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This book highlights some of the main areas of debate around the subject of agricultural policy in Eastern Africa. Its major aim is to introduce the reader to different issues of economic and social change arising from agricultural development and to provide an understanding of some of the major difficulties faced by African countries in pursuing an agricultural policy.

Agricultural policy is analyzed by creating a contextual framework in light of the major policy documents of the World Bank to formulate an understanding of the developmental issues pertaining to agriculture. This is not meant to be a comprehensive study of agricultural policy but a mode of analysis in which broad sector agricultural policies can be viewed as a potentially active agent of social change and development.

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Get the facts on the outer planets - Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto! Learn about unique features like enormous Jupiter's "Great Red Spot", the strong winds of Neptune, the rings of Saturn and other planets, tipped over Uranus, and distant, cold Pluto. Discover the many moons of these planets and be astounded as you gaze at satellite images and movies from space. Learn about comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. Gain an appreciation of the missions and explorations into the far reaches of our solar system.

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Excellent guide to many hikes

Hiking Death Valley: A Guide to Its Natural Wonders & Mining Past

A beyond exceptional hiking guide

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Hiking Death Valley: A Guide to Its Natural Wonders & Mining Past
Michel Digonnet
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Need more stars for this guide........2006-11-14

A rare guide that is so complete i can stop looking further. I don't know how he has covered so much ground in one lifetime. Digonnet's love of Death Valley shines through. A pleasure to read but heavy for the backpack...i am ordering a fresh copy cuz the old one is beat up and has many pages torn out. Also, take care to assess your idea of strenuous against his to avoid finding yourself in over your head.

Excellent guide to many hikes.......2006-03-30

Be aware that Digonnet omits a few common destinations in this book. But it's by far the best guide to the huge number of hikes that he does include. Rely on this book for the majority of your destinations, but get another guide to fill in the gaps. Also keep in mind that areas described as "easy scrambles" for someone with a technical climbing background like Digonnet may be more difficult for flat-ground hikers.

Hiking Death Valley: A Guide to Its Natural Wonders & Mining Past.......2006-02-25

This is a really good comprehensive guide that doesn't give away too many secrets. All the standard destinations are well covered, plus many out in the sticks, but it leaves plenty for you to discover on your own. Will definitely stay in my library, get loaned to friends, get destroyed or lost...all signs of a worthwhile guide.

A beyond exceptional hiking guide.......2006-02-07

I have been visiting Death Valley for 35 years, and I have been there more times than I can remember. This includes many back-country and dirt road trips thoughout the region. I love the place. I have also been an avid hiker, backpacker, mountain climber and general wilderness enthuthiast for 40 years.

I got this book a few years ago, and it was a revelation of new opportunities and information about Death Valley backcountry. It was also one of the best hiking guides I have ever read. I cannot recommend it higher for someone interested in taking their exploration of Death Valley to a new level. It also has enough easy hikes that someone interested in dipping their toe into the world of desert wilderness exploration can still get a good taste of it, and also know that the particular hike will not expose them to dangers beyond their skill level.

It is not an ideal guide for a beginner, nor is it sufficient in and of itself to enjoy Death Valley. You would need a good overall map of the park -- the NPS topo map of the whole park is ideal for that purpose. You should also have some familiarity with the rigors of exploring desert wilderness -- the book seems to assume that the reader already has some of this background, though it does have a useful discussion of this subject. But for the enthuthiast who alrady has this info or is already familiar with it, the book is incredible.

If you are a neophyte, don't be intimidated and not buy this book. It will serve as a wonderful portal to a world that you have heard about -- just be careful since desert wilderness exploration can be daunting.

