The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Budgets and Financial Management (Jossey_Bass Academic Administrator's Guide Books)
Average customer rating: Not rated
    The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Budgets and Financial Management (Jossey_Bass Academic Administrator's Guide Books)
    Margaret J. Barr
    Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

    GeneralGeneral | Accounting | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    ManagementManagement | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
    FundingFunding | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | College & University | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
    AdministrationAdministration | Education Theory | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Accounting | Accounting & Finance | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Finance | Accounting & Finance | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    CollegeCollege | By Level | Education | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    GeneralGeneral | Education | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
    Look Inside Business BooksLook Inside Business Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
    Look Inside Nonfiction BooksLook Inside Nonfiction Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
    All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
    Business & InvestingBusiness & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
    NonfictionNonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
    ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
    Similar Items:
    1. Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and Prosper (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities: Planning to Survive and Prosper (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
    2. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership (Jossey_Bass Academic Administrator's Guide Books) The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership (Jossey_Bass Academic Administrator's Guide Books)
    3. The Finance of Higher Education: Theory, Research, Policy & Practice (Higher Education) The Finance of Higher Education: Theory, Research, Policy & Practice (Higher Education)
    4. Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services: Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series) Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services: Reallocating Resources to Achieve Strategic Balance (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
    5. Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales Public Funding of Higher Education: Changing Contexts and New Rationales

    ASIN: 078795957X

    Book Description

    Newly appointed academic managers are often unsure how to effectively manage their department's fiscal affairs. The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Budgets and Financial Management is specifically designed for administrators who need guidance for managing the fiscal resources of a department or unit. Using this book, administrators can learn to better understand the broad fiscal context of their institutions and thereby master their own role and function within the institution.

    Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services 2004 (Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services)
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services 2004 (Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services)

      Manufacturer: Brookings Institution Press
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback

      GeneralGeneral | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
      FinanceFinance | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books | Banks & Banking | Corporate Finance | Foreign Exchange | Inflation | Interest
      GeneralGeneral | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
      GeneralGeneral | Finance | Accounting & Finance | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
      All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
      Business & InvestingBusiness & Investing | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
      ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
      ASIN: 0815710755

      Book Description

      The seventh in a series of annual volumes on the financial sector from the Brookings Institution and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania focuses on public policy issues confronting the insurance industry.

      Contents include Extending the Theory to Meet the Practice of Insurance; The Crisis in Malpractice Insurance; Tort Liability, Insurance Rates, and the Insurance Cycle; Insuring Against Terrorism; Brokers and the Insurance of Non-verifiable Losses; and Consolidation in the European Insurance Industry.

      Law and Anthropology:Natural Resource, Environment, and Legal Pluralism (International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology, Volume 9)
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        Law and Anthropology:Natural Resource, Environment, and Legal Pluralism (International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology, Volume 9)

        Manufacturer: Springer
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Hardcover

        GeneralGeneral | Law | Subjects | Books
        GeneralGeneral | International Law | Law | Subjects | Books
        GeneralGeneral | Anthropology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
        GeneralGeneral | Law | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
        International LawInternational Law | Law | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
        ASIN: 9041103899

        Book Description

        The Law & Anthropology Yearbook brings together a collection of studies that discuss legal problems raised by cultural differences between people and the law to which they are subject. Most of the contributions to Volume 9 were presented at the IXth International Symposium of the Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism, and focus on the subject of `Natural Resources, Environment, and Legal Pluralism'. The natural resources which form the environment of rural people are subject to increasing pressures. Intensive forms of resource extraction increasingly endanger the continued availability and ecological quality of land, forest and water resources. Especially in regions inhabited by indigenous peoples, struggles over the control and social and economic function of natural resources are directly linked to conflicts over political and economic self-determination. Inevitably, the different legal systems, and the substantive and procedural possibilities they provide, become involved in struggles over political, economic and ecological values and objectives. The focus on natural resource management issues therefore is a particularly fruitful field to examine the contemporary functions of folk law in complex legal and economic systems.

