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Who are the Maoris and why do they wear tattoos? Why do we call people from New Zealand "Kiwis"? Who are the All Blacks? And why do they dance the haka? Why are adventure sports so popular in New Zealand? Find out the answers to those questions and much more in this profile of New Zealand - a country full of magical stories, exciting sports, and wonderful places. Cambridge Discovery Readers is an exciting new series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks, specifically written for pre-teen and teenage learners of English. Graded into seven levels - from Starter to Advanced - the readers provide easy and enjoyable reading with skills and vocabulary practice on a wide range of contemporary topics and themes. Book jacket.
This is more than just another cookbook. A Cut Above comprises of over 70 beef recipes each with its own a tantalising photo and easy to follow instructions. The selection of recipes is varied; from quick and easy to long and slow cooking, there are great ideas for the barbeque and a comprehensive selection of offal recipes. The collection of beef recipes is interspersed with photographs and written stories from our rural landscape. A selection of farms from Waitangi in the far north to Otago in the south, are beautifully presented, giving the reader a lovely insight into life on the land. Portrayed is the dedication of the farmers and their families of some of New Zealand’s leading Angus breeders, in their quest to produce great tasting grass-fed beef in New Zealand.
Natural resources have supported life on Earth for over 3.5 billion years. However, many of the nonliving resources human beings use, including fossil fuels, will run out one day, and resources such as air, water, and soil, are in danger from human activity. Includes information about renewable resources, sustainable development, population growth, energy resources, and ecological footprints.
Delivering sustainable energy solutions has become a fundamental task of spatial planning. This dissertation considers the field of tension between higher-tier energy schemes and local-level implementation practices by analysing regional planning policies regarding wind power from an institutional perspective. Institutional challenges in spatial planning are closely related in particular to the flexibility and adaptability of those planning practices that are needed to supply ´acceptable locations´. Similar trends can be detected at a European level: targeted energy values are combined with administratively defined spaces - by putting the zoning of wind energy generation on regional spatial planning agendas. The outlining of wind power zones is not merely a technical act that determines the territorial spread of wind turbines. Rather, it configures social-organisational entities in which regionally varying sets of actors interact and, in the best case, join forces.
One of the minor miracles of art history is the extraordinary flowering of Indian painting that began in the mid-sixteenth century under the early Mughal emperors of Indian, notably Akbar the Great. Only in recent decades has the consummate artistry of early Mughal painting come to be widely appreciated in the West. Scholars have noted the innovations--departures from both Islamic and native Indian tradition--of the new, highly distinctive school of painting, among them natural history studies, a concern for portraiture, and the documentation of contemporary court events. Milo Beach traces, with an abundance of captivating illustrations, the evolution of the Mughal style. While acknowledging...
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
This volume contains a collective biography of those students of the medieval university of Erfurt (founded in 1392), for whom a study of the iura (canon and civil law) can be demonstrated. On the base of a prosopographical apparatus of more than 700 biographies (available on CD-ROM) their social antecedents, their courses of studies, their careers and professional activities are analyzed. The book tries to find statistically supported answers for questions, which have been discussed by German constitutional, legal and social historians for a long time; questions which can be summarized under the term “Verwissenschaftlichung” of governmental action in late medieval Germany. The volume also presents a contribution to the history of the medieval university of Erfurt from a prosopographical perspective.