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Legacy of the Tropics

Author : Mary Deal
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Legacy of the Tropics written by Mary Deal and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trilogy of stories that shatter the myths of stereotypical islands of paradise. In Promises, during the late 1960s, the ketch, Mercy, sinks during a sea storm off Culebra near the Virgin Islands. Ciara Malloy assumes custody of her drowned fiancé’s son and learns a devastating secret about the boy that changes her life forever. In Adrift, in the late 1990s, underwater photographer Lillian Avery gets caught in a rip current and swept out to sea off Kauai in Hawaii. In facing death, she finds a way to leave a message behind. Years later, in Reunion, the two former neighbors from Puerto Rico reunite on Kauai. A hurricane wreaks island-wide havoc. Ciara is missing, presumed dead. Among the rubble, Lillian finds Ciara’s memoirs; a life history that threatens to expose tightly held secrets about the boy since the sinking of the Mercy.

Dragon in the Tropics

Author : Javier Corrales
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815705026
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Dragon in the Tropics written by Javier Corrales and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he was first elected in 1999, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez Frías has reshaped a frail but nonetheless pluralistic democracy into a semi-authoritarian regime—an outcome achieved with spectacularly high oil income and widespread electoral support. This eye-opening book illuminates one of the most sweeping and unexpected political transformations in contemporary Latin America. Based on more than fifteen years' experience in researching and writing about Venezuela, Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold have crafted a comprehensive account of how the Chávez regime has revamped the nation, with a particular focus on its political transformation. Throughout, they take issue with conventional explanations. First, they argue persuasively that liberal democracy as an institution was not to blame for the rise of chavismo. Second, they assert that the nation's economic ailments were not caused by neoliberalism. Instead they blame other factors, including a dependence on oil, which caused macroeconomic volatility; political party fragmentation, which triggered infighting; government mismanagement of the banking crisis, which led to more centralization of power; and the Asian crisis of 1997, which devastated Venezuela's economy at the same time that Chávez ran for president. It is perhaps on the role of oil that the authors take greatest issue with prevailing opinion. They do not dispute that dependence on oil can generate political and economic distortions—the "resource curse" or "paradox of plenty" arguments—but they counter that oil alone fails to explain Chávez's rise. Instead they single out a weak framework of checks and balances that allowed the executive branch to extract oil rents and distribute them to the populace. The real culprit behind Chávez's success, they write, was the asymmetry of political power.

An Eye for the Tropics

Author : Krista A. Thompson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388561
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book An Eye for the Tropics written by Krista A. Thompson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

Dragon in the Tropics

Author : Javier Corrales
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815725949
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Dragon in the Tropics written by Javier Corrales and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new and expanded edition of Dragon in the Tropics—the widely acclaimed account of how president Hugo Chávez (1999–2013) revamped Venezuela’s political economy—examines the electoral decline of Chavismo after Chavez’s death and the policies adopted by his successor, Nicolás Maduro, to cope with the economic chaos inherited from previous radical populist policies. Corrales and Penfold argue that Maduro has had to struggle with the inherent contradictions of a large and heterogeneous social coalition, a declining oil sector, the strength of entrenched military interests, and fewer resources to appease international allies, which have strenghtened the autocratic features of an already consolidated hybrid regime. In examining the new political realities of Venezuela, the authors offer lessons on the dynamics of succession in hybrid regimes. This book is a must-read for scholars and analysts of Latin America. "

