Migrant, Hardcover

Reducere. DescriptionThis autobiographical, bilingual picture book recounts the author's rise from migrant farm worker to astronaut

Reducere. A Jane Addam's Children's Book Award Honor Book for Younger Children Dolores is a teacher, a mother, and a friend. She wants to know why her studen...

Reducere. A Common Core Exemplar Text by an award-winning author-illustrator team Tomas is a son of migrant workers. Every summer he and his family follow th...

DescriptionJeff Sahadeo reveals the complex and fascinating stories of migrant populations in Leningrad and Moscow. Voices from the Soviet Edge foc...

DescriptionThis book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. B...

Reducere. From North Dakota beet fields to California campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have found a new cheap labor pool: transie...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The migrants must leave the forest. Borders are crossed, sacrifices made, loved ones are lost. It takes such courage to reach the end. At last the ...

In this unique and insightful book, Markus Bell explores the hidden histories of the men, women, and children who traveled from Japan to the world'...

Historian Richard M. Jones recounts fifty stories of lost ships throughout history that are among the most important, infamous, and in some cases t...

Reducere. From Da Nang to Stonewall, Zippo Boys is a story of war and revolution. Dave Lara is a Mexican-American-Jew born in Castroville, California to a po...

Reducere. Pittsburgh's contributions to the uniquely American art form of jazz are essential to its national narrative. Fleeing the Jim Crow South in the twe...

DescriptionLives in Transit chronicles the dangerous journeys of Central American migrants in transit through Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork in human...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Athena FarrokhzadAuthor: Jennifer HayashidaPoetry. Translated from the Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida. "This vital book expo...

Reducere. In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson B...

In a small town like El Sue o, Mexico, gay boys must lie to hide their truth. In despair, Armando is whisked away by his mother to cross the border...

Reducere. In Border and Rule, one of North America's foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a ...

This is not just another Italian cookbook filled with pizza and pasta recipes. Italian Street Food takes you behind the piazzas, down the back stre...

Reducere. The aggressive exploitation of labor on both sides of the US-Mexico border has become a prominent feature of capitalism in North America. Kids in c...

Reducere. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have disc...

DescriptionThe runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to fail. They're from low income families, many of whom are migrant wor...

Reducere. Through many decades, Lake Martin, a symbol of sustenance, has enticed generations of residents, vacationers, and modern retirees to its welcoming ...

DescriptionIn the late nineteenth century, Latin American exports boomed. From Chihuahua to Patagonia, producers sent industrial fibers, tropical f...

DescriptionSenegal Abroad explores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Captu...

DescriptionBetween 1853 and 1964, on the western shore of what is now the city of Hayward, there existed a small rural community. This pictorial hi...

DescriptionIn Search of Our Frontier explores the complex transnational history of Japanese immigrant settler colonialism, which linked Japanese Am...

DescriptionWhen you have to leave behind almost everything you know, where can you call home? Sometimes home is simply where we are: here. A imagin...

The Chinese economy appears destined for failure, the financial bubble forever in peril of popping, the real estate sector doomed to collapse, the ...

Despite the importance of historical and contemporary migration to the American Jewish community, popular awareness of the diversity and complexity...

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Middle Eastern political economy in response to the oil price decline in 2014. The introduction and...

Reducere. Suicides, excessive overtime, and hostility and violence on the factory floor in China. Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, st...

Global Luxury in Renaissance Venice offers an unprecedented exploration of Venetian maiolica pottery set in a vibrant context of hybridity and exch...

"Human trafficking" brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under thr...

Reducere. The COVID-19 crisis is a game-changer that will eventually benefit rural economies around the world. Around 3.4 billion people are living in rural ...

Stigmatized and relegated to the margins of Roman society, the Goths were violent "barbarians" who destroyed "civilization, " at least in the conve...

India is one of the oldest civilizations in the world with a rich cultural heritage. It has achieved multi-faceted socio-economic progress since In...

Reducere. Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gul...

Reducere. Migrants have, for some time, engaged in the politics of their homelands from a distance, but, as this book argues, politicians are increasingly lo...

Reducere. A powerfully moving novel about the intertwined lives of a Vermont monk, a Somali refugee, and an Afghan war veteran by the author of the acclaimed...

The images of human trafficking are all too often reduced to media tales of helpless young women taken by heavily accented, dark-skinned captors--b...

Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking vision of the future.Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award...

Reducere. An authentic novel about growing up in a migrant Asian family with a mother who is suffering from a debilitating mental illness.Anna Chiu has her h...

"Those who know me call me Old He, and they also know that I've worked in a crematorium for my entire life." Here begins Mu Cao's novel In the Face...

DescriptionThe Eternal Table: A Cultural History of Food in Rome is the first concise history of the food, gastronomy, and cuisine of Rome spanning...

Reducere. For thirty-five years American poet Nathaniel Mackey has been writing a long poem of fugitive making like no other: two elegiac, intertwined serial...

From the widely acclaimed, best-selling author of American War, a new novel--beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving--th...

Reducere. Being the only child of a single mother, Sergio was raised by his maternal grandparents in a South Texas region better known as the Rio Grande Vall...