Tag: Island

Free Download Francisco José B.S. Leandro, "Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States: The Development Journeys of Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, and T"
English | ISBN: 9819933811 | 2023 | 534 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This book assesses the dynamics, challenges and achievements of the development processes of three Portuguese-speaking Small Island Developing States (PSSIDS) – Cabo Verde, São Tome and Príncipe, and Timor-Leste. Important lessons are drawn from those processes, which are relevant for policymakers, as well as for their bilateral and multilateral development partners, including international organizations such as United Nations or the Community of Portuguese Language Countries. To that end, the book includes contributions to the academic literature about SIDS, an area of research that has been significantly overlooked. The conclusions would be of interest to readers as a lead up to the fiftieth anniversary of their independence.

Free Download Vincent Bugliosi, "No Island of Sanity: Paula Jones v. Bill Clinton: The Supreme Court on Trial"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0345424875, 1568657471 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 0.4 mb
" One would like to think that the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest Court in the land, is the one island of sanity still remaining. But if what you folks are about to read is any indication, we’ve all got a lot to worry about. The question that presents itself is whether the near pathological dizziness and irrationality in our society has so invaded this nation’s marrow that, like a wild-infectious virus, even the Supreme Court is not immune."

Free Download Abby Sallenger, "Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World"
English | 2009 | pages: 219 | ISBN: 078674152X, 1586485156, 1458759318 | EPUB | 1,9 mb
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Isle Derniere was emerging as an exclusive summer resort on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. About one hundred miles from New Orleans, it attracted the most prominent members of antebellum Louisiana society. Hundreds of affluent planters and merchants retreated to the island, not just for its pleasures, but also to escape the scourge of yellow fever epidemics that ravaged cities like New Orleans each summer. Then, without warning, on August 10, 1856, a ferocious hurricane swept across the island, killing half of its four hundred inhabitants. The Isle Derniere was left barren, except for a strange forest standing in the surf.

Free Download Island: Paintings by Tom Curry by Terry Tempest Williams, Carl Little, Tom Curry
English | June 16, 2012 | ISBN: 1608930033 | True EPUB | 80 pages | 12.97 MB

Free Download Jane Spiteri, "Educating for Sustainability in a Small Island Nation: Voices from Early Childhood Education "
English | ISBN: 3031231813 | 2022 | 270 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This volume problematizes the intentions of early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS) from two new perspectives – the context of small island states and the bi-directional, intergenerational learning about the environment and sustainability that takes place in a variety of contexts, including the family home and school. It questions how belonging to a small island and the children’s home influence learning in the early years of life. In doing so, this book offers new insights and new theoretical perspectives into intergenerational environmental learning in the school, family and beyond. Informed by consideration of the most recent literature in early childhood education and sustainability, this volume also looks at how these informal learning spaces provide young children with the opportunities to enhance further learning in the field, thus portraying the fluidity of intergenerational learning from different theoretical standpoints.

Free Download Bidong Island: Natural History and Resources by Ong Meng Chuan
English | EPUB | 2022 | 238 Pages | ISBN : 3030919234 | 117.4 MB
Bidong Island is a small island located in the South China Sea, and is about 14 km from mainland Peninsular Malaysia. The island and the Bidong archipelago boast of its richness in diversity of both terrestrial and marine organisms and its undeniably pristine and thriving ecosystem. In 1975-1990, Bidong Island was formerly a UNHCR refugee camp for a quarter of a million Vietnamese "Boat people" escaping the Vietnam War, and still holds great significance to many of its descendants. Due to its historical significance, the Terengganu State government plans to develop Bidong Island as a heritage tourism site and a new scuba diving destination.

Free Download Chas Hall, Julian Elfer (Narrator), "Facing Armageddon: With the RAF on Christmas Island 1961-1962"
English | ASIN: B0CTPKWMJ6 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~06:58:00 | 199 MB
After being called up for National Service in July 1960, twenty-year-old Chas Hall joined the RAF and signed on to extend his time for an extra three years becoming a regular serviceman.
Following initial training, he became a wireless operator and served at RAF Mildenhall. It was shortly after this that he got his first foreign posting in late 1961 to Christmas Island. It was on this island, that Chas encountered the horrors of nuclear testing. In an operation codenamed "Brigadoon" by the British government and "Dominic" by the Americans, Chas experienced twenty-five atmospheric nuclear tests. This he describes as his "twelve-month sentence" alongside over 300 British and 10,000 American servicemen who were posted to one corner of a remote coral island.

Free Download Dinner on Monster Island: Essays (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BT12R8MP | 2024 | 5 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 299 MB
Author: Tania De Rozario
Narrator: Tania De Rozario
In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different. Tania De Rozario was just twelve years old when she was gay-exorcised. Convinced that her boyish style and demeanor were a sign of something wicked, her mother and a pair of her church friends tried to "banish the evil" from Tania. That day, the young girl realized that monsters weren’t just found in horror tales. They could lurk anywhere-including your own family and community-and look just like you.

Free Download Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
English | May 7th, 2024 | ISBN: 1957363746 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 4.60 MB
The gripping history of Taiwan, from the flood myths of indigenous legend to its Asian Tiger economic miracle – and the renewed threat of invasion by China.

Free Download Shoshanna McCollum, "Fire Island (Images of Modern America)"
English | 2014 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 1467121711 | EPUB | 77,6 mb
The birth of Fire Island’s modern era may well be the day it was declared a national seashore-September 11, 1964. From this day on, the barrier island would remain forever persevered under custody of the National Park Service. Today, automobiles are the exception, not the rule, thanks to men and women who fought to prevent a paved highway from being constructed on the barrier island over 50 years ago. The island’s culture has always embraced its own distinct path. Fire Island’s maritime roots are still evident and alternate lifestyles flourish, while the simple and mundane pleasures of a beautiful day at the beach remain intact. Fire Island continues to spark the imagination of tourists, vacationers, and residents alike who revel in the beauty of this unique place. Today, Fire Island is so many things to so many people.