Robert Ayres: 19 books
Nobody yet Knows Who I Am
A Personal History: 1943-1953
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Nobody Yet Knows Who I Am: A Personal History: 1943 - 1953 is the second volume in Robert Ayres Carters memoir. The first volume, Sundays Child, was published in 2005 by Xlibris. This volume opens with the authors military service as an enlisted man in the United States Army in World War II, highlighted...
I’Ll Go No More A-Roving
More Memories of a Writer’S Life: 1976-1983
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Praise for Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Th is fourth volume of Robert Ayres Carters autobiography takes the reader back to the 1970s. From the outside, Carters life seems conventional: he was an executive in the world of publishing and advertising, commuting between Long Island and Manhattan. Setting...
Tell Me the Truth About Love
Memories: 1953-1969
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Praise for Sundays Child Carter has written a memoir that captures the quintessential America that now seems to be slipping away from us. A real treat. --John Tebbel, author and Journalist Deeply moving...the book is a delight and of course you write like a dream...Congratulations on what I believe...
Sunday's Child
Memories of a Mid-Western Boyhood: 1923-1943
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2005
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Turning Point
End of the Growth Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This text discusses the current basis of economic growth, concluding that it is is failing to deliver, and is actually harming our prospects for future security. Further arguments propose a possible long-term strategy for economic revival - eco-restructuring. This strategy involves a shifting away...
by Robert Ayres
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from...
Flying to Calcutta
And Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2005
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September Song
Nine Stories and a Two-Act Play
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2007
September Song is a collection of stories and a full-length play, written over a span of fifteen years in the authors long writing career. The settings of the stories range from China to California and Vermont; the play, Guests of Summer, is set in Nebraska. Orville Prescott in the New York Times...
The Bubble Economy
Is Sustainable Growth Possible?
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial “de-carbonization” could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.
The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime...
Partial Fuel Energy Answer for America
Electric Bikes, A
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats. How electric bikes may help reshape urban transportation--slashing fuel use and carbon emissions, and improving convenience, too. Battery-equipped...
by Robert U. Ayres, Edward H. Ayres
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats. How to reuse the enormous amounts of energy we throw away--and save a fortune along the way! The Cokenergy plant captures waste heat and...
by Robert U. Ayres, Edward H. Ayres
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats. Finally: a coherent, integrated energy strategy based on techniques and technologies that have already been proven in the real world! ...
Energy Future of Liquid Fuel
Why Corn Ethanol Is a Fuel's Errand, The
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats. Why biofuels won’t work--except for gigantic agribusinesses and their lobbyists. If the entire U.S. corn crop were converted to ethanol,...
Crossing the Energy Divide
Moving from Fossil Fuel Dependence to a Clean-Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
If we continue our highly inefficient, dangerous energy usage, we’re headed for both economic and environmental catastrophe. However, the hard truth is that alternative fuels can’t fully replace fossil fuels for decades. What’s more, new research indicates that energy inefficiencies are retarding...
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