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Books Across Borders

Miriam Intrator
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Author : Miriam Intrator
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030158163

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Books Across Borders: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural Reconstruction, 1945-1951 is a history of the emotional, ideological, informational, and technical power and meaning of books and libraries in the aftermath of World War II, examined through the cultural reconstruction activities undertaken by the Libraries Section of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The book focuses on the key actors and on-the-ground work of the Libraries Section in four central areas: empowering libraries around the world to acquire the books they wanted and needed; facilitating expanded global production of quality translations and affordable books; participating in debates over the contested fate of confiscated books and displaced libraries; and formulating notions of cultural rights as human rights. Through examples from France, Poland, and surviving Jewish Europe, this book provides new insight into the complexities and specificities of UNESCO’s role in the realm of books, libraries, and networks of information exchange during the early postwar, post-Holocaust, Cold War years.

Communities Across Borders

Paul Kennedy,Victor Roudometof
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Author : Paul Kennedy,Victor Roudometof
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134526994

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Communities Across Borders by Paul Kennedy,Victor Roudometof Pdf

Communities across Borders examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together. It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for interpersonal communication (including cyber-communities and the interconnectedness of the global world economy) simultaneously empowers even the poorest people to forge effective cultures stretching national borders, and compels many to do so to escape injustice and deprivation.

Culture Across Borders

David Maciel,Mar’a Herrera-Sobek
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Author : David Maciel,Mar’a Herrera-Sobek
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816518335

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Culture Across Borders by David Maciel,Mar’a Herrera-Sobek Pdf

For as long as Mexicans have emigrated to the United States they have responded creatively to the challenges of making a new home. But although historical, sociological, and other aspects of Mexican immigration have been widely studied, its cultural and artistic manifestations have been largely overlooked by scholars—even though Mexico has produced the greatest number of cultural works inspired by the immigration process. And recently Chicana/o artists have addressed immigration as a central theme in their cultural productions and motifs. Culture across Borders is the first and only book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the immigration experience, including art, literature, cinema, corridos, and humor. It shows how Mexican immigrants have been depicted in popular culture both in Mexico and the United States—and how Mexican and Chicano/Chicana artists, intellectuals, and others have used artistic means to protest the unjust treatment of immigrants by U.S. authorities. Established and upcoming scholars from both sides of the border contribute their expertise in art history, literary criticism, history, cultural studies, and other fields, capturing the many facets of the immigrant experience in popular culture. Topics include the difference between Chicano/a and Mexican representation of immigration; how films dealing with immigrants are treated differently by Mexican, Chicano, and Hollywood producers; the rich literary and artistic production on immigration themes; and the significance of immigration in Chicano jokes. As a first step in addressing the cultural dimensions of Mexican immigration to the United States, this book captures how the immigration process has inspired powerful creative responses on both sides of the border.

Conservation Across Borders

Charles C. Chester
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Author : Charles C. Chester
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597268493

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Conservationists have long been aware that political boundaries rarely coincide with natural boundaries. From the establishment of early "peace parks" to the designation of continental migratory pathways, a wide range of transborder mechanisms to protect biodiversity have been established by conservationists in both the public and private sectors. Conservation Across Borders presents a broad overview of the history of transboundary conservation efforts and an accessible introduction to current issues surrounding the subject. Through detailed examinations of two initiatives, the International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA) and the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative (Y2Y), the book helps readers understand the benefits and challenges of landscape-scale protection. In addition to discussing general concepts and the specific experience of ISDA and Y2Y, the author considers the emerging concept of "conservation effectiveness" and offers a comparative analysis of the two projects. The book ends with a discussion of the complex relationships among civil society, governments, and international borders. By considering the history, goals, successes, and failures of two divergent initiatives, the book offers important insights into the field of transborder conservation along with valuable lessons for those studying or working in the field.

Educating Across Borders

Maria Teresa de la Piedra,Blanca Araujo,Alberto Esquinca
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Author : Maria Teresa de la Piedra,Blanca Araujo,Alberto Esquinca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780816538478

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Educating Across Borders by Maria Teresa de la Piedra,Blanca Araujo,Alberto Esquinca Pdf

This is the first book to address the learning experience of transfronterizxs, border-crossing students, in a dual language program. Educating Across Borders explains how transfronterizx language, literacy practices, and knowledge are used in the educational system.

Citizens without Borders

Brigitte Le Normand
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Author : Brigitte Le Normand
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Foreign workers
ISBN : 9781487525156

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This book examines Yugoslavia's efforts to build and maintain a relationship with its migrant workers in Western Europe through cultural and educational programs.

Painting Death

Tim Parks
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Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628726206

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Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it’s not enough. Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a plan to put on the most exciting art exhibition of the decade, based on a subject close to his heart: killing. All the great slaughters of scripture and classical times will be on show, from Cain and Abel, to Brutus and Caesar. But as Morris meets stiff resistance from the director of Verona’s Castelvecchio museum, everything starts to unravel around him. His children are rebelling, his mistress is asking for more than he wants to give, his wife is increasingly attached to her aging confessor, and, worst of all, it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the ghosts that swirl around him, and the skeletons rattling in every closet. The shame of it is that Morris Arthur Duckworth really did not want to have to kill again. Tim Parks’ acclaimed Duckworth trilogy has been thirty years in the making. In Painting Death, he brings it—and his serial-killer alter ego—to a very fitting—and very funny—end. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Drawn Across Borders: True Stories of Human Migration

George Butler
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Author : George Butler
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536217759

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"Resisting his own urge to walk away, award-winning artist George Butler took his sketchbook and made, over the course of a decade, a series of remarkable pen-and-ink and watercolor portraits in war zones, refugee camps, and on the move. While he worked, his subjects--migrants and refugees in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia--shared their stories. Theirs are the human stories behind the headlines that tell of fleeing poverty, disaster, and war, and of venturing into the unknown in search of jobs, education, and security. Whether sketching by the hospital bed of a ten-year-old Syrian boy who survived an airstrike, drawing the doll of a little Palestinian girl with big questions, or talking with a Masai herdsman forced to abandon his rural Kenyan home for the Kibera slums, George Butler turns reflective art and sensitive reportage into an eloquent cry for understanding and empathy."--

Conversations Across Borders

Guillermo Gómez-Peña
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Author : Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Publisher : Enactments
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1906497508

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Laura Levin is an Associate Professor of Theatre at York University, Toronto. She is Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Theatre Review and Editor of Theatre and Performance in Toronto (2011). --Book Jacket.

Food Across Borders

Matt Garcia,E. Melanie DuPuis,Don Mitchell
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Author : Matt Garcia,E. Melanie DuPuis,Don Mitchell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780813592008

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Food Across Borders by Matt Garcia,E. Melanie DuPuis,Don Mitchell Pdf

The act of eating defines and redefines borders. What constitutes “American” in our cuisine has always depended on a liberal crossing of borders, from “the line in the sand” that separates Mexico and the United States, to the grassland boundary with Canada, to the imagined divide in our collective minds between “our” food and “their” food. Immigrant workers have introduced new cuisines and ways of cooking that force the nation to question the boundaries between “us” and “them.” The stories told in Food Across Borders highlight the contiguity between the intimate decisions we make as individuals concerning what we eat and the social and geopolitical processes we enact to secure nourishment, territory, and belonging. Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University..

Bhava

U R Ananthamurthy
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Author : U R Ananthamurthy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789351182870

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A compelling tale of mystery, passion and spiritual exploration seventy-year-old Shastri; A reciter of Harikatha, encounters an Ayyappa pilgrim on a train. Around the pilgrim's neck is a Sri chakra amulet which looks like one that belonged to Saroja, Shastri's first wife. But Shastri thought he had killed Saroja years before, believing she was pregnant by another man. If the amulet is Saroja's, then she might have survived, and the pilgrim (Dinakar, a television star) could be Shastri's son. A similar story is revealed when Dinakar visits his old friend Narayan: either could be the father of Prasad, A young man destined for spiritual attainment. The interwoven lives of three generations play out variations on the same themes. Whose son am I? Whose father am I? Where are my roots? These mysteries of the past and present are explored, but there are no clear answers. And while significant in daily being , such questions lose urgency in the flux of becoming (Bhava means both being and becoming). So we are led to consider that Samsara-the world of illusion and embodiment-may not be very different from Sunya , the emptiness from which everything arises. At times a drama of cruelty and lust, at times a lyrical meditation on love and transformation, Bhava is an exceptional novel by one of India's most celebrated writers. Translated from the Kannada by Judith Kroll with the author.

Media Across Borders

Andrea Esser,Iain Robert Smith,Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino
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Author : Andrea Esser,Iain Robert Smith,Miguel Á. Bernal-Merino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317610793

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What happened when Sesame Street and Big Brother were adapted for African audiences? Or when video games Final Fantasy and Assassins’ Creed were localized for the Spanish market? Or when Sherlock Holmes was transformed into a talking dog for the Japanese animation Sherlock Hound? Bringing together leading international scholars working on localization in television, film and video games, Media Across Borders is a pioneering study of the myriad ways in which media content is adapted for different markets and across cultural borders. Contributors examine significant localization trends and practices such as: audiovisual translation and transcreation, dubbing and subtitling, international franchising, film remakes, TV format adaptation and video game localization. Drawing together insights from across the audiovisual sector, this volume provides a number of innovative models for interrogating the international flow of media. By paying specific attention to the diverse ways in which cultural products are adapted across markets, this collection offers important new perspectives and theoretical frameworks for studying localization processes in the audiovisual sector. For further resources, please see the Media Across Borders group website (www.mediaacrossborders.com), which hosts a ‘localization’ bibliography; links to relevant companies, institutions and publications, as well as conference papers and workshop summaries.

Bodies Across Borders

Professor Bronwyn Parry,Dr Beth Greenhough,Dr Tim Brown,Em Prof Isabel Dyck
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Author : Professor Bronwyn Parry,Dr Beth Greenhough,Dr Tim Brown,Em Prof Isabel Dyck
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409457176

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Bodies Across Borders by Professor Bronwyn Parry,Dr Beth Greenhough,Dr Tim Brown,Em Prof Isabel Dyck Pdf

Crossing both disciplinary and geographical boundaries, this volume draws together a number of important contributions from acknowledged leaders in three respective fields: the trade in bodily commodities, biomedical tourism and migration of health care professionals. It explores and maps out the key characteristics of this emerging, although as yet poorly researched global trade, questioning how, where and why bodies cross borders, whether this exacerbates existing health inequalities and how these circulations impact on healthcare services. In addition the book invites comparisons of the ways in which body parts, patients and medical professionals cross national borders, elucidating common themes, concerns and issues.

Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network

Lena Khor
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Author : Lena Khor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317119807

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Human Rights Discourse in a Global Network by Lena Khor Pdf

In her innovative study of human rights discourse, Lena Khor takes up the prevailing concern by scholars who charge that the globalization of human rights discourse is becoming yet another form of cultural, legal, and political imperialism imposed from above by an international human rights regime based in the Global North. To counter these charges, she argues for a paradigmatic shift away from human rights as a hegemonic, immutable, and ill-defined entity toward one that recognizes human rights as a social construct comprised of language and of language use. She proposes a new theoretical framework based on a global discourse network of human rights, supporting her model with case studies that examine the words and actions of witnesses to genocide (Paul Rusesabagina) and humanitarian organizations (Doctors Without Borders). She also analyzes the language of texts such as Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost. Khor's idea of a globally networked structure of human rights discourse enables actors (textual and human) who tap into or are linked into this rapidly globalizing system of networks to increase their power as speaking subjects and, in so doing, to influence the range of acceptable meanings and practices of human rights in the cultural sphere. Khor’s book is a unique and important contribution to the study of human rights in the humanities that revitalizes viable notions of agency and liberatory network power in fields that have been dominated by negative visions of human capacity and moral action.

Pbs Bargaining Across Borders

Dean Allen Foster
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Author : Dean Allen Foster
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0070216568

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Emphasizing the acquisition of a "global mindset", this book tells how to recognize the real leaders among foreign counterparts, handle crucial cross-cultural differences in negotiating styles, deal with unfamiliar concepts, and more. Lightning Print on Demand Title