Download or read book Malvaceae of Mexico written by Paul A. Fryxell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatial Data Analysis written by Robert P. Haining and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice, first published in 2003, provides a broad ranging treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an overview of spatial data analysis and the importance of location (place, context and space) in scientific and policy related research. Covering fundamental problems concerning how attributes in geographical space are represented to the latest methods of exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modeling, it is designed to take the reader through the key areas that underpin the analysis of spatial data, providing a platform from which to view and critically appreciate many of the key areas of the field. Parts of the text are accessible to undergraduate and master's level students, but it also contains sufficient challenging material that it will be of interest to geographers, social and economic scientists, environmental scientists and statisticians, whose research takes them into the area of spatial analysis.
Download or read book The Extent of Poverty in Latin America written by Oscar Altimir and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work originated in a research project for the measurement and analysis of income distribution in the Latin American countries, undertaken jointly by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the World Bank. The present paper presents estimates of the extent of absolute poverty for ten Latin American countries and for the region as a whole in the 1970s, on the basis of available household surveys and population censuses. They are based on country-specific poverty lines representing minimum acceptable levels of private consumption, drawn according to a food-based method. Such poverty lines - ranging from 150 to 250 dollars of annual household consumption per capita - express a normative definition of the absolute dimensions of poverty, partly based on expert appraisals and partly reflecting the actual behavior of low income households facing the life style projected by Latin American development. According to these estimates, 40 percent of Latin American households were poor at the beginning of the 1970s, the incidence of poverty being 26 percent in urban areas and 60 percent in rural areas. Urban poverty extended to more than one-third of urban households in some countries (Brazil, Colombia, Honduras) while affecting between 20 and 30 percent in others (Peru, Mexico, Venezuela), about 15 percent in Costa Rica and Chile and less than 10 percent in Argentina and Uruguay. The extent of poverty in rural areas would not be less than 20 percent in any case and would reach more than 60 percent in some countries. The corresponding poverty gaps were also estimated; in terms of total household income, they may represent manageable proportions (around 2-3 percent) in the better-off countries, but are in the 4-8 percent range in the bigger countries of the region and reach as much as 12 percent in Peru and 17 percent in Honduras.
Download or read book Step it Down written by Bessie Jones and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers traditional baby games, clapping plays, jumps and skips, singing plays, ring plays, dances, outdoor games, songs, and stories
Download or read book Violence in Colombia written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colombia, one of South Americas oldest, middle-income democracies, has developed rapidly despite a fifty year "simmering" civil war and increasing levels of urban and rural crime and violence. In the past decade, however, the scale and intensity of violence has changed from a marginal conflict to generalized violence that now dominates the daily lives of most citizens. As remote guerilla activity has turned into country-wide "war," bringing in paramilitary groups, drug cartels, and other social actors, so too the causes of violence have changed. These have included both external events such as the collapse of the Cold War, as well as internal changes relating to economic liberalization, coal and oil developments and the impact of the global trade in illicit narcotics. Violence in Colombia is highly complex not only because of the different categories, but also due to its multiple causes. This paper combines disparate existing theories to develop an integrated framework that identifies four different levels of causality: structural, institutional, interpersonal, and individual. It recognizes the mutually reinforcing role played by factors at different levels of causality. Underlying the causes of violence in Colombia is minimal state presence in many parts of the country, widespread corruption and impunity, high levels of societal acceptance of violence, and a regionally fragmented country.
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Download or read book Traditional Songs of the Maori written by Mervyn McLean and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study of indigenous Polynesian music, conducted in the 1960s, includes a survey of traditional songs in different styles that embody the fundamental values of Maori culture in New Zealand. Musical transcriptions, Maori texts, English translations, and extensive notes on more than 50 traditional Maori songs are included. Common ceremonial songs are represented, including elaborate laments, love songs, war chants, songs of welcome, and witty occasional songs.
Download or read book The Golden Trade written by Richard Jobson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1623 edition. Excerpt: ... never saw any Estriches, neither did any of the cuntrey people, ever bring any of their feathers to barter, or sell unto us, so as it appeares plainly there is none of them in these parts; notwithstanding in the River of Senega, which is to the Northward, and likewise againe more Southerly, upon the Sea coast of Africa great store: Therefore the greatest bird or fowle we see, is called a Stalker; who by reason of his The stalker, long legs and necke, when he stands upright, is in height taller then a man, his body in substance is more then an indifferent lambe which we doe feede upon, and finde it somewhat a dry meate, but well allowed for nourishment, 187 and The wake. Ginney hens. and by the countrey people much esteemed of: The especiall desire we have to kill them, is in regard of some feathers he hath, which being taken in due time, and so preserved, are heere at home esteemed and worne. The next in greatnesse, is called a Wake, in regard of the great noyse hee makes when hee flyeth, which resembleth what he is called by, and of these there is great abundance, who for the most part live upon their Rice grounds, and in those times do them great spoyles: they are very good to eate, and is a bird of a great stature, having the upper part of his head carrying a beautifull shew, with a pleasing tuft on his Crowne, which I have seene worne by great personages here at home. There is infinite store of another sort of excellent birds which wee call Ginney Hennes, in bignesse much about our Phesants, and in beauty answerable; his feathers being all laid over him like unto eyes, in a pleasing fashion, they are all the countrey over, and in flockes of many hundreds together; their food is upon their corne grounds, keeping close together, ..
Download or read book The golden trade or A discouery of the riuer Gambra and the golden trade of the Aethiopians written by Richard Jobson and published by . This book was released on 1623 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
