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  • VICTOR;Y

    by Robert V. Ayres ...
    Robert V Ayres shares a deeply personal account of his life journey, starting from his challenging upbringing marked by verbal abuse and the absence of his father's validation. Despite these obstacles, he embarked on a path of self-discovery, determined to find his own way in life. Along the way, he encountered various forms of trauma, some of which he inflicted upon himself.Seeking a sense of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Economics and the Environment

    A Materials Balance Approach

    by Allen V. Kneese, Robert U. Ayres, Ralph C. d'Arge ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This monograph length report, first published in 1970, originated from a program of research at Resources for the Future that dealt with the management of residuals and of environmental quality. It presents some of the broad concepts that the program was based on and represents the effort to break out of the traditional approach in pollution and policy research, which had treated air, water, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 8 Major Ways to Use Today? Technology to Lower Energy Usage (and They Are Not Solar, Wind, and Nuclear)

    by Robert U. Ayres, Edward H. Ayres ...
    Series series FT Press Delivers Elements
    This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats.Finally: a coherent, integrated energy strategy based on techniques and technologies that have already been proven in the real world!We envision a national energy strategy with eight main components. One (increased energy efficiency of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • I’Ll Go No More A-Roving

    More Memories of a Writer’S Life: 1976-1983

    by Robert Ayres Carter ...
    Praise for Somewhere I Have Never Traveled Th is fourth volume of Robert Ayres Carters autobiography takes the reader back to the 1970s. From the outside, Carters life seems conventional: he was an executive in the world of publishing and advertising, commuting between Long Island and Manhattan. Setting this work apart from the ordinariness of that sort of life is the clarity of his unfl inching ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Schaum's Outline of Trigonometry, 5th Edition

    618 Solved Problems + 20 Videos

    by Robert E. Moyer, Frank Ayres Jr. ...
    Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?Fortunately, there's Schaum's. This all-in-one-package includes more than 600 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 20 detailed videos featuring Math instructors who explain how to solve the most commonly tested problems--it's just like having your own ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Life Cycle of Copper, Its Co-Products and Byproducts

    by Robert U. Ayres, Leslie W. Ayres, Ingrid Råde ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Achieving the goals and objectives of sustainable development requires better information about the consequences of proposed actions. Partial information accounts for many failed efforts in the past. The financial implications for the proponent of the projects have often been more thoroughly analyzed than the implications for other actors. The impacts on biological diversity, or on the social ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Bubble Economy

    Is Sustainable Growth Possible?

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial “de-carbonization” could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.The global economy has become increasingly, perhaps chronically, unstable. Since 2008, we have heard about the housing bubble, subprime mortgages, banks “too big to fail,” financial regulation (or the lack of it), and the European debt crisis. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • On Capitalism and Inequality

    Progress and Poverty Revisited

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Capitalism is under attack. Defenders say that capitalism has raised billions of people from poverty. But a central activity of capitalism today, Wall Street style, is speculation (gambling), using other people’s money, and privatizing the profits while socializing the debts. Skeptics argue that capitalism has redistributed the wealth of the planet in favor of a very few, meanwhile leaving the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Turning Point

    End of the Growth Paradigm

    by Robert Ayres ...
    This text discusses the current basis of economic growth, concluding that it is is failing to deliver, and is actually harming our prospects for future security. Further arguments propose a possible long-term strategy for economic revival - eco-restructuring. This strategy involves a shifting away from production of goods to production of services, closing material cycles and eliminating reliance ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The History and Future of Technology

    Can Technology Save Humanity from Extinction?

    by Robert U. Ayres ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Tell Me the Truth About Love

    Memories: 1953-1969

    by Robert Ayres Carter ...
    Praise for Sundays Child Carter has written a memoir that captures the quintessential America that now seems to be slipping away from us. A real treat. --John Tebbel, author and Journalist Deeply moving...the book is a delight and of course you write like a dream...Congratulations on what I believe we used to call a great read, and more than that, a deeply affecting record. --Ellen Feldman, author ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization

    by Robert Ayres ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from a finite storage of fossil fuels. In this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for wealth ... Read more

    $80.09 USD