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Children with Specific Language Impairment (Second Edition)
"A Bradford book.""The first edition of this work established Children with Specific Language Impairment as the landmark reference on this condition, considering not only the disorder's history, possible origins, and treatment but also what SLI might tell us about language organization and development in general. This second edition offers a complete update of the earlier volume. Much of the se…
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- Second edition.
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- 9780262324021
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- 1 online resource (480 pages) :illustrations.
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Eco-business :a big-brand takeover of sustainability
McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Today, big-brand companies seem to be making commitments that go beyond the usual "greenwashing" ef…
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- 9780262313063
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- 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) :illustrations
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Transnational Politics of the Environment: The European Union and Environment…
A study of the effect of EU membership on Central and Eastern European environmental policy and the interplay of political incentives and industry behavior that determines policy In Transnational Politics of the Environment, Liliana Andonova examines the effect of the Europen Union (EU) on the environmental policies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland. Compliance with EU environmental r…
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- 9780262267168
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- 1 online resource (x, 251 pages) :illustrations.
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Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
The dangers of a United States government plan to abandon its fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military uses of nuclear technology separate.In December 1998, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that the U.S. planned to begin producing tritium for its nuclear weapons in commercial nuclear power plants. This decision overturned a fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military …
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- 9780262268233
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Greening Berlin :the co-production of science, politics, and urban nature
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of many cities. One of the emblematic examples of this now worldwide trend has been the German city of Berlin,…
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- 9780262312424
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Mens et mania :the MIT nobody knows
A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262300063
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 223 pages)
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Noxious New York :the racial politics of urban health and environmental justice
'Noxious New York' examines the culture, politics, and history of the movement for environmental justice in New York City, tracking activism in four neighborhoods on issues of public health, garbage, and energy systems in the context of privatisation, deregulation, and globalisation.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262284646
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- 1 online resource (x, 282 pages) :illustrations, map.
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The science of bureaucracy :risk decision making and the US Environmental Pro…
How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of t…
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- 9780262356671
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- 1 online resource (452 pages).
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Object recognition in man, monkey, and machine
The contributors bring a wide range of methodologies to bear on the common problem of image-based object recognition. These interconnected essays on three-dimensional visual object recognition present cutting-edge research by some of the most creative neuroscientific, cognitive, and computational scientists in the field. Cassandra Moore and Patrick Cavanagh take a classic demonstration, t…
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- 9780262287609
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- 1 online resource (217 pages) :illustrations.
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Scientists under surveillance :the FBI files
Cold War-era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy Leary. Armed with ignorance, misinformation, and unfounded suspicions, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover cast a suspicious eye on scientists in disciplines ranging from physics to sex research. If the Bureau surveilled writers because of what they believe…
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