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Explores the role of pesticides in the future of U.S. agriculture, recommending research and development of programs for agriculture authorities in the public and private sectors. Presents an overview of the key factors in pesticide use, with a model and working examples assessing various pest control strategies. DLC: Pesticides--United States. ... Read more

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They are Professionals.
Accurate study that try to predict the role of pesticides in the next 10 years, from 1999. A must read book for those envolved with agriculture, but easy to read for everyone that need to understand more about pesticides (without prejudice). We need more of this kind of study for another important subjects allover the world. ... Read more

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A Guide for US Nationals.

US students and professionals often need financial assistance to cover costs of international study. To meet the need for a current information resource on grants and fellowships for study abroad, IIE Books offers this book.

Grants range in value from $500 to tens of thousands of dollars. Key facts on amount of award and what award covers, eligibility and application, numbers of awards offered, purpose and duration, and complete contact information. Awards offered by governments, international and binational organizations and associations, foundations -- and US colleges and universities.

Based on a survey of 5,000 donor organizations worldwide. ... Read more

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Vast Resource, but contact info out of date
They've done the research and list many scholorships in an uncluttered format.Scholarships are listed by the geographical location in which the scholarship is to be used.The contact information tends to be out of date, but it is possible to find the current information, albeit with a little work.

Interested in international education? Look no further!
Financial Resources for International Study is a must have for anyone wishing to attend school outside of the U.S. Every scholarship and financial aid option imaginable is listed within the book, which if yourecieve one of those, could pay for the book itself easily! I would highlyrecommend this book to anyone who, like me, has to get out and see theworld through education but cannot always pay for all of it. ... Read more

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U.S. Highway 66, popularly known as "Route 66," is significant as the nation's first all-weather highway linking Chicago to Los Angeles. When contrasted with transcontinental corridors such as the Lincoln Highway and U.S. Highway 40, Route 66 does not stand out as America's oldest or longest road.

Nevertheless, what sets this segment of national highway apart from its contemporaries is that it remains the shortest, year-round route between the Midwest and the Pacific Coast. U.S. Highway 66 reduced the distance between Chicago and Los Angeles by more than 200 miles, which made Route 66 popular among thousands of motorists who drove west in subsequent decades.
Like other highways of its day, Route 66 reflects the origin and evolution of road transportation in the United States. The often romanticized highway represents an outstanding example of the transition from dirt track to superhighway. Not only does Route 66 underscore the importance of the automobile as a technological achievement, but, perhaps equally important to the American psyche, it symbolized unprecedented freedom and mobility for every citizen who could afford to own and operate a car. Escalating numbers of motor vehicles and the rise of the trucking industry increased the need for improved highways. In response the federal government pledged to link small town U.S.A. with all of the metropolitan capitals.

The period of outstanding historical significance for Route 66 is 1933 to 1970. The national system of public highways brought geographic cohesion and economic prosperity to the disparate regions of the country. As a component of the federal network Route 66 linked the isolated and predominantly rural West to the densely populated urban Midwest and Northeast. Chicago had long served as a transshipment point for goods that were transported to the West. The creation of Route 66 ensured the continuation of this vital socioeconomic link. The appearance of U.S. Highway 66 came at a time of unparalleled social, economic, and political disruption and global conflict. and it enabled the most comprehensive movement of people in the history of the United States. One result was the irreversible transformation of the American far west from a rural frontier to a pacesetting, metropolitan region.

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Significance and History of Route 66
Statement of Significance
Historical Background
The Visitor Experience: Cruisin' Route 66
Preservation Issues
Overview of Groups Active Along Route 66
Alternatives
Introduction
Alternative 1: The Resources Preserved
Alternative 2: National Historic Trail
Alternative 3: No New Federal Action
Alternative 4: Commemorative Redesignation By Congress
Alternative 5: Heritage Highway
Affected Environment
Cultural Resources
Natural Resources
Environmental Assessment
Appendixes / Bibliography / Preparers
Appendix A: Legislation
Appendix B: Route 66 National Historic Trail Eligibility and Feasibility
Analysis
Appendix C: Public Involvement
Appendix D: Inventories and Surveys
Bibliography
Preparers and Consultants
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Results of a comprehensive two-year study analyzing the facts and policy alternatives. ... Read more

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It is easy to feel overwhelmed and depressed by all the threats facing modern agriculture—threats to the environment, to the health and safety of our food, to the economic and cultural viability of farmers and rural communities. Hundreds of thousands of farmers leave their farms every year as the juggernaut of "big agriculture" plows across our rural landscape. But there are viable alternatives to big agriculture, as many farmers and others involved in agriculture, including consumers, are discovering. In Farming for Us All Michael Mayerfeld Bell offers crucial insight into the future of a viable sustainable agriculture movement in the United States.

Based on interviews and years of close interaction with over 60 Iowa farm families, Bell answers two critical questions concerning sustainable agriculture: why some farmers are becoming sustainable farmers and why, as yet, most are not. The first part of the book describes how the structure of agriculture—that nexus of markets, regulations, subsidies, and technology—has created a situation in which farmers are paid to undermine their own economic and social security, as well as the security of the land. The second part explores why, nevertheless, most Iowa farmers carry on with these destructive practices. Farming is a pressured endeavor, and farmers find themselves relying on recipes of knowledge to get them through the latest crisis, with little opportunity to explore some other way—even if they think what they know how to do isn’t likely to work very well for them. You have to go with what you know.

And yet some farmers resist the tide of big agriculture. In the third part of the book, Bell examines Iowa’s largest sustainable agriculture group, Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), and finds a new model of social relations at work. Members of PFI seek to create an agriculture that engages others—farmers, university researchers, government officials, and consumers alike—in a common conversation about what agriculture might look like, but without insisting that a common conversation requires a common vision. Instead, PFI members come to relish their differences as sources of learning and new ideas. Through dialogue, these PFI members seek to cross-breed knowledge, to create pragmatic knowledge that gets the crops to grow in ways that sustain families, communities, societies, economies, and environments. Herein lies the heart of the cultivation of practical agriculture, an agriculture that roots action in dialogue and dialogue in action, and thereby sustains them both. In an increasingly fractured and untrusting world, this is a cultivation worthy of all our interests.

Farming for Us All gives us the opportunity to explore the possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that - practical, dialogic agriculture presents. It therefore represents an important step forward in our search for a viable sustainable agriculture in the United States. ... Read more

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It's not all hype - "power farming" isn't the best option...
A true glimpse of the positive potential that sustainable farming has for our society.Built upon a solid foundation of historical perspective and insight then layered with the many varied approaches to farming in today's world, the reader is provided an opportunity to listen to the dialogue among current farmers and the evolution of agriculture in America. An encouraging book for those of us in support of sustainable farming.
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The employment 'miracles' of the late 20th and early 21st century in Australia and smaller European countries like the Netherlands and Denmark have usually been considered the result of macro-economic policy and corporatist negotiations that lead to wage restraint, increased exports, and eventually more jobs. This book shows that accidental circumstances have been just as important as deliberate policies. Particularly striking is the strong correspondence of the housing price bubble-induced wealth effect and related surges in mortgage-financed consumption to the positive economic development and increased employment in most of these 'miracles' - a correspondence that also characterises recent US economic development. The Finnish, Irish, and Swedish upsurge is furthermore, similar to the one in the US, due to innovative policy. Wage restraint, so central to the discussion of 'new social pacts', did not make a difference. The same is true for welfare cuts and labour market flexibilisation, which are always touted as required for maintaining competitiveness. In fact, and in spite of some welfare cuts and reforms, the corporatist miracle countries, particularly the Scandinavian ones, still feature a number of elements of a social alternative to the dominant liberal prescription for employment growth. ... Read more

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The purpose of this book is to assess the technical, economic and ecologic ability of US forests to meet future US energy needs, especially for transportation fuels and electric power, along with detailed case studies from several US regions. ... Read more

