Gardens of Gold: Place-Making in Papua New Guinea (Culture, Place, and Nature) by Jamon Alex Halvaksz
2020 | ISBN: 0295747595, 0295747609 | English | 242 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence foods to instead cultivating coffee and other cash crops and dishing for tradable flakes of gold. Decades of industrial gold mining, land development, conservation efforts, and biological research have wrought transformations in the landscape and entwined traditional Biangai gardening practices with Western capital, disrupting the relationship between place and person and the social reproduction of a community.
Garden Furniture and Outdoor Projects by Pippa & Ian Howes
English | 2004 | ISBN: 076210435X | 182 pages | PDF | 104 MB
Offering an array of DIY garden projects illustrated by over 250 photographs and explained via brief but careful instructions, this volume should be a valuable resource for confident beginners or moderately skilled woodworkers seeking to enhance their lawns and gardens. The projects, which range from benches and chairs to planters, tuteurs and birdhouses, can be made from plywood and softwood with a set of basic tools (the authors list 14 essential items for a starter tool kit, from a handsaw to plastic sawhorses). Ward and Gibbs offer quick rundowns on key techniques, lumber, finishes and safety before moving into the projects themselves. Though many of these, such as the swing bench and the child`s fort, will be daunting for the true beginner, others, such as the trellis and the weathervane, should come together with ease.
Manfred B. Steger, "Gandhi's Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power"
English | 2000 | pages: 236 | ISBN: 0312221770 | PDF | 21,3 mb
Throughout his long career as a political thinker and activist, Mahatma Gandhi encountered the dilemma of either remaining faithful to his nonviolent principles and risking the failure of the Indian nationalist movement, or focusing on the seizure of political power at the expense of his moral message. Putting forward his vision of a "nonviolent nationalism," Gandhi argued that Indian self-rule could be achieved without sacrificing the universalist imperatives of his nonviolent philosophy. Conceived as a study in the history of political thought, this book examines the origins, meaning, and unfolding of Gandhi s dilemma as it played itself out in both theory and political practice. This discussion is inextricably linked to significant and timely issues that are critical for the study of nationalism, for Gandhi s vision raises the important question of whether it is indeed possible to construct a benign type of nationalism that is rooted in neither physical nor conceptual forms of violence.
GMAT & GRE Math Tricks and Tips (The Complete MBA CourseWork Series)
by Hicham and Mohamed Ibnalkadi
English | 2021 | ASIN: B08NFY529K | 112 Pages | EPUB | 22 MB
Functional Training and Beyond: Building the Ultimate Superfunctional Body and Mind (Building Muscle and Performance, Weight Training) by Adam Sinicki
English | ISBN: 164250503X | 224 pages | EPUB | January 19, 2021 | 8.20 Mb
Train Like a Superhero
Alice Miller, Andrew Jenkins, "Free from Lies: Discovering Your True Needs"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0393069133, 0393338509 | 282 pages | AZW3 | 0.36 MB
An astoundingly moving and perceptive work on how adults can finally overcome the traumas of their childhood.
Chris Anderson, "Free: The Future of a Radical Price"
English | ISBN: 1401322905 | 2009 | 288 pages | MOBI | 614 KB
The New York Times bestselling author heralds the future of business in Free.
Four Years With A Mentally Ill Dictator
by Thomas Sarc
English | 2021 | ASIN: B08T8TVDVJ | 84 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Forming Nation, Framing Welfare By Gail Lewis
1998 | 351 Pages | ISBN: 0415181305 | PDF | 6 MB
This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of the "the family," it traces some of the crucial historical roots of contemporary social problems and social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between the pat and the present, it shows that social problems are socially constructed in specific contexts and that there are diverse and competing ways of telling history.
Ben Evans, "Foothold in the Heavens: The Seventies "
English | ISBN: 1441963413 | 2010 | 548 pages | PDF | 41 MB
Foothold in the Heavens, the second volume in the A History of Human Space Exploration series, focuses upon the 1970s, the decade in which humanity established real, longterm foothold in the heavens with the construction and operation of the first space stations. It marked a transitional phase between the heady, race-to-the-Moon days of the Sixties and efforts to make space travel more economical, more frequent and more 'routine.' Space exploration in the Seventies, although dominated by Soviet achievement, saw the first efforts of mankind to really 'live' and work in space, producing results of direct benefit to humans on Earth. The emphasis changed from the gung-ho, 'strap-it-on-and-go' pioneers of the Sixties to the more practical exploitation of space for science, medicine, and technology. This book focuses on each mission launched between April 1971 and April 1981: from the launch of the world's first space station to the end of operations of Salyut 6, and from the expanded, lengthy exploration of the Moon on Apollo 15 to the first flight of the Shuttle.