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This first comprehensive look at California's history of environmental leadership shows why the Golden State has been at the forefront in setting new environmental standards, often leading the rest of the nation.

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Identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. This book traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, and cross-cultural translations.

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A collection of essays, which search for what can be explained in the ultimately inexplicable evils perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge. It is accompanied by a photo essay that provides visual evidence of the tragedy of Cambodia's autogenocide.

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Camille Saint-Sans - perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music - is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his importance. This book deconstructs the multiple realities behind the man and his music.

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Argues that campaigns do play their role in sustaining democracy, mainly because they bring about a dialogue among candidates, the press, and the people. This book takes a look at the exchange of ideas through language used in campaign speeches, political advertising, public debates, print and broadcast news, and a various letters to the editor.

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"Why higher education is not a silver bullet for eradicating economic inequality and social injustice"--

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Disputes over fishing rights in the North Atlantic Ocean, sealing rights in the Behring Sea and on the Pribilof Islands, reciprocal trade relations, and the settlement of the Alaska Boundary are considered in relation to the underlying problem of competition between American and Canadian economic nationalism Originally published in 1964. The Prin

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This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky - himself a resident of Cape Cod - this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings.

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Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing countries This work explores the political incentives that either foster growth or steal nations' growth prospects. It examines the frontier between risk and uncertainty, analyzing the forces driving development in both developed and undeveloped regions.

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The right of governments to employ capital controls has always been the official orthodoxy of the International Monetary Fund(IMF). This title explores the inner workings of the IMF to understand how its staff's thinking about capital controls changed so radically.

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In this volume in the NBER series on capital formation and financing, the authors show, with supporting figures, two major trends in mining and manufacturing. The first is that this sector had a rate of growth significantly higher than that of the economy as a whole. The total capital assets of this sector increased fifteenfold from 1880 to 1948, w

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An examination of long-term trends in capital formation and financing in the U.S., this study is organized primarily around the principal capital-using sectors of the economy: agriculture, mining and manufacturing, public utilities, non-farm residential real estate, and government. The analysis summarizes major trends in real capital formation and

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The two decades that followed World War II witnessed the end of the great European empires in Asia and Africa. Robert Tignor's new study of the decolonization experiences of Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya elucidates the major factors that led to the transfer of power from British to African hands in these three territories. Employing a comparative metho

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Combines mastery of current political and economic literature with references to figures ranging from Plato to P. T. Barnum, from Immanuel Kant to Ronald Reagan, from Shakespeare to Frank Capra.

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"First published in Germany under 'Geschichte des Kapitalismus', by Jeurgen Kocka." --Title page verso.