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Rebuilding the Ark
New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) may be the most powerful environmental law in the United States. Enacted in 1973, the ESA prohibits any actions that may cause harm to endangered plants and animals or the ecosystems upon which they depend. But although more than 1,200 species are protected under the...
Human Rights Dilemmas in the Developing World
The Case of Marginalized Populations at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book brings the quandaries that many minority groups confront in Latin America, Asia and Africa into the limelight. The chapters in this volume—written by experts on this subject-matter—examine and provide invaluable solutions to the human rights infractions in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,...
Strategic Appraisal
The Changing Role of Information in Warfare
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1999
Advances in information technology have led us to rely on easy communication and readily available information--both in our personal lives and in the life of our nation. For the most part, we have rightly welcomed these changes. But information that is readily available is available to friend and...
Energy Policy in the U.S.
Politics, Challenges, and Prospects for Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
In an effort to provide greater awareness of the necessary policy decisions facing our elected and appointed officials, Energy Policy in the U.S.: Politics, Challenges, and Prospects for Change presents an overview of important energy policies and the policy process in the United States, including...
We the People: Whose Constitution is it Anyway?
The Constitutional Fix to a Constitutional Problem
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
"We the People: Whose Constitution is it Anyway" provides hope for America and asserts that within the Constitution lays the fix for a renewed Constitutional Republic. No longer do enough Americans question the roles, responsibilities, powers, and actions of the Federal government. Consequently, "We...
Spheres of Awareness
A Wilberian Integral Approach to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Spheres of Awareness: Wilberian Integral Approaches to Literature, Philosophy, Psychology, and Art moves toward building a new and more comprehensive theory of literature, philosophy, psychology, and art. The extremely popular work of Ken Wilber unites the best of both western and eastern thought...
Navigating Commerce in Latin America
Options and Obstacles
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
The forces of globalization, technology, and information diffusion, as well as the processes of democratic consolidation have served to improve and expand opportunities for business in Latin American markets. These changes have not occurred uniformly, and this insightful book will help future business...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
by Michael E. Cohen, Dennis R. Cohen, Lisa L. Spangenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
In this ebook, you start off by learning how to coordinate your computer-based collection with ComicBookLover on your iPad. Then you find how about Bookman, an iPad app that makes reading PDFs and comic-book archives very easy and enjoyable. Finally, you learn about apps (usually publisher-specific) in which you can purchase digital comic books from your iPad.
Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century
Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors...
College Fight Songs
An Annotated Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Go, team, go! Rah, rah, rah! Boomalacka, boomalacka! Sis-boom-bah! Get your pennants and varsity colors and head for the stadium because College Fight Songs will make you an expert on the musical history of university athletic themes and anthems before the second-half kickoff. Here, in one anthology,...
by A. Drengson, C. Watson, A. Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The content in this special two-volume anthology details the many facets of aikido as it was formulated by Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969). Each chapter contributes to a piece of the aikido puzzle by providing historical details, insightful technical drills (bare handed and with...
Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing
Working in Womanish Ways
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Race, Gender, and Curriculum Theorizing: Working in Womanish Ways recognizes and represents the significance of Black feminist and womanist theorizing within curriculum theorizing. In this collection, a vibrant group of women of color who do curriculum work reflect on a Black feminist/womanist scholar,...
by Paul R. Bartrop, Eve E. Grimm
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2019
A comprehensive introductory essay, along with a detailed chronology, reference entries, primary sources, images, and a bibliography provide crucial information that readers need in order to understand Hitler's plan, as carried out through legislation and armed violence. The book also demonstrates...