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The human use of nature is a polarizing topic in India and across
the globe, often perceived as contradictory to traditional
exclusionary conservation. However, India's natural landscapes
serve as important sources of biological resources for many
communities. This collection of case studies on sustainable use
practices throughout India aims to identify the policies,
management strategies, and knowledge contexts that contribute to
resource use without damaging biological diversity. Through a
diverse array of personal accounts, stories and photographs from
the field, and ongoing research studies across biogeographic zones,
readers will connect with academics, practitioners, managers, and
policy analysts who challenge us to rethink the conservation
paradigm. These chapters provide a reflection on the history of
conservation and sustainable use in India and illuminate a path
towards a local and global future in which biodiversity and human
well-being go hand in hand. The wide variety of authors in this
book reflects the broad audience this book will be of interest to,
from students studying environmental conservation and
sustainability to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who
work in the field and seek to learn about successful sustainable
use systems and resulting lessons that have widespread application.
This book will appeal to readers interested in the areas of
environment sciences, biodiversity management, sustainable
development, developmental studies, forestry, wildlife and
protected area management, public policy, environmental policy, and
governance.
The growing scientific research output from Asia has been making
headlines since the start of the twenty-first century. But behind
this science story, there is a migration story. The elite
scientists who are pursuing cutting-edge research in Asia are
rarely 'homegrown' talent but were typically born in Asia, trained
in the West, and then returned to work in Asia. Asian Scientists on
the Move explores why more and more Asian scientists are choosing
to return to Asia, and what happens after their return, when these
scientists set up labs in Asia and start training the next
generation of Asian scientists. Drawing on evocative firsthand
accounts from 119 Western-trained Asian scientists about their
migration decisions and experiences, and in-depth analysis of the
scientific field in four country case studies - China, India,
Singapore and Taiwan - the book reveals the growing complexity of
the Asian scientist migration system.
This book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in
non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth
century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies,
correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that in those
writings, passions and emotions are differently expressed than in
fiction. It also offers a comparative study of texts from cultures
as diverse as English, French, Korean and Chinese, and of emotions
in relation to genre, identity, and morality during significant
cultural transformation of the early modern period. This book is
distinctive in its choice of non-fictional genres, its period, and
its cross-cultural approach. It can benefit scholars interested in
exploring emotion as a historical and cultural product, and in
enriching their knowledge of an emerging scholarly direction:
studies in self-narratives (autobiography, memoirs, dream
narratives, letters, etc.) often insufficiently explored in earlier
historical periods.
Multinational Maids offers an in-depth investigation into the
international migrations of Filipino and Indonesian migrant
domestic workers. The author taps on her rigorous study of more
than 1,200 subjects' migration trajectories to reveal how these
migrants work in a series of overseas countries to improve their
lives and, in some cases, seek permanent residence in another
country. Challenging the portrayal of Asian migrant domestic
workers as victims of globalization, Multinational Maids reveals
migrants' agency and strategic thinking under conditions of
constraint. At the market level, the establishment of guestworker
programmes for migrant domestic workers in multiple countries has
created a global labor market. A transnational diaspora shapes
migrants' evolving destination imaginaries, while manpower
recruitment and placement agencies create transnational mobility
structures. In addition, differing destination hierarchies and
degrees of access to resources lead to the adoption of divergent
stepwise trajectories. Written in an accessible manner,
Multinational Maids appeals to migration scholars, policymakers,
activists and students.
The FactsBook series has established itself as the best source of
easily accessible and accurate facts about protein groups. Books in
the series use an easy-to-follow format and are meticulously
researched and compiled by experts in the field.
The Immunoglobulin FactsBook is the first published reference for
all 203 human functional and ORF immunoglobulin genes. It is
complete and standardized and employs nomenclature approved by the
HUGO Nomenclature Committee.
By working through the questionnaires in this book with their
partner, readers will be able to refine their bidding system,
select conventions and agreements that suit their style, define
their defensive carding agreements, and give their game a winning
edge. The first book ever published by Master Point Press,
Partnership Bidding has been revised and updated to include today's
bidding methods.
This book addresses the distinct representations of emotions in
non-fictional texts from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth
century (1600-1850). Focusing on memoirs, autobiographies,
correspondences and conduct manuals, it argues that in those
writings, passions and emotions are differently expressed than in
fiction. It also offers a comparative study of texts from cultures
as diverse as English, French, Korean and Chinese, and of emotions
in relation to genre, identity, and morality during significant
cultural transformation of the early modern period. This book is
distinctive in its choice of non-fictional genres, its period, and
its cross-cultural approach. It can benefit scholars interested in
exploring emotion as a historical and cultural product, and in
enriching their knowledge of an emerging scholarly direction:
studies in self-narratives (autobiography, memoirs, dream
narratives, letters, etc.) often insufficiently explored in earlier
historical periods.
Le delai de deux ou trois generations que Saint-Simon souhaite pour
la publication de son texte oriente d'emblee les Memoires vers un
lecteur a venir, futur gouvernant ou simple figure de la posterite.
Toutes les strategies du texte s'orientent alors vers lui. Des
connaissances historiques et culturelles ainsi que des codes
propres au genre des memoires conditionnent en partie la lecture.
Des lors, le lecteur se trouve tour a tour spectateur, temoin,
complice ou mediateur d'un texte jalonne de recits, portraits,
reflexions et conversations; l'auteur se montre pedagogue, parfois
moraliste, toujours initiateur des secrets de l'histoire. Les deux
partenaires collaborent ainsi au grand oeuvre, se 'maintiennent en
osier de cour' comme le dirait Saint-Simon, entretenant une
sociabilite langagiere sans cesse renouvelee. Mais la liberte du
lecteur reste entiere: si la lecture cursive reste la voie royale
des Memoires au travers d'une chronique qui signale toujours ses
detours, elle n'exclut pas pour autant une lecture 'a la boussole
de l'air', au gre des anecdotes que signalent les manchettes, vrais
miroirs des soubresauts de l'histoire. Conciliant theories et
pratiques de la lecture, strategies d'ecriture et plaisir du texte,
c'est tout autant une esthetique de la lecture qu'une esthetique
des Memoires qui est ici proposee.
To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the
current preoccupation with the nature of writing. Professor Laden
joins a more philosophical probing of the nature of the self. At
issue is how language serves the self and whether its role is one
of presentation, representation, or generation. The author argues
that the self in the works she analyzes comes to appear'' either as
a void or as a series of related verbal constructs never wholly
adequate or unified.
Originally published in 1987.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
This book explores contemporary ways of reading some important New
Zealand literary works, all produced between 1910 and 1940.
Interpretations of these texts have had a significant impact on New
Zealanders' ideas of themselves. The author argues that
interpretation is a process which can never be completed, although
at any one time there will be readings that are more significant
than others. To illustrate her argument, Mary Paul discusses key
works by two authors: Katherine Mansfield's 'Bliss' and 'Prelude',
Jane Mander's The Story of a New Zealand River , and the work of
Robin Hyde, poet, novelist and journalist. She opens up ways of
reading these and other writers, using a variety of approaches and
encouraging a greater self-awareness in the interpretation of New
Zealand literature and culture.
To the linguistic inquiry associated with Benveniste and to the
current preoccupation with the nature of writing. Professor Laden
joins a more philosophical probing of the nature of the self. At
issue is how language serves the self and whether its role is one
of presentation, representation, or generation. The author argues
that the self in the works she analyzes comes to appear" either as
a void or as a series of related verbal constructs never wholly
adequate or unified. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton
Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again
make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
Multinational Maids offers an in-depth investigation into the
international migrations of Filipino and Indonesian migrant
domestic workers. The author taps on her rigorous study of more
than 1,200 subjects' migration trajectories to reveal how these
migrants work in a series of overseas countries to improve their
lives and, in some cases, seek permanent residence in another
country. Challenging the portrayal of Asian migrant domestic
workers as victims of globalization, Multinational Maids reveals
migrants' agency and strategic thinking under conditions of
constraint. At the market level, the establishment of guestworker
programmes for migrant domestic workers in multiple countries has
created a global labor market. A transnational diaspora shapes
migrants' evolving destination imaginaries, while manpower
recruitment and placement agencies create transnational mobility
structures. In addition, differing destination hierarchies and
degrees of access to resources lead to the adoption of divergent
stepwise trajectories. Written in an accessible manner,
Multinational Maids appeals to migration scholars, policymakers,
activists and students.
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Malta (Paperback)
Marie Paule Wagner
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R1,056
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