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Book Beirut 2020  Diary of the Collapse

Download or read book Beirut 2020 Diary of the Collapse written by Charif Majdalani and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Literature Today: Notable Translation of the Year PopMatters: Best Book of the Year Told in elegant, evocative prose, a devastating and necessary testament to the August explosion that thoughtfully examines the crises that preceded it and its aftermath. At the start of the summer of 2020, in a Lebanon ruined by economic crisis and political corruption, in an exhausted Beirut still rising up for true democracy while the world was paralyzed by the coronavirus, Charif Majdalani set about writing a journal. He intended to bear witness to this terrible, confusing time, and perhaps endure it by putting it into words. Using small, everyday interactions—with fellow restaurant patrons, repairmen, the father of his wife’s patient, a young Syrian refugee—as openings to address larger systemic problems, he explains how events in Lebanon’s recent history led to this point. Then, on August 4, the explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut devastated the city and the country. Majdalani’s chronicle suddenly became a record of the catastrophe, which left more than two hundred dead and thousands injured, and the massive public outcry that followed. In the midst of the senseless chaos and grief, however, he continues to find cause for hope in the kindness and resilience of those determined to stay and rebuild.

Book Murakami 2020 Diary

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  • Author : Haruki Murakami
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2019-11-26
  • ISBN : 1787301621
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Murakami 2020 Diary written by Haruki Murakami and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully designed week-to-view diary for 2020, featuring unique artwork inspired by Haruki Murakami's works along with quotations and significant dates. Murakami's distinctive blend of the mysterious and the everyday, of melancholy and humour, continues to enchant readers, ensuring his place as one of the world’s most acclaimed and well-loved writers. This diary includes visual and textual references to his works, from Wind/Pinball, A Wild Sheep Chase and Norwegian Wood to Killling Commendatore and Novelist as a Vocation. Contents include: Week-to-view diary pages Yearly Planner Selection of Japanese Holidays and Festivals Dates of cycles of the moon Seasonal quotations and extracts from Murakami's books Significant dates from the books marked Images of jackets in progress as well as the finished versions Visual content from The Strange Library Specially designed artwork to match the seasons Notes section at the back Dimensions:15.3 x 1.5 x 21.4cm. Image or text on every recto, and weekly planner on verso.

Book Vic Lee s Corona Diary

Download or read book Vic Lee s Corona Diary written by Vic Lee and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vic Lee's Corona Diary is an exquisitely illustrated graphic novel-style memoir chronicling the dramatic events around the global spread of the coronavirus.

Book Beirut 2020

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  • Author : Charif Majdalani
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-29
  • ISBN : 9781914495014
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Beirut 2020 written by Charif Majdalani and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary

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  • Author : Batsheva Ben-Amos
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2020-03-10
  • ISBN : 0253046963
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book The Diary written by Batsheva Ben-Amos and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary as a genre is found in all literate societies, and these autobiographical accounts are written by persons of all ranks and positions. The Diary offers an exploration of the form in its social, historical, and cultural-literary contexts with its own distinctive features, poetics, and rhetoric. The contributors to this volume examine theories and interpretations relating to writing and studying diaries; the formation of diary canons in the United Kingdom, France, United States, and Brazil; and the ways in which handwritten diaries are transformed through processes of publication and digitization. The authors also explore different diary formats, including the travel diary, the private diary, conflict diaries written during periods of crisis, and the diaries of the digital era, such as blogs. The Diary offers a comprehensive overview of the genre, synthesizing decades of interdisciplinary study to enrich our understanding of, research about, and engagement with the diary as literary form and historical documentation.

Book Diary of a Drag Queen

Download or read book Diary of a Drag Queen written by Crystal Rasmussen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2020 Life's a drag... Why not be a queen? 'Stories like the one where you shagged a 79-year-old builder and knocked over his sister's ashes while feeding him a Viagra. Or the time you crashed your car because you were giving a hand job in barely moving traffic and took your eye off the car in front. That's the kind of dinner-party ice-breaker I'm talking about.' Northern, working-class and shagging men three times her age, Crystal writes candidly about her search for 'the one'; sleeping with a VIP in an attempt to become a world famous journalist; getting hired and fired by a well-known fashion magazine; being torn between losing weight and gorging on KFC; and her need for constant sexual satisfaction (and where that takes her). Charting her day-to-day adventures over the course of a year, we encounter tucks, twists and sucks, heinous overspending and endless nights spent sprinting from problem to problem in a full face of make-up. This is a place where the previously unspeakable becomes the commendable - a unique portrayal of the queer experience. (c) 2019, Crystal Rasmussen (P) 2019 Penguin Audio

