... at the time. The vegetation of the Eurasian Plain during OIS 3, in the west at least, seems to have oscillated between conifer woodland, with shrubtundra inthe north, during warm parts of the ... the Russian Plain duringthe Briansk Interstadial with the southern limit of the range of a number of Arctic plants being 1200 km furthersouth than today (and a further 600 km during OIS 2). Steppe ... forest intrusions during warm and wet climate; <S, steppe intrusions during cold and arid climate; T V, tundra intrusions during cold and arid climate. The significance of these changes was in the...
... 16:0Regional diversity inthe nineteenth century 179southern africa Duringthe early nineteenth centurythe African peoples of southern Africa used two strategies in attempting to overcome segmentation ... coun-tryeach year duringthe late nineteenth century. The main export was ivory,whose continuously rising price drove the traders ever deeper inland. Slaveexports rose to rival it duringthe mid -century, ... himself’.11 The western savanna also experienced two jihads duringthe nineteenth century, but they created less stability. The first, in 1818, was inthe internaldelta of the Niger, hitherto controlled...
... Carlyle, as a result of the contagion passed from one to another through the air they both breatheor the water they both drink, then in Engels, as in Gaskell, it is the interpenetration of English ... from the millowners themselves, who at one point had the Representing the immigrant Irish in urban England around mid -century [the working-man] can protest with most violent passion against the ... English bodies, linking the imperialand industrial feats of the nineteenth century to an aboriginal ethnicprinciple.Inspired by Alton’s viewing of a boat race at Cambridge – in which‘‘some...
... observa-tions of intersex in fish have been increasing in regularity in the Shenandoah River and Potomac River basins in Virginia (Blazer and others, 2007). The fish kills and observations of intersex ... rate-limiting barriers allow-ing the use of the same models to determine ambient water concentrations. Previous data indicate that many chemicals of interest remain inthe linear phase of sampling ... greater inthe second deployment and likely were related to increased pesticide application duringthe spring crop planting inthe largely agri-cultural reaches of the watershed. Desethylatrazine,...
... in holding the castle in 1217. Indeed, Nichola’s defence of power and portrayal 23 Lincoln in 1217 was a significant factor in turning the tide of events in favour of King John. According ... appliesto other twelfth -century saints.44 Women’s testimony and role as sourcesof information on the saint are therefore one way in which they could in uence the shape and content of the text. ... research into the history of women and gender since the 1970s has changed the face of history. Using the insights of feminist theoryand of historians of women, gender historians have explored the...
... in Mount Elgon involving the Sabaot: on the one hand, pitting the Sabaot against the Bukusu and, on the other, splitting the Kalenjin speakers of Mount Elgon into rival subgroups, namely the ... where they keep cattle. They take turns rearing animals on the mountain, bringing back honey and making use of bamboo. Before the creation of Chebyuk, in spite of their isolation up in the moorlands, ... rights. The author emphasises that many of the problems inthe Act derive from the paradigm of land titling that has been adopted. In the Diamaré in Northern Cameroon, on the other hand, the karal...
... minimum drink-ing law, which severely increases the cost of drinking if the youth is caught.† Gross-man et al.10 simulate the hypothetical effect of having all states changing their age ... be justified depend-ing on the willingness of policy makers to intervene into family life. In addition, there is an argument to be made to intervene on the well-being of the individual. Although ... through the interjection of a reverse economic model originally intended to give the middle tier the monopoly of economic control. As authors in the original text point out, in an ever-expanding...
... Impoverishing a Continent: The World Bank and IMF inAfrica 1Impoverishing a Continent: The World Bank and the IMF in Africa By Asad IsmiISBN 0-88627-373-0 July 2004 Impoverishing a Continent: The ... massive assault that Washingtonmounted against the South” duringthe 1980s. The other prong was “low-intensity conflicts” (LIC), the U.S. launched against governments in Afghani-stan, Angola, ... of other professionals.”25 The Reagan Administration came into office in 1980 determined to discipline an increasinglyindependent Third World and make it serve U.S.economic interests. The...
... Cooperation in Business: Managing Dilemmas inthe 21st Century, we take the first steps in exploring thisemerging field of knowledge and practice, lookingfor ways to think about two key business ... result of the largely unconscious evolution ofinstitutions of collective action. Ostrom has taken the lead in making the management principles forthese institutions explicit, combining theory ... exam-ple, in Ostrom’s study of water-use arrangements in the Los Angeles basin, an outside institution (the U.S. Geological Survey [USGS]) was charged withmonitoring, among other things, the salinity...
... the growth take-off in China and the rate of investment in graduating engineers. Figure 10 shows recent data on the trend in engineering and technology PhD degrees of the United States, China ... is the difculty of making the voyage from one kind of society to another. Chinese, Indian and Brazilian peas-ants are making this kind of voyage everyday, inthe millions, as they leave their ... working in more open market-welfare or mixed economies.b. Education inthe 21st Century The 20th century was the education century. For the rst time in human history the majority of the world’s...