        Crisis and Change in Rural Europe: Agricultural Development in the Portuguese Mountains
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          Crisis and Change in Rural Europe: Agricultural Development in the Portuguese Mountains
          Richard Black
          Manufacturer: Avebury
          ProductGroup: Book
          Binding: Hardcover

          Economic Policy & DevelopmentEconomic Policy & Development | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
          Production & OperationsProduction & Operations | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
          GeneralGeneral | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
          GeneralGeneral | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
          Human GeographyHuman Geography | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
          RuralRural | Sociology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
          GeneralGeneral | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
          GeneralGeneral | Agricultural Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
          ASIN: 1856282724

          Perspectives in Introductory Biology
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            Perspectives in Introductory Biology
            Netherland
            Manufacturer: Hunter Books
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Spiral-bound

            GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
            GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
            ASIN: 0887252079
            Perspectives in introductory biology: Laboratory observations and evaluations
            Average customer rating: Not rated
              Perspectives in introductory biology: Laboratory observations and evaluations
              E. Lane Netherland
              Manufacturer: Hunter Pub. Co
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Unknown Binding

              GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
              ASIN: B00070T6E4

              Radioactive and Stable Isotope Geology
              Average customer rating: Not rated
                Radioactive and Stable Isotope Geology
                H.-G. Attendorn , and R. Bowen
                Manufacturer: Springer
                ProductGroup: Book
                Binding: Hardcover

                Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                GeneralGeneral | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                GeochemistryGeochemistry | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                GeneralGeneral | Geology | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                ResearchResearch | Geology | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                GeochemistryGeochemistry | Geology | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
                Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                GeneralGeneral | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                GeologyGeology | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                ScienceScience | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                ASIN: 0412752808

                Book Description

                Accelerating progress in the application of radioactive and stable isotope analysis to a varied range of geologicla and geochemical problems in geology has required a complete revision of Isotopes in the Earth Sciences, published in 1988. This new book comprises four parts: the first introduces isotopic chemistry and examines mass spectroscopic methods; the second eeals with radiometric dating methods. Part Three examines the importance of isotopes in climato-environmental studies, and increasingly significant area of research. The last part looks at extra-terrestrial matter, geothermometry and the isotopic geochemistry of the Earth's lithosphere. Post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers in geochemistry, as well as final year undergraduates in the earth and environmental sciences, will find Radioactive and Stable Isotope Geology an invaluable, uo-to-date and thorough treatment of the theory and practice of isotopie geology.

                Predictive Modular Neural Networks: Applications to Time Series (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
                Average customer rating: Not rated
                  Predictive Modular Neural Networks: Applications to Time Series (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science)
                  Vassilios Petridis , and Athanasios Kehagias
                  Manufacturer: Springer
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Hardcover

                  NetworksNetworks | Networks, Protocols & APIs | Networking | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
                  GeneralGeneral | Networks, Protocols & APIs | Networking | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
                  Neural NetworksNeural Networks | Artificial Intelligence | Computer Science | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
                  GeneralGeneral | Certification Central | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
                  GeneralGeneral | Computers & Internet | Subjects | Books
                  GeneralGeneral | Mechanical | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                  Advanced MechanicsAdvanced Mechanics | Aerospace | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                  MechanicsMechanics | Civil | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                  MathematicsMathematics | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books | Applied | Chaos & Systems | Geometry & Topology | Mathematical Analysis | Mathematical Physics | Number Systems | Pure Mathematics | Transformations | Trigonometry
                  GeneralGeneral | Physics | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                  GeneralGeneral | Physics | Science | Subjects | Books
                  GeneralGeneral | Computer Science & Information Systems | New & Used Textbooks | Stores | Books
                  Artificial IntelligenceArtificial Intelligence | Computer Science & Information Systems | New & Used Textbooks | Stores | Books
                  NetworkingNetworking | Computer Science & Information Systems | New & Used Textbooks | Stores | Books
                  All Amazon UpgradeAll Amazon Upgrade | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books
                  Computers & InternetComputers & Internet | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books
                  EngineeringEngineering | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books
                  Professional & TechnicalProfessional & Technical | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books
                  ScienceScience | Amazon Upgrade | Stores | Books
                  All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                  Computers & InternetComputers & Internet | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                  ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                  ScienceScience | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                  ASIN: 0792382900

                  Book Description

                  This book presents a unified methodology for designing modular neural networks. A family of online algorithms for time series classification, prediction and identification are developed; and a rigorous mathematical analysis of their properties is provided. Case studies involving a number of real-world problems are also presented. Finally, an overview of the modular neural networks literature, including coverage of theoretical and experimental analysis, is provided.
                  Predictive Modular Neural Networks: Applications to Time Series is an important reference work for engineers, computer scientists, and other researchers working in time series analysis, neural networks, control engineering, data mining and other intelligent and decision support areas. The book will also be of interest to researchers in biological and medical informatics.

