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Author : Artur Usanov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Coltan, Congo & Conflict: POLINARES CASE STUDY. written by Artur Usanov and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Nest
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745649319
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Coltan written by Michael Nest and published by Polity. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael Nest unravels this complex story to offer a clear and compelling analysis of the relationship between coltan and violence in the Congo, and the battle between activists and corporations to reshape the global tantalum supply chain.
Author : Artur Usanov
Publisher : The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
ISBN 13 : 9491040812
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Coltan, Congo and Conflict written by Artur Usanov and published by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report evaluates the links between coltan trade and violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and examines the potential for recent legislation to break such links and reduce conflict.
Author : Edmund Trueman
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551528967
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Postcards from Congo written by Edmund Trueman and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has had a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and totalitarian rule. The country has played a crucial role in the economic growth of the Global North, but in doing so, has suffered immensely. So many seminal advances in technology were possible only through the extraction of materials from Congo, from rubber to copper to uranium to coltan. In each case, the Congolese people paid a great price exacerbated by the weight of colonial exploitation and dictatorial rule. In this comprehensive graphic history, author and illustrator Edmund Trueman explores the fractious story of Congo. Through deft illustrations and storytelling, Congo’s history―not widely known to Western readers―comes vividly alive. We see how Congolese musicians have spread their language across Africa by creating some of the most popular music on the continent, and how Congolese women have spent decades sidestepping sexist legislation to become leaders in local business. From resistance against colonialism to the fight for independence and the self-determination to make a life in an almost stateless place, Postcards from Congo depicts how the Congolese people have resisted and survived in order to take control of their lives and the country they call home. Includes a foreword by historian Didier Gondola, Professor of African History at Johns Hopkins University. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Author : Irit Back
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004425322
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book From Sudan to South Sudan written by Irit Back and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irit Back’s From Sudan to South Sudan: IGAD and the Role of Regional Mediation in Africa comprehensively analyses the full achievements, shortcomings, and implications of IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) mediation efforts in Sudan and South Sudan.
Author : James H. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816060
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Eyes of the World written by James H. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orientations -- Prologue: an introduction to the personal, methodological, and spatiotemporal scales of the project -- The eyes of the world: themes of movement, visualization, and (dis)embodiment in Congolese digital minerals extraction (an introduction) -- Mining worlds. War stories: seeing the world through war ; The magic chain: interdimensional movement in the supply chain for the "Black Minerals" ; Mining futures in the ruins -- The eyes of the world on Bisie and the game of tags ; Bisie during the time of movement ; Insects of the forest ; The battle of Bisie ; Closure ; Game of tags: auditing the digital minerals supply chain ; Conclusion: chains, holes, and wormholes.
Author : Elias O. Opongo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000593053
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Elections, Violence and Transitional Justice in Africa written by Elias O. Opongo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elections in Africa are competitive in nature and can be manipulated by incumbents to extend and entrench their rule through changes to constitutions, intimidation of opponents, excess use of police force and, in some cases, assassinations of dissident voices. Ethnic cleavages are also exploited by contestants to incite and mobilize unsuspecting masses to pursue their electoral ambitions which can lead to political instability. In many African countries, violence before, during and after elections has become a regrettable norm rather than the exception. The function of transitional justice is to address the legacy of human rights atrocities, political violence and societal harm resulting from prior misrule or violent conflicts, with a view to establishing fair, democratic and inclusive societies. This book interrogates the potential intersection between transitional justice and electoral processes. Specifically, it examines the hypothesis that transitional justice interventions that strive to address historical injustices perpetrated by violence, conflict and entrenched by socio-political impunity, can initiate preventive measures against electoral violence through redress, accountability and institutional reforms. The contributors to this volume have engaged with country case studies from across Africa, while examining the intersection between transitional justice and electoral processes. Hence, this is a timely volume that highlights the uninterrogated nexus between elections, violence and transitional justice in Africa.