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The Talent Development Middle Grades United States history curriculum brings together the award-winning, ten-volume series A History of US by Joy Hakim and ten teaching guides and resource books developed by TDMG at Johns Hopkins University.The curriculum includes the use of primary sources, simulations, writing assignments, extension activities, and assessments. This curriculum is aligned with National Standards for United States History.
Each Teaching Guide and Resource Book includes twenty-five lessons, five review lessons, and five assessments.Each lesson includes a focus activity, interactive instructional and reading activities, a student team learning activity, a review and reflection activity, and extension activities to encourage learning across the curriculum.The student sheets and transparency masters provide all material needed for individual and team activities. ... Read more

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The Talent Development Middle Grades United States history curriculum brings together the award-winning, ten-volume series A History of US by Joy Hakim and ten teaching guides and resource books developed by TDMG at Johns Hopkins University.The curriculum includes the use of primary sources, simulations, writing assignments, extension activities, and assessments. This curriculum is aligned with National Standards for United States History.
Each Teaching Guide and Resource Book includes twenty-five lessons, five review lessons, and five assessments.Each lesson includes a focus activity, interactive instructional and reading activities, a student team learning activity, a review and reflection activity, and extension activities to encourage learning across the curriculum.The student sheets and transparency masters provide all material needed for individual and team activities. ... Read more

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Democratic or authoritarian, every society needs clean air and water; every state must manage its wildlife and natural resources. In this provocative, comparative study, Paul R. Josephson asks to what extent the form of a government and its economy--centrally planned or market, colonial or post-colonial--determines how politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, engineers, and industrialists address environmental and social problems presented by the transformation of nature into a humanized landscape.

Looking at the experiences of the industrialized and industrializing world, Resources under Regimes explores the relationship between science, technology, and the environment. Josephson considers global responses to deforestation, water pollution, and global warming, showing how different societies bring different values and assumptions to bear on the same problem, and arrive at different conclusions about the ideal outcome and the best way of achieving it. He reveals the important ways in which modern governments facilitate power generation, transportation, water production, and other technologies that improve the quality of life; and the equally critical ways in which they respond to the resulting depredations--the pollution, waste, and depletion that constitute the global environmental crisis at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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This work represents the first study of executive mobility to be founded on research-based data rather than opinion. Throughout the book, Forbes and Piercy deal with specific issues such as the early promotion versus the "late bloomer," changing industries in an attempt to move up more quickly, and areas of greatest opportunity for women executives. Separate chapter topics include the early years, mid-career issues, origins and formative years of a CEO, and career differences in various industries. A concluding chapter offers practical advice on reforming executive development and strategically planning an individual career. ... Read more

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The 2001 National Energy Policy calls for continued reductions in energy intensity (energy consumption per dollar of gross economic output). This study was part of an effort to identify state-level factors that may contribute to efficient energy use nationwide. The authors examined changes in energy intensity in 48 states and in the states' energy-consuming sectors from 1977 through 1999. Some factors that may explain differences in states' energy intensity are energy prices, new construction, capacity utilization, population, climate, tech innovations, and government energy policies. ... Read more

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This collection of essays offers approaches to teaching the Vietnam War on the secondary and higher education levels. Written by some of the leading scholars in the field, the book addresses specific teaching strategies and resources that teachers have identified as the most useful and important. Among the topics covered are major interpretive stances toward the war; the use of literature, film, and the voice of the veteran in teaching; the employment of Asian, European, and American literary sources; and the importance of students' critical thinking skills and ways for furthering those skills. ... Read more

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Water Use Management, and Planning in the United States is designed with new college classes on water resources in mind. It provides information on hydrology, biology, geology, economics, and geography along with historical water policies and regional regulations. The text reflects the transdisciplinary nature of water resources management, moving between descriptive discussions and quantitative analysis to bridge the social and physical sciences. Also providedare frequent case studies and examples to illustrate real-world applications, and includes sidebars throughout to reinforce major points. This book is a result of the authors years of teaching, giving a prescription for an intelligent integrated systemsapproach to water resources management.

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* Classroom tested
* Quantitative analyses are accompanied by worked examples
* Frequent case studies highlight important applications
* Sidebars reinforce major points and provide parenthetical information ... Read more

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