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  • (Part 4: Participation and Cultural Change) Chapter 10: Women and Water in the Northern Ecuadorean Andes by Elena Bastidas

    (Part 4: Participation and Cultural Change) Chapter 10: Women and Water in the Northern Ecuadorean Andes

    Elena Bastidas

    This book represents an important contribution to a growing subfield of feminist scholarship. Moving beyond a focus on the traditional policy areas normally associated with women and politics, the authors bring a gender analysis to bear on the “politics of water” in Latin America. Not only is this a policy issue not usually linked to women's rights, but, as the editors argue, even the national-level women's policy agencies created in many Latin American countries have overlooked the way gender discrimination impacts the heightening water crisis facing much of the region. Nevertheless, they maintain that “the right to water underpins all other social rights” (p. 15) and that “a gender perspective is not only possible but essential for effective water management” (p. ix).

  • Human Geography, 9th Edition by Jerome Donald Fellmann, Arthur Getis, Judith Getis, and Barry W. Barker

    Human Geography, 9th Edition

    Jerome Donald Fellmann, Arthur Getis, Judith Getis, and Barry W. Barker

  • Human Geography, 8th edition by Jerome Donald Fellmann, Judith Getis, Arthur Getis, and Barry W. Barker

    Human Geography, 8th edition

    Jerome Donald Fellmann, Judith Getis, Arthur Getis, and Barry W. Barker

    Barry Barker contributed photographs to this textbook.

  • Heterotrophic Protozoa from Hypersaline Environments by Gwen Hauer and Andrew Rogerson

    Heterotrophic Protozoa from Hypersaline Environments

    Gwen Hauer and Andrew Rogerson

  • Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors by Stephen James O'Brien

    Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors

    Stephen James O'Brien

    The history of life on Earth is dominated by extinction events so numerous that over 99.9% of the species ever to have existed are gone forever. If animals could talk, we would ask them to recall their own ancestries, in particular the secrets as to how they avoided almost inevitable annihilation in the face of daily assaults by predators, climactic cataclysms, deadly infections and innate diseases.

    In Tears of the Cheetah, medical geneticist and conservationist Stephen J. O'Brien narrates fast-moving science adventure stories that explore the mysteries of survival among the earth's most endangered and beloved wildlife. Here we uncover the secret histories of exotic species such as Indonesian orangutans, humpback whales, and the imperiled cheetah-the world's fastest animal which nonetheless cannot escape its own genetic weaknesses.

    Among these genetic detective stories we also discover how the Serengeti lions have lived with FIV (the feline version of HIV), where giant pandas really come from, how bold genetic action pulled the Florida panther from the edge of extinction, how the survivors of the medieval Black Death passed on a genetic gift to their descendents, and how mapping the genome of the domestic cat solved a murder case in Canada.

    With each riveting account of animal resilience and adaptation, a remarkable parallel in human medicine is drawn, adding yet another rationale for species conservation-mining their genomes for cures to our own fatal diseases. Tears of the Cheetah offers a fascinating glimpse of the insight gained when geneticists venutre into the wild.

  • Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes by Stephen James O'Brien, Joan C. Menninger, and William G. Nash

    Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomes

    Stephen James O'Brien, Joan C. Menninger, and William G. Nash

    A stunning visual collection of the banded metaphase chromosomekaryotypes from some 850 species of mammals, the Atlas of MammalianChromosomes represents an unabridged compendium of the state ofthis genomic art form. Bringing together information currentlyscattered throughout the cytogenetics literature for scores ofpublished and unpublished species, this atlas features high-qualitykaryotype images for nearly every mammal studied to date, making itthe most comprehensive assemblage of high-resolution chromosomephotographs available--a critically invaluable resource for today'scomparative genomics era.

    For every available species, the Atlas of Mammalian Chromosomespresents the best karyotype produced, the common and Latin name ofthe species, the published citation, and the contributing authors.Most karyotypes are G-banded, revealing the chromosomal bar codesof homologous segments among related species.

    Addressing the mandate of the Human Genome Project to annotate thegenomes of other organisms as well, the Atlas of MammalianChromosomes offers a step forward in our understanding of speciesformation, of genome organization, and of DNA script for naturalselection. It is an invaluable resource for geneticists,mammalogists, and biologists interested in comparative genomics,systematics, and chromosome structure.

