Bøger af David Harris

A new political history of the former British colony in West Africa.

This "gripping and informative" (Publishers Weekly) account of financier Charles Hurwitz's takeover of the Pacific Lumber Company (PL) in remote Northern California is as much a story about the struggle for the soul of capitalism as it is about the fight to save the ancient redwoods on the company's lands. For generations the family-owned PL had operated on the banks of the Eel River in Humboldt County under the principle of long-term sustainability over short-term profits: employees were treated respectfully, and no more than seventy percent of old-growth redwoods would be cut in order to give the forest time to reseed. David Harris skillfully combines a journalist's astute eye for detail and an activist's moral outrage with fast-paced, thriller-like writing to chronicle the drastic changes that came to not only a corporation but its employees' entire way of life when the PL was bought out by a Texas-based conglomerate-whose greed-fueled destruction of the redwoods ultimately doomed the enterprise.

The Inland Empire-the vast region east of Los Angeles encompassing Riverside and San Bernardino Counties-brims with an immense range of environments, from cactus-studded deserts to snow-capped summits, from shady forests and sparkling lakes to lush palm oases. It's truly a hiker's paradise.

David Harris uses the examples of Sierra Leone and Liberia to examine the nexus of international and domestic politics in these post-conflict elections.

This is a practical guide to the basic principles and applications of light spectroscpoy techniques. Spectrophotometry and spectrofluorometry are the most widely used biochemical techniques across a wide range of biological disciplines.

Explores important clinical problems in general nephrology, dialysis and transplantation, using a case-based approach. This book includes 32 chapters form a comprehensive collection of clinical vignettes in renal medicine.

This introduction to debates around the themes of culture, identity and lifestyle aims to help students of sociology, media and cultural studies make sense of these often complicated arguments. It summarizes and critically discusses some basic approaches in social theory and cultural analysis.

David Harris examines the rise of cultural studies and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses. In doing so he raises searching questions about its originality and political motivation.