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Название:Water and Arid Lands of the Western United States: A World Resources Institute Book
Автор: Mohamed T. El-Ashry, Diana C. Gibbons
Издательство: Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 429
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Despite impressive innovations by some states, western water laws and institutions now in place were designed chiefly for an earlier era and have not adapted to the new demands and stresses on water resources. In Water and the Arid Lands of the Western United States the authors explore the nature of water demands in the agricultural and municipal sectors and set forth prescriptions for the west to move away from its historical reliance on expensive supply-side projects and toward better management of existing supplies. Six cases studies by experts in the field illustrate specific examples of water management issues.

Название:American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots
Автор: Mark Slobin
Издательство: Berkeley : Univ. of California Press
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 255
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Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This musical subculture came to the United States with the late-nineteenth-century Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Although it had declined in popularity by the middle of the twentieth century, this lively music is now enjoying recognition among music fans of all stripes.

Название:Strategic Thinking about the Korean Nuclear Crisis: Four Parties Caught between North Korea and the United States (Strategic Thought in Northeast Asia)
Автор: Gilbert Rozman
Издательство: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2007
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Страниц: 275
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Often lost in the discussion about the nuclear crisis are its regional dynamics.  From 2002 China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea struggled to navigate between the unsettling belligerence of North Korea and the unilateral insistence of the United States. This book focuses on their strategic thinking over four stages of the crisis.

Название:American Time Use: Who Spends How Long at What - 2nd edition
Автор: Inc. New Strategist Publications
Издательство: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 487
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If you have ever wondered while watching TV why advertisers are so intent on selling snacks or sleep aids or cleaning products--or even why they spend so much money on television advertising itself--American Time Use: Who Spends How Long at What has the answer. American Time Use presents detailed time use data for the two most important demographic characteristics for determining how people spend their time--their age and sex.American Time Use puts you in the know, showing you what others are doing--from teens (15-to-19-year-olds) to young adults (20-to-24-year-olds), from parents (25-to-34- and 35-to-44-year-olds) to empty-nesters (45-to-54- and 55-to-64-year-olds) and from the go-go elderly to the slow-go elderly (65-to-74-year-olds and those aged 75 or older).

Название:America's Military Adversaries: From Colonial Times to the Present
Автор: John C. Fredriksen
Издательство: ABC-CLIO
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 635
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Books on American military heroes abound. But this book is the first to focus on America's talented enemies?€”the generals, admirals, Indian chiefs and warriors, submarine captains, fighter pilots, and spies who opposed the United States with military force or other means. Often these military leaders were among the best minds of their times.

Название:Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions 4.1 (Itzimte, Pixoy, Tzum)
Автор: Eric von Euw
Издательство: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Год: 1977
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Страниц: 34
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THE CORPUS OF MAYA HIEROGLYPHIC INSCRIPTIONS PROGRAMPEABODY MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY HARVARD UNIVERSITY Background Since its inception in 1968, the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions (CMHI) has been the leading program for recording ancient Maya hieroglyphs, one of the most artistic and creative graphic writing systems in the world. Founding Director, Ian Graham, a pioneer who laid the foundations for recording the ancient Maya hieroglyphic texts, created an unsurpassed register of carved monuments that has been instrumental in their decipherment.Dates1966 Luminaries in the field in including, Dr.

Название:Consumption and Social Welfare: Living Standards and their Distribution in the United States
Автор: Daniel T. Slesnick
Издательство: Cambridge Univ Pr
Год: 2005
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 242
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The most widely-cited social welfare statistics in the United States are based on tabulations on family income. The picture that emerges is cause for concern; median family income has hardly changed over the past 25 years while inequality has increased and poverty remained persistently high. Yet, consumption-based statistics as employed in this work yield rigorous and quite different estimates of real individual and social welfare.

Название:The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Mexico and the United States (Morality and Society Series)
Автор: Joseph M. Palacios
Издательство: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 328
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The reach of the Catholic Church is arguably greater than that of any other religion, extending across diverse political, ethnic, class, and cultural boundaries. But what is it about Catholicism that resonates so profoundly with followers who live under disparate conditions? What is it, for instance, that binds parishioners in America with those in Mexico? For Joseph M. Palacios, what unites Catholics is a sense of being Catholic—a social imagination that motivates them to promote justice and build a better world.

Название:American Families in Crisis: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
Автор: Jeffrey S. Turner
Издательство: ABC-CLIO
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 332
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An urgent, authoritative resource, American Families in Crisis spans the full spectrum of events and conditions that endanger families, offering the latest research and insights while evaluating current strategies and techniques for dealing with challenging family behaviors.The handbook begins by analyzing the history of family crises in the United States, then looks at how to identify, prevent, and respond to specific problems—everything from marital strife, teen runaways, and unemployment to school shootings, natural disasters, problems created by the Internet, and extended military deployment. The coverage is backed by hundreds of current key reference sources, plus chapters on notable contributors to the field, important data and documents, and resources for further information.

Название:America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force
Автор: Beth Bailey
Издательство: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 352
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In 1973, not long after the last American combat troops returned from Vietnam, President Nixon fulfilled his campaign promise and ended the draft. No longer would young men find their futures determined by the selective service system; nor would the U.S.