Author: Andrew S. Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: systems, lake, evolution, history, paleolimnology
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2003-05-29
List price: $165.00
ISBN-10: 0195133536
ISBN-13: 9780195133530

This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form. It explains the process of sedimentation in lakes and the chemistry of those deposits and describes how the age of lake deposits is determined. Additionally, this book shows how different groups of fossils are used in interpreting the paleontological record of lakes. In order to illustrate the more synthetic approaches to interpreting the history of lakes, the author also discusses such special topics as lake-level histo

Author: Andrew Cohen
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Keywords: people, canadian, unfinished
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0771022867
ISBN-13: 9780771022869

The award-winning, bestselling author of While Canada Slept gives his view of a country wasted on Canadians. What is national character? What makes the Americans, the British, the French, the Russians, and the Chinese who they are? In this homogenized world, where globalization is a byword for a deadening sameness, why do peoples who live in the same region, use the same money, read the same books, and watch the same movies remain different from one another? As much as Canada may be seen as a copy, clone, or colony of America, we are unquestionably distinctive. It is a result of our geography,

Author: Andrew Wender Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: american, historical, studies, law, society, cambridge, economy, chicago, struggle, modern, racketeer, progress
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-05-03
List price: $81.99
ISBN-10: 052183466X
ISBN-13: 9780521834667

A provocative study of law and its social context, this work explores the contingent origins of the modern American economy. It shows how craftsmen - teamsters, barbers, musicians, and others - violently governed commerce in Chicago through pickets, assaults, and bombings. These tradesmen forcefully contested the power of national corporations in their city. Their resistance shaped American law, heavily influencing the New Deal and federal criminal statutes. This book thus shows that American industrial policy resulted not from a "search for order," but from a brutal struggle for control.

Authors:Diana Boxer, Andrew D. Cohen,
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: language, second, acquisition, learning, speaking, studying, inform
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-05-20
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1853597201
ISBN-13: 9781853597206

In a series of studies specially written for this volume, Studying Speaking to Inform Second Language Learning offers the applied linguist research on spoken interaction in second and foreign languages and provides insights as to how findings from each of these studies may inform language pedagogy. The volume offers an interweaving of discourse perspectives: speech acts, speech events, interactional analysis, pragmatics, and conversational analysis.

Authors:Andrew J. Bacevich, Eliot A. Cohen,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: kosovo, over, war
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-01-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 023112483X
ISBN-13: 9780231124836

More than any other episode since the end of the Cold War, the conflict in Kosovo revealed the distinctive attributes of a new American "way of war." In so doing, Kosovo also brought into sharp focus the military, political, and moral dilemmas confronting a liberal democracy intent on wielding preeminent power on a global scale. What are the moral implications posed by waging high-tech warfare for humanitarian purposes? Does the precedent set by intervention of this type point toward peace and stability or toward more war? How well suited are the United States military and American society as

Authors:Jean L. Cohen, Andrew Arato,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: german, social, thought, contemporary, studies, society, political, theory, civil
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 1994-03-29
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0262531216
ISBN-13: 9780262531214

"Cohen and Arato provide a wonderfully illuminating and detailed account of the civil society argument as it has developed in Europe. And then they turn that argument into a critical theory of American society or, more generally, of liberal democracy -- pointing the way toward a more effectively and pervasively democratic liberalism." -- Michael Walzer In this major contribution to contemporary political theory, Jean Cohen and Andrew Arato argue that the concept of civil society articulates a contested terrain in the West that could become a primary locus for the expansion of democra

Authors:Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: contemporary, debates, philosophy, applied, ethics
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-01-31
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 1405115483
ISBN-13: 9781405115483

Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on eleven of the most controversial issues in applied ethics Topics addressed include abortion, affirmative action, animals, capital punishment, cloning, euthanasia, immigration, pornography, privacy in civil society, values in nature, and world hunger. Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, and paves the way for further discussion. Will serve as an accessible introduction to the major topics in applied ethics, w