Vanishing Frontiers

Author : Andrew Selee
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610399029

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Vanishing Frontiers by Andrew Selee Pdf

There may be no story today with a wider gap between fact and fiction than the relationship between the United States and Mexico. Wall or no wall, deeply intertwined social, economic, business, cultural, and personal relationships mean the US-Mexico border is more like a seam than a barrier, weaving together two economies and cultures. Mexico faces huge crime and corruption problems, but its remarkable transformation over the past two decades has made it a more educated, prosperous, and innovative nation than most Americans realize. Through portraits of business leaders, migrants, chefs, movie directors, police officers, and media and sports executives, Andrew Selee looks at this emerging Mexico, showing how it increasingly influences our daily lives in the United States in surprising ways--the jobs we do, the goods we consume, and even the new technology and entertainment we enjoy. From the Mexican entrepreneur in Missouri who saved the US nail industry, to the city leaders who were visionary enough to build a bridge over the border fence so the people of San Diego and Tijuana could share a single international airport, to the connections between innovators in Mexico's emerging tech hub in Guadalajara and those in Silicon Valley, Mexicans and Americans together have been creating productive connections that now blur the boundaries that once separated us from each other.

Author : Daniel Pauly
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781771643993

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Vanishing Fish by Daniel Pauly Pdf

"Daniel Pauly is a friend whose work has inspired me for years." —Ted Danson, actor, ocean activist, and co-author of Oceana "This wonderfully personal and accessible book by the world’s greatest living fisheries biologist summarizes and expands on the causes of collapse and the essential actions that will be required to rebuild fish stocks for future generations.” —Dr. Jeremy Jackson, ocean scientist and author of Breakpoint The world’s fisheries are in crisis. Their catches are declining, and the stocks of key species, such as cod and bluefin tuna, are but a small fraction of their previous abundance, while others have been overfished almost to extinction. The oceans are depleted and the commercial fishing industry increasingly depends on subsidies to remain afloat. In these essays, award-winning biologist Dr. Daniel Pauly offers a thought-provoking look at the state of today’s global fisheries—and a radical way to turn it around. Starting with the rapid expansion that followed World War II, he traces the arc of the fishing industry’s ensuing demise, offering insights into how and why it has failed. With clear, convincing prose, Dr. Pauly draws on decades of research to provide an up-to-date assessment of ocean health and an analysis of the issues that have contributed to the current crisis, including globalization, massive underreporting of catch, and the phenomenon of “shifting baselines,” in which, over time, important knowledge is lost about the state of the natural world. Finally, Vanishing Fish provides practical recommendations for a way forward—a vision of a vibrant future where small-scale fisheries can supply the majority of the world’s fish. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

Author : Lorry W. Felske,Beverly Jean Rasporich
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada (ouest)
ISBN : 9781552381403

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Challenging Frontiers by Lorry W. Felske,Beverly Jean Rasporich Pdf

Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West is a multidisciplinary study using critical essays as well as creative writing to explore the conceptions of the "West," both past and present. Considering topics such as ranching, immigration, art and architecture, as well as globalization and the spread of technology, these articles inform the reader of the historical frontier and its mythology, while also challenging and reassessing conventional analysis.

Author : Geoffrey O'Connor
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Environmental degradation
ISBN : NWU:35556032776965

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Amazon Journal by Geoffrey O'Connor Pdf

Peopled by a colorful cast of real-life characters, AMAZON JOURNAL is documentary filmmaker Geoffrey O'Connor's critical look at how cultural differences in the Amazon have resulted in incidents ranging from comic misunderstandings to blatant exploitation, environmental disaster, and even genocide.

Author : Hiroshi Toki,Mamoru Fujiwara,Tadafumi Kishimoto
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814546737

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Frontier 96: Nuclear Physics Frontiers With Electroweak Probes - Proceedings Of Xv Rcnp Osaka International Symposium by Hiroshi Toki,Mamoru Fujiwara,Tadafumi Kishimoto Pdf

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134131501

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English Writing and India, 1600–1920 by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian landscape, Pramod Nayar demonstrates how aesthetics furnished a vocabulary and representational modes for the British to construct particular images of India. Looking specifically at the aesthetic modes of the marvellous, the monstrous, the sublime, the picturesque and the luxuriant, Nayar marks the shift in the rhetoric – from the exploration narratives from the age of mercantile exploration to that of the ‘shikar’ memoirs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century’s extreme exotic. English Writing and India provides an important new study of colonial aesthetics, even as it extends current scholarship on the modes of early British representations of new lands and cultures.

Author : Agustín Escobar Latapí,Claudia Masferrer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030778101

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Migration Between Mexico and the United States by Agustín Escobar Latapí,Claudia Masferrer Pdf

This open access Regional Reader describes how Mexico - United States migration changed substantially during the first decade of the 21st Century. The book provides an in-depth analysis on the changes in the flows into and out of both countries, thus highlighting the issues arising from Mexico - US migration as well as addressing the large numbers of adults and children entering Mexico from the United States. It covers how this tidal change affects the Hispanic population of the U.S. and return migrants' reincorporation in Mexico; their jobs, access to school, health and access to health services, how fear became a dominant aspect of Mexicans’ lives in the U.S., and the role played by crime and social policy in Mexico.

Author : David J. Weber,Jane M. Rausch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0842024786

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Where Cultures Meet by David J. Weber,Jane M. Rausch Pdf

In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border, ' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier' culture, as they contend with each other and their physical environment. The transformative power of frontiers gives them special interest for historians and anthropologists. Delving into the frontier experience below the Rio Grande, Where Cultures Meet is an important collection for anyone seeking to understand fully Latin American history and culture

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9712325318

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Meeting My Needs for English Ii (worktext)1st Ed. 1999 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Britta H. Crandall,Russell C. Crandall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300262339

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"Our Hemisphere"? by Britta H. Crandall,Russell C. Crandall Pdf

An accessible course book on U.S.-Latin American relations “Our Hemisphere”? uncovers the range, depth, and veracity of the United States’ relationship with the Americas. Using short historical vignettes, Britta and Russell Crandall chart the course of inter‑American relations from 1776 to the present, highlighting the roles that individuals and groups of soldiers, intellectuals, private citizens, and politicians have had in shaping U.S. policy toward Latin America in the postcolonial, Cold War, and post–Cold War eras. The United States is usually and correctly seen as pursuing a monolithic, hegemonic agenda in Latin America, wielding political, economic, and military muscle to force Latin American countries to do its bidding, but the Crandalls reveal unexpected yet salient regional interactions where Latin Americans have exercised their own power with their northern and very powerful neighbor. Moreover, they show that Washington’s relationship with the region has relied, in addition to the usual heavy‑handedness, on cooperation and mutual respect since the beginning of the relationship.

Author : Robert W. Burch,Herman J. Saatkamp
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015029973552

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Frontiers in American Philosophy by Robert W. Burch,Herman J. Saatkamp Pdf

To push the edges of the known, to look at the accepted in novel ways, is indeed to stand at the frontiers of a field. In Frontiers in American Philosophy thirty-five contemporary scholars explore classical American thought in bold new ways. An extraordinary range of issues and thinkers is represented in these pages--from such core themes as metaphysics and social philosophy, which receive primary attention, to some consideration of American philosophers' technical accomplishments in mathematical logic and philosophical analysis. The authors also offer new perspectives on the work of the leading American philosophers, including George Herbert Mead, William James, John Dewey, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Emma Goldman. Not surprisingly perhaps, a great deal of the discussion revolves, either directly or indirectly, around that great axis of intellectual issues commonly known as the "realism/idealism" controversy. It seems fitting that so much attention is devoted to the possibility of some sort of middle position between "external realism" and its antipode in some form of relativistic subjectivism. For, in the last analysis, such a middle position is for the American philosophers the core meaning of "pragmatism.”

Author : D. Sprintzen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230101777

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Critique of Western Philosophy and Social Theory by D. Sprintzen Pdf

The "existential" drama at the heart of the modern world is the result of a truly cataclysmic transformation in our institutions and modes of belief. It rivals in scope and significance, if it does not surpass, the transformation occasioned by the "Scientific Revolution" of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Few can still doubt - even if they do not yet appreciate - the comprehensive and global scope of this "Second Scientific Revolution." Our fundamental modes of thought and action, institutional structure, personal identity, economic development, and relation to nature, all require radical revision if human life on this planet (and beyond) is to survive and prosper. We are thus confronted with a world whose structures of meaning and corresponding institutional foundations are being undermined, thus presaging a revolutionary transformation. That transformation, however unclear at present, cannot fail to be radical and comprehensive. This work critically evaluates its nature, outlines the structures of an alternative world view and then develops the contours of the social and institutional order it suggests. It concludes with a discussion of practical strategies by which we may reasonably hope to meet the challenges confronting our civilization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:30000010185035

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Agricultural Economics Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005946855

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Agricultural Economics Literature by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Library Pdf

Author : Francois Debrix,Mark Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134045402

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The Geopolitics of American Insecurity by Francois Debrix,Mark Lacy Pdf

This edited volume examines the political, social, and cultural insecurities that the United States is faced with in the aftermath of its post-9/11 foreign policy and military ventures. The contributors critically detail the new strategies and ideologies of control, governance, and hegemony America has devised as a response to these new security threats. The essays explore three primary areas. First, they interrogate the responses to 9/11 that resulted in an attempt at geopolitical mastery by the United States. Second, they examine how the US response to 9/11 led to attempts to secure and control populations inside and outside the United States, resulting in situations that quickly started to escape its control, such as Abu Ghraib and Katrina. Lastly, the chapters investigate links between contemporary regimes of state control and recently recognized threats, arguing that the conduct of everyday life is increasingly conditioned by state-mobilized discourses of security. These discourses are, it is argued, ushering in a geopolitical future characterized by new insecurities and inevitable measures of biopolitical control and governance.