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Author : Ashok Gupta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (435 download)
Download or read book A Billion is Enough written by Ashok Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Yglesias
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0593853881
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (938 download)
Download or read book One Billion Americans written by Matthew Yglesias and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it’s that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can’t compete with the huge population clusters of the global marketplace by keeping our population static or letting it diminish, or with our crumbling transit and unaffordable housing. The winner in the future world is going to have more—more ideas, more ambition, more utilization of resources, more people. Exactly how many Americans do we need to win? According to Matthew Yglesias, one billion. From one of our foremost policy writers, One Billion Americans is the provocative yet logical argument that if we aren’t moving forward, we’re losing. Vox founder Yglesias invites us to think bigger, while taking the problems of decline seriously. What really contributes to national prosperity should not be controversial: supporting parents and children, welcoming immigrants and their contributions, and exploring creative policies that support growth—like more housing, better transportation, improved education, revitalized welfare, and climate change mitigation. Drawing on examples and solutions from around the world, Yglesias shows not only that we can do this, but why we must. Making the case for massive population growth with analytic rigor and imagination, One Billion Americans issues a radical but undeniable challenge: Why not do it all, and stay on top forever?
Author : Steffen Andersen
Publisher : Aalborg University Press
ISBN 13 : 9788772102948
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book There Is Enough written by Steffen Andersen and published by Aalborg University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most food found on supermarket shelves exists because consumer research has proven that the product will be in demand once it is made available by the food industry. This book strives to shed light on the aspects of our everyday sustenance that we normally dont think about; above all the problematic consumer unawareness of foods nutritional value -- and the technology behind industrially grown, raised and manufactured fruits, vegetables, meat, milk, eggs, processed and fast food. Our ancestors created and secured modern food production through hard work; this occurred over a couple of million years in three leaps: Meat Cooking (1.8 million years ago); Agriculture Society (10.000 years ago); Industrial Specialization (300 years ago). Now, we are at the frontier of a new era of future-food, driven by the need to feed nine billion people. But there are risks, as well as rewards, we must be conscious of as we move toward these new kinds of food. Among the key question we must consider: Is your body ready for these new sources of nutrition, or might you thrive even better with the foods you are already accustomed to? Reading this book will reward you with a new chance to make the right choices during shopping trips to your store or on the internet -- in the food jungle. The book unfolds and presents for you a map of the conditions underlying our modern food supply, to help guide you safely in navigating the food jungle and increase your feeling of responsibility for your food intake. It will make you a better shopper and consumer; and empower you to leverage your newfound knowledge in helping drive the food industry toward manufacturing the healthiest foods possible for your body.
Author : Nancy Pine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538143410
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book One in a Billion written by Nancy Pine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens. An Wei—a stubborn, hardworking peasant who has lived by his values and stood up for his convictions—has succeeded against all odds in the authoritarian environment of China. Despite grinding poverty, hunger, reeducation campaigns, and attacks from jealous peers, An Wei continues to inspire with his daring achievements, such as launching a democratic congress in his own village. His compelling life provides a vivid backdrop for understanding the development of modern China from the unique perspective of an outspoken citizen. Through his audacious determination and survival skills forged in rural poverty, An Wei’s unstoppable drive to improve himself and rural China will captivate and enthrall readers. Her website can be found at https://nancypine.info/
Author : Michael M. Andregg
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761367152
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Seven Billion and Counting written by Michael M. Andregg and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 31, 2011, marked an uneasy milestone for Planet Earth. On this day, the global population surpassed seven billion. What does that mean for a world that, until the nineteenth century, was home to less than one billion people? Experts say it means the planet is in trouble. Some wonder if Earth will even be able to sustain human life at its current rate of growth. Will there be enough food for everyone? Will conflicts over land increase? How will the environment be affected? Can humanity survive the predicted disasters? More than a simple case of running out of space, the population crisis is interwoven with a host of other issues?from climate change and resource management to war, disease, and poverty. Discover how all these factors converge to place an entire planet in crisis mode?and explore what sort of responses that crisis may require.
Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451661347
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book One in a Billion written by Mark Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting scientific detective story” (The Washington Post) by two Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists who chronicle a young Wisconsin boy with a never-before-seen disease and the doctors who save his life by taking a new step into the future of medicine. In this landmark medical narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher share the story of Nic Volker, the first patient to be saved by a bold breakthrough in medicine—a complete gene sequencing, aimed at finding the cause of an otherwise undiagnosable illness. At just two years old, Nic experienced a brief flicker of pain that signaled the awakening of a new and deadly disease, one that would hurl him and his family into a harrowing journey in search for a lifesaving cure. After his symptoms stump every practitioner, it becomes clear that Nic’s is a one in a billion case, a disease that no one has ever seen before. As Nic and his family search for answers, the scientific community is racing to bring about the next revolution in medicine—translating results from the Human Genome Project to treatments for actual patients. At the forefront is the brilliant geneticist Howard Jacob, who starts a lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Then Nic’s head physician reaches out to Jacob with an unprecedented of idea. A disease like Nic’s is likely due to a rare mutation: if they could sequence his genes to try to find the mutation, the boy might live. Jacob doesn’t know if he can do it; Nic’s doctors don’t know if it will even work; and no one knows what else might lie in the Pandora’s Box of Nic’s genome. But they decide to try—and in doing so, they step into a new era of medicine. One in a Billion is “a compelling story of a modern medical miracle—the first instance of personalized medicine” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and the birth of a scientific revolution.
Author : Kristin Billerbeck
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1401685366
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Billion Reasons Why written by Kristin Billerbeck and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a billion reasons Kate should marry her current boyfriend. Will she trade them all to be madly in love? Katie McKenna leads a perfect life. She has a fulfilling job, a cute apartment, and a wedding to plan with her soon-to-be fiancé, Dexter. She can think of a billion reasons why she should marry Dexter. He’s everything she wants in a husband. And then in walks Luc DeForges, her bold, breathtaking ex-boyfriend. Only now he’s a millionaire. And he wants her to go home to New Orleans to sing for a friend’s wedding. As his date. But Katie made up her mind about Luc eight years ago, when she fled their hometown after a very public breakup. Yet there’s still a magnetism between them she can’t deny. Katie thought her predictable relationship with Dexter would be the bedrock of a lasing, Christian marriage. But what if there’s more? What if God’s desire for her is a heart full of life? And what if that’s what Luc has offered all along? "Katie and Luc dance off the pages of this book, making you fall in love with them and New Orleans. Full of surprises and romance." —Carolyne Aarsen, author of The Baby Promise
Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451661339
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book One in a Billion written by Mark Johnson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher chronicle the story of a young boy with a never-before-seen disease and the doctors who take a bold step into the future of medicine to save him"--Page 4 of cover
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Service Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1780338783
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Population 10 Billion written by Danny Dorling and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What's more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it? Distinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much and that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by 2025. By recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow and become more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is the population decline that will occur after 10 billion. Population 10 Billion is a major work by one of the world's leading geographers and will change the way you think about the future. Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas and observations, this book is a tool kit to prepare for the future and to help us ask the right questions
Author : Stephen Emmott
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806468
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Ten Billion written by Stephen Emmott and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a nightmare. Stephen Emmott, a scientist whose lab is at the forefront of research into complex natural systems, sounds the alarm. TEN BILLION is a snapshot of our planet, and our species, approaching a crisis, and a stark analysis of where this leaves us. TEN BILLION is not another climate book. TEN BILLION is a book about us.
Author : Chris Lyons
Publisher : Chris Lyons
ISBN 13 : 1505922836
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book From a Billion Dollars to Nothing written by Chris Lyons and published by Chris Lyons. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day Tom Heartland finds out he is a billionaire, he discovers he has cancer and one year left to live. His whole life changes and he finds out that his money could change lives. This story is about the core in all of us. What if you just decided that you were going to give away all your money before you die? How would you do it? what lives would you change. Perhaps the life that is chaaged is yours!!
Author : Daniel McDowell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190605766
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? written by Daniel McDowell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? explores how and why the U.S. has regularly acted, often alongside the IMF, as an international lender of last resort by selectively bailing out foreign economies in crisis. Daniel McDowell highlights the unique role that the U.S. has played in stabilizing the world economy from the 1960s through 2008.
Author : Kai Chen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 145206069X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book One in a Billion written by Kai Chen and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-01-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kai and his mother were sitting on an Air China 747 in San Francisco International Airport, waiting impatiently for take-off. Kais father had passed away a year before in the spring of 1988. He was taking his mother home to visit his elder brother in China. The take-off had been delayed because one of the Chinese passengers failed to show up even though he had already checked his luggage. He had decided to remain in the US illegally. This incident took Kai back in time to his own painful and courageous decisions.
Author : Louis Freeland Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Public written by Louis Freeland Post and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book The Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Egeland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416561315
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book A Billion Lives written by Jan Egeland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "the world's conscience" and one of the 100 most influential people of our time by Time magazine, Jan Egeland has been the public face of the United Nations. As Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, he was in charge of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for three and a half years. One of the bravest and most adventuresome figures on the international scene, Egeland takes us to the frontlines of war and chaos in Iraq, to scenes of ethnic cleansing in Darfur, to the ground zeroes of famine, earthquakes, and tsunamis. He challenges the first world to act. A Billion Lives is his on-the-ground account of his work in the most dangerous places in the world, where he has led relief efforts, negotiated truces with warlords, and intervened in what many had thought to be hopeless situations. As one of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's closest advisers, Jan Egeland was at the heart of crises during a difficult period in UN history, when the organization was plagued by the divisive aftermath of the Iraq war, the Oil-for-Food scandal, and terror attacks against UN workers. On the day Egeland came to New York to take up his job, the UN building in Baghdad was destroyed by a huge bomb, killing one of his predecessors, Sergio de Mello. Two months later Annan sent Egeland to Iraq to judge whether the UN could keep a presence there. Since that first mission to Baghdad, Egeland has been envoy to such places as Darfur, Eastern Congo, Lebanon, Gaza, Northern Israel, Northern Uganda, and Colombia. He coordinated the massive international relief efforts after the Indian Ocean tsunami and South Asian earthquake. As a negotiator and activist, Egeland is famous for direct language, whether he's addressing warlords, guerrilla leaders, generals, or heads of state. A Billion Lives is his passionate, adventure-filled eyewitness account of the catastrophes the world faces. And so Egeland writes that he has met the best and worst among us, has "confronted warlords, mass murderers, and tyrants, but [has] met many more peacemakers, relief workers, and human rights activists who risk their lives at humanity's first line of defense." In spite of the desperate need of so many, Egeland is convinced that, "For the vast majority of people, the world is getting better, that there is more peace, more people fed and educated, and fewer forced to become refugees than a generation ago. So there is reason for optimism," he concludes in this groundbreaking book that does not flinch but holds out reasons for hope.
