No Birds of Passage
No Birds of Passage

Author: Michael O’Sullivan

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2023-09-19

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0674271904

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No Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons. Often stereotyped as “Westernized” and as Hindus in all but name, these groups are better seen as having developed a distinctive Muslim capitalism, in which religious and commercial prerogatives are inseparable.

Birds of Passage
Birds of Passage

Author: Michael J. Piore

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780521280587

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Birds of Passage presents an unorthodox analysis of migration ion to urban industrial societies from underdeveloped rual areas. It argues that such migrations are a continuing feature of industrial societies and that they are generated by forces inherent in the nature of industrial economies. It explains why conventional economic theory finds such migrations so difficult to comprehend, and challenges a set of older assumptions that supported the view that these migrations were beneficial to both sending and receiving societies. Professor Piore seriously questions whether migration actually relieves population pressure and rural unemployment, and whether it develops skills necessary for the emergence of an industrial labour force in the home country. Furthermore, he criticizes the notion that in the long run migrant labour complements native labour. On the basis of this critique, he develops an alternative theory of the nature of the migration process.

Birds of Passage
Birds of Passage

Author: Mark-Anthony Falzon

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2020-07-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1789207673

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Bird migration between Europe and Africa is a fraught journey, particularly in the Mediterranean, where migratory birds are shot and trapped in large numbers. In Malta, thousands of hunters share a shrinking countryside. They also rub shoulders with a strong bird-protection and conservation lobby. Drawing on years of ethnographic fieldwork, this book traces the complex interactions between hunters, birds and the landscapes they inhabit, as well as the dynamics and politics of bird conservation. Birds of Passage looks at the practice and meaning of hunting in a specific context, and raises broader questions about human-wildlife interactions and the uncertain outcomes of conservation.

Poetical Works
Poetical Works

Author: Charles Churchill

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-19

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13:

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This book is a collection of poems penned by Charles Churchill. He was an English poet and satirist. Churchill is quite infamous for being the latter during his lifetime, which made him many enemies, and brought reprisals. His scandalous conduct brought down the censure of the dean of Westminster, although the protests of his parishioners led him to resign his offices, and from then on Churchill was free to wear his blue coat with metal buttons and much gold lace without remonstrance from the dean. Some of the titles included with this book are 'The Rosciad', 'The Apology Night', and 'Prophecy of Famine'.