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Global Crossings

Author : Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781598131352
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Global Crossings written by Alvaro Vargas Llosa and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Migration has been happening, in varying forms, for millennia but it still elicits fear and mistrust, and not just on the part of the "receiving" society. Communities from where people migrate often disapprove of the migrants' decision and consider it treacherous. The recent reawakening of the debate about migration in the new millennium has evoked intense emotion particularly in the United States and Europe. Global Crossings cuts through the jungle of myth, falsehood and misrepresentation that dominates the debate, clarifying the causes and consequences of human migration. Why do millions of people continue to risk their lives, and oftentimes lose it, in the pursuit of a chance to establish themselves in a foreign land? The book first looks at the immigrant experience, which connects the present to the past, and America to the rest of the world, and explores who immigrants are and why they move. The conduct of today is no different than that in the past. And contrary to the claims by immigration critics, the patterns of contemporary migration do not differ fundamentally from those of other epochs. Global Crossings then discusses immigration and culture. To what degree are foreigners culturally different? Can natives adapt? Can immigrants assimilate into the new society? In assessing whether critics are justified in pointing to a major cultural shift Alvaro Vargas Llosa reviews such topics as religion, education, entrepreneurial spirit, and attitudes toward the receiving society. The book analyzes such economic factors as jobs, wages, education, and the welfare state. How can an economy continue to operate even in the face of major legal obstacles, and how have recessions and times of prosperity influenced--more significantly than government efforts--the number of immigrants coming into the United States and other countries? Vargas Llosa finds that immigration's contributions to an economy far outweigh the costs. Finally Global Crossings makes a call for open minds and provides a pro-immigration agenda for reform. The erosion of national boundaries is already underway as people become ever more inter-connected across borders. This process will make immigration a defining force in the arena of competitive globalization and the people of those countries who embrace immigration will enjoy more prosperous, peaceful, and freer lives in the emerging world."--Jacket.

Romantic Border Crossings

Author : Larry Peer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061594
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Border Crossings written by Larry Peer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic Border Crossings participates in the important movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties that surround comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. As this diverse group of essays demonstrates, we can now speak of a global Romanticism that encompasses emerging critical categories such as Romantic pedagogy, transatlantic studies, and transnationalism, with the result that 'new' works by writers marginalized by class, gender, race, or geography are invited into the canon at the same time that fresh readings of traditional texts emerge. Exemplifying these developments, the authors and topics examined include Elizabeth Inchbald, Lord Byron, Gérard de Nerval, English Jacobinism, Goethe, the Gothic, Orientalism, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Anglo-American conflicts, manifest destiny, and teaching romanticism. The collection constitutes a powerful rethinking of the divisions that continue to haunt Romantic studies.

Crossings in Text and Textile

Author : Katherine Joslin
Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN 13 : 161168644X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Crossings in Text and Textile written by Katherine Joslin and published by University of New Hampshire Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossings in Text and Textile explores the diverse range of transatlantic representations of clothing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. This collection of essays demonstrates that fashion history and literary history, when examined together, prompt fresh understandings of the complexities of race, class, and sexual identity. By bridging material culture and discourse, Crossings establishes the significance of fashion-while neglecting none of its aesthetic appeal-to offer historicized readings on a variety of topics, from Jane Austen's nuanced display of social interactions through the economics of muslin to the 1871 Park and Boulton cross-dressing trial and Jessie Fauset's selection of apparel to express racial power. The geographic span of textiles from different economic areas around the globe includes Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. By making use of transatlantic texts to consider the political and social positioning of both workers and consumers, the collection further expands upon the emerging cross-disciplinary study of reading dress. A true "state of the field" work, Crossings in Text and Textiles charts new scholarly ground at the nexus between fashion, textiles, and literature, appealing to a broad interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students.

Pandemic Crossings

Author : Guobin Yang
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1609177614
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pandemic Crossings written by Guobin Yang and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, nation states found new ways to assert power under the guise of public health, from closing or tightening borders to expanding the boundaries of acceptable citizen surveillance. As these controls increased in intensity, citizens’ passions to cross borders seemed to grow in proportion. Pandemic Crossings explores how these processes of boundary making and crossing, often mediated by digital technology despite inequity of access, had profound and often contradictory consequences on individual lives, national politics, and U.S.–China relations. This rich and geographically diverse collection of studies informed by everyday, individual experiences contribute new insights to the interplay between digital technologies and state governance during the covid-19 pandemic. It opens up new avenues of research not only on the covid-19 pandemic but also on global health crises more broadly.

