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Ranching embodies certain values Americans hold dear--character, courage, family, and natural harmony with the land. Ranching Traditions celebrates these values from an insiders's point of view. 300 full-color illustrations. GBC (296 pp.)

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A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tincans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice.

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The complex economic and social structures of developed nations demand increasing government intervention in a number of policy areas, and this important reference work provides a comprehensive guide to comparative public policies by analyzing the areas of education and environment within a cross-national context.

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Anatole Abragam is a leading figure in modern physics, whose contributions to the field of nuclear magnetism have won him high distinctions. Time Reversal is his lively and candid biography. Beginning with early childhood reminiscences of the Russia where he was born and his emigration to Paris in the 1920s, he leads the reader through his war years and spells at Oxford and Harvard, before concentrating on the field of science, about which he...

Is Britain prepared to defend itself, or only to play a part in Armageddon? Examining recently released British government documents, this study presents a moral history of British defense policy. Roger Ruston analyzes government rationales for Britain's dependence on weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons, arguing they are often essentially rationalizations for unstoppable political programs divorced from defense needs and mo...

Analyzing the modern status of military bases and the diplomacy that defines their location and access, this book explores the global basing networks of the world's major military powers--their type, location, and the politics and economics of their acquisition. It provides data on armaments, intelligence, communications, research, and space facilities, tables and maps that display U.S. and Soviet global networks, and the various military role...

Now in a revised and expanded new edition, this volume chronologically traces the evolution of Euclidean, non-Euclidean, and relativistic theories regarding the shape of the universe. A unique, highly readable, and entertaining account, the book assumes no special mathematical knowledge. It reviews the failed classical attempts to prove the parallel postulate and provides coverage of the role of Gauss, Lobachevskii, and Bolyai in setting the f...

This study examines the nature of religious experiences and whether they can be used as evidence for religious beliefs. Davis discusses the important philosophical issues raised by religious experience, such as the role of models and metaphors in descriptions of religious experience, and the way experiences in general are used as evidence for claims about the world. Using contemporary and classic sources from the world religions, she gives an ...