On Borrowed Land

Author : William A. Owens
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0875650287

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Walking on Borrowed Land by William A. Owens Pdf

In the 1930s, during the Depression, Mose Ingram, once a plantation worker and now educated in the North, goes to the fictional town of Columbus, Oklahoma, to become school principal in the black community of Happy Hollow. Conviced that education is the answer to the negroes' problems, Mose sees his path toward progress marked by bitter experience and narrowed by the rigid caste system of segregation. But he remains optimistic, convinced that his people have pride, humility, and human understanding.

Author : Curtis Allen Stone
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781771421911

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The Urban Farmer by Curtis Allen Stone Pdf

There are twenty million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a major barrier for many people who want to enter the agricultural sector, and urban and suburban yards have huge potential for would-be farmers wanting to become part of this growing movement. The Urban Farmer is a comprehensive, hands-on, practical manual to help you learn the techniques and business strategies you need to make a good living growing high-yield, high-value crops right in your own backyard (or someone else's). Major benefits include: Low capital investment and overhead costs Reduced need for expensive infrastructure Easy access to markets Growing food in the city means that fresh crops may travel only a few blocks from field to table, making this innovative approach the next logical step in the local food movement. Based on a scalable, easily reproduced business model, The Urban Farmer is your complete guide to minimizing risk and maximizing profit by using intensive production in small leased or borrowed spaces. Curtis Stone is the owner/operator of Green City Acres, a commercial urban farm growing vegetables for farmers markets, restaurants, and retail outlets. During his slower months, Curtis works as a public speaker, teacher, and consultant, sharing his story to inspire a new generation of farmers.

Author : Shash Trevett
Publisher : Smithdoorstop Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-02
Category : Sri Lanka
ISBN : 1912196646

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From a Borrowed Land by Shash Trevett Pdf

Driven by grief, these poems bear witness to Tamil loss during the Sri Lankan civil war: of lives, of a homeland, of a language, and of a way of life.

Author : Christian Pinnen,Charles Weeks
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496832900

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Colonial Mississippi by Christian Pinnen,Charles Weeks Pdf

Colonial Mississippi: A Borrowed Land offers the first composite of histories from the entire colonial period in the land now called Mississippi. Christian Pinnen and Charles Weeks reveal stories spanning over three hundred years and featuring a diverse array of individuals and peoples from America, Europe, and Africa. The authors focus on the encounters among these peoples, good and bad, and the lasting impacts on the region. The eighteenth century receives much-deserved attention from Pinnen and Weeks as they focus on the trials and tribulations of Mississippi as a colony, especially along the Gulf Coast and in the Natchez country. The authors tell the story of a land borrowed from its original inhabitants and never returned. They make clear how a remarkable diversity characterized the state throughout its early history. Early encounters and initial contacts involved primarily Native Americans and Spaniards in the first half of the sixteenth century following the expeditions of Columbus and others to the large region of the Gulf of Mexico. More sustained interaction began with the arrival of the French to the region and the establishment of a French post on Biloxi Bay at the end of the seventeenth century. Such exchanges continued through the eighteenth century with the British, and then again the Spanish until the creation of the territory of Mississippi in 1798 and then two states, Mississippi in 1817 and Alabama in 1819. Though readers may know the bare bones of this history, the dates, and names, this is the first book to reveal the complexity of the story in full, to dig deep into a varied and complicated tale.

Author : Scott Faber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Flood control
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011716003

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On Borrowed Land by Scott Faber Pdf

Author : Nathalie Kermoal ,Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771990417

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Living on the Land by Nathalie Kermoal ,Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez Pdf

From a variety of methodological perspectives, contributors to Living on the Land explore the nature and scope of Indigenous women’s knowledge, its rootedness in relationships, both human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land and landscape. The authors discuss the integral role of women as stewards of the land and governors of the community and points to a distinctive set of challenges and possibilities for Indigenous women and their communities.

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780060545673

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My Invented Country by Isabel Allende Pdf

Isabel Allende evokes the magnificent landscapes of her country; a charming, idiosyncratic Chilean people with a violent history and an indomitable spirit, and the politics, religion, myth, and magic of her homeland that she carries with her even today. The book circles around two life-changing moments. The assassination of her uncle Salvador Allende Gossens on September 11, 1973, sent her into exile and transformed her into a literary writer. And the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on her adopted homeland, the United States, brought forth an overdue acknowledgment that Allende had indeed left home. My Invented Country, mimicking the workings of memory itself, ranges back and forth across that distance between past and present lives. It speaks compellingly to immigrants and to all of us who try to retain a coherent inner life in a world full of contradictions.

Author : Leo Tolstoy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141397757

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How Much Land Does A Man Need? by Leo Tolstoy Pdf

'Although he feared death, he could not stop. 'If I stopped now, after coming all this way - well, they'd call me an idiot!' A pair of short stories about greed, charity, life and death from one of Russia's most influential writers and thinkers. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910). Tolstoy's works available in Penguin Classics are Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth,The Cossacks and Other Stories, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories, What is art?, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, Master and Man and Other Stories, How Much Land Does A Man Need? & Other Stories, A Confession and Other Religious Writings and Last steps: The Late Writings of Leo Tolstoy.

