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Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land

Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land

Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

How to harvest water and nutrients, select drought-tolerant plants, and create natural diversity Because climatic uncertainty has now become "the new normal," many farmers, gardeners and orchard-keepers in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt their food production to become more resilient in the face of such "global weirding." This book draws upon the wisdom and technical knowledge from desert farming traditions all around the world to offer time-tried strategies for: Building greater moisture-holding capacity and nutrients in soils Protecting fields from damaging winds, drought, and floods Harvesting water from uplands to use in rain gardens and terraces filled with perennial crops Delecting fruits, nuts, succulents, and herbaceous perennials that are best suited to warmer, drier climates Gary Paul Nabhan is one of the world's experts on the agricultural traditions of arid lands. For this book he has visited indigenous and traditional farmers in the Gobi Desert, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sahara Desert, and Andalusia, as well as the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Painted deserts of North America, to learn firsthand their techniques and designs aimed at reducing heat and drought stress on orchards, fields, and dooryard gardens. This practical book also includes colorful "parables from the field" that exemplify how desert farmers think about increasing the carrying capacity and resilience of the lands and waters they steward. It is replete with detailed descriptions and diagrams of how to implement these desert-adapted practices in your own backyard, orchard, or farm. This unique book is useful not only for farmers and permaculturists in the arid reaches of the Southwest or other desert regions. Its techniques and prophetic vision for achieving food security in the face of climate change may well need to be implemented across most of North America over the next half-century, and are already applicable in most of the semiarid West, Great Plains, and the U.S. Southwest and adjacent regions of Mexico.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603584544

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Alcyone

Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women

By: Gary Shapiro

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Alcyone

Nietzsche on Gifts, Noise, and Women

By: Gary Shapiro

Shapiro explores an interrelated series of themes that contest and offer alternatives to some of the traditional concepts of metaphysics. The notion of gift giving and related ideas are seen to play fundamental roles in the economy of Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Shapiro articulates the relevance of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcel Mauss, and Georges Bataille for the thought of the gift and shows that Nietzsche's writing contains a conception of an archaic economy that is radically different from the order of property and exchange usually associated with Western metaphysics. This leads to a critique of Martin Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche as a philosopher of value. Shapiro reads the fourth part of Zarathustra as the libretto for an anti-Wagnerian, postmodern opera in which food, noise, feasting, and parasitism are the major themes, and in which the thought of eternal recurrence is sung and orchestrated in ways that usually go unnoticed. He demonstrates that the fourth part constitutes a rigorous analysis of the logic of the supplementary and the parasitic. In the final chapter, Shapiro undertakes a reading of the classical texts presupposed by Nietzsche's claim that Zarathustra will not be understood unless one hears its "halcyon tone." By juxtaposing Nietzsche's halcyon with the Homeric version of the myth, Shapiro shows how Nietzsche's appeal to the halcyon evokes a premetaphysical economy and a voice suppressed by ontotheology.

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State University of New York Press

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1438419562

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Singing the Turtles to Sea

The Comcáac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Singing the Turtles to Sea

The Comcáac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

Through stories, songs, photographs, illustrations of Comcaac arts, and discussions of Sonoran ecology, Nabhan demonstrates the irreplaceable value of this knowledge for us today.".

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Univ of California Press

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0520217314

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Vampire Films of the 1970s

Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between

By: Gary A. Smith

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Vampire Films of the 1970s

Dracula to Blacula and Every Fang Between

By: Gary A. Smith

The 1970s were turbulent times and the films made then reflected the fact. Vampire movies--always a cinema staple--were no exception. Spurred by the worldwide success of Hammer Film's Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1969), vampire movies filled theaters for the next ten years--from the truly awful to bonafide classics. Audiences took the good with the bad and came back for more. Providing a critical review of the genre's overlooked Golden Age, this book explores a mixed bag from around the world, including The Vampire Lovers (1970), Dracula Versus Frankenstein (1971), Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973), 'Salem's Lot (1975), Dracula Sucks (1978) and Love at First Bite (1979) and many others.

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McFarland

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0786497793

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By the Numbers

Principles of Automotive Parts Management

By: Gary J Naples

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By the Numbers

Principles of Automotive Parts Management

By: Gary J Naples

Many parts managers underestimate the business management expertise, combined with parts knowledge, that is required to efficiently operate a parts department. Author Gary Naples brings twenty years of parts management experience to By the Numbers: Principles of Automotive Parts Management. This book presents basic parts management principles, along with business and personnel management techniques, in an easy-to-understand format. Each chapter begins with an "illustrative case" which describes a typical situation (pertinent to the chapter's theme) that could occur in "real-world" parts departments.

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SAE International

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156091520X

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Adolescent Substance Abuse

Psychiatric Comorbidity and High-risk Behaviors

By: Yifraḥ Ḳaminer,Oscar Gary Bukstein

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Adolescent Substance Abuse

Psychiatric Comorbidity and High-risk Behaviors

By: Yifraḥ Ḳaminer,Oscar Gary Bukstein

Dual diagnosis of adolescent substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders must be treated simultaneously to be effective. Adolescent Substance Abuse: Psychiatric Comorbidity and High Risk Behaviors presents leading experts offering insightful viewpoints and dynamic suggestions on how to best provide simultaneous treatment and integrated services to these youths. The book covers the state of the art in the field of substance use disorders, reviews different psychiatric disorders and high risk behaviors, and then addresses the issue of integrated services and ethical, legal, and policy issues pertaining to this population. The text is extensively referenced and several chapters include helpful tables and figures to clearly display the data.

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Taylor & Francis

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0789031728

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Respiratory Critical Care

By: David W. Chang,Gary White,Jonathan Waugh,Ruben Restrepo

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Respiratory Critical Care

By: David W. Chang,Gary White,Jonathan Waugh,Ruben Restrepo

Respiratory Critical Care is the first textbook that integrates mechanical ventilation and respiratory critical care into one user friendly resource. This textbook focuses on the clinical application of critical care concepts that are essential for respiratory therapy students and practitioners.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284210456

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Art in Renaissance Italy

By: John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke

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Art in Renaissance Italy

By: John T. Paoletti,Gary M. Radke

Art in Renaissance Italy' sets the art of that time in its context, exploring why it was created and in particular looking at who commissioned the palaces and cathedrals, the paintings and the sculptures.

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Laurence King Publishing

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1856694399

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Chasing Chiles

Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail

By: Gary Paul Nabhan,Kraig Kraft,Kurt Michael Friese

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Chasing Chiles

Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail

By: Gary Paul Nabhan,Kraig Kraft,Kurt Michael Friese

Chasing Chiles looks at both the future of place-based foods and the effects of climate change on agriculture through the lens of the chile pepper-from the farmers who cultivate this iconic crop to the cuisines and cultural traditions in which peppers play a huge role. Why chile peppers? Both a spice and a vegetable, chile peppers have captivated imaginations and taste buds for thousands of years. Native to Mesoamerica and the New World, chiles are currently grown on every continent, since their relatively recent introduction to Europe (in the early 1500s via Christopher Columbus). Chiles are delicious, dynamic, and very diverse-they have been rapidly adopted, adapted, and assimilated into numerous world cuisines, and while malleable to a degree, certain heirloom varieties are deeply tied to place and culture-but now accelerating climate change may be scrambling their terroir. Over a year-long journey, three pepper-loving gastronauts-an agroecologist, a chef, and an ethnobotanist-set out to find the real stories of America's rarest heirloom chile varieties, and learn about the changing climate from farmers and other people who live by the pepper, and who, lately, have been adapting to shifting growing conditions and weather patterns. They put a face on an issue that has been made far too abstract for our own good. Chasing Chiles is not your archetypal book about climate change, with facts and computer models delivered by a distant narrator. On the contrary, these three dedicated chileheads look and listen, sit down to eat, and get stories and recipes from on the ground-in farmers' fields, local cafes, and the desert-scrub hillsides across North America. From the Sonoran Desert to Santa Fe and St. Augustine (the two oldest cities in the U.S.), from the marshes of Avery Island in Cajun Louisiana to the thin limestone soils of the Yucatan, this book looks at how and why climate change will continue to affect our palates and our producers, and how it already has.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603583750

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Clinical Nuclear Medicine

By: Gary J.R Cook,M. N Maisey,Vaseem Chengazi

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Clinical Nuclear Medicine

By: Gary J.R Cook,M. N Maisey,Vaseem Chengazi

The fourth edition of Clinical Nuclear Medicine highlights the continued growth in clinical applications for PET and other aspects of molecular imaging. With its problem-oriented clinical approach, the book presents relevant topics of current importance to the practicing clinician rather than providing a comprehensive review of all technical a

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CRC Press

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1444113577

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The English Legal System

2014-2015

By: Gary Slapper,David Kelly

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The English Legal System

2014-2015

By: Gary Slapper,David Kelly

Slapper and Kelly’s The English Legal System explains and critically assesses how our law is made and applied. Annually updated, this authoritative textbook clearly describes the legal rules of England and Wales and their collective influence as a sociocultural institution. This latest edition of The English Legal System has been substantially rewritten and updated to include: updates to anti-terrorism legislation and control orders; an entirely new chapter on Family Courts and Process; the new Crime and Courts Act 2013; coverage of the Ministry of Justice proposals for reform of judicial review; expanded coverage of mediation and the Children and Families Bill 2013 and this edition also includes substantial updates arising from the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. Key learning features include: a clear and logical structure with short, manageable, well-structured individual chapters; useful chapter summaries which act as a good check point for students; sources for further reading and suggested websites at the end of each chapter to point students towards further learning pathways; an online skills network including how tos, practical examples, tips, advice and interactive examples of English law in action. Relied upon by generations of students, Slapper and Kelly’s The English Legal System is a permanent fixture in this everevolving subject. Companion Website Visit The English Legal System companion website: www.routledge.com/cw/slapper Here you can find a bank of activities and exercises corresponding to the chapters in the book designed to give you the opportunity to test your knowledge and further your understanding of the English legal system. These include: • News and updates • Comprehensive legal skills guide • Multiple choice questions • Interactive glossary

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Routledge

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131769936X

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Diseases in the Elderly

Age-Related Changes and Pathophysiology

By: Nages Nagaratnam,Kujan Nagaratnam,Gary Cheuk

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Diseases in the Elderly

Age-Related Changes and Pathophysiology

By: Nages Nagaratnam,Kujan Nagaratnam,Gary Cheuk

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the two important issues relating to disease in elderly: the age-related changes and the pathophysiology of the diseases. The book contains 19 chapters that are arranged by organ system and structured to cover the specific areas for a quick but in-depth understanding of diseases in aging patients. Unlike any other book on the market, this text is concise and yet thorough in approach to the stipulated areas. This book includes multiple-choice questions that reinforce the concepts that are most vital to understanding and treating geriatric patients, making it an outstanding resource on its own or as a companion to larger geriatric texts. Diseases in the Elderly is the ultimate resource for geriatricians, medical students, primary care physicians, hospital doctors, geriatric nurses, and all other medical professionals treating and diagnosing diseases in elderly patients.

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Springer

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3319257870

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The Informant

The FBI, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Luzzo

By: Gary May

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The Informant

The FBI, the Klu Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Luzzo

By: Gary May

An FBI’s informant’s role in the murder of a civil rights activist by the KKK is explored in this “suspenseful and vigorously reported” history (Baltimore Sun). In 1965, Detroit housewife Viola Liuzzo drove to Alabama to help organize Martin Luther King’s Voting Rights March from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery. But after the march’s historic success, Liuzzo was shot to death by members of the Birmingham Ku Klux Klan. The case drew national attention and was solved almost instantly, because one of the Klansman present during the shooting was Gary Thomas Rowe, an undercover FBI informant. At the time, Rowe’s information and testimony were heralded as a triumph of law enforcement. But as Gary May reveals in this provocative book, Rowe’s history of collaboration with both the Klan and the FBI was far more complex. Based on previously unexamined FBI and Justice Department Records, The Informant demonstrates that in their ongoing efforts to protect Rowe’s cover, the FBI knowingly became an accessory to some of the most grotesque crimes of the Civil Rights era—including a vicious attack on the Freedom Riders and perhaps even the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. A tale of a renegade informant and a tragically dysfunctional intelligence system, The Informant offers a dramatic cautionary tale about what can happen when secret police power goes unchecked.

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Yale University Press

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0300129998

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Jesus for Farmers and Fishers

Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Jesus for Farmers and Fishers

Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century. Yet we are largely unaware of the plight of those whose hands and hearts toil to sustain us. Agrarian and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan--the "father of the local food movement"--offers a fresh, imaginative look at the parables of Jesus to bring us into a heart of compassion for those in the food economy hit by this unprecedented crisis. Offering palpable scenes from the Sea of Galilee and the fields, orchards, and feasting tables that surrounded it, Nabhan contrasts the profound ways Jesus interacted with those who were the workers of the field and the fishers of the sea with the events currently occurring in American farm country and fishing harbors. Tapping the work of Middle Eastern naturalists, environmental historians, archaeologists, and agro-ecologists, Jesus for Farmers and Fishers is sure to catalyze deeper conversations, moral appraisals, and faith-based social actions in each of our faith-land-water communities.

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Broadleaf Books

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1506465072

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Photochemistry and Photophysics

By: Jan F. Rabek,Gary W. Scott

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Photochemistry and Photophysics

By: Jan F. Rabek,Gary W. Scott

This comprehensive work presents a coherent critical review of photochemistry and photophysics, including inorganic, organic, atmospheric, environmental, material, biological and polymer fields. It also addresses the practical application of photochemical processes in reprography, microelectronics, and holography. These volumes are of great value to those involved in photochemical and photophysical research, and to graduate or advanced undergraduate students.

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CRC Press

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0849340411

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Bing Crosby

A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940

By: Gary Giddins

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Bing Crosby

A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903 - 1940

By: Gary Giddins

From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star.

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Back Bay Books

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0316091561

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Desert Terroir

Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Desert Terroir

Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

A culinary journey through the flavors of the southwestern borderlands from an agricultural ecologist and “natural storyteller” (Times Literary Supplement). Why does food taste better when you know where it comes from? Because history—ecological, cultural, even personal—flavors every bite we eat. Whether it’s the volatile chemical compounds that a plant absorbs from the soil or the stories and memories of places that are evoked by taste, layers of flavor await those willing to delve into the roots of real food. In this book, Gary Paul Nabhan takes us on a personal trip into the southwestern borderlands to discover the terroir—the “taste of the place”—that makes this desert so delicious. To savor the terroir of the borderlands, Nabhan presents a cornucopia of local foods—Mexican oregano, mesquite-flour tortillas, grass-fed beef, the popular Mexican dessert capirotada, and corvina (croaker or drum fish) among them—as well as food experiences that range from the foraging of Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions to a modern-day camping expedition on the Rio Grande. Nabhan explores everything from the biochemical agents that create taste in these foods to their history and dispersion around the world. Through his field adventures and humorous stories, we learn why Mexican oregano is most potent when gathered at the most arid margins of its range—and why foods found in the remote regions of the borderlands have surprising connections to foods found by his ancestors in the deserts of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. By the end of his movable feast, Nabhan convinces us that the roots of this fascinating terroir must be anchored in our imaginations as well as in our shifting soils. Includes illustrations

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University of Texas Press

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0292742843

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9780292742840

A Synoptic Review of the Ant Genera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Phillippines

By: David M. General,Gary D. Alpert

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A Synoptic Review of the Ant Genera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Phillippines

By: David M. General,Gary D. Alpert

This large work on the ant genera of the Philippines improves our understanding of the amazing biodiversity of the archipelago. Twelve genera, including 3 undescribed, are recorded from the country for the first time for a total of 92 genera. The simplified keys will allow students to identify ants to the generic level. In addition, the species list has more than doubled to 474 valid names since Baltazar (1966). The authors hope to spur interest in the study of ants in the Philippines since the ant diversity of many islands is still largely unexplored.

