Author: Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: adaptation, science, base, mitigation, warming, implications, greenhouse, policy
Number of Pages: 944
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0309043867
ISBN-13: 9780309043861
Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming is the first comprehensive book to lay the groundwork for informed decision-making about global warming. It gives specific advice for U.S. policy while addressing the need for an international response to the potential warming of the planet. The authors analyze the scientific understanding of greenhouse warming; prospects for human, animal, and plant adaptation to rising global temperatures; and options for mitigating the effects of greenhouse gas emmissions. 6 x 9. Index.
Authors:Eugenius Warming, Martin Vahl,
Publisher: Arno Press
Keywords: communities, history, ecology, plant, study, plants, introduction, oecology
Number of Pages: 422
Published: 1977-06
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0405104235
ISBN-13: 9780405104237
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher’s website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press; Publication date: 1909; Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / Botany; Science / General; Nature / Plants; Science / Life Sciences / Bo
Author: Hal Greenhouse
Publisher: William Andrew
Keywords: process, technology, science, materials, electronic, packages, hermeticity
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2000-01-14
List price: $197.00
ISBN-10: 0815514352
ISBN-13: 9780815514350
This is a book about the integrity of sealed packages to resist foreign gases and liquids penetrating the seal or an opening (crack) in the packageùespecially critical to the reliability and longevity of electronics. The author explains how to predict the reliability and the longevity of the packages based on leak rate measurements and the assumptions of impurities. Non-specialists in particular will benefit from the author’s long involvement in the technology. Hermeticity is a subject that demands practical experience, and solving one problem does not necessarily give one the backgro
Author: Linda Greenhouse
Publisher: Times Book
Keywords: blackmun, court, journey, supreme, harry, justice, becoming
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-04-04
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805080570
ISBN-13: 9780805080575
“A fascinating book. In clear and forceful prose, Becoming Justice Blackmun tells a judicial Horatio Alger story and a tale of a remarkable transformation . . . A page-turner.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn this acclaimed biography, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times draws back the curtain on America’s most private branch of government, the Supreme Court. Greenhouse was the first print reporter to have access to the extensive archives of Justice Harry A. Blackmun (1908–99), the man behind numerous landmark Supreme Court decisions, including Roe v. Wade.Through the lens of Blac
Author: Carol J. Greenhouse
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: neoliberalism, ethnographies
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2009-10-23
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0812241924
ISBN-13: 9780812241921
In the context of the global economic crisis, world capitalism today may be on the verge of another restructuring. Neoliberalism—the dominant approach to government around the world since the 1980s—may be coming to an end, but its effect on social and political life will long be felt. Based on the premise that markets are more efficient than lawmakers and regulators at responding to popular demands, neoliberal reforms were pushed by powerful national and transnational organizations as conditions of lending and trade. Governments turned to the private sector for what were formerly state fun
Author: Committee on Engineering Implications of Changes i
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: engineering, implications, level, sea, changes, responding
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1987-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0309037816
ISBN-13: 9780309037815
Over the last 100 years, sea level has risen approximately 12 centimeters and is expected to continue rising at an even faster rate. This situation has serious implications for human activity along our coasts. In this book, geological and coastal engineering experts examine recent sea level trends and project changes over the next 100 years, anticipating shoreline response to changing sea level and the consequences for coastal development and uses. Scenarios for future sea level rise and several case studies are also presented.
Author: Committee on the Implications of Dioxin in the Foo
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: strategies, decrease, exposure, supply, food, dioxin, compounds, dioxins
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2003-11-21
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0309089611
ISBN-13: 9780309089616
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds, or DLCs, are found throughout the environment, in soil, water, and air. People are exposed to these unintentional environmental contaminants primarily through the food supply, although at low levels, particularly by eating animal fat in meat, dairy products, and fish. While the amount of DLCs in the environment has declined since the late 1970s, the public continues to be concerned about the safety of the food supply and the potential adverse health effects of DLC exposure, especially in groups such as developing fetuses and infants, who are more sensitive to
