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Whole Earth Field Guide
A source book for American culture in the 1960s and 1970s: "suggested reading" from the Last Whole Earth Catalog, from Thoreau to James Baldwin.The Whole Earth Catalog was a …
How Vocabulary is Learned
This guide to vocabulary acquisition is essential readingfor teachers of English as a second or foreign language. It presents the major ideas and principles that relate to …
How Vocabulary Is Learned
How Vocabulary Is Learned presents the major issues that relate to the teaching and learning of vocabulary. Written by leading voices in the field of second language acquisition, …
Global Environmental Change
Global environmental change often seems to be the most carefully examined issue of our time. Yet understanding the human side--human causes of and responses to environmental …
Socioeconomic Effects of Public Sector Information on Digital Networks
While governments throughout the world have different approaches to how they make their public sector information (PSI) available and the terms under which the information may be …
Drama of the Commons
The "e;tragedy of the commons"e; is a central concept in human ecology and the study of the environment. It has had tremendous value for stimulating research, but it only …
Decision Making for the Environment
With the growing number, complexity, and importance of environmental problems come demands to include a full range of intellectual disciplines and scholarly traditions to help …
Strategy for Assessing Science
A Strategy for Assessing Science offers strategic advice on the perennial issue of assessing rates of progress in different scientific fields. It considers available knowledge …
Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy
New Tools for Environmental Protection
Many people believe that environmental regulation has passed a point of diminishing returns: the quick fixes have been achieved and the main sources of pollution are shifting from …
Environmentally Significant Consumption
There has been much polemic about affluence, consumption, and the global environment. For some observers, "e;consumption"e; is at the root of global environmental threats: …
Uncommon Measures
The issues surrounding the comparability of various tests used to assess performance in schools received broad public attention during congressional debate over the Voluntary …