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Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands
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Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American BorderlandsLiving with Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands

The story of the Sioux who moved into the Canadian-American borderlands in the later years of the nineteenth century is told in its entirety for the first time here. Previous histories have been divided by national boundaries and have focused on the famous personages involved, paying scant attention to how Native peoples on both sides of the border reacted to the arrival of the Sioux. Using material from archives across North America, Canadian and American government documents, Lakota winter counts, and oral history, Living with Strangers reveals how the nineteenth-century Sioux were a people of the borderlands.

 

 
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Blood Meridian
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Blood MeridianBlood Meridian

Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 Western novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House.
The narrative follows a teenage runaway referred to only as "the kid", with the bulk of the text devoted to his experiences with the Glanton gang, a historical group of scalp hunters who massacred Indians and others in the United States–Mexico borderlands in 1849 and 1850. The role of antagonist is gradually filled by Judge Holden, a large, intelligent man depicted as entirely devoid of body hair and emblematic of violence and conflict.


 
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Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands
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Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic BorderlandsInvisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands

In this eloquent and eye-opening adventure narrative, Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson, two Americans fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Uyghur, throw away the guidebook and bring a hitherto unexplored side of China to light. They journey over 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of the country to meet the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe.
 
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense (Audiobook)
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense (Audiobook)The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense (Audiobook)

In The Borderlands of Science, Michael Shermer takes us to the place where real science, borderline science — and just plain nonsense — collide. Shermer argues that while science is the best lens through which to view the world, it is often difficult to decipher where valid science leaves off and borderland, or “fuzzy” science begins. To solve this dilemma, he looks at a range of topics that put this boundary line in high relief.
 
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets NonsenseAs author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourg of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science (superstring theory) and just plain nonsense (Big Foot) collide with one another.
 
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Tags: science, Science, theory, Believe, Borderlands