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Book Synopsis The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia by : Oliver Pye
Download or read book The Palm Oil Controversy in Southeast Asia written by Oliver Pye and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2013 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a compilation of papers first presented at the workshop "The palm oil controversy in transnational perspective" that took place in Singapore, 2-4 March 2009. The workshop was jointly organized by the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit'at, Bonn and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. It was funded by Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)"--Preface.
Book Synopsis Policy and institutional frameworks for the development of palm oil–based biodiesel in Indonesia by : Caroko, W., Komarudin, H., Obidzinski, K., Gunarso, P.
Download or read book Policy and institutional frameworks for the development of palm oil–based biodiesel in Indonesia written by Caroko, W., Komarudin, H., Obidzinski, K., Gunarso, P. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Meaning of Whitemen by : Ira Bashkow
Download or read book The Meaning of Whitemen written by Ira Bashkow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in the face of counterevidence. While Papua New Guinea’s resident white population has been severely reduced due to postcolonial white flight, the whiteman remains a significant racial and cultural other here—not only as an archetype of power and wealth in the modern arena, but also as a foil for people’s evaluations of themselves within vernacular frames of meaning. As Ira Bashkow explains, ideas of self versus other need not always be anti-humanistic or deprecatory, but can be a creative and potentially constructive part of all cultures. A brilliant analysis of whiteness and race in a non-Western society, The Meaning of Whitemen turns traditional ethnography to the purpose of understanding how others see us.
Book Synopsis Crude Intentions by : Alexandra Gillies
Download or read book Crude Intentions written by Alexandra Gillies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. News headlines provide glimpses of how this corruption works and why it matters: President Trump's businesses struck deals with oligarchs and sold property to secretive shell companies; the Panama Papers leak triggered investigations in 79 countries; and, corruption scandals toppled heads of state in Brazil, South Africa, and South Korea. But how do these pieces fit together? And if the corruption is so vast and so tied up with powerful interests, how do we begin to fight back? To find answers, Crude Intentions examines the corruption crisis that erupted during the recent oil boom. From 2008 to 2014, oil prices shot through the roof. Motivated by more than nine trillion dollars in new oil money, corruption followed apace. Examining the oil boom is like placing a drop of dye in the circulatory system of global corruption, and watching as it reveals the system's channels and pathways. Company bosses signed off on risky schemes to snap up choice oil blocks. Politicians in Brazil and Nigeria stole billions to build up their election war chests. Kleptocrats in Angola, Azerbaijan, and Russia seized upon the oil wealth to cement their hold on power. And an army of bankers, accountants, and lawyers lined up to help these corrupt actors stash their loot in the global system of shell companies and tax havens that serves today's super-rich. The money then bought yachts, mansions, and even a few foreign politicians. Drawing on information exposed by intrepid journalists, prosecutors, and whistle blowers, Crude Intentions tells jaw-dropping stories of corruption and asks what we can learn from them. The cases reveal common tactics, but also vulnerabilities in this web of fraud. These are the starting points for building a smarter fight against corruption, in the oil sector and well beyond.
Book Synopsis Green Gone Wrong by : Heather Rogers
Download or read book Green Gone Wrong written by Heather Rogers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Green Gone Wrong environmental writer Heather Rogers blasts through the marketing buzz of big corporations and asks a simple question: Do today’s much-touted "green" products—carbon offsets, organic food, biofuels, and eco-friendly cars and homes—really work? Implicit in efforts to go green is the promise that global warming can be stopped by swapping out dirty goods for "clean" ones. But can earth-friendly products really save the planet? This far-reaching, riveting narrative explores how the most readily available solutions to environmental crisis may be disastrously off the mark. Rogers travels the world tracking how the conversion from a "petro" to a "green" society affects the most fundamental aspects of life—food, shelter, and transportation. Reporting from some of the most remote places on earth, Rogers uncovers shocking results that include massive clear-cutting, destruction of native ecosystems, and grinding poverty. Relying simply on market forces, people with good intentions wanting to just "do something" to help the planet are left feeling confused and powerless. Green Gone Wrong reveals a fuller story, taking the reader into forests, fields, factories, and boardrooms around the world to draw out the unintended consequences, inherent obstacles, and successes of eco-friendly consumption. What do the labels "USDA Certified Organic" and "Fair Trade" really mean on a vast South American export-driven organic farm? A superlow-energy "eco-village" in Germany’s Black Forest demonstrates that green homes dramatically shrink energy use, so why aren’t we using this technology in America? The decisions made in Detroit’s executive suites have kept Americans driving gas-guzzling automobiles for decades, even as U.S. automakers have European models that clock twice the mpg. Why won’t they sell these cars domestically? And what does carbon offsetting really mean when projects can so easily fail? In one case thousands of trees planted in drought-plagued Southern India withered and died, releasing any CO2 they were meant to neutralize. Expertly reported, this gripping exposé pieces together a global picture of what’s happening in the name of today’s environmentalism. Green Gone Wrong speaks to anyone interested in climate change and the future of the natural world, as well as those who want to act but are caught not knowing who, or what, to believe to protect the planet. Rogers casts a sober eye on what’s working and what’s not, fearlessly pushing ahead the debate over how to protect the planet.
Download or read book The Lawman written by Lily Sorren and published by Hard Shell Word Factory. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan McCall was long, lean, and mean--and he didn't care who knew it. It took a hard man to tame a city of sin on the plains with nothing more than his fists and a rawhide whip. Kate Stewart was the lawman's worst nightmare. She was soft as silk, with more curves than his coiled whip. But she had more grit than sense when it came to tracking down stories for the readers of her newspaper back east. Could the lawman get the lady to leave wild and woolly Abilene before she got hurt, or worse? Or would their battle of wills turn into something even more dangerous for the lawman--a battle for his heart?
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Public Health [2 volumes] by : Sally Kuykendall
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Public Health [2 volumes] written by Sally Kuykendall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing context to today's public health practices and broad coverage of topics, this book demonstrates how cross-disciplinary studies are critical to addressing current health issues. The concepts of public health and the methods we use to care for and promote the health of people in communities, groups, and our nation as a whole are of interest to all health professionals. Comprising contributions from historians, scholars, researchers, sociologists, and other public health professionals, the Encyclopedia of Public Health: Principles, People, and Programs offers a firsthand, in-depth view of public health as it applies to everyday life and practice. The encyclopedia contains a wealth of information on critical theories, people, and movements and shows how various disciplines can work together to create healthy communities and practices for many people. As a secondary objective, the book encourages future generations to actively participate in public health. This reference covers the defining moments in the development of public health, from ancient times to the modern day, and offers entries with historical information and examinations of current controversies as they relate to recurring social conflicts. The entries provide a breadth and depth of content that is accessible to a wide readership. Readers will understand the benefits of physical activity and good nutrition as well as the psychology behind the choices that we make and how early life and social experiences can influence behaviors even decades after the event. The wide variety of topics covered includes the life expectancy of Americans at birth, the Tuskegee syphilis study, and marijuana use, and will give readers an informed perspective on past public health successes and likely directions for the future.
Book Synopsis Landmarks for Sustainability by : Wayne Visser
Download or read book Landmarks for Sustainability written by Wayne Visser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landmarks for Sustainability is a high-impact, quick-reference guide to many of the most critical events and initiatives that have shaped our world, and the sustainable development agenda, over the past 20 years and more. These include high-profile historic events – such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Rio Earth Summit, the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle and Genoa and the collapse of Enron – as well as more subtle but no less important developments, such as trends in fairtrade, ethical codes and sustainable investment. By shining a spotlight on these and other landmark events and initiatives, the book draws into sharp relief the most significant social and environmental challenges of our time – from climate change and the state of the planet to poverty and corruption. Equally importantly, however, more than half of the book is dedicated to constructive global responses, such as the boom in clean technology, the role of the World Economic and World Social Forums, and the growth of ISO 14001 and SA8000 standards. Each of the 20 chapters follows a similar easy-access full-colour design, with inspiring quotations, compelling photographs, a timeline of associated events, a narrative description of trends, and spotlight features of specific initiatives or events, including charts, factboxes and suggestions for further reading and websites. Also included is the world's most comprehensive sustainability timeline, listing and dating 190 key sustainability-related events and initiatives that occurred between 1919 and 2008. All these features combine to make the book an essential and highly accessible resource for managers, teachers, students, government officials, consultants and activists alike. For the first time, these crucial change agents will have a single-source reference book, which is not only packed with useful facts and figures, but is also fascinating to look at and full of inspirational material.