  • A New Direction in Teaching Global Solidarity; Partnering with Catholic Relief Services by Suzanne C. Toton and Ismael Muvingi

    A New Direction in Teaching Global Solidarity; Partnering with Catholic Relief Services

    Suzanne C. Toton and Ismael Muvingi

  • Memoir by Kate Waites

    Memoir

    Kate Waites

  • Race and Racism (Revision) by Charles Zelden

    Race and Racism (Revision)

    Charles Zelden

    Revision of Encyclopedia Entry

    2nd Edition

  • The Schur Complement and Its Applications by Fuzhen Zhang

    The Schur Complement and Its Applications

    Fuzhen Zhang

    Describes the Schur complement as a tool in mathematical research and applications and discusses many significant results that illustrate its power and fertility. This book covers themes and variations on the Schur complement. It is useful for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in mathematics, applied mathematics, and statistics.

  • Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture by James E. Doan

    Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture

    James E. Doan

    In this encyclopedia, designed for "the educated lay public," more than 400 signed articles produced by 205 expert contributors come in three sizes. The largest articles offer more than 2,000 words of in-depth coverage and historical overview. The medium-sized (1,000-2,000 words) and smaller articles (less than 1,000 words) cover historical figures and more discrete events and topics. The A-Z entries are preceded by a chronology and followed by a selection of almost 150 primary documents ranging from the Confession of St. Patrick (c. 450) to the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement (1998)--a real bonus to users. Access is aided by an alphabetical list of entries and a comprehensive index with the main entries in bold type. Twenty-three maps and numerous black-and-white photographs and illustrations accompany the text.

  • Tara by James E. Doan

    Tara

    James E. Doan

    The impact of the Irish upon the arts, popular culture, scholarship, and politics has been immense. Literature in English cannot be fully understood without consideration of James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, among others. The Irish struggle for independence in the early twentieth century, and the strife that continues today over north-south question, have received international attention and concern. The Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture is written for a broad audience of students, academics, and general readers. It spans prehistoric times to the present, and examines both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in detail. It offers, in A-Z format, 25 long, thematic articles on politics, economics, religion, the arts, and society; 200 mid-length entries on key movements, periods, institutions, and cities; and 175 succinct articles on specific people, groups, and events. Entries represent an inclusive, cross-disciplinary approach, written by specialists in history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, politics, economics, the Irish and English languages and literatures, the visual arts, and other fields.

  • Ua Dalaigh (poets) by James E. Doan

    Ua Dalaigh (poets)

    James E. Doan

    Through violent incursions by the Vikings and the spread of Christianity, medieval Ireland maintained a distinctive Gaelic identity. From the sacred site of Tara to the manuscript illuminations in the Book of Kells, Anglo-Irish relations to the Connachta dynasty, Ireland during the middle ages was a rich and vivid culture.

    Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia brings together in one authoritative resource the multiple facets of life in Ireland before and after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, from the sixth to sixteenth century. Multidisciplinary in coverage, this A-Z reference work provides information on historical events, economics, politics, the arts, religion, intellectual history, and many other aspects of the period. Written by the world's leading scholars on the subject, this highly accessible reference work will enable students, researchers, and general readers alike to explore topics such as

    • The development of the city of Dublin from the early Irish settlement of Áth Cliath (ford of hurdle-work) in the sixth century C.E. to a thriving medieval city
    • The history of kings and kingships in medieval Ireland including political structure, royal dynasties, and historical roots
    • Different literary genres including historical tales, satire, aideda, and Irish poetry as well as the outside influence on medieval Irish literature by the Carolingian dynasty, the Anglo-Saxons, the Scottish, and others
    • The literary, political, and religious people from the Irish middle ages such as Marianus Scottus, Strongbow, Brian Boru, St. Brigit, and Richard FitzRalph
    • The culture and society of the era including music, games, craftwork, role of women, fraternities, and bardic schools
    • And much more…

    With over 345 essays ranging from 250 to 2,500 words, Medieval Ireland paints a lively and colorful portrait of the time. The latest volume in the acclaimed Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middles Ages, this resource is a fascinating and comprehensive exploration of Irish history.

