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Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology)
by Emanuel DeutschmannA study of the structure, growth, and future of transnational human travel and communicationIncreasingly, people travel and communicate across borders. Yet, we still know little about the overall structure of this transnational world. Is it really a fully globalized world in which everything is linked, as popular catchphrases like “global village” suggest? Through a sweeping comparative analysis of eight types of mobility and communication among countries worldwide—from migration and tourism to Facebook friendships and phone calls—Mapping the Transnational World demonstrates that our behavior is actually regionalized, not globalized.Emanuel Deutschmann shows that transnational activity within world regions is not so much the outcome of political, cultural, or economic factors, but is driven primarily by geographic distance. He explains that the spatial structure of transnational human activity follows a simple mathematical function, the power law, a pattern that also fits the movements of many other animal species on the planet. Moreover, this pattern remained extremely stable during the five decades studied—1960 to 2010. Unveiling proximity-induced regionalism as a major feature of planet-scale networks of transnational human activity, Deutschmann provides a crucial corrective to several fields of research.Revealing why a truly global society is unlikely to emerge, Mapping the Transnational World highlights the essential role of interaction beyond borders on a planet that remains spatially fragmented.
Mapping the World of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Unauthorized Exploration of the Harry Potter Series
by Mercedes LackeyFrom the Dursleys as social commentary to a look at Snape's role in less than child-friendly fanfiction . . . from the parallels between Azkaban and Abu Ghraib to the role of religion at Hogwarts . . . from why Dumbledore had to die to why killing Harry never should have been part of Voldemort's plan to begin with . . . Mapping the World of the Sorcerer's Apprentice offers a comprehensive look at the Harry Potter series through the eyes of leading science fiction and fantasy writers and religion, psychology, and science experts.This book has not been authorized by J. K. Rowling, Warner Bros. or anyone associated with the Harry Potter books or films.
Mapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)
by Barbara E. ThornburyMapping Tokyo in Fiction and Film explores ways that late 20th- and early 21st- century fiction and film from Japan literally and figuratively map Tokyo. The four dozen novels, stories, and films discussed here describe, define, and reflect on Tokyo urban space. They are part of the flow of Japanese-language texts being translated (or, in the case of film, subtitled) into English. Circulation in professionally translated and subtitled English-language versions helps ensure accessibility to the primarily anglophone readers of this study—and helps validate inclusion in lists of world literature and film. Tokyo’s well-established culture of mapping signifies much more than a profound attachment to place or an affinity for maps as artifacts. It is, importantly, a counter-response to feelings of insecurity and disconnection—insofar as the mapping process helps impart a sense of predictability, stability, and placeness in the real and imagined city.
Mapping with Words: Anglo-Canadian Literary Cartographies, 1789-1916
by Sarah Wylie KrotzMapping with Words re-conceptualizes settler writing as literary cartography. The topographical descriptions of early Canadian settler writers generated not only picturesque and sublime landscapes, but also verbal maps. These worked to orient readers, reinforcing and expanding the cartographic order of the emerging colonial dominion. Drawing upon the work of critical and cultural geographers as well as literary theorists, Sarah Wylie Krotz opens up important aesthetic and political dimensions of both familiar and obscure texts from the nineteenth century, including Thomas Cary’s Abram’s Plains, George Monro Grant’s Ocean to Ocean, and Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush. Highlighting the complex territoriality that emerges from their cartographic aesthetics, Krotz offers fresh readings of these texts, illuminating their role in an emerging spatial imaginary that was at once deeply invested in the production of colonial spaces and at the same time enmeshed in the realities of confronting Indigenous sovereignties.
Mappings: Feminism and the Cultural Geographies of Encounter
by Susan Stanford FriedmanIn this powerful work, Susan Friedman moves feminist theory out of paralyzing debates about us and them, white and other, first and third world, and victimizers and victims. Throughout, Friedman adapts current cultural theory from global and transnational studies, anthropology, and geography to challenge modes of thought that exaggerate the boundaries of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, and national origin. The author promotes a transnational and heterogeneous feminism, which, she maintains, can replace the proliferation of feminisms based on difference. She argues for a feminist geopolitical literacy that goes beyond fundamentalist identity politics and absolutist poststructuralist theory, and she continually focuses the reader's attention on those locations where differences are negotiated and transformed. Pervading the book is a concern with narrative: the way stories and cultural narratives serve as a primary mode of thinking about the politically explosive question of identity. Drawing freely on modernist novels, contemporary film, popular fiction, poetry, and mass media, the work features narratives of such writers and filmmakers as Gish Jen, Julie Dash, June Jordon, James Joyce, Gloria Anzald%a, Neil Jordon, Virginia Woolf, Mira Nair, Zora Neale Hurston, E. M. Forster, and Irena Klepfisz. Defending the pioneering role of academic feminists in the knowledge revolution, this work draws on a wide variety of twentieth-century cultural expressions to address theoretical issues in postmodern feminism.
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands (P. S. Series)
by Michael ChabonIn these lively critical and personal essays, Chabon asserts his literary manifesto: "I read for entertainment, and I write to entertain. Period."This collection of sixteen essays champions the cause of sci-fi and westerns, superheroes and horror shows, gumshoes and goblins--all the genre novels, comics, and pulp fiction that get pushed aside when literary discussion turns serious. For Chabon, the stories that give us great pleasure are in many ways our truest, best art--the building blocks of our shared imagination. Whether he's taking up Superman or Sherlock Holmes, Poe or Proust, Chabon's emphatic mission is to explore the reasons we tell each other tales, and to offer a glimpse of his own history as reader and writer. This ebook features a biography of the author.
Maps and Monsters in Medieval England (Studies in Medieval History and Culture)
by Asa MittmanFirst published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Maps of Empire: A Topography of World Literature (Cultural Spaces)
by Kyle WanbergDuring the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.
Maps of the Imagination
by Peter TurchiIn Maps of the Imagination, Peter Turchi posits the idea that maps help people understand where they are in the world in the same way that literature, whether realistic or experimental, attempts to explain human realities. The author explores how writers and cartographers use many of the same devices for plotting and executing their work, making crucial decisions about what to include and what to leave out, in order to get from here to there, without excess baggage or a confusing surplus of information. Turchi traces the history of maps, from their initial decorative and religious purposes to their later instructional applications. He describes how maps rely on projections in order to portray a three-dimensional world on the two-dimensional flat surface of paper, which he then relates to what writers do in projecting a literary work from the imagination onto the page.
Marathi (Descriptive Grammars)
by Rajeshwari V. PandharipandeThis is a complete grammatical description of Marathi, which belongs to the Indo-European family and is spoken in Maharashtra State in India. It has around 45 million speakers, who comprise about eight per cent of the total population of India. Marathi is particularly interesting from the point of view of its structure: it is a blending of linguistic features of the Indo-European and Dravidian language families. Marathi provides fascinating data for the study of language typology, structural change, and language universals.
Maravillas [Grade 1, Unit 1, Antologia de literatura]
by Jana Echevarria Teresa Mlawer Gilbert D. Soto Josefina V. TinajeroNIMAC-sourced textbook
Maravillas [Grade 1, Unit 2, Antologia de literatura]
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Maravillas [Grade 1, Unit 3, Antologia de literatura]
by Jana Echevarria Teresa Mlawer Gilbert D. Soto Josefina V. TinajeroNIMAC-sourced textbook
Maravillas [Grade 1, Unit 4-6, Antología de literatura]
by Jana Echevarria Teresa Mlawer Gilbert D. Soto Josefina V. TinajeroNIMAC-sourced textbook
Maravillas [Grade 2, Antologia de literatura]
by Jana Echevarria Teresa Mlawer Gilbert D. Soto Josefina V. TinajeroNIMAC-sourced textbook
Maravillas [Grade 3, Antologia de literatura]
by Jana Echevarria Teresa Mlawer Gilbert D. Soto Josefina V. TinajeroNIMAC-sourced textbook
Maravillas [Grado 1], Unidad 1, Mi libro de lectura y escritura
by Jana Echevarria Josefina V. Tinajero Teresa Mlawer Gilbert D. SotoNIMAC-sourced textbook
Maravillas [Grado 1], Unidad 2, Mi libro de lectura y escritura, Unidad 2
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Maravillas [Grado 1], Unidad 3, Mi libro de lectura y escritura
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Maravillas [Grado 1], Unidad 4, Mi libro de lectura y escritura
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Maravillas [Grado 1], Unidad 5, Mi libro de lectura y escritura
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Maravillas [Grado 1], Unidad 6, Mi libro de lectura y escritura
by Jana Echevarria Josefina V. Tinajero Teresa Mlawer Gilbert D. SotoNIMAC-sourced textbook
Maravillas, Grado 2, Cuaderno de práctica
by Jana Echevarria Josefina V. Tinajero Teresa Mlawer Gilbert D. SotoNIMAC-sourced textbook