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Illegality, Inc.

Autor: Ruben Andersson

Número de Páginas: 361

In this groundbreaking ethnography, Ruben Andersson, a gifted anthropologist and journalist, travels along the clandestine migration trail from Senegal and Mali to the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Through the voices of his informants, Andersson explores, viscerally and emphatically, how Europe’s increasingly powerful border regime meets and interacts with its target–the clandestine migrant. This vivid, rich work examines the subterranean migration flow from Africa to Europe, and shifts the focus from the "illegal immigrants" themselves to the vast industry built around their movements. This fascinating and accessible book is a must-read for anyone interested in the politics of international migration and the changing texture of global culture.

Dioses, ruinas, semillas y canciones

Autor: Héctor Castrillejo San Millán

Número de Páginas: 104

Este es un libro que nace de un derrumbe.\r\nNace en un pajar de barro que contiene un hogar y resiste estupefacto en el centro de un\r\nmundo que desaparece. Nace en Tabanera de Cerrato (Palencia) un pueblo de 60 habitantes\r\nque llegó a tener casi 800 hace algunas décadas.\r\nDesde esta privilegiada atalaya del vaciamiento solo podía germinar esta poesía que aspira a\r\nrecoger la belleza que se desprende a borbotones de la desolación. Un pequeño universo\r\ndonde los enseres que brotan de entre las ruinas nos hablan de los seres que lo poblaron. Un\r\nmundo lejano y aparentemente extraño que en realidad es el nuestro, el de nuestros pueblos,\r\nel de nuestros abuelos, el de nuestra infancia. Un mundo ajeno que en realidad habita en\r\nnuestra sangre y en nuestros sueños. Un mundo perdido al que pertenecemos y que contiene\r\ntambién arcadias campesinas, sabidurías secretas, hogueras y cánticos en la noche, oficios\r\nasombrosos y susurros antiguos. Un mundo en el que las semillas atrapadas en las grietas\r\ncomienzan a palpitar con la promesa de que entre las ruinas está fermentando un mundo\r\nnuevo.

Representing 21st-Century Migration in Europe

Autor: Nelson González Ortega , Ana Belén Martínez García

Número de Páginas: 249

The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major influx of refugees, redefining notions of borders and national identity. This interdisciplinary volume brings together leading international scholars of migration from perspectives as varied as literature, linguistics, area and cultural studies, media and communication, visual arts, and film studies. Together, they offer innovative interpretations of migrants and contemporary migration to Europe, enriching today’s political and media landscape, and engaging with the ongoing debate on forced mobility and rights of both extra-European migrants and European citizens.

Water Worlds: Human Geographies of the Ocean

Autor: Dr Jon Anderson , Dr Kimberley Peters

Número de Páginas: 215

Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography' directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human), this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life. This book features twelve...

Methodologies of Mobility

Autor: Alice Elliot , Roger Norum , Noel B. Salazar

Número de Páginas: 216

Research into mobility is an exciting challenge for the social sciences that raises novel social, cultural, spatial and ethical questions. At the heart of these empirical and theoretical complexities lies the question of methodology: how can we best capture and understand a planet in flux? Methodologies of Mobility speaks beyond disciplinary boundaries to the methodological challenges and possibilities of engaging with a world on the move. With scholars continuing to face different forms and scales of mobility, this volume strategically traces innovative ways of designing, applying and reflecting on both established and cutting-edge methodologies of mobility.

非法公司：來自非洲的祕密移民如何在歐非各國形成一門好生意

Autor: 魯本．安德森

Número de Páginas: 355

一本縱橫在歐非邊界、捕捉非法移民產業如何運作，如何將祕密移民變成一門好生意的民族誌阿潑（媒體工作者，《憂鬱的邊界》作者）◎專文推薦不斷移動、追尋的人如今是移民。這些家庭原本靠一小塊土地維生，四十畝地生於斯長於斯，土地裡的收成決定他們能吃飽還是得挨餓。如今他們在西方世界的後院漫遊，四處奔走，尋找工作；海上有一船又一船的人，邊界壕溝有一排又一排的人。在他們身後，還有更多人即將來到。沙漠與邊地充斥著移動的人們……移動改變了他們：公路、路旁的營地、對饑餓的恐懼與饑餓本身改變了他們；沒有晚餐的兒童改變了他們；無止境的移動改變了他們。他們是移民。敵意改變了他們，融鑄了他們，聯結了他們──敵意讓富國集結起來，耀武揚威，擺出驅逐侵略者的架勢。巡邏艇上的邊界警衛與配備步槍的非洲警察捍衛這個世界，防備自己的同胞。 ──本書作者根據史坦貝克（John Steinbeck）《憤怒的葡萄》（The Grapes of Wrath）所改寫...

Invisible Borders in a Bordered World

Autor: Alexander C. Diener , Joshua Hagen

Número de Páginas: 322

This book critically challenges the usual territorial understanding of borders by examining the often messy internal, transborder, ambiguous, and in-between spaces that co-exist with traditional borders. By considering those less visible aspects of borders, the book develops an inclusive understanding of how contemporary borders are structured and how they influence human identity, mobility, and belonging. The introduction and conclusion provide theoretical and contextual framing, while chapters explore topics of global labor and refugees, unrecognized states, ethnic networks, cyberspace, transboundary resource conflicts, and indigenous and religious spaces that rarely register on conventional maps or commonplace understandings of territory. In the end, the volume demonstrates that, despite being "invisible" on most maps, these borders have a very real, material, and tangible presence and consequences for those people who live within, alongside, and across them.

The Invisible Universe: Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Autor: Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

Número de Páginas: 443

The nature and essence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy have become the central issue in modern cosmology over the past years. This extensive volume, an outgrowth of a topical and tutorial summer school, has been set up with the aim of constituting an advanced-level, multi-authored textbook which meets the needs of both postgraduate students and young researchers in the fields of modern cosmology and astrophysics.

Todesursache: Flucht

Autor: Heribert Prantl , Bernd Mesovic , Rolf Gössner , Heinrich Bedford-strohm , Carlos Collado Seidel , Moustapha Diallo , Stephan Lessenich , Angela Hermann , Laing Lorenz Narku

Número de Páginas: 500

In den vergangenen 25 Jahren sind mehr als 35.000 Menschen auf der Flucht nach und in Europa ums Leben gekommen. Zum Internationalen Tag der Menschenrechte am 10. Dezember 2018 wurde mit der ersten Auflage des Buches die Liste der belegten Fälle dieser Toten in Buchform herausgeben. Zusammengestellt wurde diese Liste ursprünglich von der Organisation UNITED for Intercultural Action in Amsterdam. Die meisten Toten sind ohne Namen verzeichnet. Wir möchten einige Namen nennen und die Menschen, die sie waren, dem Vergessen entreißen, um das Ausmaß dieser Tragödie besser zu fassen zu bekommen – und der Debatte um Flucht und Tod wieder ein menschliches Antlitz zu geben. Die mehr als 400 Buchseiten umfassende Liste wird um kurze Porträtgeschichten von einigen der Gestorbenen, Berichten von Überlebenden und Beiträgen von Heribert Prantl, Mitglied der Chefredaktion der Süddeutschen Zeitung, Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Landesbischof der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern, Rolf Gössner, Vorstandsmitglied der Internationalen Liga für Menschenrechte, Heike Martin, Bündnis "Gemeinsam für Menschenrechte und Demokratie", Stephan Lessenich, Professor für Soziologie der...

L'éducation en Afrique noire à la veille des Indépendances (1946-1958)

Autor: Jean Capelle

Número de Páginas: 342

Demain Le Sénégal

Autor: Majib Sène

Número de Páginas: 168

Nuclear Reaction

Autor: Don Pendleton

Número de Páginas: 228

NECESSARY RISKS Mack Bolan is searching for suitcase nukes in the treacherous backcountry of Pakistan. The deadly weapons are being developed by internal factions determined to vaporize neighboring India. It's a suicide mission—one Bolan takes on with deadly determination. Aiding a group of dissidents committed to stopping a deeply rooted conspiracy that could lead to the annihilation of the Indian subcontinent, Bolan adjusts his angle of attack as a relentless enemy races ahead on their doomsday timetable. But in a part of the world where an international shouting match can turn into mutually assured destruction, all the Executioner needs is for his enemy to make one critical mistake.

Whispering Nickel Idols

Autor: Glen Cook

Número de Páginas: 352

Garrett’s having a pretty good morning until, five minutes in, he finds a strange child named Penny Dreadful poking around his apartment. Before he can figure out who the mysterious urchin really is, he’s hired to investigate how an old crime boss ended up in a coma—leaving his beautiful, criminally insane daughter to run the family business. The boss’s daughter has some lascivious designs on Garrett—and some deadly ones, too. But she’s not the only one dreaming up ways to finish off the endangered private eye—who now has to figure out why everyone is suddenly after him...

