Download or read book The Pangolin Diary written by David Stanley and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book addresses my first year as a midwife and midwifery tutor in Africa and tells the story of my arrival at Murambinda Mission Hospital and transition to life away from friends and family. The Pangolin diary also deals with issues of grief and loneliness, the building of friendships and the medical and social issues faced by Zimbabwean women as they grapple with the impact of HIV/AIDS and other medical and midwifery conditions"--cover.

Download or read book Lilani and the pangolin written by Marion von Vlahovits and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the way to school, a strange ball rolls in front of ten-year-old Lilani's feet. A ball? That's strange, because there's no one nearby who could have thrown it or shot it. When she takes a closer look at what has tumbled in front of her feet, an animal that looks like a large pine cone unrolls. Thus begins an exciting adventure for Lilani. Since the scaly creature follows her all the way home, she wants to keep it. But the village elder catches Lilani and takes the animal away from her. Will she manage to save the pangolin together with her new friend Maria? The pangolin is the most illegally trafficked animal in the world. The book was published in cooperation with Maria Diekmann, the founder and director of Rare & Endangered Species Trust in Namibia. Kerstin Geier, who illustrated the book lives in Africa.

Download or read book The Tiger and the Pangolin written by Christopher Reed Coggins and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and wide-ranging work examines historical perceptions of nature in China and the relationship between insider and outsider, state and village, top-down conservation policy and community autonomy. After an introduction to the history of wildlife conservation and nature reserve management in China, the book places recent tiger conservation efforts in the context of a two-thousand-year gazetteer of tiger attacks--the longest running documentation of human-wildlife encounters for any region in the world. This record offers a unique perspective on the history of the tiger as a dynamic force in the political culture of China. While the tiger has long been identified with political authority, the Chinese pangolin and its earthly magic have exerted a powerful influence in the everyday lives of those working and living in the fields and forests. Today the tiger and the pangolin, government officials and village communities, must work together closely if wildlife habitat conservation programs are to succeed. Extensive fieldwork in the Meihuashan Nature Reserve and other protected areas of western Fujian have led the author to advocate a landscape ecological approach to habitat conservation. By linking economic development to land use practices, he makes a strong case for integrating nature conservation efforts with land tenure and other socio-ecological issues in China and beyond.

Download or read book Roly Poly Pangolin written by Anna Dewdney and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roly Poly, a pangolin, is shy and afraid of new things until he discovers that some new experiences are not bad at all. Includes facts about pangolins, an endangered species.

Download or read book The Pangolin Club written by Dabana Marotsi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores how the political, economic, social policies of the government from the time of independence from the British government in 1980 have led to economic collapse. It highlights how corruption has resulted in the gap between the rich and the poor widening while, at the same time, there was a lot of disruption in the lives of ordinary people which saw them moving to different countries because of the dismal conditions that were a result of the corruption. It also touches on the issue of human trafficking and disregard of proper environmental practices that have led to ecological disasters and encouraged the outbreak of diseases such as cholera in certain areas.

Download or read book Hanvueng The Goose King and the Ancestral King written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an annotated edition of a ritual manuscript, written in the traditional Zhuang character script. The Hanvueng epic is a narrative in verse about murderous enmity between two royal step-brothers, recited when there is fraternal feuding, death by violence, outbreaks of smallpox, or other such disasters. The theme of enmity is an important one that resonates deeply in the Tai societies on the periphery of the Chinese empire. The narrative touches on many other aspects of life in the valley-kingdoms in the highlands of Guangxi: marriage and inheritance, match-making, slavery and social stratification, agriculture, hunting, fishing, raiding, livestock raising dye-making, wild animals and plants, and the use of ritual to put things to rights.

Download or read book Underdevelopment Development and the Future of Africa written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In view of the resilience of Africa’s underdevelopment, what do Africans make of their determined aspirations for development? The continent of Africa has constantly drawn global attention, most especially for both human and natural evils. Underdevelopment, it appears, is one of the most eminent threatening evils. It has plunged and promises to maintain the majority of Africa in abject poverty, insecurity, and vulnerability. What perpetuates the ghost and gory of underdevelopment in Africa, despite a proliferation of development rhetoric and initiatives? How do ordinary Africans react to repeated talk and claims of development with little evidence of transformation for the better in their material circumstances? This book interrogates the tenacity of underdevelopment amid calls for Africa to rise from its slumber and reclaim its position in global affairs as the mother continent of humankind. It contributes to the ongoing debates on why Africa remains trapped in the clutch of underdevelopment many decades after the purported end of colonialism. The book comes at a critical time in human history; a time when the talk on Africa’s [under-]development is louder due to the ravages of economic downturns and dysfunctional conflicts. It poses a challenge to development practitioners, civil society activists, statesmen, economists, political scientists and theorists to rethink and reconsider their role as technocrats, experts and ambassadors of positive change in Africa and the world beyond.

Download or read book Tanah Tujuh written by Antares and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pangolin s Tale written by Nalini Rajan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shanti embarks on a voyage of self-discovery on a Francophone university campus in Paris. Shanti's non-European friends think of her as different from the 'others', a terms reserved for Europeans by the foreign students, most of whom are paranoid about race distinctions. Marie Elena, a sociologist with prophetic judgements about people, and south American Carlos and Aline are Shanti's friends but her close reltaionship with the strange Dominique, the only person to whom she confesses her love for the cold and married Etienne, is the catalyst of her story. A shocking event causes Shanti to re-evaluate her years at the university and to discover that while she had felt superior, judging others and their trivial lives objectively, it was her own life that was impoverished and her understanding superficial. This finely written novel brings alive life in a foreign university as seen through the eyes of an Indian student where frindship, love and guilt are explored through the vividly etched and complex characters that inhabit Shanti's world.

Download or read book The Hidden Kingdom written by Tracey Hecht and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The books celebrate the very meaningful idea of friendship and what it means to forge positive relationships."--Amy Poehler's Smart Girls In The Nocturnals: The Hidden Kingdom, animals in the valley start to trip on the crumbling ground beneath them, water disappears, and disembodied voices are heard. Everyone assumes the forest is under an evil spell. However, it's a group of veiled creatures--a chameleon, stick bugs, leaf bugs, and other assorted camouflaged insects--that are upset because they want the valley's recognition for their hard work in preventing a drought. The Nocturnal Brigade--Dawn, Tobin, and Bismark--solve this mystery and unites the forest. In The Hidden Kingdom, the fourth book in the critically acclaimed middle grade series, The Nocturnals, the adventures of three unlikely friends--Dawn, a serious fox, Tobin, a sweet pangolin, and Bismark, a loud-mouthed sugar glider--continue with teamwork, friendship, and humor. Bonus full color illustrations at the start of each chapter (Ages 8-10) Visit the Nocturnals World online to download printable activities including makerspace crafts, word games, STEM projects, Bingo, language arts and science educator guides, and more

Download or read book Cracking the Code written by John Mark Sheppard and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" is the brainchild of John Mark Sheppard, who moved with his family from the United States to Liberia when he was just three years old. He learned Liberian English as a second language as he spent his childhood and teen years immersed in the Liberian culture. After college in the United States, John Mark returned to Liberia and began a more formal study of Liberia's history, customs and languages. In this truly fascinating book, John Mark combines his training in linguistics with an extensive knowledge of the language he has grown to love. Besides the more than one thousand helpful explanations of specific words or phrases, "Cracking the Code: The Confused Traveler's Guide to Liberian English" includes a fascinating history of the people groups and languages of the region, a pronunciation guide, a list of Liberian proverbs and practical, how-to-avoid-embarrassing-yourself advice for Westerners.

Download or read book Pangolin Plays a Prank written by Avril van der Merwe and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a night of feasting on termites and ants, Pangolin bumps into Lion as she is returning to her burrow to sleep. Since she is not a fast runner, she has to think quickly to avoid being eaten. Being polite and gentle, she doesn’t want to harm Lion, so she decides to trick him instead. Aided unexpectedly by Dung Beetle, her deception proves successful and Lion soon rushes off to find Pangolin, who has been right under his nose all along. Once he is gone, the other animals come out of hiding and Pangolin learns that, despite being shy and solitary, she has more friends than she ever realised.

Download or read book Social Morphology Human Welfare and Sustainability written by Mohammad Izhar Hassan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses a broad range of human welfare problems associated with and stemming from social issues, natural resource deficiencies, environmental hazards, vulnerability to climate change, and sustainability challenges. The chapters form a framework centered around the concept of social morphology, i.e. the role of humans in shaping society, and associated human-nature interactions which inform the ability to achieve sustainable welfare and well-being. The book is divided in six sections. Section I contains the introductory chapters where the book explores shifting interfaces between environment, society, and sustainability outcomes. Section II discusses contemporary issues of social welfare, and covers sustainable approaches in geo-heritage and ecotourism. Section III addresses the roots of various social conflicts and inequalities in relation to overpopulation, poverty, illiteracy, employment concerns, and human migration. Section IV highlights social security and areas of social deprivation, including urban affordability, gender equality, and women’s health. Section V covers social issues resulting from natural hazards and disasters. Section VI concludes the book with a discussion of the way forward for social sustainability. The book will be of interest to students, researchers, policy makers, environmentalists, NGOs, and social scientists.