Book Meet Cute Diary

Download or read book Meet Cute Diary written by Emery Lee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transgender teen’s first love challenges his ideas about perfect relationships. * A 2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist Selection * A Junior Library Guild Selection * Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem—all the stories are fake. What started as the fantasies of a trans boy afraid to step out of the closet has grown into a beacon of hope for trans readers across the globe. When a troll exposes the blog as fiction, Noah’s world unravels. The only way to save the Diary is to convince everyone that the stories are true, but he doesn’t have any proof. Then Drew walks into Noah’s life, and the pieces fall into place: Drew is willing to fake-date Noah to save the Diary. But when Noah’s feelings grow beyond their staged romance, he realizes that dating in real life isn’t quite the same as finding love on the page. In this charming novel by Emery Lee, Noah will have to choose between following his own rules for love or discovering that the most romantic endings are the ones that go off script.

Book The Book of V

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  • Author : Anna Solomon
  • Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
  • Release : 2020-05-05
  • ISBN : 125025700X
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Book of V written by Anna Solomon and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day. Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she was going to be, before she had children. Now, in her rented Brooklyn apartment she’s grappling with her sexual and intellectual desires, while also trying to manage her roles as a mother and a wife in 2016. Vivian Barr seems to be the perfect political wife, dedicated to helping her charismatic and ambitious husband find success in Watergate-era Washington D.C. But one night he demands a humiliating favor, and her refusal to obey changes the course of her life—along with the lives of others. Esther is a fiercely independent young woman in ancient Persia, where she and her uncle’s tribe live a tenuous existence outside the palace walls. When an innocent mistake results in devastating consequences for her people, she is offered up as a sacrifice to please the King, in the hopes that she will save them all. In Anna Solomon's The Book of V., these three characters' riveting stories overlap and ultimately collide, illuminating how women’s lives have and have not changed over thousands of years.

Book A Carnival of Snackery

Download or read book A Carnival of Snackery written by David Sedaris and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice There’s no right way to keep a diary, but if there’s an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas­tered it. If it’s navel-gazing you’re after, you’ve come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward: a fight between two men on a bus, a fight between two men on the street, pedestrians being whacked over the head or gathering to watch as a man considers leap­ing to his death. There’s a dirty joke shared at a book signing, then a dirtier one told at a dinner party—lots of jokes here. Plenty of laughs. These diaries remind you that you once really hated George W. Bush, and that not too long ago, Donald Trump was just a harm­less laughingstock, at least on French TV. Time marches on, and Sedaris, at his desk or on planes, in hotel dining rooms and odd Japanese inns, records it. The entries here reflect an ever-changing background—new administrations, new restrictions on speech and conduct. What you can say at the start of the book, you can’t by the end. At its best, A Carnival of Snackery is a sort of sampler: the bitter and the sweet. Some entries are just what you wanted. Others you might want to spit discreetly into a napkin.

Book Wuhan Diary

Download or read book Wuhan Diary written by Fang Fang and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang’s nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus. A fascinating eyewitness account of events as they unfold, Wuhan Diary captures the challenges of daily life and the changing moods and emotions of being quarantined without reliable information. Fang Fang finds solace in small domestic comforts and is inspired by the courage of friends, health professionals and volunteers, as well as the resilience and perseverance of Wuhan’s nine million residents. But, by claiming the writer ́s duty to record she also speaks out against social injustice, abuse of power, and other problems which impeded the response to the epidemic and gets herself embroiled in online controversies because of it. As Fang Fang documents the beginning of the global health crisis in real time, we are able to identify patterns and mistakes that many of the countries dealing with the novel coronavirus have later repeated. She reminds us that, in the face of the new virus, the plight of the citizens of Wuhan is also that of citizens everywhere. As Fang Fang writes: “The virus is the common enemy of humankind; that is a lesson for all humanity. The only way we can conquer this virus and free ourselves from its grip is for all members of humankind to work together.” Blending the intimate and the epic, the profound and the quotidian, Wuhan Diary is a remarkable record of an extraordinary time. Translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry

Book In the Garden of My Dreams

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  • Author : Nathalie Lété
  • Publisher : Artisan Books
  • Release : 2017-01-01
  • ISBN : 1579657214
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book In the Garden of My Dreams written by Nathalie Lété and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book by beloved and prolific French artist Nathalie Lété, whose work is sold at Anthropologie, Astier de Villatte, and numerous other upscale homeware stores worldwide.

Book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian  National Book Award Winner

Download or read book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian National Book Award Winner written by Sherman Alexie and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.

