"Product Description: Housed at the Library of Congress, the archives of the Farm Security Administration constitute an essential visual record of American life from the late 1920s through the onset of the Second WW. Guided by the adroit hands and watchful eyes of the master photo editor Roy Stryker, the FSA archive includes the work of dozens of photographers, from acknowledged giants like Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Lange to ..."
"This volume reviews the effects of the Uruguay Round agreements on the East Asian economies. It assesses the impact of the "greatest trade agreement in history" on the most dynamic and fastest growing region of the world from an East Asian/West Pacific perspective. It offers an objective examination of the new trading system provided by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which extends to GATT to provide rules for trade in services, int ..."
"This book covers the full breadth of forest entomology. It combines the work of forest entomologists working on the impact and management of forest pests with those involved in diversity assessment and conservation of insects in forests. Forests and Insects demonstrates that both these disciplines demand an understanding of population and community biology. The book covers such topics as colonization ..."
"Keeping the Peace explores the new multidimensional role that the United Nations has played in peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding over the last few years. By examining the paradigm-setting cases of Cambodia and El Salvador, and drawing lessons from these UN 'success stories', the book seeks to point the way toward more effective ways for the international community to address conflict in the post-Cold War era. This book is esp ..."
"With the end of the post-war boom in the early 1970s, the world economy has experienced large scale unemployment. From an assumption that the unemployment problem had been solved, and that full employment could be maintained through demand management techniques, we now live in an entirely different world. Any suggestion of a return to full employment is met with questions of whether such a thing is possible, whether it would not lead to ..."
"The database field has experienced a rapid and incessant growth since the development of relational databases. The progress in database systems and applications has produced a diverse landscape of specialized technology areas that have often become the exclusive domain of research specialists. Examples include active databases, temporal databases, object-oriented databases, deductive databases, imprecise reasoning and queries, and multi ..."
"The German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941 represents one of the major caesuras in European history. Its consequences could still be felt fifty years later. Thirty-five historians from nine different countries (including the former Soviet Union) offer a comprehensive survey of the origins, course and long-term impact of this event. The volume is not merely concerned with political and military history, but also with the experien ..."
"The theme of this volume is challenging both in its scale and in its scope. Its purpose is to take account of the state of research and writing on the symbiotic relationship between banking, trade and industry and the state during the rise and expansion of capitalism, and to compare and assess the results in order to widen current perspectives. Topics covered range from the origins of banking in the Middle Ages, through the influence of ..."
Race/Sex(1st Edition) Their Sameness, Difference and Interplay (Thinking Gender) by Naomi Zack, SheldonDick Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 1997 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-91590-8, ISBN: 0-415-91590-2
"For details on the history of black and white official racial classification in America
, see: F. James Davis, Who is Black? ... See: Project Race Newsletter, April 1993,
(published in Roswell, GA). 24. This is ... For an analysis of the history of
concepts of race in the field of sociology, see: R. Fred Wacker, Ethnicity,
Pluralism, and Race (Westport: Greenwood, 1983). 27. ... See, for example:
Patricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of ..."
"This study presents new information about the four Quaker businessmen who helped found the London Abolition Committee in 1787 and remained active in the late anti-slave trade movement throughout their lifetimes. Drawing on previously unused primary sources, the study traces the close personal, business, social and religious ties binding the men together and shaping their abolition activities and arguments. By closely examining the lives ..."
"This text is the first component in the "MEI Structured Mathematics" series. It is designed to be both an access course for those who wish to proceed to AS or A-Level, but are not yet ready to do so, and also to be a first mathematics unit with Advanced GNVQs. The content covers the requirements of the Application of Number core skills for advanced GNVQ courses. It applies mathematics in a variety of contexts from industry and medicine ..."
"This informative book offers an introduction to the basic economic, demographic, and political aspects of social security, and addresses the questions most often asked regarding this subject. It offers the historical background, concepts, statistics, and options necessary to make informed judgements about the program, and addresses issues such as intergenerational equity, gender discrimination, and the future entitlement programs in a t ..."
Memorias De Un Médico (Spanish Edition) by SheldonDick Paperback, 350 Pages, Published 2010 by Nabu Press ISBN-13: 978-1-147-84735-2, ISBN: 1-147-84735-5