People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Choc?, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines.
Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Choc?, gold enables forms of “shift” (rebusque)—a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining’s effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.
Автор: Tubb E C Название: E.C. Tubb SF Gateway Omnibus ISBN: 0575105208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780575105201 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 2883.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: From the vaults of the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to one of the greats of British adventure SF, E. C. Tubb.
People employ various methods to extract gold in the rainforests of the Choc?, in northwest Colombia: Rural Afro-Colombian artisanal miners work hillsides with hand tools or dredge mud from river bottoms. Migrant miners level the landscape with excavators, then trap gold with mercury. Canadian mining companies prospect for open-pit mega-mines. Drug traffickers launder cocaine profits by smuggling gold into Colombia and claiming it came from fictitious small-scale mines.
Through an ethnography of gold that examines the movement of people, commodities, and capital, Shifting Livelihoods investigates how resource extraction reshapes a place. In the Choc?, gold enables forms of “shift” (rebusque)—a metaphor for the fluid livelihood strategy adopted by forest dwellers and migrant gold miners alike as they seek informal work amid a drug war. Mining’s effects on rural people, corporations, and politics are on view in this fine-grained account of daily life in a regional economy dominated by gold and cocaine.
Описание: This biography of English goldsmith Thomas Violet uses his dramatic life to explore banking, spying, the English Civil War, economic theories, the silver trade, and anti-Semitism in early modern England. By putting a human face on political, social, and economic change, the book provides a vivid view of the seventeenth century`s seismic changes.
Автор: Tubb Kristin O`Donnell Название: Luna Howls at the Moon ISBN: 0063018624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780063018624 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 2018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The award-winning author of A Dog Like Daisy returns with a moving middle grade novel from the point of view of Luna, a Labrador therapy dog who accompanies her group therapy kids when they set off on an adventure across Austin, Texas.
Luna has always wanted to be a therapy dog at Therapy Dogs Worldwide. Now she's a whisker away from reaching her fifty-visit pin that will make it official. But when her "clients"--the children who visit her--are put into a therapy group, Luna's routine is upended.
Like the moon, Luna shows different faces at different times. And her clients each have different needs--Beatrice is tangled in knots of anger, Caleb rushes like a waterfall, Amelia carries fear heavy like a shadow, and Hector is quiet as a rock. To comfort the kids, Luna can be what they need her to be, but can she be everything to them all at once?
When Hector doesn't show up to a session one day, the kids set off on an unexpected quest to find him. Luna joins to keep them safe, and they must work together to almost learn the truth.
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Автор: Tubb Kristin O`Donnell Название: Zeus, Dog of Chaos ISBN: 0062885944 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062885944 Издательство: HarperCollins USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Reflections: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew is a collection of essays reflecting Singapore`s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew`s immense contribution to nation-building and the idea of development, including its various models - from government and statecraft; leadership and governance; to economic development and the management of plural societies.
Автор: McKenzie-Tubb Betty Название: Metrognomic Tales ISBN: 1761090232 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781761090233 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2391.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Tubb Kristin O`Donnell Название: The Story Seeker: A New York Public Library Book ISBN: 1250763029 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250763020 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 1378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Tubb Kristin O`Donnell Название: The Story Collector: A New York Public Library Book ISBN: 1250211441 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250211446 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: In partnership with the New York Public Library and from author Kristin O`Donnell Tubb comes a historical fiction middle-grade novel inspired by the real life of Viviani Joffre Fedeler, born and raised in the New York Public Library.
Автор: Tubb Kristin O`Donnell Название: The Story Seeker: A New York Public Library Book ISBN: 1250301092 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250301093 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 1562.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler meets Book Scavenger in the latest installment of The Story Collector series.
Автор: Tubb, Amos Название: Thomas violet, a sly and dangerous fellow ISBN: 1442275065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442275065 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This biography of English goldsmith Thomas Violet uses his dramatic life to explore banking, spying, the English Civil War, economic theories, the silver trade, and anti-Semitism in early modern England. By putting a human face on political, social, and economic change, the book provides a vivid view of the seventeenth century`s seismic changes.
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