Dirty River

Author : Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551526010

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Dirty River by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Pdf

Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the past and, as the subtitle suggests, "dreams her way home." Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's poetry book Love Cake won a Lambda Literary Award. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Author : Annie Buchanan
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782228585

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Black Grapes, Tobacco Smoke and the Dirty River by Annie Buchanan Pdf

Black grapes, tobacco smoke or a glimpse of the Dirty River – any one of these is sufficient to send me hurtling back in time to my childhood. It was a childhood of the 1960’s – a time which, in many ways, feels so very different to today.

Author : Cheryl Colopy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199977000

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Dirty, Sacred Rivers by Cheryl Colopy Pdf

Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised embankments strangle the Ganges and its sacred tributaries. Rivers have become sewage channels for a burgeoning population. To tell the story of this enormous river basin, environmental journalist Cheryl Colopy treks to high mountain glaciers with hydrologists; bumps around the rough embankments of India's poorest state in a jeep with social workers; and takes a boat excursion through the Sundarbans, the mangrove forests at the end of the Ganges watershed. She lingers in key places and hot spots in the debate over water: the megacity Delhi, a paradigm of water mismanagement; Bihar, India's poorest, most crime-ridden state, thanks largely to the blunders of engineers who tried to tame powerful Himalayan rivers with embankments but instead created annual floods; and Kathmandu, the home of one of the most elegant and ancient traditional water systems on the subcontinent, now the site of a water-development boondoggle. Colopy's vivid first-person narrative brings exotic places and complex issues to life, introducing the reader to a memorable cast of characters, ranging from the most humble members of South Asian society to engineers and former ministers. Here we find real-life heroes, bucking current trends, trying to find rational ways to manage rivers and water. They are reviving ingenious methods of water management that thrived for centuries in South Asia and may point the way to water sustainability and healthy rivers.

Author : Clayton Thomas-Muller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735240070

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Life in the City of Dirty Water by Clayton Thomas-Muller Pdf

*FINALIST FOR 2022 CANADA READS* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 J.W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 MANITOBA BOOK AWARDS’ MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD* NATIONAL BESTSELLER A gritty and inspiring memoir from renowned Cree environmental activist Clayton Thomas-Muller, who escaped the world of drugs and gang life to take up the warrior’s fight against the assault on Indigenous peoples’ lands—and eventually the warrior’s spirituality. There have been many Clayton Thomas-Mullers: The child who played with toy planes as an escape from domestic and sexual abuse, enduring the intergenerational trauma of Canada's residential school system; the angry youngster who defended himself with fists and sharp wit against racism and violence, at school and on the streets of Winnipeg and small-town British Columbia; the tough teenager who, at 17, managed a drug house run by members of his family, and slipped in and out of juvie, operating in a world of violence and pain. But behind them all, there was another Clayton: the one who remained immersed in Cree spirituality, and who embraced the rituals and ways of thinking vital to his heritage; the one who reconnected with the land during summer visits to his great-grandparents' trapline in his home territory of Pukatawagan in northern Manitoba. And it's this version of Clayton that ultimately triumphed, finding healing by directly facing the trauma that he shares with Indigenous peoples around the world. Now a leading organizer and activist on the frontlines of environmental resistance, Clayton brings his warrior spirit to the fight against the ongoing assault on Indigenous peoples' lands by Big Oil. Tying together personal stories of survival that bring the realities of the First Nations of this land into sharp focus, and lessons learned from a career as a frontline activist committed to addressing environmental injustice at a global scale, Thomas-Muller offers a narrative and vision of healing and responsibility.

Author : Tom Kratman
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625799371

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Dirty Water by Tom Kratman Pdf

A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME—BACK TO BOSTON! 1462: an alien who feasts on the suffering of sentient beings dines off the agonies of Vlad the Impaler’s twenty-thousand victims near Targoviste, Romania. 1688: a woman is framed for witchcraft and hanged by the neck in Boston. 1965: a toy store that never seems to run out of special toys is suspected of being the location of a temporal portal, the same one used by the agony-feeding alien. 2022: a grandfather, showing his young grandchildren what remains of the Boston of his youth, is shown that portal by his granddaughters. And they’re off! Off through the gate that grants wishes, off to deal with time travel, off to break and enter, off to endure the pain of seeing afresh loved ones long since departed in their own time. They’re off to deal with hardened, murderous criminals and with equally murderous aliens. And all of that is set around the time of Christmas joy, in old, fine hotels, with presents, fresh loves, Handel’s Messiah, a department store’s enchanted village, old delicacies, modern weapons, lasers . . . and a very special calico cat. At the publisher’s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for The Romanov Rescue: “This alternate history employs vibrant steampunk vibes and aptly captures the uncertainties of the tumultuous era, as well as the courageous desperation of the world-weary men and women involved. Fans of detailed and technical military fiction will enjoy this, as well as those who appreciate real historical figures as characters.” —Library Journal Praise for the Carrera series: “Kratman raises disquieting questions on what it might take to win the war on terror . . . realistic action sequences, strong characterizations, and thoughts on the philosophy of war.” —Publishers Weekly “[I]nterplanetary warfare with . . . [a] visceral story of bravery and sacrifice . . . fans of the military SF of John Ringo and David Weber should enjoy this SF action adventure.” —Library Journal “Kratman’s dystopia is a brisk page turner full of startling twists . . . [Kratman is] a professional military man . . . up to speed on military and geopolitical conceits.” —Mark Steyn, best-selling author of America Alone on Caliphate Praise for Tom Kratman: “[Baen publisher] Toni [Weisskopf] and I disagree about everything except about how good his books are.” —John Birmingham

