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Book Perils of Progress

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew L. Jenks
  • Publisher : Pearson
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780136038023
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Perils of Progress written by Andrew L. Jenks and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Connections: Key Themes in World History series, Perils of Progress: Environmental Disasters in the 20th Century is essential reading for anyone interested in furthering a clean and safe environment while simultaneously encouraging responsible manufacturing. Author Andrew Jenks examines past environmental disasters, such as the tragedies at Love Canal, Bhopal, and Chernobyl, to prepare students to anticipate and head off potential environmental disasters as well as to meet and deal rationally with the next toxic apocalypse should one occur.

Book Perils of Progress

Download or read book Perils of Progress written by John Ashton and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a challenge to our society's largely unquestioning commitment to new technologies, and practical advice on how to deal with their adverse effects. While modern technologies have no doubt brought many benefits, the authors argue that our confidence in them is seriously misplaced. They consider an array of health and environmental issues including: the damaging effects on human health of certain microwaves, including those from mobile phones and television transmission towers; the effects of aluminium in food and other consumer products; and the evidence that the acids in margarines may be more detrimental to health than butter.

Book Perils and Progress

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Sue Shaffer Peacock
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Perils and Progress written by Nancy Sue Shaffer Peacock and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perils of Progress

Download or read book Perils of Progress written by John Ashton and published by Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Make believes  in Psychiatry  Or  The Perils of Progress

Download or read book Make believes in Psychiatry Or The Perils of Progress written by Herman Meïr Praag and published by Bruner Meisel U. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assessment of the recent biological and psychological revolutions in psychiatry. The text evaluates the positive aspects and pitfalls of the advances made between 1960 and 1992 and critiques the expanding system of discrete and defined disorders, suggesting that some are make believes.

Book Woodrow Wilson

Download or read book Woodrow Wilson written by H. W. Brands and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist offers a clear, comprehensive, and timely account of Wilson's unusual route to the White House, his campaign against corporate interests, and his decline in popularity and health following the rejection by Congress of his League of Nations.

Book Perils of Progress

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  • Author : William Eleazar Barton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 15 pages

Download or read book Perils of Progress written by William Eleazar Barton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perils of Progress

Download or read book Perils of Progress written by John Ashton and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines and in many cases exposes the dangerous, unseen consequences of everyday technology. Ranging broadly across aspects of daily life, the authors consider the impact of such things as mobile phones, microwave ovens, computer VDUs, electric blankets, water beds, air- conditioning, and artificial light.

Book The Perils of Progress

Download or read book The Perils of Progress written by Michael Ryan Bookman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Do We Still Need Doctors

Download or read book Do We Still Need Doctors written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Idea of Progress

Download or read book The Idea of Progress written by John Bagnell Bury and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Countertransference and the Therapist s Inner Experience

Download or read book Countertransference and the Therapist s Inner Experience written by Charles J. Gelso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countertransference and the Therapist’s Inner Experience explores the inner world of the psychotherapist and its influences on the relationship between psychotherapist and patient. This relationship is a major element determining the success of psychotherapy, in addition to determining how and to what extent psychotherapy works with each individual patient. Authors Charles J. Gelso and Jeffrey A. Hayes present the history and current status of countertransference, offer a theoretically integrative conception, and focus on how psychotherapists can manage countertransference in a way that benefits the therapeutic process. The book contains completely up-to-date data from existing research findings, and illuminates the universality of countertransference across all psychotherapies and psychotherapists. Contents include: *the operation of countertransference across three predominant theory clusters in psychotherapy; *leading factors involved in the management of countertransference; and *valuable recommendations for psychotherapy practitioners and researchers. Professionals in clinical and counseling psychology, psychiatry, social work, and counseling will benefit from this volume. The book is also appropriate for graduate students in these fields.

Book When Money Talks

Download or read book When Money Talks written by Frank L. Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Money may seem hopelessly mundane and culturally meaningless, but it has dominated--and documented--world history since the time of the ancient Greeks. This heavily illustrated book provides a spirited account of the first coinages and their living descendants in our pockets and purses. It explains how people from Jesus to The Beatles have used numismatics to explore the social, political, economic, and religious history of the world"--

Book Tools and Weapons

Download or read book Tools and Weapons written by Brad Smith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The instant New York Times bestseller. From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates. “A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology is both empowering and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future.” —Walter Isaacson Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: When your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation. In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no preexisting playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near. While in no way a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir," the book pulls back the curtain remarkably wide onto some of the company's most crucial recent decision points as it strives to protect the hopes technology offers against the very real threats it also presents. There are huge ramifications for communities and countries, and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent contribution to that effort.

Book The Artificial River

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  • Author : Carol Sheriff
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1997-06-12
  • ISBN : 9780809016051
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The Artificial River written by Carol Sheriff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveals the human dimension of the story of the Erie Canal. Carol Sheriff's extensive, innovative archival research shows the varied responses of ordinary people-farmers, businessmen, government officials, tourists, workers-to this major environmental, social, and cultural transformation in the early life of the Republic. Winner of Best Manuscript Award from the New York State Historical Association "The Artificial River is deeply researched, its arguments are both subtle and clear, and it is written with grace and an engagingly light touch. The book merits a wide readership." --Paul Johnson, The Journal of American History

Book The Business of Less

Download or read book The Business of Less written by Roland Geyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Less rewrites the book on business and the environment. For the last thirty years, corporate sustainability was synonymous with the pursuit of ‘eco-efficiency’ and ‘win-win’ opportunities. The notion of ‘eco-efficiency’ gives us the illusion that we can achieve environmental sustainability without having to question the pursuit of never-ending economic growth. The ‘win-win’ paradigm is meant to assure us that companies can be protectors of the environment whilst also being profit maximizers. It is abundantly clear that the state of the natural environment has further degraded instead of improved. This book introduces a new paradigm designed to finally reconcile business and the environment. It is called ‘net green’, which means that in these times of ecological overshoot businesses need to reduce total environmental impact and not just improve the eco-efficiency of their products. The book also introduces and explains the four pollution prevention principles ‘again’, ‘different’, ‘less’, and ‘labor, not materials’. Together, ‘net green’ and the four pollution prevention principles provide a road map, for businesses and for every household, to a world in which human prosperity and a healthy environment are no longer at odds. The Business of Less is full of anecdotes and examples. This brings its material to life and makes the book not only very accessible, but also hugely applicable for everyone who is worried about the fate of our planet and is looking for answers.

Book The Progress of Religious Ideas

Download or read book The Progress of Religious Ideas written by Lydia Maria Child and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: