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Sustainable Fisheries Management: Pacific Salmon
by E. Eric Knudsen • Cleveland R. Steward • Donald D. MacDonald • Jack E. Williams • Dudley W. ReiserWhat has happened to the salmon resource in the Pacific Northwest? Who is responsible and what can be done to reverse the decline in salmon populations? The responsibly falls on everyone involved - fishermen, resource managers and concerned citizens alike - to take the steps necessary to ensure that... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Taiwan's Environmental Struggle: Toward a Green Silicon Island (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)
Taiwan experienced a highly successful economic transformation in the last 50 years that produced one of Asia’s genuine ‘miracles’ of modern development, in terms of improvement in per capita income and overall quality of material well being for its citizens. The process, though, involved rapid indu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development
The third edition features mainly new authors (most teach geography and urban studies in the US) and much revision to reflect the major changes that have occurred since volume 2 was published in 1993, including terrorism, electronic resources, wireless communication, and global business. This editi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts
Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts examines the problems associated with Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) and reveals the damaging impacts they can have. The book looks at how the debt crisis of the 1970's forced developing countries to seek external help and then reviews wha... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
by Richard Bell • Jonathan W. White • Robert J. Cook • Frank J. Williams • Thomas G. Clemens • Brian Matthew Jordan • Frank Towers • Timothy J. Orr • Martha Jones • Sharita Jacobs-Thompson • Jessica Millward • Rob SchoeberleinCONTENTS:Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Louisiana Field Guide: Understanding Life in the Pelican State
by Anthony Lewis • Karen Williams • Michael Pasquier • Alecia P. Long • Alex V. Cook • Barry Cowan • Wayne Parent • Kent Mathewson • Thomas Klingler • Ryan Orgera • J. Michael Desmond • David Harlan • Raynie Harlan • Joyce Jackson • Aaron Emmitte • Sylvie DuBois • Zachary GodshallIn Louisiana, every bite of food and each turn of phrase is an expression of cultural literacy. Correctly pronouncing "Tchoupitoulas" or "Atchafalaya," knowing the difference between the first Governor Long and the second one, being able to spot the artwork of Caroline Durieux, and honoring the dist... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Health Humanities Reader
by Mark Vonnegut • Audrey Shafer • Martha Stoddard Holmes • Howard Brody • Jeff Nisker • Bradley Lewis • Rosemarie Tong • Ian Williams • Sander L. Gilman • Rafael Campo • Daniel Goldberg • Michael Rowe • Thomas R. Cole • Alice Dreger • Joseph N. Straus • Jonathan M. Metzl • Arthur W. Frank • E. Ann Kaplan • Rebecca Hester • John Lantos • Shelley Wall • Alan Bleakley • Marjorie Levine-Clark • Michael Sappol • Mark Clark • Professor Therese Jones • Professor Delese Wear • Professor Lester D. Friedman • David H. Flood • Rhonda L. Soricelli • Lisa Keränen • Martin F. Norden • Professor Lisa I. Iezzoni • Felicia Cohn • Martha Montello • Amy Haddad • Rebecca Garden • Jack Coulehan • Professor Bernice Hausman • Gretchen A. Case • Allen Peterkin • Susan M. Squier • Sayantani DasGupta • Maren Grainger-Monsen • Benjamin Saxton • Jerald Winakur • Anne Hudson Jones • Tod Chambers • Raymond C. Barfield • Lucy Selman • Jeffrey P. Bishop • Catherine Belling • Paul Root Wolpe • Professor Allison B. Kavey • Julie M. Aultman • Michael Blackie • Erin Gentry Lamb • Jay BaruchOver the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014