Search Results - History, Modern.~

The role of the state and individual in sustainable land management

Table of Contents: “…Land ownership and personal empowerment : a review of some aspects of current land reforms in the light of the lessons of modern social history -- Changes in land use and their implications upon coastal regions : the case of Grange-Over-Sands, northwest England -- Land management, cadastral reform and biodiversity : a New Zealand study -- The contested territories of Costa Rica : sustainable land management challenges in the neotropics -- Flood defence and estuary management : a case study of the Blackwater Estuary, Essex, England -- Characteristics of land-related administrative institutions : what is needed to support equitable and productive land development? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Biodiversity Conservation and Phylogenetic Systematics Preserving our evolutionary heritage in an extinction crisis /

Get full text

Beasts of the earth animals, humans, and disease / by Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…The smallest passengers on Noah's ark -- Heirloom infections: microbes before the advent of humans -- Humans as hunters: animal origins of bioterrorism -- Humans as farmers: microbes move into the home -- Humans as villagers: microbes in the promised land -- Humans as traders: microbes get passports -- Humans as pet-keepers: microbes move into the bedroom -- Humans as diners: mad cows and sane chickens -- Microbes from the modern food chain: lessons from SARS, influenza, and bird flu -- The coming plagues: lessons from AIDS, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease -- A four-footed viewof history.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Rituals types, efficacy and myths /

Table of Contents: “…Rituals in Greek caves : from modern case studies to ancient sources / Evy Johanne Haland -- Transition into an age of supported independence : a rite of passage? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A classical introduction to Galois theory by Newman, Stephen C., 1952-

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Portrait of the artist as a landscape an inquiry into self-reflexion / by Gamboni, Dario

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus’ Land / by Halperin, Charles J.

Full text available:

Goh Keng Swee a legacy of public service /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Goh Keng Swee, heroic architect and master builder of modern Singapore / Emrys Chew -- Goh Keng Swee in a social welfare history of Singapore / Ho Chi Tim -- Goh Keng Swee in politics and parliament / Kevin Y.L. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Structure, culture and agency : selected papers of Margaret Archer / by Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Realism's explanatory framework -- Thinking and theorizing about educational systems -- On predicting the behaviour of the educational system -- The myth of cultural integration -- The vexatious fact of society -- Morphogenesis versus structuration -- For structure : its reality, properties and powers -- The private life of the social agent -- The ontological status of subjectivity -- Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life -- A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative -- Self-government & self-organization as misleading metaphors -- The generative mechanism re-configuring late modernity -- How agency is transformed in the course of social transform -- Trajectory of the morphogenetic approach -- Interview with Maggie -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.…”
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis
OCLC metadata license agreement

American Dolorologies : Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics / by Strick, Simon, 1974-

Full text available:

Technocrats and the Politics of Drought and Development in Twentieth-Century Brazil by Buckley, Eve E.

Full text available:

Macroecology

Get full text
Series

Argument and audience presenting debates in public settings / by Broda-Bahm, Kenneth T., 1963-

Table of Contents: “…A rationale for public debates -- The history of public debates -- An ethical perspective for public debates -- Moving from tournament debating to public debating -- Preliminary steps -- Crafting a proposition -- Developing a format -- Attracting attention -- Coaching and preparation -- Reasoning with your audience -- Making your arguments compelling -- Listening and note taking in public debates -- Opening speeches -- Refutation -- Delivering your arguments effectively -- Questioning -- Moderating the debate -- Ending the debate.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Rotor Systems : Analysis and Identification by Tiwari, Rajiv

Click here to view.

Higher Education in 2040 : A Global Approach / by Zwaan, Bert van der, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Ancient problems and modern dilemmas -- The idea of a university -- A history of secularization and democratization -- Grappling with change -- Rising costs, selection and governments in retreat -- On size, bureaucracy and distrust -- The successes and failures of the entrepreneurial university -- Under the spell of production and quality -- pt. 2. …”
Full text available:

We, the people politics of national peculiarity in Southeastern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…: "race," science and politics in fin-de-siècle Bulgaria / Stefan Detchev -- The canon-builders -- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and the Serbian identity between poetry and history / Bojan Aleksov -- Faik Konitza, the modernizer of the Albanian language and nation / Artan Puto -- Shemseddin Sami Frashëri (1850-1904) : contributing to the construction of Albanian and Turkish identities / Bülent Bilmez.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Electricity from wave and tide : an introduction to marine energy / by Lynn, Paul A.

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Immigration law and the US-Mexico border ¿sí se puede? / by Johnson, Kevin R.

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Patient, heal thyself how the new medicine puts the patient in charge / by Veatch, Robert M.

Table of Contents: “…-- Beyond prettiness: death, disease, and being fat -- Universal but varied health insurance: only separate is equal -- Health insurance: the case for multiple lists -- Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care I: the history of the hospice -- Why hospice care should not be a part of ideal health care II: hospice in a postmodern era -- Randomized human experimentation: the modern dilemma -- Randomized human experimentation: a proposal for the new medicine -- Clinical practice guidelines and why they are wrong -- Outcomes research and how values sneak into finding of fact -- The consensus of medical experts and why it is wrong so often.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Secularization / by Turner, Charles, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Secularization and philosophy; Löwith: progress as secularized eschatology; Voegelin: modern gnosticism as secularized heresy; Carl Schmitt and modernity's legitimacy problem; Hans Kelsen's message in a bottle; Blumenberg, progress and the complementarity of science and myth; Girard, secularization, and demythologization; Conclusion; Notes; 5. …”
Taylor & Francis
OCLC metadata license agreement