Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island By Emily Meggett
2022 | 481 Pages | ISBN: 1419758780 | EPUB | 32 MB
The first major Gullah Geechee cookbook from "the matriarch of Edisto Island," who provides delicious recipes and the history of an overlooked American communityThe history of the Gullah and Geechee people stretches back centuries, when enslaved members of this community were historically isolated from the rest of the South because of their location on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Today, this Lowcountry community represents the most direct living link to the traditional culture, language, and foodways of their West African ancestors. Gullah Geechee Home Cooking, written by Emily Meggett, the matriarch of Edisto Island, is the preeminent Gullah cookbook. At 87 years old, and with more than 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, Meggett is a respected elder in the Gullah community of South Carolina. She has lived on the island all her life, and even at her age, still cooks for hundreds of people out of her hallowed home kitchen. Her house is a place of pilgrimage for anyone with an interest in Gullah Geechee food. Meggett's Gullah food is rich and flavorful, though it is also often lighter and more seasonal than other types of Southern cooking. Heirloom rice, fresh-caught seafood, local game, and vegetables are key to her recipes for regional delicacies like fried oysters, collard greens, and stone-ground grits. This cookbook includes not only delicious and accessible recipes, but also snippets of the Meggett family history on Edisto Island, which stretches back into the 19th century. Rich in both flavor and history, Meggett's Gullah Geechee Home Cooking is a testament to the syncretism of West African and American cultures that makes her home of Edisto Island so unique.

Grounded: How soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in by Alisa Bryce
English | August 2, 2022 | ISBN: 1922458651 | True EPUB | 280 pages | 2.6 MB
Life on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil: food, fibre, medicines - even oxygen produced by plants. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth.

Greenhouse Gardening for Beginners: The Ultimate Newbies' Guide to Growing Fruit, Herbs and Vegetables All Year Round: Everything You Should Know About Owning a Greenhouse by Kathleen M. Reichert
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09VGXRKLR | 65 pages | EPUB | 0.43 Mb
Is it currently impossible for you to cultivate the plants you want because of the weather? Are you looking forward to eating summer delicious tomatoes that you've cultivated yourself? Growing in a greenhouse allows you to grow practically whatever you want, whenever you want, without having to wait for Mother Nature to grant you permission. What do you wish to grow? Because you can grow almost anything in your greenhouse! In a greenhouse, you may grow food of unrivaled quality. For many years, I've been active in commercial greenhouse growing. Greenhouse tomatoes have been my main crop.

Diane Heckenberg, "Green Criminology: An Introduction to the Study of Environmental Harm"
English | ISBN: 0415632102 | 2014 | 348 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Over the past ten years, the study of environmental harm and 'crimes against nature' has become an increasingly popular area of research amongst criminologists. This book represents the first international, comprehensive and introductory text for green criminology, offering a concise exposition of theory and concepts and providing extensive geographical coverage, diversity and depth to the many issues pertaining to environmental harm and crime.

Gendun Chopel, Thupten Jinpa, Donald S. Lopez Jr., "Grains of Gold: Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 022609197X | 473 pages | EPUB | 3.6 MB
In 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel (1903-51) sent a large manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in the northeastern corner of Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after twelve years in India and Sri Lanka. But he did not receive the welcome he imagined: he was arrested by the government of the regent of the young Dalai Lama on trumped-up charges of treason. He emerged from prison three years later a broken man and died soon after.

Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, "Government as Practice: Democratic Left in a Transforming India"
English | 2016 | pages: 295 | ISBN: 110710226X | PDF | 3,4 mb
The democratic Left in India is in crisis. During the first decade of this century it slid from its highest parliamentary presence to virtual irrelevance. A key to its retrieval, this book argues, lies in its ability to imagine a new popular politics for reinventing its democratic credentials beyond electoral posturing. In this respect, much can be learnt from the Left's governmental practices as they have evolved since the late 1960s, crafting a unique blend of politics, policy, idealism, practicality, vision and delivery. By looking at the problematics of government from the days of deft land reforms to messy land acquisition, this book situates 'government as practice' as a prism for critical thinking on democratic politics in postcolonial India. Grounded in empirical and archival research, the book will be useful for those who are passionate as well as sceptical about the revival potentials of a new Left in India's fast-changing political economy.

Governance In The Information Era: Theory And Practice Of Policy Informatics By Erik W. Johnston
2015 | 393 Pages | ISBN: 1138832073 | PDF | 3 MB
Policy informatics is addressing governance challenges and their consequences, which span the seeming inability of governments to solve complex problems and the disaffection of people from their governments. Policy informatics seeks approaches that enable our governance systems to address increasingly complex challenges and to meet the rising expectations of people to be full participants in their communities. This book approaches these challenges by applying a combination of the latest American and European approaches in applying complex systems modeling, crowdsourcing, participatory platforms and citizen science to explore complex governance challenges in domains that include education, environment, and health.

Andrea C. Abrams, "God and Blackness: Race, Gender, and Identity in a Middle Class Afrocentric Church"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0814705251, 0814705235, 0814705243 | PDF | pages: 196 | 1.1 mb
Blackness, as a concept, is extremely fluid: it can refer to cultural and ethnic identity, socio-political status, an aesthetic and embodied way of being, a social and political consciousness, or a diasporic kinship. It is used as a description of skin color ranging from the palest cream to the richest chocolate; as a marker of enslavement, marginalization, criminality, filth, or evil; or as a symbol of pride, beauty, elegance, strength, and depth. Despite the fact that it is elusive and difficult to define, blackness serves as one of the most potent and unifying domains of identity.God and Blacknessoffers an ethnographic study of blackness as it is understood within a specific community-that of the First Afrikan Church, a middle-class Afrocentric congregation in Atlanta, Georgia. Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation and in‑depth interviews, Andrea C. Abrams examines how this community has employed Afrocentrism and Black theology as a means of negotiating the unreconciled natures of thoughts and ideals that are part of being both black and American. Specifically, Abrams examines the ways in which First Afrikan's construction of community is influenced by shared understandings of blackness, and probes the means through which individuals negotiate the tensions created by competing constructions of their black identity. Although Afrocentrism operates as the focal point of this discussion, the book examines questions of political identity, religious expression and gender dynamics through the lens of a unique black church.

Glowworm Swarm Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications by Krishnanand N. Kaipa
English | PDF | 2017 | 265 Pages | ISBN : 3319515942 | 100.3 MB
This book provides a comprehensive account of the glowworm swarm optimization (GSO) algorithm, including details of the underlying ideas, theoretical foundations, algorithm development, various applications, and MATLAB programs for the basic GSO algorithm. It also discusses several research problems at different levels of sophistication that can be attempted by interested researchers.

Globalization Revisited By Grahame Thompson
2014 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 1138782890 | EPUB | 3 MB
Written by one of the leading scholars of global politics, Globalization Revisited is a major new book for students of globalization. It describes and explains the challenges to liberalism and the global order as result of globalizing forces - from financial interconnectedness to the growth of religious fundamentalisms.The text:provides a detailed analysis of the economic and financial aspects of globalization;examines the changes to global power and governance created by globalization including its effect on the sovereignty of the nation state;discusses recent trends such as the increased use of networks and social media;assesses the rise of globalizing fundamentalism;analyzes the challenges to globalization posed by contemporary events such as the global financial crisis.This book will be essential reading for all students of globalization, and will be of great interest to students of global politics and global governance.