Natural Catastrophe Insurance in the United States

Rebecca Elliott explores how families, communities, and governments confront problems of loss as the climate changes. She offers the first in-depth...

Reducere. The United States of America will likely be devastated by earthquakes within the next twenty years. That is the startling conclusion of the authors...

Reducere. Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The internationa...

Reducere. This statistical report on the free Negro ownership of slaves was made possible in 1921 when the Director of the Association for the Study of Negro...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

In a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis that extends from the Civil War to the present, this book seeks to isolate the underlying causes of p...

Reducere. The beginner as well as the experienced professional will garner a hive full of information from Applied Beekeeping in the United States. Honeybee ...

This volume offers the first book-length consideration of American religious freedom advocacy from a rhetorical perspective. In it, fifteen scholar...

Reducere. Wilson's classic study and re-thinking of government in states and federal organizations such as Congress, the courts, executive agencies, and the ...

Explores the future of economic growth in the US, considering demographics, social insurance programs, technological progress, human capital, immig...

This volume provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, crimin...

Reducere. This collection of historical documents provides insight into the history of the United States in its pursuit of the peaceful uses of outer space, ...

Reducere. The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Artic...

Reproduction and the Constitution in the United States dissects the forces that shape US conflicts over birth control and abortion.Publisher: Taylo...

A compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the perspective of his enthusiastic American audiencePublisher: Yale University Pres...

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment available of how primary elections have contributed to the US political system for over a centu...

Reducere. In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes...

Reducere. "The most effective way to protect yourself from subconscious manipulation is by being aware of how it works, " states author Steven Jacobson. And ...

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick examine the dark side of American history from the beginning of the twentieth centu...

Crime in the United States contains findings from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the offenses known to law enforcement. This referenc...

Reducere. Whether at UFW picket lines in California's Central Valley or capturing summertime street life in East Harlem Latinx photographers have documented ...

Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Elizabeth FerrerIllustration(s): 43 Illustrations, color; 62 Illustrations, black and whiteNumb...

Reducere. Charles Colcock Jones, Sr. (1804 -1863) was a Presbyterian clergyman, educator, missionary, and planter of Liberty County, Georgia. While in the No...

Reducere. American Indians had lived in North America for thousands of years by the time European settlers arrived. The settlers came in search of land and w...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In 2017, a white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia forced many to consider how much progress had been made in a country that, nine ye...

Electronic eavesdropping once provoked protest and outrage. Now it is a mundane fact of life. How did we get here? The Listeners traces the spies a...

DescriptionHow do you sum up a whole country in just 100 words? This striking book takes on the challenge From amendment to Vegas, each of the care...

Finally, a book that shows that conservative economics is neither fantasy nor "voodoo" and also explains conservative economics in language and ter...

Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States a...

The classic primer for its subject, Housing Policy in the United States, has been substantially revised in the wake of the 2007 near-collapse of th...

Reducere. From the time it was organized in 1880, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers recorded aspects of the history of the mechanical engineering ...