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Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

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Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

By: George Henry Cornish,John Carroll

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385421950

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9783385421950

Planets and Their Atmospheres

Origins and Evolution

By: John S. Lewis,Ronald G. Prinn

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Planets and Their Atmospheres

Origins and Evolution

By: John S. Lewis,Ronald G. Prinn

This work is addressed to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in astronomy, geology, chemistry, meteorology, and the planetary sciences as well as to researchers with pertinent areas of specialization who desire an introduction to the literature across the broad interdisciplinary range of this important topic. Extensive references to the pre-spacecraft literature will be particularly useful to readers interested in the historical development of the field during this century.

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481

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Elsevier

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0080924263

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9780080924267

Parochial Global Europe

21st Century Trade Politics

By: Alasdair R. Young,John Peterson

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Parochial Global Europe

21st Century Trade Politics

By: Alasdair R. Young,John Peterson

Europe's trade policies matter in global politics. Despite the recent focus on Brazil, India, and particularly China, the European Union remains the world's largest market and trader. Despite its recent economic troubles, Europe remains in a powerful position to shape how globalization is governed. We know surprisingly little about how its trade policy is actually made, because previous works have focused on individual trade policy decisions to the detriment of the 'big picture' of the Union as a trade power. Parochial Global Europe argues that trade policy is composed of multiple, distinct policies. Each presents a distinctive constellation of mobilized societal preferences, pattern of political institutions, and range of government preferences. The balance of economic power between the EU and its trade partner(s) affects the stakes involved. Together these four factors define trade policy sub-systems, which help explain both the EU's objectives and whether it realizes them. The authors advance this argument by analysing the EU's role in the demise of the Doha Round, its use of anti-dumping and pursuit of market access, the trade effects of its single market programme and efforts at regulatory diplomacy, including the launch of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. Parochial Global Europe thus focuses centrally on modern, 21st century trade policy. It also sheds light on the EU as a global actor by analysing its use of trade policy as a tool of foreign policy from promoting development, to encouraging human rights and environmental protection, to punishing security threats.

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OUP Oxford

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0191017094

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9780191017094

Determining the Economic Value of Water

Concepts and Methods

By: Robert A. Young,John B. Loomis

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Determining the Economic Value of Water

Concepts and Methods

By: Robert A. Young,John B. Loomis

Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use. To aid in cost-benefit analysis under conditions where market determined price signals are usually unavailable, economists have developed a range of alternative valuation methods for measuring economic benefits. This volume provides the most comprehensive exposition to-date of the application of economic valuation methods to proposed water resources investments and policies. It provides a conceptual framework for valuation of both commodity and public good uses of water, addressing non-market valuation techniques appropriate to measuring public benefits - including water quality improvement, recreation, and fish habitat enhancement. The book describes the various measurement methods, illustrates how they are applied in practice, and discusses their strengths, limitations, and appropriate roles. In this second edition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated, and in particular the coverage of water markets and valuation of ecosystem services from water has been expanded. Robert Young, author of the 2005 edition, has been joined for this new edition by John Loomis, who brings additional expertise on ecosystem services and the environmental economics of water for recreational and other public good uses of water.

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359

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Routledge

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1135040524

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9781135040529

Memoirs

By: John R. Young

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Memoirs

By: John R. Young

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3732620514

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9783732620517

The Nostratic Macrofamily

A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship

By: Allan R. Bomhard,John C. Kerns

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The Nostratic Macrofamily

A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship

By: Allan R. Bomhard,John C. Kerns

TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS is a series of books that open new perspectives in our understanding of language. The series publishes state-of-the-art work on core areas of linguistics across theoretical frameworks as well as studies that provide new insights by building bridges to neighbouring fields such as neuroscience and cognitive science. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS considers itself a forum for cutting-edge research based on solid empirical data on language in its various manifestations, including sign languages. It regards linguistic variation in its synchronic and diachronic dimensions as well as in its social contexts as important sources of insight for a better understanding of the design of linguistic systems and the ecology and evolution of language. TRENDS IN LINGUISTICS publishes monographs and outstanding dissertations as well as edited volumes, which provide the opportunity to address controversial topics from different empirical and theoretical viewpoints. High quality standards are ensured through anonymous reviewing.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110875640

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9783110875645

Murchison in Moray

A Geologist on Home Ground : with the Correspondence of Roderick Impey Murchison and the Rev. Dr. George Gordon of Birnie

By: Michael Collie,Sir Roderick Impey Murchison,George Gordon,John Diemer

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Murchison in Moray

A Geologist on Home Ground : with the Correspondence of Roderick Impey Murchison and the Rev. Dr. George Gordon of Birnie

By: Michael Collie,Sir Roderick Impey Murchison,George Gordon,John Diemer

In non-technical language, explains not so much the theory and legal aspects of environmental regulations, but the hands-on methods for preventing pollution and complying with both the paperwork and the technical requirements. Includes such details as how to select drums for shipping acid waste, the differences between a well managed and a poorly managed storage areas, and preparing the Discharge Monitoring Report for a wastewater treatment plant. Addressed to nonexpert generalists such as personnel managers, plant engineers, and maintenance superintendents. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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322

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American Philosophical Society

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0871698536

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9780871698537

Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain

A Choice of Pleasures

By: John Sedgwick

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Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain

A Choice of Pleasures

By: John Sedgwick

In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity. John Sedgwick has developed the POPSTAT index, a methodology based on exhibition records which allows identification of the most popular films and the leading stars of the period, and provides a series of tables which will serve as standard points of reference for all scholars and specialists working in the field of 1930s cinema. The book establishes similarities and differences between national and regional tastes through detailed case study analysis of cinemagoing in Bolton and Brighton, and offers an analysis of genre development. It also reveals that although Hollywood continued to dominate the British market, films emanating from British studios proved markedly popular with domestic audiences.

