25 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

This book informs the curious lay person who wants to gain a basic understanding of the salmon, while keeping technical terms to minimum. The guide's lively and humorous style is augmented by cartoons, illustrations and a glossary, which makes for easy and entertaining readings. Author Gordon Bell gives a panoramic view of the five Pacific salmon species, their life histories, anatomy and physiology. Readers will come away with an appreciation...

This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng, an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secretary of an impoverished village on the north Chi

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

In this candid and witty autobiography, Nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon looks at his distinguished and varied career, continually asking himself whether (and how) what he learned as a scientist helps to explain other aspects of his life.A brilliant polymath in an age of increasing specialization, Simon is one of those rare scholars whose work defines fields of inquiry. Crossing disciplinary lines in half a dozen fields, Simon's story encompass...

Provides sex therapists, counselors, psychiatrists, and psychologists with information on sex offending behavior and treatment approaches. Begins with a Standards of Care for the Treatment of Sex Offenders, then discusses such aspects as motives contributing to sexual aggression and the confluence model of sexual aggression, a case study of offende

This new edition covers all the most significant developments that have occurred since the last edition appeared, with the chief amongst these being the changes instigated by the provisions of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which has removed the last of the mandatory corroboration warnings and rewritten the law on the 'right of silence', as well as those made under the Criminal Justice Acts of 1991 and 1993.

Big Frank tells young readers all about firefighting and the many other important jobs firefighters do: fire safety training, fire inspection, helping at accident scenes, and more. It's all in a day's--and night's--work for our firefighting friend and his crew. The detailed full-color illustrations in this paperback book will fascinate readers.

Keine Beschreibung.

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm an...

A compelling account of the Krakow Jewish resistance of World War II. "The purity of Justyna's rage, her youthful energy and clarity of purpose, draw you into her story, illustrating the force and charm with which she led her young comrades in this final struggle". -- Women's Review of Books

A major contribution to the study of time and its relation to modernity This brilliant study has already become a classic in Germany. .

John B. Robinson is the director of the SustainableDevelopment Research Institute and a professor in the Department ofGeography at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor ofManaging Natural Resources in British Columbia: Markets, Regulations, and Sustainable Development (UBC Press 1995) andAchieving Sustainable Development (UBC Press 1996).

E. Kristian Morgenstern is a forestry consultant andformer Canadian Forest Service scientist and professor at theUniversity of New Brunswick.

John B. Robinson is the director of the SustainableDevelopment Research Institute and a professor in the Department ofGeography at the University of British Columbia. He is co-editor ofManaging Natural Resources in British Columbia: Markets, Regulations, and Sustainable Development (UBC Press 1995) andAchieving Sustainable Development (UBC Press 1996).

E. Kristian Morgenstern is a forestry consultant andformer Canadian Forest Service scientist and professor at theUniversity of New Brunswick.

Dr. Kathryn Harrison is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

This collection of research explores, in four main sections, the relationship between the Conservative party and British society since 1880. It does this by focusing on the key themes of ideology, national identity, gender and policy.

Descriptive interpretation of northwest coast Indian art as represented by this collection of several previously unpublished works of Wilson Duff. The tragic death of Wilson Duff at the age of 51, cut short the life of one of the leading experts on the arts and culture of Native peoples of the Northwest Coast. An anthropology professor at the University of B.C, his death, by his own hand, terminated his uncommonly perceptive research into the ...

Frederickson strongly defAnds broad grants of discretion to public administrators and then lays out the proper norms and ethic which should inform that discretion. And he firmly argues that the effectiveness of democratic government and modern governance, not just for the majority of but for all citizens, depAnds on the energetic exercise of bureaucratic discretion. The book concludes with seven principles that should guide everyone who works ...