Now in its 4th Edition, this classic text covers the physical principles underlying the behavior of glaciers -- terrestrial ice bodies originating as accumulations of snow -- including mountain glaciers, small ice caps, ice sheets, and shelves. New material on climate change includes interactions between ice sheets and the ocean and atmosphere, paleoclimate reconstruction using ice cores, Quaternary climate history and the ice ages, and sea level rise. The book also explores topics of interest to geologists and geophysicists, including glacial connections to geomorphology, sedimentation, isostasy, and tectonics.
Childhood and adolescence are perhaps the most critical period in any person’s life. The education one receives during this time, the environment one is raised in, and the way one is treated by family, friends, and society, go a long way toward determining how the rest of an individual’s life will turn out. This volume addresses various factors that affect youth, including family income, who cares for children, health and safety issues, educational matters, and teen sexuality and pregnancy. Also, crime, violence, and victimization are addressed, including gang violence, school violence, and crime prevention and punishment.
Bornstein considers herself a gender outlaw because she breaks the laws of nature. A former heterosexual male and now a lesbian woman, Bay Area Reporter writer, and actor who has appeared on talk shows, she has completed the transsexual process, including surgery. As she considers her workplace the theater, about a third of this informative and profoundly humorous autobiographical work is devoted to queer theater, including her play, Hidden: A Gender. REUPLOAD NEEDED
Detroit businessman Harry Mitchell had had only one affair in his twenty-two years of happy matrimony. Unfortunately someone caught his indiscretion on film and now wants Harry to fork over one hundred grand to keep his infidelity a secret. And if Harry doesn't pay up, the blackmailer and his associates plan to press a lot harder - up to and including homicide, if necessary. But they picked the wrong pigeon for their murderous scam.
From his earliest work - on personal identity - to his last - on the value of truthfulness - Bernard Williams’ ideas and arguments have been sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. Mark Jenkins provides a comprehensive account of Williams’ many significant contributions to contemporary philosophy and his relation to the work of other philosophers, including prominent forerunners such as Hume and Nietzsche and contemporary thinkers such as, Nagel, McDowell, MacIntyre, and Taylor.
