Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 225 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0585274347
,
0520222296
,
0520218647
,
0520924452
,
9780585274348
,
9780520924451
Content:
The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction. For more than 2,000 years traditional Nauruans, isolated from the rest of the world, lived in social and ecological stability
Content:
Ch. 1. A Pleasant Island -- Ch. 2. Progress Comes to Nauru -- Ch. 3. Nauru's Shadow -- Ch. 4. Living the Myths -- Ch. 5. Science as Story -- Ch. 6. To Love a Cockroach -- Ch. 7. The Market: Master or Servant? -- Ch. 8. The Chimera of Reality
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520222296
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0520218647
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McDaniel, Carl N., 1942- Paradise for sale Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000
Language:
English
URL:
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