The 86th Village

Author : Sena Desai Gopal
Publisher : Polis Books
ISBN 13 : 1951709950
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 86th Village written by Sena Desai Gopal and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best New Thriller and Mystery Books of 2022 by Popsugar Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of 2022 by CrimeReads Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2022 by Criminal Element IS IT EVER TOO LATE TO RIGHT A WRONG? Throughout Southern India, eighty-six villages are set to completely submerge due to a government-sanctioned dam across the Krishna river. One such village, Nilgi, has so far avoided the illegal iron-ore mining and floods that have ravaged the district for decades, believing itself to be indestructible and incorruptible despite warnings of impending doom. With whole mountains disappearing from the mining around Nilgi over time, the threat of a flood submerging the entire village is imminent. One night, Reshma, a young orphan girl, appears alone in the village. The villagers take her to Raj Nayak—the patriarch of Nilgi’s leading family who has been spearheading anti-dam movements. For years he’s been lobbying the corrupt government for fair compensation to the people who will lose their livelihoods and property to the mines and the flood. But Reshma’s presence, and the mystery of her origins, sets off a chain of events threatening the protests, the family, and Nilgi itself. Soon, secrets and corruption flood the village along with the waters.

Author : Carl Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317645162
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia written by Carl Middleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and amongst already mobile populations. The book develops a conceptual framework based on a ‘mobile political ecology’ in which particular attention is paid to the multidimensionality, temporalities and geographies of vulnerability. Rather than simply emphasising the capacities (or lack thereof) of individuals and households, the focus is on identifying factors that instigate, manage and perpetuate vulnerable populations and places: these include the sociopolitical dynamics of floods, flood hazards and risky environments, migration and migrant-based livelihoods and the policy environments through which all of these take shape. The book is organised around a series of eight empirical urban and rural case studies from countries in Southeast Asia, where lives are marked by mobility and by floods associated with the region’s monsoonal climate. The concluding chapter synthesises the insights of the case studies, and suggests future policy directions. Together, the chapters highlight critical policy questions around the governance of migration, institutionalised disaster response strategies and broader development agendas.

Author : Patricia Schultz
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761165371
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, updated ed. written by Patricia Schultz and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1,000 Places to See books are pleasurable, inspiring, wondrous, a best-selling phenomenon and, yes, practical: Announcing the updated edition of 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada Before You Die, The New York Times No. 1 bestseller. Because USA & Canada is not only a wish book but also a guide, this information, including phone numbers, Web addresses, and more, is now completely revised and updated. For travel season, for long summer weekends, for whenever the mood strikes to pack up the car and set out to discover a new piece of America (and Canada!), 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada is a map to all the unique and wonderful places just around the corner: Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaska’s Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Play tennis the way it was meant to be—on grass—at the lavish Victorian Newport Casino. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas City—Arthur Bryant’s to Gates to Snead’s. There’s the ice hotel in Quebec, the stalacpipe organ in Virginia, out-of-the-way Civil War battlefields, dude ranches and cowboy poetry readings, and what to do in Louisville after the Derby’s over. More than 150 places are highlighted as family-friendly, and indices in the back organize the book by subject—wilderness, dining, beaches, world-class museums, sports, festivals, and more.

Author : Paul L. Dawson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526700697
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Napoleon and Grouchy written by Paul L. Dawson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the enduring controversies of the Waterloo campaign is the conduct of Marshal Grouchy. Given command of a third of Napoleons army and told to keep the Prussians from joining forces with Wellington, he failed to keep Wellington and Blcher apart with the result that Napoleon was overwhelmed at Waterloo. Grouchy, though, was not defeated. He kept his force together and retreated in good order back to France.Many have accused Grouchy of intentionally holding back his men and not marching to join Napoleon when the sound of the gunfire at Waterloo could clearly be heard, and he has been widely blamed for Napoleons defeat.Now, for the first time, Grouchys conduct during the Waterloo campaign is analyzed in fine detail, drawing principally on French sources not previously available in English. The author, for example, answers questions such as whether key orders did actually exist in 1815 or were they later fabrications to make Grouchy the scapegoat for Napoleons failures? Did General Grard really tell Grouchy to march to the sound of the guns? Why did Grouchy appear to move so slowly when speed was essential?This is a subject which is generally overlooked by British historians, who tend to concentrate on the actions of Wellington and Napoleon, and which French historians choose not to look at too closely for fear that it might reflect badly upon their hero Napoleon.Despite the mass of books written on Waterloo, this is a genuinely unique contribution to this most famous campaign. This book is certain to fuel debate and prompt historians to reconsider the events of June 1815.

Author : Patricia Schultz
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761147381
Total Pages : 1204 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1,000 Places to See in the USA and Canada Before You Die written by Patricia Schultz and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes essential places to see throughout the United States and Canada, offering information on what to find at each spot, the best time to visit, things to see and do, local accommodations and eateries, and other important information.

Author : Aylmer Haldane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insurrection in Mesopotamia, 1920 written by Aylmer Haldane and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : India. Military Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selections from the Letters, Despatches and Other State Papers Preserved in the Military Department of the Government of India, 1857-58 written by India. Military Department and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. W. Forrest
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120615519
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Mutiny 1857-58 written by G. W. Forrest and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 2000 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Upper Canada. Court of Common Pleas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
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Download or read book Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Common Pleas of Upper Canada written by Upper Canada. Court of Common Pleas and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ontario. Court of Common Pleas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Common Pleas of Upper Canada from Trinity Term, 13 Victoria, to Easter Term, 14 Victoria written by Ontario. Court of Common Pleas and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: