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The Earth’s Plasmasphere
Original price was: $206.95.$165.56Current price is: $165.56.Add to cartThe plasmasphere is the vast “doughnut-shaped” region of the magnetosphere that forms a cold thermal plasma cloud encircling the Earth, terminating abruptly at a radial distance of 30,000 km over a sharp discontinuity known as the plasmapause. This is the first monograph to describe the historical development of ideas concerning the plasmasphere by the pioneering …
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The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Agbiotech
Original price was: $249.00.$199.20Current price is: $199.20.Add to cart“After almost fifteen years in the laboratory and in the test plots, bioengineered crops arrived to the market in the mid-1990s. Adoption was rapid and widespread. In 1996, less than 4 million acres in six countries were planted with bioengineered plants. By 2001, worldwide adoption had expanded to more than 115 million acres.” The foretelling …
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The Economics of Livestock Disease Insurance
Original price was: $182.05.$145.64Current price is: $145.64.Add to cartIn recent years, the livestock sector has been hit by a number of high-profile diseases, such as BSE, Foot and Mouth Disease and Avian Influenza. These have had a devastating economic impact on livestock producers and the broader livestock industry. One key response has been a growing interest in livestock disease insurance. However there is …
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The Economics of Organic Farming
Original price was: $218.40.$174.72Current price is: $174.72.Add to cartOrganic farming: sustainable agriculture in practice. The development of the organic industry and market:an international perspective. Researching organic farming systems. Organic farming and society: an economic perspective. Economic of organic farming in Britain. Economics of organic farming in Germany. Economics of organic farming in Denmark. Economics of organic farming in Switzerland. Economics of organic farming …
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The Economics of Transition
Original price was: $130.00.$104.00Current price is: $104.00.Add to cartThe end of the Cold War saw an unprecedented number of countries changing economicpolicies at the same time. One result has been the emergence of a new field of economics,postcommunist transformation theory. Written by prominent Russian analysts, the essays in this bookdiscuss the economic policy problems that confront postcommunist countries. Most chapters focus onliberalization of …
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The Encyclopedia of Combat Techniques
Original price was: $29.95.$23.96Current price is: $23.96.Add to cart— An exhaustive analysis of the full range of combat techniques taught to the modern soldier in both standard and elite regiments. — Including 50 different combat techniques from knife fighting, using assault rifles, and booby traps to sniping, combat p
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The Encyclopedia of Parkinson’s Disease
Original price was: $75.00.$60.00Current price is: $60.00.Add to cartThe Encyclopedia of Parkinson’s Disease provides up-to-date information on this serious condition. More than 600 detailed entries cover characteristics of the disease, as well as prevention, key medical terms, current research and treatment, helpful organizations, and much more.Extensive appendixes include lists of organizations and web-sites for further information on Parkinson’s disease, research and training centers, …
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The Ethical Foundations of Criminal Justice
Original price was: $150.00.$120.00Current price is: $120.00.Add to cartIdeal for anyone involved in the study of criminal justice, this book acquaints students with the philosophical concepts upon which ethical theory is based. It applies these ideas to specific issues and dilemmas within the criminal justice system. Its ultimate goal is to acquaint students with basic concepts of ethics in criminal justice and to …
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The Ethics of Cyberspace
Original price was: $60.00.$48.00Current price is: $48.00.Add to cartIn this book, Cees J Hamelink proposes an answer to – how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? – that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. He argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed. There is a growing volume of moral rules, netiquettes and codes of conduct, but they …
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The Exclusive Society
Original price was: $157.00.$125.60Current price is: $125.60.Add to cartIn this major new work, which Zygmunt Bauman calls a ‘tour de force of breathtaking erudition and clarity’, Jock Young charts the movement of the social fabric in the last third of the twenthieth century from an inclusive society of stability and homogeneity to an exclusive society of change and division. Jock Young, one of …
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The Financial and Economic Crisis of 2008-2009 and Developing Countries
Original price was: $27.00.$21.60Current price is: $21.60.Add to cartAs a response to the global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008, many developing and emerging-market economies undertook resolute countercyclical monetary and fiscal actions, which paralleled those of the developed countries. These policy responses contributed significantly to the recovery of the world economy in 2010 and 2011. In particular, the strong and fast …
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