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Global climate change has emerged as one of today's most challenging and controversial policy issues. In this significant new contribution, a roster of premier scholars examines economic and social aspects of that far-reaching phenomenon. Although the 1997 ''summit'' in Kyoto focused world attention on climate, it was just one step in an ongoing ......
Decades of U.S. nuclear weapons production have exacted a heavy environmental toll. The Department of Energy estimates that cleaning up waste and contamination resulting from production activity will cost over $150 billion. Yet even once that money is spent, these sites will need long-term attention to assure protection of human health and the ......
Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World
''No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests . . . Audacity has been characteristic of Vidal-Naquet's career from the start; it marked his activities as a historian engagé in the political struggle; it is visible at work in every page of this book.''Bernard Knox, from the Foreword The black hunter travels ......
''[Russell-Wood] enumerates Portuguese contributions to other peoples' pasts and presents, especially in the contexts of the 'ebb and flow of commodities,' the 'dissemination of flora and fauna' and the 'transmission of styles, theories and ideas.' The original feature is the author's concentration on people and transport as vectors of cultural ......
''There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man.''Albert Einstein, on Albert Schweitzer In July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert Schweitzer gave up his position as a respected professor at the University of Strasbourg and celebrated authority on music and philosophy in order to go as a physician to French Equatorial ......
The twelfth edition of this classic reference work includes: More than 2,000 new entries A total of more than 9,000 entries New features and enhancement of the familiar old features Mapping information on more than 4,000 genes of known function Information on specific point mutations responsible for more than 700 genetic disorders or ......
Is there poetry in the Bible? Does it have rhyme or meter? How did ancient Hebrew writers compose their works? James Kugel's provocative study provides surprising new answers to these age-old questions. Biblical ''poetry'' is not a concept native to the Bible itself, he proposes, and the idea that the Bible is divided into prose and verse is ......
A richly detailed and valuable portrait of an American community in the making . . . Few historians have been more diligent than Paul Bourke and Donald DeBats in reconstructing an American community by linking together a mass of data on its citizens, mapping its neighborhoods, and analyzing political life.
A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did
''The first full-length and scholarly account of why we got into Vietnam in the first place, why we fought as barbarously as the Japanese in Manchuria or the Germans in Poland, and why we deserved to lose itindeed why we did have to lose it if we were to find any kind of ultimate peace.''Henry Steele Commager, Amherst College ''A provocative and ......
