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Portfolios of the Poor

How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven ...

Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

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Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the
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The Art of Teaching Russian

by Evgeny Dengub, Irina Dubinina, Jason Merrill, Aline Germain-Rutherford, Cynthia Lee Martin, Angelika Kraemer, David Kirk Prestel, Cori Anderson0, Julia Mikhailova1, Anna Tumarkin2, Thomas Jesus Garza3, Dianna Murphy4, Narek Sahakyan5, Sally Sieloff Magnan6, Betty Lou Leaver7, Christine M. Campbell8, William J. Comer9, Lynne DeBenedette0, Benjamin Jens1, Benjamin Rifkin2, Karen Evans-Romaine3, Stuart H. Goldberg4, Susan C. Kresin5, Vicki Galloway6, Olga Kagan7, Anna Kudyma8, Rachel Stauffer9, Olesya Kisselev0, Edie Furniss1, Ekaterina Nemtchinova2, Tatiana Smorodinska3, Alla Epsteyn4, Maia Solovieva5, Shannon Donnally Spasova6, Kristen Welsh7, Irina Walsh8, Richard M. Robin9, Kira Gor0, Colleen Lucey1 ...

A comprehensive guide to Russian-language instruction combining the latest research, pedagogy, and practice. The Art of Teaching Russian offers practitioners current research, pedagogical thinking, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most ... Read more

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A comprehensive guide to Russian-language instruction combining the latest research, pedagogy, and practice. The Art of Teaching Russian offers practitioners current research, pedagogical thinking, and specific methodologies for teaching the Russian language and culture in the twenty-first century. With contributions from the leading professionals in the field, this collection covers the most
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The Pledge

ASA, Peasant Politics, and Microfinance in the Development of Bangladesh

by Stuart Rutherford ...

The Association for Social Advancement (ASA) of Bangladesh recently topped Forbes magazine's first-ever list of the world's best microfinance banks. This is an extraordinary achievement for an organization that started life as a revolutionary movement aiming to bring a peasant-led government to the newly created and desperately poor South Asian nation of Bangladesh. This book tells the story of ... Read more

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The Association for Social Advancement (ASA) of Bangladesh recently topped Forbes magazine's first-ever list of the world's best microfinance banks. This is an extraordinary achievement for an organization that started life as a revolutionary movement aiming to bring a peasant-led government to the newly created and desperately poor South Asian nation of Bangladesh. This book tells the story of
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Aerial Warfare Archives: 27 Must-Have Books

The Romance of Aircraft, Luck on the Wing, The Red Battle Flyer, Flying for France, etc.

by Laurence Yard Smith, Elmer Haslett, Freiherr von Manfred Richthofen, Robert Henry Reece, James R. McConnell, William Le Queux, Carroll Dana Winslow, Harold Rosher, Oswald Boelcke, L. F. Hutcheon, Stuart Walcott, T. D. Hallam, A. J. L. Scott, Percy F. Westerman, Gaylord Du Bois, Rowland Walker, Horace Porter, Robert Sidney Bowen, James R. Driscoll, Charles Amory Beach, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Kenneth Ward ...

Aerial Warfare Archives: 27 Must-Have Books is a meticulously curated anthology that captures the diverse narratives and varying styles related to the phenomenon of aerial combat. This collection traverses themes of bravery, innovation, and the relentless advancement of technology in warfare. Readers are immersed in captivating tales that range from personal memoirs to strategic analyses, offering ... Read more

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Aerial Warfare Archives: 27 Must-Have Books is a meticulously curated anthology that captures the diverse narratives and varying styles related to the phenomenon of aerial combat. This collection traverses themes of bravery, innovation, and the relentless advancement of technology in warfare. Readers are immersed in captivating tales that range from personal memoirs to strategic analyses, offering
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Winter Tourism

Trends and Challenges

by Bruno Abegg, Coralie Achin, Emma Alegria, Wolfgang Arlt, Þorvardur Árnason, Thomas Bausch, Mikolaj Bielanski, Dorothee Bohn, Philippe Bourdeau, Federica Buffa, Tatiana Chekalina, John Daigle, Cecilia De Bernardi, Sandra De Urioste-Stone, O. Cenk Demiroglu, Rainer Flaig, Peter Fredman, Emmanuelle George, Alison M. Gill, Barbara Haller Rupf, Joanna Hibner, Claudia Hödl, Lydia Horne, Leandra Jänicke, Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer, Hubert Job, Milosz Jodlowski, Hope Kohtala, Raija Komppula, Felix Kraus, Serena Lonardi, Linda Lundmark, Markus Mailer, Luca Mariotti, Umberto Martini, Marius Mayer, Aubrey D. Miller, Nina Mostegl, Gero Nischik, Caroline Noblet, Cameron Owens, Joe Pavelka, Mike Peters, Alexander Plaikner, Laura Rickard, Reto Rupf, Murray B. Rutherford, Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir, Katrin Schillo, Johannes Schmid, Iain Stewart-Patterson, Magnus Strömgren, Karolina Taczanowska, Rainer Unger, Ilse van Ipenburg, Jerry Vaske, Johannes T. Welling, Tomas Zwijacz-Kozica, C Michael Hall ...

Winter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming. New ski destinations are developing and merging with traditional ones to increase spatial distribution, while many established leading resorts are adapting their management models. Climate change adaptation ... Read more

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Winter tourism has seen increased levels of investment in recent times, in an effort to reduce economic risk, address environmental concerns and adapt to the effects of global warming. New ski destinations are developing and merging with traditional ones to increase spatial distribution, while many established leading resorts are adapting their management models. Climate change adaptation
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of sugarcane Volume 2

Breeding, pests and diseases

by Prof. Philippe Rott, Dr Phillip Jackson, James R. Todd, Dr Per McCord, Prof. Fredy Alpeter, Ratna Karan, Dr Nicole Thompson, Dr Philippe Roumagnac, Jean-Heinrich Daugrois, Denis Filloux0, Dimitre Mollov1, Xiping Yang2, Dr Rasappa Viswanathan3, A. Ramesh Sundar4, R. Selvakumar5, P. Malathi6, Dr Claudia Monteiro-Vitorello7, Patricia Dayane Carvalho Schaker8, Juliana Benevenuto9, Natália de Sousa Teixeira e Silva0, Sintia Silva de Almeida1, R. Stuart Rutherford2, Ramkrishna Kandel3, Dr Kathy Braithwaite4, Dr Monique Royer5, Isabelle Pieretti6, Stéphane Cociancich7, Dr Graham R. Stirling8, Dr Francois-Regis Goebel9, Julien M. Beuzelin0, Mike J. Way1, Dr Jack C. Comstock2, Jian Song3, Sushma G. Sood4, Dr Calvin Odero5, Qian You6, Mengjuan Wang7, Dr Jianping Wang8, Dr Frederick C. Botha9, Dr Anna L. Hale0 ...

Series Book 38 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Covers key advances in breeding, including conventional, marker-assisted and transgenic breeding techniquesSummarises key advances in understanding bacterial, fungal and viral diseases of sugarcaneAssesses best practice in integrated disease, pest and weed management ... Read more

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Covers key advances in breeding, including conventional, marker-assisted and transgenic breeding techniquesSummarises key advances in understanding bacterial, fungal and viral diseases of sugarcaneAssesses best practice in integrated disease, pest and weed management
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Mobilising Voluntary Action in the UK

Learning from the Pandemic

by Amy McGarvey, James Lundie, Joanna Stuart, Rhys Dafydd Jones, Nicholas Acheson, Martina McKnight, Catherine Goodall, Eddy Hogg, Alasdair Rutherford, Matthew Linning, Deborah Maltman, Denise Hayward, Andrew Hanna, Sally Rees, Ewen Speed ...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence.The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action. Some volunteering projects had to be paused, while others were delivered in different ways, but across all four UK nations large numbers of people began volunteering for the first time.This book provides an overview of the constraints and opportunities of mobilising ... Read more

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY licence.The COVID-19 pandemic transformed the landscape of voluntary action. Some volunteering projects had to be paused, while others were delivered in different ways, but across all four UK nations large numbers of people began volunteering for the first time.This book provides an overview of the constraints and opportunities of mobilising
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Orwell's Revenge

The 1984 Palimpsest

by Peter Huber ...

Mark Zuckerberg's ‘A Year of Books’ SelectionGeorge Orwell’s bleak visions of the future, one in which citizens are monitored through telescreens by an insidious Big Brother, has haunted our imagination long after the publication of 1984. Orwell’s dystopian image of the telescreen as a repressive instrument of state power has profoundly affected our view of technology, posing a stark ... Read more

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Mark Zuckerberg's ‘A Year of Books’ SelectionGeorge Orwell’s bleak visions of the future, one in which citizens are monitored through telescreens by an insidious Big Brother, has haunted our imagination long after the publication of 1984. Orwell’s dystopian image of the telescreen as a repressive instrument of state power has profoundly affected our view of technology, posing a stark
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Rational Ritual

Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

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Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to
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The Idea Factory

Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner ...

**The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies“Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review“Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers ... Read more

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**The definitive history of America’s greatest incubator of innovation and the birthplace of some of the 20th century’s most influential technologies“Filled with colorful characters and inspiring lessons . . . The Idea Factory explores one of the most critical issues of our time: What causes innovation?” —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review“Compelling . . . Gertner's book offers
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Genome

The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

by Matt Ridley ...

"Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." — The New YorkerThe genome's been mapped. ... Read more

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"Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . . . . He addresses not only the ethical quandaries faced by contemporary scientists but the reductionist danger in equating inheritability with inevitability." — The New YorkerThe genome's been mapped.
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The Great Escape

Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton ...

The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the ... Read more

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The world is a better place than it used to be. People are wealthier and healthier, and live longer lives. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many have left gaping inequalities between people and between nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--tells the remarkable story of how, starting 250 years ago, some parts of the
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