| Author | : Sally Armstrong |
| Publisher | : House of Anansi |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2019-09-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1487006802 |
Bestselling author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong argues that humankind requires the equal status of women and girls. The facts are indisputable. When women get even a bit of education, the whole of society improves. When they get a bit of healthcare, everyone lives longer. In many ways, it has never been a better time to be a woman: a fundamental shift has been occurring. Yet from Toronto to Timbuktu the promise of equality still eludes half the world’s population. In her 2019 CBC Massey Lectures, award-winning author, journalist, and human rights activist Sally Armstrong illustrates how the status of the female half of humanity is crucial to our collective surviving and thriving. Drawing on anthropology, social science, literature, politics, and economics, she examines the many beginnings of the role of women in society, and the evolutionary revisions over millennia in the realms of sex, religion, custom, culture, politics, and economics. What ultimately comes to light is that gender inequality comes at too high a cost to us all.
| Author | : Michael Petrou |
| Publisher | : Dundurn |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2012-09-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1459706471 |
Premier foreign correspondent Michael Petrou treks through the Middle East and Central Asia, from Pakistan and Afghanistan to Syria and Egypt, and bring backs blistering stories of turmoil and the people who are driving significant changes.
| Author | : Donald Wyman |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 1255 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 0026320703 |
Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.
| Author | : Sima Samar |
| Publisher | : Saqi Books |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2024-03-12 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 086356884X |
Sima Samar has been fighting for justice all her life. Born into a polygamous family, Samar agreed to an arranged marriage to continue her own education. Once she had qualified as a doctor, she took off into rural areas – on horse, donkey, even on foot – to treat people who had never received medical help before. As the situation worsened, Samar found herself working in increasingly adverse circumstances, and in grave personal danger. After Samar's husband was disappeared by the regime, she faced a choice: to accept the injustices she saw around her or to keep driving for a better Afghanistan. From selling her own hand embroidered bed quilt to pay for her degree, to becoming Vice President in an office with no heating and only beach chairs, Samar has worked tirelessly for human rights in Afghanistan – the worst country in the world to be a woman. In Outspoken, Samar writes unapologetically and unflinchingly about the colossal internal and international political failures that have engulfed Afghanistan over the past five decades – the corruption, tribal tensions and hijacking of religion. But it is also a powerful story of loyalty, diplomacy and integrity; a vision for a brighter dawn.
| Author | : Stephen Sterling |
| Publisher | : WestBow Press |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2011-06-24 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 1449711855 |
Reflection If I change the way I look at things The things I look at change I think thats why the Bible seems So changeable and strange His word is like a magic mirror Reflecting each mans heart What I see in what I read Depends on where I start What I see depends in part On what I think I know Do I trust in my own thoughts Or do I want to grow I listen to the word of God And hear what it should say Conform it to my paradigms And justify my way And thinking I have seen the truth I just see my reflection A god who looks a lot like me A god of self deception http://sjsterling.posterous.com
| Author | : Payam Akhavan |
| Publisher | : House of Anansi |
| Total Pages | : 233 |
| Release | : 2017-09-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1487002017 |
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights struggles of our times. Renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan has encountered the grim realities of contemporary genocide throughout his life and career. He argues that deceptive utopias, political cynicism, and public apathy have given rise to major human rights abuses: from the religious persecution of Iranian Bahá’ís that shaped his personal life, to the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Yugoslavia, the genocide in Rwanda, and the rise of contemporary phenomena such as the Islamic State. But he also reflects on the inspiring resilience of the human spirit and the reality of our inextricable interdependence to liberate us, whether from hateful ideologies that deny the humanity of others or an empty consumerist culture that worships greed and self-indulgence. A timely, essential, and passionate work of memoir and history, In Search of a Better World is a tour de force by an internationally renowned human rights lawyer.
| Author | : U.S. Walia |
| Publisher | : Scientific Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2010-02-02 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9387869342 |
The book entitled “Identification of Weeds and their Control Measures” contains three chapters regarding Identification characteristics, management methods as well as medicinal values of weeds. The first chapter i.e. Identification of weeds contains coloured photographs of important weeds of crops, wasteland and aquatic situations. In this chapter detailed morphological characters of weeds, association with different crops, their dispersal mechanism and growing season etc. are given. Also, important morphological characters pertaining to different weed species i.e. plant height, leaf type, root system, type of stem, growing season, branching habits, flower type and colour, fruits/seeds, habitat, means of propagation etc. are given. Control measures of individual weeds by different weed control methods is also given in detail. In second chapter, control of different weeds species i.e. grass, broad leaf and sedges growing in different crops of kharif and rabi season with different selective herbicides along with their doses and time of application has been given. In addition to field crops, control of weeds in medicinal, spice and aromatic crops as well as fodder and vegetable crops has also been given. In the third chapter, the medicinal value of important weeds/plant parts which can be used to cure different human as well as animal diseases has been discussed.
