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June 2024Sustainable Ecological Restoration and Conservation in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan Region
A Comprehensive Review
by Zhanhuan Shang, Allan Degen, Devendra Gauchan, Madan Koirala, Muhammad Khalid Rafiq, Awais Iqbal, Binyu Luo, Dawei Zhang, Diwakar Adhikari, Dongmei Li, Furbe Lama, Haonan Guo, Hui Xu, Huma Ali, Jalal Hayat Khan, Jiayi He, Jie Lian, Mei Huang, Monika Ghimire, Narayan Prasad Gaire, Peipei Liu, Qinghui Fang, Ramesh Prasad Sapkota, Ramesh Raj Pant, Rashila Deshar, Ritika K.C, Rui Zhang, Rukhsanda Aziz, Srijana Khanal, Tianyun Qi, Udhab Raj Khadka, Usha Rai, Usman Ali, Wenyin Wang, Xiaoping Jing, Yamuna Ghale, Youyan Liu, Zhen Peng, Zhiqiang Dang
The years 2021 to 2030 have been designated as "The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration". Ecological restoration and biodiversity conservation efforts face unprecedented challenges, especially in developing countries and areas, such as the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. This huge HKH region, which includes areas in eight separate countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, India, China, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan), is a biodiversity hotspot with a vast array of ecosystems, landscapes, peoples and cultures. It is known as one of 'the pulses of the world'. However, the HKH is also the world's largest and poorest mountain region, where landscapes and environments have been severely damaged as a result of climate change and human activities. Coordinating conservation and restoration policies, sharing knowledge and funds, and maintaining livelihoods are major challenges and are in urgent need of improvement. This book details the past and current ecological problems in the HKH region, and the threats and challenges that ecosystems and local people face. It pays special attention to developments of transformative adaptations and presents examples of sustainable conservation and ecological restoration management practices. Three primary questions are addressed: (1) Do the existing conservation strategies of international organizations and government policies really protect ecosystems and solve biodiversity problems? (2) Can these management measures be one-time solutions? and (3) What is the strategic framework and scenario prognosis for the future based on the historical trajectory of ecological conservation and restoration in the region? This book is essential reading for ecologists and conservation biologists involved in large-scale ecological restoration projects, along with practitioners, graduate students, policy makers and international development workers.
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Peace studies & conflict resolutionOctober 2017The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Barriers and Impact
by Arif Rafiq
This report clarifies what the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor actually is, identifies potential barriers to its implementation, and assesses its likely economic, sociopolitical, and strategic implications. Based on interviews with federal and provincial government officials in Pakistan, subject-matter experts, a diverse spectrum of civil society activists, politicians, and business community leaders, the report is supported by the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
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Agriculture & farmingJuly 2022Lesser Known Medicinal Plants
Cultivation & Utilization Techniques
by Raviraja Shetty G, & Tamanna Arif
Interest in medicinal plants as a re-emerging health aid has been fuelled by the rising costs of prescription drugs in the maintenance of personal health and well-being. Herbal-based traditional medicine has become popular in developed countries in recent years, and its use is likely to increase in the coming years. This system has advantages over the modern medicine as it is prophylactic. Therefore, it would be a wise step if most of medicinal plants, which are lesser known to mankind but have immense potential, particularly those which are in high demand and rare should be cultivated and brought into limelight. The basis for this book originally have been stemmed from the passion of both the authors in order to develop better methods of conveying and spreading the cultivation aspects of many crops and its uses by compiling the information available. As the world moves further into the advanced age, along with generating vast amount of information, there will be a greater need to access legacy plant materials with technology available. Thus this book helps in accessing the information on rare medicinal plants and thereby breaking down barriers of accessibility of limited information.
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Children's & YAGhettostan
by H.N Khan
Fifteen-year-old Fawad Chaudhry loves two things: basketball and his mother’s potato and ground-beef stuffed parathas. Both are round and both help him forget about things like his dead father, growing up in Regent Park, and his mother being hell-bent on arranging his marriage to his first cousin, Nusrat, back home in Pakistan. Not to mention his estranged best friend Yousuf who’s coping with the shooting death of his older brother. Yeah, it’s complicated. But Fawad has plans; like, asking out Ashley, even though she lives on the other side of the tracks, and saving his friend Arif from being beaten into a pulp for being the school flirt, and like making the school basketball team and being the second brown dude ever to get drafted into the NBA. Now if only he could convince his mother to let him try out for the basketball team. Or that first-cousin marriages increase the risk of genetic disorders in babies and that he really likes Ashley. And if he could only get Omar, the neighborhood bully, to leave him alone. Ghettostan is an #ownvoices coming-of-age story, following Fawad through success and failure, love and loss as he navigates complicated friendships, first love, an overbearing mother, and the death of his father.
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Agriculture & related industriesJanuary 2015Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals
Sources and Their Developmental Techniques
by C.S.Rair, D.C.Saxena, Sukhcharan Singh, Vikas Nada & Navdeep Jindal
The papers included in this book have a broad coverage of the topics related to new technologies in functional foods and nutraceuticals, fruits and vegetables and their by-products as valuable ingredients for functional foods and nutraceuticals, potential bioactive components from various food sources, trends and development of nutraceuticals and functional foods as well as functional food and nutraceuticals as ingredients in the value addition for health promotion, standardization and quality control. This workhelps to overcome the problems faced in exploring the potential of nutraceuticals in naturopathy and device strategies to encounter such problems.
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Medicine1976Journal of Clinical Engineering
by Edited by Michael L Epstein , William A Hyman ScD, PE , Arif Subhan , Izabella Gieras , Frank R Painter
Quarterly - 2013 Volume(s) - 36 www.jcejournal.com The Journal of Clinical Engineering is a compilation of articles, papers, and extensive manuscripts relevant to clinical/biomedical engineering or biomedical technology. Subject matter directly relates to the engineering or technology involved in patient care and treatment or technology in the broad field of health care delivery. This quarterly journal keeps hospital clinical engineers and biomedical equipment technicians up to date on topics like management, quality control, legal issues, device management and assessment. For more than two decades, the Journal of Clinical Engineering has been the leading independent journal in the field providing a balance of practical, theoretical, and applied papers, as well as focused, hands-on feature articles. Specialists read the journal for advice on running a clinical engineering department, cost-effective resource management, hazard analysis and quality assurance, regulatory affairs and civil litigation, applying today's research to the clinical setting, and more.
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Thriller / suspenseAugust 2014The FARIS Affair
by Gillian Jones
The FARIS Affair An Eco-thriller with global and interplanetary dimensions. Shares in a plc that markets bottled water seems a natural choice for the Ethical Portfolio of London-based ‘Focus Asset Management’, where young graduate Anisha is a researcher for the ‘green team’. That is until, in her researches Anisha stumbles across the shadowy organisation, FARIS whose members believe the human race has reached the limit of survival on planet earth and that it’s time to cut its losses and head for the stars. Led on by her natural curiosity and a desire to see far-flung and little visited places Anisha is faced by a series of revelations which stretch her credulity to breaking point. And falling headlong for a scientist from what she comes to see as the opposing camp adds an unanticipated emotional complication. As Anisha becomes more entangled with FARIS she is faced with the question: for life on earth, is the glass half full or half empty? What would be your answer?
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Business, Economics & LawJanuary 2020Malaysia’s Taxation System
Contemporary Practices, Issues and Future Direction
by Mohamed Ariff, Yeah Kim Leng
Malaysia’s Taxation System: Contemporary Practices, Issues and Future Direction is a comprehensive analysis of current taxation practices, issues and changes in Malaysia. It comprises 10 chapters contributed by eminent academics and leading legal, accounting, and tax administration professionals whose collective expertise offers unique insights into the evolution of Malaysia’s taxation system and highlights the need for a holistic review of the system. Commissioned by the Malaysian Tax Research Foundation, this book fulfils the government’s call for greater industry–academia collaboration and serves as a timely reminder about the importance of taxation in moving our country forward. This book about tax reformation comes at a pivotal time as we venture into new Malaysia. This book is a relevant and useful resource for scholars and policymakers alike as they seek to understand Malaysia’s taxation system. Click here for more information.
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Animal breedingAugust 2023Artificial Insemination in Goats
by Chetna Gangwar, S.D.Karche, R.Pourouchottamane & Ravi Ranjan
Artificial Insemination (AI) permits intense selection of sires with exceptional merits and provides opportunity to exploit the value of superior sires. This book constitutes an update of recent developments in the field of assisted reproductive technology and includes selection and management of breeding buck, semen collection, processing and cryopreservation, estrous synchronization and Artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, and quality control in Artificial Insemination has been included. The book covers all the basic knowledge related to artificial insemination in goats and to increase goat productivity and as a result meet the needs and demands of human communities. The work will be useful veterinary students as well as new entrants to this entrepreneurship.
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July 2014Producing Country
The Inside Story of the Great Recordings
by Michael Jarrett
Legendary producers describe the making of country music’s great recordings
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January 2013We Modern People
Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity
by Anindita Banerjee
How science fiction forged a unique Russian vision of modernity distinct from Western models
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March 2010The South Korean Film Renaissance
Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs
by Jinhee Choi
How a homegrown cinema took on Hollywood and dazzled Cannes
