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Freedom is America's most treasured value. This book examines the profound implications of the difference between the vision of American freedom that the Founders enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the free-market idea of freedom. It shows how the shift toward free-market freedom brought economic hardship to majority of Americans.

How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? The author, a political scientist, studies key European nations between World Wars I and II which survived such democratic crises.

The" "Shadow Side of Fieldwork" draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless shape the resulting knowledge and texts. Addressing these invisible, elusive, unspoken or mysterious elements introduces a distinctive rigor and responsibility to ethnographic research. Luminaries in anthropology dare to explore the 'unspeakable' and 'invisible' in the ethnographic encounter C...

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. This is second novel featuring the beautiful but deadly Zulu woman, Mameena: the child of storm.

Für das Jahr 2007 erwarten Klimaforscher die höchsten Jahrestemperaturen seit Beginn der Wetteraufzeichnungen. Studien des IPCC, die im Auftrag der Vereinten Nationen den Klimawandel erforschen, kommen zu dem Schluss, dass sollte der Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen, hauptsächlich CO2, nicht sinken, die Temperaturen in den nächsten 100 Jahren um bis zu sechs Grad steigen werden.Ein Großteil der CO2-Emissionen wird im Transportsektor verursacht. Fast...

Lauren Lessing and Randall R. Griffey are primary authors--P. 25.

CONTENTS: Preface, Particle boards based on rice husk, Stabilisation of polymers with natural antioxidants, Mechanical performance of composites based on ethylene vinyl-acetate (eva) matrix with powdered in filler, Prediction of mechanical behaviour of hips/pp blends from solubility parameters, Bio-damages of materials. Adhesion of microorganisms on materials surface, Intensification of dust removal process of complex aerohydrodynamic research...

Dunlap's name appears first on the earlier edition.

Explores the social, cultural and economic transformations that result from innovations in genomic knowledge and technology. This collection uses Paul Rabinow's concept of biosociality to chart the shifts in social relations and ideas about nature, biology and identity brought about by developments in biomedicine.

Rudolf Steiner - educator, architect, artist, philosopher and agriculturalist - ranks amongst the most creative and prolific figures of the early twentieth century. Yet he remains a mystery to most people. This is the biography of the man behind the ideas, written by a sympathetic but critical outsider.

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