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Culture, Development and Petroleum
An Ethnography of the High North
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The discovery, just forty years ago, of vast oil and gas reserves in the Southwestern part of Norway, and more recently in the Arctic High North region, created an economic titan and posed a vast array of challenges for both the Norwegian government and the residents of this area. How to extract and...
Institutionalization of State Policy
Evolving Urban Housing Reforms in China
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Using fresh evidence and a novel methodological framework, this book sheds light on how institutions have driven economic reform in China's urban housing sector. The book systematically analyzes the developmental role of the state in China, with rich empirical evidence to show how decentralization...
by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kromphardt
Language: German
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Sie prägen seit Jahrhunderten die Welt der Ökonomie: die größten Ökonomen. Einer von ihnen ist John Maynard Keynes.
Er ist zweifelsohne einer der größten Ökonomen. Bis zur aktuellen Finanzkrise war es in wirtschaftspolitischen Debatten hierzulande oftmals verpönt, im Sinne von Keynes...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
This volume focuses on Chinese society in the environment created by new media. It offers insights into Chinese public opinion for an international readership, and to promote the media literacy and crisis coping capacity of all social sectors by integrating multiple research perspectives, including...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Household hazardous waste (HHW) is a topic that affects every individual and community given the nearly universal use, storage, and disposal of chemical consumer products. Yet many communities lack the basic information, guidance, and planning support for HHW collection and management so that struggles...
by S Vasoo, Bilveer Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Singapore's progress as an independent nation and the uplifting of its people's livelihood have been made possible by stable social and political conditions. A more important factor in driving these positive changes lies with people-centric leadership. One can contrast the case of Singapore with societies...
by Nicolae Sfetcu
Language: Romanian
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: Romanian
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Facebook este, de departe, cea mai cunoscută reţea socială, care permite utilizatorilor înregistraţi să îşi creeze profiluri proprii, să încarce şi să partajeze cu prietenii fotografii şi clipuri video, să trimită mesaje şi să păstreze legătura cu prietenii, familia...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent...
Red Ink
Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author of In Fed We Trust, dissects the federal budget in this New York Times bestseller.
In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget--a topic that is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress...
The Middle Class Comeback
Women, Millennials, and Technology Leading the Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
In a time when the one-percenters seem to have it all, author Munir Moon builds a case for the average Joe in his eye-opening new book, The Middle Class Comeback. So take heart and take control of your fears with Moon's informative--and ultimately inspiring--look at the middle class.
Moon,...
Beyond a House Divided
The Moral Consensus Ignored by Washington, Wall Street, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
If you follow politics or the news, America is a country of culture wars and great divides, a partisan place of red states and blue states, of us against them. From pundits to politicians it seems that anyone with an audience sees a polarized country - a country at war with itself.
In a radical departure...
The Cost of Cutting
A Surgeon Reveals the Truth Behind a Multibillion-Dollar Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Why is surgery so expensive?
Surgeon Paul A. Ruggieri reveals little-known truths about his profession—and the hidden flaws of our healthcare system—in this compelling and troubling account of real patients, real doctors, and how money influences medical decisions behind the scenes. Even many...
Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care)
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our chance for a sustainable future.
In its desperate search for oil and gas riches, Alberta is destroying itself. As the world teeters on the edge...
Getting to Maybe
How the World Is Changed
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation
Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually...