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Guide to U.S. Environmental Policy provides the analytical connections showing readers how issues and actions are translated into public policies and persistent institutions for resolving or managing environmental conflict in the U.S. The guide highlights a complex decision-making cycle that requires the cooperation of government, business, and an informed citizenry to achieve a comprehensive approach to environmental protection. The book's to...

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Robert P. Watson's groundbreaking study on the presidents' wives proved that the first lady can be an influential force in presidential politics and is a subject worthy of scholarly attention. Now, this fully revised second edition incorporates the first ladyships of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama in each chapter.

A book about how to use public toilets safely for boys and young men with autism and related conditions.

Does thought have distinctive experiential features? Is there, in addition to sensory phenomenology, a kind of cognitive phenomenology¿phenomenology of a cognitive or conceptual character? Leading philosophers of mind debate whether conscious thought has cognitive phenomenology and whether it is part of conscious perception and conscious emotion.

This comprehensive introductory text explains the roots of the management field in the social sciences, and how it developed and why. Appealing to those with a broad interest in the area, this book will also act as a guide to the extensive literatures in the field for those wishing to go further

Probability is an area of mathematics of tremendous contemporary importance across all aspects of human endeavour. This book is a compact account of the basic features of probability and random processes at the level of first and second year mathematics undergraduates and Masters' students in cognate fields.

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. He argues that places are sacred because we make them sacred, and that they remain in perpetual motion, transforming themselves from moment to moment and generation to generation.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Literaturgeschichte, Epochen, Note: 1-2, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germanistik V), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Detektiv- und Kriminalromane vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert mit Vermittlungsmodellen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit thematisiert den deutschen Kriminalfilm von 1933 bis 1945. Mit dem Film Dr. Crippen an Bord (1942) wird die Ermittlungslarbeit dargestell...

This volume contributes to the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by critically engaging with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes.

This book is a comprehensive and hands-on guide to working with deaf and hard-of-hearing children within and outside of the music classroom, balancing a technical overview of hearing loss with relevant music lessons, teaching practices, resources, and research promoting musical experiences for children who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated (or not commemorated) by major political actors across the region.

Across scholarship on gender and sexuality, binaries like female versus male and gay versus straight have been problematized as a symbol of the stigmatization and erasure of non-normative subjects and practices. The chapters in Queer Excursions offer a series of distinct perspectives on these binaries, as well as on a number of other, less immediately apparent dichotomies that nevertheless permeate the gendered and sexual lives of speakers.

A great deal of scholarly attention has been paid to coercion. Less attention has been paid to what might be a more pervasive form of influence: manipulation. The essays in this volume address this relative imbalance by focusing on manipulation, examining its nature, moral status, and its significance in personal and social life.

Essays by the late feminist philosopher Sue Campbell explore the entanglement of epistemic and ethical values in our attempts to be faithful to our pasts. Her relational conception of memory is used to confront the challenges of sharing memory and reconstituting selves even in contexts fractured by moral and political differences.

This Handbook brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD.

Why are some civic associations better than others at getting-and keeping-people involved in activism? Using in-person observations, surveys, and field experiments, this book compares and describes contemporary models for engaging activists to show the effectiveness of one that combine political activism with transformative personal and collective growth.

The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism will provide a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment.

This textbook provides a user-friendly guide to the study of the phonological, morphological, and syntactic properties of Latin. It combines clear explanations with rich examples and offers a new approach to the study of Latin from the perspective of contemporary linguistics that will appeal to undergraduate students and researchers alike.