For the City Yet to Come

Autor: Abdoumaliq Simone

Número de Páginas: 311

Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa’s burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only temporary compensation for fundamental failure. In For the City Yet to Come, AbdouMaliq Simone argues that by overlooking all that does work in Africa’s cities, this perspective forecloses opportunities to capitalize on existing informal economies and structures in development efforts within Africa and to apply lessons drawn from them to rapidly growing urban areas around the world. Simone contends that Africa’s cities do work on some level and to the extent that they do, they function largely through fluid, makeshift collective actions running parallel to proliferating decentralized local authorities, small-scale enterprises, and community associations. Drawing on his nearly fifteen years of work in African cities—as an activist, teacher, development worker, researcher, and advisor to ngos and local governments—Simone provides a series of case studies illuminating the provisional networks through which most of Africa’s urban...

Machine Learning in Finance

Autor: Matthew F. Dixon , Igor Halperin , Paul Bilokon

Número de Páginas: 565

This book introduces machine learning methods in finance. It presents a unified treatment of machine learning and various statistical and computational disciplines in quantitative finance, such as financial econometrics and discrete time stochastic control, with an emphasis on how theory and hypothesis tests inform the choice of algorithm for financial data modeling and decision making. With the trend towards increasing computational resources and larger datasets, machine learning has grown into an important skillset for the finance industry. This book is written for advanced graduate students and academics in financial econometrics, mathematical finance and applied statistics, in addition to quants and data scientists in the field of quantitative finance. Machine Learning in Finance: From Theory to Practice is divided into three parts, each part covering theory and applications. The first presents supervised learning for cross-sectional data from both a Bayesian and frequentist perspective. The more advanced material places a firm emphasis on neural networks, including deep learning, as well as Gaussian processes, with examples in investment management and derivative modeling....

Bring the Light

Autor: Annette Montez Kolda

Número de Páginas: 270

Sister Bridget Ann Rincón-Keller is known as the crime-fighting nun of East Austin's Latino Community. But her heartstrings may be pulled beyond their limit when she finds a newborn by the statue of the Virgin Mary. The baby’s mother is an undocumented, teenage immigrant. ICE separates the girl from her baby, and Sister Bridget tries to reunite them. But little does she know, there are five other girls, victims of Mexico's kidnapping epidemic, who also need her help. Sister Bridget puts her life on the line. Can she rescue the girls…and herself…from the clutches of evil?

Proceedings of the International Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics

Autor: John Carr , M. Perrottet

Número de Páginas: 1044

Senegaleses en España

Autor: Mercedes Jabardo Velasco

Número de Páginas: 180

Los ciudadanos senegaleses en España constituyen el tercer colectivo de inmigrantes originarios de África, tras los marroquíes y los argelinos, pero además se configuran como un colectivo relativamente antiguo. Este estudio utiliza como punto de arranque distintas fuentes estadísticas para efectuar, desde una perspectiva histórica, un recorrido por las causas y la lógica de la emigración senegalesa y por los principales lugares de destino y asentamiento en España, así como un acercamiento a las principales características de este colectivo.

Autrepart

Número de Páginas: 212

African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods

Autor: Alice Bellagamba , Sandra E. Greene , Martin A. Klein

Número de Páginas: 217

What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume explores diverse sources such as oral testimonies, possession rituals, Arabic language sources, European missionary, administrative and court records and African intellectual writings to discover what they can tell us about slavery and the slave trade in Africa. Also discussed are the methodologies that can be used to uncover the often hidden experiences of Africans embedded in these sources. This book will be invaluable for students and researchers interested in the history of slavery, the slave trade and post-slavery in Africa.

Transnational Death

Autor: Samira Saramo , Eerika Koskinen-koivisto , Hanna Snellman

Número de Páginas: 223

With so much of the global population living on the move, away from their homelands, and in diasporic communities, death and mourning practices are inevitably impacted. Transnational Death brings together eleven cutting-edge articles from the emerging field of transnational death studies. By highlighting European, Asian, North American, and Middle Eastern perspectives, the collection provides timely and fresh analysis and reflection on people’s changing experiences with death in the context of migration over time. First beginning with a thematic assessment of the field of transnational death studies, readers then have the opportunity to delve into case studies that examine experiences with death and mourning at a distance from the viewpoints of Family, Community, and Commemoration. The chapters highlight complicated issues confronting migrants, their families, and communities, including: negotiations of burial preferences and challenges of corpse repatriation; the financial costs of providing end-of-life care, travel at times of death, and arranging culturally appropriate funerals and religious services; as well as the emotional and sociocultural weight of mourning and...

