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The Drifting Sands
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Author : Elsie Lee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Drifting Sands written by Elsie Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with categories.
Drifting Sands
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Author : Henry Loukusa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934
Drifting Sands written by Henry Loukusa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with categories.
The Drifting Sands
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Author : Elsie Lee
language : en
Publisher: Zebra Books
Release Date : 1986-10
The Drifting Sands written by Elsie Lee and has been published by Zebra Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-10 with Fiction categories.
Drifting Sands
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Author : Wellington Clay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1939
Drifting Sands written by Wellington Clay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with American poetry categories.
Drifting Sands Of Party Politics
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Author : Oscar Wilder Underwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
Drifting Sands Of Party Politics written by Oscar Wilder Underwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with United States categories.
Afforestation In Arid Zones
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Author : R.N. Kaul
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Afforestation In Arid Zones written by R.N. Kaul and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The increasing world population is already causing intensive pressure on the most productive areas of the earth's surface. Hopes of improved living standards, if realised, will increase the pressure still further. The need to make better use of less productive areas thus becomes an urgent priority for human endeavour. In this respect, the arid and semi-arid regions of the world, occupying about 11,000 million acres or 4,500 million hectares, roughly one third of the tota11and surface, pose a constant challenge to man's technological skill. Though the possibilities of economic use of the real deserts are inherently limited, there remain vast areas with less extreme conditions where sustained research is capable of yielding substantial gains in pro ductivity. The problem is so large that it can be solved only by the coordinated efforts of workers in many countries and many disciplines. Forestry has a special part to play, not only for its potential value for wood production but still more for the beneficial effects of shelter from desiccating winds which so commonly accompany arid conditions. Mr. KA UL is to be congratulated on his initiative to pool the results of research on afforestation in arid zones in many parts of the world, and to present them in a single volume in the form of separate monographs.
Drifting Sands
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Author : C. Baty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-07-28
Drifting Sands written by C. Baty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-28 with categories.
As he approaches his fortieth birthday, Justin Warfield feels alone, drifting like the sand that blows along the beach near his family's hotel. He has done exactly as his father wanted. Married the right girl and carried on the family tradition of running the Warfield Hotel. On paper things seem perfect, but happiness hasn't been a part of his life for a very long time.Marcus Drummond once spent a summer with his best friend Peter at the Warfield Hotel and fell hard for Peter's much older brother. Five years later he's back, and this time hopes that Justin will see him as more than his kid brother's friend.Sparks fly when the two meet again, but there are a few things standing in their way. The closet that Justin has himself buried in and someone on a killing spree, dumping bodies on the Warfield beach . . . victims that indicate Justin may be involved in some way.
Desert Problems And Desertification In Central Asia
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Author : Agajan G. Babaev
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Desert Problems And Desertification In Central Asia written by Agajan G. Babaev and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
Since 1962 the Desert Institute of the former Academy of Science of the USSR has been conducting research work in the arid and semi-arid zones of central Asia. This outstanding experience in desert and desertification problems, and the possibilities of sustainable land use under difficult environmental conditions is summarized here. The book also gives an overview of the Institute's consulting work within the framework of international projects. This is the first publication allowing readers outside the Russian-speaking world to obtain concise information about the specific constraints and development possibilities of central Asian drylands.
The Plough That Broke The Steppes
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Author : David Moon
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-02-28
The Plough That Broke The Steppes written by David Moon and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with History categories.
