The Wild East

The Wild East

Author: Barbara Harriss-White

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1787353249

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The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour. The 11 case studies, based across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, explore how state regulative law is often ignored and/or selectively manipulated. The emerging collective narrative shows the workings of regulated criminal economic systems where criminal formations, politicians, police, judges and bureaucrats are deeply intertwined. By pioneering the field-study of the politicisation of economic crime, and disrupting the wider literature on South Asia’s informal economy, The Wild East aims to influence future research agendas through its case for the study of mafia-enterprises and their engagement with governance in South Asia and outside. Its empirical and theoretical contribution to debates about economic crimes in democratic regimes will be of critical value to researchers in Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Comparative Politics, Political Science and International Relations, Criminologists and Development Studies, as well as to those inside and outside academia interested in current affairs and the relationship between crime, politics and mafia enterprises.


War in the Wild East

War in the Wild East

Author: Ben Shepherd

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0674043553

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In Nazi eyes, the Soviet Union was the "wild east," a savage region ripe for exploitation, its subhuman inhabitants destined for extermination or helotry. An especially brutal dimension of the German army's eastern war was its anti-partisan campaign. This conflict brought death and destruction to thousands of Soviet civilians, and has been held as a prime example of ordinary German soldiers participating in the Nazi regime's annihilation policies. Ben Shepherd enters the heated debate over the wartime behavior of the Wehrmacht in a detailed study of the motivation and conduct of its anti-partisan campaign in the Soviet Union. He investigates how anti-partisan warfare was conducted, not by the generals, but by the far more numerous, average Germans serving as officers in the field. What shaped their behavior was more complex than Nazi ideology alone. The influence of German society, as well as of party and army, together with officers' grueling yet diverse experience of their environment and enemy, made them perceive the anti-partisan war in varied ways. Reactions ranged from extreme brutality to relative restraint; some sought less to terrorize the native population than to try to win it over. The emerging picture does not dilute the suffering the Wehrmacht's eastern war inflicted. It shows, however, that properly judging ordinary Germans' role in that war is more complicated than is indicated by either wholesale condemnation or wholesale exoneration. This valuable study offers a nuanced discussion of the diversity of behaviors within the German army, as well as providing a compelling exploration of the war and counterinsurgency operations on the eastern front.


Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America

Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America

Author: Merritt Lyndon Fernald

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0486291049

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Arranged according to uses, offers a detailed listing of one thousand species of edible wild plants and ferns.


The Wild Blueberry Book

The Wild Blueberry Book

Author: Virginia M. Wright

Publisher: Down East Books

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0892729473

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Commercially harvested only in Maine and parts of Canada, wild blueberries are prized for their intense flavor and color. The Wild Blueberry Book follows the story of these luscious berries as they make their way from the barrens to your table, with some stops along the way for pie-eating contests, baking competitions, and even an annual musical celebrating the culture that has grown up around Maine’s official berry. You’ll meet growers, rakers, beekeepers, processors, winemakers, blueberry queens, and some of the food scientists who are unlocking the secrets behind blueberries’ amazing health benefi ts. Recipes, too!


That was the Wild East

That was the Wild East

Author: Leonie Naughton

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780472088881

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An illuminating exploration of the cultural politics of the East-West unification and its subsequent impact upon German filmmaking


A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America

A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants of Eastern and Central North America

Author: Lee Peterson

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780395926222

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More than 370 edible wild plants, plus 37 poisonous lookalikes, are described here, with 400 drawings and 78 color photographs showing precisely how to recognize each species. Also included are habitat descriptions, lists of plants by season, and preparation instructions for 22 different food uses.


Wild East

Wild East

Author: Jill Lawless

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant

Published: 2012-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781459645783

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For most of us, the name Mongolia conjures up exotic images of wild horsemen, endless grasslands, and nomads - a timeless and mysterious land that is also, in many ways, one that time forgot. Under Genghis Khan, the Mongols' empire stretched across Asia and into the heart of Europe. But over the centuries Mongolia disappeared from the world's consciousness, overshadowed and dominated by its huge neighbours - first China, which ruled Mongolia for centuries, then Russia, which transformed the feudal nation into the world's second communist state. Jill Lawless arrived in Mongolia in the late 1990s to find a country waking from centuries of isolation, at once rediscovering its heritage as a nomadic and Buddhist society and simultaneously discovering the western world. The result is a land of fascinating, bewildering contrasts: a vast country where nomadic herders graze their sheep and yaks on the steppe, it also has one of the world's highest literacy levels and a burgeoning high - tech scene. While trendy teenagers rollerblade amid the Soviet apartment blocks of Ulaanbaatar and dance to the latest pop music in nightclubs, and the rich drive Mercedes and surf the Internet, more than half the population still lives in felt tents, scratching out a living in one of the world's harshest landscapes. Mongolia, it can be argued, is the archetypal 21st - century nation, a country waking from a tumultuous 20th century in which it was wrenched from feudalism to communism to capitalism, searching for its place in the new millennium. This is a funny and revealing portrait of a beautiful, troubled country whose fate holds lessons for all of us.


Germany's Wild East

Germany's Wild East

Author: Kristin Kopp

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0472118447

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This examination of the elements of colonial relationships is new in paperback


Klezmer, Collector's Edition

Klezmer, Collector's Edition

Author: Joann Sfar

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-09-05

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781596432109

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Graphic novel in which nomadic Jewish musicians meet, clash, fall in love and make music at the birth of klezmer.


This Place Is Wild

This Place Is Wild

Author: Vicki Cobb

Publisher: Walker Childrens

Published: 2000-03-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780802775795

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Join Vicki Cobb and Barbara Lavallee on an exciting safari adventure into the Masai Mara of Kenya and Tanzania, home to more large mammals than any other place on Earth. It is a challenge to balance the needs of wildlife with the demands of civilization, but Cobb and Lavallee introduce us to people committed to living in harmony with the land-from Masai farmers to the promoters of eco-tourism. The newest entry in the Imagine Living Here series (This Place Is Cold, This Place Is Wet) continues to explore the ways that geography impacts upon culture throughout the world.