Comprehensive.......2005-09-09

The author, Mr Digonnet (or do you say "Doggonit" or "Dagnabit") is a great lover of the Death Valley region of the Mojave Desert, and seems to have dedicated a good portion of his life to studying it.
Just about all the information is there to plan a lifetime of hiking in this region. After a few brief chapters dealing with natural (e.g., geography) and human history, plant and animal life, desert hiking tips, and NPS and other services, we get into the meat of the text--the various regions, which are divided as such:
Grapevine Mountains
Funeral Mountains
Black Mountains
Valley Floor and Alluvial Fans
Last Chance Range
Cottonwood Mountains
Panamint Mountains
Eureka, Saline, and Panamint Valleys
After a brief overview of each region (which includes a list of suggested hikes lasting between a few hours and two days), there are sub-chapters exploring significant areas within these larger regions. For instance, under the section called Last Chance Range, there is a piece about the Racetrack Valley. There is some general information about Racetrack Valley, such as road access, shortest and longest hikes, and main attractions. This is followed with five pages of more specific text, two black and white photos, elevations of various sites, and a map. This more or less repeats for every area of Death Valley. (I counted 69 total.) Understandably, with Death Valley being by far the largest national park in the lower 48, the book is quite comprehensive.
The only major thing I would have liked to have seen, a ploy that would have better put the whole book together and made it easier to navigate, would have been a better, more comprehensive map of the whole Death Valley region, in color, and marked to show exactly where each book-chaptered region and smaller area is. The whole book could then stem from such a map, a rock-steady reference point. Instead, the book contains only one map of the whole region, and it's not very big or detailed. For this reason, you have to really dig in and read each section to figure out where it is, and many hikers don't want to have to do that. They'd rather have a book that's clear to navigate and find things quickly, and then if they want to read further and get more detail, they can do that as well.
In summary, Hiking Death Valley is a thorough view of Death Valley and its endless hikes, but it is a bit cumbersome to plow through, and it needs stronger reference points.

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Danger in the Desert is cool even if it is in a desert!.......2006-12-14

There are 2 boys. Scott and Robbie hardly ever get along until when their car gets stolen with Scott and Robbie still in it. The theif soon leaves the car in the middle of the desert. How can Robbie and Scott servive? How will they get back home. Read it to find out. I did and it is great. It is cool even if it is in the desert.

Danger in the Desert Review.......2006-10-10

In this book two kids Robbie and Scott, got kidnapped by a stranger. They were in a station wagon that was getting gas and their mom left them in the car because she had to pay for the gas. After they got kidnapped the stranger left them in the car in the middle of the desert. Scott tried to drive the car to the freeway in Glendale, Arizona. But the car ran out of gas. If you remembered they were getting gas. I think other 4th graders should read this book because it is very interesting.

Great reading for Fourth Graders.......2004-09-01

I read this book prior to my fourth grader reading it and enjoyed it from front to back. Practical life skills are incorporated into an intriguing story about an unplanned adventure two young boys suddenly become part of. My fourth grader could not put it down - there are good lessons to be learned from this story and many great topics for discussion at home, as one works their way thru the story.

Danger in the Desert.......2003-12-16

Have you ever wanted to have candy and root beer for dinner? Well in Danger in the Desert, T.S Fields shows you that it isn't that fun. In this realistic fiction book, two kids, Robbie and Scot would always fight. They never got along and when there car got kidnapped, they were in the car too so the two robbers left the eleven year old and the nine year old out in he desert with nothing but their own car. Their car had root beer and life-savers (candy) in it. My favorite quote from this book was, "Let me try!" which is always what Robbie would say. My favorite part is when Robbie and Scott were in the car (fighting of course) and they wanted to get each other in trouble by their mother. Their mother stopped at a gas station for a second to get something inside the store, when Robbie planned that when she got back in, he would hurry up and put his seatbelt on and yell that Scott doesn't have his seatbelt on. When someone got in the front seat, Robbie did it and yelled. Only that he wasn't his mother, it was a robber. This is one of my most favorite books because I literally never left this book. T.S Fields makes it so fun and exciting like when a snake bit Robbie and Scott had to help him. I really especially like the danger part.
I would defiantly recommend Danger in the Desert to anyone. I stayed with this book the whole time so it was easy to concentrate. I kind of connected to Robbie and Scott because they always fought, and I and my sister always fought. One of the parts was when they were at their house and Robbie kept taking Scott's stuff, that was one of the parts I connected to. I liked this genre because it is realistic-fiction, so I can kind of relate to the story. I also like the style of writing, just the way that he put an exciting part at the end of a chapter, so you just have to keep reading. There were a lot of surprises in the story, like when they emptied out their root beer in their shoe for water; I thought they would have kept the root beer instead. Every chapter ended with a cliff hanger like when they kept hearing noises and they figured it was a snake and thought out a plan, but then they would end a chapter. I didn't think that this book was boring by the plot or the solutions. I really understood this book so my mind didn't wander off. There were sort of a lot of plots in Danger in the Desert, there was one major plot, but still small ones, and they were all unbelievable because they were all dangerous. Anyone that likes action, adventure, and danger would enjoy reading this because that is just how you would describe this book, action, danger, and adventure.

this was an ok book.......2003-05-21

The book is titled Danger in the Desert. The author is T.S.Fields.

My book is about two little boys that are stuck in the desert. And are trying to survive in the desert. They made things so they could be found. They saw a plane and the plane gives them a note. The note said they would go get help. By the time they got there the younger brother was dehydrated. They went to the hospital to get better.

The point of the story is how to survive.

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Kidnapped!

Recklessly she threw herself from the moving truck and ran into the desert, pursued by the kidnapper who had just snatched her best friend, Kayo Benton. Desperate, Rosie Saunders fled, far from the campground and her unsuspecting parents, into the desolate Arizona wasteland. the perfect vacation had suddenly become a nightmare. Rosie was running for her life, with only her wits as weapons, determined to save herself and rescue Kayo at any cost...

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One of the better books in the series.......2000-04-09

This suspenseful book will have children of all ages on the edges of their seats. When Rosie's best friend Kayo is kidnapped, Rosie must discover a way to rescue her on her own.

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DESERT DANGER: FRIGHTMARES #4 (HARDCOVER) (Frightmares, #4)
Peg Kehret
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Nightmares Desert Danger
Peg Kehret
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This volume brings together selected essays on the relationship of culture and consumption. In particular, it stresses the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organized through culture and cultures, and how in turn cultural technologies of consumption construct the person, the senses and the self.

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A Primer on Why Third World Debt Is Such a Mess

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Entertaining & Imformative

1997

Economists On A Mission

The Chastening: Inside the Crisis That Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the Imf
Paul Blustein
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An author who tries to write an engaging book about the International Monetary Fund faces a daunting task. Who besides devoted readers of The Financial Times would want to read it? With The Chastening, however, Paul Blustein offers a remarkably accessible account of this off-putting institution and its importance to the world economy. "The IMF cultivates its mystique, seeking to appear all-knowing, scientific, and detached. To outsiders, it often comes across as a high priesthood with pretensions of divine powers and insight," he writes. Blustein tears down this façade as he recounts some of the epic struggles of recent years: "As markets were sinking and defaults looming, the guardians of global financial stability were often scrambling, floundering, improvising, and striking messy compromises." Through dozens of interviews with IMF insiders, Blustein reveals how the institution really works--and how it often doesn't. There are fast-paced stories of success and failure on these pages, as Blustein describes efforts to bail out faltering economies in Korea, Russia, and elsewhere. Best of all, readers don't need economics degrees to keep pace: anybody who simply wants a primer on global financial systems will be well served by Blustein. --John Miller

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"Gripping, often frightening...should be read by anyone wanting to understand, from the inside, how the international financial system really works." --The Economist

Lauded by reviewers and scholars alike, Paul Blustein's The Chastening examines the role of the International Monetary Fund in the series of economic crises that rocked the globe in the last decade. Based on hundreds of interviews with officials at the IMF, the World Bank, the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve, the White House, and many foreign governments, The Chastening offers a behind-the-scenes look at the Fund during an extraordinarily turbulent period in modern economic history and at a time when the IMF has become the object of intense political controversy.

While the IMF and its overseers at the Treasury and the Fed have sought to cultivate an image of economic masterminds coolly dispensing effective economic remedies, the reality is that as markets were sinking and defaults looming, the guardians of global financial stability were often floundering, improvising, and feuding among themselves. The Chastening casts serious doubt on the IMF's ability to combat of investor panics at a time when massive flows of money traverse borders and oceans.

A readable, compelling account of the deeply flawed workings of the international political system, The Chastening is vital reading for students and scholars of international diplomacy, government, and economic and public policy.

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A Primer on Why Third World Debt Is Such a Mess.......2007-01-01

There are many good reasons to bash the IMF but few reasons to do so if you don't know what you're talking about -- this books lets you do both.

I've spent years in social circles that carry on a tragic lament of third world debt to first world countries, a lament I agree with but often find is expressed through oft-repeated anti-globalization mantras with no perception of how hideously complex the situation is.

This book gives you the tools to make cogent criticisms of the IMF while simultaneously learning about the herculean chore the IMF has before it. Blustein describes the mechanics of how financial crises arose in the fateful year of 1997 in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea, and later in Russia and Brazil. A combination of cookie-cutter shock therapy schemes, out-of-touch IMF officials, incompetent and often corrupt finance ministry officials and Wall Street Bankers converge to make it nearly impossible for countries to escape the wrath of an increasingly volatile group of investors the author appropriately dubs the "Electronic Herd."

The pattern is now a familiar one -- irresponsible fiscal and monetary policy leaves a country exposed to predatory lenders and currency speculators. Investors and debt holders see the country's dwindling hard currency reserves as sign of imminent collapse and begin to sell off every asset they have there, creating a vicious circle of panic. The IMF is called in to make sure the country doesn't go bankrupt by providing loans of hard currency -- but who's being bailed out, the country itself of the lenders that put their money there?

Blustein explains how this dynamic was repeated in each of the countries of the 1997 and 1998 crises, with the IMF response working in everyone's favor in only two cases among a string of dismal failures. He extensively explores the issue of "moral hazard," or the idea that big loan packages to economies in crisis just reinforces irresponsible behavior on the part of both the lenders and the borrowers.

Can get a little tedious at times, and the sequence of events is sometimes hard to follow because so much is being explained at once -- but overall a well written work by a reporter who covered the subject for years.

A Case Study in the Failure of Political Rationalism.......2006-09-26

The Chastening is a ripping, white-knuckle read. This IS the best single book about the IMF, but it is also a lesson in political theory. Like Milton Friedman's "Monetary History of the United States," David Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest," and Robert Conquest's "Harvest of Sorrow," this book is a case study in how superempowered and unaccountable bureaucrats tend make natural disasters incalculably worse. It is an object lesson in how policymaking ambitions are frustrated by human fallibility, especially when the policymaker in question fails to account for that fallibility. At every step, the Fund's planners made horrible missteps with smug confidence, thereby prolonging the suffering of untold millions of people. At every step, they were shocked when reality failed to coorespond to theory and their best intentions backfired. In a subtle way, the doctrinaire rationalist approach taken by the Fund during the Asian crisis presages the failure of the remaking of Iraq. The inherent weakness of theory-laden, top-down political and economic planning is a lesson we must apparently learn over and over again. (For those who appreciate this philosophical dimension to the book, I highly recommend James C. Scott's "Seeing Like a State.")

The IMF is the most powerful single human force on the planet and yet it remains totally almost unknown to public at large. Blustein is to be commended for making the Fund transparent and accessible to all educated people.

Entertaining & Imformative.......2006-08-16

Clearly the best book ever written on the IMF & its inner-workings. Great detail on the theater and players within the IMF and those that make policy. The book is a must read for anyone interested in the world economy.

Regarding the crisis that hit the world financial markets the author does an outstanding job in educating the reader on all of the key elements from Nation/States to Hedge Funds.

By taking individual chapters to break down the elements of the distressed finances of Korea, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, Thailand & wall street the author takes us on a roller coaster ride of international politics, high finance, intrigue & history.

1997.......2006-01-04

1997, S Korea banking system was on the verge of collaspe, as result of violatile banking practices that had destabled the financial system threating the 11th largest economy of the world and created the possibility of financially crippling long term companies like Hyundia, Samsung, and Daewoo. At the time the IMF began analyzing S Korea's financial condition, S Korea bank reserves stood at $24 billion. IMF's, Neiss had no idea how close the S Korean banks were to default and when Neiss arrived in S. Korea the reserves had already fallen to $9 billion and dropping $1 billion a day. Foreign banks were demanding payment on loans come due and the practice of routinely extending payments month after month was canceled causing a massive amount of money due. The short term debt to foreigner was $20 billion. Foreigners on the currency exchange were dumping the won for the dollar and investors were executing a massive selloff of Korean stocks and bonds. When Neiss arrive S Korea was within a week of default. If S Korea defaulted, the default could cause a long and crippling cutoff of loans and neighboring Asian countries might also fall into default and investment confidence could be shattered globally and the world fall into a global recession. The S Korea economic collaspe affected the US economy; in 1998, the bond market ceased to function as a provider of capital to the world; the fed was forced into sharp cuts in the interest rate, but the fed could not tame the savage beast of the global market. The global market beast was enormous. Foreign investment in the selling and buying of stocks and bonds and other securities had reached $17.3 trillion by 1997.

Neiss envisioned three responses to the crisis: 1. acquire a short term loan from Japan 2) gain permission to pay foreign loans in bonds rather than cash 3) stem the panic by showing the market that S Korea banks had plenty of cash. The IMF bailout infused $55 billion and $21 billion from the IMF. S Korea promised to cut budget amounts, raise interest rates, shutdown ailing financial institutions and close the doors, eliminate government direct bank loans, and allow greater freedom for foreign investors to buy stocks and bonds. The IMF bailout followed by a crash in the currency and economy of S. Korea. Financial credibility damage had occurred. IMF bailouts pattern of crashes after loan approval occurred with Thailand ($17 billion loan), Indonesia ($33 billion loan), Russia (1998 - $22 billion loan), and Brazil ($44 billion bailout loan). IMF bailout meant higher interest rates cooling fast growing economies. When a country fails to meet the target goals of the IMF, the IMF blames the government of the country for failing to meet the conditions of the loan. This tactic imposes censurorship and political influence entangling the IMF with the internal policies of the countries political machinery. 1999-2000, the IMF pronounced the Asia financial crisis over.

In fast growing Asian countries, hot money had poured inot these economies. Hot money could be liquidated with a push of a computer button by commerical banks and brokers. Hot money destabilized the S Korean financial systems and increased the violatility in the system.

Criticism of the IMF are it lacks expertise in banking issues, it closes banks and does not consider whether other banks can cover; it can not create money like the fed. In 2001, IMF war chest totaling $137 billion. IMF limitations to financial assets makes it vulnerable to rescuing failsafe countries that could trigger global financial collaspe. Once an IMF bailout is installed, the role of the IMF is too become the financial planner of the country forcing the country to reduce spending and increase income revenue.

Economists On A Mission.......2005-12-23

In Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph Stiglitz claims that the Asian crisis could not have been achieved by market speculators and corrupt politicians alone: it required the involvement of economists, and more specifically of that breed of economists who populate the corridors of the International Monetary Fund, an institution charged with maintaining financial stability and extending credit to countries facing crises.

Although not a professional economist, Paul Blustein provides a more balanced account. Instead of invoking arcane theories and denouncing other people's incompetence to make his point, he sticks to the facts and reconstructs the story of the Asian crisis as people experienced it on the frontline. His most fascinating pages are when he follows IMF economists on rescue missions, from Bangkok and Jakarta to Seoul and back again. You can almost smell the sweat emanating from those figures uniformly clad in white shirts and dark suits, envision the nights spent working on spreadsheets in air-conditioned hotel rooms, feel the tension that reigns once the team has unearthed some unsavory data, witness the embarrassment of the authorities who are asked to spill open their books and confess their best-kept financial secrets, imagine the relief when things fall into place and the program proposal is ready to go to the executive board for approval.

One should not pity IMF economists. They live in poshy Washington, fly business class, stay in five stars hotels and, although they envy the paychecks of their Wall Street colleagues, manage to lead an international bureaucrat's life with a banker's salary. But one also has to acknowledge their high professional standards, their devotion to their tasks and their sense of discipline that contradicts the adage that economists can never agree with one another (remember Winston Churchill, who remarked that "if you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.")

Here is how IMF staffers are perceived by their colleagues from the World Bank, a sister institution located right across the street in downtown Washington:

"Economists from the World Bank, who sometimes work in joint missions with the IMF, express awe at the almost military manners in which Fund staffers defer to their superiors. This protocol is in stark contrast to the code of conduct at the World Bank, an institution devoted to long-term development loans, whose economists or irrigation specialists or environmental experts might embark on a lively disagreement right in front of, say, a borrowing country's deputy finance minister. When an IMF mission enters a room to conduct a negotiation, it is often easy to tell who ranks where; one World Banker likens it to "a mother duck leading her baby ducks." The mission chief typically sits in the middle of the table and does most of the talking, allowing immediate subordinates to chime in on issues requiring their specialized expertise; lower-level staffers are likely to remain silent."

Four year after its publication, the book still makes an interesting read. It could have been adorned with a more telling title (the "chastening" refers to the jacket of the hardcover edition which shows the IMF pilloried with a dunce's cap, as well as to the sense of awe when faced with the recurrence of financial crises that should chasten us all of any sense of complacency). It would also have benefited from the inclusion of a few pictures, and especially that famous snapshot that shows IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus standing, arms crossed, looking down at President Suharto as he signed the revised multi-billion bailout package that was to provide a short respite to the country as it spiraled into chaos. A tell-tale picture, indeed.

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Yunker sets forth the case for initiation of a massive foreign development assistance effort termed the World Economic Equalization Program (WEEP). The scale of the program would dwarf that of all historical foreign aid programs, yet the proposed contributions by the donor nations would not be unmanageable. The richest nations would contribute amounts ranging from three to seven percent of their Gross National Products. Computer simulations of a model of the proposed program over a 50 year period show the possibility of a tremendous rise in the living standards of the poor nations, while, at the same time, the living standards of the rich nations continue to rise at rates closely comparable to those of the recent past. Sensitivity analysis demonstrates that the optimistic conclusions forthcoming from the baseline policy simulation remain robust against wide variations in the numerical parameter values. However, since it is obvious that real world results might not resemble results derived from computer simulation of a theoretical model, the recommendation put forward is that a World Economic Equalization Program be initiated on a tentative and provisional basis, with the explicit intention of terminating it if, after a reasonable period of time, real world results are insufficiently promising. A provocative analysis and proposal aimed primarily at economists and policy makers involved with economic development, international economics, and global economic policy.

Common Progress; the Case for a World Economic Equalization Program.

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Common Progress; the Case for a World Economic Equalization Program.
James A Yunker
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