Product Description: This is an immense volume that brings together a number of papers that led to and emerged from the work of the Cave Research Foundation over a period of about fifteen years. Origins is loaded with information for anybody interested in cave exploration, research, science, archeology, geology, and the beginnings and early history of the CRF--one of the most successful voluntary cave research organizations in the world...read more

Product Description: This brief but inclusive narrative textbook focuses on the comparison of the theoretical promise of democracy with its actual performance. Readily accessible to undergraduates, the text is anchored in and motivated by political science scholarship...read more