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Ideal for courses on natural hazards or on earthquakes and volcanoes, "Natural Hazards"uses real-life examples of hazards and disasters to explore how and why they happen--and what we can do to limit their effects. The Third Edition of this text provides fully up-to-date coverage of recent disasters, and significantly revises the visual programk throughout. Included with every copy of this text is access to "Hazard City, " an online media reso...

?[An] excellent compilation of the late William O. Douglas' contribution to the strengthening of the First Amendment of the Constitution. It is also a synopsis of his philosophy on many of the country's judicial conflicts.... [Includes] an excellent bibliography of the writings of the Justice over a 45-year period.?-Trial

Most of the poems, in meditation or humor, reveal some of the difficulties of life which have not destroyed us (yet). But with some perception, faith, and a literary tendency toward romanticism, we can deal with the various vagaries of life and keep them behind us.

From Yellowstone to the Everglades, many of America's national parks and monuments have been the scene of conflict between native peoples and park officials over issues such as hunting rights, craft sales, cultural interpretation, and sacred sites. This book examines the evolution of federal policies toward land preservation in our parks and explores some of the provocative issues surrounding park/Indian relations.To investigate these issues, ...

This volume describes recent research in graph reduction and related areas of functional and logic programming, as reported at a workshop in 1986. The papers are based on the presentations, and because the final versions were prepared after the workshop, they reflect some of the discussions as well. Some benefits of graph reduction can be found in these papers: - A mathematically elegant denotational semantics - Lazy evaluation, which avoids r...