The Rainy Season

Author : Amy Wilentz
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476706818

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The Rainy Season by Amy Wilentz Pdf

Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake. Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the fall of Haiti’s President-for-Life, Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, Wilentz captures a country electric with the expectation of change: markets that bustle by day explode with gunfire at night; outlaws control country roads; farmers struggle to survive in a barren land; and belief in voodoo and the spirits of the ancestors remains as strong as ever. The Rainy Season demystifies Haiti—a country and a people in cruel and capricious times. From the rebel priest Father Aristide and the street boys under his protection to the military strongmen who pass through the revolving door of power into the gleaming white presidential palace—and the buzzing international press corps members who jet in for a coup and leave the minute it’s over—Wilentz’s Haiti haunts the imagination.

Author : Anna Jaquiery
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447244462

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Death in the Rainy Season by Anna Jaquiery Pdf

Phnom Penh, Cambodia; the rainy season. When a French man, Hugo Quercy, is found brutally murdered, Commandant Serge Morel finds his holiday drawn to an abrupt halt. Quercy - dynamic, well-connected - was the magnetic head of a humanitarian organisation which looked after the area's neglected youth. Opening his investigation, the Parisian detective soon finds himself buried in one of his most challenging cases yet. Morel must navigate this complex and politically sensitive crime in a country with few forensic resources, and armed with little more than a series of perplexing questions: what was Quercy doing in a hotel room under a false name? What is the significance of his recent investigations into land grabs in the area? And who could have broken into his home the night of the murder? Becoming increasingly drawn into Quercy's circle of family and friends - his adoring widow, his devoted friends and bereft colleagues - Commandant Morel will soon discover that in this lush land of great beauty and immense darkness, nothing is quite as it seems . . . A deeply atmospheric crime novel that bristles with truth and deception, secrets and lies: Death in the Rainy Season is a compelling mystery that unravels an exquisitely wrought human tragedy.

Author : Bin Wang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540377221

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The Asian Monsoon by Bin Wang Pdf

This is a timely, interdisciplinary scientific overview of the atmosphere, the ocean and the land surface as it interacts with physical, chemical and biological processes. The high level of detail sets it apart from other studies of monsoon meteorology. The text includes analysis of paleoclimate records, human influences on the monsoon climate and the economic impacts of the monsoon on economies and to human health.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11825520

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Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Bombay (India : State)
ISBN : OXFORD:N14378807

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Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ka'nara (2 pts.) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Sunday schools
ISBN : UOM:39015073329172

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The Sunday-school World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Chih-pei Chang,Yihui Ding,Richard H Johnson,Gabriel Ngar-cheung Lau,Bin Wang,Tetsuzo Yasunari
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814460682

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Global Monsoon System, The: Research And Forecast (2nd Edition) by Chih-pei Chang,Yihui Ding,Richard H Johnson,Gabriel Ngar-cheung Lau,Bin Wang,Tetsuzo Yasunari Pdf

This book presents a current review of the science of monsoon research and forecasting. The contents are based on the invited reviews presented at the World Meteorological Organization's Fourth International Workshop on Monsoons in late 2008, with subsequent manuscripts revised from 2009 to early 2010. The book builds on the concept that the monsoons in various parts of the globe can be viewed as components of an integrated global monsoon system, while emphasizing that significant region-specific characteristics are present in individual monsoon regions. The topics covered include all major monsoon regions and time scales (mesoscale, synoptic, intraseasonal, interannual, decadal, and climate change). It is intended to provide an updated comprehensive review of the current status of knowledge, modeling capability, and future directions in the research of monsoon systems around the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433000989057

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Drisana Deborah Jack
Publisher : House of Nehesi
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0913441236

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The Rainy Season by Drisana Deborah Jack Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433082033329

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The Encyclopædia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : Palestine Exploration Fund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z312961707

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Quarterly Statement by Palestine Exploration Fund Pdf

Author : Lindsay Bremner,Beth Cullen,Christina Leigh Geros,Harshavardhan Bhat,Anthony Powis
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781638408048

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Monsoon as Method by Lindsay Bremner,Beth Cullen,Christina Leigh Geros,Harshavardhan Bhat,Anthony Powis Pdf

An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project. The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. It combines critical texts with cartography, photography and ethnography to present the project’s methodology and its outcomes and invites urban practitioners to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433079361030

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The Sacred Books of the East: The Satapatha-Brahmana, pt. 1 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henri L Beenhakker,S. Carapetis,L. Crowther,S. Hertel
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000310528

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Rural Transport Services by Henri L Beenhakker,S. Carapetis,L. Crowther,S. Hertel Pdf

This book considers the problem of providing maximum access to transport services, and to roads for the rural population of the world's developing countries when limited funds are available. Access is a key factor in both social and economic development. It promotes social intercourse and opens up markets for both the rural and urban populations. Access connotes the ability to travel and to transport goods. The components of access include both the infrastructure and the transport modes or aids that use the infrastructure.

Author : Marc Cohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:610851665

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The Rainy Season [CD] by Marc Cohn Pdf