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National Academies Press A Vision for ContinentalScale Biology
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National Academies Press Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitation
Book SynopsisFor more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the U.S., including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resulting from the most unlikely but possible precipitation, termed Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP). Failure of any one of the more than 16,000 high-hazard dams and 50 nuclear power plants in the United States could result in the loss of life and impose significant economic losses and widespread environmental damage, especially under the pressures of climate change. While PMP estimates have provided useful guidance for designing critical infrastructure, weaknesses in the scientific foundations of PMP, combined with advances in understanding, observing, and modeling extreme storms, call for fundamental changes to the definition of PMP and the methods used to estimate it. Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimation recommends a new definition of PMP and presents a vision for a methodology relevant for design, operation, and regulat
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National Academies Press Increasing the Utility of Wastewaterbased Disease
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National Academies Press Forecasting the Ocean
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National Academies Press Climate Change and Human Migration
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Zondervan Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible
Book SynopsisThe Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible by Carl G. Rasmussen is a concise, full-color atlas filled with stunning multidimensional and three-dimensional maps, photos, and charts designed to help you better understand the history and places of the Bible and its world.
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Zondervan A Christians Guide to Planet Earth
Book SynopsisFrom conservation to protecting endangered species to sustainable living, A Christian''s Guide to Planet Earth offers a faith-based framework for viewing our responsibility to the natural world as well as practical, biblical ways we can care for the magnificent creation around us.Drawing on science and Scripture, this hope-filled and reader-friendly guide helps us navigate questions about caring for and respecting God''s world. With a focus on real-life solutions, this book explores answers to questions such as: What does the Bible say about food shortages, forests, and pollution? How can we make ethical choices about what we eat and what we wear? Why is reducing our carbon footprint a way of loving others? What do animals tell us about God''s design for the earth? What simple choices can we make to help recover God''s beauty in creation? Four-color infographics throughout highlight theTrade ReviewThis is a practical and inspiring book. With admirable brevity, Betsy Painter takes us on a journey around the wonders of creation, along the way providing a balanced assessment of the challenges we face and informed, detailed advice about how we can faithfully care for God's beautiful earth. It's rare to find such a rich combination of the scientific, biblical and practical in a compact and accessible format. Highly recommended! * Dr. Jonathan Moo, Professor of New Testament and Environmental Studies, Whitworth University *
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St Martin's Press A Voyage Long and Strange
Book Synopsis A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter of America''s history vividly to life. What happened in North America between Columbus''s sail in 1492 and the Pilgrims'' arrival in 1620? On a visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he doesn''t have a clue, nor do most Americans. So he sets off across the continent to rediscover the wild era when Europeans first roamed the New World in quest of gold, glory, converts, and eternal youth. Horwitz tells the story of these brave and often crazed explorers while retracing their steps on his own epic trek--an odyssey that takes him inside an Indian sweat lodge in subarctic Canada, down the Mississippi in a canoe, on a road trip fueled by buffalo meat, and into sixty pounds of armor as a conquistador reenactor in Florida.
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St Martin's Press No Impact Man
Book SynopsisBill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man''s decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one yearwhile still living in New York Cityto see if it''s possible to make no net impact on the environment.In No Impact Man, a guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasonsloving wife along for the ride. And that''s just the beginning. In other words, no trash, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no products in packaging, no air-conditioning, no television . . .What would it be like to try to live a no-impact lifestyle? Is it possible? Could it catch on? Is living this way more satisfying or less satisfying? Harder or easier? Is it wor
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St. Martins Press-3pl MELTING WORLD
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St Martin's Press Why the West RulesFor Now
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA remarkable book . . . an important book?one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start right here.?The EconomistSometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of factories, railroads, and gunboats propelled the West''s rise to power in the nineteenth century, and the development of computers and nuclear weapons in the twentieth century secured its global supremacy. Now, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, many worry that the emerging economic power of China and India spells the end of the West as a superpower. In order to understand this possibility, we need to look back in time. Why has the West dominated the globe for the past two hundred years, and will its power last?Describing the patterns of human history, the archaeologist and historian Ian Morris offers surprising new answers to both questions. It is not, he reveals, differences of race or culture, or even the strivings of great individuals, that explain Western dominance. It is the effects of geography on the everyday efforts of ordinary people as they deal with crises of resources, disease, migration, and climate. As geography and human ingenuity continue to interact, the world will change in astonishing ways, transforming Western rule in the process.Deeply researched and brilliantly argued, Why the West Rules?for Now spans fifty thousand years of history and offers fresh insights on nearly every page. The book brings together the latest findings across disciplines?from ancient history to neuroscience?not only to explain why the West came to rule the world but also to predict what the future will bring in the next hundred years.
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St Martin's Press Merchant Kings
Book SynopsisCommerce meets conquest in this swashbuckling story of the six merchant-adventurers who built the modern worldIt was an era when monopoly trading companies were the unofficial agents of European expansion, controlling vast numbers of people and huge tracts of land, and taking on governmental and military functions. They managed their territories as business interests, treating their subjects as employees, customers, or competitors. The leaders of these trading enterprises exercised virtually unaccountable, dictatorial political power over millions of people.The merchant kings of the Age of Heroic Commerce were a rogue''s gallery of larger-than-life men who, for a couple hundred years, expanded their far-flung commercial enterprises over a sizable portion of the world. They include Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the violent and autocratic pioneer of the Dutch East India Company; Peter Stuyvesant, the one-legged governor of the Dutch West India Company, whose narrow-minded appr
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St. Martins Press-3PL rewildingtheworld
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Unnatural Disasters
Book SynopsisEntries clearly describe each disaster by defining the cause, the consequences, and the clean-up efforts.Readers will learn who the responsible parties were, the effect on the environment and people living in the immediate area, and the economic impact of each disaster.
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Little, Brown & Company Countdown
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Little, Brown & Company The Water Will Come
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Little, Brown & Company Soul Full of Coal Dust
Book SynopsisDecades have passed since black lung disease was recognized as a national disgrace and Congress was pushed to take legislative action. Since then, however, not much has changed. Big coal companies-along with their allies in the legal and medical professions-have continually flouted the law and exposed miners to deadly amounts of coal dust, while also systematically denying benefits to miners who suffer and die because of their jobs. Indeed, these men and their families, with little access to education, legal resources, and other employment options, have long been fighting to wrench even modest compensation and medical costs from our nation''s biggest mining interests-all to combat a disease that could have been eradicated years ago. Tracing their heroic stories back to the very beginning, Chris Hamby, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on this issue, gives us a deeply troubling yet ultimately triumphant work that promises to do for Black Lung what Beth Macy did for t
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Little, Brown & Company Shoot for the Moon
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Little Brown and Company The Ground Beneath Us From the Oldest Cities to
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Back Bay Books Natural Capitalism
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Little, Brown Spark Eat Poop Die
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Hachette Books The Dinosaur Artist
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Little, Brown & Company The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States
Book SynopsisLearn all you need to know about identifying and attracting finches with this comprehensive, gloriously colorful field guide from America?s foremost authorities on birds and nature. Following the extraordinary finch superflight of 2020-2021, birders across the country became obsessed with finches. With The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada, you can gain expert knowledge on these beautiful birds and bring them into your own yard. Thisfully illustrated guide tells you all you need to know about attracting, observing, and protecting finches. The book also includes: A special section on endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper finches, plus other rare and vagrant species Detailed identification information on each finch species? plumages, subspecies, and voice The most complete and up-to-date range maps, including maps of core occurrence and irruption ranges for all red crossbill call types, which have never before been published in a guide Complete life history information Scientific studies on finch migrations and conservation More than 345 stunning full-color photographs and over 50 range maps covering 43 species
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Little, Brown & Company Rooted
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERIn Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Our bodies, thoughts, minds, and spirits are affected by the whole of nature, and they affect this whole in return. In this time of crisis, how can we best live upon our imperilled, beloved earth?Award-winning writer Lyanda Lynn Haupt''s highly personal new book is a brilliant invitation to live with the earth in both simple and profound ways-from walking barefoot in the woods and reimagining our relationship with animals and trees, to examining the very language we use to describe and think about nature. She invokes rootedness as a way of being in concert with the wilderness-and wildness-that sustains humans and all of life.In the tradition of Rachel Carson, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Mary Oliver, Haupt writes with urgency and grace, reminding us that at the crossroads of science, nature, and spirit we find true hope. Each chapter provides tools for bringing our unique gifts to the fore and transforming our sense of belonging within the magic and wonder of the natural world.
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Back Bay Books Utopia for Realists
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Little, Brown & Company The Heat Will Kill You First
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SELECTED AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND THE ECONOMIST FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY’S HELEN BERNSTEIN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM, AND THE PEN/E.O. WILSON AWARD FOR LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING.New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents a 'masterful, bracing' (David Wallace-Wells) examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is at stake if we fail to act. “When heat comes, it’s invisible. It doesn’t bend tree branches or blow hair across your face to let you know it’s arrived…. The sun feels like the barrel of a gun pointed at you.” The world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complicated: Stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow, and the global temperature will stop rising tomorrow. Stop burning fossil fuels in 50 years, and the temperature will keep rising for 50 years, making parts of our planet virtually uninhabitable. It’s up to us. The hotter it gets, the deeper and wider our fault lines will open. The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90° F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory event— one that culls out the most vulnerable people. But that is changing. As heatwaves become more intense and more common, they will become more democratic. As an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of environmental journalism for decades, Goodell’s new book may be his most provocative yet, explaining how extreme heat will dramatically change the world as we know it. Masterfully reported, mixing the latest scientific insight with on-the-ground storytelling, Jeff Goodell tackles the big questions and uncovers how extreme heat is a force beyond anything we have reckoned with before.
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Little, Brown & Company Death in the Air
Book SynopsisA real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson''s debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing. London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five long days in December 1952, a killer smog held the city firmly in its grip and refused to let go. Day became night, mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and some 12,000 people died from the poisonous air. But in the chaotic aftermath, another killer was stalking the streets, using the fog as a cloak for his crimes. All across London, women were going missing--poor women, forgotten women. Their disappearances caused little alarm, but each of them had one thing in common: they had the misfortune of meeting a quiet, unassuming man, John Reginald Christie, who invited them back to his de
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Little Brown and Company Ask an Astronaut My Guide to Life in Space
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Little, Brown Spark Not the End of the World
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Little, Brown & Company In Oceans Deep
Book SynopsisFull of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaimed biologist and deep sea diver Bill Streever shows us the incredible adventures happening in earth''s almost incomprehensibly vast oceans.From the bottom of the Challenger Deep (the deepest known point in the ocean), to the earliest submarine technologies and exploratory deep dives, into the world of competitive breath-hold divers and the riskiest thrill seekers on the planet, In Oceans Deep is a human history, and a natural history of the earth''s last true frontier. With treasure ship wrecks, the echoing pings of trapped submariners, and the vast expanse of otherworldly robots and oil rigs that dominate the oceanic landscape, In Oceans Deep is a rare and fascinating trip to the wild, strange, night-dark place that lies beneath the waves.
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Little, Brown & Company In Oceans Deep Courage Innovation and Adventure
Book SynopsisIn an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and endlessly fascinating: full of mystery, danger, beauty, and inspiration. Bill Streever-a longtime deep-sea diver himself-has masterfully woven together the science and history of Earth''s last remaining frontier: the sea. In Oceans Deep celebrates the daring pioneers who tested the limits of what the human body can endure under water: free divers able to reach 300 feet on a single breath; engineers and scientists who uncovered the secrets of decompression; teenagers who built their own diving gear from discarded boilers and garden hoses in the 1930s; saturation divers who lived under water for weeks at a time in the 1960s; and the trailblazing men who voluntarily breathed experimental gases at pressures sufficient to trigger insanity.Tracing both the little-known history and exciting future of how we travel and study the depths, Streever''s captivating journey includes seventeenth-century leat
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Little Brown and Company Category Five
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Little Brown and Company Ansel Adams 2026 Wall Calendar
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Little, Brown & Company The High Sierra A Love Story
Book SynopsisA “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth for hiking and camping, from New York Times bestselling novelist Kim Stanley Robinson (Bill McKibben, Gary Snyder). Kim Stanley Robinson first ventured into the Sierra Nevada mountains during the summer of 1973. He returned from that encounter a changed man, awed by a landscape that made him feel as if he were simultaneously strolling through an art museum and scrambling on a jungle gym like an energized child. He has returned to the mountains throughout his life—more than a hundred trips—and has gathered a vast store of knowledge about them. The High Sierra is his lavish celebration of this exceptional place and an exploration of what makes this span of mountains one of the most compelling places on Earth.Over the course of a vivid and dramatic narrative, Robinson describes the geological forces that shaped the
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Little, Brown & Company Born to Be Hanged
Book SynopsisDiscover the fascinating and outrageously readable account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England-perfect for readers of Nathaniel Philbrick and David McCullough (Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God)The year is 1680, in the heart of the Golden Age of Piracy, and more than three hundred daring, hardened pirates-a potent mix of low-life scallywags and a rare breed of gentlemen buccaneers-gather on a remote Caribbean island. The plan: to wreak havoc on the Pacific coastline, raiding cities, mines, and merchant ships. The booty: the bright gleam of Spanish gold and the chance to become legends. So begins one of the greatest piratical adventures of the era-a story not given its full due until now.Inspired by the intrepid forays of pirate turned Jamaican governor Captain Henry Morgan-yes, that Captain Morgan-the company crosses Panama on foot, slashing its way through the Darien Isthmus, one of the thickest jungles on the planet, and liberating a native princess along the way. After reaching the South Sea, the buccaneers, primarily Englishmen, plunder the Spanish Main in a series of historic assaults, often prevailing against staggering odds and superior firepower. A collective shudder racks the western coastline of South America as the English pirates, waging a kind of proxy war against the Spaniards, gleefully undertake a brief reign over Pacific waters, marauding up and down the continent.With novelistic prose and a rip-roaring sense of adventure, Keith Thomson guides us through the pirates'' legendary two-year odyssey. We witness the buccaneers evading Indigenous tribes, Spanish conquistadors, and sometimes even their own English countrymen, all with the ever-present threat of the gallows for anyone captured. By fusing contemporaneous accounts with intensive research and previously unknown primary sources, Born to Be Hanged offers a rollicking account of one of the most astonishing pirate expeditions of all time.
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Back Bay Books Sudden Sea
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Ordnance Survey Wall United Kingdom Administration OS Wall Map
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Ordnance Survey British Isles Physical Wall Map Laminated Wall
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Ordnance Survey British Isles Communication Wall Map Laminated
Book SynopsisThis map shows the British isles, with all the major road, rail and sea connections. It is supplied rolled in a tube and is ideal for schools, students or just for decoration. It includes an index of place names. This map is gloss coated, so can be written on with suitable dry-wipe pens. It's scale is 1: 1 000 000
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Taylor & Francis Global Climate Change Turning Knowledge Into
Book SynopsisThe science of climate change is a complex subject that balances the physical record and scientific fact with politics, policy, and ethics - and is of particular importance to the geosciences. This thoughtfully crafted new text and accompanying media encourage non-science majors to practice critical thinking, analysis, and discourse about climate change themes. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, acclaimed educator and researcher, David Kitchen, examines not only the physical science, but the social, economic, political, energy, and environmental issues surrounding climate change. His goal: to turn knowledge into action, equipping students with the knowledge and critical skills to make informed decisions, separate facts from fiction, and participate in the public debate.
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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division Relationship Between Microbes and the Environment
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Microbial food products: A sustainable solution to alleviate hunger 2. Role of soil microbiome in transformation and reclamation of soil 3. Microorganisms as biocontrol agents for sustainable?agriculture 4. Relationship between probiotics and living beings for sustainable life on land 5. Microbial adaptation to climate change and its impact on sustainable development 6. Earthworm Microbial Interaction for sustainable soil ecosystem and Crop productivity 7. Avenues of Sustainable Pollutant Bioremediation Using Microbial Biofilms 8. Endophytic bacteria in a biocontrol perspective 9. Microbiome stimulants and their applications in crop plants 10. Microbes: A sustainable tool for healthy and climate smart agriculture 11. Microbes as biocontrol agent: From crop protection till food security 12. Composting process: Fundamental and molecular aspects 13. Lichenized fungi, a primary bioindicator/ biomonitor for bio-mitigation of excessive ambient air nitrogen deposition worldwide 14. Molecular markers and genomics assisted breeding for improving crop plants 15. Nanoherbicides: a sustainable option for Field Applications 16. Coupling of photocatalysis and biodegradation (ICPB): A viable method for removing pesticides from contaminated sites
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Elsevier - Health Sciences Division Coupled AtmosphereOcean Dynamics
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Energy balance and transport 3. Tropical convection and planetary-scale circulation 4. The Madden-Julian Oscillation 5. Summer monsoons 6. Subtropical climate: Trade winds and low clouds 7. Equatorial Oceanography 8. Coupled feedbacks and tropical climatology 9. El Niño, the Southern Oscillation, and the global influence 10. Tropical Atlantic Variability 11. Indian Ocean variability 12. Extratropical variability and the influence on the tropics 13. Global warming: Thermodynamic effects 14. Regional climate change Epilogue
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The International Politics of Nuclear Waste
Book SynopsisLooking at the politics of nuclear waste, this book examines the subject from an international standpoint. Other works by the author Andrew Blowers include "The Limits of Power" and "Something in the Air", and he has been co-editor on books such as "Nuclear Power in Crisis".Table of ContentsAn Achilles Heel; from scientific serendipity to scientific problem; the battle of the dumps - part 1, the causes of the conflict; the battle of the dumps - part 2, the causes of the conflict; the United States - in search of the nuclear oasis; nuclear waste in Western Europe; the way forward.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Spatial Divisions of Labour Social Structures and the Geography of Production Social Relations and the Geography of Production
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Oil and the ArabIsraeli Conflict 19481963 St Antonyquotes Series
Book SynopsisList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: THE ECLIPSE OF HAIFA Fuel: Supply and Demand in Palestine Twilight of British Rule The 1948 War International Oil Diplomacy and War Cutting the Losses Legal Readjustment, Israel and the Oil Companies PART TWO: BETWEEN MOSCOW AND TEHRAN The Establishment of 'Delek' Oil Company Alternative Sources: Venezuela, Kuwait Entrée to Moscow At the Gates of Tehran The Departure of the Oil Companies The Eilat Connection A Land of Milk, Honey, and No Oil Notes Appendices IndexTrade Review'This fascinating and intriguing book rightly claims to contribute to the field of international political economy. It describes and analyzes in considerable detail Israel's oil diplomacy during the first fifteen years of statehood, and the extremely adverse circumstances under which the country's energy suppliers were procured. At the time, petroleum was the only practical source of energy for Israel's rapidly growing population and its expanding and modernizing economy.' - Nachum T. Gross, EH. NETTable of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE: THE ECLIPSE OF HAIFA Fuel: Supply and Demand in Palestine Twilight of British Rule The 1948 War International Oil Diplomacy and War Cutting the Losses Legal Readjustment, Israel and the Oil Companies PART TWO: BETWEEN MOSCOW AND TEHRAN The Establishment of 'Delek' Oil Company Alternative Sources: Venezuela, Kuwait Entrée to Moscow At the Gates of Tehran The Departure of the Oil Companies The Eilat Connection A Land of Milk, Honey, and No Oil Notes Appendices Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Constructing Gendered Bodies Explorations in Sociology British Sociological Association Conference Volume Series
Book SynopsisInterest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices.Trade Review"...a useful introduction to contemporary sociological examinations of gender and sexuality..." --Gender and SocietyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction PART I: SEX, GENDER AND PERFORMING BODIES Putting the Body's Feet in the Ground: Towards a Sociological Reconceptualization of Gendered and Sexual Embodiment; S.Jackson & S.Scott Flight Attendants and the Management of Gendered 'Organizational Bodies'; M.Tyler & P.Hancock Sex, Talk and Making Bodies in the Science Lab; T.Delph-Janiurek Paradoxical Stories of Prostitution; J.Phoenix PART II: THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDERED BODIES: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS The Working Body as a Sign: Historical Snapshots; C.Wolkowitz Walking on the Beaches Looking at the...Bodies; P.Black The Fabric of Love: A Semiotic Analysis of the Suspender Belt; D.Wilson-Kovacs PART III: THE MORAL AND MEDICAL REGULATION OF SEX, SEXUALITIES AND GENDER From 'Peter Andre's Six Pack' to 'I Do Knees', the Body in Young People's Moral Discourse; R.Thomson, S.McGrellis, J.Holland, S.Henderson & S.Sharpe The Intersexual Body and the Medical Regulation of Gender; M.Hird & J.Germon Telling Body Transgendering Stories; R.Ekin & D.King Double Damnation: Gay Disabled Men and the Negotiations of Masculinity; T.O'Neill & M.Hird A Break from the Norm: Exploring the Experiences of Queer Crips; R.Butler Bibliography Index
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Open University Press Community Profiling A Practical Guide
Book SynopsisThe new edition of this popular book has been substantially revised and provides a practical step-by-step guide to community profiling, invaluable for students and practitioners involved in community-based research. The book begins with consideration of what a community profile is, explores the different reasons why community profiles are undertaken and offers tips for planning research. It then looks at methods for collecting, storing and analysing data, and ways of involving the community, concluding with a chapter on ensuring your profile has impact. This book is fully updated throughout and includes: A new chapter on links between community profiling, policy development and practice A new chapter on selecting methods for data collection Bulleted key issues at the end of each chapter Case studies and boxed examples Further reading and a list of additional resources A new appendix for those who want to undertake more complex research A new glossTable of Contents1.What is a community profile?2.Why do a community profile?3.Planning a community profile?4.Involving communities and other stakeholders5.Selecting methods6.Making use of existing information7.Collecting new information8.Analysing the information9.Maximising impact10.Conclusions
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