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An account of one of the world's most extensive and successful experiments in decentralization. Launched in 1996, the campaign mobilized over three million of Kerala's 30 million people and resulted in bottom-up development planning in all 1052 of its villages and urban neighbourhoods.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

After the publication of the Diagnostic Manual for the Identification of Insect Pathogens, the authors received many queries asking why they had not included the larger metazoan parasites as well as the microbial forms. An examination of the literature indicated that pictorial guides to the identification of nematodes and the immature stages of insect parasites were unavailable. Consequently we decided to rewrite the sections cover­ ing insect...

From an early age, Mercedee witnessed violence and abuse firsthand. Born in Louisiana in 1908, she endured hardships throughout her lifetime. In Mercedee, author M.D. Thomas, Mercedee's granddaughter, narrates a triumphant tale of one particular woman's suffering and how she coped with her many challenges. It is a primitive look at the racism and abuse she endured from her husband, friends, and society. Being severely beaten by her mate, ...

This long-awaited second edition of the successful introduction to the fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis is now completely revised and updated. Written by internationally acclaimed experts, this textbook includes fundamentals of adsorption, characterizing catalysts and their surfaces, the significance of pore structure and surface area, solid-state and surface chemistry, poisoning, promotion, deactivation and selectivity of catalysts, a...

Second tier men like Jesse O. Thomas finalized the dreams of mega stars like Booker T. Washington, Mary Mcleod Bethune, and Eugene Kinkle Jones. "My Story in Black and White is an engrossing picture of Negro-white relationships as seen through the eyes of an active participant in the drama of race relations in America for more than half a century. The life story that Jesse O. Thomas recounts in simple and straightforward fashion is made vivid ...

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An immortal tyrant, an iron ruler, with an insatiable quest for conquering the world of Rygar destroys the glorious city of Trogar. Only two survive, a Princess and a nameless loyal warrior known only by his title, The Blade Warrior, driven by revenge at the loss of everything they hold dear and sacred, the two embark on a dangerous and perilous journey across a land full of the aggressor's forces and indigenous species that inherit the world ...

Explains the origins of poor governments in the formation of the modern state system and describes the way they govern.

Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage.

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The second book in the "Shadow Series" - a series of funny, lighthearted, and honest children's books that bring to light some of the hardships and blessings of raising a child with special needs from the perspective of the person who knows them best - their SIBLINGS.

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Excerpt from A Winter Swallow: With Other Verse In their rage they were trampling me under, When Ino arose on their path And their phalanx was broken asunder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preservi...

Excerpt from In the Young World OW long the days are, mother, Oh, so long' And they were short When I was well and strong. The time will never come, it seems to me, When, before breakfast, I shall go and see What ¿owers have blossomed out since yes terday. So many ¿owers have come and gone away, That I have never seen, the lovely ¿owers! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more...

She goes by one name, a name that lives in infamy, a name that is associated with shock, danger, scandal and desire, a name that once heard, spoken or read is imprinted forever in the mind never to be forgotten. A name that fills men and women with lust and excitement, yearning for more of her sensuous presence, crying out for one invigorating more time with her, to see her eroticism again, to hear each syllable of her rapturous name: Emanuell...

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James B. Stewart, bestselling author of Den of Thieves, raves that Fixers "is a hugely entertaining novel that steps boldly into the most perplexing and enduring mystery of the financial crisis: why its perpetrators were not only not punished, but rewarded by the government." In Fixers, Michael M. Thomas, the New York Times-bestselling novelist and longtime financial insider, has crafted an exhilarating thriller of a top conspiracy between Wal...