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  • Persistence

    All Ways Butch and Femme

    Edited by Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman ...
    Lambda Literary Award finalistAmerican Library Association Stonewall Honor BookIn the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empires of the Weak

    The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian military competition gave Europeans a decisive advantage in war over other civilizations from 1500 ... Read more

    Was $32.39 USD Now $15.89 USD

  • The Remedy

    Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care

    Edited by Zena Sharman ...
    Winner, Lambda Literary Award (LGBT Anthology)The Remedy invites writers and readers to imagine what we need to create healthy, resilient, and thriving LGBTQ communities. This anthology is a diverse collection of real-life stories from queer and trans people on their own health-care experiences and challenges, from gay men living with HIV who remember the systemic resistance to their health-care ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ties That Bound

    Slavery and Power in Africa

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    How slavery and the slave trade provided African rulers with a path to political powerAcross history, slavery has been central to political power. By the nineteenth century, African rulers dominated the slave trade with the European and Islamic worlds. In Ties That Bound, J. C. Sharman shows how these rulers were empowered by slavery, converting profits from the market for humans into political ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Hypergirl

    by Ian Sharman, David Wynne ...
    When bored teenage girl Charley Matthews visits Watersvale Museum, she has no idea that a chance encounter with the dying Doc Hyperpower is about to change her life forever. Will she rise to the occasion and defeat the evil of Pharoanicus, or will she lock herself in her bedroom and listen to The Cure? Find out in this senses shattering debut of Weirdsville’s newest hero – Hypergirl! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Songs of the Fluteplayer

    Seasons of Life in the Southwest

    by Sharman Apt Russell ...
    Filled with "honest" writing and "wise" observations, "Russell's well-written essays describe her life as an urban immigrant to the rural Southwest" ( Library Journal).In 1981, newlywed Sharman Apt Russell moved with her husband to an agricultural valley in southwestern New Mexico, hoping to create a simpler life. From building their adobe house to the home-birth of their firstborn to growing ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Outsourcing Empire

    How Company-States Made the Modern World

    by Professor Andrew Phillips, J. C. Sharman ...
    How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world’s first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing Empire shows, from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, company-states—not sovereign states—drove ... Read more

    Was $41.79 USD Now $15.89 USD

  • Staying Power

    On Queerness, Inheritances, and the Families We Choose

    by Zena Sharman ...
    A remarkably frank memoir about interdependence, grieving, and parenting as a queer femme that doesn't leave out the messy or the eroticStaying Power, Zena Sharman's memoir in essays, is a beautiful and honest journey of care work, grief, parenting, and chosen family in the wake of intergenerational trauma. Exploring the lessons and inheritances of being raised by survivors of complex traumas, the ... Read more

    $9.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management

    On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    An unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy ("rule by thieves"), when leaders of poorer countries—such as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu in the Congo, and more recently those overthrown in revolutions in the Arab world and Ukraine—loot billions of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Art of Ultrarunning

    Tried & Tested Strategies for Long-Distance Runners

    by Ian Sharman ...
    Run your next ultramarathon feeling cool, confident, and prepared.The Art of Ultrarunning: Tried & Tested Strategies for Long-Distance Runners compiles coaching strategies with illustrative stories from professional ultrarunners to create a convenient resource to help you improve your running. An elite-level racer and coach, author Ian Sharman provides practical guidance for runners at all levels; ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Havens in a Storm

    The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    Small states have learned in recent decades that capital accumulates where taxes are low; as a result, tax havens have increasingly competed for the attention of international investors with tax and regulatory concessions. Economically powerful countries including France, Britain, Japan, and the United States, however, wished to stanch the offshore flow of domestic taxable capital. Since 1998 the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Money Laundry

    Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy

    by J. C. Sharman ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    A generation ago not a single country had laws to counter money laundering; now, more countries have standardized anti–money laundering (AML) policies than have armed forces. In The Money Laundry, J. C. Sharman investigates whether AML policy works, and why it has spread so rapidly to so many states with so little in common. Sharman asserts that there are few benefits to such policies but high ... Read more

    $14.29 USD