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View book details for Beyond the Law of the Sea
New Directions for U.S. Oceans Policy
The 1982 U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea took over a decade to produce and was the final result of the largest single international negotiating process undertaken before or since that time. As the world's leading maritime nation, …
View book details for Mind Builders
Multidisciplinary Challenges for Cooperative Team-building and Competition
Like the nationally known Destination Imagination competition, Mind Builders offers simple engineering problems to be solved by student teams. It begins with a few exercises to introduce the team concept. These are followed by ten warm up problems that can …
View book details for Women's Fiction
A Guide to Popular Reading Interests
Offering a fresh perspective on women's fiction for a broad reading audiencefans as well as librariansthis book defines and maps the genre, and describes hundreds of relevant titles.Women's Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests celebrates the books in this …
View book details for Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction
Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology
Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public discourse, the ontological and material turns in the academy that have occurred over the same time period, and how Afro-diasporic fiction has responded to …
View book details for Competing Chinese Political Visions
Hong Kong vs. Beijing on Democracy
A fascinating analysis of the features of the Hong Kong-style democracy viewed as alien, hostile, potentially subversive, and substantially dangerous by the mainland Chinese Communist Party.Competing Chinese Political Visions: Hong Kong vs. Beijing on Democracy examines the uniqueness of the …
View book details for Breaking the Brass Ceiling
Women Police Chiefs and Their Paths to the Top
Constituting fewer than 15% of the nation's police officers, women have found it especially difficult to rise through the ranks and achieve higher posts. Here, those few women who have made it to the topabout 1% of the chiefs and …
View book details for Trust and Loyalty in Electronic Commerce
An Agency Theory Perspective
Karake-Shalhoub uses agency theory to ground her empirical analysis of more than 100 e-commerce firms in this highly readable examination of trust in e-commerce relational exchanges. She identifies several trust-building measures, including privacy statements, the existence of a chief privacy …
View book details for Eurasia Rising
Democracy and Independence in the Post-Soviet Space
Although the score of countries comprising Russia's near abroad (the former non-Russian Soviet republics) and far abroad (the former non-Russian Warsaw Pact states) are behaving with variably increasing independence in their domestic and foreign policies, Russia continues to regard them …
View book details for Read On ... Romance
Reading Lists for Every Taste
With thousands of romance novels published each year, librariansespecially those unfamiliar with or indifferent to the genrecan benefit from this well-organized, reference that offers scores of appeals-based read-alike lists for some of the most popular, contemporary romance fiction.As romance publishing …
View book details for Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier
The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston
He was found dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, an unknown soldier with nothing to identify him but an ambrotype of his three children, clutched in his fingers. With the photograph as the single, sad clue to his identity, a …
Plagued by political instability, economic hardships, and massacres of innocent men, women, and children, El Salvador has fought for freedom throughout the centuries. No other reference source captures the suffering and adversities this ever-evolving country has faced. El Salvador's tumultuous …
View book details for The Dirty Energy Dilemma
What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States
The American electric utility system is quietly falling apart. Once taken for granted, the industry has become increasingly unstable, fragmented, unreliable, insecure, inefficient, expensive, and harmful to our environment and public health. According to Sovacool, the fix for this ugly …
View book details for School Library Collection Development
Just the Basics
This practical manual demystifies the process of creating and maintaining a quality school library collectionan invaluable resource for anyone working in a library media center.Today's school librarians have many different responsibilities, but arguably the most important aspect of their job …
View book details for Pesticides
A Toxic Time Bomb in Our Midst
Pesticide exposure has long been a cause for concern, and with good reason. Studies have shown that all persons, but especially children, pregnant women, farmers, farmworkers, and the elderly, may experience negative health effects from pesticide exposure. These effects may …
View book details for Counter-Guerrilla Operations
The Philippine Experience
This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era by two officers-one from the Philippines and the other from America-who fought as guerrillas against the Japanese occupation and went on to defeat the Huk rebellion …
A study of life inside medieval monasteries that explores monastic spirituality, daily routines, contact with the outside world, and the historical impact of these foundational institutions on the Western world.How did the Western monastic tradition begin? What was monastic life …
This work explores the philosophical positions of five postmodern thinkersLyotard, Rorty, Schrag, Foucault, and Derridato show how their critiques imply that scholars are unduly limited by the belief that inquiry is fundamentally about gaining knowledge of phenomena that are assumed …
This volume looks at headline-grabbing scandals involving American religious figures from the 19th century to the present, showing how the media and society in general reacted to these controversies.Religious Scandals brings together real-life controversies involving men and women of faith, …
This engaging and accessible book is a must-read for every taxpayer, young and old. It explores the many forms of taxation; how taxes are created, collected, and spent; and why certain aspects of taxation are so controversial."In this world, nothing …
View book details for Thriving in Retirement
Lessons from Baby Boomer Women
This important book shares insights derived from surveys, interviews, and focus groups conducted with a diverse group of first-wave Baby Boomer female professionals (born 19461956). These individuals changed the workplace in the 1970s and are now changing views of retirement.In …
For multinational corporations (MNCs), there is arguably no more important operational function that affects all areas of manufacturing, marketing, management, and finance as international transfer pricingthe practicing of supplying products or services across borders from one part of the organization …
View book details for The War on Women in the United States
Beliefs, Tactics, and the Best Defenses
The book examines gender roles, gender inequity, and the impacts of both unintentional and purposeful efforts to undermine women's equal treatment in the United States, documenting what women have faced in the past and still face in America today.Although women's …
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Financing Terrorism through Organized Crime
This cohesive set of case studies collects scholarly research, policy evaluation, and field experience to explain how terrorist groups have developed into criminal enterprises.Terrorist groups have evolved from orthodox global insurgents funded by rogue sponsors into nimble and profitable transnational …
View book details for D. H. Lawrence
A Reference Companion
D.H. Lawrence remains one of the most popular and studied authors of the 20th century. This book is a comprehensive but easy to use reference guide to Lawrence's life, works, and critical reception. The volume has been systematically structured to …
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A Guide to the Reference Literature
Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature is a critically annotated bibliographic guide to print and electronic sources in print and broadcast journalism. The first edition was published in 1990; the second in 1997. It has been described as one …
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