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...s sail each day to take tourists to the small islands of Halong Bay. And at least a one-day journey from Hanoi to get here is compelling. Fishermen’s villages on the water, big caves to explore, a tasty seafood, an amazing view: everything seems perfect for a visit...

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...The book is a descriptive overview of the culture of the villages. It contains material on the villagers' housing, rice farming and other means of livelihood, community life, festivals, weddings, funerals, sorcerers and healers, as well as village Buddhism. The author draws surpris...

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... Villages and houses ... ...s dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and houses Place for a human community 51 Culture of the river... ... Culture of the river valleys 51 * Lampang Province and City 52 Three villages 53 Ban Srii Muod Klao, central plains village 53 * Ban Mae Kon... ...6 3. Thailand material 1972-1999 .............. I. 17 4. Three villages .............................. I. 55 5. Popularity... ...all to Northern Thailand and collected material on people's lives in three villages in the province and in its centre, the city of Lampang, and archiv... ...al need not adhere to the norms of morality that existed in the Christian villages of the past or in the Buddhist communities of this book. Never has... ...e time, I was interested in the way the structures that had maintained the villages' self-sufficient lifestyle changed as people adapted to 'modern de... ...w local people are coping and constructing their own future. What in these villages constitutes a good life, and what is a good future? What does stru... ...ocal Culture Paikalliskulttuurin rakennemuutos Constructing Future in Thai Villages own geographical environments, local natural resources and the lo...

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...A collection of interrelated short stories concerning the townfolk of a few small New England villages at the turn of the last century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...

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...vization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death. This poignant eyewitness account of the Ukrainian fa...

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...d disappeared. Turn to the Insight Section and you'll discover the masterful work and personal account of Dr. Stephen Huyler who visited countless villages to bring us an insider's tale of rural life, religious practice and family in his "Honoring the Spirit of Community." Ever seen the giant guardians outside of Indian villages or the popular tree shrines and wondered ...

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...ge on Kerala Chapter 15 The miscellaneous affects Techniques of leadership Towns and Cities of India The incessant movement of population from villages to towns in India Non-Sharing of knowledge The thousand Mutinies Illustrations A humorous story Oriental dynamism The weakening of a people Chapter 16 Dignity of labour To put it briefly The immobility of...

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...ors, provided "a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings." During the years that have followed its publication, the second edition of Place Names of Hawaii has become a standard reference in the literature of Hawaii....

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...Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France records her travels along the front in 1914 and 1915, and celebrates the indomitable spirit of the French people. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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...ted. Indonesian movies barely survived on filmgoers in poorer towns and villages across the archipelago, who could not afford to watch a Hollywoo...

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...that too among uneducated women – is lacking more in India and especially in villages of Tamil Nadu than in other states. We see that they are the ... ...hemselves from HIV/AIDS infected husbands W 4 - Uneducated rural women in villages do not have any voice or respect or any form of policymaking... ...realize the importance of education, they are helpless (i.e. women’s work in villages are worthy womb) W 6 - Rural women neglect their health, ... ... masculinity) and bad habits / unconcern about wife R 3 - Most men in the villages don’t give any account for the money they earn or they spend... ...pect for women is lost from the childhood itself. This is very much seen in villages, especially the male child even from a very young age is beat... ...N = (I .8 .0 .0 .9 .7 0 0 0). The resultant shows R 3 – when poverty in the villages is in the on state, R 5 – influence of media in an indetermi... ...not wasted anything. She feels advertisements about HIV/AIDS can be given in villages. She also welcomes free HIV/AIDS test for one and all; she fe... ...the posters behind the buses or autos. She is for more awareness programs in villages. Doctors take proper care of her. She says the children affec... ...standard. From this we indirectly learn that women, that too from the remote villages, value education in their inner minds and they want to get ed...

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... all the flotsam and jetsam of the muddy waters of Mother Ganga? The barges passed little Indian villages and British ‘stations’, small enclaves of... ...he owner of the gun which kills “Sher Saitan” the name given to a tiger, which is preying on the villages around the forest hunting site.’ ‘But is ... ...nged to tear off her enveloping shroud and immerse herself in any little stream they passed. The villages were scattered, the people very suspicious... ...the noise and cries of terror in the distance and she knew that people were dying in the city and villages and as their doctor, she must help them. ... ...d window panes, but terrible cries of human suffering were coming from the native quarter and the villages outside the city. Boats carrying the Nawa... ...Helen plunged once more into her work at the clinic and, accompanied by Doctor Patel, visited the villages that were now rebuilt in the valley beyon... ... and titles as our eighteenth century Nabobs demonstrated.’ Helen followed Dr. Patel through the villages and remembered that he was not a Hindu bu... ... borders of the mountain State. The earthquake had caused landslides in the hills and some of the villages had been crushed. Help had THE CURSE OF ... ...ostility from the village people as she tended to them in the clinic or in their mud huts in the villages. It never failed to surprise her how even ...

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...y tests to come to that conclusion? I didn’t think so.” “I have my word,” said The Chief. “This is not one of your little villages. Your word ...

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... miles along the river Dnepr. Throngs of peasants welcomed the queen. Yet, all the villages - and villagers - were fake. The houses consisted only ...

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...rooftops off homes, and the Nile spilled over its banks, inundating whole villages under a deluge of mud and water. one legend has it that Prophet E...

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...restive boy he slowly dragged his suitcases. He imagined remote Hill Tribe villages on the sidewalks and himself taking his suitcases through the bedr...

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...w he is young still, but I could start training him to look after some of the farmers and villages, but Traeus will not even consider it. He keeps s...

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...s. R E F L E C T I O N S A N D T H O U G H T S 411 Once, there were towns and villages populated by large families. In the generations that followed...

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...t of Life’s King’s countenance. –Rav Yair Chayim Bacharach, Havvot Yair (Villages of Yair) Many fools escape from studying the secrets of the Ari an...

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...of Hawaii with a glossary of important place names in the State, including names of valleys, streams, mountains, land sections, surfing areas, towns, villages, and Honolulu streets and buildings. The first edition of Place Names of Hawaii contained only 1,125 entries. The coverage is expanded in the present edition to include about 4,000 entries, including names in Englis...

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... to describe the beauty of places where he was born, the beauty of nature. The only thing which hero’s doing is the travel on horses across the small villages in the heart of Russia. You can also appreciate the artistic, colorful and talanted description of all that nature if you will read/listen to this small story. (Summary written by Yakovlev Valery)...