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Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel

Why Capabilities and Aspirations Matter

By: Victoria van der Land

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Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel

Why Capabilities and Aspirations Matter

By: Victoria van der Land

The West African Sahel is predicted to be heavily affected by climate change in the future. Slow-onset environmental changes, such as increasing rainfall variability and rising temperature, are presumed to worsen the livelihood conditions and to increase the out-migration from the affected regions. Based on qualitative and quantitative data from study areas in Mali and Senegal, this book examines the relationship between population dynamics, livelihoods and environment in the Sahel region, focussing specifically on motives for migration. Critiquing the assumption that environmental stress is the dominating migration driver, the author demonstrates the important role of individual aspirations and social processes, such as educational opportunities and the pull of urban lifestyles. In doing so, the book provides a more nuanced picture of the environment-migration nexus, arguing that slow-onset environmental changes may actually be less important as drivers of migration in the Sahel than they are often depicted in the media and climate change literature. This is a valuable resource for academics and students of environmental sociology, migration and development studies.

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1315440148

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Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria N Bateman

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Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe

By: Victoria N Bateman

This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.

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1317321731

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Land Law and the Extractive Industries

Challenges and Opportunities in Africa

By: Victoria R Nalule

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Land Law and the Extractive Industries

Challenges and Opportunities in Africa

By: Victoria R Nalule

This book analyses the nexus between land access and the extractive industries in Africa, specifically highlighting the gaps in energy, land and mining laws and the practical solutions needed to settle the increasing number of land disputes in resource-rich areas. Access to land is essential for the successful operation of energy and mining projects. However, there are often social, environmental and economic issues associated with acquiring land for these projects. Socially, many people are relocated; economically, local communities are not given adequate compensation; environmentally, pollution negatively impacts on the agricultural and fishing industries relied on by over 80% of the local communities. Against this stark background, and drawing from the author's fieldwork research, this book addresses the important question of whether the different land tenure systems, coupled with administration and registration procedures, are adequate to address the increasing land disputes in oil and mineral-rich African countries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509938435

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9781509938438

The Diaries of Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern

By: Victoria Joan Moessner

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The Diaries of Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern

By: Victoria Joan Moessner

Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern (1777-1836), as a younger son of the landed gentry in Estonia, had no prospects of being given an estate, i.e. a means of livelihood in his homeland. Therefore, at the age of 15 he entered Russian naval service. In 1797 while in England, he began keeping detailed diaries during the English sailors’ revolt and continued them until leaving the Russian navy in 1815 to marry and take over estates in Estonia. From England in 1799, he sailed to Gibraltar, Sicily, Greece, Turkey, and the Crimea. He describes how the Russians saved Turkish sailors in Palermo and suggests that the Russians might have caught Napoleon fleeing Egypt if the Russian admiral had acted. In 1801, he traveled overland from the Crimea to St. Petersburg to obtain the Tsar’s permission to leave Russian service and try to enter French service. Since he was no sycophant like others he met in Napoleonic Paris, he gave up trying to enter French service and spent his time visiting the sights of Paris, including Napoleon inspecting his troops, and had a love affair with his innkeeper. He then returned to Estonia by way of Berlin, where he learned of the coming Russian voyage around the world. (A translation of his diary from this voyage has been published by the University of Alaska Press). Therefore, this translation is of his diaries from before and after the voyage around the world. His diaries were never submitted to Russian censorship so they contain his personal feelings and impressions of events around him. He wrote freely without censoring himself and seems often to have used his diaries as a relief value for his frustrations and anger with his government, superiors, fellow officers, and the citizens of the various ports where he served.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1628386088

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English Landscapes and Identities

Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

By: Chris Gosden,Chris Green,Anwen Cooper,Miranda Creswell,Victoria Donnelly,Tyler Franconi,Roger Glyde,Zena Kamash,Sarah Mallet,Laura Morley,Daniel Stansbie,Letty ten Harkel

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English Landscapes and Identities

Investigating Landscape Change from 1500 BC to AD 1086

By: Chris Gosden,Chris Green,Anwen Cooper,Miranda Creswell,Victoria Donnelly,Tyler Franconi,Roger Glyde,Zena Kamash,Sarah Mallet,Laura Morley,Daniel Stansbie,Letty ten Harkel

