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Borders Group, Inc. was an American multinational book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores. [1] [2] At the beginning of 2010, the company operated 511 Borders superstores in the United States.
The United States has land borders with only Canada and Mexico, both of them long. It has maritime boundaries with many countries due to its extensive exclusive economic zone (EEZ). All of its maritime borders with Canada are at least partially disputed, and its territorial claims on three Caribbean islands are disputed.
Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants is a 1987 nonfiction book by journalist and professor Ted Conover.The book is based on his travels, seasonal labor stints, and participatory journalism research with Mexican migrant workers in the late 1980s.
The book examines the human consequences of United States immigration policy. Using research methods from all four subfields of anthropology, De León sheds light on the lives (and deaths) of the thousands of migrants who cross the US border with Mexico daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. The book was published in hardcover and paperback by ...
Louis Borders is the founder of both Borders (in 1971) and Webvan (in 1996). [1] [2] The original Borders bookstore was located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where it was founded in 1971 [3] by brothers Tom and Louis Borders during their undergraduate and graduate years at the University of Michigan. The Borders brothers' inventory system tailored ...
Borders Books and Music United States: defunct 2011 Cokesbury United States: physical stores closed in 2012; continued as online retailer Brentano's United States: acquired by Waldenbooks and merged with Borders; defunct 2011 Crown Books United States: defunct 2001 Encore Books United States: defunct 1999 Family Christian Stores United States
The United States Border Patrol (USBP) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and is responsible for securing the borders of the United States. According to its website as of 2022, its mission is to "Protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nation’s economic ...
Texas (162 U.S. 1 (1896)), a case involving a dispute between Texas and the United States over Greer County, the United States Supreme Court held that the Adams–Onís Treaty and the Treaty of Limits, as accepted by the Republic of Texas, definitively set the boundary between Texas and the Oklahoma Territory of the United States. Original ...