Operation Pedro Pan opened the door to the United States for more than fourteen thousand unaccompanied Cuban children. How did this come to be called Operation Pedro Pan? It was important from the very beginning that we in Miami avoided anything that could jeopardize the exodus, or the people in Cuba who worked to make it possible. We were never under the illusion that the Cuban government was unaware of what we were doing, nor that any publicity could easily have been used as propaganda to p...

We are not on Earth merely to survive or just experience life; we are here to elevate and sublime.

Currently, we are undergoing the most significant societal transformation our species has ever faced. We’ve mastered the art of moulding our environment to suit our needs. Through advancements in technology, we’re now enhancing our own bodies to expand our abilities. It seems we can shape the world entirely to our desires, and even death could soon become nonexistent in our lives.

Yet, these...

How can the convergence of multiple cascading crises create a broader disruptive reality of ‘polycrisis’ in society? How do specific social groups and communities develop purposeful responses to the distinctive forms of insecurity and suffering generated by an enduring polycrisis? Through an exploration of multiple types of crises in a variety of geographical settings in Europe and the United Kingdom, the chapters compiled in this book offer fresh insight into how particular groups of pe...

In a world that is increasingly recognizing the importance of inclusivity and acceptance, this extraordinary book takes you by the hand and invites you to celebrate the vibrant and resilient transgender community. With profound stories, insightful interviews, and thought-provoking discussions, this book aims to uplift and empower not only the transgender community but all readers who wish to embrace diversity and make a positive change in the world.

Economic Diversity in Contemporary Timor-Leste analyses various economic dynamics in past and present Timor-Leste. Comprising 14 research chapters, the volume brings to the fore: 1) local, community-based economic values and arrangements; 2) community-based entanglements with a market-driven economy; 3) the colonial and postcolonial governance praxis through which a market-driven economy has permeated the country, and 4) the creative and place-based ways through which local people have respon...

Six years of research with the purpose of having the untold account of Suriname’s LGBT history at long last comprehensively divulged and documented, has resulted in this publication:

Love – A History of Hate in Suriname - Hide, Flee or Suicide

Execution Extinction Existence Expression - An Insight into a Country’s Gay History.

Until now, due to taboo, legal and social repercussions from a repressive ‘heteronormative’ biased society, this has been a forgotten, concealed disguised o...

Life urges us to find answers on many different levels, regarding the world, regarding ourselves and mainly regarding the reason of our existence. Our answers are often biased, dictated by custom and tradition, also when they are considered as ‘religion’ and ‘science’. Author Yoginâm went with this book on a phenomenological quest of what it means that we are what we are, seeing the world the way we see it. He found in Siweb an approach that is so simple, so logical, and so easy to u...

For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food system but our entire relationship to the living world.

Farming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about. We criticise urban sprawl, but farming sprawls across thirty times as much land. We have ploughed, fenced and grazed great tracts of the planet, felling forests, killing wildlife, and poisoning rivers and oceans to feed ourselve...

Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and issues of the contemporary security agenda. This new edition has been completely revised and updated, to cover major developments such as COVID-19, the rise of populism, climate change, China and Russias place in the world, and the Trump administra...