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We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right. Brooks, a...
Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it....
Ce guide largement illustré répertorie les espèces végétales comestibles cultivées ou sauvages du Vanuatu. Plantes cultivées pour leurs tubercules ou leurs racines, espèces ligneuses et lianes fournissant fruits ou...
Play Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of...
Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decision for them. Suddenly, they are on their own, with no one to count on. What does it mean to be eighteen and on...
Our national conversation about race is ludicrously out-of-date. Hip-hop is the key to understanding how things are changing. In a provocative book that will appeal to hip-hoppers both black and white and their parents, Bakari Kitwana deftly teases apart the culture of...
Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing...
Are the stars of the Civil Rights firmament yesterday's news? In Living Black History scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding "No!" with a fresh and personal look at the enduring legacy of such well-known figures as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
L’ouvrage examine comment les institutions, la gouvernance et les politiques de l’eau ont évolué depuis un pilotage centralisé par l'offre et une approche quantitative, vers une gestion de la demande, décentralisée et plus participative. Ces évolutions impliquent aussi...
Ce catalogue annoté des Coléoptères Buprestidae de Madagascar, des îles Aldabra, des Comores, des Mascareignes et des Seychelles cite 74 genres valides, 18 genres mis en synonymie, 16 sous-genres inédits, 747 espèces valides, 224...
This Print On Demand book will be sent within 3 weeks (metropolitan France) and in a separate package if you order another paperback book.Cet ouvrage en impression à la demande sera envoyé sous 3 semaines environ (France métropolitaine) et dans un colis séparé en cas de...
Panorama de la biodiversité, de la climatologie, de la flore des zones arides de ce pays, cet ouvrage abondamment illustré, décrit environ 150 espèces pastorales d'importance en précisant leur écologie, leurs utilisations et...
Ce manuel analyse les approches et les méthodes qui ont prouvé leur efficacité en Afrique de l'Ouest. Tout en abordant des questions plus larges, il est centré sur le renforcement des capacités des petits exploitants à...
How does a reporter go about researching a story on the Internet and how does one fact check and cite online sources? What are the copyright issues involved in quoting Internet sources?How does one go about selling a story to Internet sites?How does one physically file...
This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is hospitalized? How do poor...
The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones.The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as...
This book reviews the impact of the monetary, ecological and political crisis on Indonesia's agricultural sector based on farmer incomes and strategies. In 1998, millions of export-oriented tree crop farmers saw their incomes grow considerably, while food crop farmers,...
Cet ouvrage présente les derniers progrès réalisés en amélioration des plantes tropicales par les équipes françaises du Cirad, de l'Inra et de l'Ird, en collaboration avec leurs homologues des pays tropicaux. Pour...
This practical guide sets out to help agents from development organizations working in the Sahelian-Sudanic zone in their role as advisors to farming communities on setting up, funding and managing watering places. The method described was used as a reference by those...
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