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In "The Last Beacon: A Battle Against Extinction," the world is on the brink of disaster. A devastating crisis threatens to bring about the end of life as we kn

For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job, and a thankless one for the most part. Until somet

Two generations ago, most essayists were men, but in recent decades, women writers have claimed the personal essay, using its freedom to explore contemporary li

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems, SSS 2007, held

Eloquently interweaving ethnography and memoir, award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology. She propos