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Earth's Insights: A Multicultural Survey of Ecological Ethics from the Mediterranean Basin to the Australian Outback
J. Baird Callicott Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0520085604 |
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The environmental crisis is global in scope, yet contemporary environmental ethics is centered predominantly in Western philosophy and religion. Earth's Insights widens the scope of environmental ethics to include the ecological teachings embedded in non-Western worldviews. J. Baird Callicott ranges broadly, exploring the sacred texts of Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhism, as well as the oral traditions of Polynesia, North and South America, and Australia. He also documents the attempts of various peoples to put their environmental ethics into practice. Finally, he wrestles with a question of vital importance to all people sharing the fate of this small planet: How can the world's many and diverse environmental philosophies be brought together in a complementary and consistent whole?Customer Reviews:
It's About Ethics and What We Do to the Land.......2001-03-14
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Frankia Symbioses (Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 902472967X |
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The Player's Guide to Golf in Colorado
Jacobs Golf Enterprises Manufacturer: Jacobs Golf Enterprises ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0965678113 |
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Search and Destroy
Dean Hughes Manufacturer: Ginee Seo Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 068987023X |
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Rick Ward wants to go to war.
He doesn't know why. Maybe he's running from his dad, who has an uncontrollable temper. Maybe he's running from a lost love, his high-school sweetheart, who is a stranger to him now. Or maybe he's just running -- to find himself.
Desperate to experience real life, Rick enlists in the army with the Charlie Rangers, a special unit in Vietnam. They infiltrate the jungle, kill with precision, and get out quickly. Rick isn't sure he can shoot anyone, but he wants to be tested, like his heroes, Hemingway and Conrad. If he can see the heart of darkness and survive, he'll be a man -- and finally have something to write about.
But as Rick discovers, war isn't what anyone -- either the protestors, the politicians, or the writers -- say it is. It's far bigger, scarier, and more complicated than anything he could ever have imagined.
Dean Hughes captures the sights and sounds of war -- and the courage of a young soldier fighting to survive.
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Vietnam Lite.......2007-10-01
Gritty.......2007-01-11
Reprinted from the Aug 2006 "The Historical Novels Review".......2006-08-26
Soldier Boy.......2006-01-12
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Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System
Jerome G. Miller Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0521460212 |
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The war on drugs, begun in the Reagan Administration and presently continuing unabated, has resulted in an explosion in the American prison population. Whether a desired effect of the war or not, this increase has been accounted for by a severely disproportionate number of African American males. Jerome Miller demonstrates in Search and Destroy that an African American male between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five has an inordinate likelihood of encountering the criminal justice system at some point during those years. In a wide-ranging survey of blacks and the justice system, Miller notes the presence of bias among police officers, probation officers, courts, and even social scientists whose data form the basis for many policies and social workers whose responsibility is allegedly to members of the underclass.Customer Reviews:
Very Readable and Very Scholarly.......1999-06-18
G. David Curry, Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Keepin' the Black man down........1999-02-05
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Search and Destroy.
Howard Korder Manufacturer: Dramatist's Play Service ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 082221315X |
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Quite tasteful.......2000-06-07
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Search and Destroy: A Play
Manufacturer: Grove Weidenfeld ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000BAUL76 |
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Search And Destroy
Ted Rall Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0740713965 |
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Witty, acerbic, razor sharp: Ted Rall has been called a spokesperson for his generation. But the political cartoonist doesn't leave anyone untouched - even his own Generation X - as he focuses his caustic imagination on everything from pop culture to the environment, from underemployment to political trends. Search and Destroy is Rall's first cartoon collection in five years. His previous books, Waking Up In America and All The Rules Have Changed were best-sellers, especially among young people looking for someone to voice their frustrations, their hopes, their angst. Likewise, his groundbreaking book of essays and cartoons, Revenge Of The Latchkey Kids, spoke loudly across generations. Ted Rall brings an insightful understanding into the forces that are shaping our society today.Customer Reviews:
Hits out at "the system" with a smile on its face..........2003-09-02
humorous.......2003-01-25
Bitter, Yet Funny.......2002-07-18
Mr. Rall evidently stews in perpetual bitterness over the myriad injustices of contemporary American society. In no particular order, he appears to loathe and despise his father, bosses, lawyers, corporations, Republicans, fellow cartoonists, his father, Hollywood, the school system, and also his father--pretty much all of the accepted and customary targets of the left. He has virtually no trust in any major institution and gleefully skewers them without mercy. Of course, given the domestic track records of recent Republican administrations and the squalid, greed-infested, and sorry state of corporate governance these days, he's perfectly justified in his hatred.