                  El refranero mexicano / The Mexican Adages
                  Average customer rating: Not rated
                    El refranero mexicano / The Mexican Adages
                    T. Remolina , and B. Rubinstein
                    Manufacturer: Selector
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Paperback

                    ComicComic | General | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    SpanishSpanish | Foreign Language Fiction | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                    Limericks & Humorous VerseLimericks & Humorous Verse | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
                    Satire, GeneralSatire, General | Humor | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
                    SpanishSpanish | Foreign Language Nonfiction | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                    Sátira, GeneralSátira, General | Humor | Entretenimiento | Libros en español | Formats | Books
                    ComicidadComicidad | General | Literatura y ficción | Libros en español | Formats | Books
                    PoesíaPoesía | Literatura y ficción | Libros en español | Formats | Books | Antigua, Clásica y Medioeval | Antologías | Autores Individuales | Caribeña y Latino Americana | Crítica | Español | General | Inspiracional y Religiosa | Japonesa y Haiku | Poetas, A-Z
                    No-FicciónNo-Ficción | Libros en español | Formats | Books | Automotriz | Ciencias Sociales | Crimen y Criminales | Educación | Estudios de la Mujer | Feriados | Filosofía | Gobierno | Hechos Verídicos | Planeamiento Urbano y Desarrollo | Política | Sucesos de Actualidad | Transportación
                    ASIN: 9706437606

                    An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History
                    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                    • Somewhat Specialized
                    • Very creepy but just as brilliant
                    An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History
                    Roger Spiller
                    Manufacturer: Belknap Press
                    ProductGroup: Book
                    Binding: Hardcover

                    GeneralGeneral | Military | History | Subjects | Books
                    Military ScienceMilitary Science | History | Subjects | Books
                    Similar Items:
                    1. Forever a Soldier: Unforgettable Stories of Wartime Service Forever a Soldier: Unforgettable Stories of Wartime Service
                    2. Turning Points In Military History Turning Points In Military History
                    3. Surviving the Sword : Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 Surviving the Sword : Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45
                    4. Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield
                    5. A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War A History of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to the Cold War

                    ASIN: 0674019415

                    Book Description

                    Stories about war are some of the oldest stories told--used to entertain, to glorify, to lament, to educate. An Instinct for War utilizes myriad tales of war to offer a remarkable look at one of humanity's oldest plagues. Roger Spiller excavates the essence of war and its evolution through the words and thoughts of those who led--and those who were led--into battle, moving from the perspective of an ancient Chinese emperor to Napoleon's command, from a Civil War soldier's final days to the particularities of today's small wars throughout the globe.

                    Spiller combines a mastery of the primary sources with a vibrant historical imagination to locate a dozen turning points in the world's history of warfare that altered our understanding of war and its pursuit. We are conducted through profound moments by the voices of those who witnessed them and are given a graphic understanding of war, the devastating choices, the means by which battles are won and lost, and the enormous price exacted. Spiller's attention to the sights and sounds of battle enables us to feel the sting and menace of past violent conflicts as if they were today's.

                    A bold departure from standard military history, An Instinct for War will challenge our understanding of how war forever alters the landscape--both human and geographic--and how individuals can alter the nature of battle. This collective portrait of the life of war offers unparalleled insight into our struggle for mastery over a fundamental instinct.

                    Customer Reviews:

                    4 out of 5 stars Somewhat Specialized.......2007-09-15

                    The author is an established military historian who taught at the US Army Command and Staff College. This unconventional book is an effort to capture varied aspects of wartime experience across the ages. Rather than a systematic treatise, Spiller has written a series of fictional vignettes, some based on real episodes or involving historical personages, to convey different aspects of war associated experience. The pieces vary in quality; some are very good, some merely good, all are interesting. Spiller is a good writer who draws on his extensive knowledge of military history to produce a nice variety of vignettes.

                    Topics include the experience of combat, the difficulties of command, cultural factors in warfare, the role of soldiers in the state, moral issues related to war, and the clash of the demands of modern technology with traditional values. Perhaps not surprising given Spiller's profession, a disproportionate number feature historians of warfare.

                    Since the quality of writing is good, this book is accessible to a wide audience. Its real audience, however, is people with considerable knowledge of history and military history in particular. The first vignette, for example, is drawn from the life of the great Han dynasty historian Sima Qian, not someone known to the general reading public, even those with a good general knowledge of history. The same is true for several of the other vignettes. How many people will know the influence of the 19th century theorist Jomini on our Civil War or be familiar with the Russo-Japanese War? This is not a defect of Spiller's writing or technique in general. What really makes the vignettes work is his ability to ground the issues raised in each vignette in specific, realistic historical circumstances.

                    Finally, its a brave man who attempts to imitate the style of Thucydides and Spiller carries this off fairly well.

                    4 out of 5 stars Very creepy but just as brilliant.......2005-12-21

                    Well, these days it's very difficult NOT to find books about war whenever you enter your favorite bookstore, especially about World War II, but also most other wars ever fought by mankind. People seem unable to get enough of books about how we manage to kill each other left and right, always have and always will, and few people doubt that as long as there are people on this planet there'll be wars, as well.

                    So, among all these books about war, will any of them be a real necessity? Sure. An Instinct for War definitely is.

                    For without a moment of doubt I feel perfectly honest when I say that Roger Spiller's book is the most fascinating book about war I've ever read. Period. Not only that, it's also the most unique book about war I've ever read; or in other words, An Instinct for War is just as different as it is worth reading. And I still mourn the fact that I've already finished it...

                    So what, then, makes this book so special? Well, because all stories are fiction. Or, perhaps not really fiction in the true sense of the word. Spiller's very first sentence goes as follows: "Some of this actually happened an some of it didn't, but all of it is as true as I can make it." With this, Spiller means that his stories - about different wars throughout history - all are meant to show how mankind has viewed war and warfare, its nature, shape, and conduct.

                    For instance, the reader will follow a surgeon in the Napoleon Wars and a soldier's last days during the Civil War, but it's the last story, The Discovery of Kansas, that is the highlight of the book. Here an eerie, yet fully believable, scenario of the future is painted, where modern warfare, which isn't about man-to-man combat in the battlefield, in all its horrors. It's a gloomy vision, much darker than what both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell ever thought up, but it's so good that this story in itself is worth every single penny you paid for the book.

                    Buy An Instinct for War, read the stories, and be amazed of how bizarre the human animal really is.

                    Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization
                    Average customer rating: Not rated
                      Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization
                      Frederic J. Baumgartner
                      Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
                      ProductGroup: Book
                      Binding: Paperback

                      GeneralGeneral | World | History | Subjects | Books
                      GeneralGeneral | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
                      Comparative ReligionComparative Religion | Religious Studies | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
                      GeneralGeneral | Theology | Religious Studies | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
                      EschatologyEschatology | Theology | Christianity | Religion & Spirituality | Subjects | Books
                      CultureCulture | Sociology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                      Similar Items:
                      1. Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs through the Ages
                      2. Christian Millenarianism: From the Early Church to Waco Christian Millenarianism: From the Early Church to Waco
                      3. Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric
                      4. Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination With Evil Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination With Evil
                      5. The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount

                      ASIN: 0312238347

                      Book Description

                      Jonestown, Waco, and Heaven's Gate resonate in the contemporary mind in the same way that Masada or Mount Tabor resonated in the minds of others long past. The members of these movements believed that the end of the world was at hand and that they had to act through violence or suicide to ensure its occurrence. Frederic Baumgartner explores the long, often violent, history of millennialism as it has affected Western civilization. From ancient Zoroastrians to Concerned Christians of 1998, a belief in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the new age has motivated hundreds of sects and cults, some of which have burned out in an orgy of violence to become a permanent part of Western history.
                      Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization.(Review) (book review): An article from: Utopian Studies
                      Average customer rating: Not rated
                        Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization.(Review) (book review): An article from: Utopian Studies
                        W. Warren Wagar
                        Manufacturer: Society for Utopian Studies
                        ProductGroup: Book
                        Binding: Digital

                        GeneralGeneral | Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                        PhilosophyPhilosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books
                        GeneralGeneral | Nonfiction | HTML | Formats | e-Docs | Formats | Books
                        PhilosophyPhilosophy | Nonfiction | HTML | Formats | e-Docs | Formats | Books
                        ASIN: B0008JAWNS
                        Release Date: 2005-07-28

                        Book Description

                        This digital document is an article from Utopian Studies, published by Society for Utopian Studies on March 22, 2000. The length of the article is 2384 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                        Citation Details
                        Title: Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization.(Review) (book review)
                        Author: W. Warren Wagar
                        Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
                        Date: March 22, 2000
                        Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
                        Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Page: 214

                        Article Type: Book Review

                        Distributed by Thomson Gale
                        Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization
                        Average customer rating: Not rated
                          Longing for the End: A History of Millennialism in Western Civilization
                          Frederic J. (Author) Baumgartner
                          Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
                          ProductGroup: Book
                          Binding: Paperback
                          ASIN: B000OTNVTO

                          The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion (New Perspectives on the Past)
                          Average customer rating: Not rated
                            The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion (New Perspectives on the Past)
                            David Arnold
                            Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishers
                            ProductGroup: Book
                            Binding: Paperback

                            GeneralGeneral | Popular Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
                            ReferenceReference | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books
                            Human GeographyHuman Geography | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                            GeneralGeneral | Sociology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                            GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                            GeneralGeneral | Ecology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                            Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                            HistoricHistoric | Geography | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                            GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                            EcologyEcology | Biological Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                            Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                            ReferenceReference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                            All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                            Similar Items:
                            1. Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times Nature: Western Attitudes Since Ancient Times
                            2. Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants
                            3. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
                            4. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

                            ASIN: 063119021X

                            Book Description

                            This book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution of cultures, to understand cultural difference, and to justify or condemn colonization, slavery and racial superiority. It examines the central part that ideas of environmental and biological determinism have played in theory, and describes how these ideas have served in different ways at different times as instruments of authority, identity and defiance. The book shows how powerful and problematic the invocation of nature can be. The Problem of Nature covers a whole cycle of environmental history and its interpretation, from the Black Death in the fourteenth century, the first European voyages of discovery and the opening of the American frontier through to the imperialism of the nineteenth century and the example of India under colonial rule. David Arnold shows how both the natural environment and ideas about nature have changed radically over the last five centuries. The author describes the profound influence that historical and social theory and the biological sciences have had upon each other. He shows how the outcomes of their interaction not only informed and shaped the European impact upon the world and on itself, but how crucial they are to American conceptions of the society and history of the United States. He provides provocative answers to the questions of what role the environment should have in the conceptualization of time and place; and of how far societies and their histories can be understood from the perspectives of natural and biological sciences.
                            Nature of Science: Problems and Perspectives
                            Average customer rating: Not rated
                              Nature of Science: Problems and Perspectives
                              Edwin Hung
                              Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
                              ProductGroup: Book
                              Binding: Paperback

                              GeneralGeneral | Philosophy | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                              GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
                              GeneralGeneral | History & Philosophy | Science | Subjects | Books
                              All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                              NonfictionNonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                              ScienceScience | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                              Similar Items:
                              1. Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues

                              ASIN: 0534247504

                              Book Description

                              This text, the first comprehensive text in philosophy of science in many years, is divided into two books. Book I deals with traditional problems in the philosophy of science: logic, explanation, and epistemology. Book II presents various schools and systems of thought from the philosophy of science. Prominently featured are: rationalism, empiricism, logical positivism and constructivism. The text offers both breadth and depth, but is written in a clear and accessible style, making it appropriate for philosophy of science courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
                              Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Problems
                              Average customer rating: Not rated
                                Evolutionary Perspectives on Environmental Problems

                                Manufacturer: Aldine Transaction
                                ProductGroup: Book
                                Binding: Paperback

                                GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                GeneralGeneral | Evolution | Science | Subjects | Books
                                ConservationConservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                GeneralGeneral | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                ReferenceReference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                ASIN: 0202307557
                                Agroforestry in South Asia: Problems and Applied Research Perspectives (Winrock-Oxford & Ibh)
                                Average customer rating: Not rated
                                  Agroforestry in South Asia: Problems and Applied Research Perspectives (Winrock-Oxford & Ibh)
                                  William R. Bentley , and Prem K. Khosla
                                  Manufacturer: Winrock International Institute for Agricultu
                                  ProductGroup: Book
                                  Binding: Hardcover

                                  Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                  GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
                                  Forests & ForestryForests & Forestry | Natural Resources | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books
                                  GeneralGeneral | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                  GeneralGeneral | Trees | Plants | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                  Living on the LandLiving on the Land | Ecology | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books | Architecture | Hunting & Fishing
                                  ForestsForests | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                  AsiaAsia | Regional | Field Guides | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                  TreesTrees | Field Guides | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                  GeneralGeneral | Agricultural Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                  ForestryForestry | Agricultural Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books | Deforestation | Ecology | Economics | Fires | Management | Products | Wood Science
                                  Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                  ASIN: 1881570169

                                  Book Description

                                  FOCUSES ON PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL QUESTIONS OF AGROFORESTRY (PART ONE). INVESTIGATES HOW CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND EVEN THEORETICAL FACTORS INFLUENCE AND CAN OVERRIDE THE BEST TECHNICAL PROGRAMS (PART TWO)
                                  Environmental Protection: Solving Environmental Problems from Social Science and Humanities Perspectives
                                  Average customer rating: Not rated
                                    Environmental Protection: Solving Environmental Problems from Social Science and Humanities Perspectives
                                    Norbert Elliott
                                    Manufacturer: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
                                    ProductGroup: Book
                                    Binding: Paperback

                                    Social Services & WelfareSocial Services & Welfare | Poverty | Current Events | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                                    Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                    ConservationConservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                    GeneralGeneral | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                    ReferenceReference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                    Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                    ASIN: 0787233021
                                    Green Perspectives: Thinking, and Writing About Nature and the Environment
                                    Average customer rating: Not rated
                                      Green Perspectives: Thinking, and Writing About Nature and the Environment
                                      Walter Levy , and Christopher Hallowell
                                      Manufacturer: Longman
                                      ProductGroup: Book
                                      Binding: Paperback

                                      Social Services & WelfareSocial Services & Welfare | Poverty | Current Events | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                                      GeneralGeneral | Words & Language | Reference | Subjects | Books
                                      GeneralGeneral | Writing | Reference | Subjects | Books
                                      Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                      GeneralGeneral | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                      Solid Waste ManagementSolid Waste Management | Environmental | Civil | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                      Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                      GeneralGeneral | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books
                                      All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                      Arts & PhotographyArts & Photography | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                      NonfictionNonfiction | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                      ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                      ReferenceReference | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                      ScienceScience | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                      Similar Items:
                                      1. Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Ceremony: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

                                      ASIN: 0065015002

                                      Book Description

                                      This unique anthology of readings engages readers with current ecological issues and the history of the environmental movement, with essays by authors and naturalists such as Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, John Muir, Willa Cather, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Chronologically organized from 1850 through 1993, it exposes readers to the Green Perspectives in historical, political, and social contexts. The diverse collection of readings includes essays, short-stories, poems, and excerpts from novels and represents many different points of view and disciplines.
                                      Groundwater for Sustainable Developement: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges
                                      Average customer rating: Not rated
                                        Groundwater for Sustainable Developement: Problems, Perspectives and Challenges

                                        Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
                                        ProductGroup: Book
                                        Binding: Hardcover

