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Book On The Rim Of Mexico

Download or read book On The Rim Of Mexico written by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast stretch of mostly arid lands and deserts that makes up the border between Mexico and the United States is not only one of the longest international boundaries in the world, setting apart two entirely different countries for more than two thousand miles, it is the backdrop for a seemingly endless series of major binational news stories. Witness the headline-grabbing attention garnered by NAFTA and the global economy; the assembly plants labeled saviors of the Mexican poor; the accounts applauding the capture of Mexican drug lords; and the columns upon columns devoted to stories about illegal immigration. Nowhere else does a poor, Third World country, like Mexico, share a common border with a wealthy, powerful neighbor del otro lado (on the other side). Here, as one goes, so goes the other.On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor addresses the ties and asymmetries across the Mexico-U.S. border, from Tijuana/San Diego to Matamoros/Brownsville. Based on author Ram-duardo Ruiz's extensive research, travels, remembrances, and first-hand interviews with the people on the Mexican side, the book probes the history, economics, and customs which have shaped this region today. While the author considers many timely issues (the impact of drug trafficking, legal and illegal immigration, assembly plants and the global economy, and the ecological disaster in the making), the book is also an examination of the borderlands themselves: what they are, how they came to be, and salient aspects of life in this region of the world. Moreover, it is an exploration of binational themes. For Mexicans who live and die next door to the almighty Uncle Sam, nearly everything has a binational ring?even personal identity. On the Rim of Mexico is a moving portrait of the people, places, and issues which make-up border life today.

Book The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim written by Yizhao Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection between cities and surrounding landscapes, across different boundaries and scales; the persistence of environmental and development inequities; and the growing impacts of global climate change, including how physical conditions and social implications are being anticipated and addressed. Building upon localized knowledge and contextualized experiences, this edited collection brings attention to place-based approaches across the Pacific Rim and makes an important contribution to the scholarly and practical understanding of sustainable urban development models that have mostly emerged out of the Western experiences. Nine sections, each grounded in research, dialogue, and collaboration with practical examples and analysis, focus on a theme or dimension that carries critical impacts on a holistic vision of city-landscape development, such as resilient communities, ecosystem services and biodiversity, energy, water, health, and planning and engagement. This international edited collection will appeal to academics and students engaged in research involving landscape architecture, architecture, planning, public policy, law, urban studies, geography, environmental science, and area studies. It also informs policy makers, professionals, and advocates of actionable knowledge and adoptable ideas by connecting those issues with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The collection of writings presented in this book speaks to multiyear collaboration of scholars through the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Program and its global network, facilitated by SCL Annual Conferences and involving more than 100 contributors from more than 30 institutions. The Open Access version of chapters 1, 2, 4, 11, 17, 23, 30, 37, 42, 49, and 56 of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003033530, have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Book The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim

Download or read book The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim written by Nelson Lichtenstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of original essays considers how the International Labour Organization has helped generate a set of ideas and practices, past and present, transnational and within a single nation, aimed at advancing social and economic reform in the Pacific Rim.

Book Human Resource Management on the Pacific Rim

Download or read book Human Resource Management on the Pacific Rim written by Larry F. Moore and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pacific Rim Cities in the World Economy

Download or read book Pacific Rim Cities in the World Economy written by Michael P. Smith and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vamped

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Sosnowski
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2004-08-04
  • ISBN : 0743270851
  • Pages : 351 pages

Download or read book Vamped written by David Sosnowski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Kowalski is an eighty-year-old man stuck in a twenty-year-old body. He works the graveyard shift. He has a poster of Bela Lugosi on his wall and a box of uneaten Count Chocula in his pantry. He drinks stem-cell-derived blood from cleverly packaged and marketed juice boxes. He is, in short, a vampire. But since his wildly successful scheme to turn as many mortals as possible into vampires -- "vamp" them rather than kill them -- resulted in a new immortal majority, Marty finds little of interest to fill his countless days. From the deeply imaginative mind of David Sosnowski -- who gave us the critically acclaimed junkie-angel classic Rapture -- bursts this neo-vampire novel studded with pint-size vampires known as "screamers" (children who were vamped and are none too happy about it); priest vampires who helped convert their flock into lifetime members of the Church; stripper vampires who lap-danced their way into customers' veins; and one very small, very outspoken human girl. When Marty decides to end his endless life of soul-crushing ennui -- call it vampire affluenza -- a three-foot blond obstacle is thrown in his path: Isuzu Trooper Cassidy, a refugee from a human hunting preserve. At first he thinks "midnight snack," but before the sun comes up, Isuzu is the one snacking on his prized cereal collection as she charms him into staying undead long enough to raise her in a world rife with danger and almost entirely populated by vampires yearning for the taste of real human blood. The critics applauded David Sosnowski when Rapture was published, saying he "staked out a patch of turf somewhere between Franz Kafka and Douglas Adams." Now with Vamped, Sosnowski takes on a time-honored genre and breathes new life into it by turning Martin Kowalski's vampire world upside down and telling his story with rich, masterful, and frequently hilarious prose.

Book Mining Environmental Handbook  Effects Of Mining On The Environment And American Environmental Controls On Mining

Download or read book Mining Environmental Handbook Effects Of Mining On The Environment And American Environmental Controls On Mining written by Jerrold J Marcus and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-05-03 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative environmental events make the headlines. Mining industry examples are the recent incidents at Summitville, Colorado, US, and the cyanide leak at Cambria Resource's Omai Operation in Guyana. In this volatile atmosphere, the publication of the Mining Environmental Handbook comes at an opportune time. It presents an objective, comprehensive and integrated examination of the effects of mining on the environment, and the environmental laws that deal with mining. Though stressing activities in the United States of America, it covers all of North America.North American environmental standards are currently being exported around the world. Consequently, this handbook will be of prime interest in countries that are now coming to terms with mining environmentalism. It should benefit working engineers and environmentalists, manufacturers, legislators, regulators, financiers and journalists. It has been selected as a university textbook. Finally, it will be an indispensable reference during serious discussions about mining environmentalism.

Book God s Top 10

Download or read book God s Top 10 written by and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most committed Christians, there is a strong link between religion and life. This book examines the moral questions of the day through the lens of each of the Ten Commandments and concludes that there is more than one Christian approach to difficult issues.

Book Arctic Alternatives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Franklyn Griffiths
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 1992-09-15
  • ISBN : 1459718933
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Arctic Alternatives written by Franklyn Griffiths and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1992-09-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in itself is testimony to transition in the affairs of the north circumpolar region. Written in 1988 and updated in 1990, the papers assembled here have been overtaken by events. Non-military or civil requirements thus seemed to warrant a new and far more important place in our understanding of security. It's appopriate to explore not only the potential of civil cooperation in countering the force of militarism, but the utility of a comprehensive conception of Arctic security. This book will look at how these views fare, once we've had a look at the region and its problems.

Book Vermillion Resource Area Livestock Grazing Program

Download or read book Vermillion Resource Area Livestock Grazing Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illinois Roster

Download or read book Illinois Roster written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Psychotherapy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffery Smith
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-12-20
  • ISBN : 3319494600
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Psychotherapy written by Jeffery Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title combines the many schools of thought on psychotherapy into one reader-friendly guide that coaches psychotherapists through the various techniques needed as the field expands. Unlike any other book on the market, this text considers all of the simultaneous advances in the field, including the neurobiology of emotions, the importance of the therapeutic relationship, mindfulness meditation, and the role of the body in healing. Written with genuine respect for all traditions from CBT to psychodynamics, the book unifies views of psychopathology and cure based on the notion of the mind-brain as an organ of affect regulation. The book accounts for the tasks that characterize psychotherapist activity in all therapies, how they are performed, and how they result in therapeutic change. The book also reviews the various pathologies seen in general practice and guides the reader to the specific therapist-patient interactions needed for their resolution. With its big-picture focus on clinical practice, Psychotherapy: A Practical Guide is a concise resource for students, psychotherapists, psychologists, residents, and all who seek to integrate what is new in psychotherapy.

Book The Crescent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arlene Johnston
  • Publisher : Pine Lake Books
  • Release : 2020-02-05
  • ISBN : 1989322115
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book The Crescent written by Arlene Johnston and published by Pine Lake Books. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the people who live on The Crescent. You may think you know your neighbours, people you have known for years, but do you really know them. Ms Jackson gives us a glimpse of what could really be going on behind closed doors. See how one's actions affect those around them, and how they deal with incest, infidelity, drug abuse, loss of a child, and more, all in their own way.

Book Unsinkable

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew D. Plunkett
  • Publisher : Motorbooks
  • Release : 2017-09-01
  • ISBN : 0760360006
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Unsinkable written by Matthew D. Plunkett and published by Motorbooks. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston Whalers are the quintessential American motorboats. Born from innovation, risk, and above all hard work, their reputation for reliability, fun, and safety has changed the way the people go boating. The first Whalers hit the water in 1958, but the “Unsinkable Legend� was created with a daring launch in 1961, when Boston Whaler founder Richard “Dick� Fisher sawed a boat in half before the cameras of Life magazine -- and then piloted the back half of the hull around Wampatuck Pond in Hanson, Massachusetts. People were shocked and delighted, and the company made its mark on the history of boating by proving that it had created something altogether new and absolutely unsinkable. Unsinkable: The History of Boston Whaler is the first book to tell the story of these iconic boats. Published to celebrate the company's 60th anniversary, author Matthew Plunkett relays a fascinating and engaging tale beginning with how Dick Fisher came to create Boston Whaler and then detailing how the company evolved over the decades. From the original 13' hull, unflatteringly known as the “blue bathtub,� to its current flagship, the 420 Outrage, this book covers the whole story of a truly American company. Drawing on dozens of interviews with employees who were there in the plants, at the dealerships, and on the boats, Unsinkable: The History of Boston Whaler is filled with previously untold stories as well as never before published images, including photos from the families of Dick Fisher and legendary designer Bob Dougherty, Mr. Unsinkable himself. This intimate look into the creation, culture, and ongoing legacy of Boston Whaler reveals just how influential this company has been both within the industry and for its legions of diehard fans around the world.

Book Business  Society and Government Essentials

Download or read book Business Society and Government Essentials written by Robert N. Lussier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the interrelationship of business, society and government is vital to working at any level in an organization of any size. This text develops strategic management skills using an applied ethics approach, primarily through a case study analysis pedagogy, to develop and implement ethical strategies in today’s high-tech global community. The authors crystallize the complex array of issues that business leaders, managers, and employees face in market and nonmarket environments, from balancing stakeholder interests and dealing with government regulations to managing crises and making socially responsible and ethical decisions. Technical concepts come to life through a variety of cases and case questions, thought-provoking personal and professional applications, ethical dilemmas, and practical exercises. Furthermore, an appendix offers approaches to case analysis and includes a case analysis table that serves as a model for students and professors. Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition includes discussions on the influence of globalization and technology, the impact of COVID-19, and greater focus on developing ethical strategies. With its thorough coverage of relevant issues and skill-building elements to stimulate critical thinking, this text will engage and prepare students to understand and confront real-world business issues by developing and implementing ethical strategies through case analysis of companies and analysis of organizational ethical dilemmas.

Book MotorBoating

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1970-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: