Tag: Land

The Land of the Gods The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala


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English | September 12, 2022 | ISBN: 1639940251, 1639940243 | True EPUB | 153 pages | 6.4 MB
Elvis Presley and Oprah Winfrey. Mahatma Gandhi and the Dalai Lama. Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla. Harry Potter and Star Wars.

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Escaping the Holocaust Illegal Immigration to the Land of Israel, 1939-1944


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English | February 21, 1991 | ISBN: 0195063406 | True PDF | 408 pages | 30.9 MB
Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine prior to the founding of the State of Israel forms one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of Zionism and modern Jewish history. Bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine by land and by sea in defiance of restrictive British immigration policies was partly an undertaking of national rescue and partly a calculated strategy of political brinksmanship.

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Land Is a Big Deal Why Rent Is Too High, Wages Too Low, and What We Can Do about It [Audiobook]


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English | November 18, 2022 | ASIN: B0BMS43S71 | M4B@128 kbps | 5h 40m | 330 MB
Author and Narrator: Lars A. Doucet
Land and the policies that govern it hold an incredible but largely forgotten power over our lives. When land is wasted and squandered, we get sky-high rents, oppressed workers, ruined businesses, depleted natural resources, a polluted earth, and an impoverished society. Poor land policy is the chief culprit behind sky-high urban rents, homelessness, and endless suburban sprawl.
Meanwhile, real estate has become the world’s number one asset class, comprising an ever-growing share of bank loans worldwide. Land Is a Big Deal draws on the insights of legendary American economist Henry George to explain how things got this way, as well as what we can do to fix it.

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The Lie of 1652 A decolonised history of land


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2020 | 427 Pages | ISBN: 0624089703 | EPUB | 1 MB
In this radical critique of established pre-colonial and colonial history, Mellet centres land dispossession, thedestruction of livelihoods and the brutality of slavery in South Africa.Drawing on scholarly work and his own experience of searching foridentity, Mellet provides a bold new perspective on the lossof land and belonging.Characters such as Autshumao, Krotoa and Doman come to life inthe story of the founding of a port at Cape Town – over 50 years beforeJan van Riebeeck arrived.

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The Far Land 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 1785788922 | 352 pages | PDF | 3.59 Mb
A thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the worldIn 1808,an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, had disappeared into the night with their Tahitian companions.Pitcairn Island was the perfect hideaway from British authorities, but after nearly two decades of isolation its secret society had devolved into a tribalistic hellscape; a real-life Lord of the Flies, rife with depravity and deception.Seven generations later, the island’s diabolical past still looms over its 48 residents; descendants of the original mutineers, marooned like modern castaways. Only a rusty cargo ship connects Pitcairn with the rest of the world, just four times a year. In 2018, Brandon Presser rode the freighter to live among its present-day families; two clans bound by circumstance and secrets. While on the island, he pieced together Pitcairn’s full an operatic saga that holds all who have visited in its mortal clutch-even the author.Told through vivid historical and personal narrative, The Far Land goes beyond the infamous mutiny on the Bounty ,offering an unprecedented glimpse at life on the fringes of civilization, and how, perhaps, it’s not so different from our own.

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Speculation Nation Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic (Early American Studies)


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English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1512824488 | 432 pages | MOBI | 35 Mb
During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins of this real-estate bonanza―a story of ambition, corruption, capitalism, and statecraft that stretched across millions of acres from Maine to the Mississippi and Georgia to the Great Lakes.

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The Business of Densification Governing Land for Social Sustainability in Housing


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031490134 | 286 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
Affordable housing shortage and social exclusion have become severe societal problems across the globe. Increasing numbers of people are suffering from social eviction and displacement due to urban densification, modernization, rising rents, and intense housing commodification. Vulnerable resident groups – such as old-aged or households with children – who often live in old housing stocks planned to be densified, renovated, or upgraded with higher rents, are forced to leave the urban core centers because they can no longer afford to live in central locations, or because they experience unstable or insecure housing conditions. A scenario that is highly unsustainable.

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