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Book Fish versus Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew D. Evenden
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-03
  • ISBN : 1139452002
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Fish versus Power written by Matthew D. Evenden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development and declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores the transnational forces that shaped the river, the changing knowledge and practices of science, and the role of environmental change in shaping environmental debate. The Fraser is the world's most productive salmon river; it is also a large river with enormous waterpower potential. Very few rivers in the developed world have remained undammed. On the Fraser, however, fish - not dams - triumphed, and this book seeks to explain why.

Book Fish Versus Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew D. Evenden
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-03
  • ISBN : 9780521830997
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Fish Versus Power written by Matthew D. Evenden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development and declines in fisheries, this book offers a case study of a river basin where development decisions did not ultimately dam the river, but rather conserved its salmon. Although the case is local, its implications are global as Evenden explores the transnational forces that shaped the river, the changing knowledge and practices of science, and the role of environmental change in shaping environmental debate.

Book The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America

Download or read book The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : American Game Protective Association
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by American Game Protective Association and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Laws of the State of Oregon

Download or read book Laws of the State of Oregon written by Oregon and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the regular, special, and extra sessions of the Legislative Assembly; some special sessions have separately issued vols.

Book California Fish and Game

Download or read book California Fish and Game written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Acts of the Parliament of Tasmania

Download or read book The Acts of the Parliament of Tasmania written by Tasmania and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book There s No Such Thing As Free Speech

Download or read book There s No Such Thing As Free Speech written by Stanley Fish and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the culture at large, praised and pilloried as a vigorous debunker of the pieties of both the left and right. His mission is not to win the cultural wars that preoccupy the nation's attention, but rather to redefine the terms of battle. In There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, Fish takes aim at the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties. In his witty, accessible dissections of the swirling controversies over multiculturalism, affirmative action, canon revision, hate speech, and legal reform, he neatly eviscerates both the conservatives' claim to possession of timeless, transcendent values (the timeless transcendence of which they themselves have conveniently identified), and the intellectual left's icons of equality, tolerance, and non-discrimination. He argues that while conservative ideologues and liberal stalwarts might disagree vehemently on what is essential to a culture, or to a curriculum, both mistakenly believe that what is essential can be identified apart from the accidental circumstances (of time and history) to which the essential is ritually opposed. In the book's first section, which includes the five essays written for Fish's celebrated debates with Dinesh D'Souza (the author and former Reagan White House policy analyst), Fish turns his attention to the neoconservative backlash. In his introduction, Fish writes, "Terms that come to us wearing the label 'apolitical'--'common values', 'fairness', 'merit', 'color blind', 'free speech', 'reason'--are in fact the ideologically charged constructions of a decidedly political agenda. I make the point not in order to level an accusation, but to remove the sting of accusation from the world 'politics' and redefine it as a synonym for what everyone inevitably does." Fish maintains that the debate over political correctness is an artificial one, because it is simply not possible for any party or individual to occupy a position above or beyond politics. Regarding the controversy over the revision of the college curriculum, Fish argues that the point is not to try to insist that inclusion of ethnic and gender studies is not a political decision, but "to point out that any alternative curriculum--say a diet of exclusively Western or European texts--would be no less politically invested." In Part Two, Fish follows the implications of his arguments to a surprising rejection of the optimistic claims of the intellectual left that awareness of the historical roots of our beliefs and biases can allow us, as individuals or as a society, to escape or transcend them. Specifically, he turns to the movement for reform of legal studies, and insists that a dream of a legal culture in which no one's values are slighted or declared peripheral can no more be realized than the dream of a concept of fairness that answers to everyone's notions of equality and jsutice, or a yardstick of merit that is true to everyone's notions of worth and substance. Similarly, he argues that attempts to politicize the study of literature are ultimately misguided, because recharacterizations of literary works have absolutely no impact on the mainstream of political life. He concludes his critique of the academy with "The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos," an extraordinary look at some of the more puzzing, if not out-and-out masochistic, characteristics of a life in academia. Penetrating, fearless, and brilliantly argued, There's No Such Thing as Free Speech captures the essential Fish. It is must reading for anyone who cares about the outcome of America's cultural wars.

Book Animal Locomotion  Or Walking  Swimming  and Flying

Download or read book Animal Locomotion Or Walking Swimming and Flying written by James Bell Pettigrew and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Code of Federal Regulations

Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Book Current Law

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1902 pages

Download or read book Current Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia

Download or read book Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia written by Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acts and Joint Resolutions  Amending the Constitution  of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia

Download or read book Acts and Joint Resolutions Amending the Constitution of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia written by Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes separately published extra sessions.

Book Reports from Commissioners

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  • Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1871
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1092 pages

Download or read book Reports from Commissioners written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book N O A A  Technical Report NMFS SSRF

Download or read book N O A A Technical Report NMFS SSRF written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Decennial Edition of the American Digest

Download or read book Decennial Edition of the American Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Columbia Gazette

Download or read book The British Columbia Gazette written by British Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 2302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: