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An introduction to topics in the field of earth sciences, including the solar system, geology, and the environment

Explaining the basic principles of child nutrition, this comprehensive book covers such topics as allergies, lactose intolerance, additives, dangerous fad diets, and acne, and provides answers to many of the most commonly asked questions about diet

Describes of North American explorers and their accomplishments up to the time of the Gold Rush, including Columbus, the Pilgrims, and Daniel Boone

Explains the origins of weights and measures, how they have changed over the years, and how they can be used to measure different things. Includes projects and questions.

Explains how rivers begin, travel, and end, and how they benefit humankind

Discusses fuel production and consumption, types and sources of energy, and energy conservation

Examines the formation, weather conditions, animal life, and recreational possibilities of mountains

Describes the different ways animals and people protect themselves from cold weather and discusses how body heat, food, shelter, sunshine, clothing, and fuels all work to keep us warm

Product Description: This anthology aligns feminist essays about Shakespeare with essays on other dramatists of the English Renaissance, particularly Peele, Marlowe, Webster, Marston, and Middleton. Foregrounding the intertextuality of Elizabethian drama, the thirteen essays_eleven of them new_explore the contribution of the stage to various feminist subjects, drawing on diverse theoretical approaches_formalists, materialist, historical, new historicist, deconstructionist, psychoanalytic, rhetorical_and resisting the figuration of feminist criticism as simple or univocal...read more

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Product Description: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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The Politics of Sustainable Development analyzes how the theory of sustainable development has been related to the practice and how it has been applied within Europe at all levels of government from the EU down to the sub-national local level. The essays included here begin with an analysis of the ambiguities inherent in sustainable development and the contestable nature of the concept. The contributors explore how far it is possible to reconcile economic growth with environmental needs, asking whether sustainable development can promote equity and development. The book breaks fresh ground in assessing the impact of deep ecological thought on sustainable development as part of a new typology of the concept. The second section examines how sustainable development has been interpreted at EU and sub-national levels within the member states, with examples drawn from the Mediterranean and Northern European countries. Contrasting interpretations of sustainable development are examined, considering political and administrative conflicts, the influence of cultural factors, and tensions between different levels of government. The ambiguity of sustainable development has led to extensive confusion and created the need for a clearer consensus among policy-makers as to how the concept should be interpreted. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This collection of essays addresses issues of gender in public policy by examining how the women's movement made public policy respond to certain "private" concerns such as family relations and sexuality and question its role in interfering with individual choice, such as issues of morality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An artist's celebration of the dogs of Provincetown, Massachusetts, features paintings and brief accounts of local canines. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A compelling visual journey augmented by Proust's own words.

Product Description: Provincetown artist Susan Baker dramatically shifts her venue to follow and visually reproduce the trail of Marcel Proust through the areas of France that he lived in, loved, and made the site of the major segments of Remembrance of Things Past...read more

Product Description: Beginning Folk Favorites, Volume 1 includes songs most children already know, but will now be able to play. They are pitched in keys suitable for singing and use keys and patterns presented in Suzuki Piano Volume 1, making them simple and easy to learn by rote...read more

A sourcebook for residential and light commercial construction. Containing over 12,000 component costs, this publication provides the tools to rapidly estimate the cost of alterations to existing structures. Local multipliers for most major cities across the US and Canada allow localization of costs, and even crew sizes and productivity rates are included for each component.