Authors:Pierre Marc Johnson, Karel Mayrand, Marc Paquin,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: global, environmental, governance, series, participation, poverty, degradation, linking, governing, desertification
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2006-06
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 075464359X
ISBN-13: 9780754643593

Desertification affects 70 per cent of all arable lands on the planet in more than 100 countries. Inextricably linked to poverty, it is estimated that the livelihood of 250 million people are directly affected while another billion living in rural drylands are threatened by this phenomenon. This volume examines the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) signed in 1994. It studies the linkages between land degradation and poverty, the role of civil society and good governance in implementing the UNCCD and the various approaches to fighting desertification. Furthermore, this

Authors:Andre Beaulieu, Pierre-Marc Johnson,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: continental, law, new, implementing, nafta, understanding, environment
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 1995-12-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1559634685
ISBN-13: 9781559634687

Two internationally-known experts discuss both law and policy as they examine the environmental implications of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the related Noth American Agreement on Envirnmental Cooperation (NAAEC). Pierre Marc Johnson and Andre Beaulieu consider the context in which those implications were brought to the negotiating table, the legal mechanism established to address them, and the original trilateral institution set up to maintain a continent-wide level of environmental cooperation. Topics discussed include: the provisions of NAFTA that affect environmental

Authors:Phillip E. Harris, Pierre-Marc G. Bouloux,
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: practice, clinical, endocrinology
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 2002-09
List price: $239.95
ISBN-10: 1841841862
ISBN-13: 9781841841861

For a discipline spanning a wide spectrum of conditions and disorders, this is a textbook which provides up-to-date solutions and support. The practising endocrine clinician will find cutting-edge information in a practical format, and help with routine management issues as well as with problems which arise less frequently. Whilst the emphasis is firmly on assessment, investigation, and treatment, the authors have included basic science background for comprehension and completeness, and have expanded this in areas where current research is likely to impinge upon clinical practice.

Authors:Pierre Sagaut, Sebastien Deck, Marc Terracol,
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: turbulence, approaches, multiresolution, multiscale
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2006-06-19
List price: $143.00
ISBN-10: 186094650X
ISBN-13: 9781860946509

Authors:Pierre Bourdieu, Randal Johnson,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: production, cultural, field
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1993-04-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0231082878
ISBN-13: 9780231082877

During the last two decades, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has become a dominant force in cultural activity ranging from taste in music and art to choices in food and lifestyles. brings together Bourdieu’s major essays on art and literature and provides the first introduction to Bourdieu’s writings and theory of a cultural field that situates artistic works within the social conditions of their production, circulation, and consumption. Bourdieu addresses many of the burning issues that have consumed literary, art, and cultural criticism over the past decade: aesthetic value and ca

Author: Marc Johnson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: becoming
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2010-01-06
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 1449012922
ISBN-13: 9781449012922

Normal 0 0 1 61 353 student 2 1 433 11.1282 0 0 0 Normal 0 0 1 131 751 student 6 1 922 11.1282 0 0 0 They wake and find themselves alone in a world where dreamsare tangible. Some find the world dark, some find it home, but all look intothe dark uncertainty of it and find themselves lost. For them, Becoming is a beginning, and it is from this beginning thatthey each find themselves wandering a dark world looking for some trace oftheir former humanity, if it was ever there to begin with. The hero, Mahavir, finds himself conflicted between losinghis own life for the human beings that he despises

Authors:Jean-Pierre Briot, Jean-Marc Geib, Akinori Yonezawa,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: japan, selected, june, papers, lecture, science, computer, notes, tokyo, obpdc, parallel, based, distributed, computation, workshop, france, object
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 1996-08-29
List price: $82.95
ISBN-10: 3540614877
ISBN-13: 9783540614876

This book contains a refereed collection of revised papers selected from the presentations at the France-Japan Workshop on Object-Based Parallel and Distributed Computation, OBPDC’95, held in Tokyo in June 1995. The 18 full papers included in the book constitute a representative, well-balanced set of timely research contributions to the growing field of object-based concurrent computing. The volume is organized in sections on massively parallel programming languages, distributed programming languages, formalisms, distributed operating systems, dependable distributed computing, and softwa