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Discover the pleasures of watching insects with this fun, informative, and marvelously illustrated how-to guideInsects are the most abundant wildlife on the planetbut also the least observed.

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The 1980s witnessed exciting developments in theoretical writing in Western archaeology.

Das erste vollständige Verzeichnis von Reclams Universal-Bibliothek von 1867 bis 1945 (Nummern 1 bis 7610)Reclams Universal-Bibliothek feierte am 10.

Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II.

The cinema was the most popular form of entertainment during the Second World War.

A comprehensive and authoritative collection of Thoreau quotations on more than 150 subjects, from beauty to wisdomFew writers are more quotable than Henry David Thoreau.

This book brings together internationally renowned academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines who, in a variety of ways, seek to understand the legal, conceptual and practical consequences of parental imprisonment through a children's rights lens.

Criminology has focused mainly on problems of crime and violence in the large population centres of the Global North to the exclusion of the global countryside, peripheries and antipodes.

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

First published in 1980, Mugging as a Social Problem sets out to remedy the deficiency of serious research on mugging.

This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology.

From George Washington to Martin Luther King to George W.

The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts.

This is the third of three volumes which together contain the complete range of Lord Rutherford's scientific papers, incorporating in addition addresses, general lectures, letters to editors, accounts of his scientific work and personal recollections by friends and colleagues.

Find out what makes metadata an exciting addition to resource descriptionMetadata: A Cataloger's Primer provides catalog librarians and students with a comprehensive instructional resource on the ongoing convergence of cataloging and metadata.

Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art.

Containing more than 450 entries, this easy-to-read encyclopedia provides concise information about the history of and recent trends in drug use and drug abuse in the United States-a societal problem with an estimated cost of $559 billion a year.

As the last volume in the series sponsored by the SSRC Committee on Comparative Politics, this book reflects-as does the preceding volume-the Committee's decision to devote renewed attention to the original state building experiences of the West, after having studied political development in the newer countries of the Third World.

Each of the four volumes in this set, as well as each volume independently, provide comparative analyses for researches, practitioners, and students of the law and education in examining law and education in various countries around the world.

Master Quilt Borders, Backing, and Bindings!

Prepare to have your preconceived notions about shelter, security and wellbeing turned topsy-turvy.

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Sustainability is a far-reaching survey of the deep and contemporary history of sustainability.

Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career.

This autobiography is a series of interrelated true-life events and decisions taken by a black philosopher that highlight the human drama unfolding in the inferno of the South African apartheid system.

First published in 2004.

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The focus of this bibliography is the native literary tradition expressed in Irish and Welsh verse and prose from the earliest time to circa 1450.

Italy is a country that exercises a hold on the imagination of people all over the world.

Despite 15 years of reform efforts, the incarceration rate in the United States remains unprecedentedly high.

Dictionary of Agriculture is now available in a new, completely-revised second edition: it now includes 6,500 main headwords--a wide range of terms relating to agriculture, horticulture, and veterinary science.

Originally published in 1970, this volume provides a survey of the wide field of the development of education since 1800.

Critical Government Documents on Law and Order reviews of many law and order issues facing us today.

A Devotional, Verse-Memorization Journey Through 52 Key Passages of Scripture.

This full-color guide showcases the diversity of cannabis varieties.

The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the interior between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The very important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 20th century.

An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir explores and highlights achievements and stories of success throughout the author's academic and administrative experiences.

This book reports on research which investigates the perceptions of ethnic minorities concerning their treatment in the criminal courts.

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

The importance of technology transfer for the competitive advantage of companies and the economic success of nations cannot be overstated.

Given the recent advances in telecommunications and the fact that the French lead the field in many aspects of information technology, this will be a valuable tool for students, translators and interpreters.

The most comprehensive volume on one of the most controversial directors in American film history A Companion to D.

In the last twenty years, Orthodox Catholics have come to expect their art to be necessarily about beauty.

A uniquely personal meditation on Britain's gulls by one of today's leading wildlife writersFrom a distance, gulls are beautiful symbols of freedom over the oceanic wilderness.