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Invisible Countries
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Author : Joshua Keating
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-26
Invisible Countries written by Joshua Keating and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-26 with Social Science categories.
A journalist explores how our world’s borders came to be and how self-proclaimed countries across the globe could change the map. What is a country? While certain basic criteria—borders, a government, and recognition from other countries—seem obvious, journalist Joshua Keating investigates what happens in areas of the world that exist as exceptions to these rules. Invisible Countries looks at semiautonomous countries such as Abkhazia, Kurdistan, and Somaliland, as well as a Mohawk reservation straddling the U.S.-Canada border, and an island nation whose very existence is threatened by climate change. Through stories about these would-be countries’ efforts at self-determination, Keating shows that there is no universal legal authority determining what a country is. He also argues that economic, cultural, and environmental forces could soon bring an end to our long period of cartographical stasis. Keating combines history with incisive observations drawn from his travels and interviews with residents, political leaders, and scholars in each of these “invisible countries.”
The Invisible Country
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Author : Paul J. Mcauley
language : en
Publisher: Eos
Release Date : 1998-12-01
The Invisible Country written by Paul J. Mcauley and has been published by Eos this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Nine short stories explore the wonders and dangers of biotechnology and its creations and follow such themes as a mourning physician in a sixteenth-century Venice transformed by a premature Industrial Revolution. Original.
An Invisible Country
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Author : Stephan Wackwitz
language : en
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Release Date : 2005
An Invisible Country written by Stephan Wackwitz and has been published by Paul Dry Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stephan Wackwitz's family "never spoke about the fact that the scene of their childhood and the site of the century's greatest crime were separated by nothing more than a longish walk and barely a decade." With insight and wit, Wackwitz breaks this silence in 'An Invisible Country', a learned meditation on twentieth-century German history as viewed through the prism of one family's story. Writing of his grandfather (born in 1893), his father (1922), and himself (1952), Wackwitz places himself in the historical and emotional landscape of the 'invisible country' surrounding Anhalt in Upper Silesia, a town ten kilometres from Auschwitz, and the site of his grandfather's Lutheran pastorate from 1921 to 1933.
Invisible Country
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Author : Brigadier General James D Campbell
language : en
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
Release Date : 1990
Invisible Country written by Brigadier General James D Campbell and has been published by New Amsterdam Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
"Anyone whose heart thrills to the skirl of bagpipes or a flash of tartan should lay aside those Scottish Tourist Board pamphlets and read Invisible Country"-Kansas City Star
Invisible Country
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Author : Annamaria Alfieri
language : en
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Release Date : 2012-07-03
Invisible Country written by Annamaria Alfieri and has been published by Minotaur Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-03 with Fiction categories.
From the author of City of Silver, a beautifully rich and puzzling historical mystery set in Paraguay, 1868 A war against Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay has devastated Paraguay. Ninety percent of the males between the ages of eight and eighty have died in the conflict and food is scarce. In the small village of Santa Caterina, Padre Gregorio advises the women of his congregation to abandon the laws of the church and get pregnant by what men are available. As he leaves the pulpit, he discovers the murdered body of Ricardo Yotté, one of the most powerful men in the country, at the bottom of the belfry. There are many suspects: Eliza Lynch, a former Parisian courtesan who is now the consort of the brutal dictator, Francisco Solano López, and who entrusted to Yotté the country's treasury of gold and jewels; López himself, who may have suspected his ally Yotté of carrying on an affair with the beautiful Eliza; Comandante Luis Menenez, local representative of the dictator, who competed with Yotté for López's favor, and a wounded Brazilian soldier who has secretly taken up with one of the village girls. Lynch is desperate to recover the missing gold, and the comandante is desperate to prove his usefulness to López. To avoid having an innocent person dragged off to torture and death, a band of villagers undertake to solve the crime, including Padre Gregorio, the village midwife, her crippled husband returned from combat, their spirited daughter, and a war widow. Each carries secrets they seek to protect from the others, while they pursue their quest for the truth. Lyrical, complex, and meticulously researched, Annamaria Alfieri's Invisible Country is an ingenious cross between Isabel Allende and Agatha Christie.
Invisible Country
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Author : James Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Invisible Country written by James Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Scotland categories.
The author reports on encounters with places and people during a journey through Scotland.
Invisible Country
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Author : John Hinson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-04-08
Invisible Country written by John Hinson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-08 with Fiction categories.
Gert Huber, an officer with the German Sozialwohlfahrt, has been tasked with going to Unsichtbarland, a small, impoverished, isolated region in Germany that had long been the country's eyesore. Gert, under the direction of a government-funded program, is tasked with developing a plan of action to improve the quality of life in Unsichtbarland to a more modern standard. However, not everything in Unsichtbarland is as it seems, and Gert finds himself in a new world and among strange people he doesn't fully understand. In a world where Grimm's fairy tales have seemingly come to life, Gert must figure out a way to rationalize everything in order to finish his assignment, or else Unsichtbarland would face serious consequences...
The Invisible Country
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Author : Herbert Edward Francis
language : en
Publisher: Frederic C. Beil Publisher
Release Date : 2003
The Invisible Country written by Herbert Edward Francis and has been published by Frederic C. Beil Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Brothers categories.
When the two Moorehead brothers, Rod and Cory, fall in love with the same woman, Savannah Goshen becomes the unintentional, even accidental, cause of unfurling the history of the Moorehead family. One by one, veils that have protected the characters are peeled away. With each lifting of the veil, the reader is introduced to a variety of characters who are involved in the lives of the Mooreheads and who draw the reader into the pain of their tragedies and the joys of their meagre but meaningful success.
Portraits Of An Invisible Country
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Author : José Luis Falconi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Portraits Of An Invisible Country written by José Luis Falconi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Colombia categories.
Jorge Mario Múnera is renowned in Colombia as one of the most prolific and influential photographers of his generation. Portraits of an Invisible Country comprises a book of essays on his diverse body of work and sixteen photo posters, which together highlight his travels in Colombia and his careful depiction of his countrymen and women.
Invisible China
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Author : Scott Rozelle
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-09-29
Invisible China written by Scott Rozelle and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with Business & Economics categories.
A study of how China’s changing economy may leave its rural communities in the dust and launch a political and economic disaster. As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China, the truth is much more complicated and might be a serious cause for concern. China’s growth has relied heavily on unskilled labor. Most of the workers who have fueled the country’s rise come from rural villages and have never been to high school. While this national growth strategy has been effective for three decades, the unskilled wage rate is finally rising, inducing companies inside China to automate at an unprecedented rate and triggering an exodus of companies seeking cheaper labor in other countries. Ten years ago, almost every product for sale in an American Walmart was made in China. Today, that is no longer the case. With the changing demand for labor, China seems to have no good back-up plan. For all of its investment in physical infrastructure, for decades China failed to invest enough in its people. Recent progress may come too late. Drawing on extensive surveys on the ground in China, Rozelle and Hell reveal that while China may be the second-largest economy in the world, its labor force has one of the lowest levels of education of any comparable country. Over half of China’s population—as well as a vast majority of its children—are from rural areas. Their low levels of basic education may leave many unable to find work in the formal workplace as China’s economy changes and manufacturing jobs move elsewhere. In Invisible China, Rozelle and Hell speak not only to an urgent humanitarian concern but also a potential economic crisis that could upend economies and foreign relations around the globe. If too many are left structurally unemployable, the implications both inside and outside of China could be serious. Understanding the situation in China today is essential if we are to avoid a potential crisis of international proportions. This book is an urgent and timely call to action that should be read by economists, policymakers, the business community, and general readers alike. Praise for Invisible China “Stunningly researched.” —TheEconomist, Best Books of the Year (UK) “Invisible China sounds a wake-up call.” —The Strategist “Not to be missed.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK) “[Invisible China] provides an extensive coverage of problems for China in the sphere of human capital development . . . the book is rich in content and is not constrained only to China, but provides important parallels with past and present developments in other countries.” —Journal of Chinese Political Science