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WEEKEND VOTING FOR FEDERAL ELECTIONS: PROPOSALS AND VIEWS -- WEEKEND VOTING FOR FEDERAL ELECTIONS: PROPOSALS AND VIEWS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: ELECTIONS: VIEWS ON IMPLEMENTING FEDERAL ELECTIONS ON A WEEKEND -- WHY GAO DID THIS STUDY -- WHAT GAO FOUND -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BACKGROUND -- Election Authority -- Election System Elements -- MOST STATES PROVIDED EARLY OR NO-EXCUSE ABSENTEE VOTING AS ALTERNATIVES TO VOTING ON TUESDAY IN THE 2010 GENERAL ELECTION

An introduction to political culture and gun control policy in the United States and Canada -- Agenda setting, institutions, and interest groups in the United States and Canada -- The United States: violence leads no where -- Canada: violent events drive change -- Conclusions: a discussion of why Canada reacts to gun violence events, and the United States does not -- Gun control policy in the United States and Canada 2008 to present.

Resumo : A relação de Nietzsche com a imagem de Burckhardt da Renascença foi um meio de praticar a história. Nietzsche compartilhava com Burckhardt a preferência pela tipologia, a crença de que a verdade é alcançada intuitivamente e diz respeito à identidade interna de todas as coisas, e a preferência por grandes objetos e indivíduos históricos. E compartilhava com ele precisamente porque duas de suas influências comuns mais significativas foram Goethe e Schopenhauer. Para além disso, argumento que existem algumas disjunções menores e algumas mais significativas em sua abordagem da historiografia da Renascença. Por último, realizo um esboço do que podemos chamar de a questão do motivo: que a proposta de Burckhardt em construir a Renascença era de fato bem oposta ao olhar mais radical de Nietzsche sobre a história.

Resumo: A Segunda consideração extemporânea geralmente é tida em conta por filósofos e historiadores, em razão de sua crítica ao que Nietzsche classifica como "doença histórica", ("historische Krankheit"). Isso por uma boa razão: a crítica de Nietzsche tem como alvo não apenas a famosa tríade composta por historiadores monumentais, antiquários e críticos, mas também suas modalidades contemporâneas em historiografia e teleologia científicas. O que frequentes vezes é desconsiderado é que o próprio Nietzsche expõe - ainda que numa retórica altamente estilizada - uma concepção afirmativa da história. Essa concepção, como eu proponho, faz o leitor retornar ao enunciado que inaugura o livro, qual seja, o Ceterum Censeo, de Goethe. A demanda de Nietzsche de que a história serve à vida é uma nova aplicação da teoria de Goethe do crescimento morfológico como consequência de forças polares concorrentes para o reino da história. Uma vez que Goethe tinha os organismos vivos como a crescer por meio de forças em concorrência, também Nietzsche entendia que os indivíduos e culturas cresciam por meio de uma história considerada, acima de tudo, uma espécie de arena competitiva em que se expressam impulsos antagonistas.

AbstractThis article takes seriously Edward Sapir's observation about poetry as an example of linguistic relativity. Taking my cue from Dwight Bolinger's "word affinities," this article reports on the ways sounds of poetry evoke and convoke imaginative possibilities through phonological iconicity. In working with Navajos in translating poetry, I have come to appreciate the sound suggestiveness of that poetry and the imaginative possibilities that are bound up in the sounds of Navajo. It seems that just such sound suggestiveness via phonological iconicity and the ways they orient our imaginations are a crucial locus for thinking through linguistic relativities.

The first recorded landing by Europeans on the coast of northern East Greenland (north of 69°N) was that of William Scoresby Jr., a British whaler, in 1822. This volume includes a chronological summary of the pioneer 19th century exploration voyages made by British, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, French and German expeditions – all of whom reported that the region had previously been occupied by the Inuit or Eskimo; also included are brief outlines of the increasing number of government and privately sponsored expeditions throughout the 20th century, whose objectives included cartography, geology, zoology, botany, trapping and the ascent of the highest mountain summits. In 1934 the Place Name Committee for Greenland was established, the tasks of which included a review of all place names hitherto recorded on published maps of Greenland, their formal adoption in danicised form, and the approval or rejection of new name proposals. In northern East Greenland, by far the largest numbers of new place names were those proposed by scientists associated with Lauge Koch's geological expeditions that lasted from 1926 until 1958. This volume records the location and origin of more than 3000 officially approved place names as well as about 2650 unapproved names. The author's interest in the exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland started in 1968, when the Geological Survey of Greenland initiated a major five-year geological mapping programme in the Scoresby Sund region. Systematic compilation of names began about 1970, initially with the names given by William Scoresby Jr., and subsequently broadened in scope to include the names proposed by all expeditions to northern East Greenland. The author has participated in 16 summer mapping expeditions with the Survey to northern East Greenland. Publication of this volume represents the culmination of a lifetime working in the Arctic.

The purpose of this thesis was to develop cost per flying hour factors for the operations and maintenance (O&M) phase of the satellite life cycle. At a time when space system platforms are becoming some of the most strategic weapons in the military arsenal, it is critical that accurate cost models and factors be developed to assist in budgeting for the O&M of these assets.

Dodging Bullets—Changing U.S. Corporate Capital Structure in the 1980s and 1990s, by Robert N. McCauley, Judith S. Ruud, and Frank Iacono, The MIT Press, 1999, 352 pages, suggested retail price $34.95.