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Building the Next Ark

How NGOs Work to Protect Biodiversity

By: Michael M. Gunter

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Building the Next Ark

How NGOs Work to Protect Biodiversity

By: Michael M. Gunter

A timely study of how NGOs are uniquely positioned to help prevent the greatest environmental crisis of all.

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UPNE

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1584653833

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9781584653837

Climate Travels

How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action

By: Michael M. Gunter, Jr.

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Climate Travels

How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action

By: Michael M. Gunter, Jr.

Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Winner, 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the category of Ecology and Environment, Foreword Reviews Many accounts of climate change depict disasters striking faraway places: melting ice caps, fearsome hurricanes, all-consuming fires. How can seeing the consequences of human impacts up close help us grasp how global warming affects us and our neighbors? This book is a travelogue that spotlights what a changing climate looks like on the local level—for wherever local happens to be. Michael M. Gunter, Jr. takes readers around the United States to bear witness to the many faces of the climate crisis. He argues that conscientious travel broadens understanding of climate change and makes its dangers concrete and immediate. Vivid vignettes explore the consequences for people and communities: sea level rise in Virginia, floods sweeping inland in Tennessee, Maine lobsters migrating away from American territorial waters, and imperiled ecosystems in national parks, from Alaskan permafrost to the Florida Keys. But Gunter finds inspiring initiatives to mitigate and adapt to these threats, including wind turbines in a tiny Texas town, green building construction in Kansas, and walkable urbanism in Portland, Oregon. These projects are already making a difference—and they underscore the importance of local action. Drawing on interviews with government officials, industry leaders, and alternative energy activists, Climate Travels emphasizes direct personal experience and the centrality of environmental justice. Showing how travel can help bring the reality of climate change home, it offers readers a hopeful message about how to take action on the local level themselves.

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Columbia University Press

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0231556217

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9780231556217

The A to Z of the Kurds

By: Michael M. Gunter

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The A to Z of the Kurds

By: Michael M. Gunter

The A to Z of the Kurds covers the largest nation on Earth that does not have its own independent state. Scholars, government officials who are dealing with the Middle East and the Kurds, the news media, as well as the general reader will find this an accessible historical account about a people who are becoming increasingly important for the future of the geostrategic Middle East. Maps, a chronology of Kurdish history, an introductory essay on the Kurds, a dictionary containing several hundred entries on various aspects of the Kurdish experience, and an extensive bibliography comprise this volume.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810863340

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Erdogan's Path to Authoritarianism

The Continuing Journey

By: Michael M. Gunter

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Erdogan's Path to Authoritarianism

The Continuing Journey

By: Michael M. Gunter

Michael M. Gunter explains why Recep Tayyip Erdogan—the current populist, charismatic, but divisive president of Turkey and arguably the most consequential Turkish leader since Kemal Ataturk—was again reelected in May 2023 despite so many negative factors working against him such as a terribly faltering economy, deadly earthquake, and authoritarian reputation, among others. Gunter analyzes how several different domestic and especially foreign initiatives contributed to his continuing electoral success. Gunter introduces succinctly Erdogan’s storied advancement to authoritarianism, how, although an Islamist, he triumphed by eventually humbling the long-ruling, secular Kemalists and even more powerful military who had up to then been the ultimate arbitrator of Turkish politics. Erdogan's Path to Authoritarianism: The Continuing Journey will introduce the consequences of the long-running Kurdish PKK problem, the failed coup attempt in July 2016, neo-Ottomanism, transnational Islamist organizations and pro-Turkish militias such as the Diyanet and SADAT, , as well as back to the Kurds, although this time in Syrian Kurdistan, also known as Rojava. In addition, this book analyzes Erdogan’s many other foreign initiatives regarding Iraq, the EU, Arab Spring, Israel, NATO, Cyprus, Greece, Russia, Azerbaijan, and Iran, among others. The final chapter specifically analyzes the May 2023 presidential elections and how Erdogan won.

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195

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Lexington Books

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1666955973

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Historical Dictionary of the Kurds

By: Michael M. Gunter

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Historical Dictionary of the Kurds

By: Michael M. Gunter

The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Kurds greatly expands on the first edition through an updated chronology, an introductory essay, an expanded bibliography, maps, photos, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810875071

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9780810875074

Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective

Patterns, Nuances and Implications of the Contractor State

By: Caspar van den Berg,Michael Howlett,Andrea Migone,Frida Pemer,Helen M. Gunter

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Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective

Patterns, Nuances and Implications of the Contractor State

By: Caspar van den Berg,Michael Howlett,Andrea Migone,Frida Pemer,Helen M. Gunter

Sheds new light on the use of external public policy consultants from an interdisciplinary and international comparative approach.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108496679

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The A to Z of Witchcraft

By: Michael D. Bailey

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The A to Z of Witchcraft

By: Michael D. Bailey

A great deal has been written about the history of witchcraft, but much of what has been written is unreliable, exaggerated, or inaccurate. This problem is especially acute in regard to modern witchcraft, or Wicca, and its supposed connections to historical witchcraft in medieval and early modern Europe. The A to Z of Witchcraft provides a reliable reference source for both academics and general readers interested in the actual historical development of witchcraft in the western world. The focus of the dictionary is on Western Europe during the late-medieval and early modern periods, when the specific idea of diabolical witchcraft developed and when the so-called 'great witch-hunts' occurred. Entries are also provided that deal with magic and witchcraft in the earlier Christian period and classical antiquity, as well as with the lingering belief in witchcraft in the modern world, and with the development of the modern, neo-pagan religion of witchcraft, also known as Wicca. For comparative purposes, some entries have been provided that deal with aspects and systems of magic found in other parts of the world that seem to bear some relation to the idea of witchcraft as it developed in Christian Europe. The regions dealt with are mainly Africa, along with such New-World practices as Voodoo and Santeria. Entries in the dictionary cover important people in the history of witchcraft, from the medieval inquisitors and early modern magistrates who developed the stereotype of the historical witch to the modern individuals who have developed the religion of Wicca. Also included are legal terms and concepts important to the prosecution of the supposed crime of witchcraft, and religious and theological concepts pertaining to the demonic elements that came to be associated with witchcraft, as well as more popular beliefs and aspects of common folklore and mythology that became attached to the developing idea of witchcraft. Geographic entries are also included, discussing the scope of witch-hunting in various regions of Europe and the world, and describing specific examples of major witch-hunts such as those that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810868644

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The A to Z of New Age Movements

By: Michael York

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The A to Z of New Age Movements

By: Michael York

The decline of institutionalized religion in the increasingly secularized West has been offset by the contemporary spiritual development understood in the form of emerging New Age movements. This reference presents the potpourri of spiritual and psycho-physical therapeutic practices associated with this affirmation of the individual's spiritual freedom, the expectation of a future golden age, the emphasis on self-development, and the holistic pluralism that sets the dominant pulse for innovative spirituality in the twenty-first century. The A to Z of New Age Movements furnishes profiles and explanations of New Age spokespeople and leaders, of a range of human potential and self-help practices, of countercultural spiritual developments, and of different groups and organizations that identify as New Age. The dictionary consists of over 240 individual entries along with an introduction that describes the historical foundations of the New Age orientation and its relation with contemporary Western paganism. It also presents the sociological dimension of New Age expression, as well as the kinds of criticism with which the New Age identity must contend. There is both a New Age Chronology and a bibliography also included.

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0810863324

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Building the Next Ark

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The A to Z of the Kurds

The A to Z of the Kurds

Erdogan's Path to Authoritarianism

Erdogan's Path to Authoritarianism

Historical Dictionary of the Kurds

Historical Dictionary of the Kurds

Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective

Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective

The A to Z of Witchcraft

The A to Z of Witchcraft

The A to Z of New Age Movements

The A to Z of New Age Movements

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