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Chapters arranged in alphabetical format cover the scientific, geographical and socio-political issues involved in study of the environment and the human effect upon it. Topics include: environmental science; the carbon cycle and the greenhouse gases; the impacts of climate change on life, land and sea; mitigation strategies from carbon capture to carbon taxes; the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC; and renewable fuel sources.

This is the first collection of more than 1,800 films dealing with Hispanic topics, themes, and characters arranged chronologically from 1898 to 1935, with in depth annotations, cross-references and four separate indexes. A study of Hollywood's treatment of Hispanics worldwide. (those living in South, Central, and North America, the Philippines and Spain.) Richard has organized the work for those interested in assessing the effects that motion pictures...

"The Historical Dictionary of Feminism: Second Edition is a resource for librarians, scholars, and students, with more than 1,000 entries covering significant people, organizations, campaigns, court cases, goals, achievements, and current and future directions of the feminist movement. Seventy-five percent of the entries are new or revised from the first edition, and the introduction, which provides an overview of the history and development of feminism...

This reference book analyzes more than a thousand wars waged from 1816 to 2007. It lists and categorizes all violent conflicts with 1,000 or more battle deaths and provides an insightful narrative for each struggle. It describes each encounter and highlights major patterns across eras and regions, identifying which categories of war are becoming more or less prevalent over time, and revealing the connections between the different types of war.

This compact handbook includes definitions and articles that emphasize genres, prosody, poetic terms, rhetorical figures and topics such as poetry reading and the relationship of linguistics to poetry. Twenty-nine new and revised articles have been added, including entries on cycle, psalm, equivalence, relative stress principle, rhythm, versification, and an entry summarizing theories of poetry. Arranged alphabetically by topic in two columns, the...

International in scope, this volume provides an in-depth overview of the present state of knowledge and theory in the fields of consumer research and economic psychology.

"For nearly 3,000 years, Mexico was the site of some of the most advanced Indian civilizations, most notably Aztec and Mayan. In many ways, these civilizations were more developed than their European contemporaries, especially in such spheres as astronomy, mathematics, and city planning. Upon seeing the Aztec capital, Tenochitlan, for the first time, Spanish explorer Bernal Diaz del Castillo was awed by its beauty and confessed that he had never seen...

Completely revised and updated in its fourth edition, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics is the standard single-volume reference for its field. The fourth edition incorporates new words or senses which have developed in linguistics during the 1990s. Some 15 per cent larger than the preceding edition in its coverage, the dictionary contains new aspects of linguistic theory and research, including the developing terminology of principles and...