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WHAT A SHAME THIS BOOK IS OUT OF ORDER!!!.......1999-07-17
I first heard about this truly splendid book from my history teacher at university. When finally I read it; all the stuff I had learned at university began to come together and make sense! This book is easy to read, very well structured, and with some very good references at the end of each chapter. Why it is not being re-printed is beyond me! All the things I needed and wanted to know about prehistoric times in the British Isles is to be found in this book. Publishers - get a grip! Kind regards Mrs Malene Persson
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No Word for Time has garnered superlatives from reviewers and influentual Native American figures, who have declared it one of the finest books on Native American spirituality ever written. Evan Pritchard, a descendent of the Micmac people (part of the Algonquin nations), aimed to learn more about his own native traditions through studying the language of the Algonquin, the key to their worldview: "They don't write in metaphor, they speak it; they don't recite poetry, they live it." The tribes collectively named "Algonquin" once occupied large stretches of North America, and their influence on our culture is vast. This edition includes a new index and afterword; a pronunciation key to the Algonquin language; a comprehensive map of the Algonquin world; a list of the major Algonquin nations and what they call themselves; and the Seven Points of Respect for Native American Ceremonies.
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response to critics of Evan's linguistic "errors".......2007-09-25
Not knowing where your information regarding the linguistic "errors" comes from, I can't refute your claims. I can however defend his choices by clarifying how he came by them. Our family grew up infuenced by a dear aunt who loved, and lived, her NA ancestry. Not the way so many do now, learned from books, without personal knowledge or understanding, but by living with the earth and its creatures and following the few traditions she had been shown. Evan, as did many of us, followed in her footsteps, researched our ancestry, and Evan took it even further, by going to the NA people and asking for guidance, for knowledge, for truth. Perhaps his dictionary doesn't match yours, or his perceptions aren't what you see as "true", but he loves and lives his pride in our ancestry every day. I would take what he's written as his truth, as he was taught by those who are Miqmac, over any book written by an observing anthropolologist any day.
Extraordinary.......2007-06-09
Pritchard's book is quite extraordinary. We learn that We the People is English for the commonly used Algonquin word ulnuq and that the phrase, walk your talk is also of Algonquin derivation. This is a book worth digesting and trying some of the ideas on for size.
The book talks about the wisdom and philosophy of the Algonquin people. Author Evan Pritchard, founder of the Center for Algonquin Culture, tells how, while there is no word for time, for minutes, hours, etc., time is described by the passage of and interaction with events. First creek freeze day is new years day.
Cranberry moon is "the time" when the cranberries ripen.
How long will it take? Until it is finished.
He writes how the Algonquin, his ancestral tribe-- the Mic Mac-- characterized the time keeping device as Captain Clock" because it controls you and dictates to you how you live.
I like the way he weaves and compares eastern philosophies and alternate approaches to awareness with his sharing of the indigenous American way.
After reading this book, I went out side and looked at the world a bit differently, more thankfully. That's more than I expect from the average book and something to be grateful for.
This is a book I'll be going back to again and again.
Nice try but..........2007-03-16
More New Age tripe from someone who thinks he knows what he's writing about. ( The guy grew up in a D. C. Suburb! ) Much of the information is just flat out wrong or mutilated to the point of being useless. Look to Bruchac or Kinney for the genuine information you deserve!
Not What I expected.......2003-05-15
I read and ordered Now Word for time, thinking it might be a scientific Anthropological study. Perhaps this pre-conception colored my judgement, because what I read seemed to be a philosophy book with which borders on New Age spiritualism.
The author describes his experiences study Algonquin traditions and makes several general statements on how the "Elders" act and feel. Many of these statements are so absolute, It makes me wonder... Do all the 'elder's' act/feel this way? What is the origin and purpose of these traditions? Is there a difference between the philosophy of the elders based on Gender? What about Gender rolls in Algonquin society? How do the non-elders feel? I was left curious about this.
Second, while I enjoyed some of the stories, I felt the author may leap to some conclusions based on experiences with a small group of people. Saying: "All Algonquin's behave a certain way-," is like saying: all Anglos eat fried rice on Tuesday..." it just seemed to generalized for me.
Third, I didn't really care for the first-person narrative: the author writes throughout the book "I have seen-" or "I-went" Or, "I did this." It just didn't seem to have the same impact as a third-person narrative.
Fourth: there was a distinct absence of footnotes, in the text. Chapters were slurred together with no particular order or purpose. Chapters starting off at the end of the paragraph of a previous chapter. I found this distracting.
Fifth: Finally, there is a certain 'pseudo-science' which I think can be misleading in this book. The author starts speculating that early native peoples were Neanderthal-like in appearance is incorrect. No neanderthals migrated to the American continent at all, and there is no scientific evidence to suggest that Native American's appeared any different in their physical aspects than other Early native peoples.
Overall, I recommend this book for fans of the metaphysical, who don't mind a 'stream of consciousness' style narration, and a certain lack of scientific perspective.
In conclusion, while I enjoyed aspects of "No Word For Time" I would use this book as a reference with caution.
Don't read this book if you're a linguist..........2003-02-20
The linguistics in this book are painfully bad. This guy knows nothing about Algonquian languages and can't even keep straight which one he's talking about. (There are more than 20, and each one is different. Algonquian is a language family like Indo-European. And by the way, the Mi'kmaq are NOT part of the Algonquin nation!) A Mohican man told me the author had made up some of the stuff in this book, despite some Mohicans trying to correct him. I believe it.
Of course, the book is mostly about spirituality, not linguistics, and that part may be much more valid. I wouldn't know--personally, I was too put off by the errors to finish the thing. If you don't care about languages you may like this book anyway. The writing style seems interesting. I just couldn't get past the gross inaccuracies in the one part I already knew something about.
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Time: Histories and Ethnologies (The Comparative Studies in Society and History Book Series)
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Time is the subject of several rather different conversations. Some of them, such as that of the cosmologists and theoretical physicists, are nearly impenetrable to nonspecialists; others have an easy popular appeal. In this volume, editors Diane Owen Hughes and Thomas R. Trautmann collect nine essays on the related but distinct conversation about time that takes place at the intersection of history and ethnology.
From the standpoint of Enlightenment reason, time should be a universal and uniform category of understanding. Yet in fact, this category is understood in different cultures in extremely diverse ways. The historians and anthropologists who contribute to this volume address this problem not in the abstract and the general but in contexts that are determinate and highly particular. Individual essays address the sense of time in a wide range of historical and present cultures, from the Yucatan to the Iparakuyo Maasai. Their discussion of whether nonuniform time is to be understood as socially constructed or as determined by relations of production, as the mystification of privilege or as cultural design, differs from philosophical discussions of time in that the real-world standard to which it submits itself is always culturally plural.
Diane Owen Hughes is Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan. Thomas R. Trautmann is Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History, University of Michigan.
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Polynesia: In Early Historic Times
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Images Gone With Time : Photographic Reflections of Slovak Folk Life (1950-1965)
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This unique book portrays the everyday life of the Slovak village in the middle of our century. The photographs bring to life ways of living and folk customs that have forever vanished into the past.
In Igor Grossmann's Images Gone with Time, starkly beautiful photographs capture the essence of the Slovak village at the moment of encounter between the old and the new, when centuries of tradition beheld the dawn of a new age. The world of the mountain village comes alive in these photographs: the countryside formed by traditional ways of farming, buildings blended into the scenery, and family life in the village in its ordinariness and its bright, festive moments.
These images are revealing, and this vanished world is part of the human record, even if the images are gone with time.
Grossmann's photographs are the land of our memories of home. They are a record of our existence, a guarantee of our survival.
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An invaluable, informative, historical overview........2000-05-09
Images Gone With Time: Photographic Reflections Of Slovak Life 1950-1963 is a fascinating and visual historical and anthropological record of a place and way of life now gone. Igor Grossman's starkly beautiful black-and-white photographs capture the essence of Slovak village life in a mountainous region of Central Europe at the moment of encounter between the old ways and the new day of European development, when centuries of tradition were about to give way to the modern age. This is a striking survey, a powerful visual tool documenting what was about to be altered forever by the technologies and ideologies of the second half of the twentieth century. An informative text by Martin Slivka places the images into a sound cultural context and enhanced Images Gone With Time as a significant and invaluable overview of a people and a way-of-life now but a bit of European history, a yesteryear culture that will never come again.
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Prophetic Thought.......2000-03-29
Cornel West's Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism is a great book for anyone who has retained a sense of hope and humanity despite the historical goings on in the world in which we live. As usual, Cornel West inspires his readers to sustain a sense of history in order to foster a feeling of hope when contemplating the past, present and future. I highly recommend this and all of West's other works for those pondering questions dealing with humanity.
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A reprint of this classic of precontact history tracing Hawaii's saga from legendary times to the arrival of Captain Cook, including an account of his demise. Originally published as volume II in the "An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migration," this historical work is made available again.
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Ancient Horsemen Of Siberia (Time Travelers)
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Useful for Adults.......2002-12-22
The book is nicely illustrated with photos of Pazyryk grave goods and mummies. It had a few major omissions. It starts talking about the Scythians but doesn't show a map of where the Scythians lived.
It also doesn't explain whether the Scythians were Asiatic like the Pazyryk probably were. An ancient felt painting of a Scythian that the book shows suggests that the Scythians were not Asiatic. So what is the connection between the Scythians and the Pazyryk? Why is the Scythian material included?
The photo of the tattoos on the 2500-year-old mummy was stunning. It was a glimpse into an alien world.
All the Fine Young Pazyryks.......2001-03-23
Could the first horse riders swooping around Siberia about 2,500 years ago have been the mythological half-horse half-human Centaurs? We call them Pazyryk for the burial mounds they left in the Ukok plateau. Some of these ANCIENT HORSEMEN OF SIBERIA were women, such as the mummy known as Leti: about 25 years old, she was a tall 5'6", buried in a fine headdress and well-preserved clothing; with elaborate shoulder, thumb and wrist tattoos, was she a medicine woman or one of the legendary Amazon warriors? This fascinating read is all the more precious because there is so little available in English on the Pazyryk, other than Olga Kharitidi's reference in ENTERING THE CIRCLE, Nova's SIBERIAN ICE MAIDEN video, and Sergei Rudenko's out-of-print masterpiece FROZEN TOMBS OF SIBERIA. Author Janet Buell similarly combines clues and facts in ICE MAIDEN OF THE ANDES, the mummy found by mountaineers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate (DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN) and the subject of David Getz's FROZEN GIRL, Nova's FROZEN IN HEAVEN video, and Susan Vande Griek's A GIFT FOR AMPATO.
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Where is the evil?.......2004-10-26
Where are the people who are out and out evil? Where are the 'Nazis' as depicted by both history and Hollywood?
Instead, we see real people. People just like us. That is what makes the book so disturbing. These aren't fanatics, instead they are ordinary people, some of who still see their involvement in the Third Reich as being periphery.
The evil is there, it's just so banal, so integrated within the lives of those involved that it's hard for the reader to acknowledge and accept.
These people could be us.
Well crafted, intriguing.......2004-10-24
A well crafted, historically accurate, behind the scenes look at life during the the rise of Nazi Germany. I felt it adressed a view that few talk about in this day and age. A thought provoking read!
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Distinguished historian / anthropologist Greg Dening here revisits the island beaches of Oceania in an extended essay on first encounters and the peoples they brought together. An imaginative exploration of the symbolic strip where ocean meets island, Dening's meditation reflects upon the bloody history of the Marquesas in the South Pacific: its inhabitants and its combatants, the author's own time spent there and in study of his subject. This is a book to treasure and to reflect upon.
First encounters are usually written about as the history of explorers and the anthropology of "others." It is Greg Dening's project to produce a history and anthropology of both, "on the beach," where so many of these exchanges between peoples began. Dening imaginatively reconstructs the first interactions among explorers, missionaries, and natives--mostly in the Marquesas, the primary focus of his scholarly work. He examines fictional accounts of these encounters as well as the written record, revisiting the experiences of Captain Bligh and Gauguin, Melville's seafarers as well as some famous castaways. Each featured beach crossing is prefaced with an introduction placing the encounter in its historical context.
