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Race, Incarceration, and American Values
"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans.The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater th…
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- 9780262278577
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- 1 online resource (86 pages).
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Frontiers : histories of civil society and nature
In Frontiers, Michael Redclift examines the relationship between nature and society in frontier areas--contested zones in which rival versions of civil society vie with one another, often over the definition and management of nature itself. Drawing on his own fieldwork and extensive archival research, Redclift presents five cases in which civil societies emerged in frontier areas either to mana…
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- 9780262282185
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- 1 online resource (x, 237 pages) :illustrations, map
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- 333 RED f
Garbage wars : the struggle for environmental justice in Chicago
A study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks to those who dispose of it. He follows the trash, the pollution, the hazards, and the people who encou…
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- 9780262281355
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- 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations.
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- 340 PEL g
A ghost's memoir : the making of Alfred P. Sloan's "My years with General Mot…
Includes index.The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motor's attempts to block the book's publication, and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation.Published in 1964, My Years with General Motors was an immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Slo…
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- 9780262279420
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 202 pages)
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- 620 MCD
Global environmental assessments : information and influence
A comparative analysis of global environmental assessments shows the importance of policy salience, scientific credibility, and social and political legitimacy in determining the influence of scientific assessments on global environmental policy.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279987
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) : illustrations.
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- 333 MIT g
Global environmental diplomacy : negotiating environment agreements for the W…
Tolba had as much insight into, and influence on, the development of international environmental policy as anyone. In this book, he tells the story of the negotiations that led to a number of landmark agreements, such as the Vienna Convention on Ozone and its Montreal Protocol, the Basel Convention on Hazardous Wastes, and the Biodiversity Convention. The book stands as the legacy of an importa…
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- 9780262285056
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- 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages).
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- Global Environmental Accord: Strategies for Sustainability and Institutional Innovation
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- 333 TOL g
R for Marketing Research and Analytics
Buku ini merupakan pengantar lengkap tentang kekuatan R bagi para praktisi riset pemasaran. Teks ini menjelaskan model statistik dari sudut pandang konseptual dengan sedikit matematika, dengan asumsi hanya memiliki pengetahuan dasar tentang statistik. Bab-bab praktis mempercepat kurva pembelajaran dengan meminta pembaca berinteraksi dengan R sejak awal. Topik inti meliputi bahasa R, statistik d…
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- 978-3-319-14436-8
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- Use R!
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- 658.8 CHA r
Queueing Theory and Network Applications
Ke-16 makalah dalam prosiding ini telah dipilih dari kiriman ke Konferensi Internasional ke-10 tentang Teori Antrean dan Aplikasi Jaringan (QTNA2015) yang diselenggarakan pada tanggal 17-20 Agustus 2015 di Ha Noi dan Ha Long, Vietnam. Semua kontribusi membahas isu-isu teoritis dan praktis yang terkait dengan teori antrean dan aplikasinya dalam jaringan dan bidang terkait lainnya. Buku ini mempe…
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- 978-3-319-22267-7
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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- 004.072 TAK q
Democratizations: Comparisons, Confrontations, and Contrasts
A cross-disciplinary examination of democratization, as seen in different attempts at it across the globe.Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations are open-ended processes; they depend on structures and functions in systemic contexts that idiosyncratically evolve in tone, tenor, direction, and pace. They affect and are affected by scores of determinants, both perceived and hypothet…
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- 9780262270366
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages)
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Political Theory and Global Climate Change
Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285445
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- 1 online resource (xxiv, 228 pages)
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