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PenSoft Publishers LTD

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9546426407

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Sustaining Reform with a US-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Shahid Javed Burki

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Sustaining Reform with a US-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Shahid Javed Burki

This Policy Analysis previews the case for more decisive US economic engagement of Pakistan and suggests that a US-Pakistan FTA could reinforce existing reforms and push the envelope in economic areas where Pakistan (and South Asia more generally) have lagged. In keeping with the Institute's extensive research agenda on prospective US FTAs, we present a detailed analysis of the costs and benefits of a US-Pakistan FTA for the signatory countries, for regional integration, and for the world trading system."--Preface.

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Peterson Institute

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0881323950

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9780881323955

Restoration of the Republic

The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-century America

By: Gary Hart

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Restoration of the Republic

The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-century America

By: Gary Hart

In this timely work, former U.S. Senator Gary Hart argues for the Jeffersonian roots of homeland security.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195155866

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A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives

1509-1688

By: Gary M. Bell

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A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives

1509-1688

By: Gary M. Bell

Number 16 in the Royal Society Guides and Handbooks series.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521551544

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The Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing

By: Gary Null

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The Clinician's Handbook of Natural Healing

By: Gary Null

THE CLINICIAN'S HANDBOOK OF NATURAL HEALING is the result of ten years of careful examination of scientific analysis and literature published by qualified individuals at prestigious institutions. Covering more than 1.3 million studies, Null looked at each of the primary nutrients found in both foods and herbs as well as in supplemental and higher therapeutic dosages. Organized to provide easy-to-find answers to questions about nutrients, this extraordinary guide allows the reader to benefit from what the latest research has to tell us about nutrition and health. Each entry is supported by peer-reviewed scientific journals and research.

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Kensington Books

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1575667207

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Corot

By: Gary Tinterow,Michael Pantazzi,Vincent Pomarède,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France),National Gallery of Canada,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Corot

By: Gary Tinterow,Michael Pantazzi,Vincent Pomarède,Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France),National Gallery of Canada,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's paintings held in Paris and Ottawa during 1996, and forthcoming to New York. From nearly 3,000 paintings by this poetic 19th-century artist, the curators chose 163 works, which are reproduced here along with full art-historical discussions of each. Three major essays chronicle Corot's life and the development of his art; additional essays elucidate the subject of forgeries and describe the collecting of his works. Much original new scholarship is included along with a review of the scholarly literature, a concordance, and a chronology. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870997696

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9780870997693

Figuring Out the Doha Round

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Jeffrey J. Schott,Woan Foong Wong

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Figuring Out the Doha Round

By: Gary Clyde Hufbauer,Jeffrey J. Schott,Woan Foong Wong

The Doha Round marked its eighth birthday in November 2009, making it the longest running multilateral trade negotiation in the postwar era. Doha participants continue to disagree about prospective liberalization of agriculture and manufactures and have barely begun to consider reductions in barriers to trade in services. Negotiators have missed every deadline to conclude the talks, leading some to question the viability of the entire venture. After nearly nine years of inconclusive meetings, the trade talks are at a tipping point: A global trade deal is still possible with renewed political commitment to trade reform, but continued drift could result in the first outright failure of a multilateral trade round in the postwar era. This policy analysis shows that the Doha Round can still be successfully concluded with a concerted push by the major trading nations. Contrary to the Doha doomsayers, the potential gains from proposals now on the table are significant, albeit not sufficient to close a deal. The authors estimate the trade gains and GDP gains from a prospective Doha deal that "tops up" existing commitments to liberalize agriculture, manufactures, and services. They also suggest what each of the major trading nations needs to do to ensure the successful completion of a Doha package that is both ambitious and balanced between the interests of developed and developing countries.

