The rails and covered bridges of Frederick County are framed by the waters of the Potomac River to the south and the Mason-Dixon line to the north. The county rests at a crossroads of Maryland culture
This new volume in the Judson Press Living Church series addresses the need for leaders in todays congregationand urges the local church to seek the solution at its source. Among the laity of our cong
This collection of essays is the first major work in more than a decade to discuss the critical issue of wildlife contraception and the first ever to take up contraception-both theory and practice-for
Urban and natural environments are often viewed as entirely separate entities ? human settlements as the domain of architects and planners, and natural areas as untouched wilderness. This dichotomy
This book describes the theory, methods, and contemporary applications of consultee-centered consultation, a non-hierarchical, non-prescriptive helping relationship between a consultant and a person o
Written by its initiator and leading members of the working groups that set EuroPsy up, this book outlines the development of EuroPsy, the European standard and benchmark for education and training in
Historical photographs taken in Latin America have become key sites for memory politics, ethnographic imagination, and the negotiation of identity. This volume opens up a set of questions relating to
This book collects contributions written by well-known statisticians and econometricians to acknowledge Leopold Simar’s far-reaching scientific impact on Statistics and Econometrics throughout his car
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical lingui
Among the goals of environmentally sound waste treatment is the recycling of organic wastes. The most practiced options are composting and anaerobic digestion, both processes being carried out by micr
Competition-based models for research policy and management have an increasing influence throughout the research process, from attracting funding to publishing results. The introduction of quality con
Nanodust and nanometer-sized structures are important components of many objects in space. Nanodust is observed in evolved stars, young stellar objects, protoplanetary disks, and dust debris disks. Wi
World Wide Web inventor Timothy Berners-Lee envisioned a place where we could communicate by sharing information, globally and universally. After roughly 15 years of Internet-based fiction, the author
This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and
Economists from Australia, China, and the US discuss how China is responding to the massive internal migration that since the 1970s has seen some 120-150 million people move from rural to urban areas.