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American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

Verso, 2019

How Trump got to the Oval Office—and how both parties and the mainstream media are keeping him there

Donald Trump’s residency in the White House is not an accident of American history, and it can’t be blamed on a single cause. In American Breakdown, David Bromwich provides an essential analysis of...

The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics (Routledge International Handbooks)

Routledge, 2021

We are delighted to have finalized the Handbook of Feminist Economics project we began in summer 2018. We set off with the goal of taking stock of the accumulated wisdom on feminist economics from the social provisioning perspective to feminist economics, delineated by Marilyn Power in 2004. Power’s short piece inductively...

Now Is Too Late: Survival in an Era of Instant News

Prentice Hall, 2002

Now your reputation can be attacked by anyone, anywhere, at any time. Now Is Too Late delivers a blueprint for 21st-century crisis management that reflects your constituents' new demands for instant, accurate answers direct from you, not the media. Crisis management expert Gerald R. Baron shows why you're a...

Mobile Game Design Essentials

Packt Publishing, 2013

Immerse yourself in the fundamentals of mobile game design. This book is written by two highly experienced industry professionals to give real insights and valuable advice on creating games for this lucrative market.

Overview

Packed with the best practices in game development, and the methodologies and...

Global Tourism, Third Edition

Butterworth-Heinemann, 2004

Pressure on national and local governments to rapidly develop their tourism potential to meet demand and produce benefits, makes it more essential than ever to plan carefully and consider the human and environmental impacts of tourism development. That is why, as Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, I am pleased to see the serious...

Intelligent Techniques for Planning

Idea Group Publishing, 2004

The Intelligent Techniques for Planning presents a number of modern approaches to the area of automated planning. These approaches combine methods from classical planning such as the construction of graphs and the use of domain-independent heuristics with techniques from other areas of artificial intelligence. The book presents, in detail, a number...

The Aftershock Investor: A Crash Course in Staying Afloat in a Sinking Economy

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Advice on protection and profits in the short and long term future from the experts who accurately predicted the financial crisis of 2008, and who now have more detailed information about what is yet to come

From the authors who accurately predicted the domino fall of the conjoined real estate, stock, and private debt...

The Physics of Superheroes

Gotham, 2005

If superheroes stepped off the comic book page or silver screen and into reality, could they actually work their wonders in a world constrained by the laws of physics? How strong would Superman have to be to “leap tall buildings in a single bound”? Could Storm of the X-Men possibly control the weather? And how many cheeseburgers would...

Camping Grounds: Public Nature in American Life from the Civil War to the Occupy Movement

Oxford University Press, 2021

An exploration of the hidden history of camping in American life that connects a familiar recreational pastime to camps for functional needs and political purposes.

Camping appears to be a simple proposition, a time-honored way of getting away from it all. Pack up the car and hit the road in search of a...

Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management Plan

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Whether an international corporation or a small business, developing and utilizing

a Business Continuity Management (BCM) Plan protects companies and their personnel, facilities, materials, and activities from the broad spectrum of risks that face businesses and government agencies on a daily basis, whether at home or...

Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology - 3 Volume Set (Print Version) (v. 13)

CRC Press, 2007

Using limited resources in sustainable ways, energy engineers and technologists have made people's lives comfortable and affordable with efficient and cost-effective technology, from air conditioners to waste fuels. But to accommodate the expanding world population, the global supply of energy has been increasingly strained. Energy...

Ruling Distributed Dynamic Worlds (Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

A powerful new model to design and manage distributed dynamic systems

This text expands and builds upon the author's landmark work, Mobile Processing in Distributed and Open Environments, by introducing a new extended, universal WAVE-WP (or world processing) model for distributed processing and control in dynamic and open worlds. The new model...

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