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Peterson Institute

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0881325600

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9780881325607

Comparative Psychology

A Handbook

By: Gary Greenberg

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Comparative Psychology

A Handbook

By: Gary Greenberg

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1136794514

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Securing the Harvest

Biotechnology, Breeding, and Seed Systems for African Crops

By: Joseph DeVries,Gary H. Toenniessen

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Securing the Harvest

Biotechnology, Breeding, and Seed Systems for African Crops

By: Joseph DeVries,Gary H. Toenniessen

Improved food security, led by increased productivity among Africa's many small-scale farmers, has been the aim of significant national and international effort in recent decades. It has proved to be one of the most critical challenges facing humankind. This book grew out of a two-year exploration conducted by the food security theme of The Rockefeller Foundation focusing on the potential for crop genetic improvement to contribute to food security among rural populations in Africa. It provides a critical assessment of the ways in which recent breakthroughs in biotechnology, participatory plant breeding, and seed systems can be broadly employed in developing and delivering more productive crop varieties in Africa's diverse agricultural environments. It also presents an analysis of current plant breeding and biotechnology strategies for the key crops in Africa including: maize, sorghum, cowpea, rice, and cassava. The book will appeal to plant breeders, biotechnologists, and seed distributors as well as policy-makers in the area of agricultural development.

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CABI

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0851995640

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The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production

By: Gary Watt

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The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production

By: Gary Watt

From Trump's 'make America great again' to Johnson's 'build back better', performative politicians use The Making Sense to persuade their public audiences. Law 'makers' do it too: A courtroom trial is a 'truth factory' in which facts are not found but forged. The 'court of popular opinion' is another such factory, though its processes are often flawed and its products faulty. Where courts of law aim to make civil peace, 'trial by Twitter' makes civil strife. Even in 'mainstream' media, journalists make news for public consumption, so that all news is to an extent 'fake news'. In a world of making, how can we separate craft from craftiness? With insights from disciplines including law, politics, rhetoric, media studies, psychology, sociology, marketing, and performance studies, The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law offers a constructive way to approach controversies from transgender identity to cancel culture. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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1009336401

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Japan's Economic Challenge

A Bibliographic Sourcebook

By: Michael Keresztesi,Gary R. Cocozzoli

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Japan's Economic Challenge

A Bibliographic Sourcebook

By: Michael Keresztesi,Gary R. Cocozzoli

This book, first published in 1988, assembles a key pool of references in English to help study the ‘Japanese economic challenge’ of the 1980s. Collectively, these writings chronicle the historical, social and cultural background of Japan’s spectacular industrial take-off. They describe, analyse and interpret the diverse manifestations of Japan’s economic growth.

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0429768230

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Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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0393335054

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A Field Guide to the Ants of New England

By: Aaron M. Ellison,Nicholas J. Gotelli,Elizabeth J. Farnsworth,Gary D. Alpert

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A Field Guide to the Ants of New England

By: Aaron M. Ellison,Nicholas J. Gotelli,Elizabeth J. Farnsworth,Gary D. Alpert

This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants—the “little things that run the world.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 line drawings, 300-plus photographs, and regional distribution maps as composite illustrations for every species, this guide will introduce amateur and professional naturalists and biologists, teachers and students, and environmental managers and pest-control professionals to more than 140 ant species found in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. The detailed drawings and species descriptions, together with the high-magnification photographs, will allow anyone to identify and learn about ants and their diversity, ecology, life histories, and beauty. In addition, the book includes sections on collecting ants, ant ecology and evolution, natural history, and patterns of geographic distribution and diversity to help readers gain a greater understanding and appreciation of ants.

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Yale University Press

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0300169302

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A Cultural Study of Mary and the Annunciation

From Luke to the Enlightenment

By: Gary Waller

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A Cultural Study of Mary and the Annunciation

From Luke to the Enlightenment

By: Gary Waller

This book traces the history of the Annunciation, exploring the deep and lasting impact of the event on the Western imagination. Waller explores the Annunciation from its appearance in Luke’s Gospel, to its rise to prominence in religious doctrine and popular culture, and its gradual decline in importance during the Enlightenment.

