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Backpacking through Southeast Asia for 7 months.
Author : Nomad Travel Family
Publisher : Nomad Travel Family
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 2024-07-18
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Backpacking through Southeast Asia for 7 months.
Author : Nomad Travel Family
Publisher : Nomad Travel Family
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Backpacking through Southeast Asia for 7 months.
Author : Nomad Travel Family
Publisher : Nomad Travel Family
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2024-09-01
Category : Travel
ISBN :
The Big Lap, Cairns to Cairns in a camper van. 7 months around Australia.
Author : Chris Rowthorn
Publisher :
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Brunei
ISBN :
At the crossroads of Asia, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei offer a travel experience unlike any other. Go fast, go slow, hit the streets or get off the beaten track - this insiders' guide shows you how. * more than 80 maps, including full-colour regional map * insights to light your way in deepest, darkest Borneo * climb high, dive deep, shop till you drop and eat till you pop * trains, planes and automobiles, buses, bicycles, boots and boats - we'll get you there and around * user-friendly Malay language chapter
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 32,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Air travel
ISBN :
Author : Susan Sered
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052093346X
Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men and women and dozens of medical providers, policymakers, and advocates from around the nation, this book takes a fresh look at one of the most important social issues facing the United States today. A new afterword updates the stories of many of the people who are so memorably presented here.
Author : Sultan Hafeez Rahman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 14,51 MB
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781005249
South Asian leaders have made it a priority to tackle key regional issues such as poverty, environment degradation, trade and investment barriers and food insecurity, among others.
Author : P.R. White
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461523699
Life is often considered to be a journey. The lifecycle of waste can similarly be considered to be a journey from the cradle (when an item becomes valueless and, usually, is placed in the dustbin) to the grave (when value is restored by creating usable material or energy; or the waste is transformed into emissions to water or air, or into inert material placed in a landfill). This preface provides a route map for the journey the reader of this book will undertake. Who? Who are the intended readers of this book? Waste managers (whether in public service or private companies) will find a holistic approach for improving the environmental quality and the economic cost of managing waste. The book contains general principles based on cutting edge experience being developed across Europe. Detailed data and a computer model will enable operations managers to develop data-based improvements to their systems. Producers oj waste will be better able to understand how their actions can influence the operation of environmentally improved waste management systems. Designers oj products and packages will be better able to understand how their design criteria can improve the compatibility of their product or package with developing, environmentally improved waste management systems. Waste data specialists (whether in laboratories, consultancies or environ mental managers of waste facilities) will see how the scope, quantity and quality of their data can be improved to help their colleagues design more effective waste management systems.
Author : Pamela Swadling
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2019-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1743325460
The natural resources of New Guinea and nearby islands have attracted outsiders for at least 5000 years: spices, aromatic woods and barks, resins, plumes, sea slugs, shells and pearls all brought traders from distant markets. Among the most sought-after was the bird of paradise. Their magnificent plumes bedecked the hats of fashion-conscious women in Europe and America, provided regalia for the Kings of Nepal, and decorated the headdresses of Janissaries of the Ottoman Empire. Plumes from Paradise tells the story of this interaction, and of the economic, political, social and cultural consequence for the island's inhabitants. It traces 400 years of economic and political history, culminating in the 'plume boom' of the early part of the 20th century, when an unprecedented number of outsiders flocked to the island's coasts and hinterlands. The story teems with the variety of people involved: New Guineans, Indonesians, Chinese, Europeans, hunters, traders, natural historians and their collectors, officials, missionaries, planters, miners, adventurers of every kind. In the wings were the conservationists, whose efforts brought the slaughter of the plume boom to an end and ushered in an era of comparative isolation for the island that lasted until World War II.
Author : Marius Jacobs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 364272793X
In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.