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An award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles.

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The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities

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This book provides a unique insight into the knowledge and wisdom David Suzuki has acquired over the years, and points to his legacy for generations to come.

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Fritz demonstrates how a series of unrelated events converged to make the Lewis and Clark expeditionand America's dream of westward expansiona reality.

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The apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. This book challenges such optimism.

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Builds sufficiency as a principle for sustainability with concepts and case studies and shows how seeking enough when more is possible is intuitive, rational and ethical.

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A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris--the "Grand Paris" initiative--and the building of today's networked global city.

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It traces the adventures, discoveries, and feats of technical ingenuity by which mapmakers, over the centuries, have succeeded in charting first the surface of the globe, then the earth's interior and the ocean floors, and finally the moon and the planets of our solar system.

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James Martin, one of the world's most widely respected authorities on the impact of technology on society, argues that we are living at a turning point in human history. 'We are travelling at breakneck speed into an era of extremes - extremes of wealth and poverty, extremes in technology, extremes in globalization.

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This is an investigative study of the problems involved with the use of associational geography in planning location and distribution of manufacturing industries.

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This volume of The Musical Woman continues the long-neglected task of documenting the full scope of participation by women in every facet of the music world.

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The author attempts to describe various types of weather disturbances ranging from small white clouds of fair weather to violent hurricanes.

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An overview of environmental regulation in the United States and a call for a new more effective regulatory model that relies less on top-down intervention and more on collaboration, flexibility, and incentives.

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Menard begins with the leading hypotheses (such as that the earth expands) and the supporting evidence for each. He traces the crucial work of the 1960s year by year as researchers debated hypotheses in correspondence and at frequent meetings. Throughout the book Professor Menard considers the implications of his story for the sociology of science

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Increased study of these Tropical Pacific phenomena, also known as ENSO (the El Nio and Southern Oscillation), has now enabled scientists to predict the ENSO state as much as 12 to 18 months in advance and has helped to shape weather prediction in general.

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After reestablishing the connection between morality and the law, the author develops a coherent position on many of the most controversial issues of urban life: the political uses of the streets; verbal assaults and the defamation of racial groups; the legitimate restriction of public speech; segregation, busing, and the use of racial quotas; educ

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Demonstrates an approach, using Eritrea as a case study, for carrying out an in-depth analysis of the sustainability of traditional rural communities, the impact of local and external actors on them, and the use of the analysis to design collaborative and incremental relief and development policies and programs.

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In The Political Limits of Environment Regulation, Bruce Yandle analyzes the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) twenty-year record and concludes that the agency's monopoly powers have not always been conducive to positive environmental results.

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The first in-depth analysis of the protest campaigns and policymaking practices that have marked British aviation since the construction of Heathrow Airport -- .

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The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--an earthquake that did not, in this instance, happen, but which, if it had, would have been one of the most destructive of our century. Working in a field where uncertainty abounds, Dr. Brian Brady of the