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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, …
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 …
Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
Ethical Issues in Biotechnology is the first textbook of its kind, written collaboratively by a philosopher and a biologist to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive, …
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 …
Selected Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Disability
Heritable disorders of connective tissue (HDCTs) are a diverse group of inherited genetic disorders and subtypes. Because connective tissue is found throughout the body, the …
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: …