Author: Algeria. Administration des Eaux et ForêtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Notice on a Cut of 100,000 Cubic Meters of Cedar Wood to be Sold at Constantine, Algeria, on January 15, 1908
Author: Algeria. Administration des Eaux et ForêtsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Engineer
Author: A History of Modern Lebanon
Author: Fawwaz TraboulsiPublisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745332758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the updated edition of the first comprehensive history of Lebanon in the modern period. Written by a leading Lebanese scholar, and based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating and beautifully-written account of one of the world's most fabled countries.Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in the 16th century, Traboulsi covers the growth of Beirut as a capital for trade and culture through the 19th century. The main part of the book concentrates on Lebanon's development in the 20th century and the conflicts that led up to the major wars in the 1970s and 1980s. This edition contains a new chapter and updates throughout the text.This is a rich history of Lebanon that brings to life its politics, its people, and the crucial role that it has always played in world affairs.
Urban World History
Author: Luc-Normand TellierPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030248429
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
This book seeks to deepen readers’ understanding of world history by investigating urbanization and the evolution of urban systems, as well as the urban world, from the perspective of historical analysis. The theoretical framework of the approach stems directly from space-economy, and, more generally, from location theory and the theory of urban systems. The author explores a certain logic to be found in world history, and argues that this logic is spatial (in terms of spatial inertia, spatial trends, attractive and repulsive forces, vector fields, etc.) rather than geographical (in terms of climate, precipitation, hydrography). Accordingly, the book puts forward a truly original vision of urban world history, one that will benefit economists, historians, regional scientists, and anyone with a healthy curiosity.
Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa
Author: Henry N. HouérouPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540851925
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Covering an area of over 130 million km2 spanning the Mediterranean, equator and tropics, the African continent features a spectacular geographic diversity. Consequently, it is characterised by extremely variable climatic, edaphic and ecological conditions, associated with a wide range of natural vegetation and wildlife, as well as human population density, crops and livestock. In this book, Henry Le Houérou presents his bioclimatic and biogeographic classification of Africa. The extensive data provide the basis for comparisons between various African regions, and with regions on other continents such as Latin America or the Indian subcontinent. The results constitute a rational basis for national, regional and sub-regional rural development planning, and for agricultural research dealing with aspects such as plant and animal introductions, the extrapolation or interpolation of experimental or developmental findings, and ecosystems dynamics. Possible problems of applications are also examined.
Environmental Imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Diana K. DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history. Images of endless golden dunes, camel caravans, isolated desert oases, and rivers lined with palm trees have often framed written and visual representations of the region. Embedded in these portrayals is the common belief that the environment, in most places, has been deforested and desertified by centuries of misuse. It is precisely such orientalist environmental imaginaries, increasingly undermined by contemporary ecological data, that the eleven authors in this volume question. This is the first volume to critically examine culturally constructed views of the environmental history of the Middle East and suggest that they have often benefitted elites at the expense of the ecologies and the peoples of the region. The contributors expose many of the questionable policies and practices born of these environmental imaginaries and related histories that have been utilized in the region since the colonial period. They further reveal how power, in the form of development programs, notions of nationalism, and hydrological maps, for instance, relates to environmental knowledge production.
The Handbook of Palestine
Author: Sir Harry LukePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eretz Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Algeria, a Country Study
Author: Helen Chapin MetzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Algeria
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Research completed December 1993.
Encyclopedia of Biology
Author: Don RittnerPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438109997
Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Contains approximately 800 alphabetical entries, prose essays on important topics, line illustrations, and black-and-white photographs.
Leadership in World Shipping
Author: I. TheotokasPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230233538
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A new look at the leadership of Greek ship owners in world shipping in the second half of the twentieth century. This book examines the fundamental factors of the dynamism of Greek entrepreneurship in family businesses and provides evidence for the organization, management and strategies of Greek family shipping companies.