Book Synopsis Ecology of Indonesian Papua Part Two by : Andrew J. Marshall
Download or read book Ecology of Indonesian Papua Part Two written by Andrew J. Marshall and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ecology of Papua provides a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge on all aspects of the natural history of western (Indonesian) New Guinea. Designed for students of conservation, environmental workers, and academic researchers, it is a richly detailed text, dense with biogeographical data, historical reference, and fresh insight on this complicated and marvelous region. We hope it will serve to raise awareness of Papua on a global as well as local scale, and to catalyze effective conservation of its most precious natural assets. New Guinea is the largest and highest tropical island, and one of the last great wilderness areas remaining on Earth. Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is noteworthy for its equatorial glaciers, its vast forested floodplains, its imposing central mountain range, its Raja Ampat Archipelago, and its several hundred traditional forest-dwelling societies. One of the wildest places left in the world, Papua possesses extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Today, Papua’s environment is under threat from growing outside pressures to exploit its expansive forests and to develop large plantations of oil palm and biofuels. It is important that Papua’s leadership balance economic development with good resource management, to ensure the long-term well-being of its culturally diverse populace.
Book Synopsis Industrial Oil Plant by : Changzhu Li
Download or read book Industrial Oil Plant written by Changzhu Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically explains the application principles and green processing technologies of industrial oil plant. Firstly, the industrial plant oil resources are elaborated as an independent discipline for systematic research. Secondly, it has laid a solid theoretical foundation for the utilization of industrial plant oil resources, and will greatly promote the development of industrialization and modernization of industrial plant oil resources worldwide. Thirdly, it constructs integrated technology system of oil plant cultivation, oil extraction technology and products application. Finally, it elaborates a series of environmental issues including the protection of biodiversity and the balance of the forest ecology during the industrial plant oil resources processing. The technological process for green conversion of industrial plant oil resources to the oil-based materials and high value products will be of particular interest to the readers among oil researchers, producers and managers.
Book Synopsis Financial Crime and the Law by : Doron Goldbarsht
Download or read book Financial Crime and the Law written by Doron Goldbarsht and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp by : Helga Weiss
Download or read book Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp written by Helga Weiss and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable diary of a young girl who survived the Holocaust—appearing in English for the first time. In 1939, Helga Weiss was a young Jewish schoolgirl in Prague. Along with some 45,000 Jews living in the city, Helga’s family endured the first wave of the Nazi invasion: her father was denied work; she was forbidden from attending regular school. As Helga witnessed the increasing Nazi brutality, she began documenting her experiences in a diary. In 1941, Helga and her parents were sent to the concentration camp of Terezín. There, Helga continued to write with astonishing insight about her daily life: the squalid living quarters, the cruel rationing of food, and the executions—as well as the moments of joy and hope that persisted in even the worst conditions. In 1944, Helga and her family were sent to Auschwitz. Before she left, Helga’s uncle, who worked in the Terezín records department, hid her diary and drawings in a brick wall. Miraculously, he was able to reclaim them for her after the war. Of the 15,000 children brought to Terezín and later deported to Auschwitz, only 100 survived. Helga was one of them. Reconstructed from her original notebooks, the diary is presented here in its entirety. With an introduction by Francine Prose, a revealing interview between translator Neil Bermel and Helga, and the artwork Helga made during her time at Terezín, Helga's Diary stands as a vivid and utterly unique historical document.
