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This major, definitive anthology of writings is a complete and
up-to-date guide to environmental literacy. This major anthology is
the first to apply a fully interdisciplinary approach to
environmental studies. A comprehensive guide to environmental
literacy, the book demonstrates how the sciences, social sciences,
and humanities all contribute to understanding our
interrelationships with the natural world. Though not specialized,
Environment is a book that even specialists can learn from. Ten
innovative case studies--climate shock, species endangerment,
nuclear power, biotechnology, sustainable development,
deforestation, environmental security, globalization, wilderness,
and the urban environment-are followed by readings from specific
disciplines. These can be integrated with the case studies to shape
individual interests and teaching strategies. The volume presents
an imaginative array of texts, from scientific papers to poetry,
legal decisions to historical accounts, personal essays to economic
analysis. Taken together, these selections provide a balanced,
authoritative, and up-to-date treatment of key issues in
environmental studies.
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
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"The book is the product of a protracted, laborious and scrupulous
research and draws on a most extensive and varied assembly of
documents. But the archival evidence, factual accounts and even
personal narratives would have remained remote, dry and cold if not
for the author's remarkable gift of empathy. Barbara Engelking
gives the witnesses of the Holocaust a voice which readers of this
book will understand....Under her pen memories come alive
again."--from the Foreword by Zygmunt BaumanOriginally published in
Polish to great acclaim and based on interviews with survivors of
the Holocaust in Poland, Holocaust and Memory provides a moving
description of their life during the war and the sense they made of
it. The book begins by looking at the differences between the
wartime experiences of Jews and Poles in occupied Poland, both in
terms of Nazi legislation and individual experiences. On the Aryan
side of the ghetto wall, Jews could either be helped or blackmailed
by Poles. The largest section of the book reconstructs everyday
life in the ghetto. The psychological consequences of wartime
experiences are explored, including interviews with survivors who
stayed on in Poland after the war and were victims of anti-Semitism
again in 1968. These discussions bring into question some of the
accepted survivor stereotypes found in Holocaust literature. A
final chapter looks at the legacy of the Holocaust, the problems of
transmitting experience and of the place of the Holocaust in Polish
history and culture.
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Open Season (DVD)
Martin Lawrence, Gary Sinise, Ashton Kutcher, Jon Favreau, Georgia Engel, …
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Animated adventure comedy featuring the voice talents of Martin
Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher and Gary Sinise. When a domesticated
grizzly bear called Boog (Lawrence) gets lured into leaving the
creature comforts of home by a fast-talking mule deer named Elliott
(Kutcher), he finds himself lost in the woods just three days
before hunting season begins. Forced to rough it in the great
outdoors, Boog goes native, rallying all the forest animals to take
back their home and send the hunters packing.
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Bed! Bed! Bed!
Douglas Florian; Illustrated by Christiane Engel
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This book is about innovation ecosystems, Clusters of Innovation
(COI) and the Global Networks of Clusters of Innovation (GNCOI)
they naturally form. What is innovation and why is it important to
us? Innovation is nothing less than the ability for constructive
response and adaptation to change. The cause and catalyst for that
change is frequently identified as technology and its unceasing
pressure to improve on existing solutions and address unmet needs.
The last decade has painfully demonstrated that exogenous
environmental shocks are also sources of change that call for
innovative responses, ranging from the obvious challenges such as
global warming and Covid-19 to the more subtle social and political
perturbations of our time. Entrepreneurs, in collaboration with
venture investors and major corporations can create a flywheel of
constructive engagement, a cluster of Innovation, that helps build
the resiliency of our communities to adsorb and rebound from these
shocks. The process is enhanced when actively supported by
government, universities, and other elements of the ecosystem. This
book provides the tools for understanding this value creation
process and the means to enhance it, in both emerging and mature
innovation ecosystems. This book provides a framework for
understanding innovation in mature and emerging innovation
ecosystems to a wide swath of professionals and academics, from
senior executives of major corporations, government leaders, public
policy makers, and consultants, to academics, researchers, and
educators.
Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale
Classics is a new series of essential works. From the musings of
intellectuals such as Thomas Paine in Common Sense to the striking
personal narrative of Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our
intellectual history through the words of the exceptional few.
Originally published as a political pamphlet in 1848, amidst the
revolutions in Europe, The Communist Manifesto documents Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels's theories on society and politics. It does so
by defining the state of the class system in contemporary Europe in
which a larger, lower class is controlled and oppressed by a
tyrannical, oppressive upper class. The Manifesto argues that, at
some point in history, the lower class will inevitably realize
their potential and exploitation and subsequently revolt. Once this
occurs, Marx and Engels argue, there will be an uprising among
proletariats that shifts political and economic power, ultimately
resulting in the dismantling of class systems and capitalism.
Additionally, in the Manifesto, Marx and Engels also predict the
future state of the global economy and discuss their viewpoints on
private property, while also addressing many other topics pertinent
to today's world. Although written nearly 170 years ago, The
Communist Manifesto is still widely read and cited. Amid the
current turmoil between social classes and the societies of the
world, its revolutionary prose and ideas can still yield ripe food
for thought.
DISCOVER THE WORK THAT LAUNCHED REVOLUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
Although it was published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is as
controversial and provocative as ever. Its stirring and poetic
language helped spread Marx and Engels' socialist message far and
wide, unleashing a century of political revolution. In an age of
great inequality, the Manifesto's message of an exploited and
suffering working class that must rise up and claim the means of
production and wealth continues to resonate. This deluxe edition
features an insightful introduction from Tom Butler-Bowdon which
explains how the text came to be written, and why it remains
popular.
Full-length animated feature following Mickey Mouse (voice of Wayne
Allwine) and the rest of the gang. Aboard the Clubhouse Train,
Mickey and his friends collect snow that never melts so they can
play in the snow in the summertime!
Liquid multiphase processes represent a promising option for
realizing novel, efficient, and sustainable production processes,
as required for the transformation towards climate-neutral
manufacturing processes. This volume presents the results obtained
over twelve years in the DFG-funded collaborative project
Transregio 63 "Integrated Chemical Processes in Liquid Multiphase
Systems". In an interdisciplinary approach to the design and
operation of such processes, essential principles of Green
Chemistry are realized, such as using long-chain olefins as model
representatives of renewable raw materials, highly effi cient
catalysts, and green solvents, linked with process optimization to
improve energy and material efficiency. Experts from different
fields addressed all steps of the development process, from the
description of the reactions on the molecular level via
thermodynamics and the design of efficient separation processes to
the operation of entire miniplants for liquid multiphase production
processes. Thus, the complete development chain from the first
reaction-related investigations in the laboratory to the
technological realization in miniplants with model-based control is
demonstrated. Numerous methodological innovations are proposed and
validated using several innovative phase systems (thermomorphic
multiphase systems, microemulsion systems, Pickering emulsions) and
homogeneously catalyzed reactions. Engineers and chemists from the
chemical industry as well as advanced students and researchers will
get valuable insights into the physico-chemical phenomena in
chemical multiphase processes and benefit from recommendations
concerning methods for the selection of phase systems and rapid
model-based process development.
This timely book provides an astute assessment of the institutional
and constitutional boundaries, interactions and tensions between
the different levels of governance in EU criminal justice. Probing
the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the EU's approach
to transnational crime, it proposes improved mechanisms for public
participation in the governance of EU criminal law, designed to
ensure better transparency, accountability and democratic controls.
Influential scholars from across Europe analyse key practical
challenges to the governance of EU criminal law in the context of
specific crimes, including financial crime, cybercrime and
environmental crime. Offering sector-specific perspectives on
tackling transnational crime, insightful chapters examine the
potential options for criminal-law cooperation between the EU and
the UK after Brexit, and consider to what extent these avenues may
represent enhanced mechanisms for the governance of transnational
crimes and common security threats in the future. This important
study will prove crucial reading for academics, researchers and
postgraduate students examining EU, transnational and comparative
criminal law, as well as European integration studies and
constitutional law more broadly. Practitioners and policy-makers
working in the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice will also
benefit from this book's practical insights into the mechanisms of
EU law and justice.
A fascinating and enlightening celebration of mushrooms and the
magic of the forest for those who revel in mushroom imagery and
lore. Mushrooms--as a decorative element, as a signifier of the
mystery of the forest, and as an adorable emblem of witchy
cottagecore dreams--have proliferated in the collective
consciousness as of late. Mushroom Magick is a whimsical collection
of mushroom facts and fables divided into three sections: first,
profiles of 22 well-known mushrooms include information on biology
and common uses as well as a rundown of their energetic properties
and suggestions for incorporating them into spellwork. Section two
provides a world-spanning collection of mushroom myths and fables.
The final section is a taste of the spells and rituals that you can
perform with common mushrooms such as creminis, shiitakes, and
portobellos--carved candles, floor washes, teas, and even some
yummy meals can improve your love life, super-charge your good
fortune, or even cast a well-deserved hex upon your most hated
enemy.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current
developments, issues and good practices regarding assessment in
social science research. It pays particular attention to the
challenges in evaluation policies in the social sciences, as well
as to the specificities of publishing in the area. The Handbook
discusses the current societal challenges facing researchers, from
digital societies, to climate change and sustainability, to trust
in democratic societies. Chapters provide ways to strengthen
research assessment in the social sciences for the better, by
offering a diverse range of experiences and views of experts from
all continents. The Handbook also outlines major data sources that
can be used to assess social sciences research, as well as looking
at key dimensions of research quality in the social sciences
including journal peer review, the issue of identifying research
quality, and gender disparities in social science research. This
book will be an essential read for scholars interested in research
assessment in the social sciences. It will also be useful to policy
makers looking to understand the key position of the social
sciences in science and society and provide appropriate frameworks
for key societal challenges.
Exploring the emerging and vibrant field of critical agrarian
studies, this comprehensive Handbook offers interdisciplinary
insights from both leading scholars and activists to understand
agrarian life, livelihoods, formations and processes of change. It
highlights the development of the field, which is characterized by
theoretical and methodological pluralism and innovation. The
Handbook presents critical analyses of, and examines controversies
about, historical and contemporary social structures and processes
in agrarian and rural settings from a wide range of perspectives.
Chapters explore the origins of critical agrarian studies, the
concepts underpinning the diverse theoretical approaches to the
field, and the strengths and weaknesses of different methodologies
used within the field. Finally, it illuminates debates around the
topic and trajectories for future research and development. This
will be a vital resource for graduate students, scholars and
activists interested in critical agrarian studies. The analytical
and empirical insights will also be helpful to students of
environmental and development studies as well as agricultural and
development economics, human geography and socio-cultural
anthropology.
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