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1317316657

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Tequila

A Natural and Cultural History

By: Ana Guadalupe Valenzuela Zapata,Gary Paul Nabhan

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Tequila

A Natural and Cultural History

By: Ana Guadalupe Valenzuela Zapata,Gary Paul Nabhan

This comprehensive guide to tequila's varieties, production and history shares marks of distinction for connoisseurs and highlights the link between artisanal agave cultivation and final flavor, arguing for a return to cultivation of heritage crops.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816519382

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Mesquite

An Arboreal Love Affair

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

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Mesquite

An Arboreal Love Affair

By: Gary Paul Nabhan

Winner of a 2019 Southwest Book Award (BRLA) An homage to the useful and idiosyncratic mesquite tree In his latest book, Mesquite, Gary Paul Nabhan employs humor and contemplative reflection to convince readers that they have never really glimpsed the essence of what he calls “arboreality.” As a Franciscan brother and ethnobotanist who has often mixed mirth with earth, laughter with landscape, food with frolic, Nabhan now takes on a large, many-branched question: What does it means to be a tree, or, accordingly, to be in a deep and intimate relationship with one? To answer this question, Nabhan does not disappear into a forest but exposes himself to some of the most austere hyper-arid terrain on the planet—the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts along the US/Mexico border—where even the most ancient perennial plants are not tall and thin, but stunted and squat. There, in desert regions that cover more than a third of our continent, mesquite trees have become the staff of life, not just for indigenous cultures, but for myriad creatures, many of which respond to these “nurse plants” in wildly intelligent and symbiotic ways. In this landscape, where Nabhan claims that nearly every surviving being either sticks, stinks, stings, or sings, he finds more lives thriving than you could ever shake a stick at. As he weaves his arid yarns, we suddenly realize that our normal view of the world has been turned on its head: where we once saw scarcity, there is abundance; where we once perceived severity, there is whimsy. Desert cultures that we once assumed lived in “food deserts” are secretly savoring a most delicious world. Drawing on his half-century of immersion in desert ethnobotany, ecology, linguistics, agroforestry, and eco-gastronomy, Nabhan opens up for us a hidden world that we had never glimpsed before. Along the way, he explores the sensuous reality surrounding this most useful and generous tree. Mesquite is a book that will delight mystics and foresters, naturalists and foodies. It combines cutting-edge science with a generous sprinkling of humor and folk wisdom, even including traditional recipes for cooking with mesquite.

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Chelsea Green Publishing

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1603588310

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Death before Dying

History, Medicine, and Brain Death

By: Gary Belkin

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Death before Dying

History, Medicine, and Brain Death

By: Gary Belkin

Brain death-the condition of a non-functioning brain, has been widely adopted around the world as a definition of death since it was detailed in a Report by an Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School faculty in 1968. It also remains a focus of controversy and debate, an early source of criticism and scrutiny of the bioethics movement. Death before Dying: History, Medicine, and Brain Death looks at the work of the Committee in a way that has not been attempted before in terms of tracing back the context of its own sources-the reasoning of it Chair, Henry K Beecher, and the care of patients in coma and knowledge about coma and consciousness at the time. That history requires re-thinking the debate over brain death that followed which has tended to cast the Committee's work in ways this book questions. This book, then, also questions common assumptions about the place of bioethics in medicine. This book discusses if the advent of bioethics has distorted and limited the possibilities for harnessing medicine for social progress. It challenges historical scholarship of medicine to be more curious about how medical knowledge can work as a potentially innovative source of values.

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Oxford University Press

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0199969620

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Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushroom Field Guide

By: Gary P. Menser

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Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushroom Field Guide

By: Gary P. Menser

Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Mushrooms Field Guide tells how to find wild mushrooms in America. It is a hip-pocket field guide that presents 24 hallucinogenic mushrooms that grow in the USA and 8 poisonous species that they are confused with. A reliable reference for beginners, the Field Guide opens up the world of mycology in a clear and precise way. A compact course in mycology as well as a handy tool for the professional. Features: How to collect, identify and dry, useful keys and charts, Chemical qualities, genus and species information, over 30 color photos and 50 line drawings, taxonomy, and glossaries: Latin terms, macroscopic and microscopic characteristics.

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Ronin Publishing

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157951202X

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