|
Showing 1 - 25 of
25 matches in All Departments
This book, first published in 1987, contains a collection of papers
presented at the 18th Binghamton Symposium, focusing on the topic
of catastrophic flooding. These papers make the case for the
careful collection and interpretation of data from which the
importance and effects of catastrophic flooding may be deduced.
Questions tackled include: what are the causes and effects of
catastrophic flooding? What parameters should be used to measure
them? What effect do they have on erosional and depositional
landforms? Can modelling be used to predict their flow dynamics?
This book, first published in 1987, contains a collection of papers
presented at the 18th Binghamton Symposium, focusing on the topic
of catastrophic flooding. These papers make the case for the
careful collection and interpretation of data from which the
importance and effects of catastrophic flooding may be deduced.
Questions tackled include: what are the causes and effects of
catastrophic flooding? What parameters should be used to measure
them? What effect do they have on erosional and depositional
landforms? Can modelling be used to predict their flow dynamics?
Social historians, literary scholars, sociologists, and woman's
studies scholars and students will be interested in this first
fully annotated bibliography on prostitution in Great Britain. The
bibliography features extensive analytical descriptions of 390
published primary and secondary sources directly related to
prostitution in the British Isles from Tudor through Victorian
times. A lengthy introduction provides an overview of the history
of prostitution in Britain, as well as discussing the evolution of
the various forms of writing on this subject, thus placing the
bibliography in historical perspective. Works covered include
government documents, broadsides, pamphlets, diaries, doctoral
dissertations, and books, book chapters, and scholarly articles,
published through 1992. Annotations include further references to
hundreds of other related works. And a detailed subject index
permits students and scholars to quickly find relevant works
dealing with prostitution and a large number of related subjects,
including venereal disease, crime, costume, fictional works and
characters, sexuality, the theater, domestic servants, and
homosexuality.
While some argue that trade liberalization has raised incomes and
led to environmental protection in developing countries, others
claim that it generates neither poverty reduction nor
sustainability. The detailed case studies in this book demonstrate
that neither interpretation is universally correct, given how much
depends on specific policies and institutions that determine
a??on-the-grounda?? outcomes. Drawing on research from six
countries around the developing world, the book also presents the
unique perspectives of researchers at both the worlda??s largest
development organization (The World Bank) and the worlda??s largest
conservation organization (World Wildlife Fund) on the debate over
trade liberalization and its effects on poverty and the
environment. The authors trace international trade rules and events
down through national development contexts to investigate
on-the-ground outcomes for real people and places. The studies
underscore the importance of evaluating trade from a perspective
that pays attention to environmental and social vulnerability and
understands the linkages between poverty reduction and
environmental protection. The lessons drawn provide a critical
first step in developing the appropriate response options needed to
ensure that trade plays a positive role in promoting truly
sustainable development. Academics and students in environmental
economics, development economics and agriculture, as well as
policymakers and those in development institutions will appreciate
this groundbreaking work.
This book is an important contribution to the history of religion
in twentieth century Britain which focuses upon the importance of
central religious narratives. These narratives are demonstrated to
have changed significantly over time but also to have been invested
with importance and meaning by religious individuals and
organisations, as well as by secular ones. The book investigates
narratives of pilgrimage and the good Samaritan, of conversion, of
the idea of the 'just' and 'unjust' war, of the creation of post
First World War Remembrance, of sickness and dying and of specific
'moments' and their power to make religion strong again at specific
historical junctures. The last narrative investigated is narrative
of religious decline itself and how this convinced the Anglican
Church in England to seriously consider the prospect of its own
demise. The strength and importance of these different emphases
does not follow a pattern of religious decline or of secular
triumph as these are regularly recast and renewed. As such this
offers a qualification to conventional versions of the
secularization thesis as well as suggesting a new paradigm for
thinking about and writing religious history in Britain.
This book offers a challenge to conventional histories of
secularisation by focusing upon the importance of central religious
narratives. These narratives are changed significantly over time,
but also to have been invested with importance and meaning by
religious individuals and organisations as well as by secular ones.
The first systematic study of the concept of shame from 1600-1900,
showing good and bad behaviour, morality and perceptions of crime
in British society at large. Single episodes in the history of
shame are contextualized by discussing the historiography and
theory of shame and their implications for the history of crime and
social relations.
The first systematic study of the concept of shame from 1600-1900,
showing good and bad behaviour, morality and perceptions of crime
in British society at large. Single episodes in the history of
shame are contextualized by discussing the historiography and
theory of shame and their implications for the history of crime and
social relations.
This is not just a diet book or another step-by-step program, but
rather a guide that will help you discover what works for you and
how to develop strategies for change based on your own personal
values and goals. This book incorporates the latest ideas from
successful mindfulness and acceptance-based therapy approaches to
weight management and health. This book will help you tailor
nutrition, exercise, and stress management to uniquely meet your
needs, and help you learn ways for managing emotions and thinking
that can lead to achieving a richer, fuller, and more satisfying
life. This book is backed by current research and is based on
behaviour-change principles that are proven and well established.
It offers the latest information on common obstacles - how to
increase your motivation; what to do to overcome binge eating; how
to make the most of social support; and, meeting the challenges
that real change presents. Unlike other books in the field it
offers clear guidance in considering bariatric surgery. Helpful
tips for using smartphone technology and web-based programs are
featured throughout the book.
This is the first complete pictorial field guide to all the known
Neotropical Primates/Monkeys of the New World. All taxa are
depicted in full color by illustrators Stephen Nash and Piero
Gozzaglio according to their phylogeography. Moreover, splash pages
containing many, often unique photographs taken by the author of
both monkeys in the wild or kept free-ranging in several
rehabs/halfway houses run by him over more than 16 years in the
rain forest at about 30 km from the city of Manaus-AM, Brazil.
Included are also a number of recently identified but not yet
published taxa new to science, among which several of the
largest-sized Amazonian monkeys (i.e., Ateles, Lagothrix,
Chiropotes, Cacajao).
Showing The Devastation In And Around Barre, Vermont, The Granite
Center Of The World.
Developing countries have a major stake in the outcome of trade
negotiations conducted under the auspices of the World Trade
Organization (WTO). 'Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading
System for Development' explores the key issues and options in
agricultural trade liberalization from the perspective of these
developing countries. Leading experts in trade and agriculture from
both developed and developing countries provide key research
findings and policy analyses on a range of issues that includes
market access, domestic support, export competition, quota
administration methods, food security, biotechnology, intellectual
property rights, and agricultural trade under the Uruguay Round
Agreement on Agriculture.Material is covered in summary and in
comprehensive detail with supporting data, a substantial
bibliography, and listings of online resources. This book will be
of interest to policymakers and analysts in the fields of
development economics and commodities pricing and trade.
In the ongoing Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization
negotiations, developing countries have had much greater leverage,
due at least in part to their large and growing share of world
trade. But will the increased influence of developing countries
translate into a final agreement that is truly more
development-friendly? What would be key ingredients in such a final
outcome of the negotiations, and what would the developing
countries really get out of it. This two volume set seeks to answer
these questions. This volume (Volume 2) addresses the question of
how a development-friendly outcome to the talks would affect
developing countries by quantifying the impact of multilateral
trade reform. It presents several different approaches to modeling
the effects of the outcome of negotiations, and then investigates
why these (and other) modeling efforts produce such divergent
results. Volume 1 is issues-oriented. It takes up some key
questions in the negotiations, setting the stage with a historical
overview of the Doha Development Agenda to help identify issues of
most significance to developing countries, and then explores select
issues in greater depth. Aimed at policymakers and stakeholders,
this two-volume effort puts into the public domain important
analytical work that will improve the chance for a pro-development
outcomes of the Doha round negotiations.
The industrialization of the American West during World War II
brought about rapid and far-reaching social, cultural, and economic
changes. Gerald D. Nash shows that the effect of the war on that
region was nothing less than explosive.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Midnights
Taylor Swift
CD
R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
|