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On Human Rights
In this book, Griffin shows how the language of human rights has become debased. He takes on the task of showing the way towards a determinate concept of human rights, based on their relation to the human status that we all share. He works from certain paradigm cases, such as freedom of expression ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Texas Jeopardy (A Texas Ranger James C. Blawcyzk Novel)
Texas Ranger Jim Blawcyzk lands in hot water when he kills a drug dealer in a shoot-out between the Rangers and a gang of modern day outlaws deep in the heart of Texas. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg as he uncovers the criminal connection between these same drug dealers and a slew of murders... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Key Facts: Intellectual Property
by James Griffin • Ying JinKey Facts has been specially written for students studying law. It is the essential revision tool for a broad range of law courses. The series is written and edited by an expert team of authors whose experience means they know exactly what is required in a revision aid. They include examiners, b... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Estimating the Value of Water-Use Efficiency in the Intermountain West
This report presents an economic framework for estimating a water agency's avoided costs and environmental benefits of increasing water-use efficiency. The report demonstrates this framework by evaluating the benefits of Denver Water's efficiency programs and utilizes an exploratory modeling approac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use
How could producing 25 percent of U.S. electricity and motor-vehicle transportation fuels from renewables by the year 2025 affect U.S. consumer energy expenditures and CO2 emissions? This report finds that reaching 25 percent renewables with limited impact on expenditures requires significant progre... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Intellectual Property Rights and Emerging Technology: 3D Printing in China
3D printing poses many challenges to the traditional law of intellectual property (IP). This book develops a technical method to help overcome some of these legal challenges and difficulties. This is a collection of materials from empirical interviews, workshops and publications that have been carri... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future
This book discusses the opportunities and risks the government of Israel faces in shifting to a greater reliance on domestic and imported natural gas. By applying newly developed methods for strategic planning and decisionmaking under deep uncertainty, the analysis seeks to help the Israeli governme... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
CityCenter (D): Financial Crisis, Grand Opening, and a New Paradigm
"CityCenter (D)" follows the (A), (B), and (C) cases with subsequent chronological events through CityCenter's grand opening in December 2009 and financial results through March 2010. The case includes a simple valuation exercise intended to explore CEO Jim Murren's options as he seeks to avoid an M... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
OPEC Behaviour and World Oil Prices (Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Politics of Oil and Gas #5)
This volume, originally published in 1982, brings together economists, political scientists and industry experts to explain OPEC’s past achievements and future (in the early 1980s) prospects. The book opens with a clear, concise amd easy to follow treatment of the economics of exhaustible resources ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1982 -
Water Shortage and Property Investing In Mexico City
A commercial property company evaluates water risks including the government's ability to remedy, the company's operating exposure and mitigation, and whether to relocate because of water risk. A real estate fund manager assesses investment prospects in Mexico City in the context of a major water su... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
A Note on Real Estate Research
This note provides a comprehensive research guide for real estate students, professionals, and executives. It includes lists of real estate industry trade organizations, publicly available research resources, books, and journals relevant to a wide range of financial and operational careers in real e... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Mexico City Water Shortage
In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe water shortage in Mexico City, a great global capital. The protagonist is a real estate investor doing due diligence on the magnitude of the crisis, the impact on the firm's ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
The Job Developer's Handbook: Practical Tactics for Customized Employment
<p>One of the most practical employment books available, this forward-thinking guide walks employment specialists step by step through customized job development for people with disabilities, revealing the best ways to build a satisfying, meaningful job around a person's preferences, skills, and goa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Making Self-Employment Work for People with Disabilities (Second Edition)
