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69 produkter
Dirty Dozen
Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future
Inbunden, 2003
882 kr
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Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, an international treaty …
Silenced!
Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America
Inbunden, 2007
1038 kr
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This book is about people whose beliefs and affiliations have opposed powerful interests in the present-day United States. This eclectic group of people and controversial issues, from climate-change scientists who have been censored by the Bush administration to Muslims accused of terrorism, have …
Silenced!
Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment Under Siege in America
E-bok, 2007
1060 kr
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This book is about people whose beliefs and affiliations have opposed powerful interests in the present-day United States. This eclectic group of people and controversial issues, from climate-change scientists who have been censored by the Bush administration to Muslims accused of terrorism, have …
Global Warming Desk Reference
E-bok, 2001
1013 kr
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With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, infrared forcing, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, …
Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition
E-bok, 1998
932 kr
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Integrating American Indian law and Native American political and legal traditions, this encyclopedia includes detailed descriptions of nearly two dozen Native American Nations' legal and political systems such as the Iroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo, Cheyenne, Creek, Chickasaw, Comanche, Sioux, …
Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy
An Annotated Bibliography
E-bok, 1996
546 kr
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For more than a decade scholars have debated the question of whether American Indian confederacies, primarily the Iroquois, helped influence the formation of U.S. basic law. The idea has sparked lively debate in the public arena as well, with Canadian diplomat Durling Voyce-Jones contending it …
Dirty Dozen
Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future
E-bok, 2003
437 kr
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Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, an international treaty …
Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America
[2 Volumes]
E-bok, 2007
1585 kr
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Most Americans know very little about Native America. For many, most of their knowledge comes from an amalgam of three sources—a barely remembered required history class in elementary school, Hollywood movies, and debates in the news media over casinos or sports mascots. This two-volume set deals …
Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy
An Annotated Bibliography
Inbunden, 1996
504 kr
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For more than a decade scholars have debated the question of whether American Indian confederacies, primarily the Iroquois, helped influence the formation of U.S. basic law. The idea has sparked lively debate in the public arena as well, with Canadian diplomat Durling Voyce-Jones contending it …
Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition
Av Bruce E. Johansen, Bruce Elliott Johansen
Inbunden, 1998
955 kr
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Integrating American Indian law and Native American political and legal traditions, this encyclopedia includes detailed descriptions of nearly two dozen Native American Nations' legal and political systems such as the Iroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Navajo, Cheyenne, Creek, Chickasaw, Comanche, Sioux, …
Encyclopedia of Native-American Economic History
Inbunden, 1999
929 kr
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Economic themes underlie many aspects of Native American history from the fur trade, the devastating impact of European diseases, and the taking of Native American land to the current issues of uranium mining on Navajo land and casino gambling. Yet this is the first encyclopedia to analyze Native …
Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)
Av Bruce E. Johansen, Barbara Alice Mann
Inbunden, 2000
1905 kr
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A comprehensive reference work on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), containing over 200 entries covering Haudenosaunee history, present-day issues, and contributions to general North American culture. Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) is the name the Iroquois use for their confederacy …
Shapers of the Great Debate on Native Americans--Land, Spirit, and Power
A Biographical Dictionary
Inbunden, 2000
956 kr
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Contrasting the views of Native Americans and European Americans, this book provides a fresh look at the rhetoric behind the westward movement of the American frontier. From George Armstrong Custer and Andrew Jackson to Helen Hunt Jackson, the volume gives the views of well-known Anglo-Americans …
Native America and the Evolution of Democracy
A Supplementary Bibliography
Inbunden, 1999
503 kr
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During the late years of the 20th century, the issue of Native American influence on the formation of the U.S. government has become a hotly debated topic as well as a central point of difference in trenchant arguments over multiculturalism and political correctness. While conservative political …
Global Warming Desk Reference
Inbunden, 2001
927 kr
