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Most people go to Las Vegas with dreams of striking it rich, winning big at the casinos, and becoming a millionaire. This is not Kayden June's dream. He has come to Las Vegas to lose everything if possible, a seemingly easy thing to do in a city designed for consuming money, but a task that becomes deceptively difficult for this unlucky man from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. When a three-year engagement to his best friend Lucille falls apart, Kayden himself falls apart. He now dreams of an outrageous gambling spree in Vegas, anticipating he will lose his entire life's savings. Instead, he gains an unexpected friendship under circumstances he could have never imagined. All thanks to a drug calle...
Mason's World Dictionary of Livestock Breeds, Types and Varieties, now in its sixth edition, has a long history as a reliable and authoritative source of key livestock breed information. Intended as a list of livestock names and synonyms for breeds, groups, types and varieties worldwide, the dictionary aims to include all names found in the literature, 'defining' each breed or type with a brief indication of identifying characteristics, uses and source of origin.
The Starving Empire traces the history of famine in the modern French Empire, showing that hunger is intensely local and sweepingly global, shaped by regional contexts and the transnational interplay of ideas and policies all at once. By integrating food crises in Algeria, West and Equatorial Africa, and Vietnam into a broader story of imperial and transnational care, Yan Slobodkin reveals how the French colonial state and an emerging international community took increasing responsibility for subsistence, but ultimately failed to fulfill this responsibility. Europeans once dismissed colonial famines as acts of god, misfortunes of nature, and the inevitable consequences of backward races livi...
This is the third in an essential series of Springer handbooks that explore key aspects of the nexus between demography and social science. With an inclusive international perspective, and founded on the principles of social demography, this handbook shows how the rural population, which recently dropped below 50 per cent of the world total, remains a vital segment of society living in proximity to much-needed developmental and amenity resources. The rich diversity of rural areas shapes the capacity of resident communities to address far-reaching social, environmental and economic challenges. Some will survive, become sustainable and even thrive, while others will suffer rapid depopulation. ...
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