The Border

Reducere. Description"For most people in the U.K., Mid Wales and its border with England will be somewhere vague, a landscape largely unknown and barely cons...

The essays collected in Parallel Encounters offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada-US border, in both site-spec...

Description Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from th...

The second edition of this book places the continued sharp escalation of border policing in the context of a transformed post-September 11 security...

Word count 5, 655

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Damion HunterNumber of pages: 416Collection: The CenturionsPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 28Cover type: ...

Join the author in his latest tour as he describes, in their words, what earlier writers discovered as they travelled through the Welsh Marches, ev...

Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges argue that rapidly changing conditions alon...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Soeren UrbanskyIllustration(s): 35 b/w illus. 4 tables.Number of pages: 392Collection: Studies of t...

DescriptionThough once a source of violent conflict, the border dividing the Republic of Ireland from Northern Ireland has been relatively stable i...

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Reducere. DescriptionWhat does it mean to choose to move to a new country, versus migration by necessity? What does it look like to lack options as a migrant...

Reducere. Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed The New York Times directs readers to Reta...

Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and...

Word count 5, 440 Suitable for younger learners CD: American English Bestseller

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Reducere. Inspired by True Current Events. Dolores, Ernesto, and Emilio Sanchez are on a quest to America to find work and to save their family, who has been...

Reducere. Gritty, compelling, and packed with action, the saga of the Outlaw Ranger rages forward - from bestselling and award-winning author James Reasoner....

Nationalizing Nature demonstrates how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas, casting light on conservat...

Reducere. John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanics--and meaning--of mystical expe...

After border crossings, Vietnamese migrants in Berlin identify with the ethnic nation, but have transformed their commitments to ethnic nationalism...

Reducere. "Betty Zane" is a historical novel about Elizabeth "Betty" Zane McLaughlin Clark (1765-1823), a heroine of the Revolutionary War on the American fr...

Reducere. The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immi...

Reducere. On May 4, 1919, Charlie Cook set off for a year of adventure in the Minnesota-Ontario Boundary Waters. Soon abandoned by his comfort-loving compani...

DescriptionOn October 6, 1973, Israel's Northern Command was surprised by the thunder of cannon fire and the sight of dense, black smoke. A Syrian ...

Reducere. DescriptionC. L. Johnstone offers here a history of Scotland's noble families through the centuries, noting how they shaped the history and politic...

Reducere. Temperance workers had their work cut out for them in the Upper Peninsula. It was a wild and woolly place where moonshiners, bootleggers and rumrun...

From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military exp...

Reducere. Country music in the Carolinas and the southern Appalachian Mountains owes a tremendous debt to freedom-loving Scotch-Irish pioneers who settled th...

Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and ge...

Reducere. This is the third book regarding the history and mystery of El Paso, Texas. This volumje covers unsolved mysteries, lost treasures and hauntings in...

Covering the whole Atlantic coast of France, from Ouessant in the north to Hendaye on the Spanish border, this second edition of the RCC Pilotage F...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David L. GoslingIllustration(s): 28 bw integrated, 2 mapsNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2015D...

Reducere. Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's bir...

We build border walls to keep danger out. But do we understand the danger posed by walls themselves? East Germans were the first to give the crisis...

Reducere. A Stranger At My Door is a personal odyssey of challenge, failure, and redemption. A man in desperate crisis appears at the doorstep of a family ho...

Shows how our perception of skin has changed from the eighteenth century onwards. This title examines the changing significance of skin through bri...

Through an analysis of Cold War Era films including Border Incident , Where Danger Lives , and Touch of Evil , Stephanie Fuller illustrates how cin...

Publisher: Theclassics.UsAuthor(s): Thomas Finlayson HendersonIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whitePublication date: 2013Dimensions: 191 ...

And what would happen if Elon Musk declared himself president of the Moon?In Border Wars, Professor Klaus Dodds takes us on a journey into the geop...

Reducere. In this "riveting read, meshing memoir with scientific explication" (Nature), a world-renowned neuroscientist reveals how he learned to communicate...

On the Border is the compelling tale of a football club sited in the most volatile place on Earth. The book explores the radicalisation of Beitar J...

*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingBritish India ultimately covered ...

From where do we speak? This collection of essays questions the processes of globalization in terms of how they have transformed the theoretical to...

DescriptionConflict on the early American Frontier This is the fascinating and bloody story of the American frontier of the eighteenth century-wher...

Reducere. Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in ...

Reducere. Between 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and ...

Reducere. An eye-opening analysis of the costs and effects of immigration and immigration policy, both on American life and on new Americans. For decades, im...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Sabrina EllebrechtNumber of pages: 300Collection: Political SciencePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 149 x 2...

Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...

Reducere. The moving stories of children in migration--in their own words. "In Spanish and in English, a devastating first-person account of children's exper...

Contributor(s): Author: Laura RandallBased on a Book by: Ben SchiffrinBased on a Book by: Jeffrey P. SchafferFirst published in 1973, The Pacific C...

Reducere. Description"Nathan Ballingrud is one of my favorite short fiction writers." --Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation an...

The history and possible future of the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland.

Reducere. Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to "build a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico bord...

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

Reducere. What reviewers are saying: "This book is a must-have brilliant guide. I found everything I needed to know as a first-time owner of a Border Collie....

Reducere. A collection of personal narratives of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border, Voices of the Border brings us closer to this community of people an...

Reducere. A Land of Hard Edges: Serving the Front Lines of the Border is a series of true stories and personal reflections by Peg Bowden, a retired nurse, wh...

Focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and v...

Reducere. Immigration is an issue of major concern within the Christian community. As Christians, how should we respond to the current crisis?Interweaving bi...

Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society ...

Reducere. For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different...

The Border and Its Bodies examines the impact of migration from Central America and M xico to the United States on the most basic social unit possi...

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Reducere. 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 ...

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

Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel D az-Barriga ...

The first comprehensive, in-depth book on the Trump administration's assault on asylum protections. The first book to take on the inhumane debacle ...

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