Download or read book The Amazon Heist written by Kimberly M. Grimes and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey to the fascinating world of the Amazon rainforest as seen through the eyes of the native peoples, artisans, students and tourists. Anacondas, caimans, monkeys, shamans, yucca harvests, river cruises, legends and much more come to life in this amusing yet suspenseful book. Elizabeth Long, an Anthropology professor, and her group of students travel to the Amazon jungle for a study abroad trip. In this bold adventure, they encounter life as never before imagined, living with a tribe on the world’s mightiest river. The voyage takes a sudden turn when the discovery of diamonds in the area leads to a robbery. It is an event that will cause the students’ lives to converge with two elderly British tourists and two local men who work at the diamond mine, weaving them together in a race to recover the diamonds before time runs out. The book unearths the spirit of the Amazon peoples and recreates the beauty of the rainforest - the sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and dangers of this unique place. A riveting chronicle. Most entertaining is the way in which humorous tales, changing attitudes and the straddling of two very different worlds are revealed by following the visitors and natives’ days.
Download or read book James Tingly and The Chest of the Amazon Tribe written by Sriramanathan Muralitharan and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a disastrous Christmas this year, my parents surprised me with an unexpected adventure: a trip to the Amazon! Initially, I wasn't too thrilled about the idea, but everything changed when I stumbled upon a mysterious map hidden in our suite. With the help of the wilderness expert, Thomas Rex, we eagerly prepared for an extraordinary journey into the heart of the jungle. Meeting with terrifying jaguars, curious and revolting apes, and even encounters with tribes that seemed straight out of a cannibalistic nightmare. The Amazon held the potential for excitement than I could have ever imagined. It's an amazing adventure of unexpected twists, heart-pounding moments, and the indomitable spirit of exploration that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end! Want more? You are welcome to experience the wild along with me!
Download or read book The Fall of a Great American City written by Kevin Baker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fall of a Great American City is the story of what is happening today in New York City and in many other cities across America. It is about how the crisis of affluence is now driving out everything we love most about cities: small shops, decent restaurants, public space, street life, affordable apartments, responsive government, beauty, idiosyncrasy, each other. This is the story of how we came to lose so much—how the places we love most were turned over to land bankers, billionaires, the worst people in the world, and criminal landlords—and how we can - and must - begin to take them back. Co-published with Harper's Magazine, where an earlier version of this essay was originally published in 2018. As New York City approaches the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is in imminent danger of becoming something it has never been before: unremarkable. By unremarkable I don’t just mean periodic, slump-in-the-art-world, all-the-bands-suck, cinema-is-dead boring. I mean flatlining. No longer a significant cultural entity but a blank white screen of mere existence. I mean The-World’s-Largest-Gated-Community-with-a-few-cupcake-shops. For the first-time in our history, creative-youngpeople- will-no-longer want-to-come-here boring. Even, New-York-is-over boring. Or worse, New York is like everywhere else. Unremarkable. This is not some new phenomenon, but a cancer that’s been metastasizing on the city for decades now. Even worse, it’s not something that anyone wants, except the landlords, and not even all of them. What’s happening to New York now—what’s already happened to most of Manhattan, its core, and what is happening in every American city of means, Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, you name it—is something that almost nobody wants, but everybody gets. As such, the current urban crisis exemplifies our wider crisis: an America where we believe that we no longer have any ability to control the systems we live under.
Download or read book Smallholders Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon written by Benno Pokorny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing debate concerning the Amazon's crucial role in global climate and biodiversity is entirely dependent upon sustainable development in the region. Recognizing that forests are an integral part of the social fabric in the region, initiatives such as community forestry, small-scale tree plantations and agroforestry, as well as payments for environmental services have aimed at conserving the natural forest landscape. At the same time these attempt to protect and enhance the well-being of poor local smallholders including indigenous groups, traditional communities and small farmers. Against this background, this book analyses numerous promising local tree and forest management initiatives taken by smallholders in the Bolivian, Brazilian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon to better understand the key success factors. The insights gained from more than 100 case studies analyzed by researchers from Latin-America and Europe in cooperation with local stakeholders reveal the need for critical reflection on the initiatives targeting poor Amazonian families. The book discusses an operational vision of rural development grounded on the effective use of smallholders’ capacities to contribute to a sustainable and equitable development of the region. It provides helpful information and ideas not only for scientists, but also for development organisations, decision makers and all who are interested in one of the major challenges facing the Amazon: to combine equitable development with the conservation of its unique ecosystems.
Download or read book My Amazon Fire Phone written by Lonzell Watson and published by Que Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Amazon Fire Phone is a comprehensive one-stop guide to the all-new Fire phone, the integrated ecosystem between tablet and phone. Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Amazon Fire Phone working just the way you want. Learn how to • Navigate your Fire phone’s hardware and interface • Configure the phone application • Use text and multimedia messaging • Set up the Email application • Stay connected by managing contacts • Simplify your life using the Time, Weather, and Calendar apps • Get the most from the Prime Music and Instant Video apps • Manage music and videos, and sync media with your computer • Read, listen, and mange books • Connect to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Networks • Optimize your web browsing experience with the Silk Browser • Capture, store, view, and share photos • Navigate using Maps • Enhance your Fire phone with apps • Customize your Fire phone • Properly maintain and troubleshoot your Fire phone
Download or read book Amazon Decoded written by David Gaughran and published by David Gaughran. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to sell more books on the world's biggest retailer? Fancy Amazon doing the selling for you instead? Amazon Decoded: A Marketing Guide to the Kindle Store will show you how. * Learn about Visibility Marketing and how understanding Amazon’s philosophy can boost your sales. * Discover the algorithms that really go into Sales Rank and dispel some remarkably common myths. * Decode the ways Amazon recommends millions of books to readers every single day. * Understand the critical differences between the Best Seller list and the Popularity list. * Implement proven marketing plans, optimized for maximum Amazon visibility. Whether you are exclusive to Amazon and chasing those page reads, or a wide author trying to survive the onslaught of Kindle Unlimited titles, Amazon Decoded will share the secrets of the Kindle Store and how you can sell more books.
Download or read book Ubermorgen com written by Hans Bernhard and published by UBERMORGEN.COM. This book was released on 2009 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Devil s Milk written by John Tully and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the modern world told through the multiple lives of rubber Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitive accumulation to the heights of the industrial revolution and beyond, rubber is one of a handful of commodities that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern world, and yet, as John Tully shows in this remarkable book, laboring people around the globe have every reason to regard it as “the devil’s milk.” All the advancements made possible by rubber—industrial machinery, telegraph technology, medical equipment, countless consumer goods—have occurred against a backdrop of seemingly endless exploitation, conquest, slavery, and war. But Tully is quick to remind us that the vast terrain of rubber production has always been a site of struggle, and that the oppressed who toil closest to “the devil’s milk” in all its forms have never accepted their immiseration without a fight. This book, the product of exhaustive scholarship carried out in many countries and several continents, is destined to become a classic. Tully tells the story of humanity’s long encounter with rubber in a kaleidoscopic narrative that regards little as outside its range without losing sight of the commodity in question. With the skill of a master historian and the elegance of a novelist, he presents what amounts to a history of the modern world told through the multiple lives of rubber.
Download or read book Ubermorgen com written by Inke Arns and published by Domenico Quaranta. This book was released on 2009 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cruise Ship Art Theft written by Stuart St Paul and published by Cruise Doris Visits. This book was released on 2024-05-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wealthy owner of the most expensive cruise ships at sea tasks a young and expanding cruise investigation agency with finding his priceless originals. The gang cannot know the owner has discovered the replacement forgeries or that they are being investigated, or they and the art will vanish. A new ship is being fitted out and the maiden voyage draws nearer, but the web is found to spread wider and be far more complex so a young assistant at the investigators office who is a talented artist is sent undercover and into danger, with no training other than her Miami street wit.
Download or read book Throughout written by Ulrik Ekman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading media scholars consider the social and cultural changes that come with the contemporary development of ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger and smaller, mobile and ambient. In Throughout, leading writers on new media--including Jay David Bolter, Mark Hansen, N. Katherine Hayles, and Lev Manovich--take on the crucial challenges that ubiquitous and pervasive computing pose for cultural theory and criticism. The thirty-four contributing researchers consider the visual sense and sensations of living with a ubicomp culture; electronic sounds from the uncanny to the unremarkable; the effects of ubicomp on communication, including mobility, transmateriality, and infinite availability; general trends and concrete specificities of interaction designs; the affectivity in ubicomp experiences, including performances; context awareness; and claims on the "real" in the use of such terms as "augmented reality" and "mixed reality."
Download or read book The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia written by Phil Jimenez and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WONDER NO MORE—GET ALL THE FACTS ON DC COMICS’ FOREMOST SUPER HEROINE! She’s as beautiful as Aphrodite and as wise as Athena, stronger then Hercules and swifter than Hermes. Blessed at birth by the gods themselves, Princess Diana left an idyllic island paradise ruled by wise and brave women to bring the peace, love, and nobility of the Amazons to the tumultuous world of humankind. In January 1942, Wonder Woman took the world of comics—and its pantheon of superpowered males—by storm. Wielding her impervious silver bracelets and golden Lasso of Truth, she’s battled forces of evil from the Axis powers to a slew of super-villains worldwide, teamed up with the likes of Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, and the Flash, and become a high-flying feminist icon and pop-culture superstar. Now, for the first time in more than thirty years, here’s a definitive A-to-Z volume that draws together all the knowledge about the star-spangled, action-packed history of Wonder Woman. In more than 400 fact-packed pages you’ll find • the complete story of Wonder Woman’s origins, as imagined and reinterpreted by generations of comics writers—including her groundbreaking creator, William Moulton Marston • biographies of every major character in Wonder Woman’s universe, including her mother, Hippolyta; sister, Donna Troy; and mortal ally Steve Trevor—as well as such classic foes as Ares, Cheetah, Hades, and the members of Villainy Inc. • classic black-and-white comic book artwork throughout • two sixteen-page full-color artwork inserts—plus a dazzling original cover illustration by fan-favorite artist Adam Hughes Written by veteran Wonder Woman artist and writer Phil Jimenez and comics historian John Wells, The Essential Wonder Woman Encyclopedia is the ultimate archive, proving that die-hard devotees of the gorgeous go-to goddess don’t have to visit Paradise Island for a taste of heaven on earth. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Privacy in the Age of Big Data written by Theresa Payton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly updates the first edition by addressing the significant advances in data-driven technologies, their intrusion deeper in our lives, the limits on data collection newly required by governments in North America and Europe, and the new security challenges of a world rife with ransomware and hacking.