La société sénégalaise entre le local et le global

Número de Páginas: 730

Cet ouvrage constitue la première tentative d'envergure pour écrire une histoire sociale et politique du Sénégal depuis l'indépendance. Il complète et renforce les résultats proposés par la même équipe de recherches dans un volume ayant pour titre Le Sénégal contemporain (Karthala, mars 2002). Élaboré par des chercheurs de générations, de spécialités et de nationalités différentes, ce livre suit à la trace et dévoile les dynamiques sociales, politiques et économiques du pays. Il explore, de manière plus spécifique, une partie des contraintes locales et globales qui déterminent les changements observés dans la société sénégalaise. Il montre encore comment l'image de ce pays s'est transformée et il explicite les tendances lourdes relatives aux rapports entre l'État et la société. Mais ne sont pas visés ici, exclusivement, les espaces circonscrits par l'État et ses agents. Il est aussi question de ceux qui le contournent ou s'en éloignent. Une attention particulière est ainsi apportée, entre autres, aux résultats et conséquences des politiques publiques, aux changements notés au sein des paysanneries ou aux dynamiques démographiques. Ce...

Les Etats-nations face à l'intégration régionale en Afrique de l'Ouest - Le cas du Sénégal

Número de Páginas: 254

Pays côtier à la croisée des grands axes de communication internationale entre l'Afrique, l'Europe et l'Amérique, le cas du Sénégal est assez illustratif de la volonté de s'intégrer dans un ensemble régional. En effet, le Sénégal est confronté à un réel problème d'aménagement de son territoire, marqué par la concentration de 80% de sa population dans le tiers Ouest du pays.Ce basculement des activités économiques vers les côtes a eu pour conséquence une désaffection des régions intérieures frontalières avec les autres pays de la sous-région.

1998 Freshman Achievement Award

Autor: David R. Lide

Número de Páginas: 2708

Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics

Autor: John N. Bahcall , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Número de Páginas: 398

The field of astrophysics is in the midst of a technological renaissance. The emphasis of this collection of essays, composed by a stellar group of astronomers and astrophysicists, is on the current state of our knowledge as a preparation for future unraveling of more mysteries of the universe, which appear most amenable to solution. Aspiring atrophysicists will be enthralled.

Psychogeist

Autor: Leslie Purnell Davies

Número de Páginas: 202

Three men from places far apart in space and time are destined to come together for an event of violence, horror and death.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 85th Edition

Autor: David R. Lide

Número de Páginas: 2928

Get a FREE first edition facsimile with each copy of the 85th! Researchers around the world depend upon having access to authoritative, up-to-date data. And for more than 90 years, they have relied on the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics for that data. This year is no exception. New tables, extensive updates, and added sections mean the Handbook has again set a new standard for reliability, utility, and thoroughness. This edition features a Foreword by world renowned neurologist and author Oliver Sacks, a free facsimile of the 1913 first edition of the Handbook, and thumb tabs that make it easier to locate particular data. New tables in this edition include: Index of Refraction of Inorganic Crystals Upper and Lower Azeotropic Data for Binary Mixtures Critical Solution Temperatures of Polymer Solutions Density of Solvents as a Function of Temperature By popular request, several tables omitted from recent editions are back, including Coefficients of Frictionand Miscibility of Organic Solvents. Ten other sections have been substantially revised, with some, such as the Table of the Isotopes and Thermal Conductivity of Liquids, significantly expanded. The Fundamental Physical...

Warriors of God

Autor: Andrzej Sapkowski

Número de Páginas: 607

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Witcher: Reynevan—scoundrel, magician, possibly a fool—travels into the depths of war as he attempts to navigate the religious fervors of the fifteenth century. When the Hussite leaders entrust Reynevan with a dangerous secret mission, he is forced to come out of hiding in Bohmeia and depart for Silesia. At the same time, he strives to avenge the death of his brother and discover the whereabouts of his beloved. Once again pursued by multiple enemies, he must contend with danger on every front. Full of gripping action replete with twists and mysteries, seasoned with magic and Sapkowski's ever-present wit, fans of the Witcher will appreciate this rich historical epic set during the Hussite Wars. Praise for the The Tower of Fools, book one of the Hussite Trilogy: "This is historical fantasy done right." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A fantastic novel that any fan of The Witcher will instantly appreciate.” —The Gamer “A ripping yarn delivered with world-weary wit, bursting at the seams with sex, death, magic and madness.” —Joe Abercrombie “Sapkowski's energetic and satirical prose as well as the...

Corps en lutte - L'art du combat au Sénégal

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 297

La lutte est omniprésente au Sénégal, et son histoire prend ses sources dans le passé factuel et mythique de ce pays. Rite célébrant la fin des récoltes, fête villageoise, elle permet de mesurer le courage, l'adresse, la loyauté, la force des hommes-guerriers tout en participant à l'éducation du jeune lutteur : respect d'autrui, connaissance des différentes strates de la société, obéissance aux normes. La lutte sénégalaise est un spectacle autant qu'un sport, mêlant chants, danses et acrobaties, déclamations et musiques au crépuscule, appels des tambours et rituels magiques. À l'instar du Sumô japonais, elle est une compétition mais aussi une pratique esthétique, poétique, un art de l'expression corporelle, qui met en œuvre tout un système symbolique, social, mystique. Nourri d'études de terrain, d'observations et de rencontres avec les acteurs de la lutte, cet ouvrage, dirigé par Dominique Chevé, anthropologue, est le premier ouvrage de nature scientifique à s'intéresser à un art ancestral devenu un sport national.

The State in Africa

Autor: Jean-francois Bayart

Número de Páginas: 474

The State in Africa is one of the important and compelling texts of comparative politics and historical sociology of the last twenty years. Bayart rejects the assumption of African ‘otherness’ based on stereotyped images of famine, corruption and civil war. Instead he invites the reader to see that African politics is like politics anywhere else in the world, not an exotic aberration. Africans themselves speak of a ‘politics of the belly’ – an expression that refers not only to the necessities of survival but also to a complex array of cultural representations, notably those of the ‘invisible’ world of sorcery. The ‘politics of the belly’ attests to a distinctively African trajectory of power that we need to understand as part of a long-term historical development. While acknowledging the insights of Western social scientists from Weber to Foucault, Bayart never loses sight of the realities of African politics and social life and he is careful to allow African voices – from the ‘small boy’ in the street to the ‘big men’ in the presidential palaces – to speak for themselves. This new edition of Bayart’s classic book includes a new introduction on...

The State in Africa

Autor: Jean-françois Bayart

Número de Páginas: 412

Examines the role and structure of the state in Africa. Amongst the areas considered are: the genesis of the state; the decision to pursue conservative modernization or social revolution; the formation of an historic postcolonial bloc; and entrepreneurs, factions and political networks.

Situation économique & sociale du Sénégal

Número de Páginas: 364

L'Etat en Afrique

Autor: Jean-françois Bayart

Número de Páginas: 375

L'opinion occidentale reste gorgée de stéréotypes sur le pouvoir et l'Etat en Afrique, en particulier quant au rôle privilégié que la corruption et le tribalisme sont censés jouer au sud du Sahara. Certes, les Africains parlent eux-mêmes à ce propos de "politique du ventre". Mais l'expression renvoie, aussi bien qu'aux nécessités de la survie et de l'accumulation, à des représentations culturelles complexes, notamment celles du monde de l'"invisible", de la sorcellerie. En d'autres termes, la "politique du ventre" témoigne d'une trajectoire africaine du pouvoir qu'il faut comprendre à la lumière de la longue durée. L'analyse des groupes sociaux qui se disputent l'Etat post-colonial et des différents scénarios qui ont prévalu depuis la proclamation des indépendances permet d'avancer des hypothèses neuves sur la formation d'une classe dominante, sur la dépendance des sociétés africaines vis-à-vis de leur environnement international, sur la place déterminante en leur sein des stratégies individuelles et des modes populaires d'action politique, sur l'importance des réseaux d'influence et des terroirs historiques dans le déroulement des conflits, sur la...

The Horn Book Magazine

Número de Páginas: 1052

Vol. 2 includes extra number, "Experimental schools in England," Jan. 1926.

Object Detection and Recognition in Digital Images

Autor: Boguslaw Cyganek

Número de Páginas: 518

Object detection, tracking and recognition in images are key problems in computer vision. This book provides the reader with a balanced treatment between the theory and practice of selected methods in these areas to make the book accessible to a range of researchers, engineers, developers and postgraduate students working in computer vision and related fields. Key features: Explains the main theoretical ideas behind each method (which are augmented with a rigorous mathematical derivation of the formulas), their implementation (in C++) and demonstrated working in real applications. Places an emphasis on tensor and statistical based approaches within object detection and recognition. Provides an overview of image clustering and classification methods which includes subspace and kernel based processing, mean shift and Kalman filter, neural networks, and k-means methods. Contains numerous case study examples of mainly automotive applications. Includes a companion website hosting full C++ implementation, of topics presented in the book as a software library, and an accompanying manual to the software platform.