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Why Birds Matter
Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds’ beauty and extraordinary diversity, but also their importance to ecosystems worldwide. But while these avian enthusiasts have noted that birds...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
As the US National Park Service marks its centennial in 2016, parks and protected areas worldwide are under increasing threat from a variety of factors, including storms and fires of greater severity, plant and animal extinctions, the changing attitudes of a public that has become more urbanized,...
Looking Forward
Prediction and Uncertainty in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In the decades after the Civil War, the world experienced monumental changes in industry, trade, and governance. As Americans faced this uncertain future, public debate sprang up over the accuracy and value of predictions, asking whether it was possible to look into the future with any degree...
International Bankruptcy
The Challenge of Insolvency in a Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
With the growth of international business and the rise of companies with subsidiaries around the world, the question of where a company should file bankruptcy proceedings has become increasingly complicated. Today, most businesses are likely to have international trading partners, or to operate and...
Philosophy of Pseudoscience
Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as “the demarcation problem.” This issue has a long history in philosophy, stretching as far back as the early twentieth...
The Ghosts of Berlin
Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the twenty years since its original publication, The Ghosts of Berlin has become a classic, an unparalleled guide to understanding the presence of history in our built environment, especially in a space as historically contested—and emotionally fraught—as Berlin. Brian Ladd examines the ongoing...
Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World
Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Even as life expectancy in many countries has continued to increase, social security and similar government programs can provide strong incentives for workers to leave the labor force when they reach the age of eligibility for benefits. Disability insurance programs can also play a significant role...
Bitter Roots
The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to unfulfilled promises of laboratory equipment and usurped...
The Harkis
The Wound That Never Heals
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
In this haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, Vincent Crapanzano examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary troops who fought for the French in Algeria’s war of independence. After tens of thousands of Harkis...
The Water Kingdom
A Secret History of China
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
From the Yangtze to the Yellow River, China is traversed by great waterways, which have defined its politics and ways of life for centuries. Water has been so integral to China’s culture, economy, and growth and development that it provides a window on the whole sweep of Chinese history. In The...
Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition
An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Law and society is a rapidly growing field that turns the conventional view of law as mythical abstraction on its head. Kitty Calavita brilliantly brings to life the ways in which law is found not only in statutes and courtrooms but in our institutions and interactions, while inviting readers into...
Disturbing Practices
History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work around categories of identity...
Unearthing the Nation
Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Questions of national identity have long dominated China’s political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nationhood came to the fore. In Unearthing the Nation,...
Neither Liberal nor Conservative
Ideological Innocence in the American Public
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and government spending, to immigration and gay marriage.
Well,...