The Passport Project

Author : Kellie McIntyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737743825

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The Passport Project by Kellie McIntyre Pdf

When 14- and 12-year-old sisters embark on a global family adventure, they learn that surviving new cultures and customs is even scarier than surviving middle school. This TRUE, dual POV, coming-of-age journey features maps and images of people and places across the globe. "THANKS FOR RUINING MY LIFE!" Delaney's eighth-grade dreams crumble when her parents announce their "global family field trip." While her younger sister, Riley, is thrilled to ditch middle school for world school, Delaney cringes at trading parties and friends for a passport and 24/7 family time. While Riley researches bungee jumping and packing tips, Delaney must decide whether to continue the silent treatment or embrace this adventure. What about school? Forget acing science and math, the only way to pass this class is to survive: scam artists, monster cockroaches, deadly stingers, projectile vomiting, public nudity, and toilet catastrophes. And those lessons aren't in their textbooks. Each passport stamp is a real-life social studies lesson in new religions and new rules--resulting in so many awkward family moments. But when an itinerary mistake puts the family's freedom at risk, they learn the most valuable lesson of their lives. Trapped together in their parents' mid-life crisis, will the sisters survive this global adventure? And will non-stop family time turn them into friends? Or enemies?

Author : Andrei S. Markovits
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789633864227

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The Passport as Home by Andrei S. Markovits Pdf

This is the story of an illustrious Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking, Vienna-schooled, Columbia-educated and Harvard-formed, middle-class Jewish professor of politics and other subjects. Markovits revels in a rootlessness that offers him comfort, succor, and the inspiration for his life’s work. As we follow his quest to find a home, we encounter his engagement with the important political, social, and cultural developments of five decades on two continents. We also learn about his musical preferences, from classical to rock; his love of team sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, and American football; and his devotion to dogs and their rescue. Above all, the book analyzes the travails of emigration the author experienced twice, moving from Romania to Vienna and then from Vienna to New York. Markovits’s Candide-like travels through the ups and downs of post-1945 Europe and America offer a panoramic view of key currents that shaped the second half of the twentieth century. By shedding light on the cultural similarities and differences between both continents, the book shows why America fascinated Europeans like Markovits and offered them a home that Europe never did: academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity and religious tolerance. America for Markovits was indeed the “beacon on the hill,” despite the ugliness of its racism, the prominence of its everyday bigotry, the severity of its growing economic inequality, and the presence of other aspects that mar this worthy experiment’s daily existence.

Author : Sophia Glock
Publisher : Little, Brown Ink
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780316458993

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Passport by Sophia Glock Pdf

An unforgettable graphic memoir by debut talent Sophia Glock reveals her discovery as a teenager that her parents are agents working for the CIA. Young Sophia has lived in so many different countries, she can barely keep count. Stationed now with her family in Central America because of her parents' work, Sophia feels displaced as an American living abroad, when she has hardly spent any of her life in America. Everything changes when she reads a letter she was never meant to see and uncovers her parents' secret. They are not who they say they are. They are working for the CIA. As Sophia tries to make sense of this news, and the web of lies surrounding her, she begins to question everything. The impact that this has on Sophia's emerging sense of self and understanding of the world makes for a page-turning exploration of lies and double lives. In the hands of this extraordinary graphic storyteller, this astonishing true story bursts to life.

Author : John Torpey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108473903

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The Invention of the Passport by John Torpey Pdf

The definitive history of the passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the modern world.

Author : Eastern National
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Cancellations (Philately)
ISBN : 1590911768

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Passport to Your National Parks by Eastern National Pdf

It's here! Now you can stamp your way through the entire National Park System with the newest addition to the Passport To Your National Parks line of products: the Collector's Edition Passport. Beauty and practicality meet artfully in this deluxe version of the popular Passport, taking you above and beyond the original by providing space for Passport stickers and cancellation stamps for every single park, as well as space for extra cancellations. The park sites are color-coded by region, each area featuring a color map that pinpoints park locations. With a spiral binding that makes it easy to lie open flat, a hard cover that ensures durability and longer life, and pages graced with beautiful color photographs, it's the ultimate stamping ground.

Author : Debbie Connolly,Laurie Danley
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787786465

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Passport to Genre (eBook) by Debbie Connolly,Laurie Danley Pdf

A creative and highly motivating supplement to any reading program. Students read a variety of genres (such as historical fiction, animal fiction, biography, myth/legend, fantasy, mystery), complete contracted activities and collect stamps in their passports. Background information, management instructions, genre passport, posters and bookmarks included.

Author : Amitava Kumar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780520922686

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Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar Pdf

Passport Photos, a self-conscious act of artistic and intellectual forgery, is a report on the immigrant condition. A multigenre book combining theory, poetry, cultural criticism, and photography, it explores the complexities of the immigration experience, intervening in the impersonal language of the state. Passport Photos joins books by writers like Edward Said and Trinh T. Minh-ha in the search for a new poetics and politics of diaspora. Organized as a passport, Passport Photos is a unique work, taking as its object of analysis and engagement the lived experience of post-coloniality--especially in the United States and India. The book is a collage, moving back and forth between places, historical moments, voices, and levels of analysis. Seeking to link cultural, political, and aesthetic critiques, it weaves together issues as diverse as Indian fiction written in English, signs put up by the border patrol at the U.S.-Tijuana border, ethnic restaurants in New York City, the history of Indian indenture in Trinidad, Native Americans at the Superbowl, and much more. The borders this book crosses again and again are those where critical theory meets popular journalism, and where political poetry encounters the work of documentary photography. The argument for such border crossings lies in the reality of people's lives. This thought-provoking book explores that reality, as it brings postcolonial theory to a personal level and investigates global influences on local lives of immigrants.

Author : Clara Naum,Sebastian Naum
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1480003492

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Spiritual Passport by Clara Naum,Sebastian Naum Pdf

Inspirational and educational book, dedicated to every child in the world, including the one inside each of us. Great family read. It will inspire children, young adults and adults alike to experience life from a different perspective. Through the eyes and voices of two children, Lara and Tian, the reader is taken on a round the world journey to the past in search of answers to some of our deepest concerns. In the straightforward manner that only children are capable of, Lara and Tian unveil the answers that we adults fail to see simply because our minds and hearts have lost the ability to see. This is a trip of discovery, an opportunity to appeal to the inner child inside each of us and to remove the crust that keeps us blindfolded. The truth is so simple that it seems magical. It will nourish your soul as it awakens your heart to the wisdom inside.

Author : Ray Notgrass
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Church history
ISBN : 1609990617

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Exploring World History by Ray Notgrass Pdf

Author : Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9966467580

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The Passport of Mallam Ilia by Cyprian Ekwensi Pdf

Author : Mahmoud Keshavarz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474289382

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The Design Politics of the Passport by Mahmoud Keshavarz Pdf

The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'. It traces the histories, technologies, power relations and contestations around this small but powerful artefact to establish a framework for understanding how design is always enmeshed in the political, and how politics can be understood in terms of material objects. Combining design studies with critical border studies, alongside ethnographic work among undocumented migrants, border transgressors and passport forgers, this book shows how a world made and designed as open and hospitable to some is strictly enclosed, confined and demarcated for many others - and how those affected by such injustices dissent from the immobilities imposed on them through the same capacity of design and artifice.

Author : United States. Passport Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015012960368

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The United States Passport by United States. Passport Office Pdf

Author : Mary Jo Frederich,Peter Andrews
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780137028153

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Innovation Passport by Mary Jo Frederich,Peter Andrews Pdf

“Finally! A book that lays out a thorough yet workable path to collaborative innovation! With a highly readable style and using great examples, Frederich and Andrews describe the process by which IBM makes collaborative innovation work from a process, company, and customer standpoint. By following the guidelines in this book, those with aspirations of collaborative innovation can learn from the lessons of IBM and maximize their probability of success. A+!” –Gregory S. Dawson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and former Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers “Innovation Passport goes directly to the heart of how companies can speed up the transition from research to revenue. This book’s combination of insight and actionable detail–derived over a dozen years–provides a roadmap for companies to accelerate the commercialization of ideas and technologies. Moreover, this best practice is based on collaboration with external partners, an approach that is even more critical given strained economic times.” –Keith O’Brien, VP, Best Practices Research, Frost & Sullivan Get Inside IBM’s Breakthrough FOAK Program for Delivering Profitable Innovation! Learn from one of the world’s most successful innovation initiatives Align researchers, clients, and partners behind innovation that matters Get the right innovations to market fast How can you promote innovation that delivers real, profitable business value–again and again, year after year? For 14 years, IBM’s FOAK program has done just that. In Innovation Passport, FOAK’s leaders share the powerful lessons they’ve learned. Through actual project examples, you’ll discover how to craft more effective processes for making innovation happen...encourage collaboration...manage innovation portfolios...protect intellectual property...and systematically improve the chances of marketplace adoption. Whatever your role in innovation, this book will help you do it better, faster, and more profitably.

Author : John E. Mack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Alien abduction
ISBN : 0007100760

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Passport to the Cosmos by John E. Mack Pdf

Author : Nicole Constable
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520387997

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Passport Entanglements by Nicole Constable Pdf

"Passport Entanglements examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesian migrant workers in Hong Kong. Focusing on the politics and inequalities embedded in passports, anthropologist Nicole Constable looks at how these instruments determine legal status and prescribe rights. The book explores the larger role that passports and other types of documentation play in gendered migration, precarious labor, and bureaucracy as they reinforce violent structures on often already vulnerable women. Constable finds that new biometric technologies and surveillance do not lead to greater protection, security, or accuracy, but rather produce new vulnerabilities and reproduce old ones"--