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Resisting Global Toxics :Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice.
Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281362
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- 1 online resource (359)
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Handbook of developmental cognitive neuroscience
"A Bradford book."The second edition of an essential resource to the evolving field of developmental cognitive neuroscience, completely revised, with expanded emphasis on social neuroscience, clinical disorders, and imaging genomics.The publication of the second edition of this handbook testifies to the rapid evolution of developmental cognitive neuroscience as a distinct field. Brain imaging a…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262280532
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- 1 online resource (xi, 923 pages) :illustrations (some color).
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Integrating evolution and development :from theory to practice
Scholars argue for the importance of the developmental synthesis, or evo-devo, discussing the history and potential of this growing field of study and presenting specific case studies.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262282932
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- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) :illustrations
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Governance and information technology :from electronic government to informat…
Experts discuss moving beyond the notion of electronic government and its focus on technology and efficiency to a broader concept of "information government" that incorporates the role of information flows within government, between government and citizen.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279291
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) :illustrations
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Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat :new perspectives on gender and gaming
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- 9780262322553
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- 1 online resource (xxv, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Big box reuse
What happens to the landscape, to community, and to the population when vacated big box stores are turned into community centers, churches, schools, and libraries? America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box "supercenter" down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant shell of a retail operation; it leave…
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- 9780262270267
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- 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) :illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
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Water, place, and equity
Many predict that by the end of the 21st century water will dominate world natural resource politics as oil does today. At present, much of the world's water is misallocated, wasted or polluted. This book argues that fairness in the allocation of water could be the cornerstone to a more secure future for mankind.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262286107
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- 1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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American foundations :an investigative history
In American Foundations , Mark Dowie argues that organized philanthropy is on the verge of an evolutionary shift that will transform America's nearly 50,000 foundations from covert arbiters of knowledge and culture to overt mediators of public policy and aggressive creators of new orthodoxy. He questions the wisdom of placing so much power at the disposal of nondemocratic institutions. As Ameri…
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- 0585379971
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- 1 online resource (xl, 320 pages)
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The business of global environmental governance
The Business of Global Environmental Governance takes a political economy approach to understanding the role of business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors -- from a range of disciplines including international political economy, management, and political science -- view the evolution of international environmental governance as a dynamic interplay of economic structures,…
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- 026230290X
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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Barriers to riches
Why isn't the whole world as rich as the United States? Conventional views holds that differences in the share of output invested by countries account for this disparity. Not so, say Stephen Parente and Edward Prescott. In Barriers to Riches, Parente and Prescott argue that differences in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) explain this phenomenon. These differences exist because some countries ere…
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- 1st MIT Press ed.
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- 0262281252
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 164 pages) :illustrations.
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