Author: Harold S. Shepherd
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663265348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Few books published to date comprehensively analyzes how at statehood Alaska served as a leader in creating and enforcing environmental policy and how these early policies, together with the emerging activism of Alaska Native communities, played a part in the birth of the nationwide environmental movement. The book also addresses how the powerful extraction industry subsequently shaped the management of water and subsistence resources (as championed in particular by the Trump administration conservative and state politicians). After a campaign led by industrial interests and the republican party to discredit the environmental movement, today Democratic and tribal leaders and everyday citizen are working to limit the impacts of extraction interests. At the same time Alaska Tribes are boosting the role of traditional knowledge, rights of the river, and tribal self-determination movements in protecting water and subsistence resources.
Return to Ekeunick’s Time
Author: Harold S. Shepherd
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663265348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Few books published to date comprehensively analyzes how at statehood Alaska served as a leader in creating and enforcing environmental policy and how these early policies, together with the emerging activism of Alaska Native communities, played a part in the birth of the nationwide environmental movement. The book also addresses how the powerful extraction industry subsequently shaped the management of water and subsistence resources (as championed in particular by the Trump administration conservative and state politicians). After a campaign led by industrial interests and the republican party to discredit the environmental movement, today Democratic and tribal leaders and everyday citizen are working to limit the impacts of extraction interests. At the same time Alaska Tribes are boosting the role of traditional knowledge, rights of the river, and tribal self-determination movements in protecting water and subsistence resources.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663265348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Few books published to date comprehensively analyzes how at statehood Alaska served as a leader in creating and enforcing environmental policy and how these early policies, together with the emerging activism of Alaska Native communities, played a part in the birth of the nationwide environmental movement. The book also addresses how the powerful extraction industry subsequently shaped the management of water and subsistence resources (as championed in particular by the Trump administration conservative and state politicians). After a campaign led by industrial interests and the republican party to discredit the environmental movement, today Democratic and tribal leaders and everyday citizen are working to limit the impacts of extraction interests. At the same time Alaska Tribes are boosting the role of traditional knowledge, rights of the river, and tribal self-determination movements in protecting water and subsistence resources.
People of Kauwerak
Author: William A. Oquilluk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
LEGENDS OF THE NORTHERN ESKIMO.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
LEGENDS OF THE NORTHERN ESKIMO.
Alaska Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alaska
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Lance
Author: George Vasil
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532044135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
It is April 2004 and Mehmet Yakis is an archaeology student in Istanbul. After an earthquake fractures a wall of the Aya Sofya, he unearths a lance engraved with the words, Longinus and Dominus, along with the Roman execution record of Jesus of Nazareth. Is it possible he has found the true Lance of Longinus? After Yakis shows his find to a disillusioned French archaeologist, he has no idea that Albert Boucher intends to claim it as his own. But Yakis and Boucher have competition that includes a billionaire, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, two SS officers vying to smuggle the relic out of Turkey, and two unsuspecting tourists who turn up at the wrong place at the wrong time. As new questions arise and a race over land, sea, and in the air begins, the ancient relic becomes an obsession for everyone involved as they are left to contemplate whether it truly has miraculous power, and if so, if it is worth dying for. In this historical thriller, a diverse group of relic hunters each embark on their own dangerous journeyto possess the Roman lance that pierced Jesus’ side.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532044135
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
It is April 2004 and Mehmet Yakis is an archaeology student in Istanbul. After an earthquake fractures a wall of the Aya Sofya, he unearths a lance engraved with the words, Longinus and Dominus, along with the Roman execution record of Jesus of Nazareth. Is it possible he has found the true Lance of Longinus? After Yakis shows his find to a disillusioned French archaeologist, he has no idea that Albert Boucher intends to claim it as his own. But Yakis and Boucher have competition that includes a billionaire, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, two SS officers vying to smuggle the relic out of Turkey, and two unsuspecting tourists who turn up at the wrong place at the wrong time. As new questions arise and a race over land, sea, and in the air begins, the ancient relic becomes an obsession for everyone involved as they are left to contemplate whether it truly has miraculous power, and if so, if it is worth dying for. In this historical thriller, a diverse group of relic hunters each embark on their own dangerous journeyto possess the Roman lance that pierced Jesus’ side.
Joy Sebenza
Author: Hilde van der Merwe
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663232776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In a unique and utopian South Africa of the far future, a secret agent crosses paths with a doomed man, a few adventurous children, and a unit of nurses. He also meets a murdered woman, which is highly unusual since crime is just about unheard off in the Age of Integrity. To a background of wild South African landscapes and phenomenal technology, investigations continue. However, it is not the agent but the nurses who get to have most of the adventures. But will they uncover the truth about the dead woman? And will they discover the identities of the two John Does, lying unconscious in their hospital? Joy Sebenza, Better Than Hope, is a utopian sci fi drama, sleuth detective adventure, with hints of romance and a sprinkle of fairy tale flavor, but most of all, it is an origin story.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663232776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
In a unique and utopian South Africa of the far future, a secret agent crosses paths with a doomed man, a few adventurous children, and a unit of nurses. He also meets a murdered woman, which is highly unusual since crime is just about unheard off in the Age of Integrity. To a background of wild South African landscapes and phenomenal technology, investigations continue. However, it is not the agent but the nurses who get to have most of the adventures. But will they uncover the truth about the dead woman? And will they discover the identities of the two John Does, lying unconscious in their hospital? Joy Sebenza, Better Than Hope, is a utopian sci fi drama, sleuth detective adventure, with hints of romance and a sprinkle of fairy tale flavor, but most of all, it is an origin story.
Out of Many Waters
Author: Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595380476
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Originally published by Walker and Company, [1988].
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595380476
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Originally published by Walker and Company, [1988].
Forming Storming Norming Performing
Author: Donald B. Egolf
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475968620
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to Group and Team Communication. Emphasis is placed on giving readers guidelines for becoming successful communicators in groups and teams. Specific emphasis is placed on general introductory concepts, verbal and nonverbal communication, listening, conflict, problem solving, idea generation, decision making, e-collaboration, group presentations, leadership, leadership and power, and performance evaluations.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475968620
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to Group and Team Communication. Emphasis is placed on giving readers guidelines for becoming successful communicators in groups and teams. Specific emphasis is placed on general introductory concepts, verbal and nonverbal communication, listening, conflict, problem solving, idea generation, decision making, e-collaboration, group presentations, leadership, leadership and power, and performance evaluations.
The Venice Literary Review
Author: Paul Levine
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663236038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Venice Literary Review is a book of short essays and musings about aging, the challenges of change, a move to Florida from New York during the pandemic, adjustment to a highly regulated gated community for retirees, diminishing physical abilities, memories of the past, and the struggles of being a writer.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1663236038
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Venice Literary Review is a book of short essays and musings about aging, the challenges of change, a move to Florida from New York during the pandemic, adjustment to a highly regulated gated community for retirees, diminishing physical abilities, memories of the past, and the struggles of being a writer.
Satan's Silence
Author: Debbie Nathan
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595189555
Category : Ritual abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Communities throughout the United States were convulsed in the 1980s and early 1990s by accusations, often without a shred of serious evidence, that respectable men and women in their midst—many of them trusted preschool teachers—secretly gathered in far reaching conspiracies to rape and terrorize children. In this powerful book, Debbie Nathan and Mike Snedeker examine the forces fueling this blind panic.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595189555
Category : Ritual abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Communities throughout the United States were convulsed in the 1980s and early 1990s by accusations, often without a shred of serious evidence, that respectable men and women in their midst—many of them trusted preschool teachers—secretly gathered in far reaching conspiracies to rape and terrorize children. In this powerful book, Debbie Nathan and Mike Snedeker examine the forces fueling this blind panic.
Pigeon Hill
Author: George Trippon
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595208991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A heartwarming sharing of one's youth as one grows up in two cultures.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595208991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
A heartwarming sharing of one's youth as one grows up in two cultures.