Download or read book Land of the Tuk Tuk written by Henry Pelifian and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel is a story of love, corruption, greed and American ethnocentrism abroad. The novel is based on major events in Iran and Thailand: the impending revolution in Iran and the influx of hundreds of thousands of Indochinese refugees in Thailand. The first chapter is set in Isfahan, Iran where Jack Dakasian is working as a civilian instructor in a training program for Iranian military personnel learning to pilot and maintain U.S. made helicopters. Jack witnesses the conduct of Americans in Iran amidst the social turmoil in the country and returns to Thailand with an emerging love for Amara, a university instructor in Bangkok, Thailand. When Jack arrives in Thailand he becomes involved in a worthy cause, assisting refugees fleeing Cambodia. He is a field officer for the U.S. Refugee Program helping Cambodian refugees enter the United States. Jack soon discovers with the help of his former students that there is corruption in United Nations contracts for food, shelter and transportation in the massive refugee effort that involves officials of the World Food Programme and the U.S. Embassy . Events lead Jack to an ever widening circle of corruption that includes tourist development.
Download or read book Live to Tell written by Zef Pllumi and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, Albania erupted in civil war. The communist party prevailed and acted quickly and brutally. By 1946, through executions, imprisonments, and mass banishments, the communists broke the back of Albania's freedom. A young Franciscan Catholic and man of heroic character in this time of inhumanity, Friar Zef Pllumi was arrested, brutally tortured, imprisoned, and sent to labor camps. Through deeply personal descriptions of shocking atrocities, Fr. Pllumi focuses on his extraordinary will to survive and his powerful faith. His intense desire to "live to tell" honors those martyred with Christ's name on their lips. Fr. Pllumi was initially released in 1949. Fr. Pllumi's memories are a brave confrontation of communism. His story's power lays in the fact that despite obscene efforts, the communist party could not succeed. As Fr. Pllumi states, "They think people are frightened before dying, but what they don't realize is that when you've arrived to a certain agonizing point, nothing is frightening anymore." Fr. Pllumi's historical memoir also delivers clear lessons for today. Amid the many horrors, differences in beliefs melted away. Christians, Muslims, Albanians, Italians, and French alike, although wounded physically, emotionally, and spiritually, were still alive to help each other and stand together and triumph for mankind.
Download or read book Tuktuk written by Robin Currie and published by Arbordale Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the sun begins to set, arctic animals scurry to prepare for six months of darkness and cold. Tuktuk the collared lemming is almost ready for the long winter night – all he needs is warm fur to line his nest. When one furry kamik (boot) slips off an Inuit driver’s sled, Tuktuk is in luck! But as he drags it home, Putak the polar bear, Aput the arctic fox, and Masak the caribou eye this little lemming’s prize and want it for their own. Can Tuktuk outwit the other animals and convince them that one furry kamik is no good for anyone bigger than a lemming?
Download or read book Dictionary of the Lepcha language written by Albert Grünwedel and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Claims and the Treaty Process written by Dolly McRae and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whose land is it? Yours or mine. Ever since European contact in Canada the question of Native land ownership has been a hot issue. This paper will recall early European contact in Canada, their move westward, the resistance to the encroachment and land appropriation by the Europeans. Dolly discusses the recent settlements of the Native land claims in Canada and United States. She talks of how the government would like 95%%%% of the territory that is rich in natural resources. Dolly tells other Natives not to sign treaties that will extinguish right to the land and that each band member should benefit from royalties from thje extraction of their natural resources.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Dictionary written by Charles C. Parker and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land of the Dawn lit Mountains written by Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **SHORTLISTED FOR ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2018 EDWARD STANFORD AWARD** A thrilling and dangerous adventure through Arunachal Pradesh, one of the world's least explored places. 