The 86th Village

Author : Sena Desai Gopal
Publisher : Polis Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951709952

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The 86th Village by Sena Desai Gopal Pdf

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,Rebecca Elmhirst,Supang Chantavanich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317645160

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Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia by Carl Middleton,Rebecca Elmhirst,Supang Chantavanich Pdf

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 : Paul L. Dawson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526700698

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Napoleon and Grouchy by Paul L. Dawson Pdf

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 : G. W. Forrest
Publisher : Asian Educational Services
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 8120615514

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The Indian Mutiny 1857-58 by G. W. Forrest Pdf

Author : Upper Canada. Court of Common Pleas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:32044137101705

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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Common Pleas of Upper Canada by Upper Canada. Court of Common Pleas Pdf

Author : Ontario. Court of Common Pleas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : MINN:31951D01812776M

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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Common Pleas of Upper Canada from Trinity Term, 13 Victoria, to Easter Term, 14 Victoria by Ontario. Court of Common Pleas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006343474

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Hearings Before and Special Reports Made by Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on Subjects Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : LOC:00183990895

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Hearings ... on Sundry Legislation Affecting the Naval and Military Establishments by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 3
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Civil-military relations
ISBN : MINN:31951P01135453K

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Subcommittee No. 3 Consideration of H.R. 5163, H.R. 7728 S. 1087, H.R. 763, H.r. 2877, and H.R. 7447 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 3 Pdf

Committee Serial No. 27. Considers. H.R. 5163, to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act and the Contract Authorization Act to repeal examination of records clause in foreign defense contracts. H.R. 7728, to amend the Federal Aviation Act to allow armed forces to sell goods and services to private aircraft owners in emergency situations or in cases where military interests would be served. S. 1087, to transfer Navy property in American Samoa to the territory. H.R. 763, to authorize Treasury Dept to increase funding to Highland Falls, N.Y., filtration plant construction. H.R. 2877, to authorize Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to contribute funds to Tulsa, Okla., defense communication generator purchase. H.R. 7447, to amend the Critical Materials Stock Piling Act to authorize the General Services Administration to dispose of the national stockpile of feather and down.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1652 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035789026

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Patricia Schultz
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780761165378

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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, updated ed. by Patricia Schultz Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : NYPL:33433081663555

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Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Indian Revolt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000537313

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Narrative of the Indian Revolt, Etc. [Reprinted from the "Illustrated Times" of 1857 and 1858.] by Indian Revolt Pdf

Author : Patricia Schultz
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 1201 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780761189435

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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die by Patricia Schultz Pdf

Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, and for the first time with full-color photographs, here are 1,000 compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places. Pristine beaches and national parks, world-class museums and the Just for Laughs festival, mountain resorts, salmon-rich rivers, scenic byways, the Oyster Bar and the country’s best taco, lush gardens and coastal treks at Point Reyes, rafting the Upper Gauley (if you dare). Plus resorts, vineyards, hot springs, classic ballparks, the Talladega Speedway, and more. Includes new attractions, like Miami’s Pérez Art Museum and Manhattan’s High Line, plus more than 150 places of special interest to families. And, for every entry, what you need to know about how and when to visit. “Patricia Schultz unearths the hidden gems in our North American backyard. Don’t even think about packing your bag and sightseeing without it.” —New York Daily News

Author : Andrew W. Field
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473856530

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Grouchy's Waterloo by Andrew W. Field Pdf

“An interesting approach to this part of the Waterloo campaign . . . a picture of a capable officer who was perhaps slightly out of his depth.”—HistoryOfWar In this concluding volume of his highly praised study exploring the French perspective of the Waterloo campaign, Andrew Field concentrates on an often-neglected aspect of Napoleon’s final offensive—the French victory over the Prussians at Ligny, Marshal Grouchy’s pursuit of the Prussians, and the battle at Wavre. The story of this side of the campaign is as full of controversy and interest as the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo which he has examined in such a penetrating and original way in his previous studies. Napoleon in his memoirs accused Grouchy, like Marshal Ney, of a series of failures in command that led to the French defeat, and many subsequent historians have taken the same line. This is one of the long-standing controversies that Andrew Field explores in fascinating detail. Grouchy’s extensive description of his operations forms the backbone of the narrative, supplemented by other French sources and those of Prussian eyewitnesses. “This book, when taken by itself, is a great addition to the history of the campaign. When looked at in conjunction as the third volume of four on the campaign, these books are a treasure trove of information from the French perspective.”—A Wargamers Needful Things “The research has been thorough, the style of writing clear and lucid with many maps and illustrations. A book not to be put down until it is finished. Very highly recommended.”—Clash of Steel