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Since 1995, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released Canadian gray wolves into Yellowstone National Park as part of its wolf recovery program, reintroduction has been widely challenged in public forums and sensationalized in the media. This conflict has pitted western ranchers and property rights activists against environmental groups, highlighting starkly contrasting political perceptives. In this book, Martin A. Nie examines not only the future of wolf recovery but also the issues that will define debates around the politics of wildlife management, animal rights issues, and other flash points. The result is a revelatory look at the way the democratic process works when the subject is an environmental hot-button issue. Examining the wolf recovery program from a policy-making perspective, Nie looks at programs in Alaska, the Lake Superior region, the Northern Rockies, the Southwest, and New England and upstate New York. He analyzes the social, political, and cultural backdrop in the areas in which wolves have been reintroduced and explores such contentious issues as the role of science in public policy; the struggle between wilderness protection, resource management, and private property; and the use of stakeholders in environmental conflicts. For Nie, the debate over wolf recovery is above all a value-based political conflict that should take place in a more inclusive, participatory, and representative democratic arena. Wolves, Nie writes, are an important indicator species both biologically and politically, and in Beyond wolves, he tells an important story of wolves and people, place and politics, that resonates far beyond the fate of America's most misunderstood inhabitants.

The founder -- Shadow diplomacy -- War by other means -- Chasing respectability -- Between truth and lies -- Diplomacy in retreat -- Selective integration -- Rethinking capitalism -- The fightback -- Ambition realized -- Overreach.

This title shows how the globalisation of finance should have brought substantial benefits, but in practice it brought a series of devastating currency and banking crises in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly in the developing world.

"I am a seventeen-year-old gargoyle wolf, a werewolf mixed with vampire. I am the protector of the innocent and the killer of murderers, an assassin of evil." -Rocksha Storm After finding and assassin in her bedroom, Roxy takes her little sister from their stepmother's home in Las Vegas to their hometown Richford, in Vermont. In the beginning, it is all fun and games with her old friends and family until Roxy meets Richford's mysterious new members. The Hunters recruit her into their coven where she practices combat with them while unintentionally falling in love with the leader's son, Eric. She finds herself caught in the midst of fire when she realizes there is more to Eric's past than he lets on.

This second volume is designed to assist you in taking your exploration of rhythm further, and advancing faster! The precision in attribution of rhythms and orchestrations facilitates further, deeper source research and targeted study, and the website support makes acquisition of foundational materials a click away! Ideal for all purposes from classroom use to expanding your rhythmic pattern vocabulary for drum circle application, this compendium is an invaluable resource for every hand drummer or student of world rhythms.