Download or read book 69 More Short Latvian Stories for Intermediate Learners written by Adrian Gee and published by Adrian Gee. This book was released on 2024-09-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a Deeper Connection with "69 More Short Latvian Stories for Intermediate Learners"! Elevate your journey in mastering the Latvian language with our meticulously curated collection, tailor-made for B1/B2 level learners. This sequel to our beginner's series delves into the heart of Latvia, offering a rich tapestry of stories that bridge the gap between language learning and cultural immersion. Why Choose "69 More Short Latvian Stories for Intermediate Learners" for Your Language Progression? 1. Intermediate Focused: Each story is intricately crafted to challenge and engage intermediate learners, pushing the boundaries of your comprehension and expression in Latvian. 2. Cultural Immersion: Beyond language, these stories serve as your portal into the depths of Latvian culture, history, and the soul-stirring landscapes that define this ancient nation. 3. Vocabulary Expansion: Enhance your vocabulary with essential, high-frequency words and phrases, seamlessly integrated into captivating narratives for effective learning and retention. 4. Advanced Grammar in Context: Experience advanced grammatical structures woven naturally into each story, facilitating an intuitive understanding and mastery of complex language patterns. 5. Interactive Learning: Solidify your knowledge with exercises designed to complement each story, testing comprehension and offering immediate feedback to aid in your progression. Standout Features of "69 More Short Latvian Stories for Intermediate Learners": • Targeted Intermediate Content: Specifically designed for B1/B2 learners, this collection raises the bar, offering new challenges and opportunities for growth in your Latvian language journey. • Deep Dive into Latvian Culture: Each story is a carefully painted scene of Latvia's traditions, daily life, and the hidden gems waiting to be discovered by the curious learner. • Engaging and Effective: Say goodbye to monotonous language drills. Our stories make learning Latvian an adventure, captivating your interest while broadening your linguistic and cultural horizons. Unlock the Richness of Latvian Language and Culture: "69 More Short Latvian Stories for Intermediate Learners" is not just a book; it's a gateway to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Latvian language. Ideal for anyone looking to enhance their fluency, travelers desiring to enrich their visit to Latvia, or those wishing to connect more profoundly with their Latvian heritage. Continue your Latvian language adventure with confidence. Secure your copy of "69 More Short Latvian Stories for Intermediate Learners" today and take a significant leap toward fluency and cultural comprehension!
Download or read book 69 More Short Portuguese Stories for Intermediate Learners written by Adrian Gee and published by Adrian Gee. This book was released on 2024-09-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a Deeper Connection with "69 More Short Portuguese Stories for Intermediate Learners"! Elevate your journey in mastering the Portuguese language with our meticulously curated collection, tailor-made for B1/B2 level learners. This sequel to our beginner's series delves into the heart of Brazil, offering a rich tapestry of stories that bridge the gap between language learning and cultural immersion. Why Choose "69 More Short Portuguese Stories for Intermediate Learners" for Your Language Progression? 1. Intermediate Focused: Each story is intricately crafted to challenge and engage intermediate learners, pushing the boundaries of your comprehension and expression in Portuguese. 2. Cultural Immersion: Beyond language, these stories serve as your portal into the depths of Portuguese culture, history, and the soul-stirring landscapes that define this ancient nation. 3. Vocabulary Expansion: Enhance your vocabulary with essential, high-frequency words and phrases, seamlessly integrated into captivating narratives for effective learning and retention. 4. Advanced Grammar in Context: Experience advanced grammatical structures woven naturally into each story, facilitating an intuitive understanding and mastery of complex language patterns. 5. Interactive Learning: Solidify your knowledge with exercises designed to complement each story, testing comprehension and offering immediate feedback to aid in your progression. Standout Features of "69 More Short Portuguese Stories for Intermediate Learners": • Targeted Intermediate Content: Specifically designed for B1/B2 learners, this collection raises the bar, offering new challenges and opportunities for growth in your Portuguese language journey. • Deep Dive into Portuguese Culture: Each story is a carefully painted scene of Brazil's traditions, daily life, and the hidden gems waiting to be discovered by the curious learner. • Engaging and Effective: Say goodbye to monotonous language drills. Our stories make learning Portuguese an adventure, captivating your interest while broadening your linguistic and cultural horizons. Unlock the Richness of Portuguese Language and Culture: "69 More Short Portuguese Stories for Intermediate Learners" is not just a book; it's a gateway to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Portuguese language. Ideal for anyone looking to enhance their fluency, travelers desiring to enrich their visit to Brazil, or those wishing to connect more profoundly with their Portuguese heritage. Continue your Portuguese language adventure with confidence. Secure your copy of "69 More Short Portuguese Stories for Intermediate Learners" today and take a significant leap toward fluency and cultural comprehension!
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