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Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods - The Role of Policies and Governance (Hardcover): Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne,... Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods - The Role of Policies and Governance (Hardcover)
Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne, Larry Harrington
R4,146 Discovery Miles 41 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider aspects such as changing paradigms, policy responses under uncertainty, scenario development, institutional responses, adaptive forecasting, governance perspectives, infrastructure development, overall investments, and technological innovation. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction are discussed at length. Most of the cities and regions studied are in Asia, however, cities from Oceania, Europe, Africa, and North America are also included. Analyses are not limited to cities but to the basins and regions from which urban populations obtain their resources, and on which their resilience depends. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods - The Role of Policies and Governance (Paperback): Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne,... Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods - The Role of Policies and Governance (Paperback)
Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne, Larry Harrington
R1,292 Discovery Miles 12 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider aspects such as changing paradigms, policy responses under uncertainty, scenario development, institutional responses, adaptive forecasting, governance perspectives, infrastructure development, overall investments, and technological innovation. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction are discussed at length. Most of the cities and regions studied are in Asia, however, cities from Oceania, Europe, Africa, and North America are also included. Analyses are not limited to cities but to the basins and regions from which urban populations obtain their resources, and on which their resilience depends. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

A Brave and Cunning Prince - The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America (Hardcover): James Horn A Brave and Cunning Prince - The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America (Hardcover)
James Horn
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a common occurrence at the time. What was uncommon in this case was that the young man eventually came back. During his time abroad, the boy lived in Madrid, Seville, Havana, and Mexico City, becoming a favorite of King Philip II and converting to Catholicism in the process. In fact, his faith grew so strong, he said, that he felt compelled to help establish a Jesuit mission to save the souls of his people back in Virginia-but shortly after the group arrived in the New World, he abandoned his fellow missionaries, rejoined his family, and soon returned with a small band of warriors to slaughter the Europeans. In the years that followed, he became the warrior chief known as Opechancanough, and alongside his brother Wahunsonacock (father of Pocahontas), he solidified their people's control of coastal Virginia, making the Powhatans the most powerful Indian chiefdom on the mid-Atlantic seaboard. Under their reign, the region remained free of European settlers until 1607, when English colonists arrived in Jamestown. But this was not so unbalanced an encounter as many have supposed. Because of his time among the Europeans, Opechancanough was acutely aware not only of the English settlers' technological capabilities, but also of the fierce determination with which they would pursue their invasion of his homeland. As time passed, the two chiefs sought to drive the invaders out, and mounted a series of attacks that nearly destroyed the colony at Jamestown. But the English settlers proved more resilient than the Spanish missionaries had been forty years earlier. Additional soldiers, weapons, and provisions arrived from England, forcing Opechancanough to drag his offensive on for decades. He survived to be nearly a hundred years old and died as he lived, fighting the invaders. A Brave and Cunning Prince is the first book to chronicle the life of Opechancanough, exploring his early exposure to European society and his lifelong fight to protect the integrity of his homeland. With engrossing storytelling, deep research, and surprising insights, A Brave and Cunning Prince will be vital reading for anyone seeking to understand the charged early encounters between the indigenous peoples of North America and the settlers who would bring death and destruction.

The Revolution of 1800 - Democracy, Race and the New Republic (Paperback): James Horn, Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf The Revolution of 1800 - Democracy, Race and the New Republic (Paperback)
James Horn, Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf
R1,046 Discovery Miles 10 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

George W. Bush and Al Gore were by no means the first presidential hopefuls to find themselves embroiled in a hotly contested electoral impasse. Two hundred years earlier, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams endured arguably the most controversial and consequential election in American history. Focusing on the wide range of possible outcomes of the 1800-1801 melee, this collection of essays situates the American "Revolution of 1800" in a broad context of geo-political and racial developments in the Atlantic world as a whole. In essays written expressly for this volume, leading historians of the period examine the electoral, social, and political outcome of Jefferson's election in discussions strikingly relevant in the aftermath of the 2000 election.

