Unsettled Matters
Author: Tom Bleecker
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780965313209
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Unsettled (Updated and Expanded Edition)
Author: Steven E. Koonin
Publisher: BenBella Books
Published: 2024-06-11
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1637745818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this updated and expanded edition of climate scientist Steven Koonin’s groundbreaking book, go behind the headlines to discover the latest eye-opening data about climate change—with unbiased facts and realistic steps for the future. "Greenland’s ice loss is accelerating." "Extreme temperatures are causing more fatalities." "Rapid 'climate action' is essential to avoid a future climate disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact. But according to science, all of these statements are profoundly misleading. With the new edition of Unsettled, Steven Koonin draws on decades of experience—including as a top science advisor to the Obama administration—to clear away the fog and explain what science really says (and doesn't say). With a new introduction, this edition now features reflections on an additional three years of eye-opening data, alternatives to unrealistic “net zero” solutions, global energy inequalities, and the energy crisis arising from the war in Ukraine. When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that “the science is settled.” In reality, the climate is changing, but the why and how aren’t as clear as you’ve probably been led to believe. Koonin takes readers behind the headlines, dispels popular myths, and unveils little-known truths: Despite rising greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures decreased from 1940 to 1970 Models currently used to predict the future do not accurately describe the climate of the past, and modelers themselves strongly doubt their regional predictions There is no compelling evidence that hurricanes are becoming more frequent—or that predictions of rapid sea level rise have any validity Unsettled is a reality check buoyed by hope, offering the truth about climate science—what we know, what we don’t, and what it all means for our future.
The Unfinished Business of Unsettled Things
Author: Bernard L. Herman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2022-05-09
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 146966853X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book invites readers into a growing, dynamic conversation among scholars and critics around a vibrant community of artists from an African American South. This constellation of creative makers includes familiar figures, such as Thornton Dial Sr., Lonnie Holley, and quiltmakers Nettie Young and Mary Lee Bendolph, whose work is collected in major museum and private collections. The artists represented extend to lesser-known but equally compelling creators working across a wide range of artistic forms, themes, and geographies. The essays gathered here, accompanied by a generous selection of full-color plates, survey subjects such as the artists' engagement with enslavement and liberation, the spiritual and religious dimensions of their work, the technical aspects of their work (such as the common use of "assemblage" as an artistic medium), the links between art and biography, and the evolving status of their reception in narratives of contemporary, modern, southern, and American art. Contributors are Celeste-Marie Bernier, Laura Bickford, Michael J. Bramwell, Elijah Heyward III, Sharon P. Holland, and Pamela J. Sachant.
Pretentiousness
Author: Dan Fox
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2016-04-05
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 156689428X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPretentiousness is the engine oil of culture; the essential lubricant in the development of all arts, high, low, or middle.
Globalization Matters
Author: Manfred B. Steger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1108470793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy addressing the major contemporary challenges to globalization, this study explains why and how the global continues to matter in our unsettled world.
Unsettled
Author: Ryan Hampton
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 125027317X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA shocking inside account of reckless capitalism and injustice in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case. In September 2019, Purdue Pharma—the maker of OxyContin and a company controlled by the infamous billionaire Sackler family—filed for bankruptcy to protect itself from 2,600 lawsuits for its role in fueling the U.S. overdose crisis. Author and activist Ryan Hampton served as co-chair of the official creditors committee that acted as a watchdog during the process, one of only four victims appointed among representatives of big insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmacies. He entered the case believing that exposing the Sacklers and mobilizing against Purdue would be enough to right the scales of justice. But he soon learned that behind closed doors, justice had plenty of other competition—and it came with a hefty price tag. Unsettled is the inside story of Purdue’s excruciating Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, the company’s eventual restructuring, and the Sackler family’s evasion of any true accountability. It’s also the untold story of how a group of determined ordinary people tried to see justice done against the odds—and in the face of brutal opposition from powerful institutions and even government representatives. Although America was envisioned as an equitable place, where the vulnerable are protected from the greed of the powerful, the corporate-bankruptcy process betrays those values. In its heart of hearts, this system is built to shield the ultra-wealthy, exploit loopholes for political power, promote gross wealth inequality, and allow companies such as Purdue Pharma to run amok. The real story of the Purdue bankruptcy wasn’t that the billion-dollar corporation was a villain, a serial federal offender. No matter what the media said, Purdue didn’t do this alone. They were aided and abetted by the very systems and institutions that were supposed to protect Americans. Even on-your-side elected officials worked against Purdue’s victims—maintaining the status quo at all costs. Americans deserve to know exactly who is responsible for failing to protect people over profits—and what a human life is worth to corporations, billionaires, and lawmakers. Unsettled is what happened behind closed doors—the story of a sick, broken system that destroyed millions of lives and let the Sacklers off almost scot-free.
The Bruce Lee Story
Author: Linda Lee
Publisher: Black Belt Communications
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780897501217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLinda Lee chronicles the life of her husband, martial artist Bruce Lee, focusing on their life together and her husband's film career.
Millie's Unsettled Season
Author: Martha Finley
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781928749097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMillie Keith is moving from Ohio to Indiana with her family and her Christian faith must sustain her through the journey.
Unsettled Things
Author: Brenda Felber
Publisher: Laughing Deer Press
Published: 2015-08-05
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780990909200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe was drifting away now. Back up the vanishing staircase. Her small hand reached out to me. An impossibly loud crash, followed by screams, enveloped me. The trees swayed and churned, moved by the powerful winds. Suddenly it all stopped. The imagining was over and I was left standing alone in the woods. Dead people leave energies behind ...Lillia Pameroy can see and hear, feel and touch those fragments of energy... The unsettled spirit of a lady in white haunts the lonely, abandoned graveyard...waiting. Decades have gone by since the horrific accident that took her life and tore her family apart. Now help is here and the waiting is over. Lillia arrives at her grandaunt's houseboat on Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky, in the dark of night, glad to get away from the drama at home. Bizarre happenings start within hours. She soon finds herself, along with her new friend Zoe, swept up in a quest to help an old woman, Ms. Margaret, find her family. In the life-threatening climax Lillia discovers the truth about the lady in white, but will it be in time to help reunite her children?
ICSID Convention After 50 Years
Author: Crina Baltag
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9789041166333
DOWNLOAD EBOOKICSID Convention after Fifty Years: Unsettled Issues celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the Convention on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID Convention or Convention) with an overview and analysis of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) case law to date and, focusing particularly on unsettled issues, assesses possible developments in the institution's next phase. The ICSID has played a leading role in establishing the field of foreign investment law. It is primarily due to the ICSID that it is no longer peculiar for individuals and corporations to have legal standing in claims against governments - probably the most notable development of international law of the past half century. Now, in its fiftieth year and ratified by more than 150 states, the ICSID received its 500th case in 2015. What's in this book: This volume is a collection of twenty-two essays by prominent practitioners with substantial experience in investment arbitration law. The topics they cover encompass such issues as the following: the political and economic reasons behind the creation of the ICSID; admissibility and jurisdiction; ICSID vis-à-vis bilateral investment treaties; States' concerns about the 'partiality' of arbitrators in favour of investors; proceedings involving a non-contracting State; applicable laws under the ICSID Convention; conflicting interpretations of ICSID Convention provisions; interaction of foreign investment and economic development; value of ICSID awards in the light of EU law; annulment of ICSID awards; effects of denunciation (Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela) and non-contracting States (Russia, Brazil, India); attribution of conduct of State-owned enterprises (SOEs); recognition and enforcement of ICSID arbitral awards; counterclaims; and allocation of costs. The cases involve a broad spectrum of international economic matters, including provisions of the Energy Charter Treaty, exploitation of natural resources, electric power, transportation, construction, finance, communications, water, sanitation, agriculture, fishing and forestry, and service and trade. How this will help you: As a detailed response to the question whether ICSID has contributed as promised to an improvement in the investment climate and promoted the flow of private foreign capital - and as an assessment of the present and future feasibility of the ICSID system for the resolution of investment disputes by arbitration and conciliation - this book has no peers. Considering the current crisis of investment law, the book's immediate value, not only to investors and their counsel but also to practitioners and academics, in the field of investment law and arbitration, and public international law cannot be overstated.
