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Climate Change Adaptation in Small Island Developing States. by Bush, Martin J.

Table of Contents: “…Environmental and Social Benefits -- Crop Rotation -- Landscape Impacts -- Soil Erosion -- Rice Production -- Irrigation -- Adaptation Technologies for Agriculture -- Water Resources Management -- Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) -- The Caribbean SIDS -- The Pacific SIDS -- The Indian and Atlantic Ocean SIDS -- Agricultural Water Management (AWM) -- Rainwater Harvesting and Management -- Rainwater Harvesting from Rooftops -- Wastewater Treatment and Recycling -- Reclaimed Water for Agricultural Use -- Wastewater Treatment -- Fisheries and Aquaculture -- Disaster Risk Management -- Adaptation and Mitigation Synergies -- References -- Chapter 4 Adapting Energy Systems -- Depending on Energy -- Access to Electricity -- Renewable Energy -- Photovoltaic (PV) Electricity -- Minigrid Systems -- Distributed PV Systems -- Wind Power -- Solar Water Heaters -- Hydropower -- Geothermal Energy -- Solar Thermal Power -- Energy Efficiency -- References -- Chapter 5 Managing Adaptation -- The Key Climate Hazards -- The Regulatory Framework -- Environment -- Energy -- Building and Construction -- Transport -- Water -- Economy -- National Adaptation Programs of Action -- Financing Adaptation -- The Green Climate Fund -- The Adaptation Fund -- Programme Development -- Geographical Information Systems -- References -- Chapter 6 Country Profiles -- American Samoa -- Anguilla -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Aruba -- The Bahamas -- Bahrain -- Barbados -- Belize -- British Virgin Islands -- Cabo Verde -- Comoros -- Cook Islands -- Cuba -- Dominica -- Dominican Republic -- Fiji -- French Polynesia -- Grenada -- Guam -- Guinea-Bissau -- Guyana -- Haiti -- Jamaica -- Kiribati -- Maldives -- Marshall Islands -- Mauritius -- Micronesia, Federated States -- Montserrat -- Nauru -- New Caledonia -- Niue -- Northern Mariana Islands -- Palau -- Papua New Guinea.…”
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Language endangerment : disappearing metaphors and shifting conceptualizations

Table of Contents: “…Metaphors from the taste domain in Papua New Guinea ; 4.1 Metaphors from the taste domain in Tok Pisin ; 4.2 Metaphors from the taste domain in Gwahatike ; 4.3 Metaphors from the taste domain in Gadsup ; 4.4 Metaphors from the taste Domain in Tairuma ; 4.5 Metaphors from the taste domain in Guhu Samane ; 4.6 Metaphors from the taste domain in Dawawa ; 4.7 Metaphors from the taste domain in Kamano-Kafe ; 5. …”
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Ritual and belief : readings in the anthropology of religion

Table of Contents: “…Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People / Roy A. Rappaport -- Reading 10-3. …”
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The annual register : world events 2005

Table of Contents: “…AUSTRALASIA AND THE PACIFIC -- AUSTRALIA -- PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- NEW ZEALAND -- PACIFIC ISLAND STATES -- XI. …”
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Eruptions that Shook the World. by Oppenheimer, Clive

Table of Contents: “…3.3.4 Eruption timing3.4 Summary; 4 Forensic volcanology; 4.1 Reading the rocks; 4.1.1 Characteristics of tephra deposits; 4.1.2 Estimating eruption parameters; Eruption magnitude; Eruption intensity; 4.1.3 Dating eruptions; Potassium and argon; Radiocarbon; Fission tracks; 4.1.4 Tephrochronology; 4.1.5 Volatile yields; 4.2 Ice cores; 4.2.1 Geochemical fingerprinting; 4.2.2 Volatile yields; 4.3 Tree rings; 4.4 Summary; 5 Relics, myths and chronicles; 5.1 Archaeological perspectives; 5.1.1 El Salvador's 'Pompeii'; 5.1.2 Arenal volcano, Costa Rica; 5.1.3 Papua New Guinea; 5.2 Oral traditions.…”
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Language processing and grammars : the role of functionally oriented computational models

Table of Contents: “…Case studies ; 5.1 Case study 1: Indo-European languages ; 5.2 Case study 2: Languages of Papua New Guinea ; 6. Conclusions and outlook ; Acknowledgments ; References ; Lexical-syntactic analysis model of Spanish multi-word expressions; 1. …”
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At home and in the field : ethnographic encounters in Asia and the Pacific islands.

Table of Contents: “…Yamada -- Shoon Pakin, soou tittilap: researching narrative discourse in Micronesia / Emerson Lopez Odango -- Talking with the moai in Easter Island: placing Rapa Nui language / Forrest Wade Young -- Blogging in Papua New Guinea / Steven Edmund Winduo -- Prostitutes, menstrual blood, minor-wives, and feeding the ducks: learning about gender in Thailand / LeeRay M. …”
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Diverse scenarios of syntactic complexity

Table of Contents: “…Syntactic complexity and language contact; Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: Areal influences within Highland New Guinea; 1. Introduction; 2. Switch-reference in Kobon and Haruai: The basics; 2.1 Switch-reference morphology in Kobon and Haruai; 3. …”
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Quantitative approaches to linguistic diversity : commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh

Table of Contents: “…Discussion; 6.1 Africa; 6.2 Eurasia; 6.3 New Guinea; 6.4 North America; 6.5 Middle and Northern South America; 6.6 Central South America; 7. …”
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Language death and language maintenance : theoretical, practical, and descriptive approaches

Table of Contents: “…1 General remarks2 The Austronesian language group (background information); 2.1 Past migrations of the Austronesians and the history of their languages; 2.2 Classification of the Austronesian languages; 3 Endangerment of Austronesian languages (with statistics on endanger ment of Papuan languages where relevant); 3.1 Introductory remarks; 3.2 Taiwan; 3.3 The Philippines; 3.4 Indonesia; 3.4.1 Introduction; 3.4.2 Borneo; 3.4.3 Sumatra; 3.4.4 Sulawesi; 3.4.5 Maluku; 3.4.6 Timor-Flores and Bima-Sumba areas; 3.4.7 West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya); 3.4.8 East Timor; 3.5 Papua New Guinea…”
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The annual register : world events in 1973

Table of Contents: “…AUSTRALASIA -- CHAPTER 1 -- AUSTRALIA -- PAPUA-NEW GUINEA -- CHAPTER 2 -- NEW ZEALAND -- CHAPTER 3 -- THE SOUTH PACIFIC -- IX. …”
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Word hunters : field linguists on fieldwork

Table of Contents: “…The Manambu of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea; 2.1 A multitude of names; 2.2 The Manambu clans and naming system; 2.3 The totems, and the terms of address; 3. …”
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Biological distance analysis : forensic and bioarchaeological perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Scott -- A baffling convergence: tooth crown and root traits in Europe and New Guinea / G.R. Scott, R. Schomberg -- Population biodistance in global perspective: assessing the influence of population history and environmental effects on patterns of craniomandibular variation / N. von Cramon-Taubadel -- A biodistance for mandibles from Taiwan, Asia, and the Pacific: a search for Polynesian origins / M. …”
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Still more Englishes by Görlach, Manfred

Table of Contents: “…3.3.7 India and Southeast Asia3.3.8 Papua New Guinea; 3.4 Reactions to English in non-anglophone societies; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 Ulster Scots -- a language?…”
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The annual register : world events in 1972

Table of Contents: “…AUSTRALASIA -- CHAPTER 1 -- AUSTRALIA -- TERRITORY OF PAPUA-NEW GUINEA -- CHAPTER 2 -- NEW ZEALAND -- IX. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION -- CHAPTER 1 -- EAST-WEST NEGOTIATIONS -- CHAPTER 2 -- THE UNITED NATIONS AND ITS SPECIALIZED AGENCIES -- INTRODUCTION -- POLITICAL -- DEPENDENCIES -- ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL -- CHAPTER 3 -- THE COMMONWEALTH -- CHAPTER 4 -- INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE ORGANIZATIONS -- THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION -- THE WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION -- THE SOUTH EAST ASIA TREATY ORGANIZATION -- THE CENTRAL TREATY ORGANIZATION -- CHAPTER 5 -- REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS -- THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY -- THE EUROPEAN FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION -- THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE -- WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION -- THE NORTH ATLANTIC ASSEMBLY -- COMECON -- X. …”
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The annual register : world events in 1975

Table of Contents: “…AUSTRALASIA AND SOUTH PACIFIC -- CHAPTER 1 -- AUSTRALIA -- PAPUA-NEW GUINEA -- CHAPTER 2 -- NEW ZEALAND -- CHAPTER 3 -- THE SOUTH PACIFIC -- X. …”
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The annual register world events in 1974

Table of Contents: “…AUSTRALASIA AND SOUTH PACIFIC -- CHAPTER 1 -- AUSTRALIA -- PAPUA-NEW GUINEA -- CHAPTER 2 -- NEW ZEALAND -- CHAPTER 3 -- THE SOUTH PACIFIC -- X. …”
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Small wild cats : the animal answer guide by Sanderson, James

Table of Contents: “…; Why are there only domestic small cats on Madagascar, Australia, New Guinea, and New Zealand?; How are small cats classified?…”
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The annual register : world events in 1978

Table of Contents: “…AUSTRALASIA AND SOUTH PACIFIC -- CHAPTER 1 -- AUSTRALIA -- PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- CHAPTER 2 -- NEW ZEALAND -- CHAPTER 3 -- THE SOUTH PACIFIC -- XI. …”
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The annual register : world events in 1968

Table of Contents: “…THE COMMONWEALTH -- CHAPTER 1 -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 -- CANADA -- CHAPTER 3 -- AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND -- AUSTRALIA -- PAPUA-NEW GUINEA -- NEW ZEALAND -- CHAPTER 4 -- INDIA-PAKISTAN-CEYLON-MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE, AND BRUNEI-HONG KONG -- INDIA -- PAKISTAN -- CEYLON -- MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE, AND BRUNEI -- HONG KONG -- CHAPTER 5 -- ZAMBIA-MALAWI-RHODESIA-KENYA-TANZANIA-UGANDA-SWAZILAND, LESOTHO, AND BOTSWANA -- ZAMBIA -- MALAWI -- RHODESIA -- KENYA -- TANZANIA -- UGANDA -- SWAZILAND, LESOTHO, AND BOTSWANA -- CHAPTER 6 -- GHANA-NIGERIA-SIERRA LEONE-THE GAMBIA -- GHANA -- NIGERIA -- SIERRA LEONE -- THE GAMBIA -- CHAPTER 7 -- THE COMMONWEALTH CARIBBEAN -- THE WEST INDIES-GUYANA-BRITISH HONDURAS -- THE WEST INDIES -- GUYANA -- BRITISH HONDURAS -- CHAPTER 8 -- CYPRUS-MALTA-GIBRALTAR -- CYPRUS -- MALTA -- GIBRALTAR -- III. …”
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Strong, safe, and resilient : a strategic policy guide for disaster risk management in East Asia and the Pacific

Table of Contents: “…; Figure 3.1 Elements of Risk Identification and Risk Reduction in DRM; Figure 3.2 Hazard, Exposure, and Risk Maps for Papua New Guinea.…”
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Encyclopedia of capital punishment in the United States by Palmer, Louis J., Jr., 1956-

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Profiles of people in power : the world's government leaders by East, Roger

Table of Contents: “…Patterson -- Japan / Akihito and Junichiro Koizumi -- Jordan / Abdullah II and Ali Abu al-Ragheb -- Kazakhstan / Nursultan Nazarbayev and Imangali Tasmagambetov -- Kenya / Mwai Kibaki and Daniel arap Moi -- Kiribati / Teburoro Tiito -- Korea, North / Kim Il Sung, Kim Yong Nam, Kim Jong II and Hong Song Nam -- Korea, South / Kim Dae Jung, Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Suk Soo -- Kuwait / Sheikh Jaber and Sheikh Saad -- Kyrgyzstan / Askar Akayev and Nikolay Tanayev -- Laos / Khamtay Siphandone and Bounnyang Vorachit -- Latvia / Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Einars Repse -- Lebanon / Emile Lahoud and Rafiq al-Hariri -- Lesotho / Letsie III and Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili -- Liberia / Charles Taylor -- Libya / Moamer al-Kadhafi and Mubarak al-Shamikh -- Liechtenstein / Hans-Adam II and Otmar Hasler -- Lithuania / Valdas Adamkus, Rolandas Paksas and Algirdas Brazauskas -- Luxembourg / Henri and Jean-Claude Juncker -- Macedonia / Boris Trajkovski and Branko Crvenkovski -- Madagascar / Marc Ravalomanana and Jacques Sylla -- Malawi / Bakili Muluzi -- Malaysia / Syed Sirajuddin and Mahathir Mohamed -- Maldives / Maumoon Abdul Gayoom -- Mali / Amadou Toumani Toure and Ahmed Mohamed Ag Hamani -- Malta / Guido de Marco and Eddie Fenech Adami -- Marshall Islands / Kessai Note -- Mauritania / Maaouya ould Sid' Ahmed Taya and Cheikh el-Avia ould Mohamed Khouna -- Mauritius / Karl Offmann and Anerood Jugnauth -- Mexico / Vicente Fox -- Micronesia / Leo Falcam -- Moldova / Vladimir Voronin and Vasile Tarlev -- Monaco / Rainier III and Patrick Leclercq -- Mongolia / Natsagyn Bagabandi and Nambariyn Enkhbayar -- Morocco / Mohammed VI and Driss Jettou -- Mozambique / Joaquim Alberto Chissano and Pascoal Mocumbi -- Myanmar / Than Shwe -- Namibia / Sam Nujoma and Theo-Ben Gurirab -- Nauru / Rene Harris and Bernard Dowiyogo -- Nepal / Gyanendra and Lokendra Bahadur Chand -- Netherlands / Beatrix and Jan Peter-Balkenende -- New Zealand / Dame Silvia Cartwright and Helen Clark -- Nicaragua / Enrique Bolanos -- Niger / Mamadou Tandja and Hama Amadou -- Nigeria / Olusegun Obasanjo -- Norway / Harald V. and Kjell Magne Bondevik -- Oman / Qaboos -- Pakistan / Pervez Musharraf and Mir Zafarullah Jamali -- Palau / Tommy Remengesau -- Palestine / Yassir Arafat -- Panama / Mireya Moscoso -- Papua New Guinea / Silas Atopare and Michael Somare -- Paraguay / Luis Gonzalez Macchi -- Peru / Alejandro Toledo and Luis Solari -- Philippines / Gloria Macapagal Arroyo -- Poland / Aleksander Kwasniewski and Leszek Miller -- Portugal / Jorge Sampaio and Jose Manuel Durao Barroso -- Qatar / Sheikh Hamad and Sheikh Abdullah -- Romania / Ion Iliescu and Adrian Nastase -- Russian Federation / Vladimir Putin and Mikhail Kasyanov -- Rwanda / Paul Kagame and Bernard Makuza -- St. …”
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