Book Diary of a Detour

Download or read book Diary of a Detour written by Lesley Stern and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diary of a Detour is film scholar and author Lesley Stern's memoir of living with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She chronicles the fears and daily experience of coming to grips with an incurable form of cancer by describing the dramas and delving into the science. Stern also nudges cancer off center stage by turning to alternative obsessions and pleasures. In seductive writing she describes her life in the garden and kitchen, the hospital and the library, and her travels—down the street to her meditation center, across the border to Mexico, and across the world to Australia. Her immediate world is inhabited with books, movies, politics, and medical reports that provoke essayistic reflections. As her environment is shared with friends, chickens, a cat called Elvis, mountain goats, whales, lions, and microbes the book opens onto a larger than human world. Intimate and meditative, engrossing and singular, Diary of a Detour offers new ideas about what it might mean to live and think with cancer, and with chronic illness more broadly.

Book The Book of Dreams

Download or read book The Book of Dreams written by Federico Fellini and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federico Fellini is one of the most beloved and revered filmmakers of the twentieth century, having entertained audiences worldwide with his ability to breathe life into imagery normally confined to human memory and emotion. His insights into the world of dreams have contributed to his many famous cinematic creations, including La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and La Strada. A unique combination of memory, fantasy, and desire, this illustrated volume is a personal diary of Fellini's private visions and nighttime fantasies. Fellini, winner of four Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film, kept notebooks filled with unique sketches and notes from his dreams from the 1960s onward. This collection delves into his cinematic genius as it is captured in widely detailed caricatures and personal writings. This dream diary exhibits Fellini's deeply personal taste for the bizarre and the irrational. His sketches focus on the profound struggle of the soul and are tinged with humor, empathy, and insight. Fellini's Book of Dreams is an intriguing source of never-before-published writings and drawings, which reveal the master filmmaker's personal vision and his infinite imagination.

