William E. Warne, Director, Department of Water Resources. V. 1. Text -- v. 2. Figures [Final ed.]
Water use ; Land use ; Water-supply
Université Laval
Economic Theory Literature
Excerpt: No. I. The Preliminary Age. One peculiarity of this age is the sudden acquisition of much physical knowledge. There is scarcely a department of science or art which is the same, or at all the same, as it was fifty years ago. A new world of inventions ? of railways and of telegraphs ? has grown up around us which we cannot help seeing; a new world of ideas is in the air and affects us, though we do not see it. A full estimate of these effects would require a grea...
Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: AR 27–53 Review of Legality of Weapons Under International Law This is a transitional reprint of this publication which places it in the new UPDATE format. Any previously published permanent numbered changes have been incorporated into the text.
Excerpt: Synopsis of Program: The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.
Economics
Natural disasters fit ?naturally? within the Social Risk Management (SRM) framework. The SRM framework explores how society manages risks, with the main idea being that all individuals, households and communities are exposed to multiple risks from different sources. Still, the poor are more vulnerable since they are typically more exposed to risks and have access to fewer risk management instruments that can permit them to deal with these risks. This exposure to risks an...
Excerpt: The Office of Innovation and Improvement's (OII) Innovation of the Week is the Troops-to-Teachers program. The brave men and women fighting in Iraq--and their colleagues around the world--represent one of the most highly skilled, highly trained sectors of our society,? Nina Rees, Deputy Under-secretary of OII, testified before the House Committee on Veterans? Affairs April 9. Many of our service personnel possess a command of mathematics and science, subjects th...
Excerpt: Ross Murdock wouldn?t have seemed formidable to any one glancing casually at him as he sat within the detention cell. He was a little above average height, but not enough to make him noticeable. His brown hair was cropped conservatively and there was nothing remarkable about his unlined boy?s face?unless one noted those light-gray eyes and caught the chilling, measuring expression that showed now and then for an instant in their depths.
Excerpt: THE kind reception awarded to the author's translation of Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, and the great success-.of that book, induce her to hope that the following pages will be equally approved. They contain a complete translation from the German of the Household Stories, or Fairy Tales collected by the brothers Grimm from various sources, and of many of which they were the authors. The first volume of the tales appeared in the year 1812; a second in 1814; and o...
Excerpt: Just past its 50th birthday, commercial nuclear energy is experiencing a tentative rejuvenation that could result in a greater role as a global source of electricity. Skeptics still harbor many of the objections that have slowed or stopped the construction of new nuclear power plants, but rising concerns about the cost and security of energy supplies and global climate change have reframed the debate in terms more favorable for nuclear power advocates. As a resu...
Excerpt: A MESSAGE TO PARENTS ?The arts are, above all, the special language of children, who, even before they learn to speak, respond intuitively to dance, music, and color,? Dr. Ernest Boyer, former U.S. Commissioner of Education and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching once stated. The magic of finding a new way of communicating, a new way of envisioning the world, is one of the most exciting discoveries that children make. Children ne...
Excerpt: Partner 1 the one-man clopter was zipping over New Mexico when Kent Lindstrom's left hand dropped its side of the book of Beethoven sonatas. Kent stared with annoyance as the hand reached forward to fool with the manual control wheel.
Excerpt: Under the hammer ?think you?re going to like killing, boy?? Asked the old man on double crutches. Rob jenne turned from the streams of moving cargo to his unnoticed companion in the shade of the starship?s hull. His own eyes were pale gray, suited like his dead-white skin to burlage, whose ruddy sun could raise a blush but not a tan. When they adjusted, they took in the clerical collar which completed the other?s costume. The smooth, black synthetic contrasted o...