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Creating Sustainable Communities: Lessons from the Hudson ...

Creating Sustainable Communities: Lessons from the Hudson ...

Rik Scarce

In this fascinating book,Rik Scarce showcases some of these efforts by telling the stories of dynamic individuals and organizations that are remaking the region’s landscape through ecosystem stewardship, nurturing agricultural practices, ...
Ethnography At The Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research

Ethnography At The Edge: Crime, Deviance, and Field Research

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See Rik Scarce, “(No) Trial (But) Tribulations: When Courts and Ethnography Conflict,” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 23 (1994): 123–49; Rik Scarce, “ Scholarly Ethics and Courtroom Antics: Where Researchers Stand in the Eyes of  ...
Contempt of Court: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from ...

Contempt of Court: A Scholar's Battle for Free Speech from ...

Rik Scarce

1995 by Transaction Publishers. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Excerpts from "Good Faith, Bad Ethics: When Scholars Go the Distance and Scholarly Associations Do Not" by Rik Scarce, in Law and Social Inquiry, Vol 24, No 4, pp.
How It's Done: An Invitation to Social Research

How It's Done: An Invitation to Social Research

Emily Adler

In a case with a different outcome, sociologist Rik Scarce (1995) went to jail to protect the confidentiality of participants in his research. After completing a study of radical environmental activists, Scarce remained in contact with some of them.
Danger in the Field: Ethics and Risk in Social Research

Danger in the Field: Ethics and Risk in Social Research

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A case in point is that of Rik Scarce, who was the first sociologist to be jailed for refusing to breach the American Sociological Association Code of Ethics on confidentiality. In 1991 Scarce was a doctoral student studying ecological movements ...
Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental ...

Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental ...

Rik Scarce

Literate, captivating, and informative, this is also an ideal volume for classes on environmentalism, social movements, or contemporary politics.
Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction ...

Fishy Business: Salmon, Biology, and the Social Construction ...

Rik Scarce

Thus, while external forces control much of the biologists' work, a movement is underway to free biology from political and economic pressures.
Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature: A ...

Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature: A ...

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Method. Keith H. Hirokawa and Rik Scarce introduction The concept of nature has been such a productive source of fascination in the legal system that the idea has become inescapable and implied in every legal formation of right and duty.
Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse

Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse

Martha Frances Lee

... gaining credibility among lawmakers, not preserving the environment.42 In Eco -Warriors, Rik Scarce discusses the emergence of other, more radical environmental groups, specifically Earth First!, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, ...
Researching the Vulnerable: A Guide to Sensitive Research ...

Researching the Vulnerable: A Guide to Sensitive Research ...

Pranee Liamputtong

cases of Mario Brajuha (Hallowell 1985; Brajuha and Hallowell 1986) and Rik Scarce (2001) are two good examples to cite here. Brajuha was a postgraduate student researching a restaurant that was burnt down. It was suspected by the ...
Creating Sustainable Communities: Lessons from the Hudson ...

Creating Sustainable Communities: Lessons from the Hudson ...

Rik Scarce

Oliver A. Rink, “Seafarers and Businessmen: The Growth of Dutch Commerce in the Lower Hudson River Valley,” in Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, ed. Roger Panetta (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009), 7–34.
Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental ...

Eco-Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental ...

Rik Scarce

Marti Kheel,"Ecofeminism and Deep Ecology: Reflections on Identity and Difference," unpublished manuscript, p. 7. Ibid., p. 15. Ibid., p. 29. Janet Biehl, "It's Deep, But Is It Broad? An Eco-Feminist Looks at Deep Ecology," Kick It Over ( special ...
Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination

Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination

Christopher N. Kendall

... et aL, "Gay Men as Victims of Non-consensual Sex" (1994) 23(3) Archives of Sexual Behaviour 281. As noted in Scarce, ibid, at 65. 25 Outlined in Scarce, supra note 5 at 127-32. See also Fred Pelka, "Raped: A Male Survivor Breaks ...
Learning Neo4j

Learning Neo4j

Rik Van Bruggen

This book is for developers who want an alternative way to store and process data within their applications.
Love Between Men: Enhancing Intimacy and Resolving Conflicts ...

Love Between Men: Enhancing Intimacy and Resolving Conflicts ...

Rik Isensee

Read this book if you'd like to improve your relationship and communicate better with your boyfriend, lover, or even your next date!
Mass Authorship and the Rise of Self-Publishing

Mass Authorship and the Rise of Self-Publishing

Timothy Laquintano

Fellow Badgers from the University of Wisconsin kept me sane while I was working on the dissertation and the manuscript, including Scot Barnett, Rik Hunter, Adam Koehler, Corey Mead, Annette Vee, and Kate Vieira. In addition to the ...
The First Bible

The First Bible

Claude Conder

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
The Melwood Mystery

The Melwood Mystery

James Hay, Jr.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Men Who Are Making America

Men Who Are Making America

B. C. Forbes

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour

Lillian Hellman

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
In Araby Orion

In Araby Orion

Edward Thompson

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
The Ministry Of Comfort

The Ministry Of Comfort

James Miller

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
You and I

You and I

Harriet Monroe

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series.
The Hockey Saint

The Hockey Saint

Howard Shapiro

... John Hogan, Andrew Cosby, Josh Christie, Cassie McCown, Rik Offenberger, Katharine Kan, Sean McIndoe, Barry Petchesky and everyone at Deadspin, Greg Wyshynski, Sean Leahy, the hockey and book blogging communities (too many ...
Composition, Creative Writing Studies, and the Digital ...

Composition, Creative Writing Studies, and the Digital ...

Adam Koehler

And to my graduate school colleagues—Scot Barnett, Annette Vee, Kate Viera, Rik Hunter, Jacque Preston, Eric Pritchard, Mary Fiorenza, Mira Shimabukuro, David Grant, and Alice Dear—you showed me first what it means to love what you ...
George Washington

George Washington

William Roscoe Thayer

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Philip Goes Forth: A Play in Three Acts

Philip Goes Forth: A Play in Three Acts

George Kelly

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Pheasants and Pheasantries (1883)

Pheasants and Pheasantries (1883)

John Baily

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
Masonic Baptism of Children

Masonic Baptism of Children

Albert Pike

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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