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Free Download Helen T. Boursier, "Precious Precarity: A Spirituality of Borders"
English | ISBN: 1506489575 | 2024 | 254 pages | PDF | 36 MB
Borders are places of collision. People and politics, compassion and cruelty, law and lawlessness, hope and despair, idealism and ideology, life and death-all collide at the border. But these collisions have human faces. North and south, rich and poor, nuns and nones, desperation and courage-a spirit draws all these poles together and a spirituality animates their encounter.

Free Download Christopher González, "Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1477309144 | PDF | pages: 317 | 27.9 mb
From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and culture. Indeed, Latino fiction and nonfiction narratives are rapidly proliferating in graphic media as diverse and varied in form and content as is the whole of Latino culture today.

Free Download William Orchard, Yolanda Padilla, "Bridges, Borders, and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicana/o Literary Criticism"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0822964147 | PDF | pages: 255 | 11.1 mb
This volume reassesses the field of Chicana/o literary studies in light of the rise of Latina/o studies, the recovery of a large body of early literature by Mexican Americans, and the "transnational turn" in American studies. The chapters reveal how "Chicano" defines a literary critical sensibility as well as a political one and show how this view can yield new insights about the status of Mexican Americans, the legacies of colonialism, and the ongoing prospects for social justice. Chicana/o literary representations emerge as significant examples of the local that interrogate globalization’s attempts to erase difference. They also highlight how Chicana/o literary studies’ interests in racial justice and the minority experience have produced important intersections with new disciplines while also retaining a distinctive character. The recalibration of Chicana/o literary studies in light of these shifts raises important methodological and disciplinary questions, which these chapters address as they introduce the new tools required for the study of Chicana/o literature at this critical juncture.

Free Download Borders Abbeys Way by Paul Boobyer
English | February 15, 2019 | ISBN: 1852849800 | 96 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
Guidebook to the Borders Abbeys Way, a 68 mile circuit in the beautiful Scottish Borders. Taking in four of Britain’s grandest ruined medieval abbeys, the route which begins and ends in Tweedbank, is described over 6 stages, and is as rich in history as it is pastoral charm. Relatively flat, it is suitable for people with a moderate level of fitness, and can be undertaken at any time of year. In addition to clear route description and OS mapping extracts, the guidebook also includes information about the history of the Borders abbeys, the ever-intriguing Borders reivers, and the region’s geology and agriculture. Invaluable practical information relating to accommodation, transport, mapping and public access is also included. As historically enchanting as it is visually delightful, the Borders Abbeys Way will connect walkers with a truly fascinating period of history. In fact, some of the paths on the Way are the very same routes that monks used to travel between the Borders abbeys, and no doubt were also used by the notorious reivers.

Free Download Alexander C. Diener, "Borders: A Very Short Introduction "
English | ISBN: 0199731500 | 2012 | 152 pages | AZW3 | 862 KB
Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives. Highlighting the historical development and continued relevance of borders, Alexander Diener and Joshua Hagen offer a powerful counterpoint to the idea of an imminent borderless world, underscoring the impact borders have on a range of issues, such as economic development, inter- and intra-state conflict, global terrorism, migration, nationalism, international law, environmental sustainability, and natural resource management. Diener and Hagen demonstrate how and why borders have been, are currently, and will undoubtedly remain hot topics across the social sciences and in the global headlines for years to come. This compact volume will appeal to a broad, interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students, including geographers, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, international relations and law experts, as well as lay readers interested in understanding current events.

Free Download Emilio Bonfiglio, "Armenia and Byzantium Without Borders: Mobility, Interactions, Responses "
English | ISBN: 9004677860 | 2023 | 344 pages | PDF | 22 MB
Armenia and Byzantium shared a long history of political and cultural interaction. The articles in this volume offer a fresh look, often based on new material, on aspects of dialogue, exchange, and confrontation in the areas of literature, material culture, and religion.

Free Download Algebra without Borders – Classical and Constructive Nonassociative Algebraic Structures: Foundations and Applications by Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou, Melanija Mitrović, Mujahid Abbas
English | December 2, 2023 | ISBN: 3031393333 | 607 pages | MOBI | 127 Mb
This book gathers invited, peer-reviewed works presented at the 2021 edition of the Classical and Constructive Nonassociative Algebraic Structures: Foundations and Applications―CaCNAS: FA 2021, virtually held from June 30 to July 2, 2021, in dedication to the memory of Professor Nebojša Stevanović (1962-2009). The papers cover new trends in the field, focusing on the growing development of applications in other disciplines. These aspects interplay in the same cadence, promoting interactions between theory and applications, and between nonassociative algebraic structures and various fields in pure and applied mathematics.

Free Download A Mission Without Borders: Why a Father and Son Risked it All for the People of Ukraine by Chad Robichaux, David L. Thomas, Craig Borlase
English | August 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 1400247756 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 5.14 MB
Author, speaker, and former Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux offers an honest, no-holds-barred account of what has really been happening in Ukraine and shares powerful stories that are soaked in resiliency and determination, faith and sacrifice in the face of overwhelming opposition.

Free Download Katerina Clark, "Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943"
English | ISBN: 0674261100 | 2021 | 464 pages | AZW3 | 819 KB
A long-awaited corrective to the controversial idea of world literature, from a major voice in the field.

Free Download Doctors Without Borders in Ethiopia: Among the Afar By Nyla Jo Jones Hubbard MT ASCP
2011 | 188 Pages | ISBN: 0875868533 | PDF | 4 MB
Naturalists as well as volunteer workers and medical professionals will enjoy the warm and personal tale of one woman s experiences in the scorching climate and the heart-melting expressions of humanity at this tent hospital in Ethiopia.This book describes the function of a Doctors Without Borders program at the ground level, at the TB mission they established in eastern Ethiopia during 2001. The culture of the Afar people is part of the story as well as the physical surroundings of the mission including the birds and animals of the desert setting. It is also a story about relationships and how like a family a vastly different group of people from all over the world can become when they all share a life of physical hardship but enormous reward.Setting up a hospital and lab in the desert, and battling daily on behalf of people ill with TB, malaria and other tropical diseases, the invaluable organization of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) succeeds against enormous odds. Their success proves what a collection of individuals can do with the skills at hand to make the world a better place – and enjoy the process. The team concept, so vital to the mission concept, comes alive in the author s depiction of the scene at Gahla.The culture of the migratory Afar people, with their fierce reputation and teeth filed to points, and the city lifestyle in Ethiopia s capital Addis are explored. As an avid birder, the author also includes descriptions of the exotic birds, animals and insects of this part of the Rift Valley with its searing heat and volcanic vents. Geologists suggest that one day the entire Afar Triangle may give way in a tectonic shift to become the new Afar Sea. Until then, it is home to a wide range of wonderfully resourceful people and colorful fauna that enliven this "impossibly" hot, dry land.The World Trade Center disaster took place one week after the author’s return from a Muslim part of the world and the outpouring of compassionate correspondence she received from the people whom she had just left tells volumes about why we must not tar all Muslims with the brush of terrorism.