Beach Crossings is for Greg Dening a summary work, the apex of a fifty-year career that has taken him across many beaches and oceans. The author of the seminal volume Mr. Bligh's Bad Language, Dening writes here an intensely personal, compelling reflection upon his crossings, his subjects'--and ours.
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Informative and Enjoyable.......2007-05-25
I really enjoyed this book. As a teenager with a morbid interest in nuclear accidents like Chernobyl, Medvedev gave a perfect amount of detail and information while making his account readable. This book is very well-written, which I didn't expect when I checked it out. It reads almost like a novel rather than like a non-fiction book. However, like others have said, it doesn't give a lot of definition for things like nuclear measurements (I must admit, I looked for a glossary when I saw the word "roetgen").
All in all, a great book and a pleasant surprise.
"Counting lives" meant "killing people".......2007-03-18
Those who wish to hide the truth delight
in creating new vocabulary to hide behind.
On p 234, Medvedev writes:
"...the phrase 'counting lives' had
acquired a new meaning." The meaning
was the number of men to be killed
in a procedure being considered.
However, I was disappointed he didn't
mention "bio-robots," the euphemism for
men sent to handle the fuel rods w/o
any protection.
I agree with other reviews that the
author (a) is a good writer and the
story moves right along, and (b) he
assumes that the readers knows a bit
more about nuclear measurements than
most of us do.
An enjoyable read.......2006-08-30
Grigori Medvedev puts us on a time machine back into a nostalgic world of nuclear innocence. The world in consternation by the destructive power of the atom at the end of the World War, has forgotten quickly within 30 years of what devastation and power the atom still holds. The book is simple enough to entertain the public but also has a touch of sophistication that entices even the unimpressionable scientists and engineers. First the book surgical removes the bland details of the events that led up to the crisis in Chernobyl. It quickly gives the reader a background that he needs to get himself emerged into the crisis. It does an excellent job in taking someone like myself who has no background in the science or the history of the disaster to a nominal understanding that led to the disaster and its after effects. It not only seeks a scientific approach but also provide a statement of how politics and science can clash and lead to catastrophic accidents. The bulk of the book is spent on the events of the 2 critical days of April 1986, which is followed by his very poignant criticism of the leadership and the academia that allowed such a culture to be embedded in Russian mentality. The shift in mentality that was set in as a result of Chernobyl is the most interesting part I thought of the book. He claims that Chernobyl has brought a warning to "man not to become intoxicated with his own power, not to take [that] power lightly, and not to seek in it ephemeral gains and pleasure and the glitter of prestige." The same recurring theme of pride and power, which haunts all man in every civilization and which opens for war and destruction, fuels also the scientific and engineering achievements. Of anything, I take away from the reading that even in the scientific world, one have to examine the agenda and the truthfulness of the material presented which cleverly hides behind the complex language of science.
Excellent second book to read about Chernobyl.......2006-05-05
This book is an excellent account of the accident. Besides being personally knowlegable, the author quotes NUMEROUS eye-witnesses to the disaster. He goes minute-by-minute (sometimes second-by-second) with virtually all the individuals who were present during the accident, and the politicians who, before and during the accident, made things worse.
However, in order to fully appreciate this book, some prior knowlege is needed. For example, terms like roentgens (a measure of radiation exposure) were never explained in laymen's terms - although even a layman can understand that, as the author points out, an instrument whose scale only goes up to 3.6 roentgens is inadequate to measure radiation in the range of 20,000 roentgens! Thus, most of the most important facts are fairly easy to deduce from context, although a glossery of nuclear terms would have been helpful.
Because the author has such a detailed knowlege of the subject, his account can occasionally loose the forest for the trees. For this reason, I say that it is an EXCELLENT second book to read about the disaster. If you already know the outlines of the events and have had the major terms defined for you (the "forest") by some other book, you cannot find a better book to explore every "tree" in detail. You don't need a physics doctorate, just some basic background.
But, even without any prior knowlege - my situation - the author's writing style is excellent. He captures the drama and the heroism with crackling intensity. He jumps from person to person, all around the plant, but he keeps the context, so the reader can see all these diffenerent groups and individuals working desperately in lethal conditions. And his pacing is excellent. Every person's experiences are described in detail, yet no one's account is sacrificed for anyone else's.
In conclusion, go get some basic background first, then READ THIS BOOK.
Chernobyl - have the lessons been learned?.......2005-09-23
I found this report a fascinating insight into the safety of the nuclear power industry in the former Soviet Union and elsewhere. Mr Medvedev is actually pro nuclear but he makes it clear we have to take responsibility for the massive potential for destruction that this technology entails - even during everyday operations. Mr Medvedev in turn provides detailed technical analysis, describes the psychology of the individual's involved and the inervating affect on decision making of a bureaucratic culture that rewarded cronyism and did not want to know about problems. The technical details took me a couple of reads to grasp sufficiently to understand the unfolding disaster, but this was offset by the human story and emotional response of the author to the disaster and its aftermath.
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Profound and important.......2007-09-10
This book is a punch in the gut. There's no nicer way to say it. It's downright devastating. It's something that every single person should read. Even if you only know Chernobyl vaguely, two things are made painfully apparent by this book: whatever you've read about Chernobyl in the past has probably grossly underestimated the magnitude of the disaster; and the death and injury toll from the accident hasn't stopped yet. Not by a long shot.
In her quest to expose the human cost of Chernobyl, journalist Svetlana Alexievich presents three years' worth of interviews with a wide cross-section of individuals. Unlike most books about Chernobyl, the focus is on the people of Belarus, who were not evacuated as quickly as their southern neighbors in Ukraine. The breadth of the author's research is astounding. The reader meets the widow of one of the first responders to the Chernobyl accident, a young firefighter who arrived at the nuclear plant clad only in his street clothes and ended up suffering an agonizing death in a Moscow radiation ward only 14 days later. There are children who were evacuated from surrounding cities and parents of children who have died from radiation-related illnesses. There's a respected scientist who, learning of the Chernobyl disaster, made frantic calls to all the Soviet brass in Minsk he could think of, only to be ignored. There are elderly men and women who have returned to the Exclusion Zone to live in solitude, eating radioactive crops. There are liquidators who toiled for months shoring up the reactor's ruins, only to receive a medal, a certificate and a serious or terminal illness as thanks. There's even an ex-Soviet official who tries to justify the cover-ups surrounding the Chernobyl crisis.
No angle is ignored, and no detail, no matter how horrifying, is politely edited out. Alexievich allows her subjects to tell their stories honestly and frankly. Voices from Chernobyl presents a profound moment of truth for a situation that, for 20 years, has been seeped in denial and secrecy. Very highly recommended.
Frst hand accounts.......2007-08-28
Touching first hand accounts of the people effected by the fallout of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Accounts of how land and the popluation were forever devasted and chagned, how the Soviet government secretly handled the containment and clean up and blinded many who dutifully responded by withholding and not inforing of the danger. The first story of the wife of a fireman who was one of the first on scene and her pain as she watched him die was the most gripping account to me. First hand accounts tell of poeple who have remained in Chernobyl, the way the land once looked and now looks and the soldiers who were sent to guard and contain the site. Overall I did find the book touching and intereting but towards the end, I did find the stories somewhat redundant of the theme.
This Book Will Break Your Heart.......2007-07-27
This book brought tears to my eyes reading the stories that these people have gone through. One would have to be made of stone not to cry over all that these wonderful people have had to go through.
Stories of love, death, sickness,pain, despair, and the reality of what could happen here in the States if we ever had a nuclear accident like they did. We must not grow lax or lazy and think it could not happen here, because the truth of the matter is that it could happen here. This book has convinced me more than ever, that nuclear power is not something that I want us to pursue as an souce of energy in this country.
I believe that it is important that I pass this book on so that more people can read this book. I want as many people to read this book, so that they know the facts of what would happen if we had a nuclear accident here in the States.
Voices from Chernobyl........2007-04-02
This was not the book I was looking for but it was the book I read. Far from an historical recreation of the disaster, Voices from Chernobyl is a personal confessional, a lyric documentation of intense human emotions. Svetlana Alexiech presents each story without comment or judgement. It is a stream of conscoiusness, profoundly moving in the face of this 1986 nuclear disaster, the gross incompetence of the Soviet Government and failure to contain the radioactive contamination. The stories are of those who stayed, those who came to help, those who died and those who survived. Haunting, moving, emotional, revealing, shocking, sad and inspirational. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned.
And You Think Hurricane Katrina Was A Disaster??.......2007-02-13
This book is a collection of stories, commentaries, and monologues from the people who lived and continue to live through the Chernobyl crisis. Their voices are simple and honest but come from the heart and clearly depict their hardship and suffering. Their voices also give portrayal to their culture which combines old world peasantry and Soviet collectivism that is clashing with an unexplainable, unseeable, and futuristic horror. It is this clash that renders the whole catastrophe so heartbreaking. That a simple, family oriented, agrarian society who have already lived through so much suffering be victim to such an accident is quite heartbreaking. And to make matters worse, the lack of education, support, protection, and management by the Soviet government is apalling. The failures of a socialistic bureacracy are quite apparent. After reading this book, I can clearly argue why nuclear technology should not be placed in the hands of governments such as Iran or North Korea who already have a record of irresponsibility. Allowing these countries to develop nuclear energy is like giving a three year old a loaded gun to play with. Well written and well deserving of the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for non-fiction.
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Numerous Gulf War veterans have reported a range of illnesses and symptoms after serving in the Persian Gulf. Some of the reported symptoms are similar to those caused by diseases known to be prevalent in that region. This report discusses these infectious diseases and considers them as potential causes of the symptoms reported by the veterans. The authors present a short summary of etiology, diagnosis, and treatment for several infectious diseases and infectious organisms, including bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections. Two biological agents--anthrax and botulinum toxin--are also discussed.
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This book will cover the time span from the first indications of El Nino (May 1997) until its reversal (June 1998). The focus will be largely on the United States, where El Nino produced widespread changes in how the public perceives weather and in the accuracy of forecasts Among the key issues it will examine are how the news media interpreted and dramatixed El Nino and the reaction both of the public and decision-makers (the latter based on interviews with agribusiness, utilities, water management agencies, etc.); the scientific issues emerging from the event; and the social and economic consequences of the event. Finally, it will suggest what can and should be done when El Nino occurs in the future.
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A Superb Policy Analysis.......2001-04-19
Stanley Changnon and his colleagues have written the best, and most comprehensive analysis of what really happened with the biggest climate event of the century, the 1997-1998 El Nino. What is unique about this book is that they carefully look at both the devastation that occured and the positive impacts from the mild winter -- fewer deaths from ice storms, more shopping when people went out in milder weather, less fuel oil. They also point out the places where the forecast worked, and where it had problems. As society gets more and more sensitive to weather events, we will need more thoughtful probing into how we have responded and how we will respond. This book sets the stage, and is written by experts who have analyzed other big weather events. I strongly recommend it.
A Superb Policy Analysis.......2001-04-19
Stanley Chagnon and his colleagues have written the best, and most comprehensive analysis of what really happened with the biggest climate event of the century, the 1997-1998 El Nino. What is unique about this book is that they carefully look at both the devastation that occured and the positive impacts from the mild winter -- fewer deaths from ice storms, more shopping when people went out in milder weather, less fuel oil. They also point out the places where the forecast worked, and where it had problems. As society gets more and more sensitive to weather events, we will need more thoughtful probing into how we have responded and how we will respond. This book sets the stage, and is written by experts who have analyzed other big weather events. I strongly recommend it.
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Environmental Issues in the 1990's
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Environmental Management in Healthcare Facilities (With CD-ROM)
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This reference is the first comprehensive guide that addresses the wide range of environmental issues facing healthcare facilities today. Presents background information on environmental management, addresses regulatory requirements, and details implementation alternatives. Provides the knowledge and guidance necessary to make informed waste/materials management decisions and address environmental issues. A CD-ROM containing the most relevant federal guidelines and regulations is included.
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Environmental Protection Act, 1990
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The Greening of British Party Politics (Issues in Environmental Politics Series)
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- The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century
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- Ultra in the Atlantic: U-Boat Operations (Intelligence Series , Vol 2, No 12)
- Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia, England, 1829 (The Royal Diaries)
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- We were Soldiers Once...And Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam
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