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Ecotourism Development in Costa Rica: The Search for Oro VerdeEcotourism Development in Costa Rica: The Search for Oro Verde, by Andrew P. Miller, examines the use of ecotourism as a development strategy in Costa Rica and its applicability to other Central American states. Ecotourism provides an important environmental check on industry, giving the...
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Brazil, the United States, and the South American Subsystem: Regional Politics and the Absent EmpireThe United States has often acted as an empire in Latin America. Nevertheless, there has been an obvious dissimilarity between U.S. actions in South America and U.S. actions in the rest of Latin America, which is illustrated by the fact that the United States...
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The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday LivesThis book illuminates the real effects of regulations on people's everyday lives. It traces the effects of regulations on an economy by working through the ripple effects of changes. In so doing, the book provides a fundamental understanding for the economy as an organism...
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Is the Good Book Good Enough?: Evangelical Perspectives on Public PolicyThe political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal development in America in the past quarter century. And while their voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They continue to be caricatured as...
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Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity: Servant Leadership as a Way of LifeIn a fresh rendering of the role of leaders as healers, Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity considers love and power in the midst of personal, political, and social upheaval. Unexpected atrocity coexists alongside the quiet subtleties of mercy, and people and...
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The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, and MulticulturalismThe Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies. The collection of essays ranges across the cultures and literatures of the Netherlands and Belgium and establishes an encounter between postcolonial...
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Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia: Federal Politics and Public PolicyThis book contributes substantially to urban affairs and public policy literature by presenting an introduction to the complex politics and public policy issues of Washington, D.C. The uniqueness of the city, as elaborated in this volume, provides background for understanding the non-traditional congressional relationship...
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Virginia's American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776-1840Virginia's American Revolution follows the Virginia revolutionaries from their decision for independence on May 15, 1776, through the following 60 years_when the last of them finally passed from the scene. To their surprise, the decision to break with Great Britain entailed reconsideration of virtually...
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The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The DispossessedThe Dispossessed has been described by political thinker Andre Gorz as 'The most striking description I know of the seductions-and snares-of self-managed communist or, in other words, anarchist society.' To date, however, the radical social, cultural, and political ramifications of Le Guin's multiple award-winning...
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The American Founding and the Social CompactUnlike many other books about the American founding, this new work by two of the most prominent scholars of American political history emphasizes the coherence and intelligibility of the social compact theory. Social compact theory, the idea that government must be based on an...
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Between Two Ages: The 21st Century and the Crisis of MeaningAuthor: William Van Dusen WishardPublisher: XlibrisPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 356Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 8.58h x 4.88w x 0.81dISBN: 9780738836560This title is not returnable
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Delaware State PoliceImages of America: Delaware State Police illustrates the storied past of the Delaware State Police from 1920 to 1985.April 28, 1923, marks the birth of the Delaware State Police. Discussions occurred as early as 1906 for a statewide police organization to cope with speeding...
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Politics, Civil Rights, and Law in Black AtlantaThe Civil Rights movement in Atlanta is most often equated with the tireless work and inspiring words of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr.; however, a host of other courageous individuals, both known and unknown, came before, during, and after Dr. King to face the...
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Raleigh and Wake County FirefightingThe story of firefighting in Raleigh and Wake County is almost as old as the county itself. The terrifying threat to wooden structures with minimal water supplies was well known to the planners who laid out Wake County's first town in 1792. Wide streets...
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Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World with New IntroductionIs Islam compatible with democracy? Must fundamentalism win out in the Middle East, or will democracy ever be possible? In this now-classic book, Islamic sociologist Fatima Mernissi explores the ways in which progressive Muslims--defenders of democracy, feminists, and others trying to resist fundamentalism--must use...
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The law of international organisations: Third editionThe third edition of this long-running Melland Schill textbook provides an accessible, up-to-date account of the principles and norms of international law as they apply to the main type of international body: the inter-governmental organisation (IGO).Concentrating on the United Nations as the paradigmatic IGO,...
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The Northern Ireland Peace Process: From Armed Conflict to BrexitThis book offers a re-evaluation of the emergence, development and outcome of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with many of the key participants of the peace process, newly released archival material and the existing scholarship on the conflict, it explains...
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The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine and Resistance in the British EmpireThe Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonisation during the nineteenth century. Based on a wealth...
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Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquished the StrongAccording to Tom Gallagher, Romania's predatory rulers, the heirs of the sinister communist dictator Ceausescu, have inflicted a humiliating defeat on the European Union. He argues convincingly that Brussels was tricked into offering full membership to this Balkan country in return for substantial reforms...
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The Debate on the Rise of the British EmpireThis fascinating and highly useful book examines the rise of the British empire and the various debates among historians of imperialism over the past two hundred years. It discusses why the empire is so attractive to historians, why there is so much debate and...
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