Author : Tim James
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468317032
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Elemental written by Tim James and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to understand how our world works, the periodic table holds the answers. When the seventh row of the periodic table of elements was completed in June 2016 with the addition of four final elements—nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson—we at last could identify all the ingredients necessary to construct our world.In Elemental, chemist and science educator Tim James provides an informative, entertaining, and quirkily illustrated guide to the table that shows clearly how this abstract and seemingly jumbled graphic is relevant to our day-to-day lives.James tells the story of the periodic table from its ancient Greek roots, when you could count the number of elements humans were aware of on one hand, to the modern alchemists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries who have used nuclear chemistry and physics to generate new elements and complete the periodic table. In addition to this, he answers questions such as: What is the chemical symbol for a human? What would happen if all of the elements were mixed together? Which liquid can teleport through walls? Why is the medieval dream of transmuting lead into gold now a reality?Whether you're studying the periodic table for the first time or are simply interested in the fundamental building blocks of the universe—from the core of the sun to the networks in your brain—Elemental is the perfect guide.
Author : Eulalia Pérez-Sedeño
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622734610
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Knowledges, Practices and Activism from Feminist Epistemologies written by Eulalia Pérez-Sedeño and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science, Technology and Gender studies (STG) include the different approaches to feminist epistemologies, their current debates and also the theoretical analysis of different scientific controversies around cases that involve women's bodies and health, sex/gender, and techno-scientific practices. These studies are linked to the demand for another type of hybrid knowledge that revalorizes the practices, the embodied experience and care, as well as the subject positions traditionally excluded from the scientific community. The diversity of voices has allowed a plural knowledge in techno-scientific practices to emerge as well as the identification of gender, class, sexuality, race, functional diversity inequalities, for example. This has made possible a bioethical reflection which is not understood as abstract normative principles but linked to the practices and lived experience. Divided into three parts, this edited volume presents original and insightful research on STG from feminist epistemologies. The first part addresses fundamental theoretical questions that feminist epistemologies raise; and how they confront complex social problems, such as gender-based violence. The second part deals with research practices or processes, explicitly showing the relationship between science and policy. Finally, the third part presents some case studies that show the multidimensionality of the problems and the depth and richness of these analyses. The contributions included in the volume present original and in-depth research on local case studies within Spain. Not only challenging the hegemonic and global perspectives on different issues, this volume also opens up and enables discussion of these global narratives. This edited volume is a useful tool for researchers and university students in multiple fields such as gender studies, feminist epistemologies, STS, cultural history or transgender studies.
Author : Tim James
Publisher : Dunod
ISBN 13 : 2100849107
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Magique atome written by Tim James and published by Dunod. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quelle est la formule chimique d’un être humain ? Quelle est la substance la plus dangereuse de l’histoire ? Quels sont les neuf éléments qui ont radicalement changé le monde ? Ce livre vous emmène à la découverte des 118 briques fondamentales de la matière : les atomes ! Au cours de ce voyage, vous rencontrerez le célèbre savant Dmitri Mendeleïev, inventeur du tableau périodique des éléments, et serez initié avec humour et sans effort aux mystères de la matière, à la radioactivité et même à la fusion nucléaire...
Author : Nicoletta Batini
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831611
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Sustainable Food written by Nicoletta Batini and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. The book's multidisciplinary team of authors lay out detailed fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals. Chapters discuss strategies to make food production sustainable, nutritious, and fair, ranging from taxes and spending to education, labor market, health care, and pension reforms, alongside regulation in cases where market incentives are unlikely to work or to work fast enough. The authors carefully consider the different needs of more and less advanced economies, balancing economic development and sustainability goals. Case studies showcase successful strategies from around the world, such as taxing foods with a high carbon footprint, financing ecosystems mapping and conservation to meet scientific targets for healthy biomes permanency, subsidizing sustainable land and sea farming, reforming health systems to move away from sick care to preventive, nutrition-based care, and providing schools with matching funds to purchase local organic produce.--Amazon.
