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This debate considers differing philosophical and normative views about the natural environment and human relationship to that environment. It provides an analysis of public values and philosophical views about the environment from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This is the first English translation in the past 25 years of Theodor Herzl's seminal work which helped to mobilize the Zionist movement in this century. In addition to a contemporary rendering of Herzl's text, Henk Overberg also supplies a detailed introduction to the circumstances that gave rise to Herzl's writing.

No child will ever be lonely with a Pocket Pal. Pocket Pals are a great early reading resource, full of real information about animals from all over the world. Pocket Pals are appealingly shaped, easy to keep clean and eminently collectable.

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One of the world's oldest crossroads, the Sinai joins the great continental land masses of Africa and Eurasia. This title offers a physical geography of Sinai. It includes an introductory chapter that situates Sinai within world history and geography.

Putting physics into the historical context of the Industrial Revolution and the European nation-state, Purrington traces the main figures, including Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin, and Helmholtz, as well as their interactions, experiments, discoveries, and debates. The success of nineteenth-century physics laid the foundation for quantum theory and relativity in the twentieth. Robert D. Purrington is a professor of physics at Tulane University and ...

Why are racial conflict and violence among the most enduring problems in American society? Why do some youths express racism violently while others develop tolerance and respect for those who are different? What can we as a society do to foster open-mindedness among children and teenagers?Seeking answers to these questions, Howard Pinderhughes spent two years talking to and studying three groups of New York City adolescents: the predominantly ...

This book is the first comprehensive study of the underlying economic dynamics that make the China Circle - the People's Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan and Hong Kong - not only possible, but hugely successful. Yun-wing Sung, Barry Naughton, and Kong Yam Tan analyze the macroeconomic issues in each of the political entities that make up the China Circle.

With increasing international concern about green issues and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding of the cultural values that underpin human-environmental relations. Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers of Far North Queensland, Uncommon Ground explores how the human-environmental relationship is cultura...

- What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Un

Challenges assumptions about Italian women writers under fascism.In fascist Italy between the wars, a woman was generally an exemplary wife and mother or else. The "or else", mostly forgotten or overlooked in accounts of femininity under fascism, is what concerns Robin Pickering-Iazzi. Reading works by women of the period, Pickering-Iazzi shows how they refuted stereotypes that were imposed on them by the fascist regime and continue to be acce...

Good reading skills are taught by using the children's own language, structured phonics, begining readers, books, poems and songs. Writing, spelling, listening and speaking are emphasized because they are an integral part of the reading process. This book offers a balanced approach that combines a systematic phonics programme with whole language and may be used with begining readers or literature books.

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When wayward Californian Tom Jetts rolls his broken-down car into remote Pick, Kentucky, he finds himself in a town among friends, enemies, and lovers who are playing out tales as old as the prehistoric soil beneath their feet. And if Tom can elude the whispered suspicion and murderous secrets that blanket Pick like an ancient swamp forest, he may have found a place he can call home. Bringing to life a cast of eccentric, unforgettable characte...

With characteristic economy, A. R. Ammons writes that "Brink Road lies off NY 96 between Candor and Catatonk." The very name suggests that we are ever in transition from one state of mind to another always on the edge of revelation. The more than 150 poems in Brink Road date from 1973 to the present, dealing with Ammons's concerns with language, mortality, and the forces underlying the natural world. With elegance, wit, and ruminative gravity...

An approach to narrative development from six different angles - cognitive, interactionist, linguistic/constructivist, crosslinguistic, sociocultural/interpretive, and life-span. This text should be useful in the fields of narrative and/or discourse, linguistics and language studies.

An innovative departure from traditional approaches to political thought, this groundbreaking anthology includes minority ideologies where they occurred historically. By interweaving minority voices with majority documents rather than grouping them together, Political Thought in the United States presents us with a uniquely organic portrait of American political life. Beginning with the time of the explorers and early settlers, Lyman Tower Sar...

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This book describes the dramatic economic and spatial transformationin Chinäs Pearl River Delta region over the past decade. Reformsintroduced by the Chinese government since 1978 were the cause of thistransformation. The Pearl River Delta has had the highest recorded rateof economic growth in East Asia and has done so through a pattern ofdevelopment which differed significantly from that found in otherregions of fast growth. George Lin review...