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The Diary of John Longe (1765-1834), Vicar of Coddenham

By: John Longe

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The Diary of John Longe (1765-1834), Vicar of Coddenham

By: John Longe

Pocket-books and other documents of a gentleman-parson bring the Georgian era vividly to life.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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1843833573

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9781843833574

Linking Species & Ecosystems

By: Clive G. Jones,John H. Lawton

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I was asked to introduce this volume by examining "why a knowledge of ecosys tem functioning can contribute to understanding species activities, dynamics, and assemblages." I have found it surprisingly difficult to address this topic. On the one hand, the answer is very simple and general: because all species live in ecosystems, they are part of and dependent on ecosystem processes. It is impossible to understand the abundance and distribution of populations and the species diversity and composition of communities without a knowledge of their abiotic and biotic environments and of the fluxes of energy and mat ter through the ecosystems of which they are a part. But everyone knows this. It is what ecology is all about (e.g., Likens, 1992). It is why the discipline has retained its integrity and thrived, despite a sometimes distressing degree of bickering and chauvinism among its various subdisciplines: physiological, be havioral, population, community, and ecosystem ecology.

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403

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461517737

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9781461517733

Children's Rights and Power

Charging Up for a New Century

By: Mary John

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Children's Rights and Power

Charging Up for a New Century

By: Mary John

Mary John considers how children learn about power. She compares the situation of children to that of other powerless minority groups, arguing that children are rarely included in debates on freedom and economy.

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310

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1853026581

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9781853026584

Michigan in the War

By: John Robertson

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Michigan in the War

By: John Robertson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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1050

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385479835

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9783385479838

Ark of the Broken Covenant

Protecting the World's Biodiversity Hotspots

By: John Charles Kunich

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Ark of the Broken Covenant

Protecting the World's Biodiversity Hotspots

By: John Charles Kunich

Blending scientific and legal expertise, Kunich proves that a devastating ecological crisis is imminent or even underway already, and that conservation law has yet to catch up with biological science. He challenges readers with a hotspots wager, arguing that he have vastly more to gain than lose by legally protecting biological hotspots, and that foregoing them in favor of the relatively minor and immediate returns arising from their devastation is both foolish and, ultimately, dangerous. Legal thought lags behind modern science in focusing on and setting priorities for global conservation. An extinction spasm is imminent, many scientists argue, due to the ongoing global devastation of biological hotspots, home to a disproportionate share of all life forms, including perhaps millions of unknown species. These hotspots have already lost 88 percent of their primary vegetation and are likely to lose much more, yet few legal measures exist to protect them. Environmental legal protections are often incomprehensive and feebly enforced. Even worse, 62 percent of all hotspots are unprotected. Kunich provides a brief history and science of extinction. He discusses the importance of saving species from extinction and analyzes the legal measures directed toward preserving biodiversity in nations that harbor hotspots.

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222

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313093148

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9780313093142

Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany

By: John M. Marston,Jade d'Alpoim Guedes,Christina Warinner

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Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany

By: John M. Marston,Jade d'Alpoim Guedes,Christina Warinner

Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past human-plant interactions for understanding the present and future. A diverse and highly regarded group of scholars reference a broad array of literature from around the world as they cover their areas of expertise in the practice and theory of paleoethnobotany—starch grain analysis, stable isotope analysis, ancient DNA, digital data management, and ecological and postprocessual theory. The only comprehensive edited volume focusing on method and theory to appear in the last twenty-five years, Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany addresses the new areas of inquiry that have become central to contemporary archaeological debates, as well as the current state of theoretical, methodological, and empirical work in paleoethnobotany.

