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Key Facts: Intellectual Property
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 14.95Key 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, barristers and lecturers who have brought their expertise... more...
On Human Rights
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 31.99What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of human rights. - ;What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really... more...
Global Climate Change
Edward Elgar Publishing 2003; US$ 40.00Global climate change cannot be understood without knowing the fundamental principles of science, economics and politics that condition our policy choices. To that end, the contributors to this volume, experts in their respective fields, take a comprehensive look at the major issues involved. This volume is written for policymakers and informed citizenry... more...
Estimating the Value of Water-Use Efficiency in the Intermountain West
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water-efficiency programs can be difficult, because not all the benefits are easily quantified. This report presents an economic framework based on two tools from the California Urban Water Conservation Council to estimate the avoided costs and environmental benefits of an agency's efficiency programs. The report... more...
Electricity Deregulation
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 60.00The electricity market has experienced enormous setbacks in delivering on the promise of deregulation. In theory, deregulating the electricity market would increase the efficiency of the industry by producing electricity at lower costs and passing those cost savings on to customers. As Electricity Deregulation shows, successful deregulation is possible,... more...
Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future
RAND Corporation 2009; US$ 9.95This 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 government engage in managed change by choosing robust strategies... more...
The Rough Guide to Bolivia
Rough Guides Ltd 2012; Not AvailableFull-colour throughout, The Rough Guide to Bolivia is the ultimate travel guide to one of South America's most captivating countries. With 30 years experience and our trademark 'tell it like it is' writing style, Rough Guides cover all the basics with practical, on-the-ground details, as well as unmissable alternatives to the usual must-see sights.... more...
Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley 1940-1947
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 43.95A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication A classic work by three important scholars who document prehistoric human occupation along the lower reaches of the continent's largest river. The Lower Mississippi Survey was initiated in 1939 as a joint undertaking of three institutions: the School of Geology at Louisiana State University, the Museum... more...
Alabama and the Borderlands
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archaeology and the de Soto expedition (and other early European explorations... more...
Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 32.95A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The scholars' overriding concerns include presentation... more...