Contributors

Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los AngelesMichael Bellesiles, Emory UniversityJeanne Boydston, University of WisconsinSeth Cotlar, Willamette UniversityGregory Evans Dowd, University of Notre DameLaurent Dubois, Michigan State UniversityDouglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College, SyracuseJoanne Freeman, Yale UniversityJames E. Lewis Jr., independent scholar Robert M. S. McDonald, United States Military Academy, West PointJames Oakes, City University of New York Graduate CenterJeffrey Pasley, University of Missouri, ColumbiaJack N. Rakove, Stanford UniversityBethel Saler, Haverford CollegeJames Sidbury, University of TexasAlan Taylor, University of California, Davis

The Revolution of 1800 - Democracy, Race and the New Republic (Hardcover): James Horn, Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf The Revolution of 1800 - Democracy, Race and the New Republic (Hardcover)
James Horn, Jan Lewis, Peter S. Onuf
R2,192 Discovery Miles 21 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

George W. Bush and Al Gore were by no means the first presidential hopefuls to find themselves embroiled in a hotly contested electoral impasse. Two hundred years earlier, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams endured arguably the most controversial and consequential election in American history. Focusing on the wide range of possible outcomes of the 1800-1801 melee, this collection of essays situates the American "Revolution of 1800" in a broad context of geo-political and racial developments in the Atlantic world as a whole. In essays written expressly for this volume, leading historians of the period examine the electoral, social, and political outcome of Jefferson's election in discussions strikingly relevant in the aftermath of the 2000 election.

Contributors

Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los AngelesMichael Bellesiles, Emory UniversityJeanne Boydston, University of WisconsinSeth Cotlar, Willamette UniversityGregory Evans Dowd, University of Notre DameLaurent Dubois, Michigan State UniversityDouglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College, SyracuseJoanne Freeman, Yale UniversityJames E. Lewis Jr., independent scholar Robert M. S. McDonald, United States Military Academy, West PointJames Oakes, City University of New York Graduate CenterJeffrey Pasley, University of Missouri, ColumbiaJack N. Rakove, Stanford UniversityBethel Saler, Haverford CollegeJames Sidbury, University of TexasAlan Taylor, University of California, Davis

Virginia 1619 - Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America (Hardcover): Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, James Horn Virginia 1619 - Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America (Hardcover)
Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, James Horn
R3,004 Discovery Miles 30 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident. Slavery and freedom were born together as migrants and English officials figured out how to make this colony succeed. They did so in the face of rival ventures and while struggling to survive in a dangerous environment. Three hallmarks of English America-self-government, slavery, and native dispossession-took shape as everyone contested the future of empire along the James River in 1619. The contributors are Nicholas Canny, Misha Ewen, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Jack P. Greene, Paul D. Halliday, Alexander B. Haskell, Linda M. Heywood, James Horn, Michael J. Jarvis, Peter C. Mancall, Philip D. Morgan, Melissa N. Morris, Paul Musselwhite, James D. Rice, and Lauren Working.

Laurel and Hardy: The Bohemian Girl (DVD): Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Darla Hood, Julie Bishop, James Finlayson,... Laurel and Hardy: The Bohemian Girl (DVD)
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Darla Hood, Julie Bishop, …
R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Out of stock

The comedy duo star as members of a gypsy band who arrive at the estate of Count Arnheim. When Ollie's wife has an affair behind his back, her lover is caught and flogged by Arnheim's guards. She kidnaps the Count's daughter, Arline, as an act of revenge, only to run away with her paramour leaving Stan and Ollie holding the baby... literally. Twelve years later the gypsies are back in the area, and Arline, unaware of her true parentage, ventures into the Count's castle... Both black and white and colourised versions are available.

Virginia 1619 - Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America (Paperback): Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, James Horn Virginia 1619 - Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America (Paperback)
Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, James Horn
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the product of thoughtless, greedy, or impatient English colonists. Instead, the emergence of stable English Atlantic colonies reflected the deliberate efforts of an array of actors to establish new societies based on their ideas about commonwealth, commerce, and colonialism. Looking back from 2019, we can understand that what happened on the shores of the Chesapeake four hundred years ago was no accident. Slavery and freedom were born together as migrants and English officials figured out how to make this colony succeed. They did so in the face of rival ventures and while struggling to survive in a dangerous environment. Three hallmarks of English America-self-government, slavery, and native dispossession-took shape as everyone contested the future of empire along the James River in 1619. The contributors are Nicholas Canny, Misha Ewen, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Jack P. Greene, Paul D. Halliday, Alexander B. Haskell, Linda M. Heywood, James Horn, Michael J. Jarvis, Peter C. Mancall, Philip D. Morgan, Melissa N. Morris, Paul Musselwhite, James D. Rice, and Lauren Working.

The Missionary Heroes of Africa (Hardcover): James Horne Morrison The Missionary Heroes of Africa (Hardcover)
James Horne Morrison
R948 Discovery Miles 9 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Missionary Heroes of Africa (Paperback): James Horne Morrison The Missionary Heroes of Africa (Paperback)
James Horne Morrison
R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Adapting to a New World - English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (Paperback, New edition): James Horn Adapting to a New World - English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake (Paperback, New edition)
James Horn
R1,417 Discovery Miles 14 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behavior on the social and cultural evolution of the early Chesapeake. Using detailed local and regional studies to compare everyday life in English provincial society and the emergent societies of the Chesapeake Bay, Horn provides a richly textured picture of the immigrants' Old World backgrounds and their adjustment to life in America. Until the end of the seventeenth century, most settlers in Virginia and Maryland were born and raised in England, a factor of enormous consequence for social development in the two colonies. By stressing the vital social and cultural connections between England and the Chesapeake during this period, Horn places the development of early America in the context of a vibrant Anglophone transatlantic world and suggests a fundamental reinterpretation of New World society. |Based on literary and legal sources, this study reveals how legal contests involving women, children, African-Americans, and the poor of the 19th-century South led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order.

To Make America - European Emigration in the Early Modern Period (Hardcover): Ida Altman, James Horn To Make America - European Emigration in the Early Modern Period (Hardcover)
Ida Altman, James Horn
R1,906 Discovery Miles 19 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Streams in the Desert; a Picture of Life in Livingstonia (Hardcover): James Horne Morrison Streams in the Desert; a Picture of Life in Livingstonia (Hardcover)
James Horne Morrison
R881 Discovery Miles 8 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life's Game (Paperback): James Horn Life's Game (Paperback)
James Horn
R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An amazing book of spiritual poems all written in beautiful lines of 31 explaining how to open your mind and think for yourself. Each poem is a powerful tool to break away from the ancient mind games of man that have taken hold of our daily lives. Apply their messages and test every rhyme to find the truths within your own life.

Career Secret Sauce; 9 Winning Strategies for Building a Great Career (Paperback): David James Horne Career Secret Sauce; 9 Winning Strategies for Building a Great Career (Paperback)
David James Horne
R538 R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Save R91 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Editorial Reviews John Davies, Author -- The $100,000 Career "The nine strategies in Career Secret Sauce are a road map to a great career. Penelope Trunk, Author -- Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success "Dave Horne has captured the essential building blocks for a great career!" Dr. Paul Powers, Author -- Winning Job Interviews and Love Your Job "Career Secret Sauce is an important resource for people who want a successful career and (here is the secret) are not willing to sacrifice their personal life to get it." Thomas M. Tippett, Vice President-HR (Retired), Allstate Insurance Company "The strategies offered in Career Secret Sauce provide many useful tools and real life examples of securing and creating a successful career. There is something for everyone, whether just embarking on their first career or looking to enhance their current career opportunities." Jay Ennesser, Vice President, IBM "Dave Horne discovered that most people's natural instincts about how to get promoted are not only flawed, but can actually be self-destructive. His science of Promotionology really hits the nail on the head." Valerie Terry, Ph.D., Pepperdine University "Dave Horne has a way of explaining career success to today's generation that really connects. He recognizes that a flavorful career requires just the right blend of ingredients and seasoning from the very beginning, and he provides a relevant recipe." Book Description Career Secret Sauce; 9 Winning Strategies for Building a Great Career provides a roadmap to help young people launch their careers on a successful path. The core strategies come from the author's 30-year career rising from clerk to CEO and are augmented with profiles of 9 additional exemplary individuals. The book details insider secrets for winning the job you want, getting your career off to good start, landing promotions, and finding a new job when the time comes. The ideal reader is anyone in their college years through their late twenties, although the strategies outlined Career Secret Sauce; 9 Winning Strategies for Building a Great Career apply to just about everyone.

Spiritual Warfare For the Anointed Body of Christ (Paperback): Carl James Horned Eagle Jr. Spiritual Warfare For the Anointed Body of Christ (Paperback)
Carl James Horned Eagle Jr.
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book, Spiritual Warfare-For the anointed Body of Christ, is for the sole purpose of understanding the realm of the spirit. During spiritual warfare, the Body of Christ does not really have any understanding of what really occurs in the realm of the spirit during spiritual warfare. The spiritual warfare that is being explained in this book is for sole purpose of allowing the Body of Christ to peer into the unknown. The unknown is an arena that is not understandable to the Body of Christ because of the lack of revelation given concerning the realm of the spirit. The realm of the spirit is a place that is not understood by spiritual warfare adherents only because they lack Scriptural revelation. Spiritual warfare is based upon Scriptural revelation to be able to destroy demonic strongholds. The revelation that is given during spiritual warfare is for the sole purpose of demolishing the demonic stronghold in the realm of the spirit (2 Corinthians 10: 4-6). The spiritual weapons that are involved in spiritual confrontations with the evil one are numerous in application. This book contains various applications of spiritual weapons that are more than capable of demolishing demonic strongholds. The spiritual warfare in this book is completely dependent on the Word of God to insure victory in every confrontation. The Word of God is to be used in accordance with Spirit-led direction to enable the anointing to work effectively. The Spirit of God will lead the Body of Christ through the various spiritual battles with the evil one to obtain the needed victory. There are many different battles that are approached from various Scriptural revelations to cause the anointing to destroy the demonicconspiracy. This book will teach the Body of Christ on how the anointing works in the realm of the spirit.

Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan (Hardcover): J. A. A Stockwin, Alan Rix, Aurelia George, James Horne, Daiichi It,... Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan (Hardcover)
J. A. A Stockwin, Alan Rix, Aurelia George, James Horne, Daiichi It, …
R4,507 Discovery Miles 45 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the past thirty years Japan has shown that it is a highly dynamic society, and its economic policy-making has often astonished the world. Japanese politics, however, though sometimes showing dynamism, are very stable and frequently strangely immobilist. In this book, six specialists on Japanese politics seek to find out why.

1619 - Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy (Hardcover): James Horn 1619 - Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy (Hardcover)
James Horn
R626 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R78 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1619 offers a new interpretation of the significance of Jamestown in the long trajectory of American history. Jamestown, the cradle of American democracy, also saw the birth of our nation's greatest challenge: the corrosive legacy of slavery and racism that have deepened and entrenched stark inequalities in our society. After running Jamestown under martial law from 1610-1616, the Virginia Company turned toward representative government in an effort to provide settlers with more control over their own affairs and more incentive to invest further in the colony. Governor Edwin Sandys dreamed of creating a real commonwealth, to provide for the interests of settlers and Indians alike. Thus, in late July 1619, the newly-formed General Assembly gathered to introduce "just Laws for the happy guiding and governing of the people." It was the first legislature in America, and history has cast it as the foundation of American freedom and democracy. From that moment on, propertied white colonists became accustomed to freedoms that would have been unthinkable in England with its layers of customs and hierarchy of courts and regulations, and these expanding political and economic freedoms attracted countless British immigrants and other Europeans to Virginia and the American colonies. But those very freedoms also permitted the wholesale and largely unchecked exploitation of poor white laborers and non-European peoples. More than nine-tenths of all those arriving in Virginia at this time were brought in some form of servitude or labor contract. In a cruel irony, 1619 also saw the arrival of the first African slaves in Virginia. The establishment of the General Assembly did nothing to ameliorate these disparities, but rather put ever more power in the hands of local grandees. Sandys's dream of creating a commonwealth in the interests of settlers and Indians proved short-lived. But the twin pillars of democracy-the rule of law and representative government based on the consent of the people-survived and flourished. It was his greatest legacy to America. What was lost was his steadfast conviction that serving the common good served all. This is a pattern we recognize all too well in modern American society-opportunities are not shared, inequality is rampant, racism is systemic. We would like to think these are problems that can be solved by expanding representative democracy; Jamestown teaches us, instead, that these are problems have long been created and encouraged by American democracy. Casting a skeptical eye on deeply-cherished myths, 1619 will be essential reading for anyone struggling to understand the paradox of American freedom.

To Make America - European Emigration in the Early Modern Period (Paperback): Ida Altman, James Horn To Make America - European Emigration in the Early Modern Period (Paperback)
Ida Altman, James Horn
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

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