Continental Shifts

Author : John D. "Rio" Riofrio
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292771987

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Continental Shifts by John D. "Rio" Riofrio Pdf

Applying a broad geographical approach to comparative Latino literary and cultural studies, Continental Shifts illuminates how the discursive treatment of Latinos changed dramatically following the enactment of NAFTA—a shift exacerbated by 9/11. While previous studies of immigrant representation have focused on single regions (the US/Mexico border in particular), specific genres (literature vs. political rhetoric), or individual groups, Continental Shifts unites these disparate discussions in a provocative, in-depth examination. Bringing together a wide range of groups and genres, this intercultural study explores novels by Latin American and Latino writers, a border film by Tommy Lee Jones and Guillermo Arriaga, “viral” videos of political speeches, popular television programming (particularly shows that feature incarceration and public shaming), and user-generated YouTube videos. These cultural products reveal the complexity of Latino representations in contemporary discourse. While tropes of Latino migrants as threatening, diseased foreign bodies date back to the nineteenth century, Continental Shifts marks the more pernicious, recent images of Latino laborers (legal and not) in a variety of contemporary media. Using vivid examples, John Riofrio demonstrates the connections between rhetorical and ideological violence and the physical and psychological violence that has more intensely plagued Latino communities in recent decades. Culminating with a consideration of the “American” identity, this eye-opening work ultimately probes the nation’s ongoing struggle to uphold democratic ideals amid dehumanizing multiethnic tension.

Author : Sharmilla Beezmohun
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443889988

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Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception by Sharmilla Beezmohun Pdf

Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe presents some of the papers presented at the fourth AfroEurope@ns conference held in London in October 2013. An inter-disciplinary and groundbreaking research project and network, AfroEurope@ns covers literature, history, music, theatre, art, translation, politics, immigration, youth culture and European policies, perceptions of Africa and more, and has been bringing together leading scholars, critics, activists and artists for over ten years. A major contribution to the burgeoning subject of African-European Studies as a multi-disciplinary field of academia, this collection includes themes ranging from literature, translation and film to urban studies, politics, exile, migration, sport and the experience of the African diasporas. The book also adopts a pan-European lens, covering African-European experiences in Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France and the UK, with reference to Africa, the USA and the Caribbean. Continental Shifts, Shifts in Perception: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe is undoubtedly a major reference work which will aid in furthering a new awareness in academia of the essential contributions of Europe’s black populations in all fields.

Author : William A. Orme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : UCSD:31822016932089

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Continental Shift by William A. Orme Pdf

Published by Briefing Books, The Washington Post Co., 1150 15th St., NW, 9th Fl., Washington, DC 20071. Thorough discussion of why the North American Free Trade Agreement is needed and should be ratified, done partially in a question-answer format and partially through narrative, tackling myths and misconceptions and giving both historical background and economic analysis. No references. Attractively designed, to better get the points across. 10.5x10.5" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Martin Helander
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0748401229

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A Guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics, Second Edition by Martin Helander Pdf

This book focuses on the role of ergonomics in the manufacturing context, and looks at a number of design issues: anthropometry, posture, manual materials handling, lighting, noise, warnings, signals, controls, information processing, workstation layout, process layout, shift-work, job satisfaction, task analysis, ergonomic assessment and enhancing manufacturability and maintainability. Intended for engineers and students of engineering who design manufacturing systems and workstations, this text is also invaluable to human factors/ergonomics professionals who want to understand the manufacturing applications of ergonomics.

Author : Katrin Susanne Mühlfeld
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783322816573

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Strategic Shifts between Business Types by Katrin Susanne Mühlfeld Pdf

Katrin Mühlfeld analyzes motivations and conditions for strategic changes of market offerings which can be interpreted as shifts between different business types. Transaction cost economics provide the main theoretical foundations while additional reference is made to Austrian economics and research on power-dependence relations.

Author : John Frazier Bonner
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781615798421

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Fragments of the Earth's Geology Or in the Beginning God by John Frazier Bonner Pdf

One Final Push is a dynamite devotional book full of inspirational poetry, testimonies, and other spirit filled writings. This book will encourage you and cause your faith to soar higher as it reveals the loving and patient heart of our Heavenly Father. You will want to draw closer to God and to know Him by His Spirit in a greater way. One Final Push is a prophetic book for this hour and will reveal strategic ways in how to remain joyful and steadfast as the church prepares for its One Final Push! Vanessa Bonner is an ordained minister and teacher of God's Word. She and husband, Ronald are founders of Families for Christ Ministry in Chocowinity, North Carolina. They have three grown children and three grandchildren. She is the author of the best-selling book, Help God I'm Single but I Don't Want to Be.

Author : Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107055759

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Long-Vowel Shifts in English, c. 1050-1700 by Gjertrud Flermoen Stenbrenden Pdf

This thorough analysis of documented Middle English spelling establishes when and where long-vowel change took place.

Author : Bruce Podobnik
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781592138043

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Global Energy Shifts by Bruce Podobnik Pdf

A timely look at key transitions in energy use over the past 100 years.

Author : Margy Whalley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781446204634

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Involving Parents in their Children's Learning by Margy Whalley Pdf

`A unique guide for students, practitioners, parents, and administrators of young children who want to understand specific strategies to maximise parent involvement and collaboration' - Education Libraries 'This is an excellent book that draws extensively on the work of a children's centre that has been running for over 25 years' - SENCO Update Involving Parents in their Children's Learning is the story of the pioneering work of the Pen Green Centre for children and families. Showing how early years practitioners can collaborate effectively with parents, the book includes case studies of parents and children who have attended the centre, studies which chart developments in learning for both children and parents. The book will inspire early years practitioners and offer them practical advice on ways of developing effective work with parents. Drawing on their work at the renowned Pen Green Centre, the authors show how to: o support parents as their child's first educator o provide practical and psychological support to parents o involve fathers and male carers o share important child development concepts o support and extend children's learning o reach out to hard-to-reach parents. This New Edition follows up on the stories of people featured in the first edition, showing how they have progressed over the last few years. It also includes new chapters covering the headteacher's role in developing parental involvement programmes, how the Pen Green model has been applied in primary schools, and the use of parental diaries. The book is essential reading for students on early years courses (BA, FdA, B.Ed), as well as practising early years professionals and senior management teams in primary schools.

Author : Ontario Labour Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Labor disputes
ISBN : CORNELL:31924092652597

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Ontario Labour Relations Board Reports by Ontario Labour Relations Board Pdf

Author : Kirsteen Kim,Knud Jørgensen,Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192567581

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The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies by Kirsteen Kim,Knud Jørgensen,Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies represents more than a century of scholarship related to the theology, history, and methodology of the propagation of Christian faith and the engagement of Christians with cultures, religions, and societies worldwide. It contains more than 40 articles by experts from different disciplinary and ecclesial perspectives, who are from all continents. It not only offers a broad overview of key approaches and issues in mission studies but it also highlights current trends and suggests future developments. The Handbook builds on renewed interest in mission studies this century generated by recent key statements on mission from ecumenical, evangelical, Catholic, and Orthodox sources, and by a spate of academic works on the topic. Western church leaders now apply insights from foreign missions (such as, inculturation, liberation, interfaith work, and power encounter) to today's multicultural societies. Meanwhile, there are new initiatives in mission from the Majority World, where most Christians live, so that sending is not only 'from the west to the rest' but 'from everywhere to everywhere'. Therefore, this volume aims to reflect the voices of the receivers of mission as well as its protagonists and to raise awareness of new movements. In a time of growing recognition of 'religions' more generally, this work examines and theorizes the missional dimensions of the world's largest religion: its agendas, growth, outreach, role in public life, effect on cultures, relevance for development, and its approaches to other communities.

Author : Valérie Loichot
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813943800

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Water Graves by Valérie Loichot Pdf

Water Graves considers representations of lives lost to water in contemporary poetry, fiction, theory, mixed-media art, video production, and underwater sculptures. From sunken slave ships to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Valérie Loichot investigates the lack of official funeral rites in the Atlantic, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, waters that constitute both early and contemporary sites of loss for the enslaved, the migrant, the refugee, and the destitute. Unritual, or the privation of ritual, Loichot argues, is a state more absolute than desecration. Desecration implies a previous sacred observance--a temple, a grave, a ceremony. Unritual, by contrast, denies the sacred from the beginning. In coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Miami, Haiti, Martinique, Cancun, and Trinidad and Tobago, the artists and writers featured in Water Graves—an eclectic cast that includes Beyoncé, Radcliffe Bailey, Edwidge Danticat, Édouard Glissant, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jason deCaires Taylor, Édouard Duval-Carrié, Natasha Trethewey, and Kara Walker, among others—are an archipelago connected by a history of the slave trade and environmental vulnerability. In addition to figuring death by drowning in the unritual—whether in the context of the aftermath of slavery or of ecological and human-made catastrophes—their aesthetic creations serve as memorials, dirges, tombstones, and even material supports for the regrowth of life underwater.

Author : Acuto, Michele,Seijas, Andreina,Jenny McArthur,Enora Robin
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529218275

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Managing Cities at Night by Acuto, Michele,Seijas, Andreina,Jenny McArthur,Enora Robin Pdf

Urban experts consider the future of night-time economies’ governance during the pandemic and beyond in this scholarly and accessible guide. They use global case studies to illustrate a range of socio-economic issues in cities after dark, and investigate the role of public and private sectors and leaders in shaping urban planning and policy.

Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199593347

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The Hindus by Wendy Doniger Pdf

An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated even within a century; its central tenets karma, dharma, to name just two arise at particular moments in Indian history and differ in each era, between genders, and caste to caste; and what is shared among Hindus is overwhelmingly outnumbered by the things that are unique to one group or another. Yet the greatness of Hinduism - its vitality, its earthiness, its vividness - lies precisely in many of those idiosyncratic qualities that continue to inspire debate today. Wendy Doniger is one of the foremost scholars of Hinduism in the world. With her inimitable insight and expertise Doniger illuminates those moments within the tradition that resist forces that would standardize or establish a canon. Without reversing or misrepresenting the historical hierarchies, she reveals how Sanskrit and vernacular sources are rich in knowledge of and compassion toward women and lower castes; how they debate tensions surrounding religion, violence, and tolerance; and how animals are the key to important shifts in attitudes toward different social classes. The Hindus brings a fascinating multiplicity of actors and stories to the stage to show how brilliant and creative thinkers - many of them far removed from Brahmin authors of Sanskrit texts - have kept Hinduism alive in ways that other scholars have not fully explored. In this unique and authoritative account, debates about Hindu traditions become platforms from which to consider the ironies, and overlooked epiphanies, of history.

Author : R. W. Van Bemmelen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483257037

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Geodynamic Models by R. W. Van Bemmelen Pdf

Developments in Geotectonics, Volume 2: Geodynamic Models: An Evaluation and a Synthesis presents the concept of sea-floor spreading and the hypothesis of global plate tectonics. This book provides a basic understanding of the global movements. Organized into eight chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the concept of global plate tectonics, with its additional hypotheses of subduction zones and sea-floor spreading. This text then examines the concept of vertical deformations of the lithosphere and their gravitational spreading. Other chapters consider the analysis of geotectonic processes that is based on some general principles of their mechanics. This book discusses as well the origin of mega-undations in turbulent and laminar flow systems in the lower mantle, where the matter may have a Newtonian viscosity. The final chapter deals with the geodynamics of the Earth's crust as the result of the outward growth of the deep ocean floor from mid-ocean ridges. This book is a valuable resource for geologists, geonomists, and geophysicists.