This book examines how citizenship operates in the contested borderlands between India, Nepal, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, revealing a complex reality that defies conventional nation-state frameworks. By focusing on these reportedly porous regions where state authority proves inconsistent, the collection uncovers how cross-border mobility, intimacies, and connections generate anxieties and conflicts that acquire unique intensity in these liminal spaces. Rather than accepting citizenship as a ...

How did the Pentateuch come into being, and what kinds of evidence can responsibly guide new answers to this enduring question? Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch, Volume 3/1 captures an active scholarly conversation among a diverse group of biblical scholars who challenge prevailing orthodoxies about the formation of the Torah and seek new frameworks for understanding its composition.Emphasizing the need to move beyond critique toward positive proposals supported...

How did the Pentateuch come into being, and what kinds of evidence can responsibly guide new answers to this enduring question? Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch, Volume 3/1 captures an active scholarly conversation among a diverse group of biblical scholars who challenge prevailing orthodoxies about the formation of the Torah and seek new frameworks for understanding its composition.Emphasizing the need to move beyond critique toward positive proposals supported...

With AI upending work and life, the bestselling authors of Smart Brevity offer a one-stop survival guide to dramatically improving your life, work and happiness.* Toxic complexity clogs our meetings, inboxes, calendars - even in our daily habits. We can do so much more, but first we need to do less.* Simplify shows you how. It's a step-by-step playbook for spending most of your time doing things that make ...

This completely revised and updated sixth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meanings of popular music in the post-digital age.Reflecting the breadth of scholarship within popular music studies and charting key elements of popular music culture in the post-digital age, this new edition has been expanded and comprehensively updated to offer an essential guide t...

***Multi-scale and Multi-physics Simulation of Fracture and Fatigue***presents a comprehensive exploration of theoretical and computational methods used in the analysis of fracture and fatigue in materials, effectively bridging length and time scales. It explores both fundamental concepts of fracture mechanics and cutting-edge multi-scale computational modeling.By focusing on methods to predict material properties, including fracture toughness, based on nanoscale interactions up to...

Motion is the only law Una understands.Since walking out of the Stadium she has kept going west, across a Montreal that survives by staying still. Villages that have taught themselves to make no sound at all. A weather station still tracking storms that stopped being storms. A toll gate on the old highway where the wind is wired to report you.They call the thing they are hiding from the Pressure. It reaches into minds, into machines, into the air, and corrects whatever drif...

Motion is the only law Una understands.Since walking out of the Stadium she has kept going west, across a Montreal that survives by staying still. Villages that have taught themselves to make no sound at all. A weather station still tracking storms that stopped being storms. A toll gate on the old highway where the wind is wired to report you.They call the thing they are hiding from the Pressure. It reaches into minds, into machines, into the air, and corrects whatever drif...

When the connection began, it felt less like a meeting and more like a collision-a ripple in the fabric of existence that hinted at lifetimes of separation and reunion. For Thomas, a man known to the public as a chronicler of the strange and the supernatural, the bond with Marianne was his greatest mystery. It was a tether woven of cosmic necessity, synchronicity, and an attraction that seemed to defy the limits of geography. But as the narrative of their shared life deepened, the ethereal...

Cat Williamson, is a gifted young woman who possesses unique empathic abilities which she discovers are linked to strange activity in her brain. As her empathic powers & her relationship with boyfriend Nate grow, she is dogged by investigative reporter Lori Madison, who is determined to learn Cat's secrets to boost her own career. Tensions build as Cat & Nate work with local policeman, Sergeant Diamond, using her abilities to help locate & rescue two young children kidnapped by their non-c...

When the thermosyphons fail due to lack of maintenance after the Light, a systems engineer and a Yellowknives Dene rights-holder must salvage truth and names from logs and drafts to prevent history from being erased as arsenic contamination migrates to the river.

Una and Andy find each other again at the edge of the Montreal island, each carrying a reason why the Stadium cannot be allowed to stand.For Una, it is the psionic force that has enslaved the island's population. For Andy, it is personal, and it has been personal since the glastorm in Book II: The Exodus.They enter the Stadium wrapped in cloaks sewn with stones from Una's cave, crude deflectors against the psionic field, guided by Patch, a Grafter whose skin has be...