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Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future by Tim Flannery
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-03 | Author:Tim Flannery

As of early 2008, humanity had just thirty-seven days' worth of grain supply in reserve. It's been said that the ancient Romans had a more generous buffer against famine. As ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature (EasyRead Large Edition) by Ian McCallum
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Ian McCallum

PART TWO LOOKING AHEAD Tonight I want you to feel the blurred edge between good and bad, to say no to the urge to look away or to take sides… ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
A World Without Ice by H. N. Pollack
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:H. N. Pollack

VOLCANIC DIMMING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The eruptions of Tambora in 1815 and Krakatoa in 1883 were the signature volcanic events of the nineteenth century. The twentieth century was barely ...
( Category: Water Quality & Treatment March 25,2014 )
Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant

– 22 – SOLO I’ve got to get this right. I pause in a hallway, clenching my fists. My heart’s slamming against my chest. I’ve got Tattooed Tommy’s poppy-seed bagel ...
( Category: Biomedical Engineering March 25,2014 )
NASCAR Then and Now by Ben White; Nigel Kinrade; Smyle Media
mobi |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Ben White; Nigel Kinrade; Smyle Media

Modern Sprint Cup team shops employ numerous highly skilled specialists. Here we see a team of painters at work on one of Jimmie Johnson’s No. 48 Chevrolets at the Hendrick ...
( Category: Pictorial March 25,2014 )
Let's Ride: Sonny Barger's Guide to Motorcycling by Sonny Barger; Darwin Holmstrom
mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Sonny Barger; Darwin Holmstrom

What Do Dents Mean? Be sure to look for dents and other signs of crashing. A small ding on an exhaust pipe, footpeg tip, or clutch lever likely means a ...
( Category: Motorcycles March 25,2014 )
Architecture by Andrew Ballantyne
mobi |eng | 2002-02-15 | Author:Andrew Ballantyne

12. Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia (1796–1808); architect: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1836). Thomas Jefferson is best known for writing the 1776 Declaration of Independence, stirringly calling for the nation to support ‘life, ...
( Category: Study & Teaching March 25,2014 )
Traffic by Vanderbilt Tom
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-28 | Author:Vanderbilt, Tom [Vanderbilt, Tom]

How Traffic Explains the World: On Driving with a Local Accent “Good Brakes, Good Horn, Good Luck”: Plunging into the Maelstrom of Delhi Traffic Opening his eyes, he would know ...
( Category: Social Psychology & Interactions March 25,2014 )
The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today by Ted Conover
mobi |eng | 2010-02-09 | Author:Ted Conover

*Obadiah and Bradford are pseudonyms. *Nicolas and Mike were the only white people in the office. They appeared to hire people from across the spectrum of Kenya’s tribes and religions. ...
( Category: Road Travel March 25,2014 )
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman & Author
mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Dave Grossman & Author

Chapter Five Aggressive Predisposition of the Killer: Avengers, Conditioning, and the 2 Percent Who Like It World War Il-era training was conducted on a grassy firing range (a known-distance, or ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 25,2014 )
The God Species by Mark Lynas
mobi |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 ...
( Category: Environmental March 25,2014 )
Blowout by Carl Safina
mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Carl Safina

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...
( Category: Pollution March 25,2014 )
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth by Mark Mazzetti
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-09 | Author:Mark Mazzetti

12: THE SCALPEL’S EDGE “We’ll continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours.” —President Ali Abdullah Saleh The meeting was set up for a surrender, a symbolic gesture of peace ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 25,2014 )
Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War (American Empire Project) by Andrew Bacevich
mobi |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Andrew Bacevich

4 RECONSTITUTING THE TRINITY By the 1980s, the American penchant for intervention was already showing signs of robust recovery, with defenders of the Washington consensus enjoying similar success in reshaping ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
Washington Rules by Bacevich Andrew
mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Bacevich, Andrew [Bacevich, Andrew]

4 RECONSTITUTING THE TRINITY By the 1980s, the American penchant for intervention was already showing signs of robust recovery, with defenders of the Washington consensus enjoying similar success in reshaping ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )

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