Download or read book Little Black Cappy written by Anna Samwel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Black Cappy is a well-behaved little girl. One morning, her mother asks her to go to the nearby village to bring her sick grandparents some food so they will not have to go to the market until they are better. Little Black Cappy promises her to do so and sets off. She decides to take a short-cut through the forest. Will Black Cappy reach her grandparents home? Join her journey to find out what awaits her.

Download or read book Jicky Jack And The Ominous Promise written by C.D. Bryan and published by Flight Knight Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One boy… One promise… A world of perilous adventure. When J.R. Timble wakes to discover something unnatural has happened to him, he has no idea it’s the result of a majestic event that happens every 150 years, which has also awakened fierce adversaries who come hunting–for him. But when more jaw-dropping phenomena follows, J.R. soon realizes something sinister is at hand. Overnight his simple life is shattered; a life-changing promise plunges him into a new world of Destiny, Deadly Peril and Mystical Forces. With only the clues from a mysterious local legend in the Redwood Forest, J.R. and his secret society friends must unlock and navigate an unknown realm in the real world and its dark enemies–unleashed by a villainous mastermind whose evil knows no limits. Can J.R. fulfill the prophecy of the Whiffler’s Legend? His life–and the lives of children around the world may depend on it. ****Fast-paced, humorous and amusing, Jicky Jack And The Ominous Promise is an adventurous tale that will lift you and stay with you even after you've turned the last page. ****Winner of FWA’s Royal Palm Literary Award in Elementary/Middle Grade Fiction “I originally purchased this novel for my son who said it was an Awesome Story (his words). So, I read it too and I absolutely loved this book. What a wonderfully original story. I hope Mr. Bryan writes a sequel.” —Sara Powers, Teacher "I found this book to be humorous and very engaging. On several occasions, just when I thought I knew where the story might be going I was pleasantly surprised. I cant say enough, just an all around fun novel with surprise twists and turns around every corner. Jicky Jack I'll be back. That's all I can say." —David King "Epic Novel . . . I chose this book because my mom said that it would be a good book. I think it’s a great book.” —5 Star Review "I bought this book for my grandson . . . I read it first and really liked it . . . It’s a good read for any age.” —5 Star Review I bought this for my preteen son . . . he found it to be a real page-turner. He said he can’t wait until the next book in the series comes out.” —5 Star Review "This is a fantastic story. I really liked this book not only as an adventure but because of the suspense and mystery I found throughout it. J.R. and his friends are in a race against time, mystical enemies, and the strength of their own willpower. It was hard to put down. My daughter is reading it now." —Rachelle Collins

Download or read book Bartlett s Familiar Quotations written by John Bartlett and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 5216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after its original publication, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has been completely revised and updated for its eighteenth edition. Bartlett's showcases a sweeping survey of world history, from the times of ancient Egyptians to present day. New authors include Warren Buffett, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, David Foster Wallace, Emily Post, Steve Jobs, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Krugman, Hunter S. Thompson, Jon Stewart, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Barack Obama, Che Guevara, Randy Pausch, Desmond Tutu, Julia Child, Fran Leibowitz, Harper Lee, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Patti Smith, William F. Buckley, and Robert F. Kennedy. In the classic Bartlett's tradition, the book offers readers and scholars alike a vast, stunning representation of those words that have influenced and molded our language and culture.

Download or read book Pix and Me written by Carolyn Ching and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There were soldiers on the verandah??? They were pointing bayonets at my mother and father??? I was glued to the spot.. My heart was beating furiously???'Run, Andy, run!' I heard Dad's desperate yell???' The year is 1942. War has spread across the world, and the Japanese have invaded Singapore, where Andy has been living an idyllic life with his botanist parents, on the edge of the jungle. But now the military police have taken his parents away for questioning and Andy has fled deep into that jungle - alone for the first time iin his life. But not quite alone. With him is Pix, his best friend, a monkey. As Andy battles to overcome his terror and begins the quest for food and shelter, another fugitive arrives - Emmiline, the most demanding brat he has ever met.