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SUPERIOR FINE COPY. 1st Edition. The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised the ANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942 … Meer...

SUPERIOR FINE COPY. 1st Edition. The Battle for the Kokoda Track is Australia's Alamo. If Gallipoli symbolised the ANZAC spirit in WWI, then Kokoda is its WWII equivalent. In August 1942 Kokoda was a killing field. Today, it is hard to imagine what those young men endured for our freedom but the journey gives some clues. The track plays a leading role in the story of Kokoda. It has a character of its own. It is one of the world's most fascinating locations - at once an alluring, challenging obstacle of compelling beauty and yet a foreboding, perilous microcosm of life at its rawest and most savage. In Kokoda Spirit, Patrick Lindsay takes us on a journey that explores the track as it is today. 247 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm. #201121The Kokoda Track campaign or Kokoda Trail campaign was part of the Pacific War of World War II. The campaign consisted of a series of battles fought between July and November 1942 in what was then the Australian Territory of Papua. It was primarily a land battle, between the Japanese South Seas Detachment under Major General Tomitarō Horii and Australian and Papuan land forces under command of New Guinea Force. The Japanese objective was to seize Port Moresby by an overland advance from the north coast, following the Kokoda Track over the mountains of the Owen Stanley Range, as part of a strategy to isolate Australia from the United States.Japanese forces landed and established beachheads near Gona and Buna on 21 July 1942. Opposed by Maroubra Force, then consisting of four platoons of the 39th Battalion and elements of the Papuan Infantry Battalion, they quickly advanced and captured Kokoda and its strategically vital airfield on 29 July. Despite reinforcement, the Australian forces were continually pushed back. The veteran Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) 21st Brigade narrowly avoided capture in the Battle of Mission Ridge – Brigade Hill from 6 to 8 September. In the Battle of Ioribaiwa from 13 to 16 September, the 25th Brigade under Brigadier Kenneth Eather fought the Japanese to a halt but ceded the field to the Japanese, withdrawing to Imita Ridge.The Japanese advanced to within sight of Port Moresby but withdrew on 26 September. They had outrun their supply line and had been ordered to withdraw in consequence of reverses suffered at Guadalcanal. The Australian pursuit encountered strong opposition from well-prepared positions around Templeton's Crossing and Eora Village from 11 to 28 October. Following the unopposed recapture of Kokoda, a major battle was fought around Oivi and Gorari from 4 to 11 November, resulting in a victory for the Australians. By 16 November, two brigades of the Australian 7th Division had crossed the Kumusi River at Wairopi, and advanced on the Japanese beachheads in a joint Australian and United States operation. The Japanese forces at Buna–Gona held out until 22 January 1943.Australian reinforcement was hampered by the logistical problems of supporting a force in isolated, mountainous, jungle terrain. There were few planes available for aerial resupply, and techniques for it were still primitive. Australian command considered that the Vickers machine gun and medium mortars were too heavy to carry and would be ineffective in the jungle terrain. Without artillery, mortars or medium machine guns, the Australians faced an opponent equipped with mountain guns and light howitzers that had been carried into the mountains and proved to be a decisive advantage. Australian forces were unprepared to conduct a campaign in the jungle environment of New Guinea. The lessons learned during the course of this campaign and the subsequent battle of Buna–Gona led to widespread changes in doctrine, training, equipment and structure, with a legacy that remains until the present day.In consequence of the rapid Japanese advance and the perceived failure to quickly counterattack, a ""crisis of command"" resulted, in which manoeuvring by General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the South West Pacific Area, and General Sir Thomas Blamey, commander of Allied Land Forces, resulted in the sackings of three high-ranking Australian officers. The generalship of MacArthur and Blamey has been criticised for unreasonable and unrealistic perceptions of the terrain and conditions under which the campaign was fought—to the detriment of the troops committed to the fighting. The Kokoda Track campaign has been mythologised as Australia's Thermopylae and incorporated into the Anzac legend even though the premise of a vastly numerically-superior enemy has since been shown to be incorrect.World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia. | Kokoda Trail (Papua New Guinea) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA., 0, Academic Foundation, 2010. Hardcover. New. Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by weather and climatic aberrations like droughts, floods, cyclone, frost, storms, land slides, etc. Outbreak of epidemics, fire, and market fluctuations are the other factors which seriously affect production and farm income. All these events are beyond the control of the farmers. With the growing commercialisation of agriculture, the magnitude of shock due to unfavourable eventualities is increasing and the need to protect farmers against production and income losses is becoming stronger. Agricultural insurance is considered an important mechanism to effectively address the risk to output and income resulting from various natural and manmade events. Despite various schemes launched from time to time, agricultural insurance in India has not made much headway even though the need to protect country’s farmers from agricultural variability has been a continuing concern of agriculture policy. This book examines the genesis of agricultural insurance in India and discusses various agricultural insurance schemes launched in the country from time to time and the coverage provided by them. The book also looks into the role of government in implementing various agricultural insurance schemes and suggest effective agriculture insurance programme for India. CONTENTS IN DETAIL : List of Tables Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 Farmers’ Strategies for Risk Mitigation 1.2 Agriculture Insurance for Risk Mitigation 1.3 Impact of Insurance 1.4 Credit Linked Insurance 1.5 Philosophy of Crop Insurance 1.6 Organisation of the Book 2. Risk in Agricultural Production 2.1 All India Picture 2.2 State Level Picture 2.2.1 Rice 2.2.2 Wheat 2.2.3 Groundnut 2.2.4 Rapeseed and Mustard 2.2.5 Cotton 2.2.6 Sugarcane 2.3 Risk in Andhra Pradesh Agriculture at Disaggregate Level 2.3.1 Risk at District Level for the State of Andhra Pradesh 2.3.2 Factors Affecting Risk 3. Progress and Performance of Agricultural Insurance 3.1 Crop Insurance Approaches 3.2 Agricultural Insurance Schemes 3.2.1 First Individual Approach Scheme 1972-1978 3.2.2 Pilot Crop Insurance Scheme (PCIS) 1979-1984 3.2.3 Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme (CCIS) 1985-1999 3.2.4 Experimental Crop Insurance Scheme (ECIS) 1997-98 3.2.5 National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) 1999 3.3 Other Agricultural Insurance Schemes 3.3.1 Farm Income Insurance 3.3.2 Livestock Insurance 3.3.3 Weather based Crop Insurance/Rainfall Insurance 3.4 Comparative Picture of Various Agricultural Insurance Schemes 4. Farmers’ Perceptions about Agricultural Insurance: Field Level Results from Andhra Pradesh 4.1 Socio-economic Characteristics of Sample Farmers 4.2 Response of Loanee Farmers 4.3 Response of Non-borrowers and not Insured Farmers 5. Issues Related to Agricultural Insurance 5.1 Issues Related to Nais 5.1.1 Reduction of Insurance Unit to Village Panchayat Level 5.1.2 Threshold/Guaranteed Yield 5.1.3 Levels of Indemnity 5.1.4 Extending Risk Coverage to Prevented Sowing/Planting, in Adverse Seasonal Conditions 5.1.5 Coverage of Post-harvest Losses 5.1.6 On-account Settlement of Claims 5.1.7 Service to Non-loanee Farmers 5.1.8 Premium Sharing by Financial Institutions 5.2 General Issues 5.2.1 Role of Government 5.2.2 Perils to be Covered 5.2.3 Involvement of Public or Private Sector 5.3 Individual/Area Approach and Coverage 5.4 Assured Value, Loss Assessment and Premium 6. Global Picture of Agricultural Insurance 6.1 Lessons from Other Countries 6.2 World Trade Organization Regulations 7. Conclusions and Policy Suggestions 7.1 Conclusions 7.2 Policy Suggestions 7.3 Prospects of Agricultural Insurance Refer Printed Pages: 106., Academic Foundation, 2010, 6<

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Istanbul: Isis, 2010. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English and French. 232 p. Contents: Introduction The part… Meer...

Istanbul: Isis, 2010. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English and French. 232 p. Contents: Introduction The particular place of medicine in the debate on modernity and modernization in the Middle-East in the 19th and the 20th centuries, Anne Marie Moulin and Yesim Isil Ulman 1. Between East and West, shared and diverging visions and methods Kostas Gavroglu, Some methodological issues concerning the sciences at the European periphery Emre Dölen, Réflexions sur la perception ottomane de la science moderne Serif Mardin, Some preliminary thoughts about the Tanzimat and the idea of Nature Christoph K. Neumann, Making the Universal one's own. The diffusion of modern science through Ottoman journals addressing a general readership 2. Scenes and actors of modernization M'hamed Oualdi, Du hakim renégat au praticien européen : mutations d'identité des médecins de cour et modernisation du service rendu aux beys de Tunis, du milieu du XVIIe siècle au milieu du XIXe siècle Marwa Elshakry, Darwinian conversions: science and translation in late Ottoman Egypt and Greater Syria Hormoz Ebrahimnejad, Glimpses of relationship between Hospital, State and Medicine in nineteenth-century Iran Yesim Isil Ulman, Medical Modernization in 19th Century Ottoman Empire with special reference to the introduction of Roentgen Rays in Turkey Nuran Yildirim, Les mesures de quarantaine prises pendant les épidémies de choléra et leurs répercussions sur la société ottomane (1831-1918) 3. Elusive modernity Sylvia Chiffoleau, Les quarantaines au Moyen-Orient : vecteurs ambigus de la modernité médicale (XIXe-XXe siècles) Anne Marie Moulin, Changeante modernité. L'état égyptien et la modernisation de la santé publique (19e-20e siècle) Nadav Davidovitch and Zalman Greenberg, Smallpox and variolation in a village in Palestine in december 1921. A case study of public health, culture and colonial medicine Edhem Eldem, Sorrow and Illness: "Modern" expression of Death in Ottoman Muslim epitaphs of the 19th century Claire Beaudevin, Une médecine moderne "coupée du passé" : l'exemple de l'échographie obstétricale au sultanat d'Oman., Isis, 2010, 6, Academic Foundation, 2010. Hardcover. New. Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by weather and climatic aberrations like droughts, floods, cyclone, frost, storms, land slides, etc. Outbreak of epidemics, fire, and market fluctuations are the other factors which seriously affect production and farm income. All these events are beyond the control of the farmers. With the growing commercialisation of agriculture, the magnitude of shock due to unfavourable eventualities is increasing and the need to protect farmers against production and income losses is becoming stronger. Agricultural insurance is considered an important mechanism to effectively address the risk to output and income resulting from various natural and manmade events. Despite various schemes launched from time to time, agricultural