Download or read book Eiderdown written by Edward Posnett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries eiderdown has been coveted by the Vikings, Russian tsars and medieval tax collectors who accepted it as revenue. The plumage of a fat sea duck, eiderdown – treasured for its extraordinary lightness and insulation – now joins cocaine as an instrument of globalisation and commodity of the super-rich. In this revelatory essay, Edward Posnett travels to the Westfjords region of Iceland to explore the fragile relationship between Icelanders and the duck. Eiderdown harvesting began with the arrival of Norse settlers in the 9th century, and it is now stuffed into pillows, duvets and clothing which sell for thousands of pounds in Japan, China, Germany and Russia. What might at first appear an idyllic pastime becomes a story of compromise and exploitation. Posnett’s finely spun prose and his fascinating encounters open up this seldom seen trade, one which hangs in the balance.

Download or read book Molly Eiderdown s Journal written by Elaine B. Berrier and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pages of Molly Eiderdown’s Journal: Memoirs at the Serenity Nursing Home springs the thoughts, feelings, and observations of a woman who writes a new chapter in her own life. At seventy-nine, she enters a nursing home under duress following a heart attack. Forced into this late-life move by her children, who felt concerned about her health and her ability to live on her own, Molly Eiderdown decides to keep a journal to pass the time. She notes on the first page, “It is so boring here that I have just decided to write. I have to write BIG so I can read it because my eyes aren’t so good, but who cares if I fill up my whole under the bed with notebooks. They’ll never find them anyway. No one ever even dusts under there I’ll bet.” Elaine B. Berrier’s Molly Eiderdown’s Journal rests upon the author’s twenty-seven years of experience working with elders as a nurse in long-term care facilities. This roots the novel in the realities of people who live in nursing homes. Presenting a series of journal entries, Molly Eiderdown’s Journal: Memoirs at the Serenity Nursing Home depicts a wise and spirited woman who learns and grows at a time in her life she had thought was too late for such change. If you find yourself drawn to stories of people who triumph over challenges, then Molly Eiderdown’s Journal will present you with a new friend and a source of inspiration. Elaine B. Berrier earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and worked with elders for twenty-seven years in long-term care facilities and ten years as a parish nurse. She and her husband live in Massachusetts. She is very involved with her church, having facilitated discussions using her book.

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Download or read book China Business Review 1997 A Supplement Of The Accounting And Business Review written by Buen Sin Low and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1997-12-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents:Growth and the Change of Economic Structure in the Chinese Economy: The Case of Jiangsu's Economy (Y Cao & S B Chew)The Importance of Jiangsu's Economy in the Formation of Regional Pattern of the Emerging Chinese Market (T M Tan et al.)The Development of Township and Village Enterprises and Its Impact on Jiangsu's Economy (Y Cao & K-R Shen)Rural Enterprises in Jiangsu Province: The Performance and Potential (S B Chew et al.)The Comparative Advantages of Township and Village Enterprises in Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou in Jiangsu Province (Y-H Liu & Z-B Liu)Case Studies on the Economic Structure of Township and Village Enterprises in Jiangsu Province (S B Chew & Y-H Liu)Foreign Trade Development and the Comparative Advantage of the Jiangsu Province of China (E-Z Zhang & R Chew)Inward Foreign Direct Investment in Jiangsu (R-F Wang & E-Z Zhang) Readership: Business executives and researchers on China's market economy. Keywords:

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Download or read book Peetakvik written by Ken Crassweller and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is your invitation to find how, during the 1960s and 70s, a settler’s perspective shaped his view of what happened from his firsthand experiences, what he learned and what he did for better or worse. Then, reading on, learn how government worked in tandem with the Eastern Arctic Inuit, exploring and experimenting to enhance Inuit arts and crafts for cultural survival. Find here an account of Inuit using the limited Arctic gifts of stone, clay, bone, eiderdown, and skins. Then judge for yourself whether working together will achieve the common goal to maintain Inuit culture where their language is made visible through their arts Find here a challenge to accept that if Inuit arts and crafts fades away, so also will their unique culture. Read that this need not be! Find within a bold proposal “SEE” to accept that Inuit art/crafts, is not static, nor swallowed up in settlers ‘ways, but celebrated as Inuit resilience to change without identity loss. Meet project Ookpik. Read about Inuit survival tools, later appreciated as true art. Learn how they make carvings, and prints. Discover the use of design continuum, carving evaluation, life themes, and game drawing Engage in some humous, and a look at life in an Inuit wholistic way.