Tabla de Contenidos: “…Fundamentals of soil science -- The soil, an ecological system -- Building blocks of the soil system: inert constituents and living organisms -- Soil properties -- Life in action -- Formations, development and classification of soils -- Between life and soil: the human forms -- pt. 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Approaches to transborder lives -- Transborder communities in political and historical context : views from Oaxaca -- Mexicans in California and Oregon -- Transborder labor lives : harvesting, housecleaning, gardening, and childcare -- Surveillance and invisibility in the lives of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon -- Women's transborder lives : gender relations in work and families -- Navigating the borders of racial and ethnic hierarchies -- Grassroots organizing in transborder lives -- Transborder ethnic identity construction in life and on the net : e-mail and web page construction and use -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Notes on collaborative research.…”