Offers an outline of country music history, describes different kinds of country music, and looks at top performers, useful periodicals, and the music business

Explains how to positively reveal one's personality and unique talents in a college application essay, describes what qualities impress admissions officers, and offers writing techniques and tips for scholarship and SAT essays. (view table of contents)

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Civic self-determination and ecological sustainability are widely accepted as two of the most important public goals. This book explains how they can be combined. Using vivid and telling case studies from around the world, it shows how liberal rights can include both ecological and social conditions for collective decision-making and how environmentalist goals and social justice can be achieved together. (view table of contents)

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The Oxford Poetry Library series offers compact and fully annotated editions of some of the most important and best-loved English poets. Drawing on the acclaimed texts of the Oxford Authors series, these collections provide a generous selection of the verse of figures as diverse as Andrew Marvell and William Blake, John Keats and Thomas Hardy. Ideal for anyone interested in the eloquently wrought observations and thoughts of some of the English language's greatest writers, The Oxford Poetry Library should find a welcome place on the bookshelves of all lovers of literature. Beginning his career as an engraver, it was not until his thirties that William Blake distinguished himself as a poet. This new edition of Blake's verse, presented in chronological order, encompasses Blake's entire career, from his early Poetical Sketches and There is No Natural Religion through his best known work Songs of Innocence, part of his beautiful series of poetry in lyric and blank verse, to his later works Jerusalem and The Everlasting Gospel. Representing the full range of Blake's accomplishements as a poet, this outstanding volume highlights the extraordinarily diverse achievements of his remarkable poetic oeuvre.

All divorces, civilian or military, are equally painful. Author Michael Mason, a veteran of the United States Army, went through a divorce and custody dispute for his young child. His painful experience thoroughly covers various issues and provides insightful answers based on his personal experience. This book provides an alternative, unique, aggressive and detailed approach to today’s many uncertainties surrounding divorces in order to help readers navigate a divorce case and maintaining custody of your child(ren). The book emphasizes the importance of documenting every aspect of your deteriorating relationship from the beginning to the end. From choosing a divorce lawyer to to utilizing a private investigator, Mr. Mason’s battle tested advice in dealing with a divorce is refreshing. Almost 30,000 military marriages resulted in divorces in 2011 according to a USA Today report quoting Pentagon data. Military couples face a variety of challenges stemming from constant deployments. Despite various work-shops and marriage counseling to improve marriages, the divorce rate in the military has steadily increased over the last ten years. This book is not intended to encourage divorce but to help win a divorce once you are inevitably in it. Just like war, divorce must be avoided at all cost. But, when it happens, one must win. If you are dealing with the stress of a deteriorating relationship, child’s welfare, unknown legal procedures, you might want to take a look at Mr. Mason’s advice.

Transparency -- openness, secured through greater availability of information -- is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. The "transparency turn" in global environmental governance in particular is seen in a range of international agreements, voluntary disclosure initiatives, and public-private partnerships. This is the first book to investigate whether transparency in global environmental governance is in fact a broadly transformative force or plays a more limited, instrumental role.After three conceptual, context-setting chapters, the book examines ten specific and diverse instances of "governance by disclosure." These include state-led mandatory disclosure initiatives that rely on such tools as prior informed consent and monitoring, measuring, reporting and verification; and private (or private-public), largely voluntary efforts that include such corporate transparency initiatives as the Carbon Disclosure Project and such certification schemes as the Forest Stewardship Council. The cases, which focus on issue areas including climate change, biodiversity, biotechnology, natural resource exploitation, and chemicals, demonstrate that although transparency is ubiquitous, its effects are limited and often specific to particular contexts. The book explores in what circumstances transparency can offer the possibility of a new emancipatory politics in global environmental governance.