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Invisible Nation
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Author : Richard Schweid
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-10-25
Invisible Nation written by Richard Schweid and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-25 with Social Science categories.
"Every year, more than 2.5 million children are left homeless in the United States and the number of such families continues to rise annually. In every state, children are living in small quarters packed in with relatives-- in cars, in motel rooms, or in emergency shelters. In this vividly-written narrative, experienced journalist Richard Schweid takes us on a spirited journey through this "invisible nation,' giving us front-row dispatches of suffering families on the edge. Based on in-depth reporting from five major cities, Invisible Nation looks backward at the historical context of family homelessness as well as forward at what needs to be done to alleviate this widespread, although often hidden, poverty. Invisible Nation is a riveting must-read for everyone who cares about inequality, poverty and family life"--Provided by publishe
Invisible Nation
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Author : Quil Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Walker Books
Release Date : 2008-04
Invisible Nation written by Quil Lawrence and has been published by Walker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with History categories.
As Lawrence relates in his fascinating and timely study of the Iraqi Kurds, while their ambition and determination grow, their future will be largely dependent on whether America values a budding democracy in the region, or decides to yet again sacrifice the Kurds in the name of political expediency.
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.”
Kurdistan An Invisible Nation
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Author : S. M. Torelli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Kurdistan An Invisible Nation written by S. M. Torelli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Political Science categories.
Brittany 1750 1950
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Author : Sharif Gemie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Brittany 1750 1950 written by Sharif Gemie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Incorporated into France nearly five hundred years ago, Brittany has never experienced a strong nationalist movement. However, somewhat paradoxically, in recent years signs of a sense of cultural separation from France have grown more evident, raising fundamental questions about the processes of nation formation. By covering two centuries of Breton history, Sharif Gemie provides a thorough grounding in the complex politics of identity in Brittany. Brittany s conflicted status is elucidated through a discussion of how these notions of identity are represented in a variety of forms such as literature, political debates, festivals, and popular protest."
Invisible Indigenes
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Author : Bruce Granville Miller
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Invisible Indigenes written by Bruce Granville Miller and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Social Science categories.
In the last few decades, as indigenous peoples have increasingly sought out and sometimes demanded sovereignty on a variety of fronts, their relationships with encompassing nation-states have become ever more complicated and troubled. The varying ways that today?s nation-states attempt to manage?and often render invisible?contemporary indigenous peoples is the subject of this global comparative study.øBeginning with his own work along the northwest coast of North America and drawing on contemporary examples from South America, Asia, Africa, and Europe, Bruce Granville Miller examines how national governments classify, govern, and control the indigenous populations within their boundaries through administrative, judicial, and economic means. One telling consequence of such regulation strategies is that certain indigenous peoples become unrecognized?their ethnic identities and heritages fail to find legal register and thus empowerment within the very state organizations that manage other aspects of their lives. In the United States alone reside two hundred thousand unrecognized indigenous individuals, some members of indigenous communities that were dropped from the roster of tribes and others whose ancestors were overlooked. Miller also considers some important differences between the fluid nature of ethnic identity for some indigenous peoples and the more rigid notion of identity encoded in many state regulations.øInvisible Indigenes reveals a recurring issue integral to the formation and maintenance of nation-states today and highlights a common challenge facing indigenous peoples around the globe in the twenty-first century.
Invisible Giants
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Author : Mark C. Carnes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2003-09
Invisible Giants written by Mark C. Carnes and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A collection of stories includes the insight of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helen Gurley Brown, and others on notable Americans whose contributions are much undervalued, including Christopher Isherwood, Albert Jay Nock, and Emma Goldman.
Seeing The Invisible
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Author : Thomas Quiggin
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2007
Seeing The Invisible written by Thomas Quiggin and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Political Science categories.
Intelligence is critical to ensuring national security, especially with asymmetric threats making up most of the new challenges. Knowledge, rather than power, is the only weapon that can prevail in a complex and uncertain environment awash with asymmetric threats, some known, many currently unknown. This book shows how such a changing national security environment has had profound implications for the strategic intelligence requirements of states in the 21st century.The book shows up the fallacy underlying the age-old assumption that intelligence agencies must do a better job of connecting the dots and avoiding future failures. It argues that this cannot and will not happen for a variety of reasons. Instead of seeking to predict discrete future events, the strategic intelligence community must focus rather on risk-based anticipatory warnings concerning the nature and impact of a range of potential threats. In this respect, the book argues for a full and creative exploitation of technology to support ? but not supplant ? the work of the strategic intelligence community, and illustrates this ideal with reference to Singapore's path-breaking Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning (RAHS) program.
Seeing The Invisible
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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