Science & Math
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-20 | Author:Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

The legend held that thirty-eight people “remained at their windows in fascination” and “watched a killer stalk and stab a woman in three separate attacks” but “not one person telephoned ...
( Category: Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-03-20 | Author:Michael Lewis

IT WASN’T LONG after a player was traded to Oakland before he realized that his new team ran differently from any of his previous ones, although it generally took him ...
( Category: Management March 25,2014 )
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, epub |eng | 2007-10-23 | Author:Steve Levine

The development of a new foreign policy in Washington sometimes proceeds in a circular fashion. Sheila Heslin got a painful reminder of that in March after replacing Rosemarie Forsythe at ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Joel Salatin

2. Give 100 percent tax credits for rerouting plumbing to take gray water into flush toilets. That would save billions of gallons of water a day. The answer is not ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-10-05 | Author:Taleb, Nassim Nicholas [Taleb, Nassim Nicholas]

Too Much Work Marc’s body became progressively flabbier, and his bespoke suits needed periodic visits to the tailor, in spite of his occasional crash diets. After he got over the ...
( Category: Statistics 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 |eng | 2010-03-08 | Author:Annie Leonard; Ariane Conrad

The New Economics Foundation, the think tank that produces the annual Happy Planet Index, explains that “it is possible to live long, happy lives with a much smaller ecological footprint ...
( Category: Sports & Outdoors 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, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-10-14 | Author:Paul Greenberg

With fish, though, hope must always be put in context. Around the time of the North American cod crises and the passage of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, Daniel Pauly, known ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 25,2014 )
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 ...
( Category: Climatology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-06 | Author:Palast, Greg [Palast, Greg]

Now, Schwartz stands. Giffen’s mouthpiece is about to earn his $600 an hour. At a dark-wood lectern, tall and dramatic, the attorney says that his client had merely “failed to ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Coyle, Diane [Coyle, Diane]

CONCLUSION High trust is essential to the kind of economy we have now, but at the same time fragile. Building social capital needs more careful attention; future prosperity will depend ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Robert Skidelsky

5 Limits to Growth: Natural or Moral? Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. – Oscar Wilde As well as failing ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:G. Edward Griffin

Chapter Fifteen THE LOST TREASURE MAP The bitter experience of the American colonies with fiat money; the resolve of the founding fathers to prohibit the new nation from resorting to ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 25,2014 )