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Climate of Extremes

Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know

By: Patrick J. Michaels,Robert C. Balling Jr.

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Climate of Extremes

Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know

By: Patrick J. Michaels,Robert C. Balling Jr.

There's a whole new world of global warming science today, but few people hear about it. In recent years, an internally consistent body of scientific literature has emerged that argues cogently for global warming but against the gloom-and-doom vision of climate change. But those who merely call attention to this literature are intimidated, blacklisted, and even driven from prestigious scientific employment. Calling the current scientific environment a "climate of extremes" is an understatement. It's a fact that there are fewer citations in the refereed scientific literature providing evidence for the moderate view of global warming, but that's to be expected. In Climate of Extremes, climatologists Patrick J. Michaels and Robert Balling Jr. explain that climate science is hardly unbiased, even though the global climate community itself believes that any new finding has an equal probability of making our climatic future appear more or less dire. Michaels and Balling examine all aspects of the apocalyptic vision of climate change making headlines almost every day: Hurricanes pumped up by global warming, rapid melting of Greenland and Antarctica resulting in 20 feet of sea-level rise in the next 90 years, that global warming is occurring at an increasing pace, and there is a massive increase in heat-wave related deaths. Each one of these pop-culture icons of climate change turns out to be short on facts and long on exaggeration. People who read Climate of Extremes will emerge well-armed against an army of extremists hawking climate change as the greatest threat ever to our society and way of life.

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Cato Institute

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1935308041

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9781935308041

The Satanic Gases

Clearing the Air About Global Warming

By: Patrick J. Michaels,Robert C. Balling

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The Satanic Gases

Clearing the Air About Global Warming

By: Patrick J. Michaels,Robert C. Balling

Global warming is vastly overrated as an environmental threat, argue leading climatologists Patrick J. Michaels and Robert Balling, Jr. Former Vice President Gore staked much of his career on a largely mythical problem, they write. Unlike every other book on global warming, The Satanic Gases places the issue in its proper social and scientific context. Citing the pioneering work of historian of science Thomas Kuhn and economist James Buchanan, Michaels and Balling demonstrate that it was inevitable that global warming would be distorted by the political sphere and that most scientists would either stand mute or actually assist in that process. But, the authors argue, such distortions in science are always temporary, and inevitably the scientific community will concede that earlier forecasts dramatically exaggerated the threat of global warming.

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Cato Institute

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1937184455

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9781937184452

Be Very Afraid

The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats

By: Robert Wuthnow

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Be Very Afraid

The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats

By: Robert Wuthnow

Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country's best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "tremendously valuable." The New York Times calls him "temperate, balanced, compassionate," adding, "one can't but admire Mr. Wuthnow's views." A leading authority on religion, he now addresses one of the most profound subjects: the end of the world. In Be Very Afraid, Wuthnow examines the human response to existential threats--once a matter for theology, but now looming before us in multiple forms. Nuclear weapons, pandemics, global warming: each threatens to destroy the planet, or at least to annihilate our species. Freud, he notes, famously taught that the standard psychological response to an overwhelming danger is denial. In fact, Wuthnow writes, the opposite is true: we seek ways of positively meeting the threat, of doing something--anything--even if it's wasteful and time-consuming. The atomic era that began with the bombing of Hiroshima sparked a flurry of activity, ranging from duck-and-cover drills, basement bomb shelters, and marches for a nuclear freeze. All were arguably ineffectual, yet each sprang from an innate desire to take action. It would be one thing if our responses were merely pointless, Wuthnow observes, but they can actually be harmful. Both the public and policymakers tend to model reactions to grave threats on how we met previous ones. The response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, for example, echoed the Cold War--citizens went out to buy duct tape, mimicking 1950s-era civil defense measures, and the administration launched two costly conflicts overseas. Offering insight into our responses to everything from An Inconvenient Truth to the bird and swine flu epidemics, Robert Wuthnow provides a profound new understanding of the human reaction to existential vulnerability.

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Oxford University Press

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0199889740

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9780199889747

The Drama of Schooling: The Schooling of Drama

By: Robert J Starratt

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The Drama of Schooling: The Schooling of Drama

By: Robert J Starratt

Starratt’s highly original book offers fresh insights into the nature of teaching, learning, schooling as a multi-cultural, social enterprise, and the importance of vision for that leadership—by using the analogy of drama. Schooling is a preparation to participate in the social drama, both as an individual and as a community. Beyond participation, schooling can enable youngsters to maintain and restore the human purposes of the social drama. This unique book accommodates present critics of schools from both the left and the right, but goes beyond them to offer a script for restoring the schools to their human and social purposes.

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Routledge

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1136669264

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9781136669262

Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

By: Emma Ciafaloni,Patrick Chinnery,Robert Griggs

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Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

By: Emma Ciafaloni,Patrick Chinnery,Robert Griggs

This new edition of Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies is written for the clinician who sees patients with muscle disease, or the patient with complaints of pain or weakness of muscle. Like the original, this new edition is divided in to 3 primary sections: Approach to the Patient with Muscle Disease, Specific Myopathies, and General Strategies of Clinical Management, each section providing practical guidance to eliciting key histories and demonstrate findings upon examination. This new edition also provides guidance on the next steps in diagnoses as well as the latest information on pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment, in an integrated manner, so as to give trainees, practicing clinicians and others who see neuromuscular disease perspective on how to evaluate and care for patients. New and revised tables, figures, and references are selected and organized to present information of clinical importance to provide the most up-to-date resource on the myopathies.

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Oxford University Press

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0199873941

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For the People

A Recipe for Freedom : a Handbook for All True Americans

By: Robert O. Rowland

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For the People

A Recipe for Freedom : a Handbook for All True Americans

By: Robert O. Rowland

Regardless of your political affiliation, be it Republican, Democrat or disenfranchised, this book is for you. As our country enters the 21st century the U.S. Constitution has been torn apart by an overzealous & over-extended federal government. Each day, many of our constitutional rights are weakened. These rights include: our right to freely worship God, our right be free from illegal search & seizure & our right to own & control private property. Billions of out tax dollars are wasted every year by inefficient federal agencies that serve no purpose. In addition, billions more are actually spent on eroding our consitutional rights & placing private property under governmental control. If it surprises you that the federal government is buying up land all across America (millions of acres a year), then it is time you opened your eyes & read the truth contained in these pages. I urge all true-blooded Americans to read this book. It is the culmination of years of research against the "New World Order" of Socialism that has developed in our country & around the world. The fight must begin now it begins with the pen. This book will give you the information & guidance you need to demand accountability from our public officials. We can achieve the dream of our foundling fathers if we begin to dismantle the oppressive juggernaut our federal government has become. This way, we can ensure that the freedom our forefathers founded & millions died to protect, will remain for future generations to come. Read this book for yourself, your family & your church. Read it "For the People".

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Rowland Books Unlimited, Incorporated

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0615111890

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9780615111896

Neonatal Heart Disease

By: Robert M. Freedom,Leland N. Benson,Jeffrey F. Smallhorn

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Neonatal Heart Disease

By: Robert M. Freedom,Leland N. Benson,Jeffrey F. Smallhorn

As pediatric cardiology becomes more and more neonatal cardiology and even fetal cardiology, Neonatal Heart Disease by Robert M. Freedom, MO, Leland N. Benson, MD, and Jeffrey F. Smallhorn, MB is extraordinarily timely. Neonatal Heart Disease consists of 50 chapters by 25 distinguished contributors and is a worthy successor to The Neonate With Congenital Heart Disease by Richard D. Rowe, MD and his colleagues (1968 and 1981). The first ~dition of this book in 1968 established Richard D. Rowe, MD as the father of neonatal cardiology. As most pediatric cardiologists now know, Dick Rowe died on January 18, 1988 after a brief illness. It will therefore come as no surprise that the present volume is dedicated to this great and gentle man. Nor will it come as a surprise that I have been asked to devote this Foreword to Richard D. Rowe, MD, pioneering neonatal cardiologist and incomparable personal friend. What can one say about Dick Rowe? Well, there are at least two very different tales. There is Dick Rowe the public man -the factual account of Dick Rowe's achievements as a physician, educator, and research man - the Dick Rowe that virtually "everyone" knows. And then there is Dick Rowe the private man -the extraordinary human being who only his personal friends were privileged to know. I shall try to tell something of both stories. First, the public man - the factual account - is really quite amazing.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1447118146

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Security Operations Management

By: Robert McCrie,Seungmug Lee

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Security Operations Management

By: Robert McCrie,Seungmug Lee

Security Operations Management, Fourth Edition, the latest release in this seminal reference on corporate security management operations for today's security management professionals and students, explores the characteristics of today's globalized workplaces, security's key role within them, and what the greatest concern is for security practitioners and senior managers. Incorporating the latest security research and best practices, the book covers key skills needed by security managers to demonstrate the value of their security program, offers information on identifying and managing risk, and reviews the latest technological advances in security control, command, communications and computing. - Includes myriad global cases and examples of both the business and technical aspects of security - Offers valuable coverage of cybercrime and workplace violence - Explores the latest technological advances in security control, command, communications, and computing, along with current techniques for how prospective security personnel are vetted, including via social media - Prepares security professionals for certification exams

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0128223723

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The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation

Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy

By: Robert L Crawford,William R Brueckheimer

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The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation

Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy

By: Robert L Crawford,William R Brueckheimer

The Red Hills region is an idyllic setting filled with longleaf pines that stretches from Tallahassee, Florida, to Thomasville, Georgia. At its heart lies Tall Timbers, a former hunting plantation. In 1919, sportsman Henry L. Beadel purchased the Red Hills plantation to be used for quail hunting. As was the tradition, he conducted prescribed burnings after every hunting season in order to clear out the thick brush to make it more appealing to the nesting birds. After the U.S. Forest Service outlawed the practice in the 1920s, condemning it as harmful for the forest and its wildlife, the quail population diminished dramatically. Astonished by this loss and encouraged by his naturalist friend Herbert L. Stoddard, Beadel set his sights on conserving the land in order to study the effects of prescribed burnings on wildlife. Upon his death in 1958, Beadel donated the entire Tall Timbers estate to be used as an ecological research station. The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation traces Beadel’s evolution from sportsman and naturalist to conservationist. Complemented by a wealth of previously unpublished, rare vintage photographs, it follows the transformation of the plantation into what its founders envisioned--a long-term plot study station, independent of government or academic funding and control.

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University Press of Florida

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081304250X

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9780813042503

Estate Planning

Principles and Problems

By: Wayne M. Gazur,Robert M. Phillips

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Estate Planning

Principles and Problems

By: Wayne M. Gazur,Robert M. Phillips

This casebook introduces students to the principles of estate planning and challenges them to analyze simulated client scenarios. Featuring a case-study and problems approach in which the principles of estate planning are first introduced and then demonstrated through student analysis of short exercises and simulated client situations. A forms supplement on a CD is an additional tool for giving students practice with drafting exercises.

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Aspen Publishing

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1454869003

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9781454869009

Understanding Globalization

The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change

By: Robert K. Schaeffer

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Understanding Globalization

The Social Consequences of Political, Economic, and Environmental Change

By: Robert K. Schaeffer

This book examines the globalization of production and its impact on work and gender relations, the impact of technology on workers around the world, the economic problems associated with debt crisis, the political opportunities associated with democratization, the impact of global warming, the reasons behind China's rise as an economic superpower, and the problems in countries across the Middle East that culminated in the attacks of 9/11.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742561798

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9780742561793

AIDS-Related Cancers and Their Treatment

By: Ellen G. Feigal,Alexandra M. Levine,Robert J. Biggar

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AIDS-Related Cancers and Their Treatment

By: Ellen G. Feigal,Alexandra M. Levine,Robert J. Biggar

This book summarizes the etiology, presentation, and treatment of the complex symptoms, infections, and opportunistic cancers of people living with HIV/AIDS. Presents therapies that strike a balance between controlling and eliminating cancer and minimizing the damage to the immune system. Illustrates points with clear and easily read figures,

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CRC Press

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0824746805

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9780824746803

Transactions and Strategies: Economics for Management (with InfoApps)

By: Robert J. Michaels

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Transactions and Strategies: Economics for Management (with InfoApps)

By: Robert J. Michaels

The first and only text for managerial economics to be organized around Oliver Williamson's basic paradigm, TRANSACTIONS AND STRATEGIES: ECONOMICS FOR MANAGERS takes a modern approach to managerial economics that is uniquely suited to today's business students. Organized around the idea that transactions are the fundamental unit of economics and that their governance by markets, contracts, or organizations is the most important economic question for businesses to cope with, this revolutionary text brings the course materials for managerial economics up to date with the theory and practice of the field. The first half of the text covers the familiar economic theory of markets when transactions are standardized while the second half focuses on contracts, risk and asymmetric information, and organizational design. Vivid examples found in each chapter highlight important concepts and help your students become informed business decision makers. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

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Cengage Learning

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0324314132

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Book's by Robert J. Michaels

Climate of Extremes

Climate of Extremes

The Satanic Gases

The Satanic Gases

Be Very Afraid

Be Very Afraid

The Drama of Schooling: The Schooling of Drama

The Drama of Schooling: The Schooling of Drama

Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

Evaluation and Treatment of Myopathies

For the People

For the People

Neonatal Heart Disease

Neonatal Heart Disease

Security Operations Management

Security Operations Management

The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation

The Legacy of a Red Hills Hunting Plantation

Estate Planning

Estate Planning

Understanding Globalization

Understanding Globalization

AIDS-Related Cancers and Their Treatment

AIDS-Related Cancers and Their Treatment

Transactions and Strategies: Economics for Management (with InfoApps)

Transactions and Strategies: Economics for Management (with InfoApps)

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