Author : Hettie Judah
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593511433
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Lapidarium written by Hettie Judah and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the lapidaries of the ancient world, this book is a beautifully designed collection of true stories about sixty different stones that have influenced our shared history The earliest scientists ground and processed minerals in a centuries-long quest for a mythic stone that would prolong human life. Michelangelo climbed mountains in Tuscany searching for the sugar-white marble that would yield his sculptures. Catherine the Great wore the wealth of Russia stitched in gemstones onto the front of her bodices. Through the realms of art, myth, geology, philosophy and power, the story of humanity can be told through the minerals and materials that have allowed us to evolve and create. From the Taiwanese national treasure known as the Meat-Shaped Stone to Malta’s prehistoric “fat lady” temples carved in globigerina limestone to the amethyst crystals still believed to have healing powers, Lapidarium is a jewel box of sixty far-flung stones and the stories that accompany them. Together, they explore how human culture has formed stone, and the roles stone has played in forming human culture.
Author : Hunter Vaughan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231544154
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret written by Hunter Vaughan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped criticism and regulation. Its practices are more diffuse; its final product, less tangible; and Hollywood has adopted public-relations strategies that portray it as environmentally conscious. In Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret, Hunter Vaughan offers a new history of the movies from an environmental perspective, arguing that how we make and consume films has serious ecological consequences. Bringing together environmental humanities, science communication, and social ethics, Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret is a pathbreaking consideration of the film industry’s environmental impact that examines how our cultural prioritization of spectacle has distracted us from its material consequences and natural-resource use. Vaughan examines the environmental effects of filmmaking from Hollywood classics to the digital era, considering how popular screen media shapes and reflects our understanding of the natural world. He recounts the production histories of major blockbusters—Gone with the Wind, Singin’ in the Rain, Twister, and Avatar—situating them in the contexts of the development of the film industry, popular environmentalism, and the proliferation of digital technologies. Emphasizing the materiality of media, Vaughan interweaves details of the hidden environmental consequences of specific filmmaking practices, from water use to server farms, within a larger critical portrait of social perceptions and valuations of the natural world.
Author : Ana Magdalena Figueroa
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1801173400
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Impact of Foreign Interventions on Democracy and Human Rights written by Ana Magdalena Figueroa and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Impact of Foreign Interventions on Democracy and Human Rights provides holistic studies exploring the relationship between military and economic interventions and the policies, methods, intentions, and consequences of the various American, French, and Chinese interventions in the case studies they present.
Author : R. Dannreuther
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113734914X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Global Resources written by R. Dannreuther and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This EU-funded project examines the dynamics of conflict, collaboration and competition in relation to access to oil, gas and minerals. It involves 12 different institutions from across the EU and examines oil, gas and other minerals - spanning geology, technology studies, sociology, economics and political science.
Author : François Cardarelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1846286697
Total Pages : 1365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Materials Handbook written by François Cardarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 1365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and practical book provides quick and easy access to data on the physical and chemical properties of all classes of materials. The second edition has been much expanded to include whole new families of materials while many of the existing families are broadened and refined with new material and up-to-date information. Particular emphasis is placed on the properties of common industrial materials in each class. Detailed appendices provide additional information, and careful indexing and a tabular format make the data quickly accessible. This book is an essential tool for any practitioner or academic working in materials or in engineering.
Author : Francis Gudyanga
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000730239
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Minerals in Africa written by Francis Gudyanga and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa’s dire need to industrialize is universally acknowledged and it is evident that the continent’s vast mineral resources can catalyze that industrialization. This requires the promotion of local beneficiation and value addition of minerals to yield materials on which modern Africa’s industry and society can rely. This book is, therefore, about transforming Africa’s comparative advantages in minerals into the continent’s competitive edge regarding materials. Mineral beneficiation and value addition form the basis and provide opportunities for mineral-driven Africa’s industrialization. The scope of the book is three-fold with inter-connected relationships: Information, Technical, and Policy oriented. It will be a useful reference material for mining undergraduate students on beneficiation and value addition of each of the minerals found in Africa. The book, while presenting a broad overview of beneficiation and value addition of Africa’s minerals, provides crucial starting material for postgraduate research students and R&D institutions who wish to delve into more advanced methods of extraction and utilization of mineral-derived materials that are in Africa for the purpose of industrialization of the continent.
