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  • Beyond Gridlock

    by Thomas Hale, David Held ...
    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Gridlock

    Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most

    by Thomas Hale, Kevin Young, David Held ...
    The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But at the same time, our tools for global policymaking - chiefly state-to-state negotiations over treaties ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Peacebuilding in Crisis

    Rethinking Paradigms and Practices of Transnational Cooperation

    Edited by Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held, Ulrich Schneckener ...
    Series series Routledge Global Cooperation Series
    The 1990s saw a constant increase in international peace missions, predominantly led by the United Nations, whose mandates were more and more extended to implement societal and political transformations in post-conflict societies. However, in many cases these missions did not meet the high expectations and did not acquire a sufficient legitimacy on the local level. Written by leading experts in ... Read more

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  • Geoenergy Modeling III

    Enhanced Geothermal Systems

    by Norihiro Watanabe, Guido Blöcher, Mauro Cacace, Sebastian Held, Thomas Kohl ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on numerical modeling of deep hydrothermal and petrothermal systems in fractured georeservoirs for utilization in Geothermal Energy applications. The authors explain the particular challenges and approaches to modeling heat transport and high-throughput flow in multiply fractured porous rock formations. In order to help readers gain a system-level understanding of the necessary ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    Death-Touched [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Silver 5

    by Rhiannon Held ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Thomas Keegan, Blythe Coons, Dani Stoller, Carolyn Kashner, Bradley Smith, Marty Lodge, Tim Getman, Dylan Lynch, Marni Penning, Todd Scofield, Casie Platt, Tracy Olivera, Nora Achrati, Christopher Walker, Evan Casey, Nick DePinto, Tara Giordano, Andy Brownstein, Eric Messner, Lawrence Redmond, Matthew Pauli, David Jourdan, Eva Wilhelm, Laura C. Harris, Tia Shearer, James Keegan, Elizabeth Jernigan, Michael John Casey ...
    Series series Silver (Held)

    Unabridged

    5 hours 37 min

    Faced with the looming threat of the Russian pack, Silver and Andrew Dare plan to host an envoy at their wedding. The Russian alpha rejects diplomacy, however, and instead sends Mikhail, an elite assassin. Mikhail begins to ritually murder sub-alphas, leaving them to bleed to death from a thousand shallow cuts.The Roanokes' only leverage is Mikhail's reverence for the Lady: he thinks She is reborn ... Read more

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  • The Climate Casino

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    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Read more

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  • Solar Power: Economic Disaster

    by Theodore Ong ...
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  • A Rough Ride to the Future

    by James Lovelock ...
    The great scientific visionary of our age presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system.A Rough Ride to the Future introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what James Lovelock calls "accelerated evolution." That is a process that is ... Read more

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  • Distributed Generation and its Implications for the Utility Industry

    by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
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  • Planet of Slums

    by Mike Davis ...
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    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... Read more

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  • Climate Ethics

    Essential Readings

    Edited by Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, Henry Shue ...
    This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the ... Read more

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