Birds Of Passage

Author : Michael J. Piore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521280583

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Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas. It argues that such migrations are a continuing feature of industrial societies and that they are generated by forces inherent in the nature of industrial economies. It explains why conventional economic theory finds such migrations so difficult to comprehend, and challenges a set of older assumptions that supported the view that these migrations were beneficial to both sending and receiving societies. Professor Piore seriously questions whether migration actually relieves population pressure and rural unemployment, and whether it develops skills necessary for the emergence of an industrial labour force in the home country. Furthermore, he criticizes the notion that in the long run migrant labour complements native labour. On the basis of this critique, he develops an alternative theory of the nature of the migration process.

Author : Mark-Anthony Falzon
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789207675

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Birds of Passage by Mark-Anthony Falzon Pdf

Bird migration between Europe and Africa is a fraught journey, particularly in the Mediterranean, where migratory birds are shot and trapped in large numbers. In Malta, thousands of hunters share a shrinking countryside. They also rub shoulders with a strong bird-protection and conservation lobby. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.

Author : Robert Solé
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111011073

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Birds of Passage by Robert Solé Pdf

"The tarboosh, or fez, once as much part of the Egyptian landscape as the Sphinx, becomes for one family the symbol of their love affair with Egypt."--Back cover.

Author : Brian Castro
Publisher : Untapped
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1761280767

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Birds of Passage by Brian Castro Pdf

Reading fragments of his ancestor's journal Lo Yun Shan gives Australian-born Chinese man Seamus O'Young an odd sensation: familiarity. Their lives are quite different-Shan left China for the goldfields in the mid-19th century-but something links them. As Seamus seeks to understand what it is and what it means his mind begins to unravel in Brian Castro's astonishing debut. First published in 1983 Birds of Passage was joint winner of The Australian/Vogel National Literary Award the previous year.

Author : Rudolf Peierls
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400854615

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Bird of Passage by Rudolf Peierls Pdf

Here is the intensely personal and often humorous autobiography of one of the most distinguished theoretical physicists of his generation, Sir Rudolf Peierls. Born in Germany in 1907, Peierls was indeed a bird of passage," whose career of fifty-five years took him to leading centers of physics--including Munich, Leipzig, Zurich, Copenhagen, Cambridge, Manchester, Oxford, and J. Robert Oppenheimer's Los Alamos. Peierls was a major participant in the revolutionary development of quantum mechanics in the 1920s and 1930s, working with some of the pioneers and, as he puts it, "some of the great characters" in this field. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Sherry Hobbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798673050316

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Bird of Passage by Sherry Hobbs Pdf

A bird of passage never rests ...Bird of Passage-a person who passes through or visits a place without staying for long- is an epic life journey that takes Ms. Hobbs around the globe. Bird of Passage recounts her life from a privileged child of a diplomat, to having it upended by her mother's decision to divorce their father and marry a Frenchman whom she met in Saigon. She touches on her views of the Vietnam War from the prospective of a person who lived in Saigon before the war; the Civil Rights struggle she became immersed in when she returned to the United States in 1958; and later recounts her personal struggles raising a son with mental illness. She describes her life's journey which includes the internal and external factors that helped her become the strong, successful woman she grew to be, with wisdom, humor and remarkable insight.

Author : Mike Unwin,David Tipling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0300247443

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Flights of Passage by Mike Unwin,David Tipling Pdf

"Magnificent. . . . David Tipling's lush photographs stun and delight with every page. . . . Mr. Tipling's skill in telling the birds' stories is broad and unrivaled. Flights of Passage is a privileged look at birds as we've never seen them before."--Julie Zickefoose, Wall Street Journal A visually stunning, photographically driven celebration of bird migration--one of the great marvels of the natural world The vast transcontinental journeys made every year by millions of feathered migrants were not known to naturalists before the late nineteenth century. Even today, while cutting-edge technology such as geolocators and isotope analysis helps us map these journeys in detail, much of the science remains poorly understood. In this luxuriously illustrated volume, celebrated nature writer Mike Unwin and award-winning photographer David Tipling highlight sixty-seven different species of birds from around the world and explore how each has adapted to its migratory cycle. As they bring to life the drama of the Bar-headed Goose's journey over the Himalayas and the amazing sixty-thousand-mile annual round trip taken by the Arctic Tern between the United Kingdom and Antarctica, Unwin and Tipling offer deep insights into the science, mysteries, and wonders of migration.

Author : Genevieve Carpio
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520298828

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Collisions at the Crossroads by Genevieve Carpio Pdf

There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4064066405588

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Birds of Passage by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

The American poet Longfellow is probably best known for Hiawatha, but he was an extremely gifted writer whose body of work is very large and varied, He was the first to translate Dante's Divine Comedy into English among other things. This collection represents some of his finest work.

Author : Simona Frasca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137322425

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Italian Birds of Passage by Simona Frasca Pdf

This book reviews the period from the unification of Italy to the fascist era through significant Neapolitan performers such as Gilda Mignonette and Enrico Caruso. It traces the transformation of a popular tradition written in dialect into a popular tradition, written in Italian, that contributed to the production of "American" identity.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKSZA

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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Birds of passage, Flower-de-luce, Book of sonnets, Masque of Pandora and other poems, Kéramos, Ultima Thule and In the harbor by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Simona Frasca
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1137322411

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Italian Birds of Passage by Simona Frasca Pdf

This book reviews the period from the unification of Italy to the fascist era through significant Neapolitan performers such as Gilda Mignonette and Enrico Caruso. It traces the transformation of a popular tradition written in dialect into a popular tradition, written in Italian, that contributed to the production of "American" identity.

Author : Clive Finlayson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408136942

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Birds of the Strait of Gibraltar by Clive Finlayson Pdf

Clive Finlayson, a native of the Rock and a trained ornithologist, presents a fascinating account of this region and its resident and transitory bird life. The Strait of Gibraltar is famous as a major point of passage for Palaearctic birds migrating between their European breeding grounds and their winter quarters in Africa. The first chapter of the book describes the area, which broadly defined includes the Coto Donana in the north and the Merja Zerga in the south, and the geographic and climatological characteristics which make it a suitable crossing place. In scope this book goes beyond the strict definition of the Strait and, following Irby's 19th Century work, examines the rich area where Europe meets Africa. The chapters which follow describe in detail the migration patterns of the principal passage species including their origins, destinations and overall numbers, showing how the precise conditions of weather and visibility affect the specific choice of route and timing of the crossing. The breeding and wintering bird communities are then considered and the ornithology of the entire region summarized. Whether or not you have ever witnessed the thousands of raptors, storks and other birds that may make this legendary crossing in a single day, this book will conjure the spirit of this extraordinary place. Delightful illustrations by lan Willis complete an important and entertaining book.

Author : Denae Veselits
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06
Category : Dysfunctional families
ISBN : 0998802808

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Birds of Passage by Denae Veselits Pdf

Birds of Passage is an extraordinary tale of nine children trapped in a childhood, tyrannized by a violent, mentally ill father. However, it is also a story about transformation and redemption -- the power and grace of the human spirit to forgive and transcend even the cruelest of circumstances.

Author : Isabella Frances Romer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026770369

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The Bird of Passage, Or, Flying Glimpses of Many Lands by Isabella Frances Romer Pdf