The Sultans Tigers

Author : Josh Lacey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544096452
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sultan's Tigers written by Josh Lacey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequel to Island of Thieves, this new, action-packed middle grade adventure novel set in India is the perfect trip for reluctant readers.

Author : Barbara A. Weightman
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
ISBN 13 : 047087628X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragons and Tigers written by Barbara A. Weightman and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East, and Southeast Asia, Third Edition explores and illustrates conditions, events, problems, and trends of both larger regions and individual nations. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, the author discusses evolving physical and cultural landscapes. Nature-Society relations provide the foundation for social, economic, political, and environmental problems. Dragons and Tigers is the only textbook that covers all three regions – South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia – in one textbook. It is the most comprehensive book on the market about the geography of Asia.

Author : Alan Machado (Prabhu)
Publisher : Alan Machado
ISBN 13 : 9380739931
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slaves of Sultans written by Alan Machado (Prabhu) and published by Alan Machado. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slaves of Sultans is a vivid descent into the turbulent period when Eupropean States fought Indian rulers with arms and ideologies for India's riches and people

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wide World Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karen Higham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780861120314
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sultan the Tiger written by Karen Higham and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows Sultan's growth from new-born cub to adulthood.

Author : Richard Wirth
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848884400
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storying Humanity: Narratives of Culture and Society written by Richard Wirth and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Boomgaard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127596
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Fear written by Peter Boomgaard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, reports of man-eating tigers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore have circulated, shrouded in myth and anecdote. This fascinating book documents the “big cat”–human relationship in this area during its 350-year colonial period, re-creating a world in which people feared tigers but often came into contact with them, because these fierce predators prefer habitats created by human interference. Peter Boomgaard shows how people and tigers adapted to each other’s behavior, each transmitting this learning from one generation to the next. He discusses the origins of stories and rituals about tigers and explains how cultural biases of Europeans and class differences among indigenous populations affected attitudes toward the tigers. He provides figures on their populations in different eras and analyzes the factors contributing to their present status as an endangered species. Interweaving stories about Malay kings, colonial rulers, tiger charmers, and bounty hunters with facts about tigers and their way of life, the book is an engrossing combination of environmental and micro history.

Author : Praxy Fernandes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tigers of Mysore written by Praxy Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lou Hernández
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786489367
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Latin American Baseball Leagues, 1947-1961 written by Lou Hernández and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major League Baseball today would be unrecognizable without the large number of Latin American players and managers filling its ranks. Their strong influence on the sport can trace its beginnings to professional leagues established south of the border and in the Caribbean nations in the 1940s. This narrative history of Latin American baseball leagues during the 1940s and 1950s provides an in-depth, year-by-year chronicle of seasonal leagues in the seven primary baseball-playing areas in the region: Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The success of these leagues, and their often acrimonious competition with U.S. Organized Baseball, eventually ushered in a new era of contract concessions from owners and general labor advancements for players that forever changed the game.

Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597269530
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn written by Richard Ellis and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders. The dripping bile is collected as a cure for ailments ranging from an upset stomach to skin burns. The bear may live as long as fifteen years in this state. Rhinos are being illegally poached for their horns, as are tigers for their bones, thought to improve virility. Booming economies and growing wealth in parts of Asia are increasing demand for these precious medicinals. Already endangered species are being sacrificed for temporary treatments for nausea and erectile dysfunction. Richard Ellis, one of the world's foremost experts in wildlife extinction, brings his alarm to the pages of Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn, in the hope that through an exposure of this drug trade, something can be done to save the animals most direly threatened. Trade in animal parts for traditional Chinese medicine is a leading cause of species endangerment in Asia, and poaching is increasing at an alarming rate. Most of traditional Chinese medicine relies on herbs and other plants, and is not a cause for concern. Ellis illuminates those aspects of traditional medicine, but as wildlife habitats are shrinking for the hunted large species, the situation is becoming ever more critical. One hundred years ago, there were probably 100,000 tigers in India, South China, Sumatra, Bali, Java, and the Russian Far East. The South Chinese, Caspian, Balinese, and Javan species are extinct. There are now fewer than 5,000 tigers in all of India, and the numbers are dropping fast. There are five species of rhinoceros--three in Asia and two in Africa--and all have been hunted to near extinction so their horns can be ground into powder, not for aphrodisiacs, as commonly thought, but for ailments ranging from arthritis to depression. In 1930, there were 80,000 black rhinos in Africa. Now there are fewer than 2,500. Tigers, bears, and rhinos are not the only animals pursued for the sake of alleviating human ills--the list includes musk deer, sharks, saiga antelope, seahorses, porcupines, monkeys, beavers, and sea lions--but the dwindling numbers of those rare species call us to attention. Ellis tells us what has been done successfully, and contemplates what can and must be done to save these animals or, sadly, our children will witness the extinction of tigers, rhinos, and moon bears in their lifetime.