Hardcover, Condition Very Good. Breaking the Sustainability Barrier. A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the Sustainability Barrier. In this book, John Elkington introduces the Zeronauts – a new breed of innovator, determined to drive problems such as carbon, waste, toxics, and poverty to zero – as well as creating the first Zeronaut Roll of Honor, spotlighting 50 pioneers in the field of zero. Zeronauts are innovating in an astonishing range of areas, tackling hugely diverse economic, social, environmental, and governance challenges. To give a sense of progress to date, we zero in on five key challenges (the 5Ps): population growth, pandemics, poverty, pollution, and proliferation. The power of zero has been trumpeted, notably in relation to zero defects. This book spotlights key lessons learned in the field of total quality management – and introduces a five-stage Pathways to Zero model, running through from the Eureka! discovery moment to the point where a new way of doing things becomes endemic in the economy. In order to move from incremental to transformative change, we must embrace wider framings, deeper insights, higher targets, and longer time scales. This book investigates some ways in which leading Zeronauts are pushing change in relevant directions, with cases drawn from a spectrum of human activity – from water profligacy to human genital mutilation. If we learn from these pioneers, the twenty-first century could be our best yet.
Softcover, Condition Very Good. Severed States: Dillemas of Democracy in a Divided World. This book provides the first comprehensive examination of modern political partition and military conflict. Once touted as the most efficient geopolitical means for resolving ideological and ethnic strife, partition has too often served to deepen enmity and provoke further violence. Robert K. Schaeffer argues that partition and its accompanying conflicts have their roots not in ancient hatreds but in the political realities of the twentieth century. In a keen and lucid analysis, he reveals how the fate of these nations was dictated by the dreams and machinations of more powerful states, particularly Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Schaeffer also examines the spread of terrorism and guerrilla warfare in the divided states, as well as the destructive legacy of partition on democracy, citizenship, and sovereignty.
Norska výzkumná polární výprava po lodi Fram R. 1893-1896, a patnáctiměsíčná cesta po saních Dra F. Nansena a poručíka Johansena. S dodatkem o. Sverdrupa, kapitána Framu. Se 211 obrazy, 4 barevnými přílohami a 4 mapami. Dil prvi. Knihtiskárna J. Otto nakladatelství.
A Handbook for Scholars, Vol. 1. Edited by William C. Kirby, Man-houng Lin, James Chin Shih and David A. Pietz. Paperback, Very Good Condition.
And Other Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Hardcover, Condition: Very Good. Ernest Nagel (1901-1985) was an American philosopher of science. Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement. His work concerned the philosophy of mathematical fields such as geometry and probability, quantum mechanics, and the status of reductive and inductive theories of science. His book The Structure of Science (1961) practically inaugurated the field of analytic philosophy of science. He expounded the different kinds of explanation in different fields, and was sceptical about attempts to unify the nature of scientific laws or explanations. He was the first to propose that by positing analytic equivalencies (or ‘bridge laws’) between the terms of different sciences, one could eliminate all ontological commitments except those required by the most basic science. He also upheld the view that social sciences are scientific, and should adopt the same standards as natural sciences.
In ottimo stato. Uno stretto legame unisce la citta di Genova e il Jazz, sin dagli anni venti, quando La Superba era la porta del Mediterraneo verso gli Stati Uniti: attraverso le orchestre che suonavano sui transatlantici, la musica afro-americana entrava in Italia. Ripercorrendo la genesi e lo sviluppo del particolare rapporto tra questa citta e questa musica, emerge il contributo dei primi jazzmen liguri (Rizza, Mobiglia, Barzizza), si osserva l’ affermarsi del jazz italiano e del Louisiana Jazz Club, che ha finito per assurgere quasi a sinonimo di Jazz a Genova.
Ostali autori: Wolf-Dietrich Gehrke Opis: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Rostocker Schiffahrt. Zustand: Sehr Gut!
Sixth Edition. Comes with PsychInteractive. Paperback. Condition: Very Good.
An Anthology of Contemporary Macedonian Poetry by Sitakant Mahapatra and Jozo T. Boškovski, published in New Delhi, India. Hardcover, Condition: Excellent. Longing for the South (T’ga za jug) is a poem by Konstantin Miladinov.
The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilisation
Grauguß: seine Eigenschaften und die physikalische Metallurgie seiner Herstellung
How leading-edge technology will transform business in the 21st century. Technofutures provides a visionary and bold forecast of how leading-edge innovations will transform business and society in the 21st century. This book is a blueprint for carving out competitive advantage. If you want an informative, entertaining and easy-to-access briefing of what innovations will shape the future then Technofutures is for you. Find out what the future holds for customers, lifestyles, and markets. Discover what the future of health care, financial services, entertainment, computers, nanotechnology and education will be. Hold on to your seat as Dr. Canton, who CNN calls the Future Guru forecasts the top trends you must know about now to thrive in the 21st Century.
With Wizard’s First Rule and seven subsequent masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled readers worldwide with the unique sweep of his storytelling. Now Goodkind, in Chainfire, returns with a new novel of Richard and Kahlan, the beginning of a sequence of three novels that will bring their epic story to its culmination. After being gravely injured in battle, Richard awakes to discover Kahlan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, no one believes that she really exists, or that he was ever married. Alone as never before, he must find the woman he loves more than life itself….if she is even still alive. If she was ever even real.
Paperback. Very Good Condition. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science no. 15. With publication of the present volume, The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science enters its second phase. The first fourteen volumes in the Series were produced under the managing editorship of Professor James J. Leach, with the cooperation of a local editorial board. Many of these volumes resulted from colloguia and workshops held in con nection with the University of Western Ontario Graduate Programme in Philosophy of Science. Throughout its seven year history, the Series has been devoted to publication of high quality work in philosophy of science con sidered in its widest extent, including work in philosophy of the special sciences and history of the conceptual development of science. In future, this general editorial emphasis will be maintained, and hopefully, broadened to include important works by scholars working outside the local context. Appointment of a new managing editor, together with an expanded editorial board, brings with it the hope of an enlarged international presence for the Series. Serving the publication needs of those working in the various subfields within philosophy of science is a many-faceted operation. Thus in future the Series will continue to produce edited proceedings of worthwhile scholarly meetings and edited collections of seminal background papers. How ever, the publication priorities will shift emphasis to favour production of monographs in the various fields covered by the scope of the Series. THE MANAGING EDITOR vii W. L. Harper, R. Stalnaker, and G. Pearce (eds.),
Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living–from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion–Generation of Vipers ranks with the works of De Tocqueville and Emerson in defining the American character and malaise.
A compilation of chapters individually authored by either Bane or Ellwood. Bane’s contributions analyze program administration and recommend replacing the ‘eligibility–compliance’ culture of welfare with an authoritative culture promoting self-sufficiency. Ellwood’s chapters reanalyze his and Bane’s widely cited but previously unpublished data on the duration of individuals’ reliance on welfare. Influenced by recent work showing that women ‘cycle’ on and off welfare, Ellwood adds up individuals’ ‘spells’ on welfare and examines the differences among those who remain a long time on welfare, those who exit quickly, and those who cycle on and off… Ellwood also examines theories of welfare behavior by comparing the predictions of economists’ rational explanations and other theories with findings on welfare use. Not surprisingly, data on single mothers’ work and welfare patterns support a model of a distinctive culture of dependency. – Stacy Oliker, Signs
Ostali autori: Judi Radin
The French Intellectuals in the 20th Century. Hardcover. No sleeve.
A provocative reassessment of the Speical Relationship between England and the US from 1940 to 1957. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Churchill, Bevin and Attlee all tried to persuade America into looking after British imperial interests in the post-war period, but as the Cold War dawned the Americans were only interested in using British help when it suited them. Britains last attempt to act independently of America – Suez – ended disastrously, and the book ends with Anthony Edens removal from power under American pressure.
Famous Biographies. Horne, Armstrong, Baker, Robeson, Robinson etc.
Hardcover, Very Good. Fourth Edition. Excerpt from The Practice of Lubrication: An Engineering Treatise on the Origin, Nature and Testing of Lubricants, Their Selection, Application and Use The Chief Engineer or Master Mechanic of a works cannot be expected to know everything there is to know about lubrication; it is no discredit to him if he gains a few points by discussing the lubrication of his plant with lubricating engineers who have made a life study of the subject.
Election Campaign Pamphlets, Vol. I. 1828-1854, Vol. II. 1854-1876. Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey. Paperback, Very Good. The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America’s then reigning sets of ideas. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today’s party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.
