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Author: Jinny Johnson
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780805050868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnswers questions about the evolution of life, the inhabitants of the planet, and the earth itself
Author: Michael Böcher
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-06-17
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 3319340794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearchers in the environmental sciences are often frustrated because actors involved with practice do not follow their advice. This is the starting point of this book, which describes a new model for scientific knowledge transfer called RIU, for Research, Integration and Utilization. This model sees the factors needed for knowledge transfer as being state-of-the-art research and the effective, practical utilization to which it leads, and it highlights the importance of “integration”, which in this context means the active bi‐directional selection of those research results that are relevant for practice. In addition, the model underscores the importance of special allies who are powerful actors that support the application of scientific research results in society. An important product of this approach is a checklist of factors for successful knowledge transfer that will be useful for scientists. By using this checklist, research projects and research programs can be optimised with regard to their potential for reaching successful knowledge transfer effects.
Author: Craig Manning
Publisher: Sesame Workshop
Published: 2021-05-07
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1618313606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElmo's mom surprised him with a camera for World Kindness Day and asked him to find kindness on Sesame Street! Journey with Elmo and his friends to discover how kindness makes the world go 'round!
Author: Melanie Joyce
Publisher:
Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9781788100694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFind out what love means to adorable characters from around the globe. See how penguins cuddle, squirrels snuggle and koalas kiss. There's just so much love to go around!
Author: Barbara Garson
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"One investor tracks her cash through the global economy, from Brooklyn to Bangkok and back."--Cover.
Author: Jacob Goldstein
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0316417181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs. Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century. At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin. One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad. Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.
Author: Nicole Gravagna
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1118784707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecure venture capital? Easy. Getting a business up and running or pushing a brilliant product to the marketplace requires capital. For many entrepreneurs, a lack of start-up capital can be the single biggest roadblock to their dreams of success and fortune. Venture Capital For Dummies takes entrepreneurs step by step through the process of finding and securing venture capital for their own projects. Find and secure venture capital for your business Get your business up and running Push a product to the marketplace If you're an entrepreneur looking for hands-on guidance on how to secure capital for your business, the information in Venture Capital For Dummies gives you the edge you need to succeed.
Author: Daniel Yergin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 1094
ISBN-13: 1471104753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.
Author: Andrew J. Cherlin
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-12-08
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0307773515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a landmark book that's "intriguing [and] provocative" and presents "an original thesis [to explain] this peculiar paradox—we idealize marriage and yet we’re so bad at it” (The New York Times). Andrew J. Cherlin's three decades of study have shown him that marriage in America is a social and political battlefield in a way that it isn’t in other developed countries. Americans marry and divorce more often and have more live-in partners than Europeans, and gay Americans have more interest in legalizing same-sex marriage. The difference comes from Americans’ embrace of two contradictory cultural ideals: marriage, a formal commitment to share one's life with another; and individualism, which emphasizes personal choice and self-development. Religion and law in America reinforce both of these behavioral poles, fueling turmoil in our family life and heated debate in our public life. Cherlin’s incisive diagnosis is an important contribution to the debate and points the way to slowing down the partnership merry-go-round.
Author: Lewis Hyde
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010-08-17
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 1429930837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.
