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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
336 pages cm
Description
"From a writer and climate-change expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant big-picture reckoning with the reasons for our shocking failure to this point, focusing on the malign power of key business interests, and arguing that those same interests could flip this story very quickly, if a looming economic catastrophe doesn't happen first. Eugene Linden wrote his first big cover story on climate change,...
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Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
Historian Edward Baptist reveals how the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 325 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) portraits, facsimilies ; 24 cm.
Description
In this landmark account, a noted historian investigates the private financial affairs of the Founding Fathers, revealing how and why the Revolution came about and providing a new understanding of the nation's bedrock values. --
Author
Publisher
Alpha Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Harness the power of Facebook to promote your business. This helpful guide gives you guidance on creating a Facebook marketing plan, defining your target market, and establishing a strong presence from the start.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 293 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Thaler and Sunstein offer a groundbreaking discussion of how to apply the science of choice to nudge people toward decisions that can improve their lives without restricting their freedom of choice.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xx, 492 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Recent changes in the global production and flow of energy have remade the world. In this book, the author reveals the forces shaping the future of energy, both renewable and fossil fuel. The New Map offers a new vision of the world's energy reserves and, therefore, the future of geopolitics"--
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If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate change right now? We insure our lives against an uncertain future--why...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"With a new introduction by the authors, Senator Elizabeth Warren and consultant Amelia Warren Tyagi, this 2016 edition of The Two-Income Trap shows that the middle class remains entirely out of reach for many."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Traces the single-generation transformation of sports from a cottage industry to a global business, reflecting on how elite athletes, agents, TV executives, coaches, owners, and athletes who once had to take second jobs worked together to create the dominating, big-ticket industry of today.
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Investigates the hidden connection between global food and global finance by asking the simple question: Why can't delicious, inexpensive, and healthy food be available to everyone on Earth? Reveals that money pouring into the global derivatives market in grain futures is having astonishing consequences that reach far beyond your dinner table, including the Arab Spring, bankrupt farmers, starving masses, and armies of scientists creating new GMO foods...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 305 pages ; 25 cm
Description
" Are We Screwed? makes clear that the ardor for change defines this generation, especially when it comes to climate change, and they are willing to consider options that their elders might think naïve and impractical, rejecting a capitalism that cares only about profit and a political system riven by false ideology. In telling the stories of his contemporaries around the globe, in describing how they think and the many ways they are already effecting...
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Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors.
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40) Food fix: how to save our health, our economy, our communities, and our planet-- one bite at a time
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"Pairing the latest developments in nutritional and environmental science with an unflinching look at the dark realities of the global food system and the policies that make it possible, Food Fix is a hard-hitting manifesto that will change the way you think about -- and eat -- food forever, and will provide solutions for citizens, businesses, and policy makers to create a healthier world, society, and planet."--Amazon.com.
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