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Ethiopia: Failure of Land Reform and Agricultural Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Kidane (Author), Kidane Mengisteab (Author)This book attempts to explain the failure of Ethiopia's land reform and the problem of transformation of the peasantry through a holistic approach, by pulling together numerous factors and themes. The book first defines a comprehensive land reform as a process that influences the deprived peasant masses economically and politically. It then attempts to establish the relevance of such a process to the transformation of ...

Mr. Atomic Energy: Congressman Chet Holifield and Atomic Energy Affairs, 1945-1974

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Wayne Dyke (Author)Dubbed Mr. Atomic Energy by Congressional colleagues and friends in recognition of his 28 years as a member and 10 years as House leader of the House-Senate Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE), Democratic Congressman Chet Holifield of California's 19th Congressional District served 32 years in Congress, from 1943 through 1974, and was a powerful figure in atomic energy matters. This first biography of Holifield, in chronicling the...

Technology Policy and Development: A Third World Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby Pradip K. Ghosh (Editor), Pradip K. Ghosh (Other)For the developing countries to take advantage of the accumulated and growing body of scientific and technological information, they must develop competence in choosing technology through an institutionalized technology policy. Third World experiences in developing and implementing technology policies are documented and analyzed in this volume. Issues such as the values shaping technology, selection of appropriat...

Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets - Paperback

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by Jeff Horwitz (Author)THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out "Broken Code fillets Facebook's strategic failures to address its part in the spread of disinformation, political fracturing and even genocide. The book is stuffe...

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Paperback

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by Max Tegmark (Author)In this authoritative and eye-opening book, Max Tegmark describes and illuminates the recent, path-breaking advances in Artificial Intelligence and how it is poised to overtake human intelligence. How will AI affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology--and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT pro...

Gears from the Greeks: The Antikythera Mechanism -- A Calendar Computer from Ca. 80 B.C., Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 64, Part - Paperback

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by Derek De Solla Price (Author)Contents: Discovery of the Antikythera shipwreck; Discovery of and research on the mechanism fragments, 1902-73; The casing, general construction, and dial work; The arrangement of the plates and components of the mechanism; The door plates and orientation and use of the mechanism; The accuracy of gear teeth numbers; Description of individual gears and gear trains; The inscriptions; The Antikythera mechanism as an historical document; The early history of geari...

The Modern Stentors: Radio Broadcasters and the Federal Government, 1920-1934

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Report copyright infringementby Philip T. Rosen (Author) Number of Pages: 282 Dimensions: 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: December 19, 1980

Having All the Right Connections: Telecommunications and Rural Viability

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Report copyright infringementby Peter F. Korsching (Author), Patricia C. Hipple (Author), Eric A. Abbott (Author)Essays, based on five years of survey research in Iowa and case study examples from across the United States, examine the implications of telecommunications technologies for rural community development. Supported by data from five years of survey and case study research, telecommunications adoption and use is explored in nine sectors of the rural community to determine the influenc...

Deforestation, Environment, and Sustainable Development: A Comparative Analysis

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Report copyright infringementby Dhirendra K. Vajpeyi (Editor)According to available estimates, forests cover more than one quarter of the world's total area. About sixty percent of these forests are situated in tropical countries. However, these forests are disappearing at a very fast pace. Between 1980 and 1995, an area larger than Mexico had been deforested. This accelerated destruction of forests poses a serious threat to the environmental and economic well-being of the earth. Several stud...

In Pursuit of Technological Excellence: Engineering Leadership, Technological Change, and Economic Development

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Report copyright infringementby Ernst G. Frankel (Author)This work examines the relationships among engineering leadership, technological change, and economic development. Specifically, it reviews the role and contribution of engineers--through their education and work--in the pursuit of excellence and effectiveness in our increasingly pervasive technological development. The relationship between the rate of technological development, technological diffusion, and success in its application, a...

Workers at Risk: The Failed Promise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas McGarity (Author), Sidney Shapiro (Author)The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is not close to meeting its mandate to protect American workers, according to administrative law specialists McGarity and Shapiro. Thousands of men and women are still victims of workplace accidents and occupational disease. The goal of this book is to analyze why OSHA has failed and to suggest what can be done to set it back on track. The book, divided int...

Telecommunications and Rural Development: A Study of Private and Public Sector Innovation

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Report copyright infringementby Jurgen Schmandt (Editor), Frederick Williams (Editor), Robert H. Wilson (Editor)This study assesses the potential that telecommunications advances hold for rural America and is the outcome of the third in a series of policy research projects into issues relating telecommunications policy and economic development undertaken by research teams of faculty and students at the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs and College of Communication, University of ...

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Report copyright infringementby T. Randall Curlee (Author)The Economic Feasibility of Recycling: A Case Study of Plastic Wastes is the first book to provide a general overview of the major issues at the heart of the recycle/disposal question. Analyzing in nontechnical language the incentives for and barriers to recycling, this new work examines a broad range of topics, including: the various recycle processes, how the various disposal methods affect the environment, what role the public and p...

Foreign Trade Strategies, Employment, and Income Distribution in Brazil

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Report copyright infringementby Benedict J. Clements (Author)In this groundbreaking new study, Clements assesses the impact of alternative foreign trade strategies--export promotion and import substitution--on employment and income distribution in Brazil. The first work to evaluate specifically the impact of Brazil's foreign trade policies on income distribution, this volume uses a modified input-output technique to assess income distribution questions.Author BiographyBENEDICT J. CLEMENTS is ...

Net Energy Analysis and the Energy Requirements of Energy Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Spreng (Author)With rising energy costs and the threat of diminishing resources affecting all international economies, the computation of energy required to extract and refine a resource--net energy analysis--has become an important component of energy analysis. This volume fills a major gap in the energy development literature by providing a full-length scholarly treatment of the subject. Written for energy researchers and managers in industries and uti...

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence - Paperback

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by Kate Crawford (Author)The hidden costs of artificial intelligence--from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom "This study argues that [artificial intelligence] is neither artificial nor particularly intelligent. . . . A fascinating history of the data on which machine-learning systems are trained."--New Yorker "A valuable corrective to much of the hype surrounding AI and a useful instruction manual for the future."--John Thornhill, Financial Times "It's a masterpiec...

Dockside Green: The Story of the Most Sustainable Development in the World

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Alison Fowler (Author)How did a 15-acre contaminated harbour area in Victoria, B.C., once nicknamed "Darkside," become Dockside Green, the world's most sustainable development? This book explains how community connection and sustainability can be achieved by an inclusive, responsible, innovative, and self-sustaining development. From its inception in 2001 to its ongoing development in 2019, author Kim Alison Fowler shares the successes and failures of Docks...

Personal Money and World Governments: Manage Money Wisely; How Much You Keep Is Affected by Many Governments of the World

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Report copyright infringementby Gilbert Graham (Author)Individuals and nations should be like the tortoise in the fable and provide for the long term. Health, both financial and physical, is affected by personal decisions and external influences. About 100 graphs and tables complement the text in depicting the results of extensive analyses. Topics include career choices, reduced spending and early investing for retirement along with practices of the governments of sample countries. Finances, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Rosemary Fennell (Author)This book is a major retrospective analysis of the CAP since its inception, set against the background of agricultural policy in Western Europe since the end of the Second World War. The topics covered include the development of the CAP, the struggle to introduce a structural policy and its subsequent unsatisfactory record, the uneasy relationship between market policy and trade policy, the question of agricultural incomes, and the broa...

Airliner Performance: Insights for Aviation Business Professionals

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Report copyright infringementby Shannon Ackert (Author) Number of Pages: 412 Dimensions: 0.84 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: June 06, 2025

Be A Nerd That Talks Good: Transform Your Technical Knowledge into Powerful Messages - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Joel Benge (Author)The nerd's ultimate guide for turning technical knowledge into compelling and effective messagingEvery tech founder who tries to get the message out about their product knows the moment they've lost their audience. Blank stares come from the people you need most to buy into your message or understand your concepts. Without the ability to effectively explain technical concepts to a nontechnical audience, data points and all your knowledge beco...

