Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
The Revised Statutes of Louisiana
Author: LouisianaAmerican State Papers
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Senate documents
Author: Index to Documents
Author: The Senate of the United States, During the Second of the Twenty-Sixth CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1158
Book Description
American State Papers
Author: USAReports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
Book Description
Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.
The Big Muddy
Author: Christopher MorrisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199977062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society. Morris shows that when Hernando de Soto arrived at the lower Mississippi Valley, he found an incredibly vast wetland, forty thousand square miles of some of the richest, wettest land in North America, deposited there by the big muddy river that ran through it. But since then much has changed, for the river and for the surrounding valley. Indeed, by the 1890s, the valley was rapidly drying. Morris shows how centuries of increasingly intensified human meddling--including deforestation, swamp drainage, and levee construction--led to drought, disease, and severe flooding. He outlines the damage done by the introduction of foreign species, such as the Argentine nutria, which escaped into the wild and are now busy eating up Louisiana's wetlands. And he critiques the most monumental change in the lower Mississippi Valley--the reconstruction of the river itself, largely under the direction of the Army Corps of Engineers. Valley residents have been paying the price for these human interventions, most visibly with the disaster that followed Hurricane Katrina. Morris also describes how valley residents have been struggling to reinvigorate the valley environment in recent years--such as with the burgeoning catfish and crawfish industries--so that they may once again live off its natural abundance. Morris concludes that the problem with Katrina is the problem with the Amazon Rainforest, drought and famine in Africa, and fires and mudslides in California--it is the end result of the ill-considered bending of natural environments to human purposes.
Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States and Others
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.
France
Author: United States. Office of GeographyPublisher: Washington, D.C. : [The Board]
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Nearly the whole of America's partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions--because they are competitively driven--are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact out-perform private ones.