Managing Global Enterprise Risks

Author : Gary L. Toms
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 144014835X
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Managing Global Enterprise Risks written by Gary L. Toms and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From leading risk management pioneer, Gary L. Toms, comes an innovative new look at defining the leading principles behind enterprise risk management. With today's regulatory environment, every manager must implement new standards of governance for their enterprise. Toms gives business leaders the tools needed to better understand the risk management process, its strategies, and how they apply to our global economy. Using real-world examples and easy-to-understand language, Toms provides a comprehensive overview of the basic terms and concepts of enterprise risk management. He also explores sociological, psychological, environmental, economic, and technological issues to help prepare you for managing a global enterprise. Toms offers in-depth discussion on topics such as: Risk identification, assessment, and management techniques; Insurance policies, contracts, and the marketplace; Global ethics risk; eCommerce and technology risks; Mergers and acquisitions; And much more! Identifying different risk management rationales, techniques, and strategies can often be difficult, yet knowing these factors is essential to protecting your enterprise, no matter the type. Let Managing Global Enterprise Risks take the guesswork out of your business equation and put you on the path to success.

Metro DWDM: More Than Just Bandwidth, the Potential for Revolutionary New Architectures

Author :
Publisher : Information Gatekeepers Inc
ISBN 13 : 1568512031
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Metro DWDM: More Than Just Bandwidth, the Potential for Revolutionary New Architectures written by and published by Information Gatekeepers Inc. This book was released on with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies

Author : Kate Pahl
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1847699251
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies written by Kate Pahl and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2006-02-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multimodality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media, popular culture and literacy, weblogs, global and local crossings, in and out of educational settings in such locations as the US, the UK, South Africa, Australia and Canada.

Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation

Author : Pier Paolo Frassinelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042963935X
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation written by Pier Paolo Frassinelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines concepts of the border and translation within the context of social and cultural theory through the lens of southern Africa. Borders, Media Crossings and the Politics of Translation studies a diverse range of media representations of borders, imagined borders, border struggles, collectivity boundaries and scenes of translation: films, documentaries, literary texts, photographs, websites and other media texts and artistic interventions. The book makes a case for bringing together media texts and sociocultural experiences across multiple platforms. It argues that this transdisciplinary approach is singularly suited to the age of media convergence, when words, speech, music, videos and images compete for attention on the screens of digital devices where the written, oral, aural and visual are constantly mixed and remixed. But it also reminds the reader of the digital divides linked to socioeconomic, cultural, language and geopolitical borders. With its focus on sociocultural borders and translation, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of media studies, African studies and cultural studies.

FCC Record

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book FCC Record written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

F&S Index United States Annual

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2010 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book F&S Index United States Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 2010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Telecosm

Author : George Gilder
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074321594X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Telecosm written by George Gilder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computer age is over. After a cataclysmic global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm -- the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. Chips and software will continue to make great contributions to our lives, but the action is elsewhere. To seek the key to great wealth and to understand the bewildering ways that high tech is restructuring our lives, look not to chip speed but to communication power, or bandwidth. Bandwidth is exploding, and its abundance is the most important social and economic fact of our time. George Gilder is one of the great technological visionaries, and "the man who put the 's' in 'telecosm'" (Telephony magazine). He is equally famous for understanding and predicting the nuts and bolts of complex technologies, and for putting it all together in a soaring view of why things change, and what it means for our daily lives. His track record of futurist predictions is one of the best, often proving to be right even when initially opposed by mighty corporations and governments. He foresaw the power of fiber and wireless optics, the decline of the telephone regime, and the explosion of handheld computers, among many trends. His list of favored companies outpaced even the soaring Nasdaq in 1999 by more than double. His long-awaited Telecosm is a bible of the new age of communications. Equal parts science story, business history, social analysis, and prediction, it is the one book you need to make sense of the titanic changes underway in our lives. Whether you surf the net constantly or not at all, whether you live on your cell phone or hate it for its invasion of private life, you need this book. It has been less than two decades since the introduction of the IBM personal computer, and yet the enormous changes wrought in our lives by the computer will pale beside the changes of the telecosm. Gilder explains why computers will "empty out," with their components migrating to the net; why hundreds of low-flying satellites will enable hand-held computers and communicators to become ubiquitous; why television will die; why newspapers and magazines will revive; why advertising will become less obnoxious; and why companies will never be able to waste your time again. Along the way you will meet the movers and shakers who have made the telecosm possible. From Charles Townes and Gordon Gould, who invented the laser, to the story of JDS Uniphase, "the Intel of the Telecosm," to the birthing of fiberless optics pioneer TeraBeam, here are the inventors and entrepreneurs who will be hailed as the next Edison or Gates. From hardware to software to chips to storage, here are the technologies that will soon be as basic as the air we breathe.

Culture Crossing

Author : Michael Landers
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626567115
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Culture Crossing written by Michael Landers and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrive in the multicultural communities where you work and live People, money, and information are flowing faster than ever across international borders, putting us all just one step away from a culture crash—that moment when you unintentionally confuse, frustrate, or offend someone from another culture. Are you struggling with trying to learn the customs, nuances, and hot buttons of every culture you might come into contact with? Michael Landers guides you toward a better solution: becoming aware of your own cultural “baggage.” You'll learn to sidestep the knee-jerk reactions that can get you into trouble and develop the agility to adjust your behaviors and expectations as needed. Through a mix of entertaining and instructive stories, valuable insights, and eye-opening self-assessments, Culture Crossing offers an essential primer for improving all your interactions with people from any background.

