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The handbook presents a discussion around six themes as separate chapters (local community development, water, pasture, dust, resettlement and displacement, and artisanal and small-scale mining); with gender and governance issues cutting across all chapters. It also offers several recommendations for how local government, national government, and mining companies and developers operating in Mongolia can translate these findings into actions that will support responsible minerals development in the future.The research was funded by the Australian Government Overseas Aid program through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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Having a midlife crisis can really wreck your day. Annabeth Quinn isn’t entirely sure how she ended up in Montana…in a wedding dress. But, here she is, mid-meltdown. She needs to figure out where everything went wrong and fix it. To stop being such a good girl and doing everything she’s supposed to do. Have some fun. So, when the opportunity to stay in a mansion and manage her famous brother-in-law’s dog rescue pops up, she’s all over it. After all, what’s more fun than living like a billionaire and saving dogs? There’s only one catch… She’ll have to share the job—and the house—with sexy former rockstar Cane Addison. The very same man who had to cut her out of her wedding dress. (Long story) Cane is a human cinnamon roll—hot, sweet, and so ridiculously tempting you’ll do anything to have it. She’s sure a guy like him would never want an ordinary woman like her. Except…he does. Too bad giving in to their mutual attraction would just be a hot, dirty, rebound mistake. Wouldn’t it? The Has-Been and the Hot Mistake, book 2 in the Hot Has-Beens series, is a light, hilarious contemporary romance/rom com (told in 3rd person, dual point of view) that can be read as a standalone. It features a brutally hot, nice guy hero, a sexy bucket list, a dog heist, and all the snarky humor, witty banter, causal cussing, and Grandpa Frank you can handle. Happy reading! Contemporary romance, rock star romance, rockstar romance, rom com, romantic comedy, silly rom com, zany rom com, wacky rom com, wedding romance, roadtrip romance, funny contemporary romance, snarky, adult romance, quirky heroine, smart heroine, sexy romance, spicy romance, steamy romance, popular romance, romance books, romance ebooks, romance novels, best selling romance books, must read contemporary romance novels, as seen on tiktok, booktok, fun steamy romance, sweet but spicy, heartwarming romance, beach reads, women’s fiction, romantic women’s fiction, nerdy heroine, witty banter

A memoir of food and friendship “combining the warm-heartedness of Tuesdays with Morrie with the sensual splendor of Julie and Julia” (Booklist, starred review). Isabel Vincent first arrives at Edward’s New York apartment to check on him as a favor to his daughter. She has no idea that the nonagenarian baking a sublime roast chicken and a light-as-air apricot soufflé will end up changing her life. But their meeting comes at a moment of transition for each of them: Edward wants nothing more than to follow his late wife to the grave, while Isabel is watching her marriage unravel. As Edward and Isabel meet weekly for the glorious dinners that Edward prepares, he shares so much more than his recipes for apple galette or the perfect martini, or even his tips for deboning poultry. Edward teaches Isabel the art of slowing down, taking the time to think through her own life—cutting it back to the bone and examining the guts, no matter how messy that proves to be. Dinner with Edward is a book about love and nourishment, and about how dinner with a friend can, in the words of M. F. K. Fisher, “sustain us against the hungers of the world.” “A rare, beautifully crafted memoir that leaves you exhilarated.” —Rosemary Sullivan, author of Stalin’s Daughter “This is a memoir to treasure.” —Booklist (starred review)

Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Tété is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it's with dreams of financial success in his mind. But running his father's plantation is neither glamorous nor easy. It will be eight years before he brings home a bride, the beautiful Eugenia Garcia del Solar -- but marriage, too, proves more difficult than he imagined. And Valmorain remains dependent on the services of his teenaged slave. Against the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tété and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea is the moving story of one woman's determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been so battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruelest of circumstances.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... (6) Columns for Discount on Purchases and Discount on Notes on the same side of the Cash Book; (c) Columns for Discount on Sales and Cash Sales on the debit side of the Cash Book; (d) Departmental columns in the Sales Book and in the Purchase Book. Controlling Accounts.--The addition of special columns in books of original entry makes possible the keeping of Controlling Accounts. The most common examples of such accounts are Accounts Receivable account and Accounts Payable account. These summary accounts, respectively, displace individual customers' and creditors' accounts in the Ledger. The customers' accounts are then segregated in another book called the Sales Ledger or Customers' Ledger, while the creditors' accounts are kept in the Purchase or Creditors' Ledger. The original Ledger, now much reduced in size, is called the General Ledger. The Trial Balance now refers to the accounts in the General Ledger. It is evident that the task of taking a Trial Balance is greatly simplified because so many fewer accounts are involved. A Schedule of Accounts Receivable is then prepared, consisting of the balances found in the Sales Ledger, and its total must agree with the balance of the Accounts Receivable account shown in the Trial Balance. A similar Schedule of Accounts Payable, made up of all the balances in the Purchase Ledger, is prepared, and it must agree with the balance of the Accounts Payable account of the General Ledger." The Balance Sheet.--In the more elementary part of the text, the student learned how to prepare a Statement of Assets and Liabilities for the purpose of disclosing the net capital of an enterprise. In the present chapter he was shown how to prepare a similar statement, the Balance Sheet. For all practical...