Claiming a Continent
Author | : David Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Bill Bryson |
Publisher | : VNR AG |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780060161583 |
"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Author | : Doaa Abdel-Motaal |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2016-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440848041 |
The thawing Antarctic continent offers living space and marine and mineral resources that were previously inaccessible. This book discusses how revisiting the Antarctic Treaty System and dividing up the continent preemptively could spare the world serious conflict. The Antarctic Treaty and related agreements—collectively known as the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS)—regulate the seventh continent, which is the only continent without a native human population. The main treaty within the ATS came into force in 1961 and suspended all territorial claims in Antarctica. The Antarctic Environmental Protocol followed in 1998 and prohibited any minerals exploitation in the continent. With this prohibition up for review in 2048, this book asks whether the Antarctic Treaty can continue to protect Antarctica. Doaa Abdel-Motaal—an expert on environmental issues who has traveled through the Arctic and Antarctic—explains that the international community must urgently turn its attention to examining how to divide up the thawing continent in a peaceful manner. She discusses why the Antarctic Treaty is unlikely to be an adequate measure in the face of international competition for invaluable resources in the 21st century. She argues that factors such as global warming, the growth in climate refugees that the world is about to witness, and the increasingly critical quest for energy resources will make the Antarctic continent a highly sought-after objective. Readers will come to appreciate that what has likely protected Antarctica so far was not the Antarctic Treaty but the continent's harsh climate and isolation. With Antarctica potentially becoming habitable only a few decades from now, revisiting the Antarctic Treaty in favor of an orderly division of the continent is likely to be the best plan for avoiding costly conflict.
Author | : David Day |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0732279984 |
Explores the events that have shaped Australia from 1788 to the present day. Day places the original British conquest within the broader context of an ongoing struggle by Australians to secure their possession of the ancient continent and to hold it against future challenges.
Author | : L. Sprague de Camp |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2012-07-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0486147924 |
DIVLeading authority examines facts and fancies behind the Atlantis theme in history, science, and literature. Sources include Plato, Thomas More, K. T. Frost, and many other citations, both famous and lesser-known. Related legends are also recounted and refuted, and reports document attempts to prove the continent's existence, including accounts of actual expeditions. /div
Author | : Howard W. French |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307946657 |
A New York Times Notable Book Chinese immigrants of the recent past and unfolding twenty-first century are in search of the African dream. So explains indefatigable traveler Howard W. French, prize-winning investigative journalist and former New York Times bureau chief in Africa and China, in the definitive account of this seismic geopolitical development. China’s burgeoning presence in Africa is already shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. From Liberia to Senegal to Mozambique, in creaky trucks and by back roads, French introduces us to the characters who make up China’s dogged emigrant population: entrepreneurs singlehandedly reshaping African infrastructure, and less-lucky migrants barely scraping by but still convinced of Africa’s opportunities. French’s acute observations offer illuminating insight into the most pressing unknowns of modern Sino-African relations: Why China is making these cultural and economic incursions into the continent; what Africa’s role is in this equation; and what the ramifications for both parties and their people—and the watching world—will be in the foreseeable future. One of the Best Books of the Year at • The Economist • The Guardian • Foreign Affairs
Author | : Deborah Shapley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1135993866 |
First Published in 2011. Part of the resources for the future library collection on Global Environment and Development, this is the final Volume of seven. This book presents a broad-ranging study of Antarctica's history, politics, and development prospects with a command of issues in geography, science policy, technology, and international law, which is addressed with authority and flair. At this time, nations of the world are struggling to fashion a legal framework to govern Antarctic resources, which some regard as the common heritage of mankind. This debate, described vividly here, represents an ongoing application of the common-property resource concept, which has played a prominent role in RFF's research and analytical contributions during the past quarter-century. Furthermore, the continent's energy and minerals endowment-if exploitable at all (and in the author's judgment the prospects for this are dim)-constitute at best resources for the future.
Author | : Nnimmo Bassey |
Publisher | : Fahamu/Pambazuka |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1906387532 |
Arguing that the climate crisis confronting the world today is rooted mainly in the wealthy economies’ abuse of fossil fuels, indigenous forests, and global commercial agriculture, this important book investigates how Africa has been exploited and how Africans should respond for the good of all. As it examines the oil industry in Africa and probes the causes of global warming, this record warns of its insidious impacts and explores false solutions. Demonstrating that the issues around natural resource exploitation, corporate profiteering, and climate change must be considered together if the planet is to be saved, the book suggests how Africa can overcome the crises of environment and global warming.
Author | : David Day |
Publisher | : Harpercollins Australia |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1998-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780207196706 |
Australian historian David Day reflects upon the racial tensions that have historically divided and destroyed the two clashing cultures that claim Australia as their own. Moving consistently from the past to the present, Day creates an accurate portrait of the Australian people as they have co-existed since the middle of the 18th century. Index.
Author | : Daniela Liggett |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319189476 |
This multi-disciplinary book will cater to students and those who want to have a more critical look behind the scenes of Antarctic science. This book will take a systems approach to providing insights into Antarctic ecosystems and the geophysical environment. Further, the book will link these insights to a discussion of current issues, such as climate change, bio prospecting, environmental management and Antarctic politics. It will be written and edited by experienced Antarctic researchers and scientists from a wide range of disciplines. Academic references will be included for those who wish to delve deeper into the topics discussed in the book.