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  • Phenotypes

    by Paulo Scott ...
    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    Paulo Scott's second novel to appear in English probes the old wounds of race in Brazil; and in particular the loss of a black identity independent from the history of slavery. Exploratory rather than didactic; a story of crime; street-life; and regret as much as a satirical novel of ideas; Phenotypes is a seething masterpiece of rage and reconciliation. ... Read more

    $12.29 CAD

  • Nowhere People

    by Paulo Scott ...
    Driving home, law student Paulo passes a figure at the side of the road. The indigenous girl stands in the heavy rain, as if waiting for something. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's roadside camp.With sudden shifts in the characters' lives, this novel takes in the whole story: telling of love, loss and family, it spans the worlds of São Paulo's rich kids and dispossessed Guarani Indians along ... Read more

    $12.29 CAD

  • Unpacking Global Amazon

    Labor, Work, and Community in E-Commerce Warehousing and Distribution

    Edited by Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Candia Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, Nikko Bilitza ...
    Positioning Amazon as a key actor reshaping business and labor paradigms in the digitized global economy, this book examines its relationship with labor markets and institutions worldwide. Tracing the company’s expansion over three-plus decades and controversies, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic, based on fresh fieldwork, expert contributors demonstrate how Amazon shapes, and is re-shaped ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • Agroecosystem Diversity

    Reconciling Contemporary Agriculture and Environmental Quality

    Edited by Gilles Lemaire, Scott Kronberg, Sylvie Recous, Paulo Cesar de Faccio Carvalho ...
    Agro-Ecosystem Diversity: Impact on Food Security and Environmental Quality presents cutting-edge exploration of developing novel farming systems and introduces landscape ecology to agronomy. It encompasses the broad range of links between agricultural development and ecological impact and how to limit the potential negative results. Presented in seven sections, each focusing on a specific ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • All Walls Collapse

    Stories of Separation

    by Sarah Cleave, Will Forrester, Muyesser Abdul’ehed, Zahra El Hasnaoui Ahmed, Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Larissa Boehning, Rezuwan Khan, Paulo Scott, Kyung-Sook Shin, Geetanjali Shree, Constantia Soteriou, Krisztina Tóth, Juan Pablo Villalobos ...
    The history of walls – as a way to keep people in or out – is also the history of people managing to get around, over and under them. From the Berlin Wall and the Mexico–US border, to the barbed wire fences of Bangladesh’s refugee camps, the short stories in this anthology explore the barriers that have sought to divide communities and nations, and their traumatic effects on people’s lives and ... Read more

    $11.05 CAD

  • Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil

    Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America

    by Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Cândia Veiga, Katiuscia Moreno Galhera ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores how and why the labor practices of the world’s largest employer, supermarket giant Walmart, were contested by unions and government regulators as it expanded to Latin America starting in the 1990s. With an in-depth case study of Brazil, and a comparative chapter examining Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, this book analyzes the problematic encounter between diffusion of home-office ... Read more

    $89.69 CAD

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  • I'll Sell You a Dog

    by Juan Pablo Villalobos ...
    Long before he was the taco seller whose 'Gringo Dog' recipe made him famous throughout Mexico City, our hero was an aspiring artist: an artist, that is, till his would-be girlfriend was stolen by Diego Rivera, and his dreams snuffed out by his hypochondriac mother. Now our hero is resident in a retirement home, where fending off boredom is far more gruelling than making tacos. Plagued by the ... Read more

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  • Now and at the Hour of Our Death

    by Susana Moreira Marques ...
    A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira ... Read more

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  • Seeking Transformation Through Information Technology

    Strategies for Brazil, China, Canada and Sri Lanka

    Edited by Nagy K. Hanna, Peter T. Knight ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The ability to harness Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) is increasingly at the heart of national competitiveness and sustainable development. As countries seek a way out of the present period of economic contraction, they are trying to weave ICT into their development strategies, in the same way enterprises have learned to use ICT to transform their business models and strategies. ... Read more

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  • Managing Human Resources in Latin America

    An Agenda for International Leaders

    Edited by Marta Elvira, Anabella Davila ...
    Series series Global HRM
    In addition to providing the reader with a thorough overview of the trends in HR strategies and practice and the challenges faced by HR executives in Latin America, this book also explores cultural issues critical to conducting business and understanding human resource management in this region.Structured in two distinct parts, Davila and Elvira's comprehensive book moves from a general overview ... Read more

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  • Best Human Resource Management Practices in Latin America

    Edited by Anabella Davila, Marta M. Elvira ...
    Latin America today presents a dynamic but challenging business landscape. Although foreign investment in the region has risen, Asia’s increasing role in the global economy is a challenge to Latin America’s competitiveness. At the same time, Translatina firms – Latin American trans-national companies – continue to grow in capital and influence.This original collection explores the tensions between ... Read more

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