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  • The Survival Nexus

    Science, Technology, and World Affairs

    by Charles Weiss ...
    Technology and science can enable us to create a richer, healthier, sustainable, and equitable world, but they can also lead to global disaster. After all, human technical, political, economic, business, and ethical decisions determine the impact of scientific discoveries and technological innovations... In this book, Charles Weiss explores the intertwining of science, technology, and world ... Read more

    $37.19 CAD

  • Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution

    by Charles Weiss, William B. Bonvillian ...
    An argument for a major federal program to stimulate innovation in energy technology and a proposal for a policy approach to implement it.America is addicted to fossil fuels, and the environmental and geopolitical costs are mounting. A public-private program—at an expanded scale—to stimulate innovation in energy policy seems essential. In Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, Charles Weiss ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Chas Addams Half-Baked Cookbook

    Culinary Cartoons for the Humorously Famished

    by Charles Addams ...
    At the time of his death, Charles Addams was working on this project, a cookbook with never-before-seen artwork and never before tasted and very macabre recipes—published here for the first time, along with some classic Addams cartoons about food and cooking.Food and eating were a couple of Charles Addams's favorite subjects. Hungry cannibals, witches gathering around a cauldron, or a king over ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors

    by William B. Bonvillian, Charles Weiss ...
    The American economy faces two deep problems: expanding innovation and raising the rate of quality job creation. Both have roots in a neglected problem: the resistance of Legacy economic sectors to innovation. While the U.S. has focused its policies on breakthrough innovations to create new economic frontiers like information technology and biotechnology, most of its economy is locked into Legacy ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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    The Love Fight

    How Achievers and Connectors Can build a Marriage that Lasts

    by Tony Ferretti PhD, Peter J. Weiss MD ...
    Narrated by Charles Mills. ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    Divorce is epidemic among successful, "high-powered" people. Doctors, lawyers, executives, politicians and entrepreneurs often attain career success only to fail at home in their family relationships. What gives? Has success changed them? Or, have they been secretly waiting to exit when the time is right? Did they ever love their spouses?In The Love Fight, Drs. Tony Ferretti and Peter Weiss ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Chas Addams Happily Ever After

    A Collection of Cartoons to Chill the Heart of You

    by Charles Addams ...
    Charles Addams was renowned for his depictions of love (or lack thereof) in his cartoons. The passion of Morticia and Gomez Addams, the lonely desires of Fester, the numerous grim and ghastly fights between husband and wife—all found their way into Addams's signature drawings.Addams's concept of love was quite a bit different from the traditional idea of romance. Forget roses and chocolate, Addams ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Third Industrial Revolution

    How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

    by Jeremy Rifkin ...
    A New York Times–bestselling account of the next great economic era, with a look into the individuals pioneering its implementation around the world.One of the most influential social thinkers of our time reveals how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create the new jobs of the twenty-first century and change the world.In The Third Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Rifkin takes us ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Climate Fix

    What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

    by Roger Pielke Jr. ...
    Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it, and the magical thinking that the agreement represents. In The Climate Fix, Pielke offers a way to repair climate policy, shifting the debate away from meaningless targets and toward a revolution in how the world ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Conversations about Energy

    How the Experts See America's Energy Choices

    Edited by Jeremy Carl, James E. Goodby ...
    Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics. The contributors present a range of ideas and recommendations that might improve the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Factfulness

    Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

    by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Ola Rosling ...
    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**“One of the most important books I’ve ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” – Bill Gates“Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.” ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • False Alarm

    How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    An “essential” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by “the skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than goodHurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take ... Read more

    Was $19.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook