Sneaking out at night, driving without a license, and falling for a guy weren't things fifteen-year-old Jeni expected to do while visiting Lake Itasca, Minnesota with her family. The guy, Ice, turns o
This guide details the use of the data analysis software R in political science. It explains the use of R for constructing descriptions of variables and performing substantive analysis of political re
"A 'sustainable society,' according to one definition, 'is one that can persist over generations; one that is far-seeing enough, flexible enough, and wise enough not to undermine either its physical o
'The material that sustains the nuclear reactions that produce energy can also be used to make nuclear weapons and therefore, the development of nuclear energy is one of multiple pathways to prolifera
Originally published in 1908, Two American Women Journey Through East and South Africa desribes a trip made by two American women to Uganda and the Transvaal in the hopes of inspiring other Americans
food chemicals, list of harmful chemicals in food. If you're curious about what's in your food you're eating, read this book and learn about the chemicals they're secretly putting in our foods. Be mor
Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities have expanded situation awareness for U.S. forces, provided for more precise combat effects, and enabled better decision making both d
Lead is a ubiquitous metal in the environment, and its adverse effects on human health are well documented. Lead interacts at multiple cellular sites and can alter protein function in part through bin
"Recent events in the western hemisphere have led to a dramatic shift in the strategic and political importance of Latin America. But with relations still cool between the United States and Cuba, and
"Recent events in the western hemisphere have led to a dramatic shift in the strategic and political importance of Latin America. But with relations still cool between the United States and Cuba, and
In 2012, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) approached the National Research Council's TIGER standing committee and asked it to develop a list of workshop topics to explore the impact of emerging s
When Izzy Fontaine inherits a quilt that supposedly leads to a treasure, she follows the clues amid competition from the rest of her family and from museum curator Max Logan, who claims that the quilt
"From the use of personal products to our consumption of food, water, and air, people are exposed to a wide array of agents each day--many with the potential to affect health. Exposure Science in the
In May 2012, the National Park Service (NPS) asked the National Research Council to conduct a scientific review of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to evaluate the effects of issuing a Sp
The aim of this book is to outline the neoevolutionary paradigm emerging in the social sciences and indicate possibilities for its application in the management sciences. This monograph has an interdi
Satire, rather than utopian writing, dominated literature in 18th century England and memories of Cromwell led the population to prefer stability to political experiments. However, when the French Rev
On June 12-14, 2012, the Board on Global Science and Technology held an international, multidisciplinary workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore the challenges and advances in intelligent human-machi
The fourth volume in the New Americanists in Poland series, this study brings to the forefront the lives of Mexican American women and the cultural and historical factors shaping literature written by
"Black and William's (1998) influential article 'Inside the Black Box' prompted an increasing interest in assessment processes within the classroom. However, to date most of this research has been don
"Oaguz Atay's 1971 novel 'The Disconnected' [Tutunamayanlar] is distinctly unique, but it can also be read as a response to Joyce's 'Ulysses'--a singular and a very Turkish response. Any review of 'Th
Orthodox Metropolitan Vasile Mangra was wronged by contemporaries, condemned to oblivion by posterity, and neglected and marginalized by historiography, declares Eppel (population studies, Babes-Bolya
The Brownies' Book lasted nearly two years, from January 1920 to December of 1921. It inspired a generation of young African Americans, and it was edited by W.E.B. Du Bois. It was started largely as a
Ryszard Kapuscinski was a direct witness to the creation and a collapse of numerous independent African states, the guerilla movements in South America, the military combat in Honduras and El Salvador
This book constructs a profile of the Matthean Community by using insights from sociology and studies of oral and chirographic cultures, together with a careful investigation of the material unique to
According to Karl Rahner’s transcendental theology, God is present in the inner reality of every being. Salvation is therefore possible for all. The author proposes a hermeneutical key to be applied o
A renewed approach to democratic ethics is needed, one that takes into consideration the management of complexity and memory in a global world. The expansion of democratic ethics for the stewardship o
The aim of this book is to clarify how surveillance in informational capitalism can be theorised. This work constructs theoretically founded typologies in order to systemise the existing literature of
Focusing on news stories in the Nigerian press from 1996 to 2002--years in which the military dictatorship was at its height and a democratic government began--this study uses pragmatics and critical
This is the first book-length study devoted to the work of Marie Darrieussecq, one of France’s leading contemporary writers, whose work has proved fascinating to both critics and readers for its diver
"The term 'versified prints' is used to describe images that are accompanied by poetic explanatory text. They were immensely popular and diffused throughout Europe in the eighteenth century, and many
For decades, Japan's foreign policy has been seen by both internal and external observers as abnormal in relation to its size and level of sophistication. Japan as a 'Normal Country'? is a thematic an
Food: In Context examines food in relationship to nutrition, world health issues, agriculture, environmental concerns, current events and political decision-making. Written by experts in nutrition, me
In examining how ideological concerns helped give shape to strategies of writing and how forms of communication influenced cultural developments, these case studies assess a wide range of texts, inclu
The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and in
