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International Negotiation Series, 12 (International Studies Library, 38) Since the modern environmental movement began more than 40 years ago, negotiation has become an important way to resolve contentious environmental issues. Previous research often treats environmental negotiation as a static phenomenon and has not addressed how changes in the process impact resolution. Utilizing a dynamic model of negotiation and analysis of detailed case ...

International Negotiation Series, 12 (International Studies Library, 38) Since the modern environmental movement began more than 40 years ago, negotiation has become an important way to resolve contentious environmental issues. Previous research often treats environmental negotiation as a static phenomenon and has not addressed how changes in the process impact resolution. Utilizing a dynamic model of negotiation and analysis of detailed case ...

Excerpt from Navigation There is a story, handed down from generation to generation of seamen, which may well serve to indicate the purpose of this little volume. A new First Lord of the Admiralty (let us say, of Barataria) was paying his first official or other visit to a man-of-war. He was received with due ceremony, and escorted to the hatchway leading down to the captain's quarters. There, viewing the uncomfortable ladder and the unknown ...

Excerpt from The Question as a Factor in Teaching IN college and university instruction the question, as a factor in teaching, is of minor importance. The method of instruction being largely that of the lecture, there is little use for the question, except as a test of results, after the learning process is supposed to have been completed. In most textbooks for the elementary and high schools, it has the same place and rank, fol lowing the wo...

Excerpt from Fun Better Than Physic: Or Everybody's Life-Preserver A sentence, a line, a word, has sometimes made such a deep impression on a man's mind as to change the Whole plan Of sub sequent life, and make or mar his fortune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses...

Excerpt from Uses of Commercial Woods of the United States: II, Pines Thirty-seven species of pine grow in the United States, no one species in all the States, yet, with perhaps one exception, no State is without one or more. Some, as the loblolly pine of the South, the white pine of the North and East, and the western yellow pine, occupy large regions in considerable abundance, while others, as the Apache pine of the Chiricahua Mountains of ...

Excerpt from What Is the Name? This book has been plainly written, so that it might be easily and clearly understood by the most humble and technically unlearned reader and student of the Bible. In a few instances, a direct translation Of words from the Greek text has been made, with a view to the most accurate translation of the original in the light Of the context. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of ra...

Excerpt from Elements Differential and Integral Calculus With ApplicationsAs soon as the fundamental formulas of differentiation have been established, the corresponding inverse operations or integrations fol low. Thus the essential unity of the two branches of the Calculus is emphasized, the whole subject is made more intelligible, and there is a saving of much space.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare a...

Excerpt from Centennial Celebration of the First Presbyterian Church: Newburgh, N. Y About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged...

Excerpt from International Law IN issuing the third edition of the following work, it has been found necessary to add still further to its bulk. Several topics have assumed a greater importance than they before possessed, in others, recent occurrences have brought to light insufficiency of treatment in others, new circumstances are tending to establish new rules. I have endeavoured to take notice of such of these topics as seem to me to be ri...

Excerpt from Reconstruction in Turkey: A Series of Reports Compiled for the American Committee of Armenian and Syrian Relief, Madison Avenue, New York City The sub-committee appointed in October, 1917, to conduct a survey of information on conditions in the Turkish Empire begs herewith to submit its report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com Thi...

Excerpt from How to Live Long: Or Health Maxims, Physical, Mental and Moral I. One of the happiest and most independent of all human occupations is that of an intelligent farmer, whose land is paid for, and who keeps out of debt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses ...

Excerpt from Chicago River-and-Harbor Convention: An Account of Its Origin and Proceedings By mail Of yesterday I was in receipt of a copy of Early Chi cago - Fort Dearborn, with your compliments, containing inter esting information and a capital portrait of Hon. John Wentworth, for which, please accept my sincere thanks. 9' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

Excerpt from Descriptive Geometry: With Numerous Problems and Practical ApplicationsBy having several modifications under each problem, blackboard work can be readily assigned to the members of a class in recita tion, and no two students need be given exactly the same work.If the student is required to be prepared to make the con struction for each problem under all possible conditions, a thor ough understanding of the problem is necessary.A l...

Excerpt from The Chemical and Metallographic Examination of Iron, Steel and BrassThe authors wish to express their sincere appreciation to Messrs. Bauer and Deiss whose book on the Sampling and Analysis of Iron and Steel, translated by them in 1915 and published with many additions and modifications suggested the idea of combining chemical and metallographic. Inspection. A small portion of the translation is included in this book, notably seve...

Excerpt from A Biography of David Cox: With Remarks on His Works and Genius In the introduction prefixed to his work, Mr. William Hall, the Author of this Memoir of David Cox, has explained the motive which led him to undertake the task, and also the qualifications he possessed for executing it. Long and close intimacy with Cox, during the whole period of the artist's residence at Harborne, afforded his Biographer special opportunities of lea...

Excerpt from The Near East: Crossroads of the World The term Near East as used in this book includes Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Persia. It did not seem feasible to include the Balkans within the scope of this study, and Arabia is barely touched. But who knows Arabia? It' is still a term incognita, waiting as it has waited throughout untold centuries for the coming of a new day that has yet to dawn on that land of desert plains...

Excerpt from The Empire of Philanthropy To impress on the philanthropic heart, and more especially on that of a generous Briton, the sweet satisfaction of having been the mean of promoting the happiness of Mankind - to generate therein an unremitting effort to increase their felicity - and to raise the soul of the Philanthropist in admiration, adoration, and love of Him who is the Divine Fountain of benignity and mercy - are the objects of th...

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Foreign Powers and Jurisdiction of the British Crown One well merited acknowledgement I am glad to be able to make. The work has been written in the country, and therefore under the disadvantage of remoteness from Law Reports and from foreign publications to which frequent reference was needed. The disadvantage would have been serious, had I not been able to draw upon the able assistance of my friend Mr. Beresfo...

Excerpt from Rand-McNally Primary Grammar and Composition The forms of language found in good literature reveal and illustrate the principles and rules that should guide the speaker or writer in the art of expression. Hence the study of grammar is a search for such principles and rules, and a practical application of the same, in the expression of thought, oral or written. To become masters of their own language pupils must do more than the ...