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University of Exeter Press

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0859896609

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9780859896603

Dirty Gold

How Activism Transformed the Jewelry Industry

By: Michael John Bloomfield

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Dirty Gold

How Activism Transformed the Jewelry Industry

By: Michael John Bloomfield

The response from the jewelry industry to a campaign for ethically sourced gold as a case study in the power of business in global environmental politics. Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has funded wars. And consumers buy wedding rings and gold chains not knowing about any of this. In Dirty Gold, Michael Bloomfield shows what happened when Earthworks, a small Washington-based NGO, launched a campaign for ethically sourced gold in the consumer jewelry market, targeting Tiffany and other major firms. The unfolding of the campaign and its effect on the jewelry industry offer a lesson in the growing influence of business in global environmental politics. Earthworks planned a “shame” campaign, aimed at the companies' brands and reputations, betting that firms like Tiffany would not want to be associated with pollution, violence, and exploitation. As it happened, Tiffany contacted Earthworks before they could launch the campaign; the company was already looking for partners in finding ethically sourced gold. Bloomfield examines the responses of three companies to “No Dirty Gold” activism: Tiffany, Wal-Mart, and Brilliant Earth, a small company selling ethical jewelry. He finds they offer a case study in how firms respond to activist pressure and what happens when businesses participate in such private governance schemes as the “Golden Rules” and the “Conflict-Free Gold Standard.” Taking a firm-level view, Bloomfield examines the different opportunities for and constraints on corporate political mobilization within the industry.

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MIT Press

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0262536005

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9780262536004

Crisis in Competitive Versus Monopolistic Banking Systems

By: Mr.Bruce D. Smith,Mr.Gianni De Nicolo,John H. Boyd

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Crisis in Competitive Versus Monopolistic Banking Systems

By: Mr.Bruce D. Smith,Mr.Gianni De Nicolo,John H. Boyd

We study a monetary, general equilibrium economy in which banks exist because they provide intertemporal insurance to risk-averse depositors. A "banking crisis" is defined as a case in which banks exhaust their reserve assets. Under different model specifications, the banking industry is either a monopoly bank or a competitive banking industry. If the nominal rate of interest (rate of inflation) is below (above) some threshold, a monopolistic banking system will always result in a higher (lower) crisis probability. Thus, the relative crisis probabilities under the two banking systems cannot be determined independently of the conduct of monetary policy. We further show that the probability of a "costly banking crisis" is always higher under competition than under monopoly. However, this apparent advantage of the monopoly bank is due strictly to the fact that it provides relatively less valuable intertemporal insurance. These theoretical results suggest that banking system structure may matter for financial stability.

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International Monetary Fund

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1451859589

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9781451859584

Eighteenth Century Scotland

New Perspectives

By: Tom M. Devine,John R. Young

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Eighteenth Century Scotland

New Perspectives

By: Tom M. Devine,John R. Young

This impressive collection of essays is based on a two-year seminar series of the Research centre in Scottish History at the University of Strathclyde. New and original research, as well as historiographical overviews and commentaries, illuminate the study of this formative century in the creation of modern Scotland. Contributors are leading figures in their fields, and the Scottish experience is examined within an international dimension. Topics include Scottish modernisation before the Industrial Revolution, the Union of 1707, Scotland and British expansion, Scottish Jacobitism, the Catholic underground, Scottish national identity, the Scottish Enlightenment, urbanisation, demographic change, Scottish Gaeldom, Highland estate management and tenant emigration, and Scottish radicalism. Contributors: Thomas M. Devine, John R. Young, Michael Fry, Allan I. Macinnes, James F. McMillan, Alexander Murdoch, Richard J. Finlay, Jane Rendall, Bernard Aspinwall, Ian D. Whyte, Robert E. Tyson, T. C. Smout, Andrew Mackillop, Christopher A. Whatley, Elaine W. McFarland.

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788855531

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9781788855532

Book's by John R. Young

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Cyclopædia of Methodism in Canada

Planets and Their Atmospheres

Planets and Their Atmospheres

Parochial Global Europe

Parochial Global Europe

Determining the Economic Value of Water

Determining the Economic Value of Water

Memoirs

Memoirs

The Nostratic Macrofamily

The Nostratic Macrofamily

Murchison in Moray

Murchison in Moray

Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain

Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain

Dirty Gold

Dirty Gold

Crisis in Competitive Versus Monopolistic Banking Systems

Crisis in Competitive Versus Monopolistic Banking Systems

Eighteenth Century Scotland

Eighteenth Century Scotland

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