Despite the overtones of rage, most of the collected strips are extremely funny, and his style is distinct and unique. Some of the strips have appeared previously in alternative weeklies, but others are drawn from his work for other publications.
Avoid this is you're an overly sensitive and humorless adherent of the right wing; otherwise, pick it up for both the laughs and the provocative challenge to your world view.
Not your usual cartoons.......2001-05-24
Awesome Cartoons.......2001-05-24
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Search & Destroy, 7-11, the Complete Reprint: The Authoratative Guide to Punk Culture
Manufacturer: Re/Search Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1889307009 |
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No Deadbeats?.......2000-06-29
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Search & Destroy: An Illustrated Guide to Vietnam War Movies (Creation Cinema Collection, 19)
Manufacturer: Creation Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1871592992 |
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From The Green Berets to Apocalypse Now and Platoon, the cinematic legacy of the Vietnam War is vast, intense and now, for the first time, is documented as a single genre, in one single volume.
??Search & Destroy contains illustrated essays covering over 300 movies, including documentaries. It examines some of the most controversial and psychotic characters in cinematic history, such as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, Dennis Hopper in Tracks and Sylvester Stallone in First Blood. From the brutal field of combat, to the flashbacks and demons that followed, Search & Destroy examines the cult classics through to the most recent Vietnam movies, still breaking box-office records today.
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Search and Destroy #1-6: The Complete Reprint
V. Vale Manufacturer: Re/Search Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 096504694X |
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Primary Source Material.......2000-08-18
No Deadbeats?.......2000-06-29
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13/13, Vietnam: Search and destroy
Gordon Baxter Manufacturer: World Pub. Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007DQTFU |
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Search And Destroy: Pheonix Force
Gar Wilson Manufacturer: Gold Eagle ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0373622023 |
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Biodiversity Of Fungi: Their Role in Human Life
Manufacturer: Science Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1578083680 |
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Introductory Chemistry for the Environmental Sciences (Cambridge Environmental Chemistry Series)
Roy M. Harrison , S. J. de Mora , S. Rapsomakis , and W. R. Johnston Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521256739 |
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Starting with atomic and molecular structure and leading to more advanced areas within physical, organic, inorganic and analytical chemistry, this textbook stresses basic chemical principles for students specializing in environmental science or ecology.
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S.M. Introductory Chemistry
Victor S. Krimsley Manufacturer: Thomson Brooks/Cole ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0534196357 |
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This popular text, Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding, addresses the urgent need for curriculum materials that cross traditional boundaries to include many of the elements that are integrated in the teaching/learning enterprise: mathematics content, teacher understanding, student thinking, teaching methods, instructional activities, and assessment. The book pushes readers beyond the limits of their current understanding of rational numbers, challenging them to refine and explain their thinkingwithout falling back on rules and procedures they have relied on throughout their lives. Written in a conversational and easy to understand style, this is not a textbook as much as it is a resource book. An underlying assumption is that facilitating teacher understanding using the same questions and activities that may be used with children is one way to help teachers build the comfort and confidence they need to begin talking to children about complex ideas. Unlike a textbook that is used to study formal theory and then discarded when it comes to putting ideas into practice, the many problems and activities included to facilitate teacher learning are valuable resources for use in elementary and middle school classrooms. Changes in the second edition include: even more student work incorporated in every chapter; discussion of the connectivity between the topics addressed in the book and the elementary and middle school mathematics curricula; an increased emphasize on measurement; expansion of some topics, including number sense, percent, scale factors, similarity, and linear graphs; clarification of the characteristics of ratio and proportions and how to use these to generate discussion with children; and content-related interview questions for exploring children's thinking. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and curriculum developers in mathematics education, pre-service and in-service teachers of mathematics, those involved in the mathematical and pedagogical preparation of mathematics teachers, and graduate students in mathematics education. The methods and activities it includes have been tested with students in grades 3-8 and with pre-service and in-service teachers and other adults. This text is accompanied by MOREa supplement that is not merely an answer key but a resource that includes in-depth discussions of all the problems in the text; develops and extends discussion of the issues, teaching problems, and other considerations raised in the chapters; and contains additional problemswith and without solutionsthat instructors may find helpful for assessment purposes.Product Description
This book is a supplement to the text Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding. It is not merely an answer key, but a resource that includes in-depth discussions of the problems in the text; develops and extends discussion of the issues, teaching problems, and other considerations raised in the chapters; and contains additional problemswith and without solutionsthat instructors may find helpful for assessment purposes. In the second edition, MORE has been reorganized so that supplementary activities immediately follow the discussions of the activities from the text. Solutions to these supplemental activities have been removed to facilitate the use of MORE in courses. Nevertheless, because the number of activities in each chapter of the text has increased and complete discussions of all of them are provided in MORE, there is ample opportunity to learn reasoning methods.