Tropical Forests and Their Crops

Author : Nigel J. H. Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717944
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Forests and Their Crops written by Nigel J. H. Smith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tropics are the source of many of our familiar fruits, vegetables, oils, and spice, as well as such commodities as rubber and wood. Moreover, other tropical fruits and vegetables are being introduced into our markets to offer variety to our diet. Now, as tropical forests are increasingly threatened, we face a double-fold crisis: not only the loss of the plants but also rich pools of potentially useful genes. Wild populations of crop plants harbor genes that can improve the productivity and disease resistance of cultivated crops, many of which are vital to developing economies and to global commerce. Eight chapters of this book are devoted to a variety of tropical crops—beverages, fruit, starch, oil, resins, fuelwood, fodder, spices, timber, and nuts—the history of their domestication, their uses today, and the known extent of their gene pools, both domesticated and wild. Drawing on broad research, the authors also consider conservation strategies such as parks and reserves, corporate holdings, gene banks and tissue culture collections, and debt-for-nature swaps. They stress the need for a sensitive balance between conservation and the economic well-being of local populations. If economic growth is part of the conservation effort, local populations and governments will be more strongly motivated to save their natural resources. Distinctly practical and soundly informative, this book provides insight into the overwhelming abundance of tropical forests, an unsettling sense of what we may lose if they are destroyed, and a deep appreciation for the delicate relationships between tropical forest plants and people around the world.

Images of the Tropics

Author : Susie Protschky
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004253602
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Images of the Tropics written by Susie Protschky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of the Tropics critically examines Dutch colonial culture in the Netherlands Indies through the prism of landscape art. Susie Protschky contends that visual representations of nature and landscape were core elements of how Europeans understood the tropics, justified their territorial claims in the region, and understood their place both in imperial Europe and in colonized Asia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book thus makes a significant contribution to studies of empire, art and environment, as well as to histories of Indonesia and Europe. Surveying a rich visual culture developed over a period of some 350 years of Dutch colonial engagement with Indonesia Susie Protschky demonstrates how views of the archipelago’s environment were far from simple topographical souvenirs. Rather, this book reveals how images of the tropics visually articulated colonial attempts to legitimize and historicize what were in fact continually changing and contested claims to Dutch territorial sovereignty in the Indies. Further, colonial images of nature were routinely inflected with diverse cultural preoccupations, among them the constitution of gender, class and racial boundaries in Indies society; the tenor of sexual mores in the tropics; and the political role of religion in the archipelago. Landscape art thus indexed colonial views on a range of pressing social and political concerns.

Tropic of Chaos

Author : Christian Parenti
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568586620
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Tropic of Chaos written by Christian Parenti and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency. Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism" -- a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.

Legacy

Author : Jesikah Sundin
Publisher : Forest Tales Publishing
ISBN 13 : 099134538X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Legacy written by Jesikah Sundin and published by Forest Tales Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's from the past, locked inside a world within a world. He's from the future, haunted by her death. A chilling secret binds their lives together. A sensible young nobleman and his sister live in an experimental medieval village. Sealed inside this biodome since infancy, Leaf and Willow have been groomed by The Code to build a sustainable world, one devoid of Outsider interference. One that believes death will give way to life. All is ideal until their father bequeaths a family secret with his dying breath, placing an invisible crown of power on Leaf's head. A death Leaf believes is the result of murder. Now everyone in their quiet town is suspect. Risking banishment, the siblings search for clues, leading them to Fillion Nichols, an Outsider with a shocking connection to their family. Their encounter launches Fillion into a psychological battle with his turbulent past as he rushes to decode the many dangerous secrets that bind them together--a necessity if they're all to survive. The Middle Ages clashes with the near future in an unforgettable quest for truth, unfolding a story rich in mystery, betrayal, and love. Are you ready to discover what is real? UNTANGLE HOW THE FUTURE MEETS THE PAST in this multi-award winning series! For fans of eco-pagan science fiction, young adult dystopian fantasy romance, and murder mysteries. The Biodome Chronicles is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat!

Why Forests? Why Now?

Author : Frances Seymour
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 1933286865
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Why Forests? Why Now? written by Frances Seymour and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical forests are an undervalued asset in meeting the greatest global challenges of our time—averting climate change and promoting development. Despite their importance, tropical forests and their ecosystems are being destroyed at a high and even increasing rate in most forest-rich countries. The good news is that the science, economics, and politics are aligned to support a major international effort over the next five years to reverse tropical deforestation. Why Forests? Why Now? synthesizes the latest evidence on the importance of tropical forests in a way that is accessible to anyone interested in climate change and development and to readers already familiar with the problem of deforestation. It makes the case to decisionmakers in rich countries that rewarding developing countries for protecting their forests is urgent, affordable, and achievable.

