Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520222359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A short history of the Chipko movement in India, one of the world's most famous examples of a grassroots environmental protest movement. This is a revised and expanded edition of a widely-reviewed book originally published in 1990.
The Unquiet Woods
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520222359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A short history of the Chipko movement in India, one of the world's most famous examples of a grassroots environmental protest movement. This is a revised and expanded edition of a widely-reviewed book originally published in 1990.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520222359
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A short history of the Chipko movement in India, one of the world's most famous examples of a grassroots environmental protest movement. This is a revised and expanded edition of a widely-reviewed book originally published in 1990.
The Unquiet Woods
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222350
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A short history of the Chipko movement in India, one of the world's most famous examples of a grassroots environmental protest movement. This is a revised and expanded edition of a widely-reviewed book originally published in 1990.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520222350
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A short history of the Chipko movement in India, one of the world's most famous examples of a grassroots environmental protest movement. This is a revised and expanded edition of a widely-reviewed book originally published in 1990.
An Unquiet Grave
Author: P. J. Parrish
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786016075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling stone walls, lie one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and its forgotten cemetery. The sprawling ruin is empty now, and the bulldozers have come to raze it. But as they do, a terrifying secret begins to emerge...
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786016075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling stone walls, lie one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and its forgotten cemetery. The sprawling ruin is empty now, and the bulldozers have come to raze it. But as they do, a terrifying secret begins to emerge...
The Unquiet Dead
Author: Ausma Zehanat Khan
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1466858311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“Khan is a refreshing original, and The Unquiet Dead blazes what one hopes will be a new path guided by the author's keen understanding of the intersection of faith and core Muslim values, complex human nature and evil done by seemingly ordinary people. It is these qualities that make this a debut to remember and one that even those who eschew the [mystery] genre will devour in one breathtaking sitting.” —The LA Times Despite their many differences, Detective Rachel Getty trusts her boss, Esa Khattak, implicitly. But she's still uneasy at Khattak's tight-lipped secrecy when he asks her to look into Christopher Drayton's death. Drayton's apparently accidental fall from a cliff doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, particularly not from Rachel and Khattak's team, which handles minority-sensitive cases. But when she learns that Drayton may have been living under an assumed name, Rachel begins to understand why Khattak is tip-toeing around this case. It soon comes to light that Drayton may have been a war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. If that's true, any number of people might have had reason to help Drayton to his death, and a murder investigation could have far-reaching ripples throughout the community. But as Rachel and Khattak dig deeper into the life and death of Christopher Drayton, every question seems to lead only to more questions, with no easy answers. Had the specters of Srebrenica returned to haunt Drayton at the end, or had he been keeping secrets of an entirely different nature? Or, after all, did a man just fall to his death from the Bluffs? In her spellbinding debut, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a complex and provocative story of loss, redemption, and the cost of justice that will linger with readers long after turning the final page.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1466858311
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“Khan is a refreshing original, and The Unquiet Dead blazes what one hopes will be a new path guided by the author's keen understanding of the intersection of faith and core Muslim values, complex human nature and evil done by seemingly ordinary people. It is these qualities that make this a debut to remember and one that even those who eschew the [mystery] genre will devour in one breathtaking sitting.” —The LA Times Despite their many differences, Detective Rachel Getty trusts her boss, Esa Khattak, implicitly. But she's still uneasy at Khattak's tight-lipped secrecy when he asks her to look into Christopher Drayton's death. Drayton's apparently accidental fall from a cliff doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, particularly not from Rachel and Khattak's team, which handles minority-sensitive cases. But when she learns that Drayton may have been living under an assumed name, Rachel begins to understand why Khattak is tip-toeing around this case. It soon comes to light that Drayton may have been a war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. If that's true, any number of people might have had reason to help Drayton to his death, and a murder investigation could have far-reaching ripples throughout the community. But as Rachel and Khattak dig deeper into the life and death of Christopher Drayton, every question seems to lead only to more questions, with no easy answers. Had the specters of Srebrenica returned to haunt Drayton at the end, or had he been keeping secrets of an entirely different nature? Or, after all, did a man just fall to his death from the Bluffs? In her spellbinding debut, Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a complex and provocative story of loss, redemption, and the cost of justice that will linger with readers long after turning the final page.
How Much Should a Person Consume?
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520248038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520248038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
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Savaging the Civilized
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226310473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"Described by his contemporaries as a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Paul Gauguin, Elwin was a man of contradictions, at times taking on the role of evangelist, social worker, political activist, poet, government worker, and more. Intensely political, the Oxford-trained scholar tirelessly defended the rights of the indigenous and despite the deep religious influences of St.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226310473
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
"Described by his contemporaries as a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Paul Gauguin, Elwin was a man of contradictions, at times taking on the role of evangelist, social worker, political activist, poet, government worker, and more. Intensely political, the Oxford-trained scholar tirelessly defended the rights of the indigenous and despite the deep religious influences of St.
Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development
Author: Rosi Braidotti
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856491846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempt to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. Among the current critiques of the western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant developmental model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy. The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift -- emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace. This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women."--Publisher's description.
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856491846
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempt to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. Among the current critiques of the western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant developmental model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy. The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift -- emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace. This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women."--Publisher's description.
This Fissured Land
Author: Madhav Gadgil
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520082960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"A masterful study. . . . It does for ecological history what the writings of Marx and Engels did for the study of class relations and social production."—Michael Adas, Rutgers University
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520082960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"A masterful study. . . . It does for ecological history what the writings of Marx and Engels did for the study of class relations and social production."—Michael Adas, Rutgers University
The Unquiet Past
Author: Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459806573
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In this paranormal YA thriller, Tess embarks on a quest to find out the truth about her parents and realizes that she possesses unusual powers that link her to the past.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459806573
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In this paranormal YA thriller, Tess embarks on a quest to find out the truth about her parents and realizes that she possesses unusual powers that link her to the past.
The Unquiet
Author: John Connolly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501122665
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The P.I. is hired by the daughter of a missing child psychiatrist being stalked by a man who insists that she knows where her father is.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501122665
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The P.I. is hired by the daughter of a missing child psychiatrist being stalked by a man who insists that she knows where her father is.