Download or read book A Feast of Vultures written by Josy Joseph and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2016-07-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Every day, millions of people -- the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors -- are hunting for ways to get their business done in modern India. If they search in the right places and offer the appropriate price, there is always a facilitator who can get the job done. This book is a sneak preview of those searches, the middlemen who do those jobs, and the many opportunities that the fast-growing economy offers.' Josy Joseph draws upon two decades as an investigative journalist to expose a problem so pervasive that we do not have the words to speak of it. The story is big: that of treacherous business rivalries, of how some industrial houses practically own the country, of the shadowy men who run the nation's politics. The story is small: a village needs a road and a hospital, a graveyard needs a wall, people need toilets. A Feast of Vultures is an unprecedented, multiple-level inquiry into modern India, and the picture it reveals is both explosive and frightening. Within these covers is unimpeachable evidence against some of the country's biggest business houses and political figures, and the reopening of major scandals that have shaped its political narratives. Through hard-nosed investigations and the meticulous gathering of documentary evidence, Joseph clinically examines and irrefutably documents the non-reportable. It is a troubling narrative, but also a call to action and a cry for change. A tour de force through the wildly beating heart of post-socialist India, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the large, unwieldy truth about this nation.

Download or read book Where Vultures Feast written by Ike Okonta and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta. After severe fighting, the city was razed. More than two thousand people perished in the attack. A hundred years later, the world was shocked by the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa-writer, political activist, and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. Again the people of Nembe were locked in a grim life-and-death struggle to safeguard their livelihood from two forces: a series of corrupt and repressive Nigerian governments and the giant multinational Royal Dutch Shell. Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas present a devastating case against the world's largest oil company, demonstrating how (in contrast to Shell's public profile) irresponsible practices have degraded agricultural land and left a people destitute. The plunder of the Niger Delta has turned full circle as crude oil has taken the place of palm oil, but the dramatis personae remain the same: a powerful multinational company bent on extracting the last drop of blood from the richly endowed Niger Delta, and a courageous people determined to resist.

Download or read book Consider the Birds written by Debbie Blue and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From biblical times to today, humans have found meaning and significance in the actions and symbolism of birds. We admire their mystery and manners, their strength and fragility, their beauty and their ugliness—and perhaps compare these very characteristics to their own lives in the process. Though admired today, the birds of Scripture are largely unseen and underappreciated. From the well-known image of the dove to the birds that gorge on the flesh of the defeated “beast” in Revelation, birds play a dynamic part in Scripture. They bring bread to the prophets. They are food for the wanderers. As sacrifices, they are the currency of mercy. Highlighting 10 birds throughout Scripture, author Debbie Blue explores their significance in both familiar and unfamiliar biblical stories and illustrates how and why they have represented humanity across culture, Christian tradition, art, and contemporary psyche. With these (usually) minor characters at the forefront of human imaginations, poignant life lessons illuminate such qualities as desire and gratitude, power and vulnerability, insignificance and importance—even as readers gain a better understanding that God’s mysterious grace is sometimes most evident in His simplest of creatures.

Download or read book Vulture View written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces young readers to the world of the turkey vulture.

Download or read book A Feast of Vultures written by Peter Graham Scott and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vulture Project written by Frank E Darrow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vulture Project is a fast paced bio-medical thriller that will keep you turning the pages as Trish Morgan, a bio-chemist working for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) becomes entangled in a sinister plot of greed, corruption, and murder as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Calvin Wright, her best friend's husband who has been working undercover on a highly classified experiment for an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company called Bio-Med as she risks her own life following the clues left behind by Calvin. Time is running out for Trish as she tries to figure out what sinister force has been unleased on the small Colorado resort town of Mt. Wellingtion.

Download or read book Vultures written by Doug Wechsler and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no doubt about it: Vultures are unsavory. As Doug Wechsler writes, “Thinking about what vultures eat is enough to make you want to throw up.” This humorous and informative book presents a balanced picture of these birds that, despite their lack of social graces, perform a vital role in their ecosystem by acting as garbage collectors.

Download or read book Feast of Vultures written by Charles Weissner and published by . This book was released on 1981-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book University Series written by Stanford University and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Vulture is a Patient Bird written by James Hadley Chase and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant but sadistic safe-breaker; a beautiful seductress; an expert young hunter and an ace pilot with a shady past - this is the team that undercover operator Armo Shalik assembles to steal the priceless Borgia ring from millionaire Max Kahlenberg's closely guarded fortress in the remote and deadly African bush. But when Kahlenberg finds out they are coming, the gang's expedition turns into a strictly one-way safari - to slaughter ... 'Insanely readable' Observer

Download or read book Feasts of Light written by Normandi Ellis and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the Egyptian goddesses and their festivals, including Isis and Hathor, Neith the cobra, and Bast the cat, and includes information on astrology, sacred plants, aromatics, and birth and mourning rituals

Download or read book A Moveable Feast written by Ernest Hemingway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Download or read book Publications written by Stanford University and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sound of Vultures Wings written by Jeffrey W. Cupchik and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Vultures' Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is a musical/meditative Vajrayāna method for cutting off the root of suffering, namely, egoic identification with the body, or the belief that the "I" is the locus of the "self." Chöd is regarded by many Tibetan Lamas as one of the most effective Buddhist practices for spiritual and social transformation. Jeffrey W. Cupchik details the significance of the complex, interwoven performative aspects of this meditative ritual and explains how its practice can bring about experiences of insight and inner transformation. In doing so, he undoes the notion of meditation as exclusively an experience of silence and stillness.

Download or read book An Octoroon written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.

Download or read book The Birds of the Latin Poets written by Ernest Whitney Martin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1914 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Birds of the Latin Poets written by Ernest Whitney Martin and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devastating accident left Hope McKenzie the sole caretaker for her little sister. So now that her sister is engaged, Hope will do all she can to organize the wedding - even if that means dealing with reluctant best man Gael O'Connor! Famous New York artist Gael has spent his life observing his parents' affairs - he's convinced love is a sham. But in spending time with shy Hope, he coaxes her out of her shell. And soon wonders if this beautiful bridesmaid is what he's been missing all along!