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From climate change to land degradation to fossil fuel shortages, we are faced with an impending calamity that threatens to bankrupt the planetary ecosystem and with it much of the manmade world. This book offers a plan that truly goes the distance: a highly detailed, planetary-wide blueprint that lays out a new course for our technological and industrial engines. It calls for sweeping adjustments in the way every person thinks and lives.--Inside front cover.
Presents information on Anasazi, prehistoric peoples in the United States, provided by Max Bertola. Includes photographs of artifacts from the Anasazi Indians and information on other sites and parks that have displays on the Anasazi.
Describes the history of the Spanish missions in the San Antonio, Texas, area, now preserved as the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
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Microsoft Network offers users high-speed connections to Internet, World Wide Web, and Microsoft services. Conversational and easy to read, this book will teach beginning to intermediate users how to operate Microsoft Network.
Through case studies, opposing viewpoints, and primary documents, this reference work examines the environmental and sustainability issues regarding water as well as how water is an intrinsic part of human culture. Every culture and ecosystem on earth depends on water. As the world's climate changes, human culture is increasingly threatened by the seemingly opposite problems of having too little clean, potable water and "having too much water"—e.g., flooding, melting polar ice caps, and rising sea levels. What are the solutions that humanity must collectively pursue to protect our ability to flourish on planet earth? Water Planet: The Culture, Politics, Economics, and Sustainability of Wat...
Buku ini hadir untuk memenuhi kebutuhan mendesak akan referensi metodologi penelitian, khususnya bagi para peneliti pemula. Didukung dengan pengalaman luas diri penulis dalam meneliti, mengajarkan ilmu penelitian, dan menyampaikan gagasan dalam presentasi serta publikasi maka pengetahuan yang relatif sulit dikuasai karena erat kaitannya dengan penalaran ini menjelma menjadi bahan bacaan yang mudah diikuti dan inspiratif.
Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. The question is, Why? Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization. How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas—among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, the notion that...