Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 20 results for “robert ayres”
Skip side bar filters

  • VICTOR;Y

    by Robert V. Ayres ...
    Robert V Ayres shares a deeply personal account of his life journey, starting from his challenging upbringing marked by verbal abuse and the absence of his father's validation. Despite these obstacles, he embarked on a path of self-discovery, determined to find his own way in life. Along the way, he encountered various forms of trauma, some of which he inflicted upon himself.Seeking a sense of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Turning Point

    End of the Growth Paradigm

    by Robert Ayres ...
    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 from production of goods to production of services, closing material cycles and eliminating reliance ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization

    by Robert Ayres ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    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 a finite storage of fossil fuels. In this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for wealth ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • On Capitalism and Inequality

    Progress and Poverty Revisited

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Capitalism is under attack. Defenders say that capitalism has raised billions of people from poverty. But a central activity of capitalism today, Wall Street style, is speculation (gambling), using other people’s money, and privatizing the profits while socializing the debts. Skeptics argue that capitalism has redistributed the wealth of the planet in favor of a very few, meanwhile leaving the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • 8 Major Ways to Use Today? Technology to Lower Energy Usage (and They Are Not Solar, Wind, and Nuclear)

    by Robert U. Ayres, Edward H. Ayres ...
    Series series FT Press Delivers Elements
    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!We envision a national energy strategy with eight main components. One (increased energy efficiency of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Bubble Economy

    Is Sustainable Growth Possible?

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    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 mortgages, banks “too big to fail,” financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The History and Future of Economics

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The purpose of this book is three-fold. The first purpose is to posit that the fundamental substance of the universe is energy, and that energy is required (consumed) for any material transformation, or information transmission. The labor theory of value, articulated by the physiocrats and elaborated by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, J.B. Say and Karl Marx was a rough first approximation of the value ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The History and Future of Technology

    Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction?

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Life Cycle of Copper, Its Co-Products and Byproducts

    by Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres, Ingrid Råde ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development requires better information about the consequences of proposed actions. Partial information accounts for many failed efforts in the past. The financial implications for the proponent of the projects have often been more thoroughly analyzed than the implications for other actors. The impacts on biological diversity, or on the social ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Scarcity and Growth Revisited

    Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millenium

    Edited by R. David Simpson, Michael A. Toman, Robert U. Ayres ...
    In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Modeling the Power Consumption and Energy Efficiency of Telecommunications Networks

    by Kerry James Hinton, Robert Ayre, Jeffrey Cheong ...
    This book introduces the technical foundations and tools for estimating the power consumption of internet networks and services, including a detailed description of how these models are constructed and applied. Modeling the Power Consumption and Energy Efficiency of Telecommunications Networks can be used to gain insight into the construction of mathematical models that provide realistic estimates ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Schaum's Outline of Trigonometry, 5th Edition

    618 Solved Problems + 20 Videos

    by Robert E. Moyer, Frank Ayres Jr. ...
    Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 600 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 20 detailed videos featuring Math instructors who explain how to solve the most commonly tested problems--it's just like having your own ... Read more

    $13.99 USD