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Whales inspire great fascination in the public culture of
industrialized nations. Images of majestic and mysterious creatures
of the sea, hunted to or nearly to tragic extinction in a
emblematic example of human excess, have fueled the economic and
cultural power of this century's global movement to end whale
hunting. However, this political movement, and the ecological
research it initiated, has largely ignored the experience of Native
circumpolar communities, whose vast knowledge of whales and whaling
has evolved through centuries of integrated cultural and economic
practices rooted in the ethics of subsistence consumption and
sustainability. Today, the Inuit find themselves struggling with
international management regimes which, while they have been
successful in curbing the destruction of large-scale, commercial
whaling enterprises, have imposed policies that are insensitive to
the needs and traditions of Native subsistence hunters. Inuit,
Whaling, and Sustainability is based on extensive ethnographic,
ecological, and policy research sponsored by the Inuit Circumpolar
Conference, and presents Inuit perspectives on the integral role
whales play in cultural, economic, philosophical, and nutritional
aspects of Inuit life. This book is also the first major
publication to engage in policy analysis, and formulate modes of
environmental research, grounded in Inuit voices and realities.
Sponsored by the Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Early in its development, the subject matter of any field of
surgery is too ill-defined and opinions are too fluid for the
production of a book on the subject to be possible. Late in its
development, controversy is at an end, and although it is still
possible to produce a textbook, it is too late to produce a book
that might stimulate discussion and crystallise ideas. This book
has that objective, it being the Editor's view that the field of
the surgical treatment of arthritis of the knee had reached an
appropriate intermediate stage in 1978 when this text was written.
Three broad issues stand out as being in need of resolution before
the optimum form of surgical treatment for a given knee can be
defined more convincingly than is possible at present: Firstly:
What symptomatic and physical features of the knee are to be
recorded pre- and post-operatively, upon the basis of which
comparisons can be made between the results obtained by two
different surgeons or with two different tech niques. The
resolution of this issue requires general agreement not only upon
what features of the knee should be recorded but, crucially, upon
how these features should subsequently be presented so as to
characterise a particular group of knees.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT034778Signed: Stella, i.e. Mrs. Freeman (also
known as Mrs. Samuel Ireland). Verse.London: printed for T. Davies;
S. Leacroft, 1771. 2],21, 1]p.; 4
The aim of this book is to contribute to culturally inclusive,
equitable and effective wildlife conservation and management in the
northern regions--and by extension, in other regions where
indigenous systems of co-existing with wildlife also struggle to
work with positivistic science-based assessments of conservation
needs. Given the diverse worldviews, perspectives, and agendas of
all those seeking to influence conservation of the iconic polar
bear, it is impossible in a single book to provide a comprehensive
treatment of the management problems Inuit residents of the
Canadian Arctic and their government co-management partners face at
the present time. Consequently, what is presented in this volume
are the generally under-reported perspectives of Arctic residents
that reflect an experiential understanding of events taking place
in the region, and of some others whose views also augment
assessments being used to develop polar bear conservation
initiatives.
The international conference People, Wildlife, and Hunting:
Emerging Conservation Paradigms brought together hunters,
outfitters, community representatives, wildlife managers,
researchers and conservationists from across Canada and overseas to
explore the relationship linking trophy hunting, wildlife
conservation, large-mammal management, community economies, and
community sustainability in rural areas. This report focuses more
particularly (but not exclusively) upon community-based
conservation hunting programs operating in the Canadian North.
Papers by: William A. Wall; Peter J. Ewins; James Pokiak; Sylvia
Birkholz, Naomi Krogman, Marty Luckert and Kelly Semple; Jon
Hutton; George W. Wenzel and Martha Dowsley; H. Dean Cluff and
Ernie Campbell; Frank Pokiak; Kai Wollscheid; Lee Foote; Graham Van
Tighem, Thomas S. Jung, and Michelle Oakley; Drikus Gissing; Marco
Fiesta-Bianchet; Barney Smith and Harvey Jessup;
Considers the sometimes problematic relationship between
traditional and scientific wildlife management knowledge and
practices: environmental ethics, resource management systems,
co-management arrangements and options, and the role of commissions
in resource management. Papers by: Fikret Berkes; Anne Gunn, Goo
Arlooktoo and David Kaomayok; Rick Riewe and Lloyd Gamble; Polly
Wheeler; Ivar Bjorklund; Richard Caulfield; Miriam McDonald; Harvey
Feit; Gail Osherenko; and Thomas A. Andrews
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