Author: Lawrence A. Herzog
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292790537
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book embraces an emerging paradox of human geography: the growth of cities along international boundaries. For many years the world system was ordered in such a way that international boundaries remained essentially free of human settlement. In the last three decades, however, the axioms of traditional geopolitical organization have been shattered; in a number of areas in the world, including the United States-Mexico, United States-Canada, and western European border regions, boundaries have come to house large-scale cities. -- From Preface (page xi).
Where North Meets South
Author: Lawrence A. Herzog
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292790537
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book embraces an emerging paradox of human geography: the growth of cities along international boundaries. For many years the world system was ordered in such a way that international boundaries remained essentially free of human settlement. In the last three decades, however, the axioms of traditional geopolitical organization have been shattered; in a number of areas in the world, including the United States-Mexico, United States-Canada, and western European border regions, boundaries have come to house large-scale cities. -- From Preface (page xi).
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292790537
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book embraces an emerging paradox of human geography: the growth of cities along international boundaries. For many years the world system was ordered in such a way that international boundaries remained essentially free of human settlement. In the last three decades, however, the axioms of traditional geopolitical organization have been shattered; in a number of areas in the world, including the United States-Mexico, United States-Canada, and western European border regions, boundaries have come to house large-scale cities. -- From Preface (page xi).
North Meets South
Author: Kimberly Bahr
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1635681154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Once in a while, a love story comes along that is out of the ordinary. Once in a while, there is a love story that truly captures your attention and your heart. North Meets South is just that. It also happens to be true. Come along on a journey of two complete strangers, who happened to live 1,100 miles apart, as they experience a divine encounter while on vacation with their separate families and friends. Read on to encounter the deep friendship that develops between them during their
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1635681154
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Once in a while, a love story comes along that is out of the ordinary. Once in a while, there is a love story that truly captures your attention and your heart. North Meets South is just that. It also happens to be true. Come along on a journey of two complete strangers, who happened to live 1,100 miles apart, as they experience a divine encounter while on vacation with their separate families and friends. Read on to encounter the deep friendship that develops between them during their
North Meets South
Author: Matt Sims
Publisher: High Noon Books
ISBN: 1634022580
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
During the Civil War, two young soldiers try to cool down at a creek. This could be big trouble because one is a Yankee and one is a Rebel. North Meets South is a level 4 book in the Sound Out Phonics Based Chapter Books series, which feature six levels of phonics progression that gives students multiple opportunities to practice specific phonics skills. Level 4 focuses on one-syllable words with short and long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, diphthongs, silent letters, and controlled vowels.
Publisher: High Noon Books
ISBN: 1634022580
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
During the Civil War, two young soldiers try to cool down at a creek. This could be big trouble because one is a Yankee and one is a Rebel. North Meets South is a level 4 book in the Sound Out Phonics Based Chapter Books series, which feature six levels of phonics progression that gives students multiple opportunities to practice specific phonics skills. Level 4 focuses on one-syllable words with short and long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, diphthongs, silent letters, and controlled vowels.
Baseball on the Border
Author: Alan M. Klein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400884527
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In true border fashion, Mexican and American national anthems were played before each game, and the Tecos were operated by interests in both cities. Baseball on the Border is the story of the rise and unexpected demise of this surprising team. For Alan Klein, a cultural anthropologist specializing in sport, "the border" is almost a nation of its own. Having formed teams of players from both sides of the Rio Grande for almost a century, organizers and followers of the "Border Birds" often join forces but just as frequently squabble with each other in a chronic border tension. Throughout the book, Klein includes firsthand observations of the team and descriptions of its players. Readers will meet Dan Firova, the Tecos' beleaguered manager, a border-region native who nevertheless finds himself a target of the Mexican media. The "Ugly American," Willie Waite, is a young pitcher whose stunning success does nothing to diminish the disdain he has for his Mexican teammates. Ernesto Barraza, "The Trickster," once threw a no-hitter on only seventy-three pitches (on April Fool's Day, appropriately enough), but occasionally shows up at the park missing part of his uniform. And then there is Andres Mora, an aged slugger who, despite three seasons in major league baseball and a life of personal excesses, came within a few home runs of setting the all-time Mexican League record. This is just part of the roster of the Tecos and only a fraction of the lineup of Baseball on the Border. Anyone with an interest in baseball will be enlightened and entertained by this informative book.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400884527
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From 1985 to 1994 there existed a significant but unheralded experiment in professional baseball. For ten seasons, the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos (The Owls of the Two Laredos) were the only team in professional sports to represent two nations. Playing in the storied Mexican League (an AAA affiliate of major league baseball), the "Tecos" had home parks on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, in Laredo, Texas and in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. In true border fashion, Mexican and American national anthems were played before each game, and the Tecos were operated by interests in both cities. Baseball on the Border is the story of the rise and unexpected demise of this surprising team. For Alan Klein, a cultural anthropologist specializing in sport, "the border" is almost a nation of its own. Having formed teams of players from both sides of the Rio Grande for almost a century, organizers and followers of the "Border Birds" often join forces but just as frequently squabble with each other in a chronic border tension. Throughout the book, Klein includes firsthand observations of the team and descriptions of its players. Readers will meet Dan Firova, the Tecos' beleaguered manager, a border-region native who nevertheless finds himself a target of the Mexican media. The "Ugly American," Willie Waite, is a young pitcher whose stunning success does nothing to diminish the disdain he has for his Mexican teammates. Ernesto Barraza, "The Trickster," once threw a no-hitter on only seventy-three pitches (on April Fool's Day, appropriately enough), but occasionally shows up at the park missing part of his uniform. And then there is Andres Mora, an aged slugger who, despite three seasons in major league baseball and a life of personal excesses, came within a few home runs of setting the all-time Mexican League record. This is just part of the roster of the Tecos and only a fraction of the lineup of Baseball on the Border. Anyone with an interest in baseball will be enlightened and entertained by this informative book.
