"The real life story of Kharika Devkota, a Nepal woman who was married at the age of five, abused for initially having only daughters, and at the age of 90 years, is relatively wealthy, owning rice fields and micro lending to villagers in her rural area"--Publisher information.

"The real life story of Kharika Devkota, a Nepal woman who was married at the age of five, abused for initially having only daughters, and at the age of 90 years, is relatively wealthy, owning rice fields and micro lending to villagers in her rural area"--Publisher information.

"The real life story of Kharika Devkota, a Nepal woman who was married at the age of five, abused for initially having only daughters, and at the age of 90 years, is relatively wealthy, owning rice fields and micro lending to villagers in her rural area"--Publisher information.

Rice ecosystems; Nutrient management; Mineral deficiencies; Mineral toxicities; Tools and information.

A Californian paramedic answers an advertisement for contract work at a military hospital in Saudi Arabia. So his adventure begins. This is a riveting, factual account of his ten years inside a country seldom seen by the outside world. Working on the private medical staff of King Abdullah, no western writer has ever been this close to the "House of Saud". The author takes you on a journey from the desert camps of the Bedouin to the highest echelons of the Saudi royal family. From meetings between King Abdullah and Yasser Arafat to the death of Edi Amin the author documents it all. Themes explored include the contrast of cultures and the rise of terrorism in a post 9/11 world. The author's unique and often humorous perspective provides a view of Saudi society that has never before been documented by any other book in this genre. The author gives an important insight to events that continue to affect the world today.

Carl Lumholtz (1851-1922) was a Norwegian ethnographer and explorer who, soon after publishing an influential study of Australian Aborigines (also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), spent five years researching native peoples in Mexico. This two-volume work, published in 1903, describes his expeditions to remote parts of north-west Mexico, inspired by reports about indigenous peoples who lived in cliff dwellings along mountainsides. While in the US in 1890 on a lecture tour, Lumholtz was able to raise sufficient funds for the expedition. He arrived in Mexico City that summer, and after meeting the president, Porfirio Díaz, he set off with a team of scientists for the Sierra Madre del Norte mountains in the north-west of Mexico, to find the cave-dwelling Tarahumare Indians. Volume 1 covers the start of the expedition and Tarahumare life, etiquette and beliefs, as well as details of the natural history of this little-explored region.