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“robert w righter”

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  • Windfall

    Wind Energy in America Today

    by Robert W. Righter ...
    Not long ago, energy experts dismissed wind power as unreliable and capricious. Not anymore. The industry has arrived, and the spinning blades of this new kid on the electric power block offer hope for a partial solution to our energy problems by converting nature’s energy into electricity without exposing our planet and its inhabitants to the dangers of heat, pollution, toxicity, or depletion of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Battle over Hetch Hetchy

    America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism

    by Robert W. Righter ...
    In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off a firestorm of protest. For the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Cradle to Cradle

    Remaking the Way We Make Things

    by William McDonough, Michael Braungart ...
    A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Presidents in Crisis

    Tough Decisions inside the White House from Truman to Obama

    by Michael K. Bohn ...
    Every American president, when faced with a crisis, longs to take bold and decisive action. When American lives or vital interests are at stake, the public-and especially the news media and political opponents-expect aggressive leadership. But, contrary to the dramatizations of Hollywood, rarely does a president have that option.In Presidents in Crisis, a former director of the Situation Room ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Solving the Communion Enigma

    What Is To Come

    by Whitley Strieber ...
    The bestselling author probes the ultimate significance behind today's increasing reports of UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles, and other unexplained phenomena-and what they mean for humanity's immediate future.In 1987 writer Whitley Strieber exposed the world to the truth about alien abduction in his landmark memoir, Communion. For the first time in years, Strieber revisits his encounter with ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hall of Mirrors

    The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac arrest in 2008, policymakers invoked the lessons of the Great Depression in attempting to avert ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • Postcards from the End of America

    by Linh Dinh ...
    Roaming the country by bus and train, on a budget and without any institutional support, Linh Dinh set out to document, in words and pictures, what life is like for people. From Los Angeles, Cheyenne, Portland, and New Orleans, to Jackson and Wolf Point--Linh walked miles and miles through unfamiliar neighborhoods, talking to whoever would talk to him: the homeless living in tent cities, the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ain't My America

    The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism

    by Bill Kauffman ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    From "the finest literary stylist of the American right," a surprising and spirited account of how true conservatives have always been antiwar and anti-empire (Allan Carlson, author of The American Way)Conservatives love war, empire, and the military-industrial complex. They abhor peace, the sole and rightful property of liberals. Right? Wrong.As Bill Kauffman makes clear, true conservatives have ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Oh Really? Factor

    Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly

    by Peter Hart, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting ...
    Since emerging from tabloid-television infamy as the former host of Inside Edition, Bill O’Reilly has taken his brand of provocative rhetoric to the next level: from shock-TV to the No Spin Zone. Despite his outspoken support for Bush’s tax cuts and a war with Iraq, and his attacks on everything from National Public Radio to "welfare mothers," O’Reilly fashions his program, The O’Reilly Factor, as ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

    by Jonathan Soffer ...
    Series series Columbia History of Urban Life
    In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure. Unlike many American cities, Koch's New York was growing, not shrinking. Gentrification brought new businesses to neglected corners and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Tourists of History

    Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero

    by Marita Sturken ...
    In Tourists of History, the cultural critic Marita Sturken argues that over the past two decades, Americans have responded to national trauma through consumerism, kitsch sentiment, and tourist practices in ways that reveal a tenacious investment in the idea of America’s innocence. Sturken investigates the consumerism that followed from the September 11th attacks; the contentious, ongoing debates ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Electronic Waste

    Recycling Techniques

    Edited by Hugo Marcelo Veit, Andréa Moura Bernardes ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents an overview of the characterization of electronic waste. In addition, processing techniques for the recovery of metals, polymers and ceramics are described. This book serves as a source of information and as an educational technical reference for practicing scientists and engineers, as well as for students. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD