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  • Restoring Balance

    Bangladesh's Rural Energy Realities

    Series Book 181 - World Bank Working Papers
    Rural energy’s importance to the Bangladesh economy cannot be underestimated, The problems rural people face in obtaining safe, clean, and reliable energy supplies are not minor inconveniences. People are cooking with biomass fuels including large amounts of leaves and grass that expose them harmful indoor air pollution. They light with kerosene or sometimes candles which give off a dim light ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change for Bangladesh

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Bangladesh faces many challenges. So long it has been mainly the traditional ones of socio economic development and eradication of poverty. Environment as a major factor in this process has only recently entered the scene. But even before environmental considerations in the development process has become the normal practice, the spectre of climate change has reared its ugly head. While Bangladesh ... Read more

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  • Rhymes

    Welcome to RHYMES, a colorful world where imagination smiles, nature sings, and every page brings a little magic! This book is made for young readers who love fun stories, gentle adventures, and playful characters. Each rhyme is written with simple words, musical rhythm, and joyful ideas—so children can read, recite, and enjoy every line.Inside these pages, you will meet dancing elephants, ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender, Climate Change and Livelihoods

    Vulnerabilities and Adaptations

    This book applies a gendered lens to evaluate the dynamic linkages between climate change and livelihoods in developing countries. It examines how climate change affects women and men in distinct ways, and what the implications are for earning income and accessing the natural, social, economic, and political resources required to survive and thrive. The book's contributing authors analyze the ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Surge in Solar-Powered Homes

    Experience in Off-Grid Rural Bangladesh

    Series series Directions in Development - Energy and Mining
    Bangladesh has the world's fastest growing, off-grid solar home system (SHS) coverage. The number of SHS installations has risen phenomenally—from a five-year target of 50,000 in 2003 to 50,000 a month a decade later. By early 2014, installations totaled more than 3 million. Even so, this figure represents just 10 percent of the country's off-grid households, suggesting ample room for continued ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change Impacts and Women’s Livelihood

    Vulnerability in Developing Countries

    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by investigating the structure of women’s livelihoods and coping capacity in a disaster vulnerable coastal area of Bangladesh.The research findings suggest that the distribution of livelihood capitals of vulnerable women in rural Bangladesh is heavily ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • What the Qur'an Says

    It is unfortunate that Islam is a most misunderstood religion in the world. ManyNon-Muslims have misgivings about Islam due to prejudice and ignorance andalso for the actions of some sections of Muslims who manipulate the teachings of the Quran according to their vested interests or half-baked knowledge.This book throws light on the actual Quranic guidance on the religious, familial, social, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Restoring Balance: Bangladesh's Rural Energy Realities

    Rural energy's importance to the Bangladesh economy cannot be underestimated. The problems rural people face in obtaining safe, clean, and reliable energy supplies are not minor inconveniences. People are cooking with biomass fuels including large amounts of leaves and grass that expose them harmful indoor air pollution. They light with kerosene or sometimes candles which give off a dim light that ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

    In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food ... Read more

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  • Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as ... Read more

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  • The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

    Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

    by Michael Levi ...
    The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to find out what's really happening-and which side is right. From the back roads of Ohio where old friends ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Science and Technology for Development

    by James Smith ...
    Series series Development Matters
    How can science realize its potential and help us tackle global inequality, environmental change and crippling poverty? How can more appropriate technologies be developed for those most in need? Science has long promised much -- new crops, new medicines, new sources of energy, new means of communication -- but the potential of new technologies has frequently bypassed the poorest people and the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD