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The Global Deal
Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In October 2006, Nicholas Stern, one of the greatest economists and public intellectuals of our day, made headlines around the world with his report, which reviewed the costs and benefits of dealing with global warming. The world's community has learned that it must act to mitigate global climate...
Science Left Behind
Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Scientific Left
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
To listen to most pundits and political writers, evolution, stem cells, and climate change are the only scientific issues worth mentioning-and the only people who are anti-science are conservatives. Yet those on the left have numerous fallacies of their own. Aversion to clean energy programs, basic...
by Laura Carstensen
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. Supersized life spans are going to radically alter society, and present an unprecedented opportunity to change our approach not only to old age but to all of life's stages. The ramifications are just beginning...
The Last Hunger Season
A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would...
The Locavore's Dilemma
In Praise of the 10,000-mile Diet
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A new generation of food activists has come to believe that “sustainable farming” and “eating local” are the way to solve a host of perceived problems with our modern food supply system. By combining healthy eating and a high standard of environmental stewardship, these locavores think, we...
A River Runs Again
India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present.
In this lyrical...
Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation
The Relentless Invention of Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Who can foretell India's future? Mr. Joshi is a fortune teller in a slum in south Delhi who uses a soothsaying green parrot to make predictions. When Adam Roberts visited him in 2012, Joshi's parrot declared that India was destined to become the most powerful nation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi....
Oceans
The Threats to Our Seas and What You Can Do to Turn the Tide
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
This unique tie-in to the major motion picture Oceans—coming this April from Disney & National Geographic—explores the health of our oceans, and what we can do to improve it.
More than 75 percent of the globe is covered by the oceans. It is sometimes difficult to understand why it is...
The Soros Lectures
At the Central European University
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Five lectures George Soros recently delivered at the Central European University in Budapest - which he founded in 1991 - distill a lifetime of thinking on finance, capitalism and open society In a series of lectures delivered at the Central European University in October 2009, George Soros provided...
The New Asian Hemisphere
The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied for eighteen centuries before the rise of the West.
By 2050, three of the world's...
by Richard N. Haass
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
In this dramatic new perspective on international affairs, Richard N. Haass, one of the country's most brilliant analysts and able foreign policy practitioners, argues that it is hard to overstate the significance of there being no major power conflict in the world. America's great military, economic,...
Good Intentions Corrupted
The Oil for Food Scandal and the Threat to the UN
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Despite its good intentions, mismanagement and corruption plagued the UN's Oil-for-Food Program:
More than 2,200 companies paid 1.8 billion in illegal surcharges and kickbacks to the Iraqi regime
The UN Security Council stood by as the Iraqi regime outright smuggled about 8.4 billion...
Murder in the High Himalaya
Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering community, it offers a straightforward...
Latino America
How America's Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Sometime in April 2014, somewhere in a hospital in California, a Latino child tipped the demographic scales as Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state. So, one-hundred-sixty-six years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the Mexican province of...