insurance in India has not made much headway even though the need to protect country’s farmers from agricultural variability has been a continuing concern of agriculture policy. This book examines the genesis of agricultural insurance in India and discusses various agricultural insurance schemes launched in the country from time to time and the coverage provided by them. The book also looks into the role of government in implementing various agricultural insurance schemes and suggest effective agriculture insurance programme for India. CONTENTS IN DETAIL : List of Tables Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 Farmers’ Strategies for Risk Mitigation 1.2 Agriculture Insurance for Risk Mitigation 1.3 Impact of Insurance 1.4 Credit Linked Insurance 1.5 Philosophy of Crop Insurance 1.6 Organisation of the Book 2. Risk in Agricultural Production 2.1 All India Picture 2.2 State Level Picture 2.2.1 Rice 2.2.2 Wheat 2.2.3 Groundnut 2.2.4 Rapeseed and Mustard 2.2.5 Cotton 2.2.6 Sugarcane 2.3 Risk in Andhra Pradesh Agriculture at Disaggregate Level 2.3.1 Risk at District Level for the State of Andhra Pradesh 2.3.2 Factors Affecting Risk 3. Progress and Performance of Agricultural Insurance 3.1 Crop Insurance Approaches 3.2 Agricultural Insurance Schemes 3.2.1 First Individual Approach Scheme 1972-1978 3.2.2 Pilot Crop Insurance Scheme (PCIS) 1979-1984 3.2.3 Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme (CCIS) 1985-1999 3.2.4 Experimental Crop Insurance Scheme (ECIS) 1997-98 3.2.5 National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) 1999 3.3 Other Agricultural Insurance Schemes 3.3.1 Farm Income Insurance 3.3.2 Livestock Insurance 3.3.3 Weather based Crop Insurance/Rainfall Insurance 3.4 Comparative Picture of Various Agricultural Insurance Schemes 4. Farmers’ Perceptions about Agricultural Insurance: Field Level Results from Andhra Pradesh 4.1 Socio-economic Characteristics of Sample Farmers 4.2 Response of Loanee Farmers 4.3 Response of Non-borrowers and not Insured Farmers 5. Issues Related to Agricultural Insurance 5.1 Issues Related to Nais 5.1.1 Reduction of Insurance Unit to Village Panchayat Level 5.1.2 Threshold/Guaranteed Yield 5.1.3 Levels of Indemnity 5.1.4 Extending Risk Coverage to Prevented Sowing/Planting, in Adverse Seasonal Conditions 5.1.5 Coverage of Post-harvest Losses 5.1.6 On-account Settlement of Claims 5.1.7 Service to Non-loanee Farmers 5.1.8 Premium Sharing by Financial Institutions 5.2 General Issues 5.2.1 Role of Government 5.2.2 Perils to be Covered 5.2.3 Involvement of Public or Private Sector 5.3 Individual/Area Approach and Coverage 5.4 Assured Value, Loss Assessment and Premium 6. Global Picture of Agricultural Insurance 6.1 Lessons from Other Countries 6.2 World Trade Organization Regulations 7. Conclusions and Policy Suggestions 7.1 Conclusions 7.2 Policy Suggestions 7.3 Prospects of Agricultural Insurance Refer Printed Pages: 106., Academic Foundation, 2010, 6<