Border Identities
Author: Thomas M. Wilson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521587457
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. As a contribution to the wider theoretical debates about nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization, it will interest to students and scholars in anthropology, political science, international studies and modern history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521587457
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. Ten anthropological case studies describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. As a contribution to the wider theoretical debates about nationalism, transnationalism, and globalization, it will interest to students and scholars in anthropology, political science, international studies and modern history.
Looking South
Author: Mary E. Frederickson
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813042941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, and state-supported industries that marked the creation of the New South and now the Global South. Workers in the contemporary Global South--those nations of Central and Latin America, most of Asia, and Africa--live and work within a model of industrial development that materialized in the red brick mills of the New South. As early as the 1950s, this labor model became the prototype used by U.S. companies as they expanded globally. This development has had increasingly powerful effects on workers and consumers at home and around the world. Mary E. Frederickson highlights the major economic and cultural changes brought about by deindustrialization and immigration. She also outlines the events, movements, and personalities involved in the race-, class-, and gender-based resistance to industry’s relentless search for cheap labor.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813042941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In the United States, cheap products made by cheap labor are in especially high demand, purchased by men and women who have watched their own wages decline and jobs disappear. Looking South examines the effects of race, class, and gender in the development of the low-wage, anti-union, and state-supported industries that marked the creation of the New South and now the Global South. Workers in the contemporary Global South--those nations of Central and Latin America, most of Asia, and Africa--live and work within a model of industrial development that materialized in the red brick mills of the New South. As early as the 1950s, this labor model became the prototype used by U.S. companies as they expanded globally. This development has had increasingly powerful effects on workers and consumers at home and around the world. Mary E. Frederickson highlights the major economic and cultural changes brought about by deindustrialization and immigration. She also outlines the events, movements, and personalities involved in the race-, class-, and gender-based resistance to industry’s relentless search for cheap labor.
South
Author: Merlin Coverley
Publisher: Oldacastle Books
ISBN: 1843447266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
How has the idea of the South come to exert such a powerful hold over our imagination? From the beaches of Southern Europe to the Great White South of the Antarctic; from South America to the South Pacific, South explores this most diverse and captivating of regions. The South has long since cast its spell on writers and artists, from Goethe and Poe, to Gauguin, Lawrence and Kerouac; while landscapes of ice and snow, sand and sea, have lured explorers southwards for centuries, often with fatal consequences. This book will follow in the footsteps of Cook, Scott, John Muir and others as they recount their journeys.
Publisher: Oldacastle Books
ISBN: 1843447266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
How has the idea of the South come to exert such a powerful hold over our imagination? From the beaches of Southern Europe to the Great White South of the Antarctic; from South America to the South Pacific, South explores this most diverse and captivating of regions. The South has long since cast its spell on writers and artists, from Goethe and Poe, to Gauguin, Lawrence and Kerouac; while landscapes of ice and snow, sand and sea, have lured explorers southwards for centuries, often with fatal consequences. This book will follow in the footsteps of Cook, Scott, John Muir and others as they recount their journeys.
Borges 2.0
Author: Perla Sassón-Henry
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820497143
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds analyzes Jorge Luis Borges's «The Library of Babel», «The Garden of Forking Paths», and «The Intruder» from a tripartite perspective that encompasses literature, science, and technology. This book underscores developments in chaos theory during the 1980s and their intricate connections with Borges's works and the digital world. Without losing sight of this critical framework, this study also takes into account Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome theory and Umberto Eco's theory on labyrinths. Borges 2.0 is unique in its analysis of how Borgesian texts relate to science and technology at the same time that science and the virtual world illuminate Borges's texts to provide a new reading of his work.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820497143
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Borges 2.0: From Text to Virtual Worlds analyzes Jorge Luis Borges's «The Library of Babel», «The Garden of Forking Paths», and «The Intruder» from a tripartite perspective that encompasses literature, science, and technology. This book underscores developments in chaos theory during the 1980s and their intricate connections with Borges's works and the digital world. Without losing sight of this critical framework, this study also takes into account Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome theory and Umberto Eco's theory on labyrinths. Borges 2.0 is unique in its analysis of how Borgesian texts relate to science and technology at the same time that science and the virtual world illuminate Borges's texts to provide a new reading of his work.
Love You, Hate You, Love You
Author: Tadeusz Hutyra
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736883358
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
‘ No matter what, Juliet ‘ Having you, my Juliet and though drama is hanging in the air. How many times we danced in the open air sweetly in arms. How many times our kisses brought us into glamorous palaces of love. How many times our minds were no longer deserts but oasis of loving hearts. Even though our constellation is far from the starry one I love you with all my heart. No matter what shall happen no one and nothing shall separate us. We are the lovers of all times larger than life you and me, Romeo and Juliet.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736883358
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
‘ No matter what, Juliet ‘ Having you, my Juliet and though drama is hanging in the air. How many times we danced in the open air sweetly in arms. How many times our kisses brought us into glamorous palaces of love. How many times our minds were no longer deserts but oasis of loving hearts. Even though our constellation is far from the starry one I love you with all my heart. No matter what shall happen no one and nothing shall separate us. We are the lovers of all times larger than life you and me, Romeo and Juliet.
Procurement Systems
Author: Steve Rowlinson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135806004
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book deals with best practice in construction procurement, the process by which customers of the construction industry go about procuring new facilities.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135806004
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
This book deals with best practice in construction procurement, the process by which customers of the construction industry go about procuring new facilities.