Most Popular Books by Richard Adams

This fully updated edition spells out what action school personnel should take when faced with specific physical, emotional and behavioral problems. Covering everything from the common cold to trauma, it helps school personnel make decisions that protect student health -- and prevent litigation. Plus, this new third edition offers expanded information on mental health, special education, teen pregnancy, STDs, and more.

A quiet New England town is shattered by violence--and rises above it

In this bulletin an attempt is made to bring together in one place comprehensive statistics of fertilizer production, consumption, foreign trade, and kindred topics, as they relate to the United States . Also included are data on agricultural liming materials , gypsum, and peat. This compilation should serve, among other things, as an aid in charting the progress in the several phases of the subject; in evaluating national, regional, and State trends in the use of fertilizers and related materials; in forecasting their requirements for future use; in developing programs for expanding their production with respect to quantities and types of products and to plant location; in studies of the economics of their use in relation to farm income, crop production, and land-management practices; and in guiding their allocation in time of emergency.

Periodic information on fertilizer use by crops provides reference points that are widely used by public and private agencies and by individuals. Identification of changes in levels and patterns of fertilizer use is a necessary part of analysis of changes in farm technology and of farm adjustment problems closely related to these changes. The reference points provided by the estimates presented here, together with information on crop yield response to changing technology, are useful in projecting potentials in crop production and in projecting demand for fertilizer and other nonfarm inputs. This report includes estimates of use of principal plant nutrients on individual crops for the 50 States, and for State parts of agricultural subregions for the 48 contiguous States, for whole subregions, and for the United States by major regions.

This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question. The entire spread‐out chain of command is unified in the general, who offers the only connection between the military and politics. Offering the sole connection between the military and politics, only the general can turn political directions into military command and capacitate war. Thus, the general has unique opportunity to resist unconscionable direction to launch an unjust war or to conduct or expand war unjustly. This book argues for reform, so the general has the right in law to refuse direction which is lawful, but awful. The legal capacity to refuse would mean the general would be expected to act responsibly, not merely as the unresisting pawn of politics. Such reform, creating legal opportunity for the supreme command to refuse lawful but unconscionable directives, might avert unjust war. This book will be of much interest to students of the ethics of war, civil‐military relations, and international relations.

Cessant d''être les Jeannot de notre enfance et le gibier des Raboliot, voici que les lapins deviennent pour la première fois les héros d''une épopée. Ce récit a la simplicité des grands mythes. Comme eux, il est tissé de symboles : le sang versé, l''herbe rase et l''herbe haute. l''oiseau noir et l''oiseau blanc, le grand chien qui vous pourchasse et qui vous sauve sans le savoir, l''eau qui noie ou qui vous porte, la " grande eau " que les lapins n''ont jamais vue et dont ils rêvent, et enfin ces innombrables petites fleurs des champs, avec lesquelles ils entretiennent une amitié complice et gourmande, incarnations fugaces du temps qui passe et de la Mort, leur éternelle compagne. Fable ? Œuvre de moraliste ? Livre de sagesse ? Richard Adams a simplement raconté une histoire - mais en lui prêtant une telle fraîcheur, une telle poésie et tant de mystérieux échos que nous croyons reconnaître une odyssée venue du fond des siècles. A nous de l''interpréter à notre façon, ou mieux de la lire avec des yeux d''enfant.

Plants and animals are discussed in the ways they adjust to each season.

Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee''s closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller.