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Policy analysts, academics, journalists, and even politicians lament the influence of money on politics. But in the political economy, politicians often carefully design regulations so that two very different interest groups will be satisfied. The Bootlegger and Baptist theory, an innovative public choice theory developed more than 30 years ago, holds that for a regulation to emerge and endure, both the ¿bootleggers, ¿ who seek to obtain priva...

This book identifies lessons learned from natural hazard experiences to help communities plan for and adapt to climate change. Written by leading experts, the case studies examine diverse experiences, from severe storms to sea-level related hazards, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, earthquakes and tsunami, in North America, Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa and Small Island Developing States. The lessons are grouped according to four i...

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We know how a Shakespeare play sounds when performed today, but what would listeners have heard within the wooden "O" of the Globe Theater in 1599? What sounds would have filled the air in early modern England, and what would these sounds have meant to people in that largely oral culture? In this ear-opening journey into the sound-worlds of Shakespeare's contemporaries, Bruce R. Smith explores both the physical aspects of human speech (ears, l...

List of IllustrationsPreface to the Paperback EditionPreface1. Sexuality and the Play of Imagination2. Combatants and Comrades3. The Passionate Shepherd4. The Shipwrecked Youth5. Knights in Shifts6. Master and Minion7. The Secret SharerNotesIndex

America's governing system is unique in the extent to which scientists and other outside experts participate in the policy process. No other nation uses these experts so extensively, not merely for advice on the allocation of resources to science but also in broad policy issues. This wide-ranging study traces the rise of scientists in the policy process and shows how outside experts interrelate with politicians and administrators to produce a ...

Just after the close of World War II, America's political and scientific leaders reached an informal consensus on how science could best serve the nation and how government might best support science. The consensus lasted a generation before it broke under the pressures created by the Vietnam War. Since then the nation has struggled to reestablish shared beliefs about the means and goals of science policy. In American Science Policy Since Worl...

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The genesis for Perspectives on Teaching Theatre can be traced back to the theme of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education's 1993 Annual Conference «Imaging the Future», which focused on challenging curricular, pedagogical, and political issues in college theatre education. The writers in this volume, who are teachers of theatre, «imagine» the possibilities of educational reform in the context of the changing politics in our culture an...

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If you are tired of sinning and repenting but finding yourself back in that same sin, there is help for you. There is a place in God where a Christian can live free of sin on a regular basis. It is not easily or casually found. It takes diligence and determination on the part of the Christian who wants to live free of sin. It is therefore necessary to find this place, to experience freedom and be at peace with God. As a Christian who truly lov...

The most up-to-date and current statement of our understanding of the issues in southeastern bioarcheology.... [W]hat we need are more studies like these.

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After World War II, American statesman and scholar Lincoln Gordon emerged as one of the key players in the reconstruction of Europe. During his long career, Gordon worked as an aide to National Security Adviser Averill Harriman in President Truman's administration, for President John F. Kennedy as an author of the Alliance for Progress and as an adviser on Latin American policy, and for President Lyndon B. Johnson as assistant secretary of sta...

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For over 10 million British viewers last year, Saturday night was Strictly Come Dancing night. The cult television show, which was the inspiration for the ABC hit Dancing with the Stars, whipped the nation into dance fever. This new companion to Strictly Come Dancing is a colorful celebration of the growing craze for ballroom dancing. Here, celebrity judges and professional dancers share their insights, experience, and memories of being part o...

Reflections from a Hurricane Katrina survivor. Soul Storm is an honest and open discussion about the dark realities we all face as humans living in a broken world. Smith draws on literature, history, real-life stories, and gut-wrenching experiences as a survivor of family turmoil and nature's recent disasters, including Hurricane Katrina, to encourage us to ask the right questions: Is God involved? Is He good? Is He speaking to us through thes...