'A fabulously thrilling journey through a beguiling land' Joanna Lumley 'With tremendous verve and determination Antonia plunges through an extraordinary world. Thank heavens she survived to tell this vivid and thoughtful tale' Ted Simon, author of Jupiter's Travels 'A tale of delight and exuberance - and one I'd thoroughly recommend. Bolingbroke-Kent proves a great travelling companion - compassionate, spirited and with a sharp eye for human oddity' Benedict Allen, author of Edge of Blue Heaven and Into the Abyss 'A transformative journey that gripped me from the very first page' Alastair Humphreys, author of The Boy Who Biked the World and Microadventures 'Remote, mountainous and forbidding, here shamans still fly through the night, hidden valleys conceal portals to other worlds, yetis leave footprints in the snow, spirits and demons abound, and the gods are appeased by the blood of sacrificed beasts' A mountainous state clinging to the far north-eastern corner of India, Arunachal Pradesh - meaning 'land of the dawn-lit mountains' - has remained uniquely isolated. Steeped in myth and mystery, not since pith-helmeted explorers went in search of the fabled 'Falls of the Brahmaputra' has an outsider dared to traverse it. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent sets out to chronicle this forgotten corner of Asia. Travelling some 2,000 miles she encounters shamans, lamas, hunters, opium farmers, fantastic tribal festivals and little-known stories from the Second World War. In the process, she discovers a world and a way of living that are on the cusp of changing forever. 'A beautifully written, exciting and revealing book that harks back to a golden age of travel writing' Lois Pryce, author of Revolutionary Ride
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Download or read book Report of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police written by Royal Canadian Mounted Police and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Download or read book Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1991 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Offshore Energy Resources and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terminal evaluation of the project Rehabilitation of Degraded Agricultural Lands in Kandy Badulla and Nuwara Eliya Districts in the Central Highlands written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2022-10-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Central Highlands are an important area in Sri Lanka that generates important ecosystem services for the country. However, the area suffers from land degradation and related issues. The project “Rehabilitation of Degraded Agricultural Lands in Kandy, Badulla and Nuwara Eliya Districts in the Central Highlands” (GCP/SRL/063/GFF) was designed to tackle the above-mentioned challenges. The terminal evaluation found that the project generated relevant planned and unplanned outcomes including spontaneous dissemination of project models (e.g. tea smallholding productivity improvement) and demand for replication and use of Participatory Land Use Development Plans (PLUDP) as national model for village level resource planning. Positive gender results and lateral dissemination of technology and strengthened peer-to-peer learning were evaluation findings. The recommendations include: i) the project should catalyse and showcase their knowledge management, training and outreach related innovations post COVID-19; ii) future projects trying to innovate conservation approaches beyond the traditional ones should receive dedicated, embedded technical advisory support; iii) long-term and innovative financing should be embedded into sustainable land use models in project and pilot design; and iv) land use planning and development planning should be connected.
Download or read book Urban Land written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court High Court of Errors and Appeals and the Superior Court of Chancery of Mississippi written by Mississippi. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DOA Detective Files written by Sonja Chandrachud and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural or supernatural No mystery is out of this world for us . . . Travel back in time with the DOA gang as they solve out-of-this-world mysteries using their wits, will and Tuk Tuk, their auto rickshaw with attitude, which also happens to be a time machine! DOA Case File 1 Agra, India, 1636: There's some serious trouble at the Taj! Chief architect of the Taj Mahal, Ustad Ahmed Lahauri, has been kidnapped, leaving work on the construction unfinished. Emperor Shah Jahan now has to find a new architect for his dream project. But the ghost of his dead empress, Mumtaz Mahal, is determined to not let any other architect work on her mausoleum. She summons the DOA detectives and commands them to find the missing architect before it's too late and she's saddled with a hideous tomb for eternity. Soon the detectives discover that there is much more to the Ustad's disappearance than a mere kidnapping. There is a traitor in the imperial court who will stop at nothing till he fulfils his evil designs! Who could it be? Will the detectives be able to stop his wicked plans? Will they be able to ensure that the magnificent Taj Mahal gets built?
Download or read book Death in the Kingdom written by Andrew Grant and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British agent Daniel Swann is back in Thailand, caught up in a government-level conspiracy over a mysterious black box. But as his friends are beheaded one by one and he is pursued by CIA agents, Swann realizes his mission has become personal. Someone wants him dead. So he turns to the only people he can trust—the underworld.
