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Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth. It has already lost more than two-thirds of its forest cover and has the highest rates of deforestation and logging in the tropics. Hunting, coupled with the relentless trade in wildlife products, threatens all...

The story of a Young ManSet against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer FrA(c)dA(c)ric Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux....

Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award for Theology / Ethics Scholars and laypersons alike regard Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) as North America&'s greatest theologian. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards is the most comprehensive survey of his theology yet produced and the first study to make full use of the recently-completed...

Informal Economy Practices and InstitutionsAnalyzes what people 'do for themselves' in the informal economy and how it relates to public policies, formal institutions, and broader socio-economic processes....

The More Answers We Find, the More Questions We HaveLiving systems exhibit a fundamental contradiction: they are highly stable and reliable, yet they have the capacity to adapt to changing environmental conditions. This paradoxical behavior arises from the complexity of life--a high degree of order and cooperation that emerges from relatively...

French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and CommissarsFrom the late imperial period until 1922, the British and French made private and government loans to Russia, making it the foremost international debtor country in pre-World War I Europe. To finance the modernization of industry, the construction of public works projects, the...