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by James P. Howard, II
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This Brief presents a benefit-cost analysis of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as well as an evaluation of its cumulative socioeconomic effects. Created by Congress in 1968, the NFIP provides flood insurance protection to property owners, in return for local government commitment to sound...
by James W. Conrad Jr., Susan Dudley, George M. Gray
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Institutions and Incentives in Regulatory Science explores fundamental problems with regulatory science in the environmental and natural resource law field. Each chapter covers a variety of natural resource and regulatory areas, ranging from climate change to endangered species protection and traditional...
Every Waking Hour
An Introduction to Work and Vocation for Christians
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Pastors and chaplains aren't the only ones in ministry--every Christian is called to be a minister through his or her work in the world. But in order to fully understand what this entails, we must look to the Bible and develop a fuller understanding of work as any way we interact with God's creation....
They’Re with You Win or Tie
Accounts of Wisdom, Humor and Inspiration During 31 Years as a School Superintendent
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Hilarious stories youd never dream could emerge from the office of a superintendent of school! This book demonstrates that a good sense of humor is probably more important that possessing a PhD in dealing with the diversified spectrum of visitors who cross the superintendents threshold on a daily...
by Joseph T. Page II
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The world�s largest gypsum dune field, the 275-square-mile dunes of White Sands National Monument are a geologic oddity more than 250 million years in the making. Located in Southern New Mexico, the popularity of the monument draws nearly half a million visitors each year to the National Park Service�s...
Littlefield Lands
Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912–1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The phenomenon of colonization by big land companies, common throughout the history of the United States, came late to the Panhandle-Plains of West Texas. Ranchers held sway there up into the 20th century. Then, realizing that the future followed the plow, they, joined by business owners and speculators,...
by Richard Jay II
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Enter first, Dr. Arnold Baumcort interviewing three Ladies of the Evening as research for a magazine article. His purpose is not to create prurient interest but to tell of the humor and pathos found in their unusual work and of their plans for retirement when age calls their number. Shortly after...
African American Males and Education
Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial...
Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature
Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature are committed to treating literary texts with integrity and believe that business should have a larger claim upon people’s literary consciousness. In addition, they all value the important role of literature in dealing with the complexities of a...
Reinventing the Tripitaka
Transformation of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
The Chinese Buddhist canon is a systematic collection of all translated Buddhist scriptures and related literatures created in East Asia and has been regarded as one of the “three treasures” in Buddhist communities. Despite its undisputed importance in the history of Buddhism, research on this...
by Thomas Hunter II
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. This book is a practical, step-by-step tutorial that will teach you to build Backbone.js applications quickly and efficiently.This book is targeted towards...
by S.F. Briggs, II
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2017
This is a biography and memoir of the founder of Briggs & Stratton & Outboard Marine. One of two individuals to have started two New York Stock Exchange companies prior to 1970. It is a real insight into the life of a remarkable inventor with over 100 patents many developed in the early days...
by Lloyd Edward Hopkins II
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
If you are not waking up every day in love with your life, it is time to make a change. If you are not in love with the person you are with, if you are not in love with your job, if you are not in love with the station you inhabit, you must realize that you are staying out of fear. A fear of the unknown....
The State and Terrorism
National Security and the Mobilization of Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Adopting an innovative approach to the ongoing debate over homeland security and state response to terrorism, Joseph Campos investigates the contextualizing of national security discourse and its management of terrorism. New ideas developed in this book reflect ways in which national security is mobilized...