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Book cover of Economic Risks of Climate Change

Economic Risks of Climate Change

An American Prospectus

by Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Robert Kopp
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015

Climate change threatens the economy of the United States in myriad ways, including increased flooding and storm damage, altered crop yields, lost labor productivity, higher crime, reshaped public-health patterns, and strained energy systems, among many other effects. Combining the latest climate...
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After the Factory

Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities

by Janet R. Daly Bednarek, Allen Dieterich-Ward, Alison D. Goebel
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity...
Book cover of 超級大腦飲食計畫:擊敗失智、調校大腦,讓你更聰明、更快樂、更有創造力
by 麥克斯・盧加維爾(Max Lugavere),保羅・葛雷沃醫師(Paul Grewal M.D.)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: May 13, 2019

        吃藥做不到的**,讓食物來幫你!** 腦霧、健忘、注意力不集中、憂鬱、失智、帕金森、ALS…… 這些都是大腦發炎的症狀。現在起,你有機會自救。 ** ** 根據最新科學研究**,**告訴你如何將大腦最佳化的完整指南 照著做,兩週就能明顯獲得改善 *紐約時報暢銷書* *亞馬遜書店超過88%的讀者5顆星推薦* **■有臨床實證的理論基礎 **...
Book cover of Civic Media

Civic Media

Technology, Design, Practice

by Peter Levine, Ethan Zuckerman, W. Lance Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life. Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation,...
Book cover of A Freedom Budget for All Americans

A Freedom Budget for All Americans

Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today

by Paul Le Blanc, Michael D. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race....
Book cover of The Second World War
by David Horner, Robin Havers, Professor Alastair Finlan
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018

The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Labouring beneath a daily burden of fear, sacrifice, deprivation and uncertainty, soldiers and civilians of all nationalities were driven to extremes of selfless loyalty, dogged determination or bitter...
Book cover of CliffsQuickReview American Government
by D. Stephen Voss, Abraham Hoffman, Paul Soifer
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011

CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you are a student under pressure, an interested citizen trying to brush up, or a recent arrival trying...
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Autonomous Vehicle Technology

A Guide for Policymakers

by Constantine Samaras, James M. Anderson, Oluwatobi A. Oluwatola
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014

The automotive industry appears close to substantial change engendered by “self-driving” technologies. This technology offers the possibility of significant benefits to social welfare—saving lives; reducing crashes, congestion, fuel consumption, and pollution; increasing mobility for the disabled;...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context

Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church

by John P. Beal, Francis J. Butler, Patricia M. Y. Chang
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005

Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches...
Book cover of Leadership in Dangerous Situations

Leadership in Dangerous Situations

A Handbook for the Armed Forces, Emergency Services, and First Responders

by Patrick Sweeney, Michael D. Matthews, Paul B. Lester
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011

Leadership in Dangerous Situations provides in-depth coverage of the key psychological, social and organization factors that impact individual and organizational effectiveness for First Responders in dangerous environments. Leading scholars discuss how current theories and empirical research provides...
Book cover of Peace versus Justice

Peace versus Justice

Negotiating Forward- and Backward-Looking Outcomes

by Patrick Audebert-Lasrochas, Juan Carlos M. Beltramino, Franz Cede
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2005

This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward...
Book cover of World of Archie Double Digest #3
by SCRIPT: Paul Kupperberg, Bill Golliher ART: Stan Goldberg, Pat Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011

Role Reversal Day & Drawing Attention.Teachers run amok on campus as students and faculty switch places for Role Reversal Day! Then, Chucks exaggerated caricatures for the school newspaper are Drawing Attention, but not the way they were meant to! Can Chuck clear up the creative confusion?
Book cover of A History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition
by Paul A. Erickson, Liam D. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013

In the latest edition of their popular overview text, Erickson and Murphy continue to provide a comprehensive, affordable, and accessible introduction to anthropological theory from antiquity to the present. A new section on twenty-first-century anthropological theory has been added, with more coverage...
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