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With global temperatures rising rapidly during the past quarter century, infrared forcing, popularly known as the greenhouse effect, has attracted worldwide concern. This book is a concise, college-level compendium of the research on global warming. It surveys the scientific consensus on the issue, …
Enduring Legacies
Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies
Inbunden, 2004
883 kr
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Treaties are so fundamental to the lives of Native Americans and their nations in the United States and Canada that life without them would be difficult to imagine. Most contemporary issues, from land claims to resource ownership to gambling permits, are rooted in laws that derive much of their …
Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues
An Encyclopedia
Inbunden, 2003
1070 kr
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From Argentina to Zimbabwe, the industrialized world's encroachment on native lands has brought disastrous environmental harm to indigenous peoples. More than 170 native peoples around the world are facing life-and-death struggles to maintain environments threatened by oil spills, explosions, toxic …
Global Warming 101
Inbunden, 2008
716 kr
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The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are …
Global Warming 101
E-bok, 2008
780 kr
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The accelerating pace of global warming is provoking anxiety that the Earth is reaching an ominous threshold, a point of no return. Within a decade or two, various feedbacks may take greenhouse warming past any human ability to contain or reverse it. Carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere are …
Global Warming Combat Manual
Solutions for a Sustainable World
Inbunden, 2008
645 kr
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The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, …
Native Americans Today
A Biographical Dictionary
Inbunden, 2010
1212 kr
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This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history.Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans. Such treatments are rare, as most Native …
Native Americans Today
A Biographical Dictionary
E-bok, 2010
1324 kr
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This engaging collection of Native American profiles examines these individuals' unique life experiences within the larger context of U.S. history. Native Americans Today: A Biographical Dictionary focuses on the lives of contemporary Native Americans. Such treatments are rare, as most Native …
Dirty Dozen
Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future
Av Bruce E. Johansen, Jim Davis
Häftad, 2003
416 kr
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Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this important study examines the history, industrial uses, and harmful effects of the twelve most commonly used organochloride chemicals. All have been fully or partially banned by the Stockholm Protocol, an international treaty …
Encyclopedia of Global Warming Science and Technology
[2 Volumes]
E-bok, 2009
2246 kr
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In this two-volume encyclopedia for general readers and students of all levels, Bruce E. Johansen marshals scientific work on global warming into 300 articles presented in clear and understandable language. Comprehensive in scope and accessible to all reader levels, The Encyclopedia of Global …
Debating Democracy
Native American Legacy of Freedom
Inbunden, 1996
321 kr
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There is substantial evidence that the framers of the major documents and institutions of the American republic were influenced by the long-established democratic traditions of the Iroquois Confederacy. For many, however, this notion represents an attempt to deny American intellectual, cultural, …
Native American History - North America
QuickStudy Reference & Study Guide
E-bok, 2023
117 kr
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Essential history of the indigenous people of North America in relation to America. This is not an indigenous peoples history related to their individual tribes. A difficult history to tell for many reasons, at least 800 distinct Native peoples inhabited most parts of North America speaking at …
Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement
Inbunden, 2013
1248 kr
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A vivid description of the people, events, and issues that forever changed the lives of Native Americans during the 1960s and 1970s—such as the occupation of Alcatraz, fishing-rights conflicts, and individuals such as Clyde Warrior.Rising out of more than a century of poverty and pervasive …
Encyclopedia of the American Indian Movement
E-bok, 2013
482 kr
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A vivid description of the people, events, and issues that forever changed the lives of Native Americans during the 1960s and 1970s-such as the occupation of Alcatraz, fishing-rights conflicts, and individuals such as Clyde Warrior. Rising out of more than a century of poverty and pervasive …
American Indian Culture
From Counting Coup to Wampum [2 Volumes]
E-bok, 2015
2435 kr
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This invaluable resource provides a comprehensive historical and demographic overview of American Indians along with more than 100 cross-referenced entries on American Indian culture, exploring everything from arts, literature, music, and dance to food, family, housing, and spirituality. American …
Resource Exploitation in Native North America
A Plague upon the Peoples
Inbunden, 2016
858 kr
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This wide-ranging survey of the environmental damage to Native American lands and peoples in North America—in recent times as well as previous decades—documents the continuing impact on the health, wellness, land, and communities of indigenous peoples.Beginning in the early 1950s, Native peoples …
