * River of Blue Fire: Otherland Vol. Now, in River of Blue Fire, the group of unlikely heroes who have taken up the challenge of this perilous and seductive realm are brought together briefly, only to be thrown into different worlds, split by mistrust, and stalked at every turn by the serial killer Dread and the mysterious Nemesis. Constructed over two generations, consuming extraordinary amounts of money and lives, Otherland has begun to claim Earth's most valuable resource: its children. Otherland, a virtual realityuniverse where any fantasy can come true, is ruled by the unimaginable wealthy and ruthless power brokers known as The Grail Brotherhood. ![]() ![]() Return to Otherland in River of Blue Fire, the second novel of Tad Williams' epic series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Added to this, Verne appears to have been something of an Americanophile, at least based upon his literary output, which often used America as a setting. ![]() Verne preferred to base his stories of incredible journeys around real science, or what the science of his day might be capable of achieving what was plausible. This is significant because it is the advances in ballistics achieved during the war that is the basis of Verne’s science in this novel. The novel had been written during the war. Jules Verne published From the Earth to the Moon in 1865, towards the end of the American Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alone, she wrote the novel A Famous Broken Heart. In addition, she wrote an introduction to The Cosmic Connection and the epilogue to Billions and Billions, both by Sagan. In her writings, Druyan has stressed the idea that people can have a sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without introducing the concept of a god.ĭruyan wrote the books Comet and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, as well as sections of The Demon-Haunted World, with her late husband Carl Sagan. She is probably best-known as the last wife of Carl Sagan, and co-author of the Cosmos series and book, along with Sagan and Steven Soter. Alone, she wrote the Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an American author and media producer known for her involvement in many projects aiming to popularize and explain science. Druyan wrote the books Comet and Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, as well as sections of The Demon-Haunted World, with her late husband Carl Sagan. In her writings, Druyan has stressed the idea that people can have a sense of awe and wonder about the unity of the cosmos without introducing the concept of a god. Ann Druyan (born June 13, 1949) is an American author and media producer known for her involvement in many projects aiming to popularize and explain science. ![]() |