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  • ACID MINE DRAINAGE, ROCK DRAINAGE, AND ACID SULFATE SOILS: CAUSES, ASSESSMENT, PREDICTION, PREVENTION, AND REMEDIATION
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    ACID MINE DRAINAGE, ROCK DRAINAGE, AND ACID SULFATE SOILS: CAUSES, ASSESSMENT, PREDICTION, PREVENTION, AND REMEDIATION
    JAMES A. JACOBS / JAY H. LEHR / STEPHEN M. TESTA
    Provides the tools needed to analyze and solve acid drainage problems Featuring contributions from leading experts in science and engineering, this book explores the complex biogeochemistry of acid mine drainage, rock drainage, and acid sulfate soils. It describes how to predict, prevent, and remediate the environmental impact of acid drainage and the oxidation of sulfi...

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  • BUSTING THE MOB
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    BUSTING THE MOB
    JAMES B JACOBS / CHRISTOPHER PANARELLA / JAY WORTHINGTON
    The decades-long fight to bring down the mob is examined through five crucial cases in this authoritative and vividly detailed book. From Al Capone to John Gotti, organized crime bosses have achieved notoriety as anti- heroes in popular culture. In practice, the Cosa Nostra grew strong and wealthy by supplying illicit goods and services and by obtaining control over labor union...

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  • STATEVILLE
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    STATEVILLE
    JAMES B. JACOBS
    Stateville penitentiary in Illinois has housed some of Chicago's most infamous criminals and was proclaimed to be "the world's toughest prison" by Joseph Ragen, Stateville's powerful warden from 1936 to 1961. It shares with Attica, San Quentin, and Jackson the notoriety of being one of the maximum security prisons that has shaped the public's conception of imprisonment. In Stat...

    $646.51

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  • WHO GOVERNS?
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    WHO GOVERNS?
    JAMES N. DRUCKMAN / LAWRENCE R. JACOBS
    America’s model of representational government rests on the premise that elected officials respond to the opinions of citizens. This is a myth, however, not a reality, according to James N. Druckman and Lawrence R. Jacobs. In Who Governs?, Druckman and Jacobs combine existing research with novel data from US presidential archives to show that presidents make policy by largely i...

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  • ACID MINE DRAINAGE, ROCK DRAINAGE, AND ACID SULFATE SOILS: CAUSES, ASSESSMENT, PREDICTION, PREVENTION, AND REMEDIATION
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    ACID MINE DRAINAGE, ROCK DRAINAGE, AND ACID SULFATE SOILS: CAUSES, ASSESSMENT, PREDICTION, PREVENTION, AND REMEDIATION
    JAMES JACOBS
    Provides the tools needed to analyze and solve acid drainage problemsFeaturing contributions from leading experts in science and engineering, this book explores the complex biogeochemistry of acid mine drainage, rock drainage, and acid sulfate soils. It describes how to predict, prevent, and remediate the environmental impact of acid drainage and the oxidation of sulfides, offe...

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  • FROM THE IMJIN TO THE HOOK
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    FROM THE IMJIN TO THE HOOK
    JAMES JACOBS
    The British Armys considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 1953 was largely composed of conscripts or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a lottery basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found themselves in the thick of a war as intensive and dangerous as anything the Second World War had ha...

    $179.00

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  • DRUNK DRIVING
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    DRUNK DRIVING
    JAMES B. JACOBS
    In this ambitious interdisciplinary study, James B. Jacobs provides the first comprehensive review and analysis of America's drunk driving problem and of America's anti-drunk driving policies and jurisprudence. In a clear and accessible style, he considers what has been learned, what is being done, and what constitutional limits exist to the control and enforcement of drunk dri...

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  • MOBSTERS, UNIONS, AND FEDS
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    MOBSTERS, UNIONS, AND FEDS
    JAMES B JACOBS
    "This worthy successor to Gotham Unbound . . . is an exhaustive . . . survey of the grip La Cosa Nostra has exerted on the country's most powerful unions." – Publishers Weekly   Nowhere in the world has organized crime infiltrated the labor movement as effectively as in the United States. Yet the government, the AFL-CIO, and the civil liberties community all but ignored the sit...

    $382.00

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