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For nearly a decade, a team of researchers was busily at work preparing a data base on the decisions of the United States Supreme Court. This book documents those efforts. Specifically, this book is a codebook and a user's guide to the data. In addition to documenting each of the codes in the data set, this book also provides specific details on how the variables were coded, as well as information about the reliability of the results. Three ma...

A fast-paced and highly rewarding account of the struggle to realize a deeper consciousness of the human relationship with nature-before it is too late."-James Gustave SpethFor more than two centuries, as Western cultures became ever more industrialized, the natural world was increasingly regarded as little more than a collection of useful raw resources. The folklore of powerful forest spirits was displaced by the practicalities of logging, th...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is a text about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colours and textures, where we are in the environment, whether or not we are moving, and if we are, where we are going, what things are good for, how to do things (to thread a needle or drive an automobile), or why things look as they do.

Honesty With God" is the fruit of an experiment discovered while attempting to establish a new church. In 1968 a small group of adventurers wanted to form a church that would rightly demonstrate God to the world. We found the book of Hebrews to be rich in its definition of God. Whoever wrote the book of Hebrews was immersed in an understanding of the character of God. As we traveled upon this venture of discovery, the character of God began to...

Accounting in Small Business Decisions presents the first large-scale empirical examination of how small firms use accounting data to make operating decisions.

James R. Gibson is a historical geographer at York University. He is the author of the award-winning Otter Skins, Boston Ships, and China Goods: The Maritime Fur Trade of the Northwest Coast 1785-1841 (1992), as well as of Imperial Russia in Frontier America: The Changing Geography of Supply of Russian America 1784-1867 (1978), and Farming the Frontier: The Agricultural Opening of the Oregon Country 1786-1846 (1984).

This new book covers every nuclear delivery system the United States ever deployed. With few exceptions, each weapon and system is illustrated by either color or black and white photographs. Each weapon also comes with specifications and a history of its development, deployment and retirement (if retired).

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Excerpt from Inscriptions on the Tombstones and Monuments Erected in Memory of the Covenanters: With Historical Introduction and Notes The following Sketches, illustrating "Inscriptions on the Tombstones and Monuments erected in Memory of the Covenanters, " were written for the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, and appeared in that paper during the spring and summer of 1875. Since then, they have been carefully revised and extended, and in this...

Excerpt from A Boston Merchant of 1745: Or Incidents in the Life of James Gibson, a Gentleman Volunteer at the Expedition to Louisburg, Journal of That Siege, Never Before Published in This Country by One of His Descendants'does not mention the given name 0 Perkins. Tradition in our family as signs them to the congregation wor shipping ih the Old South Church.' That there was a family in Boston whc tenderly cherished the orphan of Bea con Hill...

Excerpt from The Public Worship of God: Its Authority and Modes, Hymns and Hymn Books The discussions in the following pages, with the exception of Chapters vi., vii., viii., first appeared as articles in the Watchword, The author has been requested to publish them in a separate form. Through the pressure on the pages of that Journal, arising from the necessity of immediate attention to other very important subjects, relating to the great pri...

Excerpt from Locke's Theory of Knowledge and Its Historical Relations This study of Locke's Theory of Knowledge was begun as an introduction to an edition of the Essay upon which I have been engaged for some years, but in view of the proportions to which it has grown it has seemed better that it should appear independently. Notwithstanding the labours of Campbell Fraser and the admirable little volume by Professor Alexander, the Essay still s...

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The sixteenth and largest REED collection to date contains the evidence of dramatic, musical, and ceremonial activity in the city of Canterbury and in the towns and parishes of the diocese of Canterbury.

A War without Rifles: The 1792 Militia Act and the War of 1812 turns an eye to the conflict most overlooked by historians, even in a decade marking the bicentennial of the first declared war fought by the United States of America. James N. Gibson remedies this oversight by presenting his investigation of the interplay between the Militia Act, passed by Congress in 1792, and the conduct of the War of 1812. Despite the common perception that the...

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This book was first published in 1979 and is about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures), where we are in the environment, whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we are going, what things are good for, how to do things (to thread a needle or drive an automobile), or why things look as they do.

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