  • Introduction to Geography, 9th Edition by Judith Getis and Barry W. Barker

    Introduction to Geography, 9th Edition

    Judith Getis and Barry W. Barker

  • Cases and Materials on German Law, History, Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition for LGST 2400 Students by Stephen R. Levitt

    Cases and Materials on German Law, History, Politics and Society in the Twentieth Century, Second Edition for LGST 2400 Students

    Stephen R. Levitt

  • Leave the Gun; Take the Cannoli: Food and Family in the Modern American Mafia Film by Marlisa Santos

    Leave the Gun; Take the Cannoli: Food and Family in the Modern American Mafia Film

    Marlisa Santos

    When the Little Caesars of the 1920s and 1930s in American film became transformed into the Michael Corleones of the 1970s, the filmic treatment of the Mafia began to involve home and family as much as guns and gambling. This shift signified a more complete treatment of the Mafia and its role in Italian American immigrant culture, including depiction of a wider range of forces that informed the world of Italian-American organized crime. It is perhaps these details of home and family that make the Godfather movies and other Mafia films that came later so fascinating to the American movie world; these films began to reveal subtexts about immigration and assimilation issues that transcend the organized crime underworld.

  • Analysis to Action: A Guidebook For Conflict-Sensitive USAID Programming in Africa by Mary H. Schwoebel, Michael Lund, Chloe Schwenke, Bob Leavitt, Ajit Joshi, and Stephen Ndegwa

    Analysis to Action: A Guidebook For Conflict-Sensitive USAID Programming in Africa

    Mary H. Schwoebel, Michael Lund, Chloe Schwenke, Bob Leavitt, Ajit Joshi, and Stephen Ndegwa

  • Helicosporidium by Aurelien Tartar

    Helicosporidium

    Aurelien Tartar

    The Encyclopedia of Entomology brings together the talents of over 350 distinguished entomologists from 36 countries to provide a detailed, global overview of insects and their close relatives, including taxonomy, behavior, ecology, physiology, history, and management. All the major groups of arthropods are treated, as are many important families and individual species. The Encyclopedia also covers physiology, genetics, ecology, behavior, insect relationships with people, medical entomology, and pest management. Detailed listings are also complemented by more than 1100 illustrations. Featured in this important work are unique biographical sketches of the hundreds of entomologists who have made important contributions to the discipline since its origin.
    Presented in three volumes and including a fully searchable and easily accessed online version, theEncyclopedia of Entomology is the most complete reference work in this field. In addition to being a must for Entomology departments around the world, the Encyclopedia also serves as a handy reference for scientists and students in related areas of science such as agronomy, animal science, botany, ecology, human disease, evolutionary biology, forestry, genetics, horticulture, parasitology, toxicology and zoology.

  • “In no Event shall a Negro be Eligible” Lawrence A. Nixon and the All-­‐White Primary by Charles Zelden

    “In no Event shall a Negro be Eligible” Lawrence A. Nixon and the All-­‐White Primary

    Charles Zelden

  • The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All White Primary by Charles Zelden

    The Battle for the Black Ballot: Smith v. Allwright and the Defeat of the Texas All White Primary

    Charles Zelden

    The history of voting rights in America is a checkerboard marked by dogged progress against persistent prejudice toward an expanding inclusiveness. The Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright is a crucial chapter in that broader story and marked a major turning point for the modern civil rights movement. Charles Zelden's concise and thoughtful retelling of this episode reveals why.

    Denied membership in the Texas Democratic Party by popular consensus, party rules, and (from 1923 to 1927) state statutes, Texas blacks were routinely turned away from voting in the Democratic primary in the first decades of the twentieth century. Given that Texas was a one-party state and that the primary effectively determined who held office, this meant the total exclusion of Texas blacks from the political process. This practice went unchecked until 1940, when Lonnie Smith, a black dentist from Houston, fought his exclusion by election judge S. E. Allwright in the 1940 Democratic Primary. Defeated in the lower courts, Smith finally found justice in the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 8-1 that the Democratic Party and its primary were not "private and voluntary" and, thus, were duly bound by constitutional protections governing the electoral process and the rights of all citizens.

    While the initial impetus of the case may have been the wish of one man to exercise his right to vote, the real meaning of Smith's challenge to the Texas all white primary lies at the heart of the entire civil rights revolution. One of the first significant victories for the NAACP's newly formed Legal Defense Fund against Jim Crow segregation, it provided the conceptual foundation which underlay Thurgood Marshall's successful arguments in Brown v. Board of Education. It was also viewed by Marshall, looking back on a long and storied career, as one of his most important personal victories.

    As Zelden shows, the Smith decision attacked the intractable heart of segregation, as it redrew the boundary between public and private action in constitutional law and laid the groundwork for many civil rights cases to come. It also redefined the Court's involvement in what had been a hands-off area of "political questions" and foreshadowed its participation in voter reapportionment cases.

    A landmark case in the evolution of Southern race relations and politics and for voting rights in general, Smith also provides a telling example of how the clash between national concerns and local priorities often acts as a lightning rod for resolving controversial issues. Zelden's lucid account of the controversies and conflicts surrounding Smith should refine and reinvigorate our understanding of a crucial moment in American history.

  • Environmental Studies: Concepts, Connections, and Controversies by Barry W. Barker

    Environmental Studies: Concepts, Connections, and Controversies

    Barry W. Barker

    An informative softcover resembling an activist approach to environmental science. Covers problems facing us now & the future, & looking at solutions and controversies they create.

  • Crossing the Finnish Line by James E. Doan

    Crossing the Finnish Line

    James E. Doan

  • The Scotch-Irish in 18th Century America and their Counterparts in 19th Century Australia: A Comparative Study of Relations between Colonists and Natives on Two Frontiers by James E. Doan

    The Scotch-Irish in 18th Century America and their Counterparts in 19th Century Australia: A Comparative Study of Relations between Colonists and Natives on Two Frontiers

    James E. Doan

    Since Mary McAleese embraced the expatriate and emigrant Irish in her inaugural Presidential address, much has been made of the global Irish family. This exciting collection of essays by a group of eminent scholars explores the teaching and research of Irish literature in a region of the world that has scouted the attractions of western culture since the sixteenth century. Three or four centuries later those attractions, as far as the Irish are concerned, have become specific. Irelands in the Asia-Pacific explores these in a sequence of twenty-six articles grouped under the headings of: Writing an Irish Self; Joyce at large; Post-Colonial readings of Irish Literature; Antipodean Connections; Teaching Irish Literature in the Asia-Pacific; and Irish Literature Down-Under.

  • Entre dos aguas: Yanitzia Canetti y la literatura cubana en Estados Unidos by Yvette Fuentes

    Entre dos aguas: Yanitzia Canetti y la literatura cubana en Estados Unidos

    Yvette Fuentes

    Antología que reúne colaboraciones de importantes escritores e investigadores sobre el fenómeno de la creación literaria desde el punto de vista de la experiencia del biculturalismo en Estados Unidos, así como la integración en la literatura norteamericana de nuevas preocupaciones temáticas y formales como el realismo mágic.

  • For Race and Country: The Life and Career of Colonel Charles Young by David Kilroy

    For Race and Country: The Life and Career of Colonel Charles Young

    David Kilroy

    Charles Young served as the highest-ranking African American officer in the U.S. Army until 1917. During his career, he served on the western frontier, in the Philippines, and in Mexico, and as military attache to both Haiti and Liberia. Young was also an accomplished linguist, a musician and composer, a published author, and an active member of the black intelligentsia. A history of Young's life transcends the fields of military, diplomatic, and African American history. For those interested in the history of the United States between Reconstruction and World War I, his life offers a guided tour through one of the most important epochs in the American experience. Charles Young's career was shaped by race. The army regarded him as an anomaly and sought to limit his visibility. He, on the other hand, used his profile to promote the cause of racial equality. As a soldier, he was diligent in his observance of duty. As a citizen, he was committed to the cause of black civil rights. For Charles Young, success was more than a personal dream, it was an obligation to his people. Young's ultimate goal was to attain the rank of general. Thus, his forced retirement on medical grounds in 1917 was a crushing blow, and, for him and his supporters, bore testament to the racism that permeated the armed forces and America.

 

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