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Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work
Towards More Effective Conservation and Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2004
This book explores both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of integrated conservation and development. It synthesizes existing experience to better inform conservationists and decision makers of the role ICDPs play in conservation and management and analyzes their successes and shortcomings.
by Douglas Jamison, Stephen Waite
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Over the past decade, software companies have increasingly monopolized the flow of venture capital, starving support for scientific research and its transformative discoveries. New medicines, cheaper and faster personal computers, and other life-changing developments all stem from investment in science....
Governance Without a State?
Policies and Politics in Areas of Limited Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Governance discourse centers on an "ideal type" of modern statehood that exhibits full internal and external sovereignty and a legitimate monopoly on the use of force. Yet modern statehood is an anomaly, both historically and within the contemporary international system, while the condition...
by Moura Quayle
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Great leaders aspire to manage “by design”—with a sense of purpose and foresight. But too few leaders incorporate the proven practices and principles of the design disciplines. Lessons learned from the world of design, when applied to management, can turn leaders into collaborative, creative,...
The President and His Inner Circle
Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Policy Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2001
Few would argue that presidential policies and performance would have been the same whether John F. Kennedy or Richard Nixon became president in 1960, or if Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan had won the White House in 1980. Indeed, in recent elections, the character, prior policy experience, or...
Medieval Tastes
Food, Cooking, and the Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet evolution to the growth of human civilization,...
Reset
Business and Society in the New Social Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
As consumers, our access to—and appetite for—information about what and how we buy continues to grow. Powered by social media, increasingly we look at the companies behind the products and are disappointed when their actions do not meet our expectations. With engaged citizens acting as 24/7 auditors...
Insurmountable Simplicities
Thirty-Nine Philosophical Conundrums
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
"Perhaps not all the stories that follow are true. They could, however, be true, and the Reader is invited to ponder this."
So begins Insurmountable Simplicities, Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's colorful incarnation of the many philosophical conundrums that hide in the wrinkles...
by John Pavlik
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old practices of public communication and at times circumventing traditional media and challenging its privileged role as gatekeepers of news and entertainment. Some critics believe these...
Audience Economics
Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003
Focusing on the electronic media—television, radio, and the Internet—Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses involved in generating and selling audiences to advertisers. Philip M. Napoli presents...
The Novelist’s Lexicon
Writers on the Words That Define Their Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here for the first time, offer an extraordinary portrait of writing and reading from...
Religion and Film
Cinema and the Re-creation of the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Religion and cinema share a capacity for world making, ritualizing, mythologizing, and creating sacred time and space. Through cinematography, mise-en-scène, editing, and other production activities, film takes the world “out there” and refashions it. Religion achieves similar ends by setting...
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History
The Rashidun Caliphs
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account. The story also informs the competing perspectives of Sunni and Shi'i Islam, which read...
by Nabil Matar
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims...