mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Mark Lynas

BOUNDARY SIX TOXICS There is perhaps no better illustration of the domestication of our world than how rapidly we are turning it into plastic. Plastics are everywhere. In the deepest ...

azw |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Paton, John Gibson [Paton, John Gibson]

mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan

Chapter XI THE GEOGRAPHY OF CHINESE POWER At the end of his famous article “The Geographical Pivot of History,” Mackinder has a disturbing reference to China. After elucidating why the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

Official portrait from the swearing in of Aguirre as lehendakari. The oath, in Euskera, is printed on the portrait. (Sabino Arana Foundation, Bilbao) Children who grew up in the 1930s ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Steve Inskeep

10 EMERGENCY NUMBERS This is where we last encountered Dr. Seemin Jamali, the “Incharge” of the emergency department at Jinnah hospital. On February 5, 2010, an argument was boiling at ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-04 | Author:Tom Scocca

Within two weeks of the earthquake, Sichuan was in the Bird’s Nest, running and jumping. TV and radio were still full of disaster reports and fund-raising specials; orphans were everywhere. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Jared Diamond

Guns, Germs and Steel CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'S MOTHER O N JULY 3, 1 9 0 8 , ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THE ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1997-09-15 | Author:Jared M. Diamond

MY EXAMPLES SO far have been drawn from modern technologies, because their histories are well known. My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Charles Mann

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-29 | Author:Al Gore

THIS CHAPTER BEGAN with a discussion of how we are, for the first time, changing the “being” in human being. We are also changing the other beings to which we ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Pelling, Mark [Pelling, Mark]

Conclusion The aim of this chapter has been to make a claim for transformation as a legitimate element of adaptation theory and practice. In doing so the challenges of escaping ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Thomas Geoghegan

5 Clash of Civilizations Meanwhile, America had become dark. There was the nightmare of Bush v. Gore. We did not seem like a democracy. We had big tax cuts for ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Robert Guest

As apartheid rules became progressively harder to enforce, black incomes began to catch up with white ones. Between 1975 and 1990, average real black earnings in manufacturing rose by almost ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Mike Dash

IT WAS THE Herald that announced the news, on February 20, 1909. Theodore Bingham had taken stock of the situation in Little Italy and decided on a radical solution, the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2001-01-02 | Author:Homer Hickam

DURING THE man-trip ride inside one morning, it occurred to me that Bobby was four years older than me and might, as a result, have a tad more experience with ...