Long before the Norman Conquest of 1066, England saw periods of profound change that transformed the landscape and the identities of those who occupied it. The Bronze and Iron Ages saw the introduction of now-familiar animals and plants, such as sheep, horses, wheat, and oats, as well as new forms of production and exchange and the first laying out of substantial fields and trackways, which continued into the earliest Romano-British landscapes. The Anglo-Saxon period saw the creation of new villages based around church and manor, with ridge and furrow cultivation strips still preserved today. The basis for this volume is The English Landscapes and Identities project, which synthesised all the major available sources of information on English archaeology to examine this crucial period of landscape history from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to the Domesday survey (c. 1086 AD). It looks at the nature of archaeological work undertaken across England to assess its strengths and weaknesses when writing long-term histories. Among many other topics it examines the interaction of ecology and human action in shaping the landscape; issues of movement across the landscape in various periods; changing forms of food over time; an understanding of spatial scale; and questions of enclosing and naming the landscape, culminating in a discussion of the links between landscape and identity. The result is the first comprehensive account of the English landscape over a crucial 2500-year period. It also offers a celebration of many centuries of archaeological work, especially the intensive large-scale investigations that have taken place since the 1960s and transformed our understanding of England's past.

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Oxford University Press

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0192643606

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Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age

By: Victoria Sancho Lobis

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Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age

By: Victoria Sancho Lobis

An extraordinary history of Netherlandish drawing, focused on the training and skill of artists during the long 17th century With a lively narrative thread and thematic chapters, this book offers an exceptional introduction to Dutch and Flemish drawing during the long 17th century. Victoria Sancho Lobis discusses the many roles of drawing in artistic training, its function in the production of works in other media, and its emergence as a medium in its own right. Beautifully illustrated with some 120 drawings by artists including Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Hendrick Goltzius, Gerrit von Honthorst, and Jacob De Gheyn, this book surveys current methodologies of studying these works and features a brief history of Dutch papermaking and watermarks as well as a glossary. Paying careful attention to materials and techniques, and informed by recent conservation treatments, Lobis explains how to look at these drawings as records of experimentation and skill, true windows into the artist’s mind.

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Yale University Press

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0300247079

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9780300247077

Allies for Armageddon

The Rise of Christian Zionism

By: Victoria Clark

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Allies for Armageddon

The Rise of Christian Zionism

By: Victoria Clark

Clark explores the 400 year history of this powerful political ideology from its beginnings among the Puritans of 17th century England to the present-day United States, where Christian Zionists wield unprecedented influence.

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0300116985

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Leadership localisation

Comparative studies on leadership styles across 16 nations

By: Aynur Doǧan,Alwin van der Blom ; امل المنوتي (Amal El Mannouti) ; Анастасия Сафонова (Anastasiya Safonava) ; Aryan Ghanizadeh ; Bas Aartsma ; Bibi Kor ; Boaz Kuijer ; Bram de Kloet ; Bram Verburg ; Bùi Ngọc Diệu Thảo ; Celeste Dorigo ; Charlotte Boakye ; Daan van der Schot ; Daley Claassen ; Dennis Mosch ; Erik Kaal ; Fleur Leijtens ; Inge Trakzel ; Jary Nijssen ; Jasper van Beek ; Jeroen van Duin ; Jesse Buiter ; 彭竞雨 (Jingyu Peng) ; Jorrit van den Berg ; Julian van Arkel ; Juno Bäckman ; Kassandre Maginot ; Kevin van Balen ; Койна Стоянова (Koina Stoyanova) ; Kristy Bruijn ; Lisa Straalman ; Luciano Tetelepta ; मनीषा रसियावन (Manisha Rasiawan) ; Margot Amouroux-Prince ; Maria Simões Fortini Sidney de Souza ; Marije Hollestelle ; Marissa Bank ; Mark Grasmayer ; Mark Hoogenraat ; Martijn Smeets ; Maurice Backer Dirks ; Maxime Requin ; Megena Tesfamariam ; Michelle Vet ; Myrtill Dongen Natalia Kempny ; نورهان الخفاجي (Norhan Al Khafaji) ; Omar Fye ; Patricia Okarimia ; Patrick Kat ; Patrick Peute ; Raphael Gounod-Rondepierre ; Rens Geertse ; Ruben den Bak ; Rudmer Lieshout ; Rynk Poelsma ; Sam van Diest ; Sammie Reijnders ; Sem van Amersfoort ; Sil Visser ; Sophie Klijn ; Stefanie Ozuna Castillo ; Susanne Koelman ; Sven Spiegelenberg ; Teun Hoogland ; Tibor Lundberg ; Tim Eliasson ; Titta Pennanen ; Tjeerd Phaff ; Victoria Ricknell ; Vlada Sacara and 张洋帆 (Yvonne, Yangfan Zhang).

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Leadership localisation

Comparative studies on leadership styles across 16 nations

This new issue in our leadership series provides you with a comprehensive analysis of management practices in Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Dominican Republic , Finland, France, Ghana, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, Romania, Suriname, Sweden and Vietnam. This book shows how domestic leadership conventions often differ significantly from those in other countries. Comparative desk research, focus interviews with, and online polling of thousands of C-level professionals in the aforementioned countries, made us realise how much cultural factors can affect leadership strategies across the globe. A book providing a reference for those aiming at a cross-border career, or interested in international management issues. Alwin van der Blom ; امل المنوتي (Amal El Mannouti) ; Анастасия Сафонова (Anastasiya Safonava) ; Aryan Ghanizadeh ; Bas Aartsma ; Bibi Kor ; Boaz Kuijer ; Bram de Kloet ; Bram Verburg ; Bùi Ngọc Diệu Thảo ; Celeste Dorigo ; Charlotte Boakye ; Daan van der Schot ; Daley Claassen ; Dennis Mosch ; Erik Kaal ; Fleur Leijtens ; Inge Trakzel ; Jary Nijssen ; Jasper van Beek ; Jeroen van Duin ; Jesse Buiter ; 彭竞雨 (Jingyu Peng) ; Jorrit van den Berg ; Julian van Arkel ; Juno Bäckman ; Kassandre Maginot ; Kevin van Balen ; Койна Стоянова (Koina Stoyanova) ; Kristy Bruijn ; Lisa Straalman ; Luciano Tetelepta ; मनीषा रसियावन (Manisha Rasiawan) ; Margot Amouroux-Prince ; Maria Simões Fortini Sidney de Souza ; Marije Hollestelle ; Marissa Bank ; Mark Grasmayer ; Mark Hoogenraat ; Martijn Smeets ; Maurice Backer Dirks ; Maxime Requin ; Megena Tesfamariam ; Michelle Vet ; Myrtill Dongen Natalia Kempny ; نورهان الخفاجي (Norhan Al Khafaji) ; Omar Fye ; Patricia Okarimia ; Patrick Kat ; Patrick Peute ; Raphael Gounod-Rondepierre ; Rens Geertse ; Ruben den Bak ; Rudmer Lieshout ; Rynk Poelsma ; Sam van Diest ; Sammie Reijnders ; Sem van Amersfoort ; Sil Visser ; Sophie Klijn ; Stefanie Ozuna Castillo ; Susanne Koelman ; Sven Spiegelenberg ; Teun Hoogland ; Tibor Lundberg ; Tim Eliasson ; Titta Pennanen ; Tjeerd Phaff ; Victoria Ricknell ; Vlada Sacara and 张洋帆 (Yvonne, Yangfan Zhang).

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9079646342

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Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel

Why Capabilities and Aspirations Matter

By: Victoria van der Land

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Why Capabilities and Aspirations Matter

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Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia, Russia

Reconstructing Childhood Diet of Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherers

By: Victoria van der Haas

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Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia, Russia

Reconstructing Childhood Diet of Middle Holocene Hunter-Gatherers

By: Victoria van der Haas

This volume analyses the dietary life histories of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from six cemeteries in the Lake Baikal region of Siberia, Russia. The overarching goal was to better understand how they lived by examining what they ate, how they utilized the landscape, and how this changed over time.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803274948

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9781803274942

Webster's New World College Dictionary

By: Victoria Neufeldt,David Bernard Guralnik

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Webster's New World College Dictionary

By: Victoria Neufeldt,David Bernard Guralnik

Offers hundreds of new words and meanings, including many unique to American English, with thousands of examples of current usage.

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MacMillan Publishing Company

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0028603338

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Baroque Art

By: Victoria Charles,Klaus H. Carl

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Baroque Art

By: Victoria Charles,Klaus H. Carl

The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe: the continent is dotted with magnificent Baroque churches and palaces, commissioned by patrons at the height of their power. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Southern School and Peter Paul Rubens of the Northern School alone show the importance of this artistic period. Rich in images encompassing the arts of painting, sculpture and architecture, this work offers a complete insight into this passionate period in the history of art.

