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Jagua, A Journey Into Body Art from the Amazon

Author : Carine Fabius
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 0978500326
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (785 download)

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Book Synopsis Jagua, A Journey Into Body Art from the Amazon by : Carine Fabius

Download or read book Jagua, A Journey Into Body Art from the Amazon written by Carine Fabius and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of the jagua fruit, author Carine Fabius takes readers on a journey into the deepest realms of the Amazon jungle, where a prized tattoo ink weaves magical tales into the heart and culture of the region's indigenous people. Written in a breezy, engaging style, the book includes: - 40 pages of gorgeous color photographs, including contributions by noted documentary photographer and travel writer Cristina Mittermeier - Over 25 black & white photographs and illustrations - The author's personal account of her and her artist/explorer husband's journey into the world of temporary body art, beginning with henna and culminating with the discovery of the jagua fruit's promise to deliver a beautiful tattoo that looks real -- yet fades after two weeks - Excerpts from her husband Pascal Giacomini's diary as he travels on a motorized dugout canoe into the deepest reaches of the jungle, where he spends weeks with an indigenous group called the Matses - Brief histories of various indigenous groups associated with jagua - Personal and insightful essays by veteran explorers and lovers of the Amazon - Information on the medicinal and mystical properties of the jagua fruit - Magical tales and beliefs surrounding this extraordinary fruit - A short history of tattoos - A short history of ink - Frequently asked questions (and answers, of course!) about jagua tattoos - Overview of the Amazon, the Indians that populate the area, and issues that currently dominate throughout the region - Traditional tales from the Amazon

Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon

Author : Menton, M.
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon written by Menton, M. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the literature on the links between migration and forests in the Peruvian Amazon. It highlights not only the complexity of the migrant–forest interface in Peru but also the relative lack of research on these dynamics. Historically, offi

Volkswagen in the Amazon

Author : Antoine Acker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107197422
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Volkswagen in the Amazon written by Antoine Acker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.

No Rain in the Amazon

Author : Nikolas Kozloff
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 0230107605
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book No Rain in the Amazon written by Nikolas Kozloff and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists and activists about the rainforest and what should be done to avert its collapse. Drawing on his expertise of South American politics, Kozloff argues that cooperation between the world's countries is essential in turning back the tide of climate change and that the fate of the planet depends on our response to environmental problems within the southern hemisphere.

The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon

Author : João S. Campari
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845425510
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon by : João S. Campari

Download or read book The Economics of Deforestation in the Amazon written by João S. Campari and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative new book presents the results of twenty years of research on deforestation in the Amazon. By carefully observing the changing character of human settlements and their association with deforestation over such a prolonged period, the author is able to reject much of the 'perceived wisdom'.

Frontiers of Development in the Amazon

Author : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498594727
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis Frontiers of Development in the Amazon by : Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris

Download or read book Frontiers of Development in the Amazon written by Antonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region inherently tied to the expansion of internal and external socio-economic and environmental frontiers. This book offers interdisciplinary analyses from a range of scholars in Europe, Latin America, and the United States that question the methods of development and the range of socio-ecological impacts of those methods by examining the theoretical, methodological, and empirical dimensions of frontier-making along with evaluating and refining existing frameworks. Contributors focus on the complex politics of border formation shaped by institutional, economic, and political forces, placing them in relation to ethical, imaginary, and symbolic elements. In doing so, contributors explore the dynamic production of identities, values, and subjectivities, covering matters of migratory patterns, complex power struggles, and intensive—at times violent—clashes. Among other topics, this book assesses the recent encroachment of export-driven agribusiness into the Amazon Region in the context of recolonization, resource exploitation and multiple programs of modernization and national integration. Scholars of Latin American studies, international development, environmental studies, and applied social sciences will find this book particularly useful.

Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon

Author : Rebecca Ray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000711617
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon written by Rebecca Ray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams, highways, and ports are filling up the pipelines of planners, the national governments of Andean and Amazon-basin countries and major development banks have enacted ambitious social and environmental protections. The book traces the development of social and environmental protections after years of struggle by affected communities, going beyond official policies to discover how these reforms work in practice, and ultimately whether they are enough to stem the risks of infrastructure mega-projects. As Chinese public banks play an increasingly important role in the region, the book also demonstrates that there is a risk of governments undercutting their own standards. By contrast, this book shows that making infrastructure work for everyone involved requires mutually reinforcing networks of support and accountability among communities, governments, and development banks. This book, led by an expert multi-disciplinary, international team, will be of considerable interest to researchers in the fields of development and development economics, geography, anthropology, and ecology, as well as practitioners in development banks and in government regulatory and foreign aid agencies.

Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond

Author : Beatriz Caiuby Labate
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199341214
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Ayahuasca Shamanism in the Amazon and Beyond written by Beatriz Caiuby Labate and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatriz Caiuby Labate and Clancy Cavnar offer an in-depth exploration of how Amerindian epistemology and ontology concerning indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon have spread to Western societies, and of how indigenous, mestizo, and cosmopolitan cultures have engaged with and transformed these forest traditions. The volume focuses on the use of ayahuasca, a psychoactive drink essential in many indigenous shamanic rituals of the Amazon. Ayahuasca use has spread to countries far beyond its Amazonian origin, spurring a wide variety of legal and cultural responses. The essays in this volume look at how these responses have influenced ritual design and performance in traditional and non-traditional contexts, how displaced indigenous people and rubber tappers are engaged in the creative reinvention of rituals, and how these rituals help build ethnic alliances and cultural and political strategies. These essays explore important classic and contemporary issues in anthropology, including the relationship between the expansion of ecotourism and ethnic tourism and recent indigenous cultural revival and the emergence of new ethnic identities. The volume also examines trends in the commodification of indigenous cultures in post-colonial contexts, the combination of shamanism with a network of health and spiritually related services, and identity hybridization in global societies. The rich ethnographies and extensive analysis of these essays will allow deeper understanding of the role of ritual in mediating the encounter between indigenous traditions and modern societies.

Rubber Production in the Amazon Valley

Author : William Lytle Schurz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Rubber Production in the Amazon Valley written by William Lytle Schurz and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The River Amazon from Its Sources to the Sea

Author : Paul Fountain
Publisher : London : Constable
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The River Amazon from Its Sources to the Sea written by Paul Fountain and published by London : Constable. This book was released on 1914 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition

Author : Andreas Wittig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 163343916X
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition by : Andreas Wittig

Download or read book Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition written by Andreas Wittig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling guide reveals best practices for security, high availability, and scalability on AWS, the world's most popular cloud. It's packed with techniques for automating your deployment, management, and even your infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code. Amazon Web Services in Action: An in-depth guide to AWS has helped thousands of developers succeed with the AWS cloud. This hands-on guide gives a complete introduction to computing, storage, and networking, along with best practices for all core AWS services. Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS is a comprehensive introduction to everything AWS. This revised edition covers all the core services in clear, plain language, including services such as AWS Lambda and CloudFormation. Throughout, you'll automate your deployment, your scaling, and even your infrastructure management using powerful Infrastructure as Code tools. You'll learn how to secure network traffic with a private cloud, achieve high availability with autoscaling, share data with EFS, and deliver in-memory storage with ElastiCache. Real world examples like hosting a WordPress site and deploying a note-taking app on containers ensure you're always learning hands-on. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

Amazon Web Services in Action

Author : Michael Wittig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1638357196
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Amazon Web Services in Action written by Michael Wittig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to computing, storing, and networking in the AWS cloud. You'll find clear, relevant coverage of all the essential AWS services you to know, emphasizing best practices for security, high availability and scalability. Foreword by Ben Whaley, AWS community hero and author. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology The largest and most mature of the cloud platforms, AWS offers over 100 prebuilt services, practically limitless compute resources, bottomless secure storage, as well as top-notch automation capabilities. This book shows you how to develop, host, and manage applications on AWS. About the Book Amazon Web Services in Action, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to deploying web applications in the AWS cloud. You'll find clear, relevant coverage of all essential AWS services, with a focus on automation, security, high availability, and scalability. This thoroughly revised edition covers the latest additions to AWS, including serverless infrastructure with AWS Lambda, sharing data with EFS, and in-memory storage with ElastiCache. What's inside Completely revised bestseller Secure and scale distributed applications Deploy applications on AWS Design for failure to achieve high availability Automate your infrastructure About the Reader Written for mid-level developers and DevOps engineers. About the Author Andreas Wittig and Michael Wittig are software engineers and DevOps consultants focused on AWS. Together, they migrated the first bank in Germany to AWS in 2013. Table of Contents PART 1 - GETTING STARTED What is Amazon Web Services? A simple example: WordPress in five minutes PART 2 - BUILDING VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURE CONSISTING OF COMPUTERS AND NETWORKING Using virtual machines: EC2 Programming your infrastructure: The command-line, SDKs, and CloudFormation Automating deployment: CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, and OpsWorks Securing your system: IAM, security groups, and VPC Automating operational tasks with Lambda PART 3 - STORING DATA IN THE CLOUD Storing your objects: S3 and Glacier Storing data on hard drives: EBS and instance store Sharing data volumes between machines: EFS Using a relational database service: RDS Caching data in memory: Amazon ElastiCache Programming for the NoSQL database service: DynamoDB PART 4 - ARCHITECTING ON AWS Achieving high availability: availability zones, auto-scaling, and CloudWatch Decoupling your infrastructure: Elastic Load Balancing and Simple Queue Service Designing for fault tolerance Scaling up and down: auto-scaling and CloudWatch

Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches

Author : David Clinton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1638351333
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches written by David Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches guides you through the process of building a robust and secure web application using the core AWS services you really need to know. You'll be amazed by how much you can accomplish with AWS! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Cloud computing has transformed the way we build and deliver software. With the Amazon Web Services cloud platform, you can trade expensive glass room hardware and custom infrastructure for virtual servers and easy-to-configure storage, security, and networking services. Better, because you don't own the hardware, you only pay for the computing power you need! Just learn a few key ideas and techniques and you can have applications up and running in AWS in minutes. About the Book Learn Amazon Web Services in a Month of Lunches gets you started with AWS fast. In just 21 bite-size lessons, you'll learn the concepts and practical techniques you need to deploy and manage applications. You'll learn by doing real-world labs that guide you from the core AWS tool set through setting up security and storage and planning for growth. You'll even deploy a public-facing application that's highly available, scalable, and load balanced. What's Inside First steps with AWS - no experience required Deploy web apps using EC2, RDS, S3, and Route 53 Cheap and fast system backups Setting up cloud automation About the Reader If you know your way around Windows or Linux and have a basic idea of how web applications work, you're ready to start using AWS. About the Author David Clinton is a system administrator, teacher, and writer. He has administered, written about, and created training materials for many important technology subjects including Linux systems, cloud computing (AWS in particular), and container technologies like Docker. Many of his video training courses can be found on Pluralsight.com, and links to his other books (on Linux administration and server virtualization) can be found at https://bootstrap-it.com. Table of Contents Before you begin PART 1 - THE CORE AWS TOOLS The 10-minute EC2 web server Provisioning a more robust EC2 website Databases on AWS DNS: whatâ€™s in a name? S3: cheap, fast file storage S3: cheap, fast system backups AWS security: working with IAM users, groups, and roles Managing growth Pushing back against the chaos: using resource tags CloudWatch: monitoring AWS resources for fun and profit Another way to play: the command-line interface PART 2 - THE AWS POWER USER: OPTIMIZING YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE Keeping ahead of user demand High availability: working with AWS networking tools High availability: load balancing High availability: auto scaling High availability: content-delivery networks PART 3 - FOOD FOR THOUGHT: WHAT ELSE CAN AWS DO FOR YOU? Building hybrid infrastructure Cloud automation: working with Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, and Lambda Everything else (nearly) Never the end

Fish and Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon

Author : Renato A.M. Silvano
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030491463
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Fish and Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon written by Renato A.M. Silvano and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comparative data on fish ecology and small-scale fisheries between Tapajos (clear water) and Negro (black water) rivers, in the Brazilian Amazon. These rivers are less studied than white water rivers and few books on Amazon fishes have addressed more than one river basin. These data can serve as a baseline to check future changes or impacts in these rivers, which can be affected by development projects, such as highways, deforestation, mining and dams. Besides information on fish biology, the book also discusses fish uses, fisheries and its importance for riverine people, comparing these data for each fish species between sites located inside and outside conservation units. The book is an outcome of the research project ‘Linking sustainability of small-scale fisheries, fishers’ knowledge, conservation and co-management of biodiversity in large rivers of the Brazilian Amazon’, which was coordinated by the editor of this volume and funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NAS).

In Search of the Amazon

Author : Seth Garfield
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822377179
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Amazon written by Seth Garfield and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the dramatic history of the Brazilian Amazon during the Second World War, Seth Garfield provides fresh perspectives on contemporary environmental debates. His multifaceted analysis explains how the Amazon became the object of geopolitical rivalries, state planning, media coverage, popular fascination, and social conflict. In need of rubber, a vital war material, the United States spent millions of dollars to revive the Amazon's rubber trade. In the name of development and national security, Brazilian officials implemented public programs to engineer the hinterland's transformation. Migrants from Brazil's drought-stricken Northeast flocked to the Amazon in search of work. In defense of traditional ways of life, longtime Amazon residents sought to temper outside intervention. Garfield's environmental history offers an integrated analysis of the struggles among distinct social groups over resources and power in the Amazon, as well as the repercussions of those wartime conflicts in the decades to come.

Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Author : Andrea Cattaneo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896291308
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Balancing Agricultural Development and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon written by Andrea Cattaneo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, federal policies promoting migration and encouraging agricultural development of large farms, logging, and ranching have led to the deforestation of vast areas of the Amazon rainforest.Though these policies have largely been replaced, deforestation continues. What effects do current macroeconomic and regional policies and events have on deforestation and on the well-being of settlers on the agricultural frontier? This report identifies the links between the agriculture and logging sectors in the Amazon, economic growth, poverty alleviation, and natural resource degradation in the region and in Brazil as a whole.It considers the effects of currency devaluation, building roads and other infrastructure in the Amazon, property rights, adoption of technological change, and fiscal incentives and disincentives to deforest.The results are sometimes counterintuitive, but shed new light on why slowing deforestation is so difficult and on the trade-offs between environmental and economic goals.

Evaluation of Organic Compounds and Trace Elements in Amazon Creek Basin, Oregon, September 1990

Author : Frank A. Rinella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Evaluation of Organic Compounds and Trace Elements in Amazon Creek Basin, Oregon, September 1990 written by Frank A. Rinella and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: