Edge Of The Plain

Author : James Crawford
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324037059
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World written by James Crawford and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging journey through the history of borders and an exploration of their role in shaping our world today. Since the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next—a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform—borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought over. In The Edge of the Plain, James Crawford skillfully blends history, travel writing, and reportage to trace these borderlines throughout history and across the globe. What happens on the ground when we impose lines on a map that contradict how humans have always lived—and moved? Crawford confronts that question from bloody territorial disputes in Mesopotamia, to the Sápmi lands of Scandinavia, the shifting boundaries of the Israel-Palestine conflict, efforts to build a wall on the United States-Mexico border, and the dangerous border crossings pursued by migrants into Europe. And yet the role of borders extends beyond specific sites of conflict. On the largest scale, borders define the limits of empire—the two walls in Britain that once represented the northwestern edge of the Roman Empire; the mythological eastern gate supposedly closed off by Alexander the Great; China’s virtual “Great Firewall.” On the smallest, human scale, cell walls are the last physical barrier against disease, after lines of quarantine have failed. Finally, as The Edge of the Plain reveals, humans have not only made their mark on the landscape: the landscape itself is now changing, more and more rapidly due to climate change. Crawford introduces us to both the Alpine watershed—one such shifting, natural borderline—and the “Great Green Wall” in Africa, envisioned as an international, community-built bulwark against desertification. Borders are as old as human civilization, and focal points for today’s colliding forces of nationalism, climate change, globalization, and mass migration. The Edge of the Plain illuminates these lines of separation past and present, how we define them—and how they define us.

Author : James Crawford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849172523
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotland from the Sky written by James Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In this book, you will travel in both space and time, starting in the years around the First World War and moving all the way up to the present day. As you go, you will see just what our pioneering aviators saw as they stared out from their cockpits. And, more than that, you will explore what they were trying to find. Because, from above, Scotland can be many different things, depending on what you choose to look at - and who is doing the looking.'Accompanying the BBC documentary series Scotland from the Sky, this lavishly illustrated book draws on the vast collection of aerial photography held in the archives of Historic Environment Scotland. Historian and series presenter James Crawford opens an extraordinary window into our past to tell the remarkable story of a nation from above - taking readers back in time to show how our great cities have dramatically altered with the ebb and flow of history, while whole communities have vanished in the name of progress. The book shows how aerial imagery can reveal treasures from the ancient past, uncovering secrets buried right beneath our feet. And it demonstrates how the view from above has been at the heart of the postwar transformation of both our countryside and our urban landscapes.This is a fascinating - and little known - story of war, innovation, adventure, cities, landscapes and people. This is the story of Scotland, from the sky.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0679423907
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities of the Plain written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting is New Mexico in 1952, where John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands. To the North lie the proving grounds of Alamogordo; to the South, the twin cities of El Paso and Juarez, Mexico. Their life is made up of trail drives and horse auctions and stories told by campfire light. It is a life that is about to change forever, and John Grady and Billy both know it. The catalyst for that change appears in the form of a beautiful, ill-starred Mexican prostitute. When John Grady falls in love, Billy agrees--against his better judgment--to help him rescue the girl from her suavely brutal pimp. The ensuing events resonate with the violence and inevitability of classic tragedy

Author : Joel Garreau
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307801942
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edge City written by Joel Garreau and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City.

Author : Julia Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979797477
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books Will Speak Plain written by Julia Miller and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : JAMES. CRAWFORD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838852030
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EDGE OF THE PLAIN written by JAMES. CRAWFORD and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J.A Redmerski
Publisher : Forever
ISBN 13 : 1455548995
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Never written by J.A Redmerski and published by Forever. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beloved New York Times bestseller about two lost souls who embark on an epic road trip and find love along the way. A New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling blockbuster! Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett thought she knew exactly where her life was going. But after a wild night at the hottest club in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, she shocks everyone-including herself-when she decides to leave the only life she's ever known and set out on her own. Grabbing her purse and her cell phone, Camryn boards a Greyhound bus ready to find herself. Instead, she finds Andrew Parrish. Sexy and exciting, Andrew lives life like there is no tomorrow. He persuades Camryn to do things she never thought she would and shows her how to give in to her deepest, most forbidden desires. Soon he becomes the center of her daring new life, pulling love and lust and emotion out of her in ways she never imagined possible. But there is more to Andrew than Camryn realizes. Will his secret push them inseparably together -- or destroy them forever?

Author : Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385418518
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Needlework, an Encyclopædia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlework, Church Embroidery, Lace, and Ornamental Needlework written by Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Henry T. Wright
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0932206875
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Early Town on the Deh Luran Plain written by Henry T. Wright and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Crawford
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250118301
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallen Glory written by James Crawford and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inviting, fascinating compendium of twenty-one of history's most famous lost places, from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers Buildings are more like us than we realize. They can be born into wealth or poverty, enjoying every privilege or struggling to make ends meet. They have parents—gods, kings and emperors, governments, visionaries and madmen—as well as friends and enemies. They have duties and responsibilities. They can endure crises of faith and purpose. They can succeed or fail. They can live. And, sooner or later, they die. In Fallen Glory, James Crawford uncovers the biographies of some of the world’s most fascinating lost and ruined buildings, from the dawn of civilization to the cyber era. The lives of these iconic structures are packed with drama and intrigue. Soap operas on the grandest scale, they feature war and religion, politics and art, love and betrayal, catastrophe and hope. Frequently their afterlives have been no less dramatic—their memories used and abused down the millennia for purposes both sacred and profane. They provide the stage for a startling array of characters, including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Nefertiti, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler, and even Bruce Springsteen. The twenty-one structures Crawford focuses on include The Tower of Babel, The Temple of Jerusalem, The Library of Alexandria, The Bastille, Kowloon Walled City, the Berlin Wall, and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Ranging from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile and the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London and New York, Fallen Glory is a unique guide to a world of vanished architecture. And, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history’s scattered ruins can tell us about our own future.