Asian City Crossings

Author : Rossella Ferrari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100038120X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Asian City Crossings written by Rossella Ferrari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian City Crossings is the first volume to examine the relationship between the city and performance from an Asian perspective. This collection introduces "city as method" as a new conceptual framework for the investigation of practices of city-based performing arts collaboration and city-to-city performance networks across East- and Southeast Asia and beyond. The shared and yet divergent histories of the global cities of Hong Kong and Singapore as postcolonial, multiethnic, multicultural, and multilingual sites, are taken as points of departure to demonstrate how "city as method" facilitates a comparative analytical space that foregrounds in-betweenness and fluid positionalities. It situates inter-Asian relationality and inter-city referencing as centrally significant dynamics in the exploration of the material and ideological conditions of contemporary performance and performance exchange in Asia. This study captures creative dialogue that travels city-based pathways along the Hong Kong-Singapore route, as well as between Hong Kong and Singapore and other cities, through scholarly analyses and practitioner reflections drawn from the fields of theatre, performance, and music. This book combines essays by scholars of Asian studies, theatre studies, ethnomusicology, and human geography with reflective accounts by Hong Kong and Singapore-based performing arts practitioners to highlight the diversity, vibrancy, and complexity of creative projects that destabilise notions of identity, belonging, and nationhood through strategies of collaborative conviviality and transnational mobility across multi-sited networks of cities in Asia. In doing so, this volume fills a considerable gap in global scholarly discourse on performance and the city and on the production and circulation of the performing arts in Asia.

Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora

Author : Judith Misrahi-Barak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100381610X
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora written by Judith Misrahi-Barak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race, class, caste, gender, and sexuality intersect with concepts of home, belonging, displacement and the reinvention of the nation and of self. Positioning itself as a companion to Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th century Migrations from India’s Perspective (Routledge, 2021), the present book examines whether indentureship and diasporic locations marginalised women and men or empowered them; how negotiations or resistances have been determined by race, class, caste, or ethnicity; how traditional standards of Indianness and gender relations have been reshaped; how ideas of home, self and the nation have been impacted in the diaspora and in India after the 19th and early 20th century indentureship migration; and what 21st century Indians stand to gain by theorizing the legacy of 19th century indenture through a gender framework. To understand how fiction and non-fiction writers have negotiated the legacy of indentureship to create spaces where normative practices can be interrogated and challenged, the book gives pride of place to interviews with writers such as Cyril Dabydeen, Ananda Devi, Ramabai Espinet, Davina Ittoo, Brij Lal, Peggy Mohan, Shani Mootoo, and Khal Torabully. Thus rooted in critical analyses but also in subjective and creative perspectives, this volume is a major intervention in understanding Indian indenture and its legacy in the diaspora and in India. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, history, Indian Ocean studies, migration and South Asian studies.

Atlantic Crossings

Author : Les Weatheritt
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1574092316
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Crossings written by Les Weatheritt and published by Sheridan House, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main intent of this book is to prepare the North American sailor for his first crossing of the Atlantic to Europe. It is actually so exhaustive in its coverage that it will indeed help the bluewater sailor to learn how to cross any ocean in the world.

Clandestine Crossings

Author : David Spener
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801460395
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Clandestine Crossings written by David Spener and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clandestine Crossings delivers an in-depth description and analysis of the experiences of working-class Mexican migrants at the beginning of the twenty-first century as they enter the United States surreptitiously with the help of paid guides known as coyotes. Drawing on ethnographic observations of crossing conditions in the borderlands of South Texas, as well as interviews with migrants, coyotes, and border officials, Spener details how migrants and coyotes work together to evade apprehension by U.S. law enforcement authorities as they cross the border. In so doing, he seeks to dispel many of the myths that misinform public debate about undocumented immigration to the United States. The hiring of a coyote, Spener argues, is one of the principal strategies that Mexican migrants have developed in response to intensified U.S. border enforcement. Although this strategy is typically portrayed in the press as a sinister organized-crime phenomenon, Spener argues that it is better understood as the resistance of working-class Mexicans to an economic model and set of immigration policies in North America that increasingly resemble an apartheid system. In the absence of adequate employment opportunities in Mexico and legal mechanisms for them to work in the United States, migrants and coyotes draw on their social connections and cultural knowledge to stage successful border crossings in spite of the ever greater dangers placed in their path by government authorities.

Who Cheats and How

Author : Robin Banerjee
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357086234
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Who Cheats and How written by Robin Banerjee and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do corporates, that are seemingly doing well, cheat? How are these scams and frauds committed? Why do corporates risk their reputation which they have built over the years? This book analyses these and other hitherto unexplored areas of the corporate world. It is a definitive account of the frauds and scams that pop up in the corporate world. A result of the author's rigorous research spanning more than six years, it presents a deep and comprehensive perspective on such incidents i