Author : Bruce H. Ziff,Pratima V. Rao
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 0813523729

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Borrowed Power by Bruce H. Ziff,Pratima V. Rao Pdf

An informative and insightful collection of essays on cultural appropriation, focusing on America's appropriation and use of Native American culture specifically. The topics in this book covers topics from the arts, land, and artifacts to ideas, knowledge, and symbols.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745659213

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Living on Borrowed Time by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency. Few are better placed to do this than Zygmunt Bauman, a social thinker whose writings on liquid modernity have pioneered a new way of seeing the world in which we live at the dawn of the 21st Century. Our liquid modern world is characterized by the transition from a society of producers to a society of consumers, the natural extension of which is the society of perpetual debtors. The ruling idea of the society of consumers is to prevent needs from being satisfied and to create demand; its natural extension is to enable consumers to consume more by borrowing. Debt was transformed into a crucial profit-earning asset of capitalism in liquid modern times. The present-day 'credit crunch' is not the outcome of the banks' failure but rather the fruit of their success in transforming the majority of men and women, young and old, into a race of debtors. They got what they were looking for: a society of debtors whose condition of being in debt was made self-perpetuating, with more debts being offered, and more undertaken, as the only way of escaping from the debts already incurred. Starting from this reflection on the current global financial crisis and prompted by the probing questions of his interlocutor, Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo, Bauman examines in an historical perspective some of the most pressing moral and political issues of our time, from international terrorism and the rise of religious and secular fundamentalism to the decline of the nation-state and the threats posed by global warming, issues whose seriousness and urgency attest to the fact that we are living today not only on borrowed money but also on borrowed time.

Author : Henry Dunning Macleod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Economics
ISBN : NYPL:33433008023628

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The Principles of Economical Philosophy by Henry Dunning Macleod Pdf

Author : Gregor Craigie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773102060

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On Borrowed Time by Gregor Craigie Pdf

The Big One and what we can do to get ready for it. Mention the word earthquake and most people think of California. But while the Golden State shakes on a regular basis, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are located in a zone that can produce the world's biggest earthquakes and tsunamis. In the eastern part of the continent, small cities and large, from Ottawa to Montréal to New York City, sit in active earthquake zones. In fact, more than 100-million North Americans live in active seismic zones, many of whom do not realize the risk to their community. For more than a decade, Gregor Craigie interviewed scientists, engineers, and emergency planners about earthquakes, disaster response, and resilience. He has also collected vivid first-hand accounts from people who have survived deadly earthquakes. His fascinating and deeply researched book dives headfirst into explaining the science behind The Big One -- and asks what we can do now to prepare ourselves for events geologists say aren't a matter of if, but when.

Author : David Reagan
Publisher : Lamb & Lion Ministries
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780945593218

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Living on Borrowed Time by David Reagan Pdf

Dr. David Reagan answers the following questions and many more concerning the signs of the times that point to the soon return of Jesus. Can we know the date when Jesus will return? Can we know the season of His return? What are the key biblical signs of His return? What signs, if any, have already been fulfilled? Are there any signs that are unique to our day and time? What is the most convincing sign of the Lord’s soon return? A unique feature of the book is a prophecy forum composed of 22 Bible prophecy experts who reply to 11 questions concerning the biblical signs of the times that are supposed to signal the imminent return of Jesus. Experts included are: Daymond Duck, Gary Fisher, Jim Fletcher, Ray Gano, Al Gist, Phillip Goodman, J.R. Hall, Mark Hitchcock, David Hocking, Ken Humphries, Terry James, Nathan Jones, Jack Kinsella, Tim LaHaye, Jan Markell, Caryl Matrisciana, Don McGee, Dennis Pollock, Ron Rhodes, August Rosado, Bill Salus, and Brian Thomas.

Author : Judith-Anne MacKenzie,Mary Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199699278

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Textbook on Land Law by Judith-Anne MacKenzie,Mary Phillips Pdf

Relied upon by students for over 25 years, this book continues to bring an innovative, practical focus to modern land law, guiding the reader through real-life situations to illustrate rules and highlight problem areas. Clear diagrams, sample documents and further reading help students understand the law in context.

Author : A. Allan Schmid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317513759

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Converting Land from Rural to Urban Uses (Routledge Revivals) by A. Allan Schmid Pdf

This title aims to use social science research to contribute towards solving policy problems raised by the rural to urban land conversion process and by high land prices in particular. Ultimately, this book aims to develop the information useful to public decisions on zoning, taxation, public investments, transport systems, new towns, and so on, as they might affect the cost and quality of the conversion process. This book will be of interest to students of environmental studies.