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The book considers the impact of COVID-19 on the GCC member states
through the prism of challenges faced by their hydrocarbon sector.
Yet, the publication’s discourse is not solely focused on the
problems experienced by the oil and gas industries of the GCC
member states after the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Instead,
the contributors will analyze how these challenges and subsequent
response to them affected other aspects of the GCC socio-economic
and political development, from direct impact of the COVID on the
energy sector of the GCC to socio-economic consequences of the oil
market crisis for the region and its potential fallouts for the
international relations of the Gulf.Â
This book is a study of a shift in the politics and finance of
development from one centered in the institutions and ideas of the
post-World War II global political economy to the emergence of
South-South economic ties and the rise of authoritarian or state
capitalism as an alternative model of development. This is a study
of the economic statecraft of the Gulf Arab states, specifically
the deployment of aid, investment, and direct support from some of
the wealthiest petrostates of the world to their surrounding sphere
of influence within the Middle East, Horn of Africa, and West Asia.
These new models of development finance, aid, and intervention
include distinct institutional designs and ideological bases. For
the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, the preference
for state-led and often state-owned development is a strategic
priority in the energy sector, a mechanism for domestic economic
growth and consolidation of wealth among leadership and ruling
families. Exporting that agenda as a foreign economic policy tool
continues all of the domestic benefits, while also affirming
broader regional political goals.
The Schuylkill River flows more than 100 miles from the mountains
of the Pennsylvania Coal Region to the Delaware River. It passes
through five counties - Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and
Philadelphia - and its valley is home to more than three million
people, yet few are aware of the hidden ruins and traces left by a
pioneering 200-year-old inland waterway: the Schuylkill Navigation.
Some of it is literally buried in their own backyards. Often called
the Schuylkill Canal, this complex Navigation system actually
boasted twenty-seven canals. The first of the anthracite-carrying
routes in America, the 108-mile Navigation shadowed the Schuylkill
River for nearly all its length. It once had more than thirty dams
and slackwater pools, more than 100 stone locks, numerous
aqueducts, and the first transportation tunnel in the nation. They
were all built by hand starting in 1816. In the 1940s, as part of a
massive environmental cleanup of the river, this important and
influential infrastructure was largely dismantled - but not
entirely. Two short sections of the watered canal get plenty of
attention: the Oakes Reach at Schuylkill Canal Park near
Phoenixville and the Manayunk Canal in Philadelphia. Both are
popular recreational destinations. What happened to the rest of it?
Photographer Sandy Sorlien resolved to find out. Over the course of
seven years, she traveled upriver repeatedly to bushwhack along the
riverbanks and to row and paddle in the river itself. Armed with
camera and binoculars, loppers and trekking poles,
nineteenth-century maps and modern satellite imagery, and abetted
by local historians and an archaeologist, she found all sixty-one
lock sites and explored most of the canal beds. Her photographs
reveal a mysterious remnant landscape, evidence of a bold
industrial innovation that spelled its own demise. The water
pollution created by the coal industry and obstructive dams meant
the end of a way of life for the towns that boomed along the
canals, from Pottsville to Reading, Birdsboro to Phoenixville,
Bridgeport to Philadelphia. Along with Sorlien's full-color plates
and explanatory essays, Inland features a selection of historic
images, rare historic Schuylkill Navigation Company maps, and early
Philadelphia Watering Committee plans. The book also includes a
foreword by renowned landscape scholar John R. Stilgoe, an essay on
regional transportation history by Mike Szilagyi, Trails Project
Manager for the Schuylkill River Greenways Natural Heritage Area,
and an afterword by Karen Young, Director of the Fairmount Water
Works Interpretive Center. A sweeping new Schuylkill River map by
Morgan Pfaelzer connects it all. Inland is the first to present
contemporary photographs from a survey of the entire Schuylkill
Navigation, becoming an essential resource for future historians
and a resonant visual history all its own.
Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for
the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction
and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children
at every stage of their reading development. This Handbook is
compiled by experts and practising teachers and draws together
findings from research and classroom experience to provide
strategies, ideas and practical advice on how to improve boys'
reading - and how girls can benefit from this, too!
This book is a study of a shift in the politics and finance of
development from one centered in the institutions and ideas of the
post-World War II global political economy to the emergence of
South-South economic ties and the rise of authoritarian or state
capitalism as an alternative model of development. This is a study
of the economic statecraft of the Gulf Arab states, specifically
the deployment of aid, investment, and direct support from some of
the wealthiest petrostates of the world to their surrounding sphere
of influence within the Middle East, Horn of Africa, and West Asia.
These new models of development finance, aid, and intervention
include distinct institutional designs and ideological bases. For
the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, the preference
for state-led and often state-owned development is a strategic
priority in the energy sector, a mechanism for domestic economic
growth and consolidation of wealth among leadership and ruling
families. Exporting that agenda as a foreign economic policy tool
continues all of the domestic benefits, while also affirming
broader regional political goals.
The Alchemy of Caregiving takes the reader on a journey that begins
with the meeting of soul mates, delights in the wonders of a deeply
felt new love, is rocked by a terminal cancer diagnosis, and
traverses six months of caregiving, grief and loss. Karen Young s
memoir recounts her journey from the world of conventional medicine
to that of alternative medicine, and reveals her spiritual and
emotional challenges in the role of caregiver. This compelling
story illuminates the dramatic changes that seem to impact every
aspect of a caregiver s life. Karen expresses the sacred alchemy
that transforms all those involved in the journey of a departing
soul and offers insights for caregivers from a place of
understanding and wholeness. Karen Young, RN, MN worked for many
years as a nurse in the field of bone marrow and stem cell
transplant. She has studied with respected teachers of Buddhist and
non-dual, Advaita Vedanta philosophies. She loves being in nature
where she finds the deep interconnection of all life. In writing
this book, she hopes to bring more understanding and awareness into
the world.
Lauren Holloway's ex-fiance, Tucker Kane, is without an alibi when
his ex-wife is murdered. Tucker claims to have been alone at a job
site at the time, but he needs Lauren to lie for him so that he
won't become a suspect in the murder. She refuses; now as a prime
suspect, Tucker disappears without a trace. Years later, she sees
him at an antique fair, and worried that Lauren will reveal his
carefully constructed life, he forces his into her hotel room and
tells her that he's trying to find evidence to clear his name. As
Lauren tries to help Tucker, she questions her ability to judge
character as she uncovers a labyrinth of deceit, putting her very
life in danger.
"Karen Young has written an exciting thriller with the second
chance romantic subplot enhancing the suspense. Readers will root
for the embattled lead protagonists caught in the crosshairs of a
ruthless diabolical killer. . . . Lie For Me is a gripping one
sitting read."
--Harriet Klausner (5 stars)
To Save a Victim, Camille St. James May Have to Become One
Herself.
Seven years ago, tragedy ended the troubled marriage of Camille
and Jack Vermillion. Now, as head of the Truth Project, her life
safe and orderly, she focuses her lawyerly skills on freeing
wrongly incarcerated individuals on death row.
Jack paid a bitter price for his mistakes. No longer a
high-powered corporate attorney, he's now pastor of a small church
in Blood Bayou. Unsure of her own beliefs, Camille is highly
skeptical of the conversion of this man she hasn't seen in seven
years.
Then tragedy strikes again. Jack's sister is murdered, apparently
by a prisoner Camille has set free. To prove his innocence, Camille
must return to Blood Bayou. But that means facing the hostility of
the town -- and Jack.
And as She Works to Find the Real Killer, Someone Is Determined to
Stop Her...by Any Means.
When baby Max is kidnapped during Mardi Gras, Jane and Kyle
Madison's life falls apart. What their daughter, Melanie, does next
is unthinkable.
Max vanished into thin air while in the care of his teenage sister,
Melanie. Six months later, the family is a shadow of its former
self: Melanie blames herself and is acting out and rebellious; Jane
is obsessed with finding Max; and Kyle, a lawyer, struggles to cope
with his own grief--and a persistent suspicion that one of his
cases is connected to Max's disappearance.
With her family in turmoil and her marriage on the rocks, Jane
thinks things can't get any worse. Then when an affair and an
unexpected pregnancy threaten to tear the Madisons' lives apart, an
anonymous caller leads to a break in the case. Can a second
kidnapping bring their family back together?
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