Download or read book Promise Me written by Christopher Santos and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How easy it is to judge - without having all the knowledge to form a proper opinion? Anna was the sort of woman, women envy. Tall, beautiful, wealthy and elegant, wife and mother. She was also a regular member of the congregation at her local church. Anna also does voluntary work and on the surface her life seemed without reproach. She was well respected within the community although slightly unapproachable and remote. But behind this facade of respectability was a woman with a secret, living a life that bore no reality to what her external appearance portrayed. With her family away for the summer, Anna is enticed into an affair with a younger man who is looking for a summer dalliance. After a turbulent start, their relationship grows into a love affair. Anna knows that dark secrets are often hard to keep as sometimes you have to satisfy your own need to tell, and in a moment of indiscretion, she confides something that happened in her past. The reaction she received was not as anticipated. This admission by Anna, sets of truly life changing events for her and her family. PROMISE ME regards a human dilemma, a diabolical act and a new beginning that finally resolves a troubled conscience – albeit with humane retribution.
Download or read book Charming Consort written by Bing Shan and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-12-22 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Woman, This King will definitely conquer you!" The wise and cold Prince was about to get married for the first time. The secret service had arrived and traversed the world. They were useless firewood turned into geniuses, and the Prince of Devilish Charm was very domineering. He was pretending to be the young princess in order to cause trouble. If Your Highness wants to get married, you have to ask if she agrees!
Book Synopsis The Pajama Game by : Eugenie Seifer Olson
Download or read book The Pajama Game written by Eugenie Seifer Olson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Moxie Brecker chose her kicky nickname back in college, it suited her perfectly. But now she feels it's one big misnomer. After graduation, she set out to command her own seventh-grade science class and was stunned to find the job too challenging. She didn't have the energy necessary to get a roomful of pre-teens excited about atoms, and she never felt like herself, so she handed in her chalk and lesson plans. Stumped about where to turn next, she followed the advice of her best friend Gerard and took a job folding underthings at the chain lingerie store in the mall. She's got plenty at home to distract her, including her neighbor, Steven Tyler (no, not that Stephen Tyler) and the kindly septuagenarian Joe, who runs the joke shop downstairs, but she spends her days languishing in the store. Though she feels tired and just out of it physically, she still gets bored steaming peignoir sets, protecting the thong table from shoplifters, and readjusting bras straps for hours on end. Maybe that's why, when a handsome guy named Allan starts hanging around the store for little chats, Moxie sees hope on the horizon. Maybe, just maybe, her employee discount won't go to waste for much longer…
Book Synopsis Hemadri Nadi - A Glacier Too Far by : J.K. Proctor
Download or read book Hemadri Nadi - A Glacier Too Far written by J.K. Proctor and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924, two pioneering Scottish women embark on a perilous journey to conquer the icy summits of the mountainous state of The Himolo. A century later, the fallout from their adventure threatens the interests of a mining giant with the controversial rights to excavate under a nearby glacier. In response, a group of corrupt officials and unhinged scientists hatch a plot with shocking reverberations. Among those affected is Pradesh, a well-meaning local schoolteacher who unwittingly becomes entangled in the cover-up. A criminal syndicate, a religious sect in Bali and a shadowy art collector in London all seem to be connected to the deceit. But what secrets are buried beneath the ice? Written with a liberal dose of satire and irreverence, J.K. Proctor's HEMADRI NADI - A GLACIER TOO FAR is an intriguing environmental thriller that seamlessly blends corporate conspiracy, social injustice and historical mystery.
Book Synopsis Mystic Kingdoms: the Crumbling Towers by : Michael B. George
Download or read book Mystic Kingdoms: the Crumbling Towers written by Michael B. George and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is entailed the Parchments of the History before NewRise The Magi of Paragon Tower had a saying. The three greatest assets of a wizard are a tower, a staff, and a pointy hat. The tower, that gives a Mage his strength to use magic through its mystical nodes. The staff, that gives order to a casting and focus to the casters power. Then finally, the pointy hat, which is always a style of fashion among wizards. They would need more than these for the challenge that was soon to beset them. When the wizard Andus is sent into the north to investigate a race of Dwarves he is drawn into a web of trouble involving serpents, Orcs, and Titans. Along with his new friend Feorn, what begins as a quest to save the Dwarven people becomes an unraveling mystery of a powerful Darkness that threatens all of Durse. Little does he know that his own people are soon to be beset by its sinister powers
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