Disrupt It: How Architecture, Engineering, and Construction Executives Can Transform Their Organizations in the Age of AI Disruption

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Zolfagharian (Author), Mehdi Nourbakhsh (Author)Do you want to be on the cutting (not the bleeding) edge of AI......but don't know where to start?As the CEO, board member, or executive of an architecture, engineering, or construction company, you're under pressure to lead your company in the age of AI disruption. But not knowing AI's impact on your business nor how you should respond is challenging.Disrupt It cuts through the clutter and explains how CEOs, ...

Weale's Series of Scientific and Technical Works

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Report copyright infringementby Crosby Lockwood and Son (Author)Delve into the world of 19th-century scientific and technical knowledge with "Weale's Series of Scientific and Technical Works," a fascinating glimpse into the publishing landscape of England. This meticulously prepared print edition offers a catalogue of scientific and technical books published in London, providing a unique window into the industries, technologies, and engineering pursuits of the era. A valuable resource for any...

Billion Dollar Burger: Inside Big Tech's Race for the Future of Food

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Report copyright infringementby Chase Purdy (Author)The riveting story of the entrepreneurs and renegades fighting to bring lab-grown meat to the world. The trillion-dollar meat industry is one of our greatest environmental hazards; it pollutes more than all the world's fossil-fuel-powered cars. Global animal agriculture is responsible for deforestation, soil erosion, and more emissions than air travel, paper mills, and coal mining combined. It also, of course, depends on the slaughter of mor...

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Tusser (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of...

Experiments Never Fail: A Guide for the Bored, Unappreciated and Underpaid

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Report copyright infringementby Dale Dauten (Author), Steve Chandler (Foreword by), Ted Goff (Illustrator)"Are you happy in your job?"An unexpected snowstorm leads to an unexpected question and a life-changing conversation with Max Elmore. Although he's one of the many stranded travelers at O'Hare International Airport, he doesn't grumble or complain. In fact, Max's positive outlook shines through as he listens and shares his secrets to making work more meaningful, more adventurous and more p...

Be A Nerd That Talks Good: Transform Your Technical Knowledge into Powerful Messages

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Report copyright infringementby Mark J. Woeppel (Author)Unlock Success: A Blueprint to Revive Your Failing Project!You started with the best of intentions. But somewhere along the way, things began falling apart. You lost focus, missed significant milestones, and things got horribly off track. Does that mean there's no hope for your project?Of course not!Presenting "Rescue Your Late Project" By ]Mark J Woeppel!This game-changing project management planning book will help you unlock the key to...

Preparing Outer Islands for Sustainable Energy Development: Maldives' Experience in Deploying Advanced Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This report shows how Maldives can switch to hybrid renewable mini-grid energy systems to reduce its heavy dependency on imported fossil fuel, slice emissions, and support sustainable and inclusive growth.It shows how the ADB-backed Preparing Outer Islands for Sustainable Energy Development (POISED) project worked with utilities to install hybrid energy generation alongside advanced battery storage and management systems for Maldi...

Multi-Level Mixed-Integer Optimization: Parametric Programming Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Styliani Avraamidou (Author), Efstratios Pistikopoulos (Author)This book provides the fundamental underlying mathematical theory, numerical algorithms and effi cient computational tools for the solution of multi-level mixedinteger optimization problems. It can enable a vast array of decision makers and engineers (e.g. process engineers, bioengineers, chemical and civil engineers, and economists) to model, formulate and solve hierarchical decision making problem...

Boeing, the 737 MAX Crisis and Aviation Safety: The Perils of Profit-Driven Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Hopkins (Author)This title explores how the pursuit of profit compromised safety principles, neglected human factors, and led to critical design failures that no one at Boeing had a complete view of. It examines the specifics of the Boeing crisis and looks at it in a broader industrial and economic context.Author BiographyAndrew Hopkins is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He holds a BSc and MA ...

Ugly's Residential Wiring, 2020 Edition - Spiral

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by Charles R. Miller (Author)Before beginning a residential project make sure you've got Ugly's Residential Wiring, 2020 Edition in your toolbox. Updated to reflect the 2020 National Electrical Code (NEC(R)), this quick on-the-job reference has been specifically designed to provide the most commonly required electrical wiring information for residential work in an easy-to-read, easy-to-access format. You will save precious time and money with instant access to specific rules, symbols and code...