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573

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University Press of Colorado

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149201267X

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9781492012672

The Ecology of Nations

American Democracy in a Fragile World Order

By: John M. Owen

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The Ecology of Nations

American Democracy in a Fragile World Order

By: John M. Owen

How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor--and why democracies are losing "Owen makes a powerful case that the fate of American democracy hinges on the health and welfare of other democracies."--Foreign Affairs It is well known, and much discussed, that liberal democracy is in trouble worldwide. Much of this discussion focuses on conditions within individual countries: their inequalities of wealth, political polarization, media environments, and dominant ideologies. In this book, John M. Owen IV sees the failures of democracy as failures of "ecosystem engineering." Like beavers, nesting ants, or (most intensely of all) humans, nations actively reshape their environments to make them more favorable for their own species--this, for Owen, is the true meaning of Woodrow Wilson's phrase "to make the world safe for democracy." However, liberalism has evolved in ways that are no longer conducive to its own survival; meanwhile, autocratic governments in Russia and China are actively reshaping the international environment to favor autocracy. Owen argues that the way to ensure democracy's survival in the United States is to reimagine liberalism--to view it as less about disruption and perpetual openness and more about commitment, community, and country. Liberalism must reject the "great delusion" that it can defeat autocracies everywhere and convert them into liberal democracies, yet also counter moves by China and Russia to make the world safe for autocracy.

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348

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Yale University Press

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0300260733

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9780300260731

American Accountants and Their Contributions to Accounting Thought (RLE Accounting)

1900-1930

By: John J. Kahle

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American Accountants and Their Contributions to Accounting Thought (RLE Accounting)

1900-1930

By: John J. Kahle

Accounting carries with its history a vast number of ideas which have slowly developed along with it. This volume relates this history as it took place during the first three decades of the twentieth century in the United States. In particular it deals with those individuals who were for the most part responsible for it. It was these pioneers who recorded their observations of the actual workings of the myriad adaptations and new devices which had slowly eased their way into accounting theory and practice in the USA in the early twentieth century.

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218

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Routledge

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1134710941

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9781134710942

Britain's Oceanic Empire

Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, C.1550-1850

By: H. V. Bowen,Elizabeth Mancke,John G. Reid

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Britain's Oceanic Empire

Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, C.1550-1850

By: H. V. Bowen,Elizabeth Mancke,John G. Reid

A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.

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485

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Cambridge University Press

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110702014X

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9781107020146

The Privatisation of British Rail

How Not to Run a Railway

By: Sean McCartney,John Stittle

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The Privatisation of British Rail

How Not to Run a Railway

By: Sean McCartney,John Stittle

The privatisation of the British railway industry was a unique political and economic event. An integrated industry was broken-up into numerous component parts and sold off to private sector interests. The result was a highly fragmented industry that was structurally unsound and operationally dysfunctional. This authoritative volume presents an enlightening portrait of an industry that is less efficient, more costly and still more dependent on state subsidy today than its nationalised predecessor. The nine chapters in this work present a comprehensive and rigorous evaluation of how and why the industry has become so dysfunctional and costly, supported by detailed financial analysis and industry examples. Seven chapters comprise a series of peer-reviewed academic papers by Professor McCartney and Dr Stittle and published in leading international journals over the period 2004–2017 which analyse selected key segments of the privatised industry: where appropriate, updates are provided at the end of these chapters outlining developments since initial publication relevant to the analysis therein. Two chapters are published here for the first time: Chapter 7 reviews the performance of the freight sector, while Chapter 1 ‘bookends’ the volume by providing first, an account of how rail privatisation was conceived and implemented in the 1980s/90s, and then reviews the impact of the pandemic and the proposals of the Williams-Shapps White Paper of 2021 which, if enacted, will effectively end the Major government’s experiment. Going far beyond the usual superficial analysis of the topic, this volume will be of significant interest to researchers and advanced students of accounting, economics, business history, transport studies, as well as industry and specialised business interests in transport and privatisation.

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210

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Taylor & Francis

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1000880966

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9781000880960

British Atlantic, American Frontier

Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America

By: Stephen John Hornsby

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British Atlantic, American Frontier

Spaces of Power in Early Modern British America

By: Stephen John Hornsby

A pioneering work in Atlantic studies that emphasizes a transnational approach to the past.

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330

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UPNE

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1584654279

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9781584654278

Regulating Medicines in Europe

Competition, Expertise and Public Health

By: John Abraham,Graham Lewis

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Regulating Medicines in Europe

Competition, Expertise and Public Health

By: John Abraham,Graham Lewis

This Book explains and investigates how medicines are controlled in Europe, especially the EU. Based on penetrating documentary and interview research with the pharmaceutical industry, regulators and consumer organisations,it provides the first major critical examination of the new Europeanised systems of medicine regulation. The authors argue that the drive to produce and approve more drugs more quickly for a single European market dominates other considerations, such as improvements in democratic accountability, the independence of regulators and scientific expertise from commercial interests, and drug safety testing and surveillance.

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256

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Routledge

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1136295658

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9781136295652

The Bootlegger

A Story of Small-Town America

By: John E. Hallwas

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The Bootlegger

A Story of Small-Town America

By: John E. Hallwas

This extraordinary account of a struggling midwestern coal town profiles small-time bootlegger Kelly Wagle, whose mysterious career--and suspected involvement with two unsolved murder cases--had a profound and lasting impact on his community. In unraveling the process by which Colchester, Illinois, lost its grip on the American promise, John Hallwas reveals this remote corner of the Midwest as a true reflection of the quintessential American experience.

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314

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University of Illinois Press

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0252068440

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9780252068447

Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

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Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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470

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385263565

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9783385263567

Restoring the Balance

What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature

By: John A. Vucetich

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Restoring the Balance

What Wolves Tell Us about Our Relationship with Nature

By: John A. Vucetich

Wolves on a wilderness island illuminate lessons on the environment, extinction, and life. For more than a quarter century, celebrated biologist John Vucetich has studied the wolves, and the moose that sustain them, of the boreal forest of Isle Royale National Park, an island in the northwest corner of Lake Superior. During this time, he has witnessed both the near extinction of the local wolf population, driven largely by climate change, and the intensely debated relocation of other wolves to the island in an effort to stabilize and maintain Isle Royale's ecosystem health. In Restoring the Balance, Vucetich combines environmental philosophy with field notes chronicling his day-to-day experience as a scientist. Examining the fate of wolves in the wild, he shares lessons from these wolves and explains their impact on humanity's fundamental responsibilities to the natural world. Vucetich's engaging narrative and unique, clear-eyed perspective provide an accessible course in wolf biology and behavioral ecology. He tackles profound unresolved questions that will shape our future understanding of what it means to be good to life on earth: Are humans the only persons to inhabit Earth, or do we share the planet with uncounted nonhuman persons? What does a healthy relationship with the natural world look like? Should we intervene in nature's course in order to care for it? Touching on the triumph and tragedy of how wolves kill moose to the Shakespearian drama of wolves' social lives, Vucetich comments on ravens, mice, winter ticks, and even a life-changing encounter he shared with a toad. Vucetich produces exquisite insight by masterfully connecting his observations to a far-reaching history of ideas about the environment. Combining natural history and memoir with fascinating commentary on humanity's relationship with nature, Restoring the Balance evokes our connections with wolves as fellow apex predators, demonstrating how our shifting views on nature have implications for both their survival and ours. This book will be treasured by any thoughtful reader looking to deepen their relationship with nature and learn about the wolves of Isle Royale along the way.

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411

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JHU Press

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142144156X

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9781421441566

Book's by John H. Lawton

The Diary of John Longe (1765-1834), Vicar of Coddenham

The Diary of John Longe (1765-1834), Vicar of Coddenham

Linking Species & Ecosystems

Linking Species & Ecosystems

Children's Rights and Power

Children's Rights and Power

Michigan in the War

Michigan in the War

Ark of the Broken Covenant

Ark of the Broken Covenant

Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany

Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany

The Ecology of Nations

The Ecology of Nations

American Accountants and Their Contributions to Accounting Thought (RLE Accounting)

American Accountants and Their Contributions to Accounting Thought (RLE Accounting)

Britain's Oceanic Empire

Britain's Oceanic Empire

The Privatisation of British Rail

The Privatisation of British Rail

British Atlantic, American Frontier

British Atlantic, American Frontier

Regulating Medicines in Europe

Regulating Medicines in Europe

The Bootlegger

The Bootlegger

Doggett's New York City Directory

Doggett's New York City Directory

Restoring the Balance

Restoring the Balance

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