This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. From the early-eighteenth century, settlers moved to the semi-arid but fertile grasslands from wetter, forested regions in central and northern Russia and Ukraine, and from central Europe. By the late-nineteenth century, they had turned the steppes into the bread basket of the Russian Empire and parts of Europe. But there was another side to this story. The steppe region was hit by recurring droughts, winds from the east whipped up dust storms, the fertile black earth suffered severe erosion, crops failed, and in the worst years there was famine. David Moon analyses how naturalists and scientists came to understand the steppe environment, including the origins of the fertile black earth. He also analyses how scientists tried to understand environmental change, including climate change. Farmers, and the scientists who advised them, tried different ways to deal with the recurring droughts: planting trees, irrigation, and cultivating the soil in ways that helped retain scarce moisture. More sustainable, however, were techniques of cultivation to retain scarce moisture in the soil. Among the pioneers were Mennonite settlers. Such approaches aimed to work with the environment, rather than trying to change it by planting trees or supplying more water artificially. The story is similar to the Dust Bowl on the Great Plains of the USA, which share a similar environment and environmental history. David Moon places the environmental story of the steppes in the wider context of the environmental history of European colonialism around the globe.
Drifting Sands
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Author : Benton Leibson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2001-10
Drifting Sands written by Benton Leibson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10 with categories.
The following excerpts from the book will help you sense the diverse moments in the author´s life, as he takes you back almost 75 years, actually bringing his memories right into the new millennium. Drifting Sands will take you to many places and through many years-from Chicago in the twenties to World War II...from the dunes in Michigan, to Paris, the south of France, Venice and Tuscany. PROLOGUE When we were very little, my sister and I slept in the same bedroom. Our parents and our grandmother and grandfather-my father´s parents-we all lived in a three-story building on the West Side of Chicago. Our world was the boulevard outside where we could hear cars moving, especially when it was raining at night. During the day, other sounds came from the alley-from the shouts of the fruit-peddler or the knife-sharpener. But the best sound came at night from the long hallway outside of our bedroom door. It ran the length of the apartment, from the living room to the dining room, to the kitchen. When I walked down the hallway to the back of the house, the first thing I saw was the old samovar. It was brought by my grandparents from the old country and never used again. After we had gone to bed, my sister and I could hear the voices of people walking down the hallway. We guessed which relative had stopped by for tea and maybe some of my mother´s cheesecake. Sometimes there were angry voices when someone left the living room, arguing about the card game they had just left. One night, very late, we awoke to hear my mother crying. My father spoke up, "Shoosh, shoosh, you´ll wake the children!" My sister began to cry. I was about to. My mother opened the door just a little. "It´s O.K., children. Go back to sleep." My grandmother had died. It was our first encounter with death. Days later, I heard someone tell my father, "Life goes on." My father nodded. Less than a year later my grandfather died. He had fallen and, I believe, had broken some bones. While in the hospital, he developed pneumonia. His death came in only a matter of days. Looking back, it seemed husbands or wives often followed their mates to the grave. It was almost as though it was expected by family and friends. Even by the widowed person. My other grandfather (my mother´s father) was an exception. He lived on for many years after his wife died. He was the grandfather I really knew and came to love. He became a kind of patriarch in the family, especially around Jewish holidays. I still remember sitting next to him in our local library. He was reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" in Yiddish. From my Jewish background I came to believe that life goes on only on earth, not in heaven. There is talk of a soul, but that was never too clear to me. Where did it go? Life, I learned, went on in the memories of those who loved you. Memory is life. Perhaps that´s what this story is all about-life going on. And its journey. # # # CHAPTER ONE Moving forward, looking backward My world has grown. And so have the memories-both old and new. In this book I expect to concentrate on the recent years. But my thoughts seem to have a life of their own. As I start these reflections, my intention is to share some of my travel experiences with you-encounters with pleasurable culinary happenings and emotional moments of being in the presence of great art or simple beauty. The story is meant to begin after the death of my first wife, Ruth, in 1991. She had fought her cancer for almost two years, during which she carried on a full life. I was sixty-six at that time. Ruth was sixty-one. When I married Ruth she was eighteen. I fell in love with her when I returned from service in World War II. She was a beautiful girl, only sixteen when we met. We were married for 42 years and had three children, all boys. First David, then Paul, and finally Marc-who Ruth was expecting to