Product Description: While on long travel vacations, did you help your children search for that license plate from Montana? Maybe you're young enough to remember searching for it with your parents? Did you ever wonder how many 18 wheelers we share interstate highways with? So I decided to search for 18 wheelers instead of license plates...read more

Product Description: This book, originally published in 1986, based on extensive original research, presents many findings on the phenomenon of return migration and on its impact on regional economic development. It remains the only study of its kind...read more

At the time this book was originally published in 1985 Italy was one of Europe’s leading industrial nations. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Italian industry during the 1980s. It introduces Italy’s physical and human resources and outlines the historical development of the industry. It then examines the major sectors of Italian industry and then describes the different regions of the country and the striking differences between them are explored and discussed.

Product Description: On your last traveling vacation, did you help your children search for that license plate from Montana? Maybe you're young enough to remember searching for it with your parents? Why don't you and your family search for 18 wheelers instead? There are 160 trucks with a list of the number they have...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on the return of the diasporic Greek second generation to Greece, primarily in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and their evolving, often ambivalent, senses of belonging and conceptualizations of "home...read more

Product Description: This is a travel book for children and bored adult passengers. Rather than immersing themselves in electronic gadgets, they are required to look out the car windows as they travel on the American Interstate Highway system to see many wonderful sites not visible on their I-pad...read more

Product Description: How the migration of people through the ages has shaped the course of history. The Atlas of Human Migration explains how humans have constantly overcome environmental and physical barriers and adapted to new social, political and environmental realities...read more

Product Description: Spain has witnessed the most remarkable economic, social and political transformation of any West European country over the past 25 years. During this time it has emerged from the shadow of Franco's dictatorship to its new status as a major EU country...read more

International migration has long been a dominant feature of world literature from both post-industrial and developing countries. The increasing demands of the global economic system and continued political instability in many of the world's region have highlighted this shifting map of the world's peoples.Yet, political concern for the larger scale economic and social impact of migration has effectively obscured the nature of the migratory nature of the migratory experience itself, the emotions and practicalities of departure, travel, arrival and the attempt to rebuild a home.Writing Across Worlds explores an extraordinary range of migration literaturesm from letters and diaries to journalistic articles, autobiographies and fiction, in order to analyse the reality of the migrant's experience. The sheer range of writings - Irish, Friulian, Italian, Jewish and South Asian British, Gastarbeiter literature from Germany, Pied noir, French-Algerian and French West Indian writing, Carribbean novels, Slovene emigrant texts, Japanese-Canadian writing, migration in American novels, narratives from Australia, South Africa, Samoa and others - illustrate the diversity of global migratory experience and emphasise the social context of literature.The geographic and literary range of Writing Across Worlds makes this collection an invaluable analysis of migration, giving voice to the hope, pain, nostalgia and triumph of lives lived in other places.

This title explores the close and vital relationship between the contemporary media and immigration. Drawing on newspapers, magazines, film, television and photography, the contributors examine the effects of mass media on migration behaviour and ethnic identity. Using examples from a range of countries, Media and Migration illustrates how the media intervenes to affect the reception migrants receive, how it stimulates prospective migrants to move and how it plays a dynamic role in the cultural politics and cultural identity of diasporic communities.

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Product Description: An exploration of the many geographies of the Mediterranean Basin, this work touching on topics that include the Mediterranean environment, geopolitics, economic development, trade, demography, migration, cities, tourism, landscapes, mountains, and islands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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