Author: Rose Impey
Publisher: Mathew Price Limited
ISBN: 9781842482131
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's all sorts of monsters in your room at night; even once Mum's checked, you can never be quite sure. It's still likely that the Ankle Grabber is hiding under the bed just waiting for the chance to pull you down into his sticky, slimy swamp.
The Ankle Grabber
Author: Rose Impey
Publisher: Mathew Price Limited
ISBN: 9781842482131
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's all sorts of monsters in your room at night; even once Mum's checked, you can never be quite sure. It's still likely that the Ankle Grabber is hiding under the bed just waiting for the chance to pull you down into his sticky, slimy swamp.
Publisher: Mathew Price Limited
ISBN: 9781842482131
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There's all sorts of monsters in your room at night; even once Mum's checked, you can never be quite sure. It's still likely that the Ankle Grabber is hiding under the bed just waiting for the chance to pull you down into his sticky, slimy swamp.
The Land Grabbers
Author: Fred Pearce
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807003255
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being taken over, and what the effect of these massive land deals seems to be. The Land Grabbers is a first-of-its-kind exposé that reveals the scale and the human costs of the land grab, one of the most profound ethical, environmental, and economic issues facing the globalized world in the twenty-first century. The corporations, speculators, and governments scooping up land cheap in the developing world claim that industrial-scale farming will help local economies. But Pearce’s research reveals a far more troubling reality. While some mega-farms are ethically run, all too often poor farmers and cattle herders are evicted from ancestral lands or cut off from water sources. The good jobs promised by foreign capitalists and home governments alike fail to materialize. Hungry nations are being forced to export their food to the wealthy, and corporate potentates run fiefdoms oblivious to the country beyond their fences. Pearce’s story is populated with larger-than-life characters, from financier George Soros and industry tycoon Richard Branson, to Gulf state sheikhs, Russian oligarchs, British barons, and Burmese generals. We discover why Goldman Sachs is buying up the Chinese poultry industry, what Lord Rothschild and a legendary 1970s asset-stripper are doing in the backwoods of Brazil, and what plans a Saudi oil billionaire has for Ethiopia. Along the way, Pearce introduces us to the people who actually live on, and live off of, the supposedly “empty” land that is being grabbed, from Cambodian peasants, victimized first by the Khmer Rouge and now by crony capitalism, to African pastoralists confined to ever-smaller tracts. Over the next few decades, land grabbing may matter more, to more of the planet’s people, than even climate change. It will affect who eats and who does not, who gets richer and who gets poorer, and whether agrarian societies can exist outside corporate control. It is the new battle over who owns the planet.
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807003255
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheiks, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world. An unprecedented land grab is taking place around the world. Fearing future food shortages or eager to profit from them, the world’s wealthiest and most acquisitive countries, corporations, and individuals have been buying and leasing vast tracts of land around the world. The scale is astounding: parcels the size of small countries are being gobbled up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of South America, and the prairies of Eastern Europe. Veteran science writer Fred Pearce spent a year circling the globe to find out who was doing the buying, whose land was being taken over, and what the effect of these massive land deals seems to be. The Land Grabbers is a first-of-its-kind exposé that reveals the scale and the human costs of the land grab, one of the most profound ethical, environmental, and economic issues facing the globalized world in the twenty-first century. The corporations, speculators, and governments scooping up land cheap in the developing world claim that industrial-scale farming will help local economies. But Pearce’s research reveals a far more troubling reality. While some mega-farms are ethically run, all too often poor farmers and cattle herders are evicted from ancestral lands or cut off from water sources. The good jobs promised by foreign capitalists and home governments alike fail to materialize. Hungry nations are being forced to export their food to the wealthy, and corporate potentates run fiefdoms oblivious to the country beyond their fences. Pearce’s story is populated with larger-than-life characters, from financier George Soros and industry tycoon Richard Branson, to Gulf state sheikhs, Russian oligarchs, British barons, and Burmese generals. We discover why Goldman Sachs is buying up the Chinese poultry industry, what Lord Rothschild and a legendary 1970s asset-stripper are doing in the backwoods of Brazil, and what plans a Saudi oil billionaire has for Ethiopia. Along the way, Pearce introduces us to the people who actually live on, and live off of, the supposedly “empty” land that is being grabbed, from Cambodian peasants, victimized first by the Khmer Rouge and now by crony capitalism, to African pastoralists confined to ever-smaller tracts. Over the next few decades, land grabbing may matter more, to more of the planet’s people, than even climate change. It will affect who eats and who does not, who gets richer and who gets poorer, and whether agrarian societies can exist outside corporate control. It is the new battle over who owns the planet.
Gripper, Grabber and the Sports Stadium
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405246279
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Four more characters from Sunflower Valley are ready to help build your Bob Story Library - add them to your collection now! Gripper, Grabber and the Sports Stadium: Sunflower Valley is holding its first sports day. But the new stadium won't be ready unless Bob's new machines learn that working in a team can be fun, too.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781405246279
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Four more characters from Sunflower Valley are ready to help build your Bob Story Library - add them to your collection now! Gripper, Grabber and the Sports Stadium: Sunflower Valley is holding its first sports day. But the new stadium won't be ready unless Bob's new machines learn that working in a team can be fun, too.
Mysteries in History: World History
Author: Wendy Conklin
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1420630482
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Challenge students to explore several important unexplained events that helped shape history. Students use primary source materials, posters, and simulations to find clues and to make informed decisions about these events. There are no right or wrong answers. These real-life mysteries encourage students to research, think, debate, and form conclusions.
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
ISBN: 1420630482
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Challenge students to explore several important unexplained events that helped shape history. Students use primary source materials, posters, and simulations to find clues and to make informed decisions about these events. There are no right or wrong answers. These real-life mysteries encourage students to research, think, debate, and form conclusions.
Operate Your Rifle Like a Pro – U.S. Army Official Manual
Author: U.S. Department of Defense
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Operate Your Rifle Like a Pro U.S. Army Official Manual is a comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of rifle operation, from basic handling to advanced marksmanship techniques. Written in a clear and concise manner, this manual serves as a valuable resource for military personnel looking to enhance their shooting skills. The text is accompanied by detailed illustrations and diagrams, making it easy for readers to understand and apply the concepts discussed. This manual is a must-have for anyone looking to improve their proficiency with a rifle. The book is written in a straightforward and instructional style, reflecting its primary purpose of providing practical guidance to soldiers in the field.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Operate Your Rifle Like a Pro U.S. Army Official Manual is a comprehensive guide that covers all aspects of rifle operation, from basic handling to advanced marksmanship techniques. Written in a clear and concise manner, this manual serves as a valuable resource for military personnel looking to enhance their shooting skills. The text is accompanied by detailed illustrations and diagrams, making it easy for readers to understand and apply the concepts discussed. This manual is a must-have for anyone looking to improve their proficiency with a rifle. The book is written in a straightforward and instructional style, reflecting its primary purpose of providing practical guidance to soldiers in the field.
The Shoe Grabber
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780790121154
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
When the shoe grabber steals their shoes, the children and the teacher run in bare feet to get their shoes back. Suggested level: junior.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780790121154
Category : Children's stories, New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
When the shoe grabber steals their shoes, the children and the teacher run in bare feet to get their shoes back. Suggested level: junior.
Behaviour and Evolution
Author: Marion Hall
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540647522
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This volume examines a variety of aspects of animal behavior and analyzes the underlying relationship between behavior and evolution. Studying behavior draws upon the work of scientists from a number of disciplines, all seeking to answer the question of why an animal behaves in the way it does. The possible answers to this question development, survival value, evolutionary history, and cause-and-effectare explored in this easy-to-read introduction to behavior and evolution.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540647522
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This volume examines a variety of aspects of animal behavior and analyzes the underlying relationship between behavior and evolution. Studying behavior draws upon the work of scientists from a number of disciplines, all seeking to answer the question of why an animal behaves in the way it does. The possible answers to this question development, survival value, evolutionary history, and cause-and-effectare explored in this easy-to-read introduction to behavior and evolution.
Software Technologies for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems
Author: Roman Obermaisser
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540756647
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 10.2 International Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems, SEUS 2007, held in conjunction with ISORC 2007, the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing. Coverage includes ubiquitous computing frameworks, validation of embedded and ubiquitous systems, and ubiquitous computing applications.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3540756647
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 10.2 International Workshop on Software Technologies for Future Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems, SEUS 2007, held in conjunction with ISORC 2007, the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Object/component/service-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing. Coverage includes ubiquitous computing frameworks, validation of embedded and ubiquitous systems, and ubiquitous computing applications.
Grabber
Author: Chris d'Lacey
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408315408
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
There's a burglar on the loose in Scrubbley! What will happen when he steals one of the Wayward Crescent dragons? Will Grabber become a robber too?
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1408315408
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
There's a burglar on the loose in Scrubbley! What will happen when he steals one of the Wayward Crescent dragons? Will Grabber become a robber too?
Project Deep Ops
Author: C. A. Bowers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Killer whale
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Killer whale
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description