Book TERI Energy   Environment Data Diary and Yearbook  TEDDY  2020 21

Download or read book TERI Energy Environment Data Diary and Yearbook TEDDY 2020 21 written by TERI and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TERI Energy & Environment Data Diary and Yearbook (TEDDY) is an annual publication brought out by TERI since 1986. It is the only comprehensive energy and environment yearbook in India that provides updated information on the energy supply sectors (coal and lignite, petroleum and natural gas, power, and renewable energy sources), energy demand sectors (agriculture, industry, transport, household, buildings), and environment (local and global). Recent changes in the energy sector and environment are depicted with the help of graphs, figures, maps, and tables. The publication also reviews government policies associated with energy and environment. TEDDY 2020/21 gives an account of India’s commercial energy balances, extensively covering energy flows within different sectors of the economy and how they have been changing over time. These energy balances and conversion factors are a valuable reference for researchers, scholars, and organizations engaged in energy and related sectors. Contents of the book are organized into three sections—Energy Supply, Energy Demand, and Local and Global Environment. Interlinkage of SDGs with energy and environment also forms the subject matter of TEDDY 2020/21. The thirty-sixth edition continues to remain less prose intensive with inclusion of more data, represented with the help of infographics, thus making the publication an authentic and interesting read. Key Features: • Provides a review of government policies, programmes and initiatives that have implications for the petroleum and natural gas sector and the Indian economy • New chapters on Air Pollution, Solid Waste Management, Water Resource Management, and Land and Forest Resource Management • Exhaustive data from energy supply, energy demand, and local and global environment sectors Contents: Energy and environment: an overview Energy supply: Coal and lignite • Petroleum and natural gas • Power • Renewable energy Energy demand: Agriculture • Industry • Transport • Household energy • Buildings Local and global environment: Air quality and pollution • Solid waste management • Water resource management • Land and forest resource management • Climate change Audience: Researchers and Professionals from industries, government organizations, and public sector undertakings. Research scholars from different NGOs, bilateral and multilateral institutions, and academic institutions. Shelving: Energy, Environmental Sciences and Studies, Industry (Coal and lignite, oil and gas, power, renewable energy), climate change, Agriculture sector, Transport sector, domestic sector For sample chapters and Sankey diagram, please visit: www.teriin.org/projects/teddy List of Tables Energy and Environment: An Overview 1. SEC Indian industries 2. Trend in consumption of select petroleum products in the transport sector in India (in MT) · Commercial energy balance (2019/20) · Commercial energy balance (2020/21) (P) Coal and Lignite 1 New environmental norms for TPSs 2 FGD implementation status of TPSs—general summary (capacity in MW) 3 FGD implementation status of TPSs situated in NCR (capacity in MW) · Pithead run of mine price of non-coking coal applicable for Eastern Coalfields Limited, Bharat Coking Coal Limited, Central Coalfields Limited, Northern Coalfields Limited, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited, South Eastern Coalfields Limited, and North Eastern Coalfields Limited, with effect from 27 November 2020 · Revised price of coking coal for NRS · Pit head price of non-coking coal applicable for Western Coalfields Limited, with effect from 27 November 2020 Petroleum and Natural Gas 1 Proved and probable reserves status during 2019/20 2 LNG terminals in India 3 Trend in installed refining capacity of Indian refineries 4 Trend in subsidies for the sale of petroleum and natural gas in India 5 List of taxes for the production and sale of crude oil in India 6 List of taxes for the production and sale of natural gas in India 7 Retail selling price and taxes on petrol and diesel in India and other countries in 2019/20 8 Trend in CNG stations, CNG vehicles, and CNG sales quantity in India · City gas distribution bidding parameters · Year-wise work programme for successful CGD bidders · Crude oil pipelines and capacity status · Petroleum products pipeline infrastructure status · Status of existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure · Price build-up of LPG in Delhi · Price build-up of superior kerosene oil (LPG) in Mumbai · Price build-up of MS in Delhi · Price build-up of HSD in Delhi · Status of domestic PNG connections, industrial, commercial PNG, and CNG connections (as on 31 May 2021) Power 1 Progress of substations in India up to March 2020 2 Import /export of energy by India into/from countries during 2019/20 3 Status of construction of Green Energy Corridors as on 31 December 2019 4 Works accomplished under IPDS 5 State/UT-wise AT&C loss performance (in %) 6 Average cost of supply, average revenue, and revenue gap 7 Selected state-/union territory-average tariff for sale of electricity in India (2007/08 to 2013/14) (in paise/kWh) 8 Sanctioned smart grid pilot projects and implementation status Renewable Energy 1 Status of solar parks in India 2 Top five players in solar PV 3 Benchmark costs for various solar thermal technologies Agriculture 1 Production, imports, and consumption of fertilizers ('000 tonnes of fertilizers) 2 Source-wise net irrigated area in India (in Mha) 3 Distribution of GHG emissions by sub-sectors from the agriculture sector in 2010 and 2016 (in GgCO2e) 4 State-/UT-wise cold storage capacity as on 31 December 2019 5 Irrigation water productivity of rice, wheat and sugar cane in major growing states 6 State-/UT-wise cumulative installation of solar water pumps (as of 31 December 2020) 7 On-farm solar energy interventions linking water and land use in different states in India · Policy categories and key nodal agency impacting energy use in agriculture · Electricity consumption in the agriculture sector Industry 1 Brief overview of different PAT cycles for aluminium sector 2 Production of aluminium by primary aluminium producers (in tonnes) 3 SEC in aluminium smelting 4 Brief overview of different PAT cycles for cement sector 5 Cement production 6 Average and best practice energy consumption values for Indian cement plants by process 7 Brief overview of different PAT cycle for chlor-alkali sector 8 Production of chlor-alkali 9 Section-wise energy consumption in caustic soda production 10 Brief overview of different PAT cycles for fertilizer sector 11 Production of urea, DAP and complex fertilizers (in MT) 12 Benchmarking energy consumption in the fertilizer sector 13 Brief overview of different PAT cycles for iron and steel sector 14 Crude steel production and capacity utilization 15 Comparison of Indian and international SEC for steel industry 16 Brief overview of different PAT cycles for pulp and paper sector 17 Benchmarking energy consumption in different industry groups of pulp and paper sector 18 Brief overview of different PAT cycles for textile sector 19 Production of yarn and fabric in India 20 Typical energy requirements for different process in the textile industry 21 Brief overview of different PAT cycles for petrochemical sector 22 Production (in MT) of major petrochemicals in India 23 Share of different types of energy consumption in petrochemical plants (in %) 24 Energy for ethane and naphtha crackers Transport 1 Trend in consumption of select petroleum products in India 2 India’s road network 3 Lane-wise length of national highways in India (in km) 4 Freight and passenger movement by roads 5 Major port-wise capacity utilization during 2018/19 (in MT) 6 Cargo traffic handeld at ports in India (in MT) 7 Traffic handled at non-major ports (in MT) 8 Funds allocated under Sagarmala scheme to coastal states/ UTs (2015/16–2018/19) 9 Cargo movement through inland waterways transport 10 Airports in India 11 Passenger traffic carried by scheduled airlines (in million) 12 Freight traffic carried by scheduled airlines (in thousand tonnes) 13 App-based transport projects under Smart Cities Mission 14 Operational metro rail length in Indian cities as of April 2021 · New acts/bills/rules · Status of various construction projects · Policies and programmes · Green initiatives Household Energy 1. A timeline of government acts, policies, and schemes for providing energy access to households · Per capita consumption of electricity · Per capita consumption of electricity in India · Total energy consumption by countries/regions · Village electrification in India · Reliability of power supply in rural and urban areas · DISCOM-wise monthly average duration of interruptions (July 2021) in 11kV rural and mixed feeders · Consumers (total and residential) of electricity in India · Distribution of households based on energy source for lighting · Source of energy for cooking in residential sector in India · Percentage distribution of households by primary energy source for lighting (2001/02–2011/12) · Percentage distribution of households by primary energy source for cooking (2001/02–2011/12) · Consumption of LPG and kerosene · Residential consumption of LPG and kerosene · Residential consumers of LPG · Electricity consumption and consumers in the residential sector Buildings 1. India’s energy projections 2. Electricity demand by 2030 3. Air-conditioning and cooling capacity of India in 2016 4. Final energy consumption for space cooling in buildings 5. Status of energy-efficiency policies in India Air Quality and Pollution 1. State-wise distribution of manual and continuous monitoring stations in operation under NAMP for 2020 2. Revised ambient air quality standards (2009) 3. Breakpoints for AQI scale 0–500 4. State-wise estimates of 24 h concentrations of PM2.5 in kitchens from the use of solid cooking fuels 5. Stack emission standards for major air polluting industries 6. New emission standards for TPPs 7. Emission standards for two-wheeler and three-wheeler categories 8. Emission standard for four-wheeler (4W) category 9. Emission norms for heavy diesel vehicles 10. Emission standards for generator sets (gensets) 11. Dose response study of short-term effects of criteria air pollutants on all daily mortality in India 12. Dose response study of short-term effects of criteria air pollutants all-cause mortality around the globe 13. Recent policies in different sectors to improve air quality in India · Comparison of ambient air quality standards of different countries · Number of days different cities/towns exceeded the NAAQS of PM2.5 in 2018 · Summary of source apportionment studies during the last decade in India · Studies conducted relating to health effects of air pollution Solid Waste Management · MSW gasification technologies · Recycling facilities located in Delhi and Ahmedabad · Management of C&D waste in major cities of India · Various treatment technologies for plastic waste and their environmental impacts Water Resource Management 1. Water resource potential (in BCM) in river basins of India 2. Criteria for categorization of assessment units 3. Sustainable Development Goal 6: National Indicator Framework Land and Forest Resource Management 1 Nutrient-wise consumption of fertilizer material in India (1999/2000–2018/19) (in lakh MT) 2 Category-wise total area under wastelands 3 Changes in area under wetlands from 2005/06 to 2011/12 4 Status of wetland conservation in India 5 Number of forest fire alerts issued by FSI from November 2018 to June 2019 6 State/UT-wise funds released under National Afforestation Programme (INR in crore) 7 Year-wise funds released under Green India Mission from 2016/17-2020/21 (INR in crore) 8 State-/UT-wise funds released under Compensatory Afforestation Funds by Ad-hoc CAMPA 9 Number of floral species, their endemism, and threat status 10 Number of faunal species, their endemism, and threat status 11 Animals, plants, fungi, and protists in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List Categories 12 PAs in India 13 Some key acts related to the forestry and biodiversity sector in India Climate Change 1 Emission scenario 2 Level of CO2 emissions (in billion tonnes of CO2) 3 Emission trends across four major CO2 emitters 4 Global emissions and emission gap under the implementation of INDC for 2030 (median and range in GTCO2e) 5 Sector-wise national GHG emission in MT for 2016 6 Current status of state action plans on climate change · Carbon dioxide emissions across regions (in MtCO2) · Missions under National Action Plan on Climate Change · (a) Projects sanctioned under National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change · (b) Projects sanctioned under National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change List of Figures Energy and Environment: An Overview 1 Energy mix in 2020/21 2 Sankey diagram for 2020/21 (P) 3 Industry-wise consumption of raw coal 4 Coal transportation by various modes for 2020/21Total balance recoverable crude oil and natural gas reserves in India 4 5 Trend in domestic crude oil production 6 Crude import, product imports, and total imports (in '000 MT) 7 Trend in natural gas production, imports, consumption and import dependency 8 Installed generating capacity in India by mode (utilities) 9 Growth of gross electricity generation in India by mode 10 Growth of renewable energy sources 11 HSD and LDO consumption in the agriculture sector 12 Trends in electricity consumption in the industry sector 13 Consumption of selected petroleum products in the industry sector 14 Trend in fuel consumption in the Indian Railways 15 All-India annual per capita consumption of electricity since 2006 16 Consumption of electricity by the domestic sector from 2011/12 to 2020/21(P) 17 Percentage distribution of households by primary energy source for cooking (2001/02 and 2011/12) 18 Electricity consumption (kWh) in BU for commercial building segments 19 Commercial and residential energy consumption by use 20 Annual ambient concentrations of (i) SO2 and (ii) NO2 pollutants across the country (2008–20) 21 Annual ambient concentrations of PM2.5 across the country (2014–20) 22 Annual ambient concentrations of PM10 across the country (2008–20) 23 Per capita water availability in relation to population 24 Municipal solid waste management status in 2018/19 25 Trend of average water table in India from 1980 to 2015 26 Percentage of land area under various uses in 2017 27 Land-use change from 2010/11 to 2014/15 28 CO2 emissions in India as compared to GDP (PPP) 29 CO2 emissions within sub-sectors in India · Sankey diagram for 2019/20 Coal and Lignite 1 Coal reserves in India as on 1 April 2020 2 Lignite reserves in India (as on 1 April 2020) 3 Coal and lignite production in India 4 Target versus actual coal supply (in MT) in India 5 Coal production by CIL and SCCL 6 Production of coal (in %) from opencast and underground mining 7 Coal off-take (in %) by different sectors in India during 2020/21 8 Lignite off-take (in %) by different sectors in India during 2020/21 9 Coal transportation by various modes for 2018/19 10 India’s import of coal (in percentage share) 11 Coal imports and production trend (in MT) 12 India’s export of coal (in percentage share) 13 Fly ash generation and utilization (in MT) between 2015 and 2021 14 Mode of fly ash utilization during 2019/20 Petroleum and Natural Gas 1 Total balance recoverable crude oil and natural gas reserves in India 2 Basin-wise ultimate hydrocarbon reserves as on 31 March 2020 3 Basin-wise in-place hydrocarbon reserves as on 31 March 2020 4 Trend in domestic crude oil production 5 Crude import, product imports, and total imports 6 Crude import, product imports, and total imports 7 Trend in production of petroleum products from refineries and fractionators 8 Country-wise crude oil imports by India 9 Trend in petroleum products’ consumption in India 10 Status of petroleum products’ consumption during 2019/20 11 Trend in domestic natural gas production 12 Trend in natural gas production and import dependency 13 Trend in consumption of natural gas by different sectors 14 Trend in consumption of imported and domestic natural gas by different sectors 15 Crude throughput of Indian refineries 16 Trend in gross refining margin of Indian refineries 17 Trend in subsidies for the sale of petroleum and natural gas in India 18 Share of tax/duties to total contribution of petroleum sector to exchequer 19 Contribution of taxes from the oil and gas industry to the central exchequer 20 Trend of Excise Duty on petrol and diesel vis-à-vis crude oil price in India 21 Contribution of taxes from the oil and gas industry to the state exchequer 22 State-wise collection of sales tax/VAT/SGST/UTGST from the oil and gas industry in 2019/20 23 Trend in retail selling price and taxes of gasoline in India vis-à-vis other countries 24 Trend in retail selling price and taxes of diesel in India vis-à-vis other countries 25 Trends in the price of domestic gas produced in India on GCV basis 26 Trend in the geographical areas offered and awarded under city gas distribution bidding 27 Status of state-/UT-wise piped domestic, commercial, and industrial connections · Indian sedimentary basins Power 1 Installed generating capacity in India by mode (utilities) as on 31 March 2021 2 Installed generating capacity in India by sector (utilities) as on 31 March 2021 3 Growth rate of installed generating capacity in India (2020/21) 4 CAGR of installed generating capacity in India (2012–20) 5 Growth rate of electricity generation in India (2019/20) 6 Electricity generation in India (2012–20) 7 Growth of gross electricity generation in India by mode 8 PLF of coal- and lignite-based power plants 9 Power supply position: energy 10 Power supply position: peak 11 Growth rate of peak demand and met (2011–21) 12 Growth rate of energy requirement and availability 13 Sector-wise electricity consumption pattern 14 Electricity intensity of economy 15 AT&C and T&D losses 16 Per capita electricity consumption 17 Sustainable Development Goals Renewable Energy 1 Linkages of other SDGs to SDG 7 2 Grid power and their perentage share till March 2021 3 Growth of renewable energy sources (till March 2021) 4 Top 10 states in renewable installation (till March 2021) 5 Installed solar capacity (2015–21) 6 Top 10 states grid-connected installed solar capacity (till 28 February 2021) 7 Solar tariff (till March 2020/21) 8 Top 10 states by targets rooftop capacities 9 Net solar PV installed (2017–2020) 10 State-wise wind power potential at 100 m above ground level 11 Growth of wind energy sector (till July 2019) 12 State-wise installed capacity (as on December 2020) 13 Cumulative biomass power, gasification and bagasse cogeneration projects (up to June 2019) 14 State/UT-wise cumulative commissioned biomass power, waste-to-power, and bagasse cogeneration grid connected projects (up to 30 June 2019) 15 Family-size biogas plants (up to June 2019) 16 State-/UT-wise maximum waste generation and processing in urban areas in India .. (as on 31 December 2018) 17 Cumulative waste-to-energy/power projects (up to June 2019) 18 State-wise ethanol manufacturing capacity in India 19 Year-wise cumulative installed capacity till June 2019 20 Tidal energy potential 21 Target for geothermal energy deployment Agriculture 1 Production of different agricultural products in India 2 HSD and LDO consumption in the agriculture sector 3 Electricity consumption in the agriculture sector 4 Region-wise electricity consumption in the agriculture sector 5 Production of urea, diammonium phosphate, and other complex fertilizers (in MT) 6 Trend in GHG emission from the agriculture sector in India (in GgCO2e) 7 Percentage share of major farm machineries used in Indian agriculture 8 Farm power availability and foodgrain yield 9 Share of major crops in the gross cropped area in India (in %) 10 Number of tractors sold 11 Number of power tillers sold 12 Number of diesel and electric pumps used in India 13 Selected state UT-wise area covered under microirrigation (drip and sprinkler) in India Industry 1 Share of different processes in crude steel production Transport 1 World transport sector energy balance 2 Share (in %) of GHG emissions in transport sector in India 3 India transport sector energy balance 4 Total number of registered motor vehicles in India 5 Trend in electrification of route network of railways 6 Gauge-wise growth in network of the Indian Railways 7 Addition made to capacity through new lines, gauge conversion, and doubling of lines by the Indian Railways 8 Trend in passenger traffic movement on the Indian Railways 9 Trend in railways freight segment earnings on average rate per tonne kilometre basis 10 Trend in fuel consumption in the Indian Railway 11 Share of commodity groups in total traffic at major ports in 2017/18 12 Growth in capacity in Indian shipping industry in terms of number of vessels and gross tonnage 13 Trend in passenger load factor of scheduled Indian airlines in the domestic market Household Energy 1 Residential consumers of LPG 2 Percentage of power consumption in residential sector to total power consumed by all sectors 3 Consumption of LPG and kerosene in the residential sector 4 LPG refills from May 2016 until June 2019 5 Growth of LPG consumers in India 6 Consumption of LPG consumers in India 7 Consumption of LPG (in %) in residential sector 8 Growth of residential consumers in India 9 Consumption of electricity by residential sector Buildings 1 Consumption of electricity by sectors in India in 2019/20 2 Commercial energy consumption by use 3 Residential energy consumption by use 4 Building typologies as per ECBC, 2017 5 Building typologies as per Eco-Niwas Samhita, 2018 6 HVAC load break-up (in %) 7 Energy-efficient building design process 8 Building form and orientation for passive design 9 Shading design strategies 10 Structural and thermal loads 11 Façade with different WWR 12 Daylighting as a passive design strategy 13 Types of ventilation 14 Energy reduction with increase in design indoor temperature 15 Percentage growth of cooling requirement in India Air Quality and Pollution 1 Annual ambient concentration of different pollutants across the country during 2008–20 2 State/UT-wise average ambient air quality status of different pollutant parameters for the period of 2008–20 3 Sectorial contribution to ambient PM10 and PM2.5 4 Institutional framework of air quality governance in India Solid Waste Management 1. Trajectory of average MSW generated in India between 2011 and 2019 2. MSW management status in India 3. MSW composition for waste received from Gurugram 4. Status of solid waste treatment 5. Major e-waste contributing states in India 6. Composition of plastic waste in major plastic waste generating cities in India as of 2015/16 7. GHG emissions from solid waste disposal sites and reduction potential 8. Emission points from MSW sector · Status of MSW generation in each state/UT of India · Major recycling infrastructure in some of the states of India · Plastic waste generation in some of the Indian states/UTs · Management of plastics in India · Average constituents of C&D waste · C&D waste generated in major cities of India · C&D waste management in India · C&D waste recycling in a typical recycling facility Water Resource Management 1. Per capita water availability in relation to population (a) Category of groundwater exploitation in monitored blocks in India and (b) the number of groundwater assessment units 2. Depth to water-level maps for (a) pre-monsoon and (b) post-monsoon in 2018 3. Trend of average water table in India from 1980 to 2015 4. Number of districts with fluoride in groundwater above the permissible limit 5. Number of locations in different states with arsenic concentration in groundwater above the permissible limit (0.01 to 0.05 mg/L and > 0.05 mg/L) 6. Number of districts with electrical conductivity in groundwater above the permissible limit 7. Number of districts with iron in groundwater above the permissible limit 8. Number of districts with nitrate in groundwater above the permissible limit (45 mg/L) 9. Net irrigated area in India 10. Access to safe drinking water in rural households (in %) 11. Access to safe drinking water in urban households (in %) 12. BOD trends of waterbodies in India (in mg/L) 13. Total coliform (in MPN/100 mL) trends of waterbodies in India 14. Faecal coliform (in MPN/100 mL) trends of waterbodies in India Land and Forest Resource Management 1. Percentage of area under various uses in 2017 2. Land-use change from 2010/11 to 2014/15 3. Linkage of SDG 15 to other SDGs 4. Forest cover in terms of percentage to the total geographical area 5. Trend analysis of forest cover in India between 2005 and 2019 6. Forest area of six regions of the country along with annual fire alerts 7. Trend in afforestation from 2007/08 to 2014/15 by MoEFCC 8. Endemic and threatened endemic species of India 9. The area under protected areas in India Climate Change 1 Annual total number of extreme climatic events in India 2 All-India annual mean temperature anomalies for 1901–2020 (based on the 1981–2010 average) 3 Spatial patterns of liner trends of (a) maximum and (b) minimum temperatures 4. Spatial pattern of trend (°C/100 years) in mean annual temperature anomalies (1901–2020) 5. Decadal means of all-India summer monsoon rainfall (in percentage departure from mean) 6. All-India annual mean percentage departures for 1901–2020 (based on the 1961–2010 average) 7. Sub-divisional trends of (a) seasonal and (b) monsoon rainfall for 1901–2003 8. Time series of active (upper panel) and break (lower panel) during the monsoon season 9. Cyclone tracks of depressions and cyclonic storms formed during 2020: a) monsoon season b) other seasons 10. Emission trends across four major CO2 emitters 11. CO2 emissions (in MTCO2) in India in comparison to GDP (PPP) 12. CO2 emissions within subsectors in India 13. Emissions by fuel type in India 14. Comparison of coal cess collected, amount transferred to, and financed from projects recommended under NCEEF List of Maps Petroleum and Natural gas 1. Crude oil and product infrastructure in India 2. Natural gas infrastructure in India Renewable Energy 1. Solar potential of Indian states/union territories 2. State-wise wind energy potential at 100/120 m above ground level 3. Biomass power, bagasse cogeneration, and waste-to-energy 4. Small hydro potential in India 5. Geothermal potential in India Agriculture 1. State-wise annual land-use cover change in India: 2003–05 to 2011–13 Building 1. Climate zone map of India Water Resource Management 1 Places with fluoride concentration more than 1.5 mg/L 2 Locations with arsenic concentration in groundwater above the permissible limit (0.01 to 0.05 mg/L and > 0.05 mg/L) 3 Distribution of electrical conductivity in India Land and Forest Resource Management 1 Wasteland map of India 2 State-wise number of wetlands in India 3 Forest types in India 4 Forest cover in India

