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Inez and her brother are amazed to find a huge hole being dug right outside the front door of their father's shop. Then suddenly more holes appear all over the main street and before long the cars can't use the road and everyone has to walk around balancing on planks of wood. It can only be a matter of time before the foundations give way...

Music and Performance at the U.S.-Mexico BorderThis book explores the transnational connections that inform the large diversity        of musical traditions from the U.S.-Mexico border (from nortena and cumbia to        indigenous musics, Afro-American traditions and pop musics) while keeping an eye on        their powerful local significance, in...

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Social work scholars and students must increasingly be sensitive to the need for knowledge sharing between countries as well as to issues involved in obtaining and utilising international knowledge. Yet until now, no book has juxtaposed these two growing streams of emphasis. The authors establish three discrete varieties of research -...

1820-1860 A History of US Book 5Early nineteenth-century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "e;Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free."e; It was an exuberant time for the diverse citizens of the United States, who included a range of folk, from mountain men and railroad builders...