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by Ron Graner
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The death, injury and stress rate for firefighters and others in public safety service continues to grow. Could the root cause of these conditions be leaders who have failed to learn from past experiences?
This book relates many of the dangers and hazards that have been learned over the years...
The World According to Monsanto
Pollution, Corruption, and the Control of Our Food Supply
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
An investigation of the massive agribusiness company, from a winner of the Rachel Carson Prize: “Well supported by wide-ranging scientific evidence.” —Kirkus Reviews
The result of a remarkable three-year-long investigation that took award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Marie-Monique...
Our Daily Poison
From Pesticides to Packaging, How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are Making Us Sick
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2004
“An enlightening and deeply disturbing account” of the dangerous chemicals that have infiltrated our food, by the Rachel Carson Prize–winning journalist (Booklist).
Our Daily Poison is “a gripping and urgent book” for anyone concerned about democracy, corporate power, or public health...
The Oil Road
Journeys From The Caspian Sea To The City Of London
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigative journalism, it charts a history of violent confrontation between geopolitics,...
Hubris
The Troubling Science, Economics, and Politics of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This book explores problems and issues that have emerged in national and international discussion of policies to address climate change. It concludes that every solution put forward by the UN and activists poses more problems than might ever emerge from the marginal human impact on natural climate...
Earthmasters
The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be avoided?”...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his book “Crimes Against Nature, How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking our Democracy”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Keli Goff in her book “Party Crashing: How the Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does...
Small Town Economic Development
Reports on Growth Strategies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
We tend to associate small town economic development with the decline of the rural United States—empty houses, shuttered shops and rusting factories. A common diagnosis of sluggish small town recovery is their lack of lifestyle amenities that attract new residents and businesses. Yet many small...
Hablar de todo y no saber de nada
Las tertulias y la nueva política
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 1, 2016
El papel de la tertulia española en el mundo mediático y político: ¿fuente de información o intoxicación mediática?
Las tertulias fueron en el pasado un género minoritario creado con la voluntad de ofrecer información complementaria acerca de los temas de actualidad. Sin embargo, el...
The Greatest Catastrophe of the 20th Century. Or, How the Soviet Union Disintegrated in 1991.
SHORT STORY # 31. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The Soviet Union disintegration in 1991 was a curse and not a blessing for the USA and the Western Europe. Their economies eventually spiraled down due to rampant laws of a fee market economy, categorized by "expansion in all directions without any restrictions."
The USA is sinking...
Hardball
How Politics Is Played Told By One Who Knows The Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 1999
How politics is played by one who knows the game...
Chris Matthews has spent a quarter century on the playing field of American politics—from right-hand man of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill to host of NBC's highest rated cable talk show Hardball. In this revised and updated edition of...
True Believers
Conversations with North Koreans
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This essay argues that North Korean elites are “true believers” in the Kim personality cult. In his research, the author travelled to North Korea and discussed sensitive subjects with his North Korean guides. Making use of unconventional research methods and primary sources, it argues that the...
Slaughterhouse
The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years — particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation — have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the...