<p>As self-employment becomes a viable option for more and more adults with significant disabilities, give them realistic, practical guidance and support with the NEW edition of this popular guidebook. Updated with a new and improved assessment approach, more self-employment success stories, and the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Apple Watch for Developers: Advice & Techniques from Five Top Professionals
Apple Watch for Developers: Advice & Techniques from 5 Top Professionals gives you the base-knowledge and valuable secrets you'll need for your own projects from a core team of successful, experienced Apple Watch app-development experts. You'll explore elements such as branding within Watch apps, t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Cultural Tourism
by Razaq Raj • Ian Rotherham • Nigel Morpeth • Carlos Fernandes • Dolors Vidal • Tahir Rashid • Vincent Zamitt • Kevin Griffin • Jane Legget • Jon Edwards • Claudia Kroesbacher • Frances Mcgettigan • Alexandra Tirca • Wided Majdoub • Kelli Ann Malone • Ivana Pavlic • Manon Niesten • Anna Thompson • Lia Bassa • Catherine Gorman • Neus Crous-CostaWith contributions from international experts this book provides a broad discussion of cultural tourism as a concept and the way it is implemented in diverse regions around the world. Addressing the notion of cultural tourism and what it means to tourism as an industry, and also types of cultural to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management: An International Perspective (2nd Edition)
by Razaq Raj • Neil Robinson • Ian Rotherham • Alan Clarke • Nour Farra-Haddad • Carlos Fernandes • Silvia Aulet • Vitor Ambrósio • Elizabeth Ifeyinwa Benson • Nigel Bond • Miguel Brázio • Geoffrey Skoll • Dolors Vidal • Ruth Blackwell • Hadil Faris • Maria Leppakari • Michael O’ Regan • Yasin Bilim • Jorge Coelho • Jaeyeon Choe • Tahir Rashid • Samson Olawale Fadare • Sevde Düzgüner • Maximiliano Korstanje • Lluis Prats • Vincent Zamitt • Anna Trono • Kevin Griffin • Agnes RaffayWithin the past 10 years 'Religious Tourism' has seen both economic and education-sector growth on a global scale. This book addresses the central role of religious tourism and interrelationships with other aspects of pilgrimage management. It provides practical applications, models and illustration... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Paratuberculosis: Organism, Disease, Control
by Ian Marsh • Richard Whittington • John P. Bannantine • Rory O'Brien • Ali Thompson • David C Alexander • Angelika Agdestein • Christina Ahlstrom • Herman W. Barkema • Raul Barletta • Douglas Begg • Marcel Behr • Evan P. Brenner • Tim Bull • Ofelia Chacon • Paul Coussens • Ross S. Davidson • Justin L. DeKuiper • Kumudika De Silva • Berit Djonne • Karsten Donat • Shannon Duffy • Natalia Elguezabal • Susanne Eisenberg • Naomi J. Fox • Joseba M. Garrido • Irene R. Grant • J Frank Griffin • Murray Hines • Michael R Hutchings • Jamie Imada • Ramón A. Juste • Edward Kabara • Annette H. Kampen • David F. Kelton • Jennifer N. Kiser • Elise A. Lamont • Kari R. Lybeck • Colin Mackintosh • Glenn Marion • Holly L Neibergs • Søren Saxmose Nielsen • Karren M. Plain • Auriol Purdie • Govardhan Rathnaiah • Iker A. Sevilla • Fernanda M. Shoyama • Lesley A. Smith • Srinand Sreevatsan • Judy Stabel • Jaryd R. Sullivan • Adel Talaat • Girum T. Tessema • Christine Turenne • Chia-Wei Wu • Denise K. ZinnielParatuberculosis, also referred to as Johne's disease, affects principally cattle, goats, sheep, buffalo, deer and other ruminants. It is common worldwide and responsible for significant economic losses in the ruminant livestock industries. A timely follow up to the first book on Paratuberculosis, t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition
by Barack Obama • Stephen B. Thomas • Rinku Sen • John P. Kretzmann • Rachel Morello-Frosch • Meredith Minkler • Nina Wallerstein • Barbara A. Israel • Eugenia Eng • Edith A. Parker • Tom Wolff • Celina Su • Manuel Pastor • Jason Corburn • Whitney Johnson • Ronald Labonté • Mark S. Homan • Christine Mitchell • Michelle C. Kegler • Patricia Wakimoto • Lionel J. Beaulieu • Adam B. Becker • Lynn Blanchard • Anne Bluethenthal • Frances Dunn Butterfross • Lisa Cacari Stone • Caricia Catalani • Charlotte Yu-Ting Chang • Roxana Chen • Wayland X. Coleman • Chris M. Coombe • Lori Dorfman • Nancy Epstein • Jessica Estrada • Jennifer Falbe • Stephanie A. Farquhar • Prisila Gonzalez • Joseph Griffin • Leslie Grover • Lorraine Gutiérrez • Trevor Hancock • Susana Hennesey Laverty • Reva Hines • Lili Farhang • Solange Gould • Cheryl A. Hyde • Anthony B. Iton • Josh Kirschenbaum • Blishda Lacet • Pam Tau Lee • Edith A. Lewis • Jennifer Lifshay • Laura Linnan • Shaw San Liu • Shaddai Martinez Cuestas • Marty Martinson • John L. McKnight • Mary Anne Morgan • Angela Ni • Susan Racine Passmore • Amber Akemi Piatt • Cheri A. Pies • Clara Pinsky • R. David Rebanal • Kathleen M. Roe • Zachary Rowe • Alicia L. Salvatore • Shannon Sanchez-Youngman • Amy J. Shulz • Lee Staples • Makani Themba • Maria Elena Torre • Evan Vandommelen-Gonzalez • Dierde Visser • Kirsten Wysen • Marisa Ruiz Asari • Nickie Bazell • Derek M Griffith • Heather CameThe fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- bu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022