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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Solve Animal Mysteries from A to Z with young clue hunters Abbi, Daniel, and Lydia!A is for ALPACAS: It's time for the alpaca costume contest, and Abigail "Abbi" Wallace is excited to see it at the Maine State Fair. But there’s only one alpaca left—the rest are missing! What sent the alpacas packing? Abbi; her dog, Barkley; and her friends Lydia and Daniel are ready to sniff out this mystery!Bats in the Castle: Abbi, Lydia, and Daniel love ...

***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...

Through his study of curses, Ryoma has discovered a surprising way to expand his business empire. Meanwhile, he finally achieves his goal of allowing his familiar, Korumi, to explore lands beyond the manor in the Sea of Trees. Korumi happily assists Ryoma in conducting experiments in various fields, such as food, transportation of goods, winter gear, and more. However, neither of them could have expected what fields their research would lead them to explore.

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...

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 ...

With AI upending work and life, the founders of Axios and 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 mos...