This study examines the response of national, state and local government to three disasters experienced in New York State since 1974. This study attempts to discover in three particular circumstances
Sketches the history of spectator sports, examines the behavior and characteristics of spectators through the ages, discusses the psychology of hooliganism, and describes the American sports industry
This provocative, informative book explores what is rapidly becoming a major obstacle in inter-American relations. Despite the common problems created by increasing drug addiction and drug-related vio
After years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through, took the measure of his "mule head" and told him that
On the event of its publication in 1965, Murray Morgan wrote, The Dry Years, which might be subtitled ‘The Fall and Rise of John Barleycorn,’ is a delightful blend of scholarship, narrative exposition
Now available in paperback, this provocative study examines the street-level decisions made by police, caught between a sometimes hostile community and a maze of departmental regulations. Probing the
Drunken driving is the most serious crime likely to be committed by an adult. Each year in the United States it is responsible for approximately 20,000 fatalities, more than 500,000 arrests, and milli
This book reflects an important shift in society's definition of disaster. For centuries catastrophic events have been considered "acts of God" and therefore uncontrollable by definition.Man
美式黃色校車是美國學童上下學最主要的交通工具，在【魔法校車系列】中，黃色的老校車卻成了一輛飛天遁地、上山下海的潛水艇、飛機，甚至是穿越北極圈的雪橇……，載著麻辣魔法女教師及其精怪頑皮的小學班級歷經一場又一場天翻地覆、驚心動魄又刺激精采的自然科學大探索！ When Ms. Frizzle, the strangest teacher in school, takes her class on a
Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not natural', but an historical process
Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks.
In accordance with the latest standards for water quality, this text presents the fundamental principles of modeling as well as their practical applications in water quality control. All principal
In 1983, the U.N. General Assembly created the World Commission on Environment and Development, an independent committee of twenty-two members, headed by Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Prime Minister of
