Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

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Publisher:

Published: 1966-06

Total Pages: 96

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.

Who's Who in America, 1996
Who's Who in America, 1996

Author: Marquis Who's Who, Inc

Publisher: Reed Reference Publishing

Published: 1995-09

Total Pages: 2396

ISBN-13: 9780837901671

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"We make very heavy use of WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA in our library. It's used daily to check biographical facts on people of distinction."--MARIE WATERS, HEAD OF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES. Marquis Who's Who is proud to announce the Golden Anniversary 50th Edition of WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA. This, the world's preeminent biographical resource, keeps pace with a changing America with more than 17,500 new entries each year. AND it speeds research with the Geographic/Professional Indexes. ANNUAL UPDATING enables Marquis Who's Who to bring users more new names & to update more existing entries each year. Every entry is selected & researched to ensure the most current, accurate biographical data for Who's Who users. The Geographical/Professional Indexes makes WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA an even more useful research tool. Now users can identify & locate prospective partners & new clients by profession in any of 38 categories, as well as by country, state, or province, or city. Essential for quickly finding the entries you need. More than 92,000 leaders decision-makers, & innovators from every important field - business, finance, government, education, science & technology, the arts & more - are profiled in this Golden Anniversary 50th Edition. Entries include name, occupation, vital statistics, parents, marriage, children, education, career, civic & political activities, writings & creative works, awards, professional memberships, & office address. When you need authoritative, accurate facts on our nation's leaders, go to the preeminent record of American achievement that offers new information EVERY year: Marquis WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA.

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Author: Marina Belozerskaya

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2005-10-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0892367857

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Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

The 2030 Spike
The 2030 Spike

Author: Colin Mason

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1136555110

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The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.