http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12161.html We ship printed books within 1 business day; personal PDFs are available immediately. Origin and Evolution of Earth: Research Questions for a Changing Planet Committee on Grand Research Questions in the Solid-Earth Sciences‚ National Research Council ISBN: 0-309-11718-6‚ 200 pages‚ 8 1/2 x 11‚ (2008) This PDF is available from the National Academies Press at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12161.html Visit the National Academies Press online‚ the authoritative
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Taken from http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1766936.html [Accessed on December 18‚ 2008] 5 New Ideas To Power Our Future - October 2005 Cover Story from Popular Mechanics With the outlook for oil uncertain‚ it’s time for new ideas. Here are five emerging technologies--from buoys that harness the power of waves to bacteria that extract electricity from wastewater. Together they can keep the world humming. BY KRISTIN ROTH Illustrations by Flying-Chilli.com Published in the October
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The Code of the Streets IN THIS ESSAY IN URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY A SOCIAL SCIENTIST TAKES US INSIDE A WORLD MOST OF US ONLY GLIMPSE IN GRISLY HEADLINES—"TEEN KILLED IN DRIVE BY SHOOTING"—TO SHOW US HOW A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR RESPECT GOVERNS SOCIAL RELATIONS AMONG MANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUNG MEN By Elijah Anderson Of all the problems besetting the poor inner-city black community‚ none is more pressing than that of interpersonal violence and aggression. It wreaks havoc daily with the lives of community
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The Great Wall of China. an overview Walls and wall building have played a very important role in Chinese culture. These people‚ from the dim mists of prehistory have been wall-conscious; from the Neolithic period – when ramparts of pounded earth were used - to the Communist Revolution‚ walls were an essential part of any village. Not only towns and villages; the houses and the temples within them were somehow walled‚ and the houses also had no windows overlooking the street‚ thus giving the feeling
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aesthetic‚ in particular the genres of tableau and documentary. Tableau ’s roots are in early pictorial photography which strove for balanced and harmonious compositions1. Borrowing from classical painterly aesthetics tableau photographs are made for the wall; to be looked at from a distance like paintings.2 A defining feature of the majority of tableau‚ and the images referred to in this essay is the use of models‚ or “posing”3. Documentary photography does not adhere to any particular aesthetic style
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Chapter 4 The Origins and Concept of Justice Chapter 4 Contents Origins of the Concept of Justice Components of Justice Distributive Justice Corrective Justice CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Know the definitions‚ concepts‚ and origins of justice 2. Understand the components of justice including distributive‚ corrective‚ and commutative. 3. Be able to define procedural and substantive justice. 4. Understand the difference between the utilitarian rationale and retributive rationale under
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Origins of Human Rights The emergence of rights in political thought is generally regarded as relatively recent‚ though any historical study of rights reveals how indeterminate the philosophical charting of the evolution of rights has been. Human rights are considered the offspring of natural rights‚ which themselves evolved from the concept of natural law. Natural law‚ which has played a dominant role in Western political theory for centuries‚ is that standard of higher-order morality against which
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Hitler rose to power because of the Wall Street crash in 1929. Do you agree? Hitler came to power in 1933. After a lot of political fighting‚ debating and campaigning he finally achieved the role of German Chancellor in 1933. Hitler had big ambitions and he was finally starting to fulfil them. Hitler‚ like many other political leaders thought that the Weimar Republic was weak. He promised to take back the Treaty of Versailles by reclaiming land and re-arming Germany. In 1918 Hitler created powerful
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IS STREET CRIME MORE HARMFUL THAN WHITE COLLAR CRIME? Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? By general definition‚ a crime is a wronging‚ proclaimed by law against society. All acts of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings which gave us concepts of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. From our being submerged in a culture‚ our concept of crime is usually
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The Novel Miguel Street has been variously classified as a group of short stories‚ as a series of sketches‚ and as a novel. The latter classification is supported by the fact that it is unified by a single narrator and by several patterns and themes. Furthermore‚ although each chapter is dominated by a single character‚ those major characters reappear as minor characters in other chapters. At the end of the book‚ all the characters who still live on Miguel Street gather to present to the narrator
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