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  • Energy And Environment In The Transition Economies

    Between Cold War And Global Warming

    Energy and environmental issues in the former Soviet sphere rank as global policy priorities for three reasons. First, civilian application of military nuclear materials multiplies the threat of terrorism. Second, Russian and Caspian oil resources affect world markets, Western energy security, and regional stability. Third, climate change may become a global challenge commensurate with the Cold ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Raising the Calmer Child

    Practical Strategies for Anxiety

    Narrado por William Chandler ...

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    Just as preventative medicine prioritizes early intervention, so too does the emotional well-being of our children. "Raising the Calmer Child" serves as your guide to understanding the formative years and shaping a more peaceful childhood.Within these pages, you'll discover:- The key influences that shape a child's emotional landscape.- How to identify signs of anxiety in young children.- ... Leer más

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  • The Quest

    Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

    de Daniel Yergin ...
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  • Groundswell

    The Case for Fracking

    de Ezra Levant ...
    From the bestselling author of Ethical Oil comes a provocative exploration of the shale gas rush. Levant explains what fracking is and explores what its enemies do not want you to know and why it has the potential to change our future.In Groundswell, Ezra Levant examines the fracking revolution. Fracking (from "fracturing") involves injecting millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and ... Leer más

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  • Expulsions

    Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

    de Saskia Sassen ...
    Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional livelihood, from ... Leer más

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  • Red Alert

    How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life

    de Stephen Leeb ...
    "I would caution readers to dismiss Stephen Leeb's warnings only at their peril." -- Thomas Kaplan, chairman, Tigris Financial GroupThe American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare:Key commodities that are essential to our daily lives and that are widely believed to be abundant are running critically short. Even worse, the Chinese are doing what they can to monopolize the world ... Leer más

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  • The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

    Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

    de Michael Levi ...
    The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans-convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety-are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions to find out what's really happening-and which side is right. From the back roads of Ohio where old friends ... Leer más

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  • The End of Oil

    On the Edge of a Perilous New World

    de Paul Roberts ...
    "A stunning piece of work—perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications" (Bill McHibbon, The New York Review of Books).Petroleum is so deeply entrenched in our economy, politics, and daily lives that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail. Companies and governments depend on oil revenues. Developing nations see oil as ... Leer más

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  • Energy at the Crossroads

    Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

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  • Wheel of Fortune

    The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia

    The Russian oil industry—which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply—is facing mounting problems that could send shock waves through the Russian economy and worldwide. Wheel of Fortune provides an authoritative account of this vital industry from the last years of communism to its uncertain future. Tracking the ... Leer más

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  • Earth Wars

    The Battle for Global Resources

    de Geoff Hiscock ...
    A fascinating insight into the global battle for our energy futureThe global competition for scarce natural resources that pits the West against the super-hot economies of China and India, plus a clutch of other contenders including Russia, Brazil, and Indonesia, has become one of the biggest issues facing the world today. Whether it is the rare metal lithium found in salt pans in the Andes, gas ... Leer más

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  • Energy Politics

    It is not uncommon to hear states and their leaders criticized for "mixing oil and politics." The U.S.-led Iraq War was criticized as a "war for oil." When energy exporters overtly use energy as a tool to promote their foreign policy goals, Europe and the United States regularly decry the use of energy as a "weapon" rather than accept it as a standard and legitimate tool of diplomacy.In Energy ... Leer más

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