... to their research and interviews around Yerevan, capital of Armenia, they also travelled to different places in northwestern Armenia where the earthquake in 1988 had caused massive destruction. Azerbaijan assimilation of Armenians in Baku Berndt Jerry Blockade of Armenia and earthquake of 1988 Earthquake...

....” The surrealists' collective mapping project encouraged and even cultivated idiosyncrasy and inconsistency. The “Surrealist Map of the World” bears strong affinities to the brilliant “Destruction of a Map,” a 1978 collage by Haifa Zangana. Zangana's work boldly indicates that the labored and manly forces none too...

... where part of their reproductive systems were removed. This chapter connects the strategic construction of illness narratives with the reconstruction of gender roles, a process that effectively transformed suffering into a social asset, and role destruction into a chance for personal empowerment. Bury...

... Ashcroft John Mexicans mass destruction national security immigration racial minorities legal protection racial labeling The September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, DC, heightened a public discourse on the dangers the United States faces in the contemporary world. President George W...

...From tens of millions of buffalo — more than 30 billion pounds of living, breathing bison-mass — to a carpet of whitening bones and a few hundred scattered survivors. The destruction of the buffalo isn't one horrendous story — it's several horrendous stories. The buffalo vanished in different...

...This chapter contains a statement made by Tony Blair in the House of Commons. It became clear after the Gulf War that the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) ambitions of Iraq were far more extensive than hitherto thought. UNSCOM, the weapons inspection team, was set up. Saddam had used the weapons...

...Nature cannot be destroyed by humanity. Nature is always superior; it shall always prevail. Humans, under the spell of chemistry, physics, and technology, have fallen out of touch with nature and forgotten how to restrain their overconfidence. The result is not the destruction of nature...

... Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 Regime change Sovereignty United Nations Weapons of mass destruction WMDs Baath Party Clinton William J Oil for Food program in Iraq Rogue states Yasin Abdul Rahman Congo Genocide Hussein Qusay Hussein Uday Iran Rwanda genocide in Saudi Arabia Turkey...

... in the Gulf of Nicoya, including the reduction of habitat destruction, and control of pollution sources, and support for environmental education and ecological research. Gulf of Nicoya Tárcoles River Tempisque River Bebedero River Biodiversity Blue crab Brachiopoda Callinectes arcuatus Chaetognatha...

...The first section of this chapter aims to understand what happens to people with kind hearts and humanist feelings when they work on weapons of mass destruction, trying to examine the problem of power. The second section examines the Bohr phenomenon, and concepts of salvation and redemption...

...–insect interactions. The chapter discusses habitat destruction, the role of host range in the conservation of insects, spatial ecology, species introductions, changes in disturbance regimes, and climate change and its implications for the conservation of plant–insect herbivore systems. anthropogenic...

...This chapter argues that had political leaders and a broad coalition of interest groups truly wanted to heal both wounds from the postwar era—racialized segregation and environmental destruction—far more could have been done. The utterly broken politics of urbanization and development in the Bay...

...Cacti inhabit a wide diversity of climatic regions and ecosystems. Like many other plants, cacti populations are seriously threatened by habitat destruction and other human activities such as illegal collecting. This chapter examines the biodiversity of both wild and cultivated cacti, and discusses...

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... eliminates only some of the environmental insults that threaten the inhabiting wildlife. Protection does eliminate one factor that threatens wildlife — habitat destruction. This chapter looks at environmental pollution, variation in susceptibility to extinction, amphibian ranges and population structure...

..., and, if warranted, to recommend a strategy for addressing the causes of the declines. Workshop participants agreed that declines could be traced to four main factors occurring alone, sequentially, or synergistically: habitat destruction, exotic species, disease, and anthropogenic environmental change due to toxic...

...This chapter argues that the environmental stressors acting upon populations, especially those stressors of anthropogenic origin, can be better divided into the following three evils: habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation, and habitat degradation. Different species, with differing...

... of woodland salamanders in the region. The cause(s) of these population declines is (are) unknown, except that extensive habitat destruction by logging occurred at sixteen sites (twenty-two populations); but this accounts for only a small proportion of the observed declines. Ambystoma cingulatum flatwoods...

... the bombing. It also discusses the unsettling effects of the frozen time that appears in the storytellers' retellings of the moment of destruction. Benjamin Walter on historiography de Certeau Michel knowledge commodified mnemonic detour narrative and containment Numata Suzuko Peace Memorial Park...

... how the nationalization of the city's destruction through discursive linkages with other instances of nuclear destruction has worked to construct a narrative of national innocence and victimhood. authenticity of “dead ” “comfort women” issue history collective Treat John Whittier witness Young...