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"When construction of the Transamazon Highway was proposed in 1970, the Brazilian media depicted a road stretching out through a flat expanse of mature forests, its surface paved with glittering stones and precious metals - purported riches of the Amazon yet to be discovered." But, as Douglas Stewart found while traveling the highway in 1989, "the forest deceives." The 1,000-kilometer trip from Belem to Altamira took "three days, six buses, three...
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"How do cities transform over time? And why do some cities change for the better while others deteriorate? In articulating new ways of viewing urban areas and how they develop over time, Peter Bosselmann offers a stimulating guidebook for students and professionals engaged in urban design, planning, and architecture. By looking through Bosselmanns eyes (aided by his analysis of numerous color photos and illustrations) readers will learn to see cities...
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"Excellent photos accompany text that connects cultural and natural landscapes. Nine chapters examine problems and opportunities, settlement history, modern economic risks, and wildlife. Analyses concerning fish, plants, and floodplain agriculture are especially noteworthy. Excellent overview useful for both professionals and general public"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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Metropolitics is the story of how demographic research and state-of-the-art mapping, together with resourceful and pragmatic politics, built a powerful political alliance between the central cities, declining inner suburbs, and developing suburbs with low tax bases. In an unprecedented accomplishment, groups formerly divided by race and class - poor minority groups and blue-collar suburbanites - along with churches, environmental groups, and parts...
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"This is the first book to offer an assessment of India's strategic and political power since it became a declared nuclear weapons state in 1998 and fought its 1999 war with Pakistan. Stephen Cohen makes the case that India has become, with China and Japan, one of the three most important states in Asia."--Jacket.
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"Coming at a time of profound change in the global conditions under which American organized labor exists, The Future of the American Labor Movement describes and analyzes labor's strategic alternatives. The analysis is broadly cast, taking into account ideas that range from the current European Social Dialogue to the methods of the nineteenth-century American Knights of Labor. There are a number of intriguing strategies, including worker ownership...
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In Which World?, scientist Allen Hammond imaginatively probes the consequences of present social, economic, and environmental trends to construct three possible worlds that could await us in the twenty-first century: Market World, in which economic and human progress is driven by the liberating power of free markets and human initiative; Fortress World, in which unattended social and environmental problems diminish progress, dooming hundreds of millions...
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