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Classic study focuses on 19 elegant brick houses constructed from 1780 to 1830. Over 80 black-and-white illustrations provide detailed exterior and interior views of Decatur House, Dumbarton House, Evermay, Hyde House, Laird-Dunlop House, Sevier Place, Tudor Place, the Walker House, George Washington's double house, several prerevolutionary dwellings, and more.
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Crock, You're All Heart
Bill Rechin , and
Don Wilder
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Decades: A Photographic Retrospective
Frank Herrera
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Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development
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In recent years, energy policy has been increasingly linked to concepts of sustainable development. In this timely collection, editor G. Bruce Doern presents an overview of Canadian energy policy, gathering together the top Canadian scholars in the field in an examination of the twenty-year period broadly benchmarked by energy liberalization and free trade in the mid-1980s, and by Canada's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 2002.
The contributors examine issues including electricity restructuring in the wake of the August 2003 blackout, the implications of the Bush Administration's energy policies, energy security, northern pipelines and Aboriginal energy issues, provincial changes in energy policy, and overall federal-provincial changes in regulatory governance. They also demonstrate that, since per capita energy usage has actually increased in the past several years, sustainable development remains very much a struggle rather than an achievement. When the Kyoto Protocol and its requirements for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are factored in, the Canadian record is especially dubious in basic energy terms. Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development is key to understanding many of the issues in Canada's endeavour to live up to its energy-related environmental responsibilities.
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Title: Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development.(Book review)
Author: Tammy Nemeth
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American Review of Canadian Studies (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2005
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Volume: 35
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Intra-Industry Trade and Adjustment: The European Experience
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The essays collected here represent the results of a major multinational program coordinated by the European Union's Stimulation Plan for Economic Science (SPES). Created to encourage collaboration between researchers across the EU, this project brought together researchers from eight member states in a comparative analysis of intra-industry trade in Europe. The book contains individual chapters on the eight different countries as well as an overview and survey of intra-industry trade issues and theory.
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International Handbook of Urban Systems: Studies of Urbanization and Migration in Advanced and Developing Countries
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ASIN: 1840649003 |
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This authoritative handbook provides a comprehensive account of migration and economic development throughout the world, in both developed and developing countries.
Some of the world's most experienced researchers in this field look at how population redistribution patterns have impacted on urban development in a wide selection of advanced and developing countries in all the major regions of the world over the past half century. The study results show that, despite local differences, there are signs of remarkable similarities in the underlying forces that drive the migration process and urban development across the development spectrum.
The International Handbook of Urban Systems is a must for social and economic geographers, urban and regional planners, regional scientists, urban, regional and development economists and sociologists.
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Grey Pinstripes with Green Ties: MBA Programs where the Environment Matters
Jennifer Finlay ,
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In today's business world, managers must understand environmental issues as they affect business choices -- and be able to identify opportunities for business growth and competitive advantage emerging from an environmentally sensitive marketplace. Are managers being trained to understand where business and the environment intersect? This report examines which U.S. MBA programs are providing students with this training, what approaches they have used, and what are some of the remaining challenges to incorporating business-environment materials into MBA curriculum and activities.
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Things happen. That's a fact. Many events cannot be changed or prevented. How we deal with these events, on the other hand, can be addressed. The authors provide some of the most thought-provoking examples and discussion ever printed on the subject of why most of us make our lives so complex. When matters are out of your hands and your choices are to blame someone or something else, accept what is, or make the necessary changes, what happens next is your choice. Let this dynamic writing team teach you how to make deep, life-changing and long-lasting decisions about how you handle events.
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This lively book recounts the story of the antagonism between the American colonists and the British armed forces prior to the Revolution. Douglas Leach reveals certain Anglo-American attitudes and stereotypes that evolved before 1763 and became an important factor leading to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War.
Using research from both England and the United States, Leach provides a comprehensive study of this complex historical relationship. British professional armed forces first were stationed in significant numbers in the colonies during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. During early clashes in Virginia in the 1670s and in Boston and New York in the late 1680s, the colonists began to perceive the British standing army as a repressive force.
The colonists rarely identified with the British military and naval personnel and often came to dislike them as individuals and groups. Not suprisingly, these hostile feelings were reciprocated by the British soldiers, who viewed the colonists as people who had failed to succeed at home and had chosen a crude existence in the wilderness. These attitudes hardened, and by the mid-eighteenth century an atmosphere of distrust and suspicion prevailed on both sides.
With the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754, greater numbers of British regulars came to America. Reaching uprecedented levels, the increased contact intensified the British military's difficulty in finding shelter and acquiring needed supplies and troops from the colonists. Aristocratic British officers considered the provincial officers crude amateurs—incompetent, ineffective, and undisciplined—leading slovenly, unreliable troops. Colonists, in general, hindered the British military by profiteering whenever possible, denouncing taxation for military purposes, and undermining recruiting efforts. Leach shows that these attitudes, formed over decades of tension-breeding contact, are an important development leading up to the American Revolution.
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Wish to understand why Redcoats and Colonials did not get along?.......2006-05-17
This extremely informative little book provides the reader with ample information on why the British Militery establishment and colonial America did not see eye to eye and perhaps a few clues to the causes of the American revolution as well as to why some of the British mistakes at Lexinton and Concord as well as Bunker Hill were perpetrated.
A good read and will facinate anyone whether they be interested in Militery or social history or just interested in the period.
Makes me wonder why I'm not writing this in French.......2002-05-21
This is an eye-opening study of the relations between colonial Americans and British regular troops and Royal Navy seamen in the century preceding the flashpoint of the American Revolution. Relying heavily on diary entries, court records, newspaper accounts, and other primary source material, Leach describes a tumultuous relationship between provincials and redcoats that started badly and continued to grow worse throughout the eighteenth century. Even in war time, the relationship often broke down. Colonists viewed a standing army as a potentially repressive threat to liberty, even when such troops were sent ostensibly to protect them. Redcoats usually made unfavorable first impressions among the populace, demanding privileges the colonists were unwilling to grant, while the impressment of provincial residents caused great consternation up and down the American seaboard. Colonial resistance was met with hostile words, outright threats, and arrogant behavior by many British regulars. Forced to pay inflated prices for supplies or to confiscate what they needed, the British saw the colonists as greedy, lazy, and unpatriotic. For their part, colonists saw the British soldiers as arrogant, demanding, and unconcerned with colonial interests and prosperity altogether. When the two sides did join forces in battle, such as at the siege of Louisburg, the entire campaign revolved around recriminatory charges on both sides. The redcoats in particular looked down on their American allies as sloppy, unprofessional, and noncooperative, while the colonists seethed over the fact that British rank superceded their own. All of this was complicated by the fact that controversies between royal governors and general assemblies, as well as intercolonial rivalries, also led to problems which the British troops failed to understand. The king and Parliament in Britain did little to help matters, and their failure to specify jurisdiction and chains of command in the American setting led to further confusion and controversy.
By 1763, it is easy to see a deeply ingrained resentment between redcoats and colonists. While this certainly contributed to the eventual declaration of independence and the British response, this would still seem to be a secondary influence compared to matters of natural rights, taxation fairness, and larger political/economic factors. The disdain expressed by professional British soldiers and sailors for their disorganized, unpolished, amateur American counterparts may well have led them to underestimate the fighting prowess of the Americans; militiamen, for their part, had to be encouraged by the fact that their wilderness fighting skills gave them a distinct advantage over the redcoats' European formation style of fighting. More importantly, a shared and pervasive resentment of British regulars was an important unifying factor among all of the colonies by the eve of the revolution. Given the history of joint cooperation and continual conflict between the British and Americans, it is a wonder that British colonial control lasted as long as it did and that English control of the colonies was never lost to the French. While Leach may overestimate the importance of this matter of military relations in explaining the origins of the Revolutionary War, the relatively unknown history revealed in these pages is both fascinating and disturbing.
Good research.......2001-01-04
*Roots of Conflict* examines the relationship between British armed forces and colonial Americans from 1677 through 1763. This cut off date, 1763, is deliberate. The events after 1763 that culminated in revolution are not the whole story. The author contends that the roots of Anglo-American conflict stretched back a full century and set the stage for the eventual decision to declare independence. He finds these roots in various negative experiences that shaped Britains' and Americans' perceptions of one another. The very presence of troops in the colonies, for example, caused resentment among Americans, who perceived the British army as a symbol of imperial power and a tool to crush colonial insurgency. The British, on their part, resented their role as defenders of backwoods settlements of ungrateful, militarily inept, undisciplined yahoos. Various joint military expeditions, furthermore, ended disastrously, Americans chafed under harsh military treatment, and the impressment of Americans into military service, volunteers being scarce, was common. These experiences and others fostered mutual ill-will between British and Americans and hardened perceptions of each group's being different from the other. A good book for readers interested in the American colonial experience or the causes of the American Revolution.
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Frederick Douglass and the Fight for Freedom (Makers of America)
Douglas Miller
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Frederick Douglass Fights For Freedom
Margaret Davidson
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Young Frederick Douglass: Fight for Freedom
Laurence Santrey
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The islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Bali are ecologically one of the richest, most biologically complex areas in the world, sought out by thousands of knowledgeable nature lovers every year for the spectacular variety of wildlife and beautiful vistas. This book provides the first
complete identification guides to the birds of this teeming tropical paradise. It gives descriptions of 820 regional species, illustrated in 88 specially commissioned color plates accompanied by notes detailing distinctive features and habitats. Entries cover nomenclature, plumage, markings, voice,
global range, distribution and regional status, habits, and diet. The main text gives practical information on where to find many exotic species, citing major birdwatching locations. Introductory chapters discuss habitats, climate, land-use, and conservation concerns. Professional ornithologists
and amateur bird watchers alike will find this the indispensable bird guide for eastern Malaysia and western Indonesia for many years to come. It is also an unrivalled source of information for casual travellers and ecotourists.
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A must-have.......2003-04-19
Any serious birder to the listed regions of this book would buy this book.
It is the best guide of the region so far with excellent plates and useful details. What I find especially useful, particularly for the raptors, is that they show illustrations of the birds in flight.
The drawings appear consistent and the bird's information at the back of the book is easy to access.
The birds are categorised according to their family which definately makes for faster checks and identification, which I find important when in the field.
The spine of the book though is a little week and you might want to have it rebound before it falls apart - especially with all the browsing that is to be.
Get it re-bound.......2001-11-29
This was the book that everyone who seemed to be serious used in Borneo, but if you are going to be out in the bush for more than a few days and make frequent use of field guides, consider having it re-bound before you leave -- many people I passed along the way were finding that the plate pages were starting to fall out.
A good and comprehensive guide to the region........2000-10-11
Many newer guides have been published about birds of this region, but this book still deserves its place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in birds of South-east Asia. Illustrations are good, and descriptions are detailed and mostly accurate. A bit bulky to carry in the field, but not a problem if you bring it in a backpack. The situation with forest fires in South-east Asia (especially Indonesia) is growing worse each year, so get out there and see some of these extraordinary birds while you still can!
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