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Earth: The Operators' Manual

By: Richard B. Alley

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The book—companion to a PBS series—that proves humans are causing global warming and offers a path to the future. Since the discovery of fire, humans have been energy users and always will be. And this is a good thing-our mastery of energy is what separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom and has allowed us to be the dominant species on the planet. However, this mastery comes with a price: we are changing our environment in a profoundly negative way by heating it up. Using one engaging story after another, coupled with accessible scientific facts, world authority Richard B. Alley explores the fascinating history of energy use by humans over the centuries, gives a doubt-destroying proof that already-high levels of carbon dioxide are causing damaging global warming, and surveys the alternative energy options that are available to exploit right now. These new energy sources might well be the engines for economic growth in the twenty-first century.

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The Two-Mile Time Machine

Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition

By: Richard B. Alley

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The Two-Mile Time Machine

Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition

By: Richard B. Alley

In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future. In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next.

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Princeton University Press

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Earth: The Operators' Manual

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The Ecological Rift

Capitalism’s War on the Earth

By: John Bellamy Foster,Brett Clark,Richard York

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The Ecological Rift

Capitalism’s War on the Earth

By: John Bellamy Foster,Brett Clark,Richard York

Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the biosphere. The economy and the earth are headed for a fateful collision—if we don't alter course. In The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth environmental sociologists John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York offer a radical assessment of both the problem and the solution. They argue that the source of our ecological crisis lies in the paradox of wealth in capitalist society, which expands individual riches at the expense of public wealth, including the wealth of nature. In the process, a huge ecological rift is driven between human beings and nature, undermining the conditions of sustainable existence: a rift in the metabolic relation between humanity and nature that is irreparable within capitalist society, since integral to its very laws of motion. Critically examining the sanguine arguments of mainstream economists and technologists, Foster, Clark, and York insist instead that fundamental changes in social relations must occur if the ecological (and social) problems presently facing us are to be transcended. Their analysis relies on the development of a deep dialectical naturalism concerned with issues of ecology and evolution and their interaction with the economy. Importantly, they offer reasons for revolutionary hope in moving beyond the regime of capital and toward a society of sustainable human development.

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NYU Press

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1583672192

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Government Can Deliver: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Agency Effectiveness and Efficiency

By: Richard A. Spires

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Government Can Deliver: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Agency Effectiveness and Efficiency

By: Richard A. Spires

Government Can Deliver presents a framework for government agency performance improvement designed to change an inefficient culture and drive operational excellence. It outlines how government leaders can drive such change, and most importantly, it presents a proven approach for creating an environment that will affect positive change. This framework, a set of practical attributes and implementable best practices tailored for government agencies, is based on real-world experiences in which government did deliver. There are examples in each chapter of agencies that implemented elements of this framework and the resulting impact on agencies’ operational performance. And while mainly using examples from large federal government agencies, this book can aid those in all levels of government and differing agency sizes. In writing this book, Richard endeavored to create a practical guide on transforming government agencies that can benefit all readers—whether you have made government service your life, study government as an academician or student, or are simply a concerned citizen. After establishing the need for improved government operations , the book presents attributes and best practices for eight solution functions. When properly addressed, each of these functions can, individually and collectively, significantly improve an agency’s performance. The examples and arguments can help agency leaders justify implementing the necessary attributes and best practices to improve their agency’s performance. The final chapter provides recommendations on how a government agency can develop a transformation plan to incrementally implement the attributes and best practices for each of these eight functions. Richard has seen first-hand the amazing things government agencies can accomplish when they have experienced, capable leaders, adopt best practices tailored for government, and appropriately leverage technology to support improved operations. Change is hard, but through government leaders’ and employees’ efforts focused on implementing the right changes, agencies can significantly improve their operational performance. Under the right conditions, magic can and does happen.

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The Two-Mile Time Machine

Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition

By: Richard B. Alley

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Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future - Updated Edition

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The Official Price Guide to Civil War Collectibles

By: Richard Friz

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The Official Price Guide to Civil War Collectibles

By: Richard Friz

THE DEFINITIVE SOURCEBOOK TO ONE OF THE HOTTEST NEW AREAS OF COLLECTING -- HEIRLOOMS FROM THE CIVIL WAR! -- COMPREHENSIVE. The Official Price Guide to Civil War Collectibles features updated price listings and current market values for thousands of Civil War items, including the maps and battlefield orders of President Lincoln, Confederate paper money and tokens, antebellum black memorabilia, civilian and military diaries, the uniforms and weapons of Confederate and Union officers and soldiers, advertising signs and trading cards, flags, sheet music, daguerreotypes, tintypes, photographs, personal papers, and much more! Plus sections on period glassware, textiles, paintings, and political memorabilia. -- SPECIAL FEATURES. Expanded section on Lincoln memorabilia and brand-new sections on Civil War reenactments (including where to purchase reproductions of uniforms and firearms), historical sites, and battlefields (including POW prisons) -- plus a comprehensive list of periodicals and organizations that specialize in the Civil War. -- CLEARLY ORGANIZED. This invaluable guide is arranged alphabetically by category and item for easy, effortless access. -- WRITTEN BY AN EXPERT. Richard Friz has been a collector of Civil War memorabilia for more than fifteen years. He writes articles for several national publications covering auctions and antiques and collectibles shows. He is the author of several popular House of Collectibles price guides, including World's Fair Collectibles and Political Memorabilia. -- FULLY ILLUSTRATED for fast, efficient identification.

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Death Valley and the Amargosa

A Land of Illusion

By: Richard E. Lingenfelter

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Death Valley and the Amargosa

A Land of Illusion

By: Richard E. Lingenfelter

This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was finally set aside as a National Monument. This is the story of an illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and delusions they pursued-the story of the metals in its mountains and the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating heat and its revitalizing springs, and of all the riches of its scenery and lore-the story of Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires, stockholders and stock sharps, homesteaders and hermits, writers and tourists. But mostly this is the story of the illusions-the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable deadliness that hung in the name they left behind, of lost bonanzas that grew out of the few nuggets they found, of immeasurable riches spread by hopeful prospectors and calculating con men, and of impenetrable mysteries concocted by the likes of Scotty. These and many lesser illusions are the heart of its history.

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0520908880

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Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

By: Richard F. Selcer

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Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

By: Richard F. Selcer

Features essays, statistical data, period photographs, maps, and documents.

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Book's by Richard B. Alley

Earth: The Operators' Manual

Earth: The Operators' Manual

The Two-Mile Time Machine

The Two-Mile Time Machine

Earth: The Operators' Manual

Earth: The Operators' Manual

The Ecological Rift

The Ecological Rift

Government Can Deliver: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Agency Effectiveness and Efficiency

Government Can Deliver: A Practitioner's Guide to Improving Agency Effectiveness and Efficiency

The Two-Mile Time Machine

The Two-Mile Time Machine

The Official Price Guide to Civil War Collectibles

The Official Price Guide to Civil War Collectibles

Death Valley and the Amargosa

Death Valley and the Amargosa

Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

Civil War America, 1850 To 1875

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