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1) Revolution
Publisher
The Video Project
Language
English
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In this multi-award-winning film, Rob Stewart embarks on a global journey to uncover the grave dangers threatening the world's oceans -- and ultimately, humanity -- as well as to learn what it will take to reverse the challenges to life on earth. From the coral reefs in Papua New Guinea to the rainforests of Madagascar, Stewart's travels reveal that our fate is tied to even the smallest of creatures. Stunning scenes of underwater sea life bring viewers...
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English
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Climate change was political long before Al Gore first started talking about it. In the 1970s, the Swedish Social Democrats used global warming to get political support for building a string of nuclear power stations. It was the second phase of their war on coal, which began with the acid rain scare and the first big UN environment conference in Stockholm in 1969.
Acid rain swept all before it. America held out for as long as Ronald Reagan was in...
Publisher
Island Press
Language
English
Description
We think we understand environmental damage: pollution, water scarcity, a warming world. But these problems are just the tip of the iceberg. Food insecurity, financial assets drained of value, and a rapid rise in diseases of animal origin are among the underreported consequences of an unsustainable global system. In this volume, experts explore these hidden threats along with the central question of how we can develop resilience to these and other...
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Rich Trzupek has spent over 25 years engaged in combat with the environmental movement on the front lines, helping America's industrial sector defend itself against the increasingly aggressive tactics that environmental advocacy groups and their allies in the Environmental Protection Agency employ. In Regulators Gone Wild Trzupek lays out the inside story that describes the way the green/big government alliance has combined to stifle American productivity...
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Rodale
Language
English
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A call to action that details how the future of human civilization is under threat--and offers concrete advice for making your voice heard in the fight to solve the climate crisis at a moment when the solutions we need are emerging around the world.
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English
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Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book's historical...
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English
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This book reviews the policies, adopted towards protection of environment, abatement of pollution, green initiative legislation in India under, the purview of several Ministries & other government bodies, and the basic approaches to Environmental Policy in general adopted in various Countries in the form of Eco-tax, Subsidies, Pollution Permits, Refundable Deposits for Pollution control, Allocation of Property Rights, Government Investment Programs...
11) Power, Politics and People's Welfare: The Magnetron Technology – A New Window in Power Generation
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English
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The book presents an admixture of treasured initiatives to make it a handy package:
- of vital tips on enduring social development;
- of inspiring stimuli for positive intellectual exploits;
- of delight to research and development (R&D) enthusiasts, environmentalists and the academia;
- of pointers to an exciting new field for exploration by corporate investors; and
- of good tidings on enhanced quality of life worldwide-
all carefully structured...
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English
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Al Gore is bad for the planet... Talk about really inconvenient truths--that's one of the many you'll find in Iain Murray's rollicking exposé of environmental blowhards who waste more energy, endanger more species, and actually kill more people (yes, that's right) than the environmental villains they finger. Did you know that estrogen from birth control and "morning after" pills is causing male fish across America to develop female sex organs? Funny...
13) Water Pollution Policies and the American States: Runaway Bureaucracies or Congressional Control?
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English
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A fresh perspective on American water pollution policy
The relationship between federal and state water pollution policies is revealed and assessed in this incisive volume. Focusing on Congress's statutory directions in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 and state compliance, this study throws into relief the complex and often troubled relationship between the laws enacted by Congress and the public policies produced by state governments...
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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...
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English
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This book is a collective academic response from environmental law scholars sharing an interest in Welsh perspectives on today's local and global environmental challenges. The editors brought colleagues together at a ground-breaking colloquium at Swansea University in April 2011, seeking to foster new legal approaches at a time that sees a new dynamic toward a devolved Wales, including in the environmental policy field. This afforded the opportunity...
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English
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In The Truth Has Changed, Josh Fox turns the rapid-fire shocks that are remaking the very fabric of our lives-writing as a first responder, a reporter, a documentarian, and an activist-into art, literature, and at least one answer to the question of what the future holds.
Our normal isn't normal anymore.
The paradigm shift that global warming represents parallels a paradigm shift in how we process truth. Both deeply affect democracy.
Josh Fox has...
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English
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In this provocative book, Thomas R. DeGregori debunks anti-science environmental activists, and lays out the case for employing modern technology in modern agriculture. DeGregori argues that innovations such as bioengineered foods have increased life expectancy, crop yields and generally improved human well-being. The AgBiotech Reporter calls DiGregori's book "the ideal handbook for anyone who wants to understand the opponents of progress."
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This book provides an interesting overview of the African political environment and a specific focus on human rights in the Gambia. The author discusses the democratic system of governance across the African continent; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; press freedom; respect for the rule of law and authority of the law; good governance and responsible management of public resources.
19) El maquiavelismo degollado: Por la cristiana sabiduría de España y de Austria Claudio Clemente S. J
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Español
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El maquiavelismo degollado, panegírico escrito por el jesuita Claudio Clemente en 1637, es mucho más que una curiosidad de la historia de las ideas políticas, representa en muchos sentidos la síntesis de la política del barroco; en él se conjugan las posturas más agresivas dirigidas a combatir el accionar «inmoral y anticristiano» de El príncipe de Maquiavelo, escrito en 1513. Así, desde la monarquía española, el imperio austriaco y el...
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Environmentalists want industrialized nations to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that warm the atmosphere. For more than twenty years, however, their pleas have been mostly ignored. Naval architects and ship designers can play a critical role in reducing greenhouse gases by designing effi cient ships that are safe and environment friendly. New innovations would enhance fuel effi ciency and encourage other industries to adopt new ways of thinking....
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