Author: Christina Reed
Publisher: Facts On File
Keywords: decade, science, marine, century, twentieth
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2009-03
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0816055343
ISBN-13: 9780816055340
Author: Ann Larabee
Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
Keywords: disaster, decade
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-12-08
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0252068203
ISBN-13: 9780252068201
Focusing on the spectacular disasters of the 1980s - the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Chernobyl meltdown, the Challenger space shuttle explosion, the Bhopal chemical plant release, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic - Ann Larabee examines how culture is reconstructed after disaster through victims’ stories, media coverage, and official efforts to restore faith in technology. "Decade of Disaster" gives voice to a diverse cast of disaster participants, including Bhopal widows, people with AIDS, Chernobyl tourists, NASA administrators, international nuclear power authorities, and corporate spokespeop
Author: H.W. Brand
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: 1890s, america, decade, reckless
Number of Pages: 390
Published: 2002-03-15
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0226071162
ISBN-13: 9780226071169
"Large-scale economic change, job uncertainty, the politics of extremism and paranoia, arguments over America’s international role, racial conflicts. Sound familiar?"(Fritz Lanham, Houston Chronicle) Just as we do today, Americans of the 1890s faced changes in economics, politics, society, and technology that led to wrenching and sometimes violent tensions between rich and poor, capital and labor, white and black, East and West. In The Reckless Decade, H. W. Brands demonstrates that we can learn a lot about the contradictions that lie at the heart of America today by looking at them thro
Author: Bob Harris
Publisher: Crown
Keywords: jeopardy, decade, trebekistan, prisoner
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0307339564
ISBN-13: 9780307339560
A.: This is the story of a working-class guy from Ohio with little real knowledge of Ambidextrous Presidents, Things Made from Rubber, and hundreds of other categories, but who nonetheless plunges so far into cramming for Jeopardy! that it changes his relationships, bends his worldview, and literally leads him to the ends of the earth, trying to understand it all. Q.: What is Prisoner of Trebekistan?Welcome to a world where obscure information is crucial to survival, vast sums of cash are at stake, and milliseconds can change not just a game but the course of your entire life. (Plus, you could
Author: Michael Hammer
Publisher: Three Rivers Pre
Keywords: decade, dominate, business, agenda
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-04-22
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1400047730
ISBN-13: 9781400047734
"Suddenly," writes Michael Hammer in the opening to his confidently but aptly named new book The Agenda, "business is not so easy anymore." He then sets out an ambitious plan for righting what many businesses are doing wrong, much as he did a decade ago in his bestselling Reengineering the Corporation. This time, however, he retreats from the overarching "big idea" promulgated in his earlier book to present a system that incorporates nine ideas geared for an environment where customers really do rule. Hammer unveils these aligned-but-individual ideas, which relate to process and customer orien
Author:
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: geodelft, progress, decade, tunnelling
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-05-26
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0415391334
ISBN-13: 9780415391337
Following years of research, the first bored tunnel in soft soil in the Netherlands, the Tweede Heinenoord tunnel, was completed in 1998. Since then, Dutch engineers have increased their knowledge of soft soil tunnelling, with a significant and important part of this research being carried out by GeoDelft, the Dutch National Institute of Geo-Engineering. This book contains the most important publications by GeoDelft on the subject of soft soil tunnelling, focusing on the period from 1992 to the present,it is divided into four main headings: field measurements; groutbehaviour; model testing;
Author: Julia M. Busch
Publisher: Associated Univ Pr
Keywords: 1960s, media, new, sculpture, decade
Number of Pages: 205
Published: 1974-11
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0879820071
ISBN-13: 9780879820077