The Legacy

Author : Leigh Clarke
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490715258
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy written by Leigh Clarke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy is Clarke's collection of short stories and novellas from 2010 to 2013. "This and That" is a book of short stories, including a sailing voyage, animal tales, American Indian stories, partial rewrite of a classic story, and personal revelations. "Time of Castles: A Search for Ancestors" is a fictional travel story. Leah finds her ancestor's castles and learns of medieval royalty, as she enjoys friendship and the food and wine of Great Britain. "Season's Sun: Part I. Land Above"--In this historical story, Benjamin finds love and conflict in his native land of Northern Ireland in the 1700s and later immigrated to America. "Season's Sun: Part II. A New Land"--Benjamin's arrival in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1797 and the family's eventual migration to Tennessee and Illinois. "Kate and Alec" is a story of their lives and adventures as journalists and lovers. "Puzzle of Suspects" is a crime novel with many twists and turns, romance, and travel.

Tropical Lion's Legacy

Author : Zoe Chant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781693018275
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (182 download)

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Download or read book Tropical Lion's Legacy written by Zoe Chant and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's looking for forgiveness. She's looking for a fighting chance. Graham Long left his career-and his real name-behind to make a fresh start for himself at Shifting Sands. He's done with dueling, and wants nothing more than to quietly raise his strawberries and tend the lawns at the tropical shifters-only resort. A fight is the last thing he wants when his lion insists that his friend's bear shifter bridesmaid is his destined mate. But fiercely independent Alice Anders has a life of her own already. She's not going to turn her back on the people who need her and the job she loves just to run away to a tropical island paradise with a gorgeous gardener that makes her knees weak with one blue-eyed glance. She's not at the resort to find her own true love... and she's not there only as a bridesmaid, either. She's been given a fighting chance to save her family: all she has to do is uncover the shift form of the mysterious resort owner, Scarlet, for an equally mysterious man for whom money is no object. Between the secrets they're keeping and the answers they're searching for, it's a hard road to honesty, and harder road still to a happy ever after. Can Graham keep ahead of the enemies from his past? Will Alice figure out who he really is... and if she does, will she ever be able to forgive him for the things he's done and the secrets he's keeping from her? TROPICAL LION'S LEGACY is a steamy standalone paranormal shifter novel in the beloved Shifting Sands Resort series. For a hot (occasionally hilarious) and heartwarming happy ever after, one-click today! A bonus short story, REUNION, is exclusive to this book. Fans are raving about this unique series: ★★★★★ 'This whole series is full of humor, suspense and a wide variety of people/animals to keep you coming back for the next book.' ★★★★★ 'If only there was a resort like this I would book my one way ticket today!' ★★★★★ 'I really love this series. The characters are interesting and the stories are wonderful.' ★★★★★ 'One more great book in my favorite series. Can't wait for the next one.' ★★★★★ 'Can't wait to see what Zoe brings to the Shifting Sands Resort next!' ★★★★★ 'This is a Shifting Sands book, I knew it would be good.' ★★★★★ 'Man! This series has been SO fun!' ★★★★★ 'This series is a gem and I'm delighted to recommend it to others.'

Naked Tropics

Author : Kenneth Maxwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136728414
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Naked Tropics written by Kenneth Maxwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume distinguished historian Kenneth Maxwell collects some of his most significant writings, following Portugal's imperial journey from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and from the coast of Asia to the mouth of the Red Sea. Maxwell takes the reader on a lively journey from Macao to the Amazon forests-each piece in the collection is a reflection of the authors driving passions. Major themes he examines are: the peopling of the Americas, the shaking up of continents, the spirit that took a precocious Portugal into its imperial venture, the play between Portugal's' extensive imperial reach into Africa and Asia and the Americas, and the rise of Brazil and its tumultuous history.

