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Book Continental Shifts

    Book Details:
  • Author : John D. "Rio" Riofrio
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2015-10-15
  • ISBN : 0292771983
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Continental Shifts written by John D. "Rio" Riofrio and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Continental Shifts  Shifts in Perception

Download or read book Continental Shifts Shifts in Perception written by Sharmilla Beezmohun and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Continental Drift Controversy

Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geoscience.

Book The Continental Drift Controversy  Volume 3  Introduction of Seafloor Spreading

Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy Volume 3 Introduction of Seafloor Spreading written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history of the origin, debate and gradual acceptance of this revolutionary theory. Based on extensive interviews, archival papers and original works, Frankel weaves together the lives and work of the scientists involved, producing an accessible narrative for scientists and non-scientists alike. This third volume describes the expansion of the land-based paleomagnetic case for drifting continents and recounts the golden age of marine geology and geophysics. Fuelled by the Cold War, US and British workers led the way in making discoveries and forming new hypotheses, especially about the origin of oceanic ridges. When first proposed, seafloor spreading was just one of several competing hypotheses about the evolution of ocean basins.

Book Continental Drift

    Book Details:
  • Author : S. K. Runcorn
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2013-10-22
  • ISBN : 1483282090
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Continental Drift written by S. K. Runcorn and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental Drift brings together within one volume a discussion of the geophysical evidence relating to horizontal movements in the earth's crust in its widest sense. This is not the time for a reappraisal of the work of German meteorologist Alfred Wegener, but it is hoped that this volume will stimulate a serious interest in a subject formerly considered by many earth scientists as already closed. The book contains 12 chapters and begins with a discussion of paleomagnetic evidence for continental drift and its geophysical cause. This is followed by separate chapters on of paleoclimatic evidence on the paleomagnetic latitudes given by paleomagnetism; studies of earthquake mechanism; movements on major transcurrent faults; and magnetic evidence for horizontal displacements in the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Subsequent chapters deal with thermal convection in the earth's mantle; the theory of convection in spherical shells and its application to the problem of thermal convection in the earth's mantle; mountain-building hypotheses; and investigations of the deep-sea floor.

Book Bibliography of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics

Download or read book Bibliography of Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics written by Tina Kasbeer and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1973 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Continental Shelf Limits

Download or read book Continental Shelf Limits written by P. J. Cook and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Setting the scene, introduction, the United Nations convention o the law of the sea. Methodology, historical methods of positioning at sea. Establish the case, the practical realization of the continental shefl limit. Other issues, deep sea fan issues.

Book The Rejection of Continental Drift

Download or read book The Rejection of Continental Drift written by Naomi Oreskes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, American earth scientists were united in their opposition to the new--and highly radical--notion of continental drift, even going so far as to label the theory "unscientific." Some fifty years later, however, continental drift was heralded as a major scientific breakthrough and today it is accepted as scientific fact. Why did American geologists reject so adamantly an idea that is now considered a cornerstone of the discipline? And why were their European colleagues receptive to it so much earlier? This book, based on extensive archival research on three continents, provides important new answers while giving the first detailed account of the American geological community in the first half of the century. Challenging previous historical work on this episode, Naomi Oreskes shows that continental drift was not rejected for the lack of a causal mechanism, but because it seemed to conflict with the basic standards of practice in American geology. This account provides a compelling look at how scientific ideas are made and unmade.

Book Monthly Temperature and Salinity Measurements of Continental Shelf Waters of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico  1963 65

Download or read book Monthly Temperature and Salinity Measurements of Continental Shelf Waters of the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico 1963 65 written by Robert F. Temple and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Continental Drift Controversy  Volume 1  Wegener and the Early Debate

Download or read book The Continental Drift Controversy Volume 1 Wegener and the Early Debate written by Henry R. Frankel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the early debate over Wegener's theory of continental drift, based on extensive interviews and archival material.

Book Final Environmental Statement  Proposed 1974 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas General Lease Sale  Offshore Louisiana

Download or read book Final Environmental Statement Proposed 1974 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas General Lease Sale Offshore Louisiana written by United States. Bureau of Land Management and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proposed 1974 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas General Lease Sale  Offshore Louisiana  OCS Sale No  36

Download or read book Proposed 1974 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas General Lease Sale Offshore Louisiana OCS Sale No 36 written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two hundred and ninety-five tracts (1,421,739.13 acres) of OCS lands are proposed for leasing action. The tracts are located offshore Louisiana; seventy-two tracts (403,969 acres) are situated in water depths of 200 meters or beyond. If implemented, this sale is tentatively scheduled to be held in the late fall of 1974"--Page i.

Book Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975

Download or read book Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1975 written by United States. Congress. House. Ad Hoc Select Committee on Outer Continental Shelf and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1977

Download or read book Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1977 written by United States. Congress. House. Ad Hoc Select Committee on Outer Continental Shelf and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: