Tag: Land

You Shall Leave Your Land


Free Download Renato Cisneros, Fionn Petch, "You Shall Leave Your Land"
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1913867307 | 314 pages | EPUB | 0.97 MB
The history of Peru unfolds in the lives of the descendants of seven children fathered by a Catholic priest and his longtime secret lover.

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A Land of Hard Edges


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English | ISBN: 098920099X | 2014 | 244 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
A Land of Hard Edges: Serving the Front Lines of the Border is a series of true stories and personal reflections by Peg Bowden, a retired nurse, who volunteers at a migrant shelter on the Mexico border. The author lives in the Arizona borderlands, a sort of third country, with one foot in Mexico and the other in the United States. She joins a group called the Samaritans, traveling weekly to a shelter known as el comedor, providing clothing, medical supplies and counsel to migrants seeking the American Dream. Investigating why thousands of people are willing to risk their lives crossing the Sonoran Desert into the U.S. where they are despised by so many, Peg begins to understand the complexities of human migration. She reflects on the power of love and family that drives people into the treacherous landscapes of southern Arizona.

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Land Reform in Zimbabwe Constraints and Prospects


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138741841, 1138741876 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 1.4 mb
This title was first published in 2000. Drs Tanya Bowyer-Bower and Colin Stoneman compile the views of top researchers, members of Government, civil society, NGOs, funders, and Zimbabwe’s three farmers’ unions. The history of land reform in Zimbabwe is addressed and the current proposed reform policies, comparison between programmes elsewhere in Southern Africa, and implications including for rural and urban welfare, the economy, the environment, the law, and for women. The result is an invaluable overview of this crucial and contentious issue, including constructive suggestions for consensual ways forward.

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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 0367532026 | 513 Pages | PDF (True) | 13 MB
Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodological, theoretical and empirical insights. It presents and discusses resource grabbing research in a holistic manner by addressing how the rush for land and other natural resources, including water, forests and minerals, is intertwined with agriculture, mining, tourism, energy, biodiversity conservation, climate change, carbon markets, and conflict. The handbook is truly global and interdisciplinary, with case studies from the Global South and Global North, and chapter contributions from practitioners, activists and academics, with emerging and Indigenous authors featuring strongly across the chapters.

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No Woman’s Land Women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh Write on the Partition India


Free Download Ritu Menon, "No Woman’s Land: Women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh Write on the Partition India"
English | 2004 | pages: 210 | ISBN: 8188965049 | PDF | 21,1 mb
Here, for the first time, are Ismat Chughati, Sara Suleri, Anis Kidwai, Phulrenu Guha, Meghna Guhathakurta, Shehla Shibli, Manikuntala Sen, Kamlaben Patel and many others, speaking and writing about communalism and literature; what they learnt from refugees; and what Partition means to them more than 50 years later. An unusual mix of memoirs, interviews, reminiscences and reflective essays, this anthology is the first attempt to present women’s perspective on the Partition of India, based on the experience of three countries.

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Land of War A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C5S3WYR1 | 2023 | 23 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 671 MB
Author: William Nester
Narrator: David Colacci

War in Europe began with the first human migrants. Rival bands fought for thousands of years before the Greeks and Romans began writing about their military history, first as legend-for instance, the hero Achilles battling the Trojans-and then as fact. Finally, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, technology exploded: railroads, steamships, telegraphs, machine guns, automobiles, airplanes, and tanks enabled European states to muster, equip, arm, transport, and command more men than ever before, with more firepower than ever before.

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