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  • Die Bahn und ich

    31 Kurzgeschichten über die Bahn

    by Frank-Thomas Mitschke ...
    Warum reisen Schweine 1. Klasse? Was erlebt Veronika auf ihrer Fahrt zur Beerdigung von Tante Frida? Wieso fällt bei Conrads Nachtfahrt auf einmal der Strom aus? Was hat es mit der alten Bahnhofsuhr auf sich? Wieso verschwindet der kleine David beim Spielen mit seiner Eisenbahn? Was macht der Gorilla im Zug? Und welche Redewendungen befassen sich mit der Bahn? Über diese Fragen gibt das ... Read more

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  • Schafft sich die katholische Kirche ab?

    Analysen und Fakten eines Unternehmensberaters. Mit einem Vorwort von Kardinal Karl Lehmann

    by Thomas von Mitschke-Collande ...
    Die katholische Kirche steht an einem kritischen Wendepunkt. Ein Unternehmen in einer vergleichbaren Situation würde zu diesem Zeitpunkt eine umfassende, ausgangsoffene Positionsbestimmung durchführen.Mit der Erfahrung eines McKinsey-Beraters und als engagierter Katholik analysiert Thomas von Mitschke-Collande die aktuellen Krisenphänomene der Kirche und entwickelt die entscheidenden ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Bevölkerungsschutz

    Notfallvorsorge und Krisenmanagement in Theorie und Praxis

    Edited by Harald Karutz, Wolfram Geier, Thomas Mitschke ...
    Series series Medicine (German Language)
    Dieses interdisziplinäre Lehrbuch und Nachschlagewerk gibt einen klar strukturierten, orientierenden Überblick über Aufgaben, Strukturen, Organisationen und Akteure in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen von Notfallvorsorge und Gefahrenabwehr. Thematisiert werden sowohl natur- und ingenieurwissenschaftliche als auch sozial- und humanwissenschaftliche Aspekte des Risiko- und Katastrophenmanagements, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    by Roy W. Spencer ...
    Series series Encounter Broadsides
    As the U.N. moves closer to a new global warming treaty, it is time to examine the calls for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The health and welfare of humanity has benefited from access to fossil fuels, and any drastic move to limit that access must have extraordinary evidence to support it.While alternative energy technologies will increasingly be relied upon in the face of dwindling ... Read more

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  • Leap of Faith

    by Laura Adams ...
    Based on a true story of recent events that took place in one of America's most famous small towns. Known for cereal, Battle Creek, Michigan, became world-famous again in July of 2010 when over 800,000 gallons of crude oil were spilled into the river that runs through town, from a pipeline that nobody knew existed, owned by a company no one had heard of.Leap of Faith is the true story of a small ... Read more

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  • Retreat from a Rising Sea

    Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    by Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey ...
    This sobering examination of climate-change and the disastrous effects of rising sea levels explains what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes.By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to ... Read more

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  • Lifeboat Cities

    Making a New World

    by Brendan Gleeson ...
    Hopeful and provocative, this account considers the principle social and ecological threats facing Australia and outlines the ways in which these crises need to be confronted and addressed. Taking a radical approach to climate change prevention, this bold manifesto claims that Australia's current focus on over-consumption and "greener lifestyles" are ineffective. Rather, this opinionated record ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Global Warming

    The Terminal Crisis

    by Del Weston ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too ... Read more

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  • Triumph of the Expert

    Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

    by Joseph Morgan Hodge ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and ... Read more

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  • Water and Climate Change in Africa

    Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

    Edited by Patricia E. Perkins ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be threatened due to fluctuations in rainfall and temperature, and to extreme weather events. Because ... Read more

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  • Development Policy as a Way to Manage Climate Change Risks

    Edited by Bert Metz, M Kok J T ...
    The integration of development and climate objectives is increasingly recognized as significant in research and policy making. In practice, some development aims, such as poverty alleviation, enhancing energy security and access or improving health, also have potential climate benefits. The challenge is to find a broadly applicable range of effective policies and actions that realize development ... Read more

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