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Picks apart the intellectual design and ambitions of the neoconservative American foreign policy. This book draws on the contrary visions of Hobbes, Kant, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and Isaiah Berlin in order to disclose the contours of conflict in the age of geo-civil war, and to illuminate the challenges and risks of contemporary democracy.

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It also develops a theoretical framework for understanding why regional high-technology development occurs and the role policy can play in the process.

This work will be of interest to development planners and scholars in the fields of economic geography, development economics, and regional development.

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Gull chicks beg for food from their parents. Peacocks spread their tails to attract potential mates. Meerkats alert family members of the approach of predators. But are these sometimes dishonest This book probes such question by reviewing the empirical data and game theory models available, and by asking how well theory matches data.

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A collection of essays that offer Quammen's perspective on nature and the world around. He brings to life the pageant of nature, ranging from tales of vegetarian piranha and dogs without voices, to a profile of the scientists searching for the genes that threaten to destroy the cheetah.

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Aims to bring to light the many and varied activities of this US federal agency - The Forest Service, and the challenges it faces in a world that is constantly changing.

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In this book, one of Germany's most influential economists describes his country's economy, the largest in the European Union and the third largest in the world, and analyzes its weaknesses: poor GDP growth performance, high unemployment due to a malfunctioning labor market, and an unsustainable social security system. Horst Siebert spells out the

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Whether our personality, intelligence, and behavior are more likely to be shaped by our environment or our genetic coding is not simply an idle question for researchers. This work looks at this and other important issues. It also explains the insights gained into how the brain functions and how it can (or cannot) be molded and changed.

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The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon, and the golden age of Polar Exploration.

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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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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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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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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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Since 2008, energy and food markets - those most fundamental to human existence - have remained in turmoil. This title examines the political dimensions of strategic resource challenges at the domestic and international levels. It includes chapters on major powers (United States, India, China) and key suppliers (Russia, Saudi Arabia).

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Nenad Starc is a researcher, consultant and a professor in the fields of regional policy and planning at the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia. He specializes in island development, spatial planning and local development programming.

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Offers readers an alternative way of conceptualising humanism in relation to global change, one that draws in particular from black studies as opposed to one located in the ontological fold of European humanism.

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Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production, sixteen contributors illustrate the power of pragmatism to inform democratic, community-centred, action-oriented research. -- .

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Examines the world perceptions of various civilizations and the ways in which maps have been formulated to serve the agenda of cartographers and their patrons. This book also analyses the decline of sovereignty, the spread of globalisation, the reassertion of ethnic identity, and how these trends affect contemporary mapmaking.