Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal

2000 Business & Economics

Author : Patrick Bond
Release : 2000
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 114/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal written by Patrick Bond. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After apartheid was dismantled, South Africa's townships anticipated a peace and development dividend. But as the ANC begins its second term in office (1999-2004), the cities have degenerated further into impoverished, polluted, under-serviced, zones of blight and despair. Indeed, in many respects, the townships were worse off than when the ANC took power. In this collection of essays, the author argues that the ANC's adoption of free-market economic and social policies is at the root of these problems and can be blamed for S Africa's uneven urban development.

Cities of Gold

1999 History

Author : Douglas Preston
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 865/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cities of Gold written by Douglas Preston. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern horseback journey across 1,000 miles of desert and wilderness following the trail of the first European explorer in the American Southwest.

Cities of Gold

2003-12-07 Fiction

Author : William K. Hartmann
Release : 2003-12-07
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 33X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Cities of Gold written by William K. Hartmann. This book was released on 2003-12-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southwestern United States has become a battleground for those who promote new land development and those who wish to preserve the land's beauty and heritage. Drawing together contemporary urban land-use politics and a scandal more than four centuries old, William K. Hartmann has crafted a highly charged novel of injustice with powerful echoes in the modern world. Arizona, 1989. Rooney Development, Inc, hires city planner Kevin Scott to research a potential development site outside Tucson. The president of the corporation hopes to find a colorful historical background that will draw investors to the site. Arizona, 1539. Fray Marcos de Niza of Spain journeys into the unknown and reports the fabled seven cities of gold, launching Coronado's huge army of conquistadors to conquer the American southwest. Coronado's soldiers and later scholars eventually called Marcos a fraud and liar, his report a mere fiction. But Kevin, sifting through mountains of historical documents discovers the truth about Marcos. The friar was discredited for others' profit; conquistadors then, and developers now were pursuing American dream to get rich quick—at the expense of land and history. Rooney's development, Kevin realizes, may hold historic clues to the first Spanish explorations of America. Kevin's report to Rooney becomes the central piece of evidence in a tumultuous legal debate over land use, and Kevin finds himself attacked, like de Niza centuries before and threatened by those whose agendas are hindered by truth. Calling on many historical sources, and quoting actual documents written by de Niza and participants in Coronado's army, William K. Hartmann has fashioned a heartbreakingly brilliant novel of timeless beauty and human betrayal. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The City of Gold and Lead

2013-09-10 Juvenile Fiction

Author : John Christopher
Release : 2013-09-10
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 123/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The City of Gold and Lead written by John Christopher. This book was released on 2013-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripods—and risk their lives—in this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. When Will and his friends arrived at the White Mountains, they thought everything would be okay. They’d found a safe haven where the mechanical monsters called Tripods could not find them. But once there, they wonder about the world around them and how they are faring against the machines. In order to save everyone else, Will and his friends want to take down the Tripods once and for all. That means journeying to the Tripod capital: the City of Gold and Lead. Although the journey will be difficult, the real danger comes once Will is inside the city, where Tripods roam freely and humans are even more enslaved than they are on the outside. Without anyone to help him, Will must learn the secrets of the Tripods—and how to take them down—before they figure out that he’s a spy…and he can only pretend to be brainwashed for so long.

City of Gold

1992 Bombay (India)

Author : Gillian Tindall
Release : 1992
Genre : Bombay (India)
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Book Rating : 005/5 ( reviews)

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