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Established at the beginning of the 20th century with a total of 41 acres, Oak Park was the social and recreational center of Alabama's capital city, Montgomery. It was here in 1935 that a menagerie of animals was housed in facilities built by the Works Progress Administration called the Oak Park Zoo. As the civil rights movement gathered steam in the 1950s, there was a class action suit to desegregate the city's parks, including the zoo. In r...

The roots of Maricopa County's legal community reach as far back as the Spanish conquest of the New World. Since that time, soldiers, farmers, miners, adventurers, and others transformed this wild, lawless desert into a productive agricultural community, a tourist destination, and a center for commercial, financial, and political activity in the Southwest. The region's legal community--populated by diverse, distinguished, and sometimes infamou...

A concise and readable guide to Descartes's" Meditations" geared toward beginner philosophy students (at A-level, or on undergraduate degree courses) and general readers. Offers clear explanations of the central themes and ideas, terminology, and arguments in the Meditations Features in-depth discussion of Descartes' correspondence with his contemporaries Illustrates arguments and ideas with useful tables, diagrams, and images Includes a gloss...

How ought a society to distribute its publicly funded healthcare resources? Few questions are in more urgent need of an answer. This multidisciplinary investigation brings together the insights of philosophy, clinical science, health economics, operational research and public policy analysis.

Zwischenprüfungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Methodologie und Methoden, Note: 2, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Institut für Soziologie), 24 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In den Sozialwissenschaften unterscheidet man zwischen drei Datenerhebungstechniken: Befragung, Beobachtung und Inhaltsanalyse . In dieser Arbeit werde ich die drei Techniken in ihren Grundzügen vorstellen um sie an...

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Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian literature presents, and suggests innovative ways of teaching the material. Drawing on the author's experiences teaching literature - both in the classroom and in the canyons of the Southwest - the book covers works ranging from the famous (Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony) to the underappreciated (George W...

Equality and diversity issues feature significantly in the policies and practices of all criminal justice agencies. This book examines crime, criminal justice, and community safety issues with respect to a wide range of communities and identities. The book covers late modernity, identity formations, communities and crime, and hate crimes including: race/religious hate crimes, offenses against gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual communities...

The use of policy as a governmental device is central in maintaining social, political, and economic relationships between states, within states and organizations, between states and citizens, and between the providers and users of services. Policy also provides the practical framework for the expression of political messages and the achievement of social goals. With the context for policy-making having changed dramatically since the closing y...

Issues around work-life balance are high on the political agenda, reflecting a general concern that 'time poverty' may be damaging to individuals, society, and the economy. Women's increased role in the labor market has combined with concerns about the damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the policy agenda in many Western nations. Wide-ranging and accessible, this book assesses policy alternatives in the light ...

Technology is not value-free, nor does it exist in a vacuum. It needs a social basis - technology is affected by society and influences it. Technology, Values, and Society illustrates this using an examination of cross-cultural case studies representing simple, intermediate, and complex societies. Certain forms of technology exist when conducive values and structures sustain them. However, this relationship is not one-way. Technological change...

Hamar Foster is Professor of Law at the University of Victoria. Heather Raven is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Victoria. Jeremy Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria and is a Trudeau Fellow.Contributors: Michael Asch, John Borrows, Hamar Foster, Christina Godlewska, Stephen Haycox, Honourable G¿rd V. La Forest, Kent McNeil, Garth Nettheim, Brian Slattery, Jeremy Webber, David V. W...

The New Avengers versus the Hand. The New Avengers versus the Mighty Avengers. The identity of the new Ronin revealed. Who is the new mystery player in the New Avengers? This collection reveals all.

Millions of people have been the victims of Internet scams in recent years. The Internet Financing Illusion explores one businessman's personal journey through the perplexing and often dark world of cyberspace and profiles the faceless financial scam artists who lurk behind keyboards and computer screens. In 1999, Vincent Panettiere started searching for ways to finance his film production company. More than two hundred leads and several month...

- Titian (Tlziano Vecellio, c. 1488/90-1576) was an outstanding painter of the Renaissance - An Ideal introduction to Titian's life and work for the general reader and scholar alike - Places Titian's career and work into the social and historical context of sixteenth-century Italy and explores his approach to a number of themes - including mythological, religious, allegorical and portrait subjects - and examines the key role of Titian's illust...

A collection of the classic essays of O. W. Wolters, reflecting his radiant and meticulous lifelong study of premodern Southeast Asia, its literature, trade, government, and vanished cities. Included is an intellectual biography by the editor, which covers Wolters's professional lives as a member of the Malayan Civil Service and, later, as a...

Personal, direct, and insightful, this indispensable guide provides immediate yet timeless advice about a subject Americans are always desperate to know more about: where can they put their money for maximum returns and as little risk as possible?

In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As Edward D. Berkowitz demonstrates, the end of the postwar economic bo...

Historians, anthropologists, political scientists and demographers explore the principal challenges and fears characterizing relations between Europe and the Mediterranean. The contributors suggest that the greatest challenge facing our political generation is no longer forming a Europe without the Mediterranean, but with it.

Marcy is not a town but rather a township made up of several hamlets, Stittville being the largest. These hamlets originated with groups of various religions and nationalities, such as Welch, Methodist, and Baptist. The one thing they all had in common was their desire to survive and prosper. The answer was in farming and all the hard work that had to be done every day. In the late 1850s, everything changed when the railroad came to town. Trav...