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Building Resilience from Research in the World&'s Coastal WetlandsIt is beyond doubt that the climate is changing, presenting us with one of the biggest challenges in the twenty-first-century. During the past 150 years, archaeologists have studied the impact of climate change on humanity; however, this information has not yet been used when...

The Bomb, Big Business, and Consumer Resistance in Postwar AmericaIn popular imagination, environmentalism is often linked to Rachel Carson&'s Silent Spring and the political activism of the 1960s and &'70s that moved increasing numbers of Americans to insist on a better quality of life-open spaces, clean air and water, beautification campaigns....

The Mutual Transformation of Buddhist Meditation and American CultureThirty years ago, "e;mindfulness"e; was a Buddhist principle mostly obscure to the west. Today, it is a popular cure-all for Americans&' daily problems. A massive and lucrative industry promotes mindfulness in every aspect of life, however mundane or unlikely: Americans of...

God's Justification and Our ParticipationAquinas and Calvin on Romans is a comparative study of John Calvin's and Thomas Aquinas's commentaries on the first eight chapters of Paul's letter to the Romans. Focusing on the role of human participation in God's work of salvation, Charles Raith argues that Calvin's critiques...

Economic Advice Through Story-TellingWritten by a former World Bank economist, How Does My Country Grow? distils growth policy lessons from the author&'s first-hand experience in Poland, Kenya, India, and Russia, and his contributions to the economic policy debates that followed the emerging market crises of 1997 to 2001, extending up to the global...

How oceans, weather, and life link togetherHow can the tiny plankton in the sea just off Western Europe be affected by changes 6000 km away on the other side of the North Atlantic Ocean? How can a slight rise in the temperature of the surface of the Pacific Ocean have a devastating impact on amphibian life in Costa Rica?Living populations across...