2010, ISBN: 9788171887651

Academic Foundation, 2010. Hardcover. New. Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by weather and climatic aberrations like droughts, floods, cyclone, f… Meer...

Academic Foundation, 2010. Hardcover. New. Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by weather and climatic aberrations like droughts, floods, cyclone, frost, storms, land slides, etc. Outbreak of epidemics, fire, and market fluctuations are the other factors which seriously affect production and farm income. All these events are beyond the control of the farmers. With the growing commercialisation of agriculture, the magnitude of shock due to unfavourable eventualities is increasing and the need to protect farmers against production and income losses is becoming stronger. Agricultural insurance is considered an important mechanism to effectively address the risk to output and income resulting from various natural and manmade events. Despite various schemes launched from time to time, agricultural insurance in India has not made much headway even though the need to protect countrys farmers from agricultural variability has been a continuing concern of agriculture policy. This book examines the genesis of agricultural insurance in India and discusses various agricultural insurance schemes launched in the country from time to time and the coverage provided by them. The book also looks into the role of government in implementing various agricultural insurance schemes and suggest effective agriculture insurance programme for India. CONTENTS IN DETAIL : List of Tables Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 Farmers Strategies for Risk Mitigation 1.2 Agriculture Insurance for Risk Mitigation 1.3 Impact of Insurance 1.4 Credit Linked Insurance 1.5 Philosophy of Crop Insurance 1.6 Organisation of the Book 2. Risk in Agricultural Production 2.1 All India Picture 2.2 State Level Picture 2.2.1 Rice 2.2.2 Wheat 2.2.3 Groundnut 2.2.4 Rapeseed and Mustard 2.2.5 Cotton 2.2.6 Sugarcane 2.3 Risk in Andhra Pradesh Agriculture at Disaggregate Level 2.3.1 Risk at District Level for the State of Andhra Pradesh 2.3.2 Factors Affecting Risk 3. Progress and Performance of Agricultural Insurance 3.1 Crop Insurance Approaches 3.2 Agricultural Insurance Schemes 3.2.1 First Individual Approach Scheme 1972-1978 3.2.2 Pilot Crop Insurance Scheme (PCIS) 1979-1984 3.2.3 Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme (CCIS) 1985-1999 3.2.4 Experimental Crop Insurance Scheme (ECIS) 1997-98 3.2.5 National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) 1999 3.3 Other Agricultural Insurance Schemes 3.3.1 Farm Income Insurance 3.3.2 Livestock Insurance 3.3.3 Weather based Crop Insurance/Rainfall Insurance 3.4 Comparative Picture of Various Agricultural Insurance Schemes 4. Farmers Perceptions about Agricultural Insurance: Field Level Results from Andhra Pradesh 4.1 Socio-economic Characteristics of Sample Farmers 4.2 Response of Loanee Farmers 4.3 Response of Non-borrowers and not Insured Farmers 5. Issues Related to Agricultural Insurance 5.1 Issues Related to Nais 5.1.1 Reduction of Insurance Unit to Village Panchayat Level 5.1.2 Threshold/Guaranteed Yield 5.1.3 Levels of Indemnity 5.1.4 Extending Risk Coverage to Prevented Sowing/Planting, in Adverse Seasonal Conditions 5.1.5 Coverage of Post-harvest Losses 5.1.6 On-account Settlement of Claims 5.1.7 Service to Non-loanee Farmers 5.1.8 Premium Sharing by Financial Institutions 5.2 General Issues 5.2.1 Role of Government 5.2.2 Perils to be Covered 5.2.3 Involvement of Public or Private Sector 5.3 Individual/Area Approach and Coverage 5.4 Assured Value, Loss Assessment and Premium 6. Global Picture of Agricultural Insurance 6.1 Lessons from Other Countries 6.2 World Trade Organization Regulations 7. Conclusions and Policy Suggestions 7.1 Conclusions 7.2 Policy Suggestions 7.3 Prospects of Agricultural Insurance Refer Printed Pages: 106. Agricultural Risk and Insurance in India: Problems and ProspectsRamesh Chand,S.S Raju9788171887651, Academic Foundation, 2010, 6<

2010, ISBN: 9788171887651

Academic Foundation, 2010. Hardcover. New. Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by weather and climatic aberrations like droughts, floods, cyclone, f… Meer...

Academic Foundation, 2010. Hardcover. New. Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by weather and climatic aberrations like droughts, floods, cyclone, frost, storms, land slides, etc. Outbreak of epidemics, fire, and market fluctuations are the other factors which seriously affect production and farm income. All these events are beyond the control of the farmers. With the growing commercialisation of agriculture, the magnitude of shock due to unfavourable eventualities is increasing and the need to protect farmers against production and income losses is becoming stronger. Agricultural insurance is considered an important mechanism to effectively address the risk to output and income resulting from various natural and manmade events. Despite various schemes launched from time to time, agricultural insurance in India has not made much headway even though the need to protect country’s farmers from agricultural variability has been a continuing concern of agriculture policy. This book examines the genesis of agricultural insurance in India and discusses various agricultural insurance schemes launched in the country from time to time and the coverage provided by them. The book also looks into the role of government in implementing various agricultural insurance schemes and suggest effective agriculture insurance programme for India. CONTENTS IN DETAIL : List of Tables Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1 Farmers’ Strategies for Risk Mitigation 1.2 Agriculture Insurance for Risk Mitigation 1.3 Impact of Insurance 1.4 Credit Linked Insurance 1.5 Philosophy of Crop Insurance 1.6 Organisation of the Book 2. Risk in Agricultural Production 2.1 All India Picture 2.2 State Level Picture 2.2.1 Rice 2.2.2 Wheat 2.2.3 Groundnut 2.2.4 Rapeseed and Mustard 2.2.5 Cotton 2.2.6 Sugarcane 2.3 Risk in Andhra Pradesh Agriculture at Disaggregate Level 2.3.1 Risk at District Level for the State of Andhra Pradesh 2.3.2 Factors Affecting Risk 3. Progress and Performance of Agricultural Insurance 3.1 Crop Insurance Approaches 3.2 Agricultural Insurance Schemes 3.2.1 First Individual Approach Scheme 1972-1978 3.2.2 Pilot Crop Insurance Scheme (PCIS) 1979-1984 3.2.3 Comprehensive Crop Insurance Scheme (CCIS) 1985-1999 3.2.4 Experimental Crop Insurance Scheme (ECIS) 1997-98 3.2.5 National Agricultural Insurance Scheme (NAIS) 1999 3.3 Other Agricultural Insurance Schemes 3.3.1 Farm Income Insurance 3.3.2 Livestock Insurance 3.3.3 Weather based Crop Insurance/Rainfall Insurance 3.4 Comparative Picture of Various Agricultural Insurance Schemes 4. Farmers’ Perceptions about Agricultural Insurance: Field Level Results from Andhra Pradesh 4.1 Socio-economic Characteristics of Sample Farmers 4.2 Response of Loanee Farmers 4.3 Response of Non-borrowers and not Insured Farmers 5. Issues Related to Agricultural Insurance 5.1 Issues Related to Nais 5.1.1 Reduction of Insurance Unit to Village Panchayat Level 5.1.2 Threshold/Guaranteed Yield 5.1.3 Levels of Indemnity 5.1.4 Extending Risk Coverage to Prevented Sowing/Planting, in Adverse Seasonal Conditions 5.1.5 Coverage of Post-harvest Losses 5.1.6 On-account Settlement of Claims 5.1.7 Service to Non-loanee Farmers 5.1.8 Premium Sharing by Financial Institutions 5.2 General Issues 5.2.1 Role of Government 5.2.2 Perils to be Covered 5.2.3 Involvement of Public or Private Sector 5.3 Individual/Area Approach and Coverage 5.4 Assured Value, Loss Assessment and Premium 6. Global Picture of Agricultural Insurance 6.1 Lessons from Other Countries 6.2 World Trade Organization Regulations 7. Conclusions and Policy Suggestions 7.1 Conclusions 7.2 Policy Suggestions 7.3 Prospects of Agricultural Insurance Refer Printed Pages: 106., Academic Foundation, 2010, 6<

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Hardback, [PU: Academic Foundation], Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by weather and climatic aberrations like droughts, floods, cyclone, frost, st… Meer...

Hardback, [PU: Academic Foundation], Agriculture production and farm incomes in India are frequently affected by weather and climatic aberrations like droughts, floods, cyclone, frost, storms, land slides, etc. Outbreak of epidemics, fire, and market fluctuations are the other factors which seriously affect production and farm income. All these events are beyond the control of the farmers. With the growing commercialisation of agriculture, the magnitude of shock due to unfavourable eventualities is increasing and the need to protect farmers against production and income losses is becoming stronger. Agricultural insurance is considered an important mechanism to effectively address the risk to output and income resulting from various natural and manmade events. Despite various schemes launched from time to time, agricultural insurance in India has not made much headway even though the need to protect country's farmers from agricultural variability has been a continuing concern of agriculture policy. This book examines the genesis of agricultural insurance in India and discusses various agricultural insurance schemes launched in the country from time to time and the coverage provided by them. The book also looks into the role of government in implementing various agricultural insurance schemes and suggest effective agriculture insurance programme for India., International Economics, International Economics<