0807, 2015

The Palestine Exploration Fund celebrates 150th anniversary

By Mary Fisk|July 8, 2015|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, Art and Archaeology, History|0 comments

The Dome of the Rock, viewed from the roof of the Austrian Hospice (via Wikimedia Commons at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jerusalem_Dome_of_the_rock_BW_11.JPG) The Palestine Exploration Fund was founded on May 12th 1865 in the Jerusalem Chamber of Westminster Abbey. One of its founding members was the Dean, Arthur Penhryn Stanley and its roots lay in his involvement with the Jerusalem Water Relief Fund which had necessitated comprehensive professional surveying work in the city in 1864.

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1507, 2013

Development Studies – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 15, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Meeting the challenge of financing water and sanitation : tools and approaches. Ogata-mura : sowing dissent and reclaiming identity in a Japanese farming village / Donald C. Wood. [e-book from ebrary] Pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century : new challenges and emerging paradigms / edited by Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Ludovico Alcorta. Water governance in OECD countries : a multi-level approach. Water, democracy and neoliberalism in india :

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3007, 2012

South Asia – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 30, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

South Asia Pakistans freedom & Allama Mashriqi : statements, letters, chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (movement) period : Mashriqis birth to 1947 / edited & compiled by Nasim Yousaf. Indian and Persian prosody and recitation / Hiroko Nagasaki ; English editing by Ronald I. Kim. Changing homelands : Hindu politics and the partition of India / Neeti Nair. Cross-disciplinary perspectives on a contested Buddhist site : Bodhgaya jataka / [edited by]

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1007, 2012

South Asia – June 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 10, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Sustainable pastoralism in the Himalayas India chronic poverty report : towards solutions and new compacts in a dynamic context Wandering hermit : the Himalayas / Shakti Singh. The verses : Urdu/Hindi-English Pilgrimage tourism / Nirmala Sati, I.K. Mansoori. The hymns of Yajurveda = Yajurvedaḥ Management of water resources in Himalayan ecosystem : a case study / Khalid Rayaz. Women in terrorism : case of the LTTE / Tamara Herath An

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1806, 2012

Development Studies – May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 18, 2012|Development Studies|0 comments

e-books Food and environment : the quest for a sustainable future / editors, V. Popov, C.A. Brebbia. [Dawsonera] Flood prevention and remediation / edited by F.C.B. Mascarenhas. [Dawsonera] Incentives and instruments for sustainable irrigation / edited by H. Bjornlund. [Dawsonera] Management of scarce water resources : a Middle Eastern experience / Hazim K. El-Naser. [Dawsonera] The road to sustainability : GDP and future generations / Federico M. Pulselli … [et al.]. [Dawsonera]

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