Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (Bada Xchitl)(Paperback)

Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (Bada Xchitl)(Paperback)

Collecting the diverse perspectives of scholars, labor organizers, and human-rights advocates, Accountability across Borders is the first edited collection that connects studies of immigrant integration in host countries to accounts of transnational migrant advocacy efforts, including case studies

Native America: Aperture 240 (Aperture)(Paperback)

This fall, as debates around nationalism and borders in North America reach a fever pitch, Aperture magazine releases 'Native America,' a special issue about photography and Indigenous lives, guest edited by the artist Wendy Red Star. 'Native America' considers the wide-ranging work of

Demanding Rights: Europe's Supranational Courts and the Dilemma of Migrant Vulnerability (Baumgrtel Moritz)(Paperback)

While nominally protected across Europe, the human rights of vulnerable migrants often fail to deliver their promised benefits in practice. This socio-legal study explores both the concrete expressions and possible causes of this persistent deficit. For this purpose, it presents an innovative

Climbing Rock: Vertical Explorations Across North America (Lynch Jesse)(Pevná vazba)

A dream list of the most celebrated climbing destinations in North America, each explored in depth. Climbing Rock features some of the most classic and cutting-edge climbing areas across the magnificent and the most diverse landscapes of North America. The author recommends twenty-two of the best

Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home (Alcalde M. Cristina)(Paperback)

In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that

The Oregon Trail (Parkman Francis)(Paperback)

The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately takehim over

Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims' Rights in Latin America (Michel Vernica)(Pevná vazba)

The responsibility of any state is to protect its citizens. But if a state, either through omission or commission, fails to investigate and prosecute crime then what remedies do citizens have? Veronica Michel investigates procedural rights in Chile, Guatemala, and Mexico that allow citizens to call

Native North America (Zimmerman Larry J.)(Paperback)

With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous people of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Navajo of the American southwest. Beginning with a brief history

Human Rights in the Age of Platforms (Jorgensen Rikke Frank)(Paperback)

Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society.Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information,

Migrant Anxieties: Italian Cinema in a Transnational Frame (O'Healy Aine)(Paperback)

During a period of heightened global concerns about the movement of immigrants and refugees across borders, Migrant Anxieties explores how filmmakers in Italy have probed the tensions accompanying the country's shift from an emigrant nation to a destination point for over five million immigrants

Poetry in a Global Age (Ramazani Jahan)(Paperback)

Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he

North America (Vanden Branden Claire)(Paperback)

Democracy in Chains - the deep history of the radical right's stealth plan for America (MacLean Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America (Skevington Jeffrey H.)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking guide to flower flies in North America This is the first comprehensive field guide to the flower flies (also known as hover flies) of northeastern North America. Flower flies are, along with bees, our most important pollinators. Found in a varied range of habitats, from backyard

Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability (Dubberley Sam)(Paperback)

From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights practitioners have access to more data today than ever before. To say that mobile technologies, social media, and increased connectivity are having a

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative

The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship (Proglio Gabriele)(Pevná vazba)

This edited volume aims to problematise and rethink the contemporary European migrant crisis in the Central Mediterranean through the lens of the Black Mediterranean. Bringing together scholars working in geography, political theory, sociology, and cultural studies, this volume takes the Black

North America (London Martha)(Paperback)

This title introduces readers to the region of North America. Concise text, thought-provoking discussion questions, and compelling photos give the reader an insightful look into North America's rich and complex histories, natural environments, economies, governments, and

Canada - Bernhard Mogge, Karl-Heinz Raach

Canada borders the USA in the south and the Arctic Circle in the north. This results in a landscape diversity with endless forest areas in the south and ice and rock areas in the north, beyond the Arctic tree line. In over 500 pictures, this volume shows the multifaceted wilderness of Canada. These

A Walk Across America (Jenkins Peter)(Paperback)

Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country.'I started out searching for myself and my country,' Peter Jenkins writes, 'and found

Wildlife Worlds: North America (Harris Tim)(Paperback / softback)

Rails Across America: Railway Journeys in Art (Furness Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Across Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America's Clovis Culture (Stanford Dennis J.)(Paperback)

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New

Inconvenient Indian - A Curious Account of Native People in North America