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Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twentieth century alone, earthquake disasters in Japan took almost as many lives as they had in all of the country¿s recorded history up to that point. Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy m...

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POSITIVITY CAN BREED OUT OF ANYTHING. YOU JUST HAVE TO FIND IT. THE ART OF UPLIFTING IS A BOOK THAT WILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO LOOK AT YOURSELF IN A POSITIVE LIGHT. IT IS MY HOPE THAT THIS BOOK PROMPTS YOU SEE YOURSELF IN A WAY THAT PROMOTES A SENSE OF PURPOSE SEEKING ACCOUNTABILITY. AFTER READING MY THOUGHTS, NOT ONLY WILL YOU BE MORE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE, BUT ALSO SEEK TO DO MORE AND FULFILL YOUR LIFE'S TRUE MEANING. MAY YOU BE UPLIFTED AND ENCOU...

Hunt and Kim Armistead have a happy marriage, successful careers, a fancy home, and a full bank account. They are missing only one thing - a child. Although Kim feels moved to adopt a baby from China, she is disappointed that Hunt doesn't share her enthusiasm. Instead, her husband is focused on becoming the next district attorney in their Southern town. But after a notorious trial spins his plans out of control, Hunt unexpectedly finds healing...

Most individuals with ASD and other related disorders are taught skills only to a certain point. For example, an individual may learn to read a calendar of assignments and check it the night before, however, he is not totally independent on this task because he has not learned that you often need to check your calendar more often than one night before an activity, such as a test.As adults, people on the spectrum may be taught to pay bills and ...

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This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and policymakers in Tokyo. The author argues that these efforts changed the nation's thinking about the countryside, as well as Japan's conception of its economic and cultural relationship to the nation, in ways that have important implications...

This study of Japan's transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and policymakers in Tokyo. The author argues that these efforts changed the nation's thinking about the countryside, as well as Japan's conception of its economic and cultural relationship to the nation, in ways that have important implications...

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The most researched, documented, and comprehensive manifesto on experiential marketing. As customers take control over what, when, why, and how they buy products and services, brands face the complete breakdown and utter failure of passive marketing strategies designed more than a half-century ago. To connect with a new generation of customers, companies must embrace and deploy a new marketing mix, powered by a more effective discipline: expe...

Examines the views on resource availability, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply.

Whilst past research has examined teachers' understanding of the key messages of curriculum reform, research about the practical implementation is limited. To shed some light on this gap, this book describes in detail one teacher's attempt to implement curriculum change. It reveals how and why certain experiences challenge, inspire or motivate the teacher's facilitation and students' uptake of learning processes comprising thinking, reasoning ...

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

For the first time, a formal benefit-cost requirement plays an integral role in U.S. environmental policymaking, and in this volume, some of the nation's leading experts on environmental policy appraise the effects of President Reagan's Executive Order No. 12291. By considering how the Environmental Protection Agency has responded to 12291, these essays identify the limitations of conventional practices of benefit-cost analysis.Originally publ...

Something happened to two boys over sixty years ago. The backwoods of Alabama in the 1940's set the stage for this edge of your seat thriller. Boogie and Trapper are best friends known about town for their wild, annoying, obnoxious, and hysterically funny antics. Roaming the woods, swimming in the creek, playing double dare, smoking, cussing, drinking beer, and always trying to outdo each other. These 2 thirteen year old boys growing up in thi...

Independent rock, known as indie rock (rock independent of the major label corporations), is music dedicated to the art of rock: it's adventurous, eclectic, defiant, inventive, and restlessly creative. For over 40 years, indie bands have prided themselves on the back-breaking efforts of self-promotion, self-produced albums, homemade album cover art, and even, for the stalwart artist, self-run record labels. Encyclopedia of Indie Rock chronicle...

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Something happened to two boys over sixty years ago. The backwoods of Alabama in the 1940s set the stage for this edge of your seat thriller. Boogie and Trapper are best friends, known about town for their wild, annoying, obnoxious, and hysterically funny antics. Roaming the woods, swimming in the creek, playing Double Dare, smoking, cussing, drinking beer, and always trying to outdo each other. These two thirteen-year-old boys growing up in t...

This book, first published in 1988, provides an overview of the diverse work that was being done in applied and theoretical environmental and resource economics. Some essays reflect upon the background of the work of John Krutilla, one of the founders of Resources for the Future and a leading scholar of environmental economics, and the development of the field to date. Other essays examine and convey findings on particular resource problems an...