Author: Christian Perrissin
Publisher: Humanoids Inc
ISBN: 1594653593
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A contemporary "Heart of Darkness" recounting one woman's globe-spanning adventures in search of a long-lost brother.
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Category : Church and the world
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Author: Neil L. Jennings
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
ISBN: 1897522789
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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In Plain Sighthighlights a selection of natural wonders and outdoor adventures located in southern Alberta. The places featured in this book have been chosen for their utter uniqueness, beauty and splendour. Some are easy to get to and easy to get around in; others require a bit more time and energy. Overall, you will be stimulated, enlightened, delighted, amazed, uplifted and broadened by the experience. These are truly awesome places, in the very real denotation of that adjective. All are in plain sight, though they are little visited by locals or tourists. The book contains chapters on Waterton Lakes National Park, Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Dinosaur Provincial Park, the Whaleback and a number of other special places. The narrative covers the geological record and the natural and human history of the places in order to explain how each locale is unique and worthy of further investigation.
Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category : Desert warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Author: Nick Middleton
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191609838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Deserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes to mind? A wasteland? A drought? A place devoid of all life forms? Deserts are remarkable places. Typified by drought and extremes of temperature, they can be harsh and hostile; but many deserts are also spectacularly beautiful, and on occasion teem with life. Nick Middleton explores how each desert is unique: through fantastic life forms, extraordinary scenery, and ingenious human adaptations. He demonstrates a desert's immense natural beauty, its rich biodiversity, and uncovers a long history of successful human occupation. This Very Short Introduction tells you everything you ever wanted to know about these extraordinary places and captures their importance in the working of our planet. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: George Passman Tate
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Category : Balochistan Region
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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George Passman Tate was an assistant superintendent employed by the Survey of India who headed the surveys undertaken by two missions that determined large parts of the borders of Afghanistan, the Baluch-Afghan Boundary Commission of 1895-96 and the Seistan Arbitration Mission of 1903-5. The first of these surveys was carried out to delimit the so-called Durand Line, the border between Afghanistan and British India (present-day Pakistan) that was negotiated during the 1893 mission to Kabul by Sir Mortimer Durand of the Indian government and codified in an agreement signed by Durand and the ruler of Afghanistan, Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan. The second survey was to Seistan, or Sistan, a region that straddles eastern Iran and southern Afghanistan (and parts of Pakistan). It was undertaken after the governments in Kabul and Tehran asked Great Britain to arbitrate the border between the two countries in this region. The book contains an introduction by Colonel Sir Henry McMahon, the British commissioner on both missions. Most of the book is taken up by Tate's account of the Seistan Mission. He describes the journey overland from Quetta (in present-day Pakistan) to eastern Iran and the region of the marshy Hamun-i Helmand (present-day Daryacheh-ye Hamun) fed by the Helmand River. Tate offers vivid descriptions of the harsh and forbidding climate, the famous "Wind of 120 Days," and the people, economy, and social conditions of the region. The final chapter is devoted to the Helmand River. The book includes illustrations and two fold-out maps, one showing the route of Tate's travels, and another the region of the Daryacheh-ye Hamun. Tate describes the work of the surveying parties, but he offers little insight into the politics surrounding the determination of the borders, a topic which, as Sir Henry McMahon phrased it in his introduction, he "felt himself debarred from touching." Tate filed a number of official reports in which these topics were discussed.
Author: Marquis de Sade
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625585985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the storming of the Bastille. Sade wrote that he "wept tears of blood" over the manuscript's loss. Many consider this to be Sade crowing acheivement.
Author: Vidhathri Academy
Publisher: Vidhathri Academy
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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The Social Science contains four sessions- (I) History (II) Geography (III) Political Science and (IV) Economy with about 15 to 30 solved multiple choice questions at the end of all the chapters. The distribution of the sessions are as follows: Session (I) History: Chapter 1 The French Revolution 4 – 20; Chapter 2 Socialism in Europe and the Russian Revolution 21 – 32; Chapter 3 Nazism and the Rise of Hitler 33 – 48; Chapter 4 Forest Society and Colonialism 49 – 60; Chapter 5 Pastoralists in the Modern World 61 – 71. Session (II) Geography: Chapter 1 India 73 – 84; Chapter 2 Physical Features of India 85 – 95; Chapter 3 Drainage 96 – 107; Chapter 4 Climate 108 – 122; Chapter 5 Natural Vegetation and Wild Life 123 – 135; Chapter 6 Population 136 – 149; Session (III) Political Science: Chapter 1 What is Democracy? Why Democracy? 151 – 162; Chapter 2 Constitutional Design 163 – 173; Chapter 3 Electoral Politics 174 – 186; Chapter 4 Working of Institutions 187 – 200; Chapter 5 Democratic Rights 201 – 214; Session (IV) Economy; Chapter 1 The Story of Village Palampur 216 – 223; Chapter 2 People as Resource 224 – 233; Chapter 3 Poverty as a Challenge 234 – 243; Chapter 4 Food Security in India 244 – 261. In addition to the above content, an online test series for the class IX is available at our website https://www.vidhathriacademy.in/ and also in the google application (Vidhathri Academy). The materials are carefully appended and Vidhathri materials are a trust of more than four crores of students and teachers.
Author: Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Languages : en
Pages : 930
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Category : Marine engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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