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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This timely and incisive book combines an introduction to the core
legal and policy issues presented by climate change with a deeper
analysis of decisions that will define the path forward. Offering a
guide to key terms, concepts, and legal principles in the field,
this book will help readers develop a sophisticated perspective on
issues central to climate change law and policy. Building a pathway
to literacy in climate change policy, chapters provide an
accessible overview of key energy regulations and laws governing
energy projects, legal mechanisms to regulate GHG emissions, and
the role of state and local governments in developing mitigation
and adaptation policy, particularly in the building and
transportation sectors. The authors highlight the relationship
between human rights and climate change using the framework of
human rights law, analyze the use of litigation to compel climate
change mitigation and adaptation and suggest ways to achieve
international cooperation. Providing a deep understanding of
ongoing debates about the design and implementation of climate
change law and policy, this book will be an essential resource for
students and researchers of environmental and climate change law,
governance, and regulation. It will also be useful for policymakers
and practitioners in the field for its practical insights into
future developments and solutions.
Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William
""Big Bill"" Broonzy (1893@-1958) helped shape the trajectory of
the genre, from its roots in the rural Mississippi River Delta,
through its rise as a popular genre in the north, to its eventual
international acclaim. Along the way, Broonzy adopted an evolving
personal and professional identity, tailoring his self-presentation
to the demands of the place and time. His remarkable professional
fluidity mirrored the range of expectations from his audiences,
whose ideas about race, national belonging, identity, and the blues
were refracted through Broonzy as if through a prism. Kevin D.
Greene argues that Broonzy's popular success testifies to his
ability to navigate the cultural expectations of his different
audiences. However, this constant reinvention came at a personal
and professional cost. Using Broonzy's multifaceted career, Greene
situates blues performance at the center of understanding African
American self-presentation and racial identity in the first half of
the twentieth century. Through Broonzy's life and times, Greene
assesses major themes and events in African American history,
including the Great Migration, urbanization, and black expatriate
encounters with European culture consumers. Drawing on a range of
historical source materials as well as oral histories and personal
archives held by Broonzy's son, Greene perceptively interrogates
how notions of race, gender, and audience reception continue to
shape concepts of folk culture and musical authenticity.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
Great and successful products do not just make money but they
engender a love and devotion from their users. These are the
Products People Love and they follow the six rules found in this
book- the PPL Rules. Six Rules for Creating Products People Love
provides clear and actionable guidelines for the design,
development, and marketing of successful products. Make it Easy to
get started Make it Useful Make it Easy-to-use Make it Valuable
Make it Attractive Make it Trustworthy
______________________________________________ Praise for Six Rules
for Creating Products People Love "Bruce D. Green's PPL Rules have
forever changed the way I approach my work... a must-read for
anyone looking to define optimal product development strategies." -
Gwen Weinberg, Designer / Owner, Three by Three Seattle "Bruce D.
Green has defined six essential rules that will successfully guide
entrepreneurs to bring to market new products that will 'stick'." -
Ken Krooner, Founder / President, ESRG, LLC
Oxford Successful Agricultural Sciences is a trusted Agricultural
Sciences course that is used by teachers all over South Africa. The
rich, relevant, and age appropriate content fully covers the
National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS),
ensuring that learners stay interested throughout the year.
Features: topics are structured according to CAPS which makes the
course easy to use in the classroom; scaffolded content and
concepts provide learners with a solid foundation for success in
exams; a wealth and variety of activities consolidate knowledge and
skills, and provide ample practice to ensure exam success; an exam
section with exam tips and practice papers helps learners prepare
for formal assessment and exams; full colour photographs of animal
breeds, as well as primary and secondary minerals provide easy
recognition; a website feature in the margin guides learners to
important government and agricultural websites to find relevant
information and statistics; "Did you know?" features provide
interesting additional information on the content.
Daryl Green, M.A., is the president of PMLA, a consulting firm,
that helps individuals make good decisions. Mixed in his
personality is a connection: technology user, spiritualist, and
human advocate. Before his 30th birthday, he had already managed
over 400 projects, estimated at $100 million dollars. Many would
call him one of the most versatile people of our time. One
Tennessee paper called him a "20th Century Renaissance Man" because
he is a manager, an entrepreneur, an artist, a marketer, a poet, a
producer, a personal advisor, a professor, and currently an author.
He is a nationally syndicated columnist and the author of the
self-help book,
Carl Ruggles (1876-1971) was the epitome of the New England
iconoclast. A composer of the American avant-garde movement, he
wrote, in a very concise and dissonant style, a small body of truly
unique musical works. He lived to be 95, composing to the very end
of his life, but left behind a mere eight sanctioned works which he
had rewritten and refined over decades. In the 1920s, he was at the
focal point of ultra-modern music-making. Since there is currently
a renewed interest in his work, this bio-bibliography is timely and
needed, and of interest to scholars, students, and performers.
During the 1920s, had Edgard Varese or Charles Ives been asked
to name America's greatest living composer, the response would have
been Carl Ruggles. Forty years later, such eminent experts on
American music as Nicolas Slonimsky, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron
Copland would each describe Ruggles as our most technically refined
composer. Ruggles, with Varese and Ives, was the standard-bearer of
the atonal movement in this century's third decade. With the rise
of American realism, he slipped out of the public eye. Recent years
have seen a resurgence of performances of his works and research on
his music; consequently, there is a need for this timely
bio-bibliography.
The modern view of the mind is the result of thousands of years of
thought, discussion, and experimentation. This volume examines how
the foundations of this concept were laid in the ancient world,
focusing on the role of ^Ipsyche^R in the thought of the most
influential philosophers, poets, and physicians from archaic Greece
to the fall of Rome. The authors show how the various processes we
now group together under the general rubric psychology—such as
thought, emotion, desire, and will—began as relatively disparate
parts of the Greek conceptual scheme, only converging gradually
over the course of centuries into what we now call mind. By
reconstructing what the ancient Greeks and Romans understood by
terms such as ^Ipsyche^R, ^Iphrenes^R, and ^Inous^R, this survey of
the early development of psychological thought highlights the
legacies of their accounts, which can still be found embedded in
modern psychological assumptions.
Causal uncertainty is a wide-spread phenomenon. Courts are often
unable to determine whether a defendant's tortious conduct was a
factual cause of a plaintiff's harm. Yet, sometimes courts can
determine the probability that the defendant caused the plaintiff's
harm, although often there is considerable variance in the
probability estimate based on the available evidence. The
conventional way to cope with this uncertainty has been to apply
the evidentiary rule of 'standard of proof'. The application of
this 'all or nothing' rule can lead to unfairness by absolving
defendants who acted tortiously and may also create undesirable
incentives that result in greater wrongful conduct and injustice to
victims. Some courts have decided that this 'no-liability' outcome
is undesirable. They have adopted rules of proportional liability
that compensate plaintiffs according to the probability that their
harm was caused by the defendant's tortious conduct. In 2005 the
Principles of European Tort Law (PETL) made a breakthrough in this
regard by embracing rules of proportional liability. This project,
building on PETL, endeavours to make further inquiries into the
desirable scope of proportional liability and to offer a more
detailed view of its meaning, implications, and ramifications.
Four chapters represent the intense current effort to understand the way in which the mitochondrion controls the activation of the final stages of cell death. Another four articles attack the problem from the other side. How do specific insults in particular human or mouse neuro-degenerative diseases translate into mechanisms that will not only allow us to better understand what is happening in these patients but also, with luck, allow for development of more efficient and specific drugs in the future? Firstly, the concept of a central common cell death pathway, originally derived from studies on the nematode, has been an outstanding productive paradigm in bringing together different strands of research. Secondly, truly striking links have been made between results obtained in the culture dish (or even cell-free systems) and the diseased human brain.
As more and more music literature is published each year,
librarians, scholars, and bibliographers are turning to music
bibliography to retain control over the flood of information. Based
on the Conference of Music Bibliography, this timely book provides
vital information on the most important aspects of the scholarly
practice of music bibliography. Foundations in Music Bibliography
provides librarians with great insight into bibliographic issues
they face every day including bibliographic control of primary and
secondary sources, the emergence of enumerative and analytical
bibliography, bibliographic instruction, and bibliographic
lacunae.Foundations in Music Bibliography features the perspectives
of prominent scholars and music librarians on contemporary issues
in music bibliography often encountered by music librarians. It
offers practical insights and includes chapters on teaching
students how to use microcomputer programs to search music
bibliographies, organizing a graduate course in music bibliography,
and researching film music bibliography. The book also provides a
supplement to Steven D. Westcott 's A Comprehensive Bibliography of
Music for Film and Television. This insightful volume demonstrates
the many ways that bibliography relates music publications to each
other and endows grander meaning to individual scholarly
observations. Some of the fascinating topics covered by Foundations
in Music Bibliography include: the history of thematic catalogs
indexing Gregorian chant manuscripts general principles of
bibliographic instruction analyses of Debussy discographies musical
ephemera and their importance in various types of musicological
research bibliographical lacunae (i.e. lack of access to visual
sources, failure to control primary sources, and lack of
communication with the rest of the performing arts)Foundations in
Music Bibliography shows librarians how bibliography can be used to
help music students and researchers find the information they need
among the innumerable available sources. It is an indispensable
asset to the shelves of all music reference libraries that wish to
provide their patrons with the latest bibliographic tools.
Donald Trump won a significant victory in Iowa in 2016. Although
Iowa was carried by Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Trump won the
popular vote in 93 of its 99 counties, 32 of which were carried by
Obama in 2012. What explains this significant victory, in which a
third of Iowa's counties were flipped? Through a mixed-methods
approach, this volume demonstrates that Trump's electoral victory
was shaped by three key factors: firstly, the electorate's desire
for "change" in Washington, D.C.; secondly, Trump's successful
appeals to both the Republican base and white, working-class voters
who had previously supported Barack Obama; and thirdly, Iowa's
conservative ideological tendency regarding immigration and race.
While contributing to emerging literature on the 2016 presidential
elections, this book also serves to aid educators with a published
resource on Iowa's electoral politics.
Created to be small and compact for easy traveling, this study
guide provides all the lights, shapes, and symbols used out in the
sea. How do you signal that a vessel is in distress or has run
aground? International signals and symbols are also provided, as is
an alphabetical listing of phonetic and Morse Code. In addition to
preparing marine students, this book is a valuable tool for the
seasoned mariner or private boater who wants to sharpen their
skills and make themselves safer and more prudent on the water. Its
cargo-pocket size and lightly laminated pages means it can be taken
on the "road" with the marine and endure in a maritime environment.
Where products develop ever more rapidly, the law may face
difficulties in responding accordingly to new security threats
which may arise. In the field of product liability, an
extraordinary need for legal development has thus been perceived,
with legislators and judges feeling compelled to find new solutions
and to look across borders for these. In the detailed reports in
this book, the World Tort Law Society proves that it is in an ideal
position to examine the most significant concepts. The report on
North America studies the special regime for product liability from
its origin in the case law of the US; the European report is
centred around the EU Product Liability Directive with its merits
and faults; and the influence of these two systems as well as new
answers are shown in the reports on Asia, Russia and four key
jurisdictions in the rest of the world. Similar questions are
discussed worldwide: How can a strict liability regime for products
be justified, and can it be justified in all cases? How does the
special regime relate to general rules of tort law? Should services
be subject to a similar regime? The Members of the Society seek to
provoke thought for solutions to these pervasive problems. In this
spirit, the volume's comparative conclusions invite discussion, and
the book includes four responses to that call from eminent tort
lawyers from different legal backgrounds.
First published in 1993: This book is an outgrowth of fiber optic
design courses given by the author.
This study seeks to critically examine the field and function of
social stratification, with emphasis on Africana phenomena. Phrased
another way, this edited volume attempts to study and focus on who
gets what and why, with regard to resources and structural
application of support. The John Henrik Clarke query is who made
this arrangement of leadership in America. Moreover, serving as a
reference, this study will assist researchers in contextualizing
and thematically examining the structural and resource allocation
of disparity exhibited toward Africana people. This manuscript of
essays is the first its kind. This study incorporates an
interdisciplinary scope to examine the concept of Africana Social
Stratification in the subject areas of: history, political science,
economics, Africana Studies, and social policy.
"I have not seen a more teacher-friendly resource for using the Web
in the classroom. The authors took both novices and experts into
consideration. A must-have in every school." -Elizabeth Alvarez,
Math and Science Coach Chicago Public Schools, IL "A user-friendly
tool on many levels. I would recommend this book to media
specialists, instructional technology teachers, and district
coordinators for both content and technology." -April DeGennaro,
Gifted Education Teacher Peeples Elementary School, Fayetteville,
GA Translate Web technology into practical applications for the
daily curriculum! Designed for novices and experienced users, this
comprehensive guide includes all the need-to-know aspects of using
the World Wide Web to support student learning. Making the Most of
the Web in Your Classroom covers the language of the Web, describes
Web-editing software, and shows how to use Web tools that offer
unique learning opportunities for students. This book examines
issues of student safety, appropriate "netiquette," and copyright
and other legal considerations and provides field-tested
strategies, examples, and reproducibles to help teachers create
powerful learning opportunities. Educators will be able to meet
ISTE NETS technology and content standards as they: Design and
build Web sites Help students develop their own Internet projects
Evaluate and manage Web projects Featuring a list of key terms in
each chapter, this timely resource will motivate your students and
help make technology a seamless part of your classroom instruction.
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