This collection of personal essays by a Mexican-American writer deals with crossing linguistic, cultural, and intellectual borders to provoke debate about contemporary Mexican-American identity.
This Third Edition is thoroughly updated to reflect recent events and trends, including cyberterrorism, the rise of ISIS, and other key issues.
In the essay “On Translating and Being Translated,” Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator.
For us, the juxtaposition of intimacy and strangeness evoked by 'the stranger' (who may leave or stay tomorrow), outlined by Simmel (1971; see also Rumford 2013, 30), is not the key issue. We do not require that mobile neighbouring ...
Crossing Borders: Interdisciplinary Intercultural Interactions
By juxtaposing these Arabic texts with French works, she reveals a medieval French literary discourse on same-sex desire and sexual practices that has gone all but unnoticed.
Abramson, D. (1997a) “'Marketization' and Institutions in Chinese Inner-City Neighborhood Redevelopment: A Commentary on ... Residential Design Guidelines and Historic Preservation in Quanzhou, Fujian, China: A Year 2000 Studio Report ...
Introduction Chapter 1: The Legal Status of the Jews Chapter 2: The Jews in Seventeenth Century Bursa Chapter 3: The Jews in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Edirne Chapter 4: The...
Two general themes run through the papers. The first of these is that migration is an inherently dynamic process which may have either equilibrating or self-reinforcing (cumulative) effects.
De Jonge, N. and van Dijk, T. Forgotten islands of Indonesia. Singapore: Periplus Editions, 1995. Dempwolff, O. Die Lautentsprechungen der indonesischen Lippenlaute in einigen anderen austronesischen Südseesprachen, Beihefte zur ...
In recent years, Europe has seen its largest influx of migrants and refugees in decades, with 1.9 million arrivals to the continent between 2014 and 2017.
This same fiery passion, if left unattended, will diminish in time until its embers are the only remembrance of its existence. Unknown to some, this is all a part of the revolution of life.
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, Go Global: Launching an International Career Here or Abroad (SNB Media, 2011). ... Laura E. Cressey, Barrett J. Helmer, and Jennifer E. Steffensen, Careers in International Affairs, 9th ed.
Part memoir and part travelogue, Crossing Borders conveys simply and eloquently the voices of the people and the cultures Caesar came to know during her time in the Arab world.
Crossing Borders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment in Borderline Personality Disorder
Dorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants’ passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers’ debates over admission to the United States and citizenship.
Rashida fled the massacre, hand in hand with her brother, Rafi.
This book tells the largely unfamiliar story of intellectual transmission, cultural exchange and practical cooperation, social interaction, and religious toleration between Jews and non-Jews in the Muslim as well as Christian world during ...
This is the final chapter in the Miles for Love series. The story takes us on a voyage through all the Lynch family members, including some older characters that haven't been seen since earlier in the series.
"Crossing Borders" tells the story of living and becoming an adult in a foreign country away from friends and family.