Science & Math
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Minxin Pei

Crime and Punishment The breakdown of the monitoring system is accompanied by an increasingly dysfunctional system of punishing corrupt officials—despite the frequent use of the death penalty against high-profile offenders. ...
( Category: Asian 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, azw3 |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Matt Ridley

solar panels the size of Spain or wind farms the size of Kazakhstan or woodland the size of India and Pakistan or hayfields for horses the size of Russia and ...
( Category: Economic History 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 |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:John Mcmillan

A noisy demonstration took place in Kansas City in May 1999 over a curious kind of injustice. “Share the wealth,” the protesters’ placards demanded. What had aroused their anger was ...
( Category: Free Enterprise March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Sarah Rose

Behind the gentlemanly façade of the East India Company there were often hidden rivalries and simmering tensions, and within the Indian network of company gardeners this friction often centered on ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:David Graeber

The Near West: Islam (Capital as Credit) Prices depend on the will of Allah; it is he who raises and lowers them. —Attributed to the Prophet Mohammed The profit of ...
( Category: Economic History March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Tim Harford

SCHELLING’S CHESSBOARD MODEL suggests that transformations such as Fifteenth Street’s should be impossible: Things always fall apart, people always give in to their prejudices, and small anxieties lead to big ...
( Category: Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-13 | Author:Martenson, Chris [Martenson, Chris]

Figure 16.8 indicates that even a historically modest 4 percent rate of global growth would require an advance from the 84.4 mbd (million barrels per day) in 2009 to 89.1 ...
( Category: Economic Conditions 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, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1900-12-01 | Author:Thomas Sowell

Risk and Time To take an extreme example of how risk can vary over time, while a dollar invested in bonds in 1801 would be worth nearly a thousand dollars ...
( Category: History & Theory 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, epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Jessica Mitford

The scene now shifts to Washington. Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh told Robert Kennedy that the solid bronze casket had been badly damaged in transit: “It’s really shabby. One handle is ...
( Category: Death 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 )