01 جنوری 1999 A Return to Modestyis a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery,...
CULTIVATING LIFE by Helen Coll is an aptly titled narrative of a rich life in rural New Hampshire. It is a warm-hearted book about family farming-- personal and candid-- a thoughtful reflection. Through the story are woven anecdotes about everyday life; some make you smile and some make you sad....
With over 100 unusual photographs and an authoritative text, this book documents the history, economy and geography of Senegal, along with a wealth of information on the people and political and social life of the country.
In the 1980s, a commercially viable amount of oil was discovered near Lake Kutubu in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Following the completion of a pipeline from the oil field to a marine terminal in the Gulf of Papua south of Kikori in 1992, the Kutubu Petroleum Development Project...