Book 2020 Lunar Diary

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  • Author : Stacey Demarco
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  • Release : 2019-08
  • ISBN : 9781925682915
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book 2020 Lunar Diary written by Stacey Demarco and published by . This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Australia's most trusted witch Stacey Demarco, comes the 2020 Lunar & Seasonal Diary. A beautifully produced diary, full-color pages and spiral-binding that allows the pages to lay flat, and extra space for recording notes. The diary includes lunar timings and explanations of the moon phases and their impact on humans, with practical magical suggestions to get the most out of the energies of the season. Packed with invaluable tips and techniques ranging from increasing your wealth to improving your relationships, boosting your vitality, magnifying your personal power to removing obstacles and fears that are holding you back in your life. Comes complete with Gods and Goddesses for each month and seasonal spell castings and invocations for specific moon phases including equinoxes and solstices.

Book User Experience Research and Usability of Health Information Technology

Download or read book User Experience Research and Usability of Health Information Technology written by Jessica Lynn Campbell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health information technology (HIT) is a critical component of the modern healthcare system. Yet to be effective and safely implemented in healthcare organizations and physicians and patients’ lives, it must be usable and useful. User Experience (UX) research is required throughout the full system design lifecycle of HIT products, which involve a user-centered and human- centered approach. This book discusses UX research frameworks, study designs, methods, data-analysis techniques, and a variety of data collection instruments and tools that can be used to conduct UX research in the healthcare space, all of which involve HIT and digital health. This book is for academics and scholars to be used to design studies for graduate dissertation work, in independent research, or as a textbook for UX/usability courses in health informatics or related health information and communication courses. This book is also useful for UX practitioners because it provides guidance on how to design a user research or usability study and focuses on leveraging a mixed- methods approach, including step-by-step by instructions and best practices for conducting: Field studies Interviews Focus groups Diary studies Surveys Heuristic evaluation Cognitive walkthrough Think aloud A plethora of standardized surveys and retrospective questionnaires (SUS, Post-study System Usability Questionnaire (PSSUQ)) are also included. UX researchers and healthcare professionals will gain an understanding of how to design a rigorous, yet feasible study that generates useful insights to inform the design of usable HIT. Everything from consent forms to how many participants to include in a usability study has been covered in this book. The author encourages user-centered design (UCD), mixed-methods, and collaboration amongst interdisciplinary teams. Knowledge from many inter-related disciplines, like psychology, technical communication (TC), and human-computer interaction (HCI), together with experiential knowledge from experts is offered throughout the text.