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Publisher : CSIS
ISBN 13 : 9780892065110
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (651 download)
Download or read book A Perilous Course written by and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Steve Albrecht
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Accounting Education written by W. Steve Albrecht and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Alejandro Ariza
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589980
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)
Download or read book Disposable City written by Mario Alejandro Ariza and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Miami, Florida, is likely to be entirely underwater by the end of this century. Residents are already starting to see the effects of sea level rise today. From sunny day flooding caused by higher tides to a sewer system on the brink of total collapse, the city undeniably lives in a climate changed world. In Disposable City, Miami resident Mario Alejandro Ariza shows us not only what climate change looks like on the ground today, but also what Miami will look like 100 years from now, and how that future has been shaped by the city's racist past and present. As politicians continue to kick the can down the road and Miami becomes increasingly unlivable, real estate vultures and wealthy residents will be able to get out or move to higher ground, but the most vulnerable communities, disproportionately composed of people of color, will face flood damage, rising housing costs, dangerously higher temperatures, and stronger hurricanes that they can't afford to escape. Miami may be on the front lines of climate change, but the battle it's fighting today is coming for the rest of the U.S. -- and the rest of the world -- far sooner than we could have imagined even a decade ago. Disposable City is a thoughtful portrait of both a vibrant city with a unique culture and the social, economic, and psychic costs of climate change that call us to act before it's too late.
Author : Jon Gertner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812996631
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The Ice at the End of the World written by Jon Gertner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland—at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed. In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the twentieth century—first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds—and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling—one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. As Greenland’s ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns. Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.
Author : Deanna Raybourn
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451476158
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book A Perilous Undertaking written by Deanna Raybourn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting a ladies-only club for intrepid women, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell is challenged to save a society art patron from execution.
Author : David E. Pozen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551991
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Perilous Public Square written by David E. Pozen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans of all political persuasions fear that “free speech” is under attack. This may seem strange at a time when legal protections for free expression remain strong and overt government censorship minimal. Yet a range of political, economic, social, and technological developments have raised profound challenges for how we manage speech. New threats to political discourse are mounting—from the rise of authoritarian populism and national security secrecy to the decline of print journalism and public trust in experts to the “fake news,” trolling, and increasingly subtle modes of surveillance made possible by digital technologies. The Perilous Public Square brings together leading thinkers to identify and investigate today’s multifaceted threats to free expression. They go beyond the campus and the courthouse to pinpoint key structural changes in the means of mass communication and forms of global capitalism. Beginning with Tim Wu’s inquiry into whether the First Amendment is obsolete, Matthew Connelly, Jack Goldsmith, Kate Klonick, Frederick Schauer, Olivier Sylvain, and Heather Whitney explore ways to address these dangers and preserve the essential features of a healthy democracy. Their conversations with other leading thinkers, including Danielle Keats Citron, Jelani Cobb, Frank Pasquale, Geoffrey R. Stone, Rebecca Tushnet, and Kirsten Weld, cross the disciplinary boundaries of First Amendment law, internet law, media policy, journalism, legal history, and legal theory, offering fresh perspectives on fortifying the speech system and reinvigorating the public square.
Author : Kate Rigby
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813936896
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Dancing with Disaster written by Kate Rigby and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe. In its investigation of an array of authors from the Romantic period to the present—including Heinrich von Kleist, Mary Shelley, Theodor Storm, Colin Thiele, and Alexis Wright— Dancing with Disaster demonstrates the importance of the environmental humanities in the development of more creative, compassionate, ecologically oriented, and socially just responses to the perils and possibilities of the Anthropocene. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Author : Geoffrey R. Stone
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393058802
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (588 download)
Download or read book Perilous Times written by Geoffrey R. Stone and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Stone's Perilous Times incisively investigates how the First Amendment and other civil liberties have been compromised in America during wartime. Stone delineates the consistent suppression of free speech in six historical periods from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Vietnam War, and ends with a coda that examines the state of civil liberties in the Bush era. Full of fresh legal and historical insight, Perilous Times magisterially presents a dramatic cast of characters who influenced the course of history over a two-hundred-year period: from the presidents—Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, and Nixon—to the Supreme Court justices—Taney, Holmes, Brandeis, Black, and Warren—to the resisters—Clement Vallandingham, Emma Goldman, Fred Korematsu, and David Dellinger. Filled with dozens of rare photographs, posters, and historical illustrations, Perilous Times is resonant in its call for a new approach in our response to grave crises.
Author : Phil Wallace Payne
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477115064
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)
Download or read book The Strivers written by Phil Wallace Payne and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilization is in an energy crisis. Human beings have wasted away the majority of their natural resources, but without energy, the world will die. Who will come to the rescue? In secret, a technical team of geniuses has developed a way to harvest usable and never ending energy from polar seas. In concept, their mission is simple; in delivery, it proves to be diffi cult and possibly tragic. The Strivers tells a story of life, love, and the labors undertaken by a brave few who believe in the energy of the ocean. From diverse backgrounds, the team is brought together by a shared mission; they change each other, and relationships evolve that never would have fl ourished without the worlds energy crisis. They are inventors, but they are also human beings, looking for connection in an inhospitable place. With luck, the team will fi nd a way to convert ocean energy into the next great fuel for mankind. Human life is in the hands of the strivers, who must harness the fury of the sea to save the world. Will they succeed, or will the weakness of their humanity make them fail?
Author : Elizabeth Marie Pope
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618150731
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Perilous Gard written by Elizabeth Marie Pope and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1974 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that leads to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.
Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547525117
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book The End of Oil written by Paul Roberts and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A stunning piece of work—perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications” (Bill McHibbon, The New York Review of Books). Petroleum is so deeply entrenched in our economy, politics, and daily lives that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail. Companies and governments depend on oil revenues. Developing nations see oil as their only means to industrial success. And the Western middle class refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle. But even by conservative estimates, we will have burned through most of the world’s accessible oil within mere decades. What will we use in its place to maintain a global economy and political system that are entirely reliant on cheap, readily available energy? In The End of Oil, journalist Paul Roberts talks to both oil optimists and pessimists around the world. He delves deep into the economics and politics, considers the promises and pitfalls of oil alternatives, and shows that—even though the world energy system has begun its epochal transition—we need to take a more proactive stance to avoid catastrophic disruption and dislocation.
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Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Reflections upon Life and Death: or, Death-Bed Canticles. By a Dying Clergyman written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Relly Beard
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Total Pages : 326 pages
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Download or read book Illustrations of the Divine in Christianity written by John Relly Beard and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Life-Saving Service
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service written by United States. Life-Saving Service and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Life-Saving Service
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Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the Fiscal Year Ending ... written by United States. Life-Saving Service and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Hybel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137397691
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book US Foreign Policy Decision-Making from Kennedy to Obama written by A. Hybel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the foreign policy decision-making processes of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama during military intervention by way of contemporary foreign policy decision-making models (FPDMs).
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