Engineering
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-19 | Author:Yergin, Daniel [Yergin, Daniel]

ARRHENIUS: THE GREAT BENEFIT OF A WARMING CLIMATE The year after Tyndall’s death, in 1894, a Swedish chemist named Svante Arrhenius picked up the story. Arrhenius was curious as to ...
( Category: Natural Gas March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Schiesser, Rich [Schiesser, Rich]

Summary This chapter began in the usual manner with a formal definition of problem management, followed by a discussion of the differences between problem management, change management, and request management. ...
( Category: Industrial Technology March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-08-22 | Author:Zarrella, Dan [Zarrella, Dan]

Posts published earlier in the business week—especially Monday through Thursday—tend to attract the most views and links, but those published on the weekends get the most comments. The principle of ...
( Category: Marketing & Sales March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-13 | Author:Gayle Laakmann McDowell

2. It’s obviously medical. If you had, say, a black eye due to recent surgery, you might want to inform your interviewers of this, lest they thing you decided to ...
( Category: Job Hunting March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Klare, Michael T. [Klare, Michael T.]

TABLE 6.1: THE RARE EARTHS AND THEIR USES Sources: U.S. General Accounting Office, Rare Earth Materials in the Defense Supply Chain, April 1, 2010; Keith Bradsher, “China Tightens Grip on ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |ru | 2012-04-18 | Author:Edward Humes

TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Brown, Lester R. [Brown, Lester R.]

* * * Data, endnotes, and additional resources can be found on Earth Policy’s Web site, at www.earth-policy.org. * * * 9 Harnessing Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy As fossil ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Mark Pendergrast

Chapter Twelve The next morning while I was brewing coffee, I decided I needed to find a Watson. Even Sherlock Holmes, in his opium-induced stupor, enjoyed talking to someone beside ...
( Category: Coffee & Tea March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Marc Levinson

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Richard Heinberg

FIGURE 39. World Energy Use and GDP. Sources: US Energy Information Administration, International Monetary Fund. Another often-ignored factor skewing the energy-GDP relationship is outsourcing of production. In the 1950s, the ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-22 | Author:Hiscock, Geoff [Hiscock, Geoff]

In the early 1980s, Jack Welch, then head of the U.S. conglomerate General Electric, decided he no longer wanted to be in commodities. He set about divesting GE’s commodity assets, ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:Unknown

Back - New Search insurance broker A person who is registered with the Insurance Brokers Registration Council to offer advice on all insurance matters and arrange cover, on behalf of ...
( Category: Architecture March 25,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:Peter Maass

Big Oil is getting the reward it deserves: after more than a century of power and indecency, it is shrinking. Until the 1970s, Western companies controlled most of the world’s ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-11 | Author:Levy, Steven [Levy, Steven]

PART FIVE OUTSIDE THE BOX The Google Phone Company and the Google TV Company 1 “They already hate us—what’s the downside?” You might say that the seeds of the Google ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-24 | Author:Naomi Klein

During the late 1990s, the process of turning the service sector into a low-wage ghetto advanced rapidly in Germany. The German unemployment rate reached 12.6 percent in 1998, primarily because ...
( Category: Radicalism March 25,2014 )