Underwater. Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States, Paperback - Rebecca Elliott

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

Reducere. A lively, interdisciplinary history of why the banana became America's most popular fresh fruit and how its popularity has affected the "banana rep...

Understanding the Social Economy of the United States is a comprehensive introduction to the operation and study of organizations with social goals...

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

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of w...

This book takes a critical view of the relationship between public discourse and culturally specific definitions of free speech to illuminate the w...

Publisher: Skinner House BooksAuthor(s): Mark J. T. (Mark J. T. Caggiano) CaggianoNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 218 x...

This book deals with the reception of Italian elitism in the United States, identifying its key protagonists, phases, and themes. It aims to shed l...

Analyses the ways in which the management of natural resources may impact climate change, and how climate change impacts the adaptation strategies ...

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

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Lydia MorrisNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 20Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Eugene LindenNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 35Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

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...

An unflinching photographic record of the epic effects of a violent climate, from the earliest extinction events to the present.Illustrations: 150 ...

Provides a map of current approaches to comics and their engagement with historical representation. The first section of the book explores the exis...

Drug Trafficking in Mexico and the United States examines drug trafficking from an interdisciplinary and progressive perspective. Gabriel Ferreyra ...

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 vivid and compelling study of Socrates's moral philosophy and, more generally, of his moral outlook and his attitude toward religion and socie...

This paper outlines the importance of tracking adaptation in the context of the implementation of the Paris Agreement and provides a flexible and c...

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 ...

A timely and persuasive discussion of the circumstances, challenges, and possibilities facing the new socialist movement in the US.Publisher: Hayma...

The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mec...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes a bibliography for further reading "The carrying of Negroes among the Indians has all along been thought detrimental, a...

Busby explains how climate change can affect security outcomes, including violent conflict and humanitarian emergencies. Through case studies from ...

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...