A Continent Moving West?

A Continent Moving West?
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Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9789089641564
ISBN-13 : 9089641564
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis A Continent Moving West? by : Richard Black

Dit boek beschrijft de toename van migratie uit Oost-europese landen in de periode van 2004-2007, na toetreding tot de EU. Het bevat nieuwe empirische 'casestudies' van migratiepatronen, zowel gebaseerd op veldwerk als op de analyse van bestaande statistieken.

Physical Geology

Physical Geology
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Total Pages : 628
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ISBN-10 : 1537068822
ISBN-13 : 9781537068824
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Physical Geology by : Steven Earle

This is a discount Black and white version. Some images may be unclear, please see BCCampus website for the digital version.This book was born out of a 2014 meeting of earth science educators representing most of the universities and colleges in British Columbia, and nurtured by a widely shared frustration that many students are not thriving in courses because textbooks have become too expensive for them to buy. But the real inspiration comes from a fascination for the spectacular geology of western Canada and the many decades that the author spent exploring this region along with colleagues, students, family, and friends. My goal has been to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to the important topics of geology, richly illustrated with examples from western Canada. Although this text is intended to complement a typical first-year course in physical geology, its contents could be applied to numerous other related courses.

This Dynamic Earth

This Dynamic Earth
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Publisher : Geological Survey (USGS)
Total Pages : 84
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000042373781
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Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis This Dynamic Earth by : W. Jacquelyne Kious

In the early 1960s, the emergence of the theory of plate tectonics started a revolution in the earth sciences. Since then, scientists have verified and refined this theory, and now have a much better understanding of how our planet has been shaped by plate-tectonic processes. We now know that, directly or indirectly, plate tectonics influences nearly all geologic processes, past and present. Indeed, the notion that the entire Earth's surface is continually shifting has profoundly changed the way we view our world.

U.S. History

U.S. History
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Total Pages : 1886
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Synopsis U.S. History by : P. Scott Corbett

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

The Great Return: Slovakia's Lost Daughters and Sons Come Home

The Great Return: Slovakia's Lost Daughters and Sons Come Home
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Publisher : Hybrid Global Publishing
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 1957013168
ISBN-13 : 9781957013169
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis The Great Return: Slovakia's Lost Daughters and Sons Come Home by : Zuzana Palovic

In the beginning of the 21st century, Europe opened its borders to the countries from behind the Iron Curtain. Since then, over 100 million citizens, including Slovaks gained the freedom to move West without a visa. Now, a decade after the East-West exodus, our pioneers are returning home. Telling the stories of international Slovaks who left, learned and returned, 58 voices including government, business and society share their views on the transformation of a nation. The 59th voice is that of the author, who reveals a personal tale of loss, lessons and reconnection through a rite of passage shared by millions of people across the planet. Time-travellers to culture-shifters, Slovakia's lost daughters and sons come home, proving that return is not just a possibility, but an opportunity.

Assembling California

Assembling California
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780374706029
ISBN-13 : 0374706026
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Assembling California by : John McPhee

At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.

The Dodgers Move West

The Dodgers Move West
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 279
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ISBN-10 : 9780195059229
ISBN-13 : 0195059220
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dodgers Move West by : Neil Sullivan

For many New Yorkers, the removal of the Brooklyn Dodgers—perhaps the most popular baseball team of all time—to Los Angeles in 1957 remains one of the most traumatic events since World War II. Sullivan's controversial reassessment of this event shifts responsibility for the move onto the local governmental maneuverings that occurred on both sides of the continent. Set against a backdrop of sporting passion and rivalry, and appearing over thirty years after the Dodgers' last season in Brooklyn, this engrossing book offers new insights into the power struggle existing in the nation's two largest cities.

The Origin of Continents and Oceans

The Origin of Continents and Oceans
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9780486143897
ISBN-13 : 0486143899
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis The Origin of Continents and Oceans by : Alfred Wegener

A source of profound influence and controversy, this landmark 1915 work explains various phenomena of historical geology, geomorphy, paleontology, paleoclimatology, and similar areas in terms of continental drift. 64 illustrations. 1966 edition.

Migration and Mobility in Europe

Migration and Mobility in Europe
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9781849802017
ISBN-13 : 1849802017
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Migration and Mobility in Europe by : Heinz Fassmann

The papers presented in this volume form a homogeneous body of knowledge with many facets. The topics researched present a wide variety. . . This volume offers solid research on a variety of issues in the study of migration. Theodore P. Lianos, South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics The enlargement of the European Union has had an enormous impact on migration within Europe. This book addresses the form of these effects, outlining the social, political and economic problems created by the free movement of people within the European Union. The eminent European contributors to this book explore the ways in which nation states and the EU seek to promote the benefits of migration but at the same time counter threats arising from dislocation. The advantages and costs of migration are considered, as is the crucial problem of who gains and loses from migration. Underpinning the analysis are studies on retirement migrants in Turkey and migrant workers in countries including Austria, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, which highlight the impact of immigration in the host states, the motivation for migration within the EU as well as the issues of societal integration of migrants and the need for control as a consequence of growing levels of migration. This timely and relevant study will strongly appeal to scholars and researchers in a wide range of fields including European studies, migration studies, social policy, human geography, international relations and sociology.

New Scots

New Scots
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781474437899
ISBN-13 : 1474437893
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis New Scots by : Tom M. Devine

Looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the Enlightenment