You cant fix what is wrong in the world, if you dont know whats actually happening. Ten Global Trends will provide busy people with speedy, easily understandable, and entertaining access to surprising facts that they need to know about how the world is really faring.
Addresses the problems of the twenty-first century and the millennium beyond. This book provides a defence of scientific naturalism and technology. It recommends long-range attainable goals and generates confidence in the ability of the human species to solve its problems by rational means and a positive outlook.
US Workers, Labor Unions, and the Low-Carbon Energy Transition
Negotiating the Future focuses on US labor and the just transition. Fossil fuel workers are currently at risk for losing their jobs should the US curtail coal, natural gas and oil use. A just transition would support these workers and avoid imposing disproportionate shares of the costs of decarbonization on the poor, the working class, or people ......
US Workers, Labor Unions, and the Low-Carbon Energy Transition
Negotiating the Future focuses on US labor and the just transition. Fossil fuel workers are currently at risk for losing their jobs should the US curtail coal, natural gas and oil use. A just transition would support these workers and avoid imposing disproportionate shares of the costs of decarbonization on the poor, the working class, or people ......
"In the modern world," author James Jay Carafano asserts, "winning online could be the key to being free, safe, and prosperous-or being consumed." In his previous book, Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World, Carafano explored how social networks operate; how digital networks could impact contemporary national security affairs; and ......
In Fragile Kinships, Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is in Japan. Policymakers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine-and implement-child welfare systems that are genuinely supportive. Yet despite these efforts, social ......
In Fragile Kinships, Kathryn E. Goldfarb shows how child welfare systems do not always generate well-being. This is true across the world, as it is in Japan. Policymakers, caregivers, and people with experience in state care endeavor to imagine-and implement-child welfare systems that are genuinely supportive. Yet despite these efforts, social ......
Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town
Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a post-socialist decline, were the audience theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures. Deana Jovanovic chronicles the efforts of the copper-processing company and the town's authorities to ......
Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town
Staging the Promises reveals how inhabitants of Bor, a Serbian copper-processing and mining town that lived through prosperous Yugoslav times and a post-socialist decline, were the audience theatrically performed promises of aspirational futures. Deana Jovanovic chronicles the efforts of the copper-processing company and the town's authorities to ......
