A Village Dies
A Village Dies

Author: Ivan Arthur

Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789386050748

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Back in the 1940s, when Mumbai was still Bombay, the twin urban villages of Kevni-Amboli were home to a lively Catholic community--predominantly East Indian, but also Anglo-Indian, Goan and Mangalorean. In this hugely entertaining novel set in that vanished world, Ivan Arthur spins a delightful web of joint families, priests, sodality groups, gossips, friendly drunks, vagrants, simpletons, lovers and maiden aunts. Among the many lovable and eccentric characters are Hanging Gardens, a simple gravedigger who, by a quirk of fate, nurtures a millionaire mechanic; Blaise Misquitta, a stickler for punctuality who has a grave dug in anticipation of his wife's death; Tristao Dias Ribeiro, a Portuguese official who builds a massive church because his wife's illness has forced him out of the conjugal bed; Kirit, the studious first-ranker who slits his wrist--and survives--because he cannot marry Miss Alice or kiss her on the lips; Peter, a mysterious water-carrier who sings operatic arias; and of course the endearing tomboy Kitty, in whose memories the past and present merge.

Dream of Ding Village
Dream of Ding Village

Author: Yan Lianke

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0802195962

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“A brilliant and harrowing novel” about a deadly epidemic fueled by corruption, based on real-life events in China (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village is based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China. The novel is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling. Whole villages were wiped out with no responsibility taken or reparations paid. Dream of Ding Village focuses on one family, destroyed when one son rises to the top of the party pile as he exploits the situation, while another son is infected and dies. The result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing and what happens to those who get in the way. “Lianke confronts the black market blood trade and the subsequent AIDS epidemic it sparked, in a brilliant and harrowing novel.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Qanat
Qanat

Author: Dale Lightfoot

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-08-22

Total Pages: 881

ISBN-13: 0755650808

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Qanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and a clever way to create streams where none exist in nature. For 3,000 years, they have made life possible in impossible places and still sustain life and livelihoods in many countries today. After 30 years of field research, Dale Lightfoot provides the first comprehensive study of the qanat and sheds new light on their unique locations and distribution, their origins and history, their ecology, current status and use. Qanats are remarkably engineered underground aqueducts, using gravity to bring water to villages and towns where reliable flowing surface water is scarce or absent. Although an ancient technology, more than 46,000 of them still flow around the world today, with their sustainable nature making them a focus of renewed interest. Richly illustrated with images and a series of original maps, this is the most complete record to date of the locations and distribution of qanats worldwide, including examples from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Central Asia, China, India, Mexico and South America.

Journal
Journal

Author: Anthropological Society of Bombay

Publisher:

Published: 1907

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13:

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The Scripts
The Scripts

Author: Alexander P. M. van den Bosch

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-05-12

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 0244007187

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This.. is a grande to some extend collection of 7 scripts for movies.. in .. well. Three skits as well. These: Greg (a scene..), The Shrake (A SF piece a la Fredr. Pohl..), The Fari, a ..(surprise), Fleur de Lit (revised), True Romans (all parts with new approved additions.. a rejection, a change to the ending), Auslage 247 (a war syndrome piece in Dutch.. a short some). These together.. a 'raison'..to .. well creativity, love & the grue in the world that .. (a furtua..)

It Takes a Village
It Takes a Village

Author: Hillary Rodham Clinton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1471108643

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Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread. In her substantial new introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade, from the internet to education, and on how her own understanding of children has deepened as she has watched Chelsea grow up and take on challenges new to her generation, from a first job to living through a terrorist attack. She discusses how the work she is doing in the Senate is helping children and looks at where America has been successful, improvements in the foster care system and support for adoption, and where there is still work to be done, providing pre-school programmes and universal health care to all our children. This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.

Kuuvan̳miut Subsistence
Kuuvan̳miut Subsistence

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Created by the National Park Service, this book that explores traditional Eskimo life in the late 20th century. It celebrates the people of the Kobuk River area in northern Alaska as observed in 1974 and 1975. Learn more about their experiences in fishing, trapping, hunting, and the harvest, and how they were able to successfully live off the land.

The Western Isles Today
The Western Isles Today

Author: Judith Ennew

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1980-05-22

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780521225908

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The Western Isles of Scotland appear to the popular imagination as romantic and remote islands where the inhabitants cling to an archaic culture which is barely integrated into modern industrial society. In this book Judith Ennew dispels such myths, and confronts the social problems of an economically depressed region without denying its unique cultural aspects. She traces the history of the Western Isles as a dynamic process, and shows that even the crofting way of life is of recent origin. What is so often taken to be an ancient way of life is not a static structure but the continuing result of the development of capitalism. Its history is as modern as that of any other living pattern within the United Kingdom. Dr Ennew examines the history of land tenure and economy, showing how the islands have been integrated into industrial society in the last two hundred years. She then explores the current way of life in the area, particularly in the northern island of Lewis. Finally, she considers the future prospects of the islands, demonstrating how the inhabitants are trying to develop a consciousness of their own history with which to combat present social ills.