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Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding: Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers
Susan J. Lamon Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0805829407 |
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Managing Your Money: Understanding Math Operations Involving Decimals And Integers (Powermath)
Barbara M. Linde Manufacturer: Rosen Publishing Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 1404233695 |
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Understanding Fractions (Mathzones)
Christine Losq Manufacturer: Great Source Education Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0669444464 |
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Basic Computation Series 2000 : Understanding Fractions
Loretta Taylor , and Harold Manufacturer: Dale Seymour Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0769001157 |
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This innovative series covers computational skills students can practice and perfect to improve their performance on standardized tests. A total of 18,000 problems in the practice books, which contain carefully sequenced worksheets that cover one or two specific skills each, plus 160 daily quizzes and the semester and year-end tests give students enough practice to solidify comprehension and sharpen skills. Detailed examples, teaching notes, and clear solutions make this an ideal teaching and learning tool. Understanding Fractions/Grades 4+
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Basic Computation Series 2000 : Understanding Measurement
Loretta Taylor , Harold Taylor , and Harold Manufacturer: Dale Seymour Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 076900119X |
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This innovative series covers computational skills students can practice and perfect to improve their performance on standardized tests. A total of 18,000 problems in the practice books, which contain carefully sequenced worksheets that cover one or two specific skills each, plus 160 daily quizzes and the semester and year-end tests give students enough practice to solidify comprehension and sharpen skills. Detailed examples, teaching notes, and clear solutions make this an ideal teaching and learning tool. Understanding Measurement/Grades 4+
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Building Permanent Mathmatical Understanding: A Coherent Curriculum for Grades 4 Through 8 (Fourth Grade)
Manufacturer: Charism, CPR, LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0972837396 |
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Building Permanent Mathmatical Understanding: A Coherent Curriculum for Grades 4 Through 8 (Fourth Grade) By Pat Jones
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Discovery in mathematics (The Understanding Mathematics Program)
Manufacturer: Laidlaw Bros. Publ. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0844514454 |
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Includes subjects such as Sets, Numbers, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Number Patterns, Fractional Numbers, Decimals, Ratio, Non-Metric Geometry and Construction, Measurement, Perimeter, Graphs, Probability, Numeration and Review Exercises.
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Maths 1: Home Tests in Basic Mathematics : Understanding Numbers, Computation, Fractions, Shapes and Tables (Practise Together)
Roy Childs Manufacturer: Pan Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0330293524 |
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Plato 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0198752067 |
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The aim of the series is to bring together important recent writing in major areas of philosophical inquiry, selected from a variety of sources. The editor of each volume contributes an introductory essay on the items chosen and on the questions with which they deal. A selective bibliography is appended as a guide to further reading.
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Plato 1. Metaphysics and Epistemology (Modern Studies in Philosophy)
Manufacturer: Anchor Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000BW4YHM |
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Plato 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology
Gail Fine (Ed) Manufacturer: Oxford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000LRR398 |
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Plato 1: Metaphysics and Epistemology (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)
Gail Fine Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OKQXWU |
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