<p><i>Pterocarpus santalinus</i> L.f., popularly known as Red Sanders, an endemic tree, belonging to the family Fabaceae is  confined to the southern parts of Eastern Ghats. IUCN has listed this tree as endangered. The plant has superlative characteristics in its wood and has many medicinal properties. This plant has attracted the attention of both foresters and lay man because of its high valued wood which is being illegally harvested creating law and order problem.  This book is a comprehensive monograph on Red Sanders and is divided into 15 chapters. The book provides information on taxonomy, morphology, distribution, wood anatomy, wood properties and uses, dye principle, phytochemistry, pharmacology, Silvicultural aspects, propagation, cultivation practices, reproductive biology, pests and diseases, biotechnology, molecular studies, conservation, trade, commerce, socioeconomic aspects of Red Sanders, and grey areas of research. The book is profusely illustrated with colour photographs and line drawings.  Relevant references have been provided under each chapter. This monograph on Red Sanders with systematic representation of information and illustrations will be a desk reference and field guide to foresters, botanists, researchers, farmers, traders and environmentalists.</p> <br>
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«El Estado dual» es un clásico de la literatura sobre el ordenamiento político y jurídico del Tercer Reich. Escrito bajo el régimen nacionalsocialista y, en expresión del propio Fraenkel, «desde el fondo de su alma», es un producto de la soledad de la emigración interna, del trabajo silencioso, pero activo en lo profesional, lo político y lo intelectual. Aunque el manuscrito se cierra en 1938, es notable la clarividencia de sus planteamientos para el análisis del régimen hasta su hundimiento en 1945. La tesis central del libro es la coexistencia de una doble red de poder político en la Alemania nacional-socialista: por una parte, el aparato estatal, calificado por Fraenkel como «Estado de normas», que, con rigor burocrático, continuaba actuando sobre la base de normas generales; por otra, las estructuras del Partido, omnipresentes y operantes mediante «medidas» circunstanciales, no sujetas a la racionalidad de las normas, ni siquiera a las dictadas por el propio Estado nacional-socialista, y que el autor designa como «Estado de medidas». Fraenkel es consciente de que se trata, no obstante, de una yuxtaposición inestable, pues, por encima de ambas esferas, la regla última queda al arbitrio de los actores políticos, y, en última instancia, del Führer como cabeza única de Estado y Partido. El Estado dual sirve, en definitiva, para ocultar el carácter contradictorio del régimen hitleriano, que busca incrementar la eficiencia del Estado por vía de la arbitrariedad, al par que intenta conciliar (y velar) el ejercicio arbitrario del poder con el orden capitalista, dentro del marco de estructuras institucionales manejables a discreción. Partiendo de la detallada descripción de la arquitectura jurídico-política del Tercer Reich, el libro progresa hacia una reflexión teórica y doctrinal, a la altura del pensamiento alemán (y no solo alemán) de las décadas anteriores a su gestación, con Marx, Hilferding y Schumpeter, pero sobre todo Weber y Mannheim, como principales referentes. Ese armazón teórico permite ver en El Estado dual una esencial contribución a la teoría de la dictadura, como rezaba el subtítulo, ahora recuperado para esta edición, de la primera edición en inglés de la obra en 1941.
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Five hundred years ago a European could search in vain the map of "the world" for America, or Australia, or the Pacific Ocean. Experienced mariners, and even learned geographers, were quite unaware that beyond the Western Sea lay two great continents peopled by red men; of Africa they knew only the northern coast; and in respect of Asia a thousand absurd tales passed current. The unexplored waste of waters that constituted the Atlantic Ocean was, to many ignorant Europeans of the fifteenth century, a terrible region frequented by fierce and fantastic monsters. To the average European the countries surveyed in the preceding chapter, together with their Muslim neighbors across the Mediterranean, still comprised the entire known world.
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The awesome historical adventures from master fantasy author Robert E. Howard! "Red Blades of Black Cathay" "Lord of Samarcand" "The Sowers of the Thunder" "The Lion of Tiberias" "The Shadow of the Vulture" and "Gates of Empire"
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Twice since the Norman Conquest has the little country of England been the center of an empire: once when Henry II of England was at the same time master of half France; and now again when the Union Jack or the red ensign flies over cities and continents of which Henry Plantagenet never dreamed. Yet to use the same word to describe both of these empires seems unfortunate. Indeed, the use of the word "empire" is questionable in either case, only to be sanctioned because we seem to have no other word that will quite answer the purpose. For "empire" is a Roman word. Its use seems to imply in some way absolute power, the centralization which was so fundamentally characteristic of Rome. Yet the feudal empire of Henry II, so far from being centralized, was a mere bundle of separate lordships, thrown together by the accidents of conquest, marriage, and divorce. It was dashed to pieces in the reign of John, built again by Edward III, torn apart once more in the latter years of the fourteenth century, put together in a structure of surpassing glory by Henry V, and finally destroyed in the reign of his son. Through it all, for these three hundred years, England's own well-being and growth were something entirely apart from her connection with these other possessions of her king; the bond that united them had no root in national life.
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourth of the Barsoom series. The principal characters are Carthoris (the son of John Carter of Mars) and Thuvia of Ptarth, each of whom appeared in the previous two novels. While typical in many ways of Burrough's Barsoom novels, it also includes some inventive elements. Carthoris is madly in love with Thuvia. This love was foreshadowed at the end of the previous novel. Unfortunately Thuvia is promised to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol. On Barsoom nothing can break an engagement between a man and woman except death, although the new suitor may not cause that death. Thus it is that Thuvia will have none of him. This situation leaves Carthoris in a predicament. As Thuvia suffers the common Burroughsian heroine's fate of being kidnapped and in need of rescue, Carthoris' goal is abetted by circumstances. Thus he sets out to find the love of his life. His craft is sabotaged and he finds himself deep in the undiscovered south of Barsoom, in the ruins of ancient Aanthor. Thuvia's kidnappers, the Dusar, have taken her there as well, and Carthoris is just in time to spot Thuvia and her kidnappers under assault by a green man of the hordes of Torquas. Carthoris leaps to her rescue in the style of his father. The rescue takes Carthoris and his love to ancient Lothar, home of an ancient fair-skinned human race gifted with the ability to create lifelike phantasms from pure thought. They habitually use large numbers of phantom bowmen paired with real and phantom banths (Barsoomian lions) to defend themselves from the hordes of Torquas. The kidnapping of Thuvia is done in such a way that Carthoris is blamed. This ignites a war between the red nations of Barsoom. Carthoris must try to be back in time with Thuvia to stop the war from breaking loose. Carthoris wonders if his love will ever be requited by the promised Thuvia.
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Almost every historian has set out by regretting how little is known of the early inhabitants of Great Britain - a fact which only the lovers of hoar antiquity deplore, since from all we can with certainty glean from the pages of contemporary history, we should find but little more to interest us than if we possessed written records of the remotest origin of the Red Indians; for both would alike but be the history of an unlettered and uncivilized race. The same dim obscurity, with scarcely an exception, hangs over the primeval inhabitants of every other country; and if we lift up the mysterious curtain which has so long fallen over and concealed the past, we only obtain glimpses of obscure hieroglyphics; and from the unmeaning fables of monsters and giants, to which the rudest nations trace their origin, we but glance backward and backward, to find that civilized Rome and classic Greece can produce no better authorities than old undated traditions, teeming with fabulous accounts of heathen gods and goddesses.
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<p><b>Maître-chien et capitaine dans l’armée française, Louane se bat sur tous les fronts, mais un mystérieux sergent pourrait tout changer...</b></p> <p>À trente ans, Louane est capitaine dans l’armée de terre française et maître-chien spécialisée dans le déminage. Forte et déterminée, elle a gravi les échelons dans un univers dominé par les hommes sans jamais plier sous la pression ou le machisme ambiant. Soutenue par son unité, Louane affronte les dangers du champ de bataille, mais rien ne la prépare à la mission qui va bouleverser sa vie.</p> <p>Un jour, tout bascule : une bombe, des ennemis, du sang et des cris hantent ses nuits et son retour en France est marqué par une absence insupportable, celle de son fidèle compagnon canin. Désemparée, Louane doit surmonter cette perte et trouver la force de continuer. C’est alors qu’apparaît Cayden, un sergent mystérieux et dangereux des Red Eagles. Entre attraction, tensions et décisions difficiles, Cayden pourrait être l’allié dont Louane a besoin... si elle accepte qui il est réellement.</p> <p>Peut-elle se relever après tout ce qu’elle a traversé ? Et retrouvera-t-elle son partenaire à quatre pattes qui l’a accompagnée pendant près de six ans ?</p> <p><b>Plongez dans cette romance haletante pleine d’action, de suspense et d’émotions fortes, où chaque décision peut tout changer.</b></p> <p><br></p> <p></p> <p><b>CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE :</b></p> <p>“On saute à pieds joints dans ce roman pour ne pas en sortir.” <b>- minouche76, <i>Notre passion au fil des pages</i></b></p> <p><b>À PROPOS DE L’AUTEURE :</b></p> <p><b>Natacha Marchand</b>, 37 ans, vit en Picardie avec ses deux fils. Passionnée d’écriture depuis l’âge de 15 ans, elle aime explorer des univers riches et variés, allant du surnaturel au fantastique. Après une carrière dans la vente et le commerce, elle se consacre aujourd’hui pleinement à l’écriture, inspirée par ses passions et ses nombreuses expériences de vie.</p>
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