Author : Cheryl Colopy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199845019

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Dirty, Sacred Rivers by Cheryl Colopy Pdf

One journalist's account of her 7-year journey through the Ganges river basin to explore the revered, yet highly polluted, rivers of South Asia.

Author : S. M. Haslam,John William Purseglove,Gerald A. Wait
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521574102

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The River Scene by S. M. Haslam,John William Purseglove,Gerald A. Wait Pdf

Practical overview of river ecology looking at natural and cultural environment.

Author : Loren D. Estleman,P.J. Parrish
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936070275

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Detroit Noir by Loren D. Estleman,P.J. Parrish Pdf

This drive through the dark streets of the Motor City “is one of the best in Akashic Books’ noir series. You cannot go wrong with this anthology.”—Reviewing the Evidence From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of those risking everything to the desperation of those with nothing left to lose, Detroit Noir delivers unforgettable tales that capture the city’s dark vitality. The collection includes stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Loren D. Estleman, Craig Holden, P.J. Parrish, Desiree Cooper, Nisi Shawl, M.L. Liebler, Craig Bernier, Joe Boland, Megan Abbott, Dorene O’Brien, Lolita Hernandez, Peter Markus, Roger K. Johnson, Michael Zadoorian, and E.J. Olsen. “Few cities are as well suited to the genre as Detroit, with its embattled inner city and history of urban decline and blight, and the editors have assembled a talented lineup to do it justice.”—Publishers Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Water
ISBN : IND:30000104116854

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Pollution of Interstate Waters: Missouri River by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Water
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113720838

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Pollution of Interstate Waters, Missouri River, Sioux City, Iowa by Anonim Pdf

"Hearing ordered by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare concerning the pollution of the interstate waters of the Missouri River between Gavins Point Dam, South Dakota, and Omaha, Nebraska."--Page 1

Author : United States. Public Health Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Water
ISBN : MINN:31951D03395759E

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Transcript of Hearing, Pollution of Interstate Waters: Missouri River by United States. Public Health Service Pdf

Author : Martin Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107151598

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An Introduction to Decision Theory by Martin Peterson Pdf

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to all aspects of decision theory, now with new and updated discussions and over 140 exercises.

Author : Bill Sharpsteen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520944756

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Dirty Water by Bill Sharpsteen Pdf

Dirty Water is the riveting story of how Howard Bennett, a Los Angeles schoolteacher with a gift for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollution in Santa Monica Bay--and won. The story begins in 1985, when many scientists considered the bay to be one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world. The insecticide DDT covered portions of the sea floor. Los Angeles discharged partially treated sewage into its waters. Lifeguards came down with mysterious illnesses. And Howard Bennett happily swam in it every morning. By accident, Bennett learned that Los Angeles had applied for a waiver from the Clean Water Act to continue discharging sewage into the bay. Incensed that he had been swimming in dirty water, Bennett organized oddball coalition to orchestrate stunts such as wrapping brown ribbon around LA's city hall and issuing Dirty Toilet Awards to chastise the city's administration. This is the fast-paced story of how this unusual cast of characters created an environmental movement in Los Angeles that continues to this day with the nationally recognized Heal the Bay. Character-driven, compelling, and uplifting, Dirty Water tells how even the most polluted water can be cleaned up-by ordinary people.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556038329421

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Richfield Field Office Resource Management Plan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laura Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527591639

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Transformations of Trauma in Women's Writing by Laura Alexander Pdf

This volume examines the ways in which trauma alters women’s identities. While some of the chapters look deeply at individual experiences, many of the contributions look to national traumas and the consequences of political abuses, including colonial subjugation and genocide for women. The book shows that language has a transformative power to change us, to give us a great capacity for inner and outer dialogues and for healing and self-love. As shown here, women have historically employed autobiography and memoir to free themselves and others; rather than seeing the limit of form, they reinvent the parameters to offer a new relationship with language.