'The nature of the beast:'the precariousness of police work

M Branch - Policing and society, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
There is abundant literature focusing on current police officers, but there is a need to turn
the focus towards police academies and training programmes to better understand how the …

[BOOK][B] The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003

MP Branch, S Slovic - 2003 - books.google.com
This volume gathers nineteen of the most representative and defining essays from the journal
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment over the course of its first ten …

Before nature writing: Discourses of Colonial American natural history

MP Branch - Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries …, 2001 - books.google.com
Because humans have always used art to comprehend, mediate, and express their relationship
to the nonhuman world, it may be said that some form of nature writing has long been a …

Spatial correlates of hippocampal unit activity

DS Olton, M Branch, PJ Best - Experimental neurology, 1978 - Elsevier
Electrical activity of units in the hippocampus was recorded from freely behaving rats as they
explored a spatial maze. The maze had eight arms, each of which radiated from the center …

[BOOK][B] Reading the Roots: American Nature Writing before Walden

MP Branch - 2004 - books.google.com
… Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of
American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that …

A guide to ESG portfolio construction

M Branch, LR Goldberg, P Hand - The Journal of Portfolio …, 2019 - jpm.pm-research.com
In this article, the authors explore six quantitative environmental (E), social (S), and governance
(G) strategies to provide insights into best practices for ESG portfolio construction. These …

[BOOK][B] Are you serious? A modest proposal for environmental humor

MP Branch - 2014 - books.google.com
In a recent essay called “A Climatologist Walks into a Bar...,” Robert Butler observes
despairingly that Man Walks into a Bar, the self-proclaimed “biggest joke book in the world,” …

Finnish

M Branch - The Major Languages of Eastern Europe, 2002 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Finnish (native name suomi) is one of a group of closely related and to some extent mutually
intelligible languages, known collectively as Baltic-Finnic. They are spoken mainly in the …

Saving all the pieces: The place of textual editing in ecocriticism

MP Branch - Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2001 - JSTOR
When ecologists and conservation biologists theorize the study, alteration, or restoration of
natural ecosystems, they often begin with the maxim that it is imperative to" save all the pieces…

" Angel guiding gently": The Yosemite Meeting of Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Muir, 1871

MP Branch - Western American Literature, 1997 - muse.jhu.edu
John Muir’s pencil drawing of “Samoset’,’the sequoia that Emerson named while in Yosemite
in May, 1871. The drawing, which Muir mailed to Emerson (probably in his letter of 6 July …