Author: James RennellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
A Bengal Atlas
Author: James RennellGeographia sacra, or Scripture atlas
Author: James WyldReport of Explorations for a Railway Route, Near the Thirty-fifth Parallel of Latitude
Author: Amiel Weeks WhipplePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
An Olla Podrida
Author: Richard SainthillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Arctic Rewards and Their Claimants
Author: Nation Making
Author: Robert John FosterPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Examines the process of nation making in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu
On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species
Author: Alfred Russel WallacePublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473362512
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1855 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'On the Law Which Has Regulated the Introduction of New Species' is an article that details Wallace's ideas on the natural arrangement of species and their successive creation. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory.
The Acharnians
Author: AristophanesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1625580681
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.
The Politics of Power
Author: Denise LeithPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825669
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Even as Major General Suharto consolidated his power in the bloodletting of the mid-sixties, Freeport-McMoRan, the American transnational mining company, signed a contract with the new military regime, the first foreign company to do so. Today, in the isolated jungles of West Papua, a region that is increasingly restive under Indonesian rule, Freeport lays claim to the world's largest gold mine and one of its richest and most profitable copper mines. This volume is the first major analysis of the company's presence in Indonesia. It takes a close and detailed look at the changing nature of power relations between Freeport and Suharto, the Indonesian military, the traditional landowners (the Amungme and Kamoro), and environmental and human rights groups. It examines how and why an American company, despite such rigorous home-state laws, was able to operate in West Papua with impunity for nearly thirty years and adapt to, indeed thrive in, a business culture anchored in corruption, collusion, and nepotism.
Narrative Policy Analysis
Author: Emery RoePublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822315131
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Narrative Policy Analysis presents a powerful and original application of contemporary literary theory and policy analysis to many of today’s most urgent public policy issues. Emery Roe demonstrates across a wide array of case studies that structuralist and poststructuralist theories of narrative are exceptionally useful in evaluating difficult policy problems, understanding their implications, and in making effective policy recommendations. Assuming no prior knowledge of literary theory, Roe introduces the theoretical concepts and terminology from literary analysis through an examination of the budget crises of national governments. With a focus on several particularly intractable issues in the areas of the environment, science, and technology, he then develops the methodology of narrative policy analysis by showing how conflicting policy "stories" often tell a more policy-relevant meta-narrative. He shows the advantage of this approach to reading and analyzing stories by examining the ways in which the views of participants unfold and are told in representative case studies involving the California Medfly crisis, toxic irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley, global warming, animal rights, the controversy over the burial remains of Native Americans, and Third World development strategies. Presenting a bold innovation in the interdisciplinary methodology of the policy sciences, Narrative Policy Analysis brings the social sciences and humanities together to better address real-world problems of public policy—particularly those issues characterized by extreme uncertainty, complexity, and polarization—which, if not more effectively managed now, will plague us well into the next century.