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  • Capitalism and Migration

    The Rise of Hegemony in the World-System

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system. It presents comprehensive case studies on various historical periods of hegemony recognized by world-system theory: the Dutch hegemony (1625-1675), British hegemony (1815-1873), and US hegemony (1945-1970). Moreover, the book identifies an earlier period of economic dominance in Western ... Read more

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  • First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards, Second Edition

    Comprehensive text and fifty cases provide everything needed to ace the Emergency Medicine Oral Boards!This unique exam prep is the first resource to specifically address every key requirement for emergency medicine oral board success: basic exam preparation, managing information; understanding basic principles of care management; and avoiding specific pitfalls. Readers will find a detailed ... Read more

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  • Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes

    Race relations in twenty-first-century America will not be just a black-and-white issue. The 2000 census revealed that Hispanics already slightly outnumber African Americans as the largest ethnic group, while together Blacks and Hispanics constitute the majority population in the five largest U.S. cities. Given these facts, black-brown relations could be a more significant racial issue in the ... Read more

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  • Guatemala-U.S. Migration

    Transforming Regions

    Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions is a pioneering, comprehensive, and multifaceted study of Guatemalan migration to the United States from the late 1970s to the present. It analyzes this migration in a regional context including Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States. This book illuminates the perilous passage through Mexico for Guatemalan migrants, as well as their settlement in ... Read more

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  • When States Kill

    Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror

    Since the early twentieth century, technological transfers from the United States to Latin American countries have involved technologies of violence for social control. As the chapters in this book illustrate, these technological transfers have taken various forms, including the training of Latin American military personnel in surveillance and torture and the provision of political and logistic ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Advanced Mechanics in Robotic Systems

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Humans have always been fascinated with the concept of artificial life and the construction of machines that look and behave like people. As the field of robotics evolves, it demands continuous development of successful systems with high-performance characteristics for practical applications.Advanced Mechanics in Robotic Systems illustrates original and ambitious mechanical designs and techniques ... Read more

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  • Iranians in Texas

    Migration, Politics, and Ethnic Identity

    An exploration of the link between politics of migration, prospects of integration, and ethnic identity among Iranian immigrants and their descendants in the United States, spanning from the 1970s to the present day.Thousands of Iranians fled their homeland when the 1978–1979 revolution ended the fifty-year reign of the Pahlavi dynasty. Some fled to Europe and Canada, while others settled in the ... Read more

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  • The International Handbook of the Demography of Race and Ethnicity

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Examining key countries in every region of world, this handbook presents population profiles and analyses concerning racial/ethnic disparities and changing intergroup relations. Inside, prominent scholars from various parts of the world and disciplines address the links between stratification, demography, and conflict across the globe.Organized by region/continent, coverage for each profiled ... Read more

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  • Deportation and Return in a Border-Restricted World

    Experiences in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume focuses on recent experiences of return migration to Mexico and Central America from the United States. For most of the twentieth century, return migration to the US was a normal part of the migration process from Mexico and Central America, typically resulting in the eventual permanent settlement of migrants in the US. In recent years, however, such migration has become involuntary, ... Read more

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  • Migration in an Era of Restriction and Recession

    Sending and Receiving Nations in a Changing Global Environment

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    We live in an age of global migration. The number of immigrants worldwide is large and growing. At the same time, public and political reactions against immigrants have grown in the US, the UK, Canada, and other traditional and non-traditional receiving nations. In response to this trend, this book assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to better understand two dimensions of contemporary ... Read more

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  • Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament

    Going against the false perception that all Latinx views on the Bible are homogeneous, the contributors in this book use different hermeneutic perspectives to interpret the New Testament. Each chapter examines one of the twenty-seven documents thematically instead of following the traditional verse-by-verse commentary format. ... Read more

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    Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general ... Read more

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