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Author : Joan Barfoot
Publisher : London : Women's Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015041859375
Abra leaves her husband, children and suburban security to find solitude and self-sufficiency in an isolated cabin. Nine years later her daughter comes to ask why Abra left.
Author : Nancy S. Seasholes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262534833
Why and how Boston was transformed by landmaking. Fully one-sixth of Boston is built on made land. Although other waterfront cities also have substantial areas that are built on fill, Boston probably has more than any city in North America. In Gaining Ground historian Nancy Seasholes has given us the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created.The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present. Seasholes introduces findings from recent archaeological investigations in Boston, and relates landmaking to the major historical developments that shaped it. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, landmaking in Boston was spurred by the rapid growth that resulted from the burgeoning China trade. The influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century prompted several large projects to create residential land—not for the Irish, but to keep the taxpaying Yankees from fleeing to the suburbs. Many landmaking projects were undertaken to cover tidal flats that had been polluted by raw sewage discharged directly onto them, removing the "pestilential exhalations" thought to cause illness. Land was also added for port developments, public parks, and transportation facilities, including the largest landmaking project of all, the airport. A separate chapter discusses the technology of landmaking in Boston, explaining the basic method used to make land and the changes in its various components over time. The book is copiously illustrated with maps that show the original shoreline in relation to today's streets, details from historical maps that trace the progress of landmaking, and historical drawings and photographs.
Author : Forrest Pritchard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780762794386
One fateful day in 1996, upon discovering that five freight cars’ worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard undertakes to save his family’s farm. What ensues—through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters—is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard’s biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his career choice and eschews organic foods for sugary mainstream fare; but just when the farm starts to turn heads at local markets, his father’s health takes a turn for the worse.With poetry and humor, this timely memoir tugs on the heartstrings and feeds the soul long after the last page is turned.
Author : Clifford Winston
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815739333
Focusing on ways that markets work with, rather than against, governments to enhance public welfare. The optimal mix of market forces and government intervention to allocate resources is one of the longest-standing problems facing human civilization. At the theoretical extremes, resources in centrally planned economies are allocated by the government, while resources in capitalist economies are allocated by private markets. In practice, market forces and government interventions co-exist to allocate goods and services in a political environment with shifting pressures to give one approach more responsibility than the other. Current public attitudes toward markets are at a low point in the wake of the Great Recession and the growth in income inequality that began in the 1970s. However, in this book, noted Brookings economist Clifford Winston argues that it is a serious mistake to overlook that markets will be a critical part of the solution to any public objective—whether it be to reduce inequality, stimulate long-term growth, slow climate change, or eliminate COVID 19. In Winston’s view, policymakers should be much more aware of the many ways that markets help government to achieve economic and social goals and the potential that markets have to provide greater assistance in achieving those goals. Winston synthesizes the empirical evidence on the efficacy of markets in helping to protect consumers against anti-competitive behavior and when technology appears to prevent price competition; to enable individuals to make more informed decisions; and to reduce negative externalities, improve public production, and encourage innovations. Importantly, Winston presents evidence indicating how markets can also help to reduce poverty, promote fairness in labor markets, and provide merit goods. Winston subjects his assessment to a robustness test by explaining how market forces have helped to address the COVID-19 pandemic by, for example, finding new ways for people to work safely and providing incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop safe and effective vaccines. Winston takes a proactive approach in his conclusion by suggesting the formation of a major “Commission” composed of academics, policymakers, and businesspeople. Such a panel could explore how market forces could provide greater help to government to address economic and social problems and could provide specific recommendations to facilitate market solutions where appropriate.
Author : Jennifer A. Clack
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253005373
Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure—emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, Clack defines what a tetrapod is, describes their anatomy, and explains how they are related to other vertebrates. She looks at the Devonian environment in which they evolved, describes the known and newly discovered species, and explores the order and timing of anatomical changes that occurred during the fish-to-tetrapod transition.
Author : Deborah James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135308506
Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested. Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers. They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven' version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land access by the poor. This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to square these symbolic and economic claims on land. Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Author : Jennifer A. Clack
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253356758
Around 370 million years ago, a distant relative of a modern lungfish began a most extraordinary adventure—emerging from the water and laying claim to the land. Over the next 70 million years, this tentative beachhead had developed into a worldwide colonization by ever-increasing varieties of four-limbed creatures known as tetrapods, the ancestors of all vertebrate life on land. This new edition of Jennifer A. Clack's groundbreaking book tells the complex story of their emergence and evolution. Beginning with their closest relatives, the lobe-fin fishes such as lungfishes and coelacanths, Clack defines what a tetrapod is, describes their anatomy, and explains how they are related to other vertebrates. She looks at the Devonian environment in which they evolved, describes the known and newly discovered species, and explores the order and timing of anatomical changes that occurred during the fish-to-tetrapod transition.
Author : Deborah James
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135308513
Gaining Ground? Rights and Property in South African Land Reform examines how land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa have been produced and contested. Set in the province of Mpumalanga, the book gives an ethnographic account of local initiatives and conflicts, showing how the poorest sectors of the landless have defied the South African state's attempts to privatize land holdings and create a new class of African farmers. They insist that the 'rights-based' rather than the 'market-driven' version of land reform should prevail and that land restitution was intended to benefit all Africans. However their attempts to gain land access often backfire. Despite state assurances that land reform would benefit all, illegal land selling and 'brokering' are pervasive, representing one of the only feasible routes to land access by the poor. This book shows how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state, in interaction with local communities, have tried to square these symbolic and economic claims on land. Winner of the inaugural Elliott P. Skinner Book Award of the Association of Africanist Anthropology, 2008
Author : Paula Rae Wallace
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781490728179
Gaining Ground continues and completes the enchanting, high-energy saga of David and Mallory as they press forward in their Christian faith, maintaining good testimonies in a marketplace fraught with deteriorating business ethics! Keeping their eyes on their own goals, they keep gaining ground for their portfolio and ultimately for the cause of Christ! Caught in a web of escalating criminal activity, they experience brushes with death personally and among their close group of friends! A must-not miss!
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agricultural conservation
ISBN : UCD:31175019625980
Author : Rachel Claire Morris,Rachel Morris,Luke J. Clements
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0900458984
An agenda for reform in the law, policy & practice relating to Travelling people in the areas of education, accommodation & site provision, health, social & other services, planning, eviction & criminal justice and is based on the recommendations of several specialist working parties & two major conferences. Part two, Voices for reform, includes contributions by some of the best known names & organisations active in the field. The Introduction is by Lord Avebury.
Author : Manon Schonewille,Felix Merks
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789046604038
Experienced managers and lawyers know the value of being proficient in negotiations, which are executed every day on nearly everything. Most negotiators are continually faced with diverse and complicated situations, so it is important to have a set of tools for handling challenging situations, as well as for dealing with people who may be difficult to interact with. In practice, there is a common tendency to respond to difficult situations or people with a 'fight or flight' response. Many business negotiations and settlement agreements risk ending with suboptimal outcomes. This book has been compiled to accompany the training of Bruce Patton, one of the world's most prominent scientists and experts on negotiation. It contains the key tools that are necessary to deal with difficult people and tense situations. These crucial insights and skills will enable the reader to change negotiation behavior from 'instinctive' to 'strategic and in control.' The book also includes convenient summaries, practical checklists, worksheets, as well as interviews with influential negotiation scholars, in order to capture the key concepts.
Author : Lisa Greathouse
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781480775107
Students read a high-interest nonfiction article, strengthen comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions, study a primary source document, and demonstrate critical-thinking skills through document-based questions.
Author : Richard H. Haswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015022246964
Haswell's approach incorporates original research, the post-positive philosophers of human change such as Habermas and Gadamer, and new information about adult development. His analysis serves teachers of writing by untangling some of the more vexing problems involved with personal style, gender, organization, error, production rate, use of models, assessment, curriculum, remediation, and diagnosis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Roger Fisher,William Ury,Bruce Patton
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0395631246
Describes a method of negotiation that isolates problems, focuses on interests, creates new options, and uses objective criteria to help two parties reach an agreement.