Authors:Fred Moavenzadeh, Keisuke Hanaki, Peter Baccini,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sustainability, global, alliance, volume, bookseries, series, cities, future, dynamics
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 1402005415
ISBN-13: 9781402005411
The world’s burgeoning cities are a critical fact of the 21st Century -- and represent one of the greatest challenges to the future. By the year 2050 cities with populations over three million will more than double from 70 today to over 150. The authors in this book claim that contrary to conventional wisdom, that cities distort natural processes, just the opposite is true. Cities are far more than the sinks of energy, vast drains of natural resources, and obstacles to sustainable development. Properly managed, they claim, cities can be transformative arenas in which raw materia
Author: Osgi Alliance
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: osgi, alliance, service, platform
Number of Pages: 604
Published: 2003-12
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 1586033115
ISBN-13: 9781586033118
The OSGi Service Platform, Release 3 specification represents the culmination of another year of cooperative effort by the members of the OSGi alliance that builds on the previous releases and the experience of using those releases to build compelling products and network deployments using the OSGi service delivery model. Release 3 will include support for mobile service platforms and applications where data access is handled by a variety of secure interfaces. The Vehicle Expert Group that was formed to work closely with automotive OEMs and service providers has defined these specifications. R
Author: Ian Q.R. Thomas
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: alliance, promise
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0847685810
ISBN-13: 9780847685813
The nature and function of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are uncertain now that the alliance has accomplished its primary objective of defending Western Europe from the perceived Soviet threat. Despite uncertainty about NATO’s role in the post-Cold War world, its political and military leaders agree that it can continue to play a vital part in enhancing European security and maintaining international stability. This superb analysis explores the evolving functions and future directions of this unique organization, paying particular attention to the political cultures and g
Author: Gerald Lund
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Keywords: alliance
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $18.99
ISBN-10: 0875791603
ISBN-13: 9780875791609
It’s 18 years after the nuclear holocaust and the end of civilization, as we know it. Survivors are being relocated to a new society known as the Alliance. It seems like a dream come true for many of the new citizens. Crime, as well as harmful emotions, such as anger and prejudice have been eliminated, because the Alliance has computerized control over it’s citizens from a computer chip that has been implanted in everyone. Eric Lloyd discovers the Alliance’s corrupt power structure and vows to destroy it. But can one person change the world?
Author: Dave Etter
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: illinois, alliance
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0810122138
ISBN-13: 9780810122130
In the tradition of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, and Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology, each of the 222 poems in this collection is narrated by a different resident of the fictional small town of Alliance, Illinois. Their voices, individual and yet familiar, describe the ordered simplicity of life in the American small town during the second half of the twentieth century. Dave Etter’s themes and images come from the very lifeblood of prairie Illinois-rivers, trees, cornfields, wildlife, county fairs, railroads and, always, the people and the ever-changing sea
Author: Bernard Moitessier
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: alliance, tamata
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1995-01-25
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0924486775
ISBN-13: 9780924486777
This fascinating memoir spans the time from Moitessier’s magical childhood in Indochina to the months before his death in June 1994. Moitessier became famous for his daring sailing exploits, often done solo. He first went to sea on junks, criss-crossing the Gulf of Siam. After leaving Indochina, he led the life of a sea-gypsy, wandering the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic, and the Caribbean. Then came the Golden Globe Race: during ten months alone at sea, something happen to Moitessier that made him turn his back on a small fortune and fame. He withdrew from the race, and explained it i
Author: Yoichi Funabashi
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
Keywords: adrift, alliance
Number of Pages: 501
Published: 1999-06
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0876092512
ISBN-13: 9780876092514
The US-Japan alliance is confronting its most critical test since its inception in 1951. It is facing a new evolutionary stage in a radically-changed context, with the rise of China, Asia’s economic crisis, and Japan’s economic deadline and political immobility. This is an overview of the process of "redefining" the US-Japan alliance. It presents four specific case studies: the impact of macroeconomic and trade frictions on the alliance; the effect on the functions of the alliance of the suspicions about North Korea’s nuclear programme; the vehement protests against the allia