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Parkstone International

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1783103841

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9781783103843

Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland

By: Victoria Ruth Ginn

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Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland

By: Victoria Ruth Ginn

This study examines Middle–Late Bronze Age (c. 1750–600 BC) domestic settlement patterns in Ireland. The results reveal a distinct rise in the visibility, and a rapid adaption, of domestic architecture, which seems to have occurred earlier in Ireland than elsewhere in western and northern Europe.

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1784912441

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Innovation in Business Education in Emerging Markets

By: Ilan Alon,Victoria Jones

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Innovation in Business Education in Emerging Markets

By: Ilan Alon,Victoria Jones

Emerging market economies account for eighty percent of the world's population and some 75% of its trade growth in the foreseeable future, following US Department of Commerce data. This volume provides insights for success in rapidly growing education markets that can be used by educators, administrators, policy makers and planners.

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Springer

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1137292962

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9781137292964

The Highland Furies

By: Victoria Schofield

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The Highland Furies

By: Victoria Schofield

As the oldest of the Highland Regiments, The Black Watch has an enviable roster of Battle Honors and a mystique born of repeated service on behalf of King, Queen and country. On the strength of her acclaimed biography of Field Marshal Earl Wavell, the regimental trustees commissioned Victoria Schofield to write this, the first volume of her magisterial history of The Black Watch, and have fully cooperated with her as she traces the story of the Regiment from its early 18th-century beginnings through to the eve of the South African War at the end of the 19th-century. Originating as companies of highland men raised to keep a watch over the Highlands of Scotland, they were formed into a regiment in 1739. Its soldiers would go on to fight with extraordinary bravery and elan in almost every major engagement fought by the British Army during this period, from the American War of Independence, the Peninsular Wars, Waterloo, the Crimea, Indian Mutiny to Egypt and the Sudan. Drawing on diaries, letters and memoirs, Victoria Schofield skillfully weaves the multiple strands of this story into an epic narrative of a valiant body of officers and men over one-and-a-half centuries. In her sure hands, the story of The Black Watch is no arid recitation of campaigns, dates and battle honors, but is instead a rich and compelling record of the soldier's experience under fire and on campaign. It is also a celebration of the deeds of a regiment that has played a unique role in British history and a vivid insight into the lives of the many remarkable figures who have marched and fought so proudly under its Colors. It is supported by more than 170 pages of appendices, bibliography, maps, and notes, as well as a brilliant array of illustrations' Military History Monthly.

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1623655935

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A Renaissance of Conflicts

Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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A Renaissance of Conflicts

Visions and Revisions of Law and Society in Italy and Spain

By: Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

The essays in this collection explore conflict and continuity across the spectrum of political, legal, and spiritual traditions from late medieval Umbria and Tuscany to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice, Rome, and Castile. They point to a shared tradition of dispute and resolution in both ecclesiastical/spiritual and state/secular matters, whether of private conscience or public policy. Continuity of ideals, problems, and modes of resolution suggest that breaks in legal, political, or religious ideals and behavior were not as frequent or sharp as historians have argued. These continuities emerge from common methodological approaches grounded in close, careful reading of key texts and their polyvalent terms. Whether those were the terms of civil or canon law, spirituality, or astrology, each author has had to grapple with multiple possibilities, contexts, customs, and practices that reveal the shifts and continuities in their possible meanings. -- Amazon.com.

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0772720223

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Book's by Victoria van der Land

Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel

Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel

Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe

Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe

Land Law and the Extractive Industries

Land Law and the Extractive Industries

The Diaries of Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern

The Diaries of Hermann Ludwig von Löwenstern

English Landscapes and Identities

English Landscapes and Identities

Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age

Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age

Allies for Armageddon

Allies for Armageddon

Leadership localisation

Leadership localisation

Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel

Migration and Environmental Change in the West African Sahel

Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia, Russia

Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia, Russia

Webster's New World College Dictionary

Webster's New World College Dictionary

Baroque Art

Baroque Art

Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland

Mapping Society: Settlement Structure in Later Bronze Age Ireland

Innovation in Business Education in Emerging Markets

Innovation in Business Education in Emerging Markets

The Highland Furies

The Highland Furies

A Renaissance of Conflicts

A Renaissance of Conflicts

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