Environmental Change and Tropical Geomorphology

Author : Ian Douglas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429558112
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Change and Tropical Geomorphology written by Ian Douglas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tropics provide the key to understanding much biological and Earth science. This is particularly true for the study of landforms, which in higher latitudes suffer great seasonal contrasts in process intensity and type, and which often in the past underwent the dramatic changes of glaciation and periglaciation. Yet studies in the tropics have shown that the legacy of past climate changes is much more dramatic than was formerly believed. This book, first published in 1985, brings together the variety of evidence about such environmental changes, over a variety of timescales, and sets it against the current knowledge of the nature of geomorphic processes in the tropics.

The Legacy of Dutch Brazil

Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139993178
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Dutch Brazil written by Michiel van Groesen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil. In doing so, this book proposes a radical shift in interpretation. The Dutch Atlantic is widely perceived as an incongruity among more durable European empires, whereas Brazil occupies an exceptional place in the history of Latin America, which leads to a view of Dutch Brazil as self-contained and historically isolated. The Legacy of Dutch Brazil shows that repercussions of the Dutch infiltration in the Southern Hemisphere resonated across the Atlantic Basin and remained long after the fall of the colony. By examining its regional, national, and cosmopolitan legacies, thirteen authors trace the memories and mythologies of Dutch Brazil from the colonial period up until the present day and engage in broader debates on geopolitical and cultural changes at the crossroads of Atlantic and Latin American studies.

The Legacy of Eric Williams

Author : Tanya L. Shields
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 162674694X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Eric Williams written by Tanya L. Shields and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legacy of Eric Williams provides an indispensable and significant understanding of Eric Williams's contributions to the now independent nation of Trinidad and Tobago and his impact on the broader international understanding of the Caribbean. This book stands out because of its simultaneous investigation into Eric Williams as a scholar/intellectual, a political leader, and, most importantly, a key postcolonial figure. Most previous studies have treated these as separate arenas. The essays here confront the relevance of postcolonialism in understanding Williams's role both in post-independence Trinidad and Tobago and in newer understandings of Caribbean globalization. The volume divides into three broad sections--"Becoming Eric Williams," "Political Williams," and "Textual Williams." "Becoming Eric Williams" provides background on Williams and the Caribbean's ontological quest, addressing what it means to be West Indian and Caribbean. "Political Williams" engages with his policies and their consequences, describing the impact of Williams's political policies on several areas: integration, color stratification, and labor and public sector reform. Williams's far-reaching political influence in these aspects cements his legacy as one of the main public intellectuals responsible for creating the modern Caribbean. "Textual Williams" examines his scholarly contributions from a more traditional academic perspective. These sections allow for a comprehensive understanding of Williams as a man, a scholar, and a politician.

Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka

Author : Ivan Margolius & John G. Henry
Publisher : David and Charles
ISBN 13 : 1787116662
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Tatra - The Legacy of Hans Ledwinka written by Ivan Margolius & John G. Henry and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Models of design excellence, Tatras were highly influential in shaping modern car design concepts and the development of the Volkswagen. This book places Ledwinka in his well-deserved place amongst the great car designers.

The Legacy of Mega Events

Author : Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030550532
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Mega Events written by Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events. The case of Rio de Janeiro is presented as an example of a failing global strategy for urban redevelopment, entrepreneurial urban governance and the realization of mega-events. This book aims to present the real and critical state of the legacies of such mega-events. It shows how instead of the promised economic redemption, Rio is experiencing a severe economic, political and social crisis, handling three observation perspectives: the first is the description of urban transformations and mega events, assessing the contradictions in the model for the intended urban development and taking into account historical factors both at local and national level; the second restricts on neighborhoods as case studies representing an ensign of a neoliberal urban transformation’ results; the third links city and citizenship focusing tensions and inconsistencies and opening up a perspective on the importance of fostering the concept of citizenship, including actions, movements and initiatives that express the resistance and struggles around a possible new destination for Rio de Janeiro. Prof. Luiz Cesar de Quieroz Ribeiro and Dr. Filippo Bignami as General Editors thank Ana Paula Soares Carvalho, Humberto Meza, Niccoló Cuppini and Orlando dos Santos Junior for their contributions as co-editors of this book.