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Half The World: Refugees Transform The City Of Trees, Todd Shallat (Editor), Kathleen Rubinow Hodges (Editor), Errol D. Jones (Editor), Laura Winslow (Editor) Jan 2017

Half The World: Refugees Transform The City Of Trees, Todd Shallat (Editor), Kathleen Rubinow Hodges (Editor), Errol D. Jones (Editor), Laura Winslow (Editor)

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Nearly 1 out of every 100 people worldwide is a person displaced and seeking asylum, imperiled by persecution and war. Half the World takes measure of that staggering crisis in stories from a city transformed.


River By Design: Essays On The Boise River, 1915-2015, Todd Shallat (Editor), Colleen Brennan (Editor), Mike Medberry (Editor), Roy V. Cuellar, Richard Martinez, Erin Nelson, Travis Armstrong, Doug Copsey, Sheila Spangler, Emily Berg, Dean Gunderson, Michael Gosney Jan 2015

River By Design: Essays On The Boise River, 1915-2015, Todd Shallat (Editor), Colleen Brennan (Editor), Mike Medberry (Editor), Roy V. Cuellar, Richard Martinez, Erin Nelson, Travis Armstrong, Doug Copsey, Sheila Spangler, Emily Berg, Dean Gunderson, Michael Gosney

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River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour with stops in Boise, Garden City, Eagle, Caldwell, and Parma, these essays collectively search for the politics and cultural values that drive engineering design.


Down And Out In Ada County: Coping With The Great Recession 2008-2012, Todd Shallat (Editor), Larry Burke (Editor), Bethann Stewart (Editor) Jan 2012

Down And Out In Ada County: Coping With The Great Recession 2008-2012, Todd Shallat (Editor), Larry Burke (Editor), Bethann Stewart (Editor)

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Surging unemployment and the crash of property values have hit Boise-Meridian especially hard. In an economy built mostly on housing construction, in cities where the value of housing has fallen more than 40 percent, the damage is long term. Down and Out in Ada County examines the dislocation with comparisons to past recessions and an emphasis on people struggling to cope