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Thwart Climate Change Now
Thwart Climate Change Now: Reducing Embodied Carbon Brick by Brick addresses an imperative--to slow the pace of climate change within the coming decade--before it's too late. While climate policy typically focuses on future decarbonization 10 to 20 years out, temperatures continue to rise. Greenhouse gases emitted upfront from the materials fabrication, construction, and renovation of our physical environment--embodied emissions--accelerate the rate of global warming now. Sadly, they increase atmospheric carbon before our buildings and infrastructure are even used. Often ignored or deemed too perplexing to resolve, the need to reduce embodied emissions immediately is the subject of this book...
The Price of Secrets
A collection of three thrillers by David P. Warren, now available in one volume! Imploded Lives: After a busy Los Angeles bank is robbed in broad daylight, detectives Stacey Gray and Jeff Butler begin to investigate the logic-defying case with no clues and little evidence. Soon, life-changing secrets are exposed and their worlds turn upside down. But who are the robbers, and where is the money? Sealing Fate: After newly elected congressman Brian Madsen becomes embroiled in an affair, it looks like his fate is sealed. Soon, the path he has taken leads to murder, blackmail, and mortal danger to anyone Brian turns to for assistance. Temptation's Prisoners: After gambler Adam Mason begins to embezzle from his legal clients and his wife Christine becomes tangled in blackmail and murder, they find themselves targeted from all sides. Adam’s finances spiral out of control. The threat of exposure looms as a mysterious investor, a determined ex-lover, and the FBI all have their parts to play. Can they manage to stay out of prison – or even survive?
The Poet
Meet the best sportswriter of the twentieth century
A Savage Business
One of America's best sportswriters chronicles the unhappy rise and bizarre fall of Mike Tyson, from his release from prison after serving his sentence for rape through his disqualification in the second Evander Holyfield fight for biting the champion's ear. Also included is a profile of Don King, Tyson's comical, ruthless, arrogant promoter, who has has earned the sobriquet, "Blackiavelli". of photos.
Blind Journey
Uncharted and beyond his control for the most part, Jack Hawn's career simply happened. He never studied journalism and never aspired to be a writer. After almost four years assigned to the army's public information offices, he faced civilian life with a wife, infant daughter, wild ambition, bursting optimism, unshakeable confidence - and no job. Eventually, he found work as a copyboy at a Hollywood newspaper, was paid $5 to review plays and nightclub acts, and a year later filled a sports desk vacancy. As years passed, he earned extra income as a television dramatist and wrote TV and radio scripts for sportscasters. When the paper folded in 1970, he was hired at the Los Angeles Times, where...
Prizefighting
This work brings a fresh perspective to the history of modern prizefighting, a sport which has evolved over several centuries to become one of mankind's most lasting and valued sporting attractions. With his primary focus outside the ropes, the author shows how organizers, publicity agents, and political allies overcame both legal and moral roadblocks to make fisticuffing a lively commercial enterprise. The book begins with the clandestine bare-knuckle fights in eighteenth-century London, and ends with the vibrant, large-scale productions of modern Las Vegas "fight nights." Along the way, he explains many of the myths about antiquarian prizefighters, describes the origins of slave fight folklore, and examines the forces that transformed Las Vegas into the world's leading venue for important fights.
Kampen
Norman Mailers klassiske reportasjebok fra «The Rumble in the Jungle» – århundrets boksekamp – er regnet som tidenes beste idrettsbok. Begivenhetene utspiller seg i Kinshasa, hovedstaden i Zaire. Datoen er 30. oktober 1974. I det ene hjørnet står den regjerende verdensmesteren i tungvekt George Foreman, fryktet for sin enorme slagstyrke. I det andre hjørnet står Muhammad Ali, bokseren som ble fratatt mestertittelen uten å ha tapt en eneste kamp. Norman Mailer dekker verdensbegivenheten for Playboy Magazine. Han går tett på begivenhetene og beskriver den intense stemningen før og under kampen. Kampen er et mesterlig innblikk i historiens største sportsbegivenhet, en knock-out av en bok!
Encounter
Using cave-art as a channel, Aborigines recorded visitations by alien cultures thousands of years ago; abductions occurred. Today, a frightening painting has been discovered. 10,000 years in the past, a mysterious abduction occurs in remote Australia. In the present day, a record of the event is discovered by teenagers, which cracks open a mystery when astronauts on a routine shuttle mission encounter an alien presense. Transmitted a bizarre device, the shuttle crew return to earth to solve the puzzle. Meanwhile, Blake Adams stumbles upon a small-town murder and, accused, runs from the scene. Protected by a pair of teenagers, he finds himself in the centre of some extraordinary happenings after a concealed cave painting is revealed. Soon, the race is on to discover what an alien craft is demanding -- and to prevent a catastrophic event in sleepy outback town Useless Loop, where Kutji, a terrible Aborigine spirit, waits to cause havoc inside NASA's downed space shuttle.
Buildings are for People
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Series Editor -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Buildings Intervene -- 1 Interfaces Enable Change -- INTERFACIAL ARCHITECTURES -Natural and Manmade Transformations -- ARCHITECTURE INTERVENES -Affordance and Intrusion -- BUILDINGS ARE FOR PEOPLE -Human Shelter -- 2 Manifestations of the Building Envelope -- PHYSICAL, SENSIBLE AND OPERATIVE -Embodied as One -- MATERIAL INTERFACE -The Physical Presence of Architecture -- EXPERIENTIAL INTERFACE -The Sensible Presence of Architecture
We Shook Up the World
George Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. Ten years later, the two men simultaneously staged comebacks, demonstrating just how much they embodied the promises and perils of their era. In doing so, Tracy Daugherty suggests, they revealed the scope and the limits of political courage and commitment to faith in the modern world. We Shook Up the World is the story of these two larger-than-life figures at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book goes to the very heart of the zeitgeist that each man inhabited and reinvented in profound and enduring ways. In 1974, deep in the Pennsylvania woods, thirty-two-year-o...