                                        Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                        GeneralGeneral | Science | Subjects | Books
                                        Water Supply & Land UseWater Supply & Land Use | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books
                                        Renewable EnergyRenewable Energy | Technology | Science | Subjects | Books
                                        GeneralGeneral | Environmental | Civil | Engineering | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                        Environmental ScienceEnvironmental Science | Earth Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                        ConservationConservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                        Water SupplyWater Supply | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                        GeneralGeneral | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                        WaterWater | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                        ReferenceReference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                        ASIN: 0415407761
                                        Man & Wolf: ADVANCES, ISSUES & PROBLEMS IN CAPTIVE WOLF RESEARCH (Perspectives in Vertebrate Science)
                                        Average customer rating: Not rated
                                          Man & Wolf: ADVANCES, ISSUES & PROBLEMS IN CAPTIVE WOLF RESEARCH (Perspectives in Vertebrate Science)
                                          HARRY ED FRANK
                                          Manufacturer: DR. W. JUNK/KLUWER
                                          ProductGroup: Book
                                          Binding: Hardcover

                                          GeneralGeneral | Dogs | Animal Care & Pets | Home & Garden | Subjects | Books
                                          GeneralGeneral | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
                                          Dogs & WolvesDogs & Wolves | Animals | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                          MammalsMammals | Zoology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                          Animal Behavior & CommunicationAnimal Behavior & Communication | Zoology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                          GeneralGeneral | Ecology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                          GeneralGeneral | Behavioral Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                          EcologyEcology | Biological Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                          All TitlesAll Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                          Home & GardenHome & Garden | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                          ProfessionalProfessional | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                          ScienceScience | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
                                          ASIN: 9061936144

                                          Temperate Deserts and Semi-Deserts (Ecosystems of the World)
                                          Average customer rating: Not rated
                                            Temperate Deserts and Semi-Deserts (Ecosystems of the World)

                                            Manufacturer: Elsevier Science Pub Co
                                            ProductGroup: Book
                                            Binding: Hardcover

                                            GeneralGeneral | Biology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                            GeneralGeneral | Zoology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                            GeneralGeneral | Ecology | Biological Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                            GeneralGeneral | Nature & Ecology | Science | Subjects | Books
                                            GeneralGeneral | Agricultural Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                            GeneralGeneral | Geography | Earth Sciences | Science | Subjects | Books
                                            ConservationConservation | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                            DesertificationDesertification | Environment | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                            GeneralGeneral | Conservation | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                            DesertsDeserts | Ecosystems | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                            ReferenceReference | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                            EcologyEcology | Biological Sciences | Professional Science | Professional & Technical | Subjects | Books
                                            ASIN: 0444419314

                                            Book Description

                                            Hardbound.
                                            An overview of North American temperate deserts and semi-deserts
                                            Average customer rating: Not rated
                                              An overview of North American temperate deserts and semi-deserts
                                              Neil E West
                                              Manufacturer: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co. ;
                                              ProductGroup: Book
                                              Binding: Unknown Binding

                                              DesertsDeserts | Ecosystems | Outdoors & Nature | Subjects | Books
                                              ASIN: B0007C2BIU

                                              Books:

                                              1. The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life: Keep What You Have and Create What You Deserve
                                              2. The Millionaire in You: Ten Things You Need to Do Now to Have Money and Time to Enjoy It
                                              3. The New Finance: Overreaction, Complexity and Uniqueness (3rd Edition)
                                              4. The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money--Everything You Need to Know in Good and Bad Times
                                              5. The Unofficial Guide to Picking Stocks
                                              6. The Wealthy Barber, Updated 3rd Edition: Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent
                                              7. The Widow's Financial Survival Guide
                                              8. Understanding Financial Statements: A Primer of Useful Information (Crisp Fifty-Minute Series)
                                              9. Understanding the Corporate Annual Report: Nuts, Bolts and a Few Loose Screws
                                              10. Unlocking The Value Of Your Business : How to increase it, measure it and negotiate an actual sale price - in easy, step-by-step terms.

                                              Books Index

                                              Books Home

                                              Recommended Books

                                              1. Perpetuating The Family Business : 50 Lessons Learned from Long Lasting, Successful Families in Busi
                                              2. Legacies: Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction
                                              3. How to Pay for Your Degree in Education & Related Fields: How to Pay for Your Degree in Educatio
                                              4. Identification Manual for Wetland Plant Species of Florida
                                              5. History: Fiction or Science
                                              6. Muerta Blanca
                                              7. I'm as Quick as a Cricket
                                              8. Cisco Router Firewall Security
                                              9. Handbook of Monetary Economics Volume 2
                                              10. Turkmenistan Business Law Handbook