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Author | : Winin Pereira |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 113406246X |
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The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited. This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. Twenty-five years ago, Winin Pereira, a nuclear physicist abandoned academia to start a co-operative farm at Alonde in a tribal area north of Bombay. The group experienced, and finally discarded, all the false hopes and promises of Western originated forms of development: ploughs that ploughed too deep, irrigation systems that lowered water tables, fertilizers and pesticides which managed the earth and became so expensive that poorer farmers were dispossessed. Instead they learnt from the adivasai, or tribal people, who have nurtured or been nurtured by foresets for millennia, ways of applying popular knowledge to contemporary problems. This book is a combination of Pereira's record of achievement of sustainable livelihoods and an account of the farm and its effect on the India around it by a leading British journalist. Originally published in 1991
Author | : Julia Phillips |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-05-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525520422 |
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One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
Author | : Winin Pereira |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1134062532 |
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The need to produce food without the destructive chemical horrors of much modern farming, for an intelligent use of dwindling natural resources and for humane forms of production is universal, the practice is limited. This book is an account of one, large, instance of success in practice. Twenty-five years ago, Winin Pereira, a nuclear physicist abandoned academia to start a co-operative farm at Alonde in a tribal area north of Bombay. The group experienced, and finally discarded, all the false hopes and promises of Western originated forms of development: ploughs that ploughed too deep, irrigation systems that lowered water tables, fertilizers and pesticides which managed the earth and became so expensive that poorer farmers were dispossessed. Instead they learnt from the adivasai, or tribal people, who have nurtured or been nurtured by foresets for millennia, ways of applying popular knowledge to contemporary problems. This book is a combination of Pereira's record of achievement of sustainable livelihoods and an account of the farm and its effect on the India around it by a leading British journalist. Originally published in 1991
Author | : John Boynton Priestley |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780822205722 |
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The members of an eminently respectable British family reveal their true natures over the course of an evening in which they are subjected to a routine inquiry into the suicide of a young girl.
Author | : Ole Edvart Rølvaag |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Dakota Territory |
ISBN | : |
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A narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.
Author | : James George |
Publisher | : Element Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781852306212 |
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Combining a succinct overview of the state of the current ecological crisis with insights from the world's great spiritual traditions, this book offers an understanding of the interdependence of life on Earth. In doing so it demonstrates the working relationship betweeen our inner and outer worlds, and how a present-day lack of awareness affects the world around us.
Author | : Chris Burkard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-07-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780980012330 |
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When a young boy in search of joy asks the Earth where he can find happiness, the Earth responds and agrees to show him the way. The boy rushes excitedly through the landscapes that make the Earth most proud--the ocean, the cliffs, the forest, the desert, the mountains, and the top of the world. But the boy soon realizes happiness is much harder to find than he expected.
Author | : Jari Ristiniemi |
Publisher | : Waxmann Verlag |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 3830988869 |
Download Challenging Life: Existential Questions as a Resource for Education Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There is an increasing recognition today that young people need to have knowledge about religions and world views in order to live and work in diverse societies. What kind of 'maps' are they provided with through religious, values and ethics education? Does education address the challenging existential questions that children and adolescents ask about life and the world? This volume addresses different aspects of how existential questions have been dealt with in educational research. It especially draws attention to the Swedish research tradition of focusing on life questions and the interpretation of life in education, but with contemporary international research added. It also addresses issues of ethics education and discusses possible options for the future of existential questions as a resource for education.
Author | : Camilla de la Bedoyere |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781786178992 |
Download Curious Questions & Answers about Saving the Earth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : James George |
Publisher | : Station Hill Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781581770902 |
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Asking for the Earth was first released in 1995 after the author led the international mission to Kuwait to assess damages from Operation Desert Storm. This book is even more timely today as we face the possibility of further warfare and destruction. James George presents the convincing argument that our planet is suffering from twin crises, ecological and spiritual, with a common source in our deep separation from nature and from each other. Inspired by the teachings of Gurdjieff, Thomas Merton, Tibetan Buddhism, and other contemplative traditions, the author shows that to avoid disaster we must wed scientific truth to an awakening of consciousness and acceptance of responsibility.