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Book Racing Toward Tomorrow

Download or read book Racing Toward Tomorrow written by Association of College and Research Libraries. National Conference and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Racing Toward Zero

Download or read book Racing Toward Zero written by Kelly Senecal and published by SAE International. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Racing Toward Zero, the authors explore the issues inherent in developing sustainable transportation. They review the types of propulsion systems and vehicle options, discuss low-carbon fuels and alternative energy sources, and examine the role of regulation in curbing emissions. All technologies have an impact on the environment, from internal combustion engine vehicles to battery electric vehicles, fuel cell electric vehicles, and hybrids-there is no silver bullet. The battery electric vehicle may seem the obvious path to a sustainable, carbon-free transportation future, but it's not the only, nor necessarily the best, path forward. The vast majority of vehicles today use the internal combustion engine (ICE), and this is unlikely to change anytime soon. Improving the ICE and its fuels-entering a new ICE age-must be a main route on the road to zero emissions. How do we go green? The future requires a balanced approach to transportation. It's not a matter of choosing between combustion or electrification; it's combustion and electrification. As the authors say, "The future is eclectic." By harnessing the best qualities of both technologies, we will be in the best position to address our transportation future as quickly as possible. (ISBN:9781468601466 ISBN:9781468601473 ISBN:9781468602005 DOI:10.4271/9781468601473)

Book Race for Tomorrow  Survival  Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

Download or read book Race for Tomorrow Survival Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis written by Simon Mundy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As featured on CNN’s Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week with Andrew Marr One of the Financial Times’ best books of 2021

Book The Tomorrow Game

Download or read book The Tomorrow Game written by Sudhir Venkatesh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestselling author’s gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence. In the tradition of works like Random Family and Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Sudhir Venkatesh’s The Tomorrow Game is a deeply reported chronicle of families surviving in a Southside Chicago community. At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshall Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin’s drug business while he’s in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friends—it is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends decide they must preemptively go after Frankie’s crew to defend their honor. The pressure mounts as both groups of teens race to find a gun and strike first. All the while, the community at large—a cast that includes the teens’ families, black market gun dealers, local pastors, a bodega owner, and a veteran beat cop—try their best to defuse the conflict and keep the kids alive. Based on Venkatesh’s three decades of immersion in Chicago’s Southside, and as propulsive as a novel, The Tomorrow Game is a nuanced, timely look at the toll that poverty and gun violence take on families and their communities.

Book Race Becomes Tomorrow

Download or read book Race Becomes Tomorrow written by Gerald M. Sider and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Race Becomes Tomorrow Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his youth, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Tacking between past and present, Sider describes how political power, economic control, and racism inject chaos into the lives of ordinary people, especially African Americans, with surprising consequences. In addition to recounting his years working on voter registration in rural North Carolina, Sider makes connections between numerous issues, from sharecropping and deindustrialization to the recessions of the 1970s and 2008, the rise of migrant farm labor, and contemporary living-wage campaigns. Sider's stories—whether about cockroach races in immigrant homes, degrading labor conditions, or the claims and failures of police violence—provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived. They demonstrate that race is produced and exists in unpredictability, and that the transition from yesterday to tomorrow is anything but certain.

Book How Far It Is to Tomorrow

Download or read book How Far It Is to Tomorrow written by Nikita N. Moiseev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a translated autobiography of applied mathematician N. N. Moiseev, providing an insider’s view of the history of the Soviet Union from its founding in 1917 to its collapse in 1991, as well as a little of the aftermath. We see vividly the precariousness of life just after the October Revolution; his happy family life during the years 1921-28 of Lenin’s New Economic Policy; the subsequent destruction of his family by Stalin’s regime; his trials as a social outcast; his student days at Moscow State University; his experiences as a Soviet Air Force Engineer in World War II, including sorties as a gunner and a brush with an NKVD agent; post-war euphoria, marriage, and another round of ostracism; and then the vicissitudes of a highly varied academic career. Here we meet many famous Soviet and Western engineers and scientists. The last several chapters are devoted more to wide-ranging reflections on God, philosophy, science, communism, modelling the biosphere, and the threat of nuclear winter. His thoughts concerning the impending and then final collapse of the USSR, as well as hopes for Russia’s future, conclude the journey through Moiseev's life.

Book Return to Tomorrow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marisa Carroll
  • Publisher : Harlequin
  • Release : 2010-08-01
  • ISBN : 1426865228
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book Return to Tomorrow written by Marisa Carroll and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a prisoner in a Vietnamese labor camp, Rachel McKendrick Phillips had done things to survive that she couldn't bear to think about. Even safely home in the United States, her memories would give her no peace. So two years later, drawn by an irresistible force, Rachel returned to Southeast Asia. There she met an unlikely soul mate: Brett "Tiger" Jackson, reputed drug smuggler and mercenary. Rachel knew that Brett was dangerous. But her heart insisted that he was the one man who could banish the nightmares of her past and restore her faith in the future….

Book All Tomorrow s Parties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rob Spillman
  • Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
  • Release : 2016-04-05
  • ISBN : 0802190405
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book All Tomorrow s Parties written by Rob Spillman and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this carefully wrought coming-of-age memoir, a young American writer searches for home in an unlikely place: East Berlin immediately after the fall of the wall.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Rob Spillman—the award-winning, charismatic cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine—has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of artistic authenticity. Born in Germany to two driven musicians, his childhood was spent among the West Berlin cognoscenti, in a city two hundred miles behind the Iron Curtain. There, the Berlin Wall stood as a stark reminder of the split between East and West, between suppressed dreams and freedom of expression. After an unsettled youth moving between divorced parents in disparate cities, Spillman would eventually find his way into the literary world of New York City, only to abandon it to return to Berlin just months after the Wall came down. Twenty-five and newly married, Spillman and his wife, the writer Elissa Schappell, moved to the anarchic streets of East Berlin in search of the bohemian lifestyle of their idols. But Spillman soon discovered he was chasing the one thing that had always eluded him: a place, or person, to call home. In his intimate, entertaining, and heartfelt memoir, Spillman narrates a colorful, music-filled coming-of-age portrait of an artist’s life that is also a cultural exploration of a shifting Berlin. “With wry humor and wonder, Spillman beautifully captures the deadpan hedonism of the East Berliners and the city’s sense of infinite possibility.” —The New York Times Book Review “A thrilling portrait of the artist as intrepid young adventure seeker.” —Vanity Fair “Convivial, page-turning . . . Spillman’s life is a good one to read.” —The Washington Post

Book Back to Tomorrow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deirdre O'Dare
  • Publisher : JMS Books LLC
  • Release : 2022-03-05
  • ISBN : 1685500749
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Back to Tomorrow written by Deirdre O'Dare and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Librarian Emily Dennison has always loved history, but catapulted into 1889 Tombstone, she finds life far from the idyll she imagined. Meeting Zach Tremaine, a newspaperman from Philadelphia, she gets involved in his quest to rescue his younger sister from her abusive paramour, gambler Jake McEuen. This leads to more adventure than Emily ever thought possible. Eventually she has to confess to Zach that she is from far away, not in distance but in time. Fearful of being torn back to 2000, but missing her modern conveniences, she hardly dares to love him though she aches to. Zach isn’t quite sure what to make of Emily, so different from any woman he has ever known but so sweet and spunky she wins his admiration and soon his heart. Just when he thinks he has convinced her they belong together, a bolt of lightning tears her away. Or was it Joker Jake McEuen, seeking revenge? Can Zach live long enough to search until he finds her? Can she get back to tomorrow in time to save him from McEuen’s murderous rage?

Book A Straight Way Toward Tomorrow

Download or read book A Straight Way Toward Tomorrow written by Mary Schauffler Platt and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eric and Elliot

Download or read book Eric and Elliot written by Dwayne Hartford and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playbook

Book THE OFFICER AND THE RENEGADE

Download or read book THE OFFICER AND THE RENEGADE written by Helen R. Myers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TELL ME YOU'RE INNOCENT! Taylor Benning's urgent plea seared Hugh Blackstone's heart. All the spurned half-breed had to do was admit he'd been wrongly accused. He knew the right words would prompt her to throw her arms around him, maybe even win him a night in her bed…. They'd once been as close as two people could possibly get. But how could he forget that Taylor had failed him all those years ago—in the name of love—and continued to betray him with the secret of their son?

Book Race Becomes Tomorrow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald M. Sider
  • Publisher : Duke University Press Books
  • Release : 2015-11-13
  • ISBN : 9780822360087
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Race Becomes Tomorrow written by Gerald M. Sider and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Race Becomes Tomorrow Gerald M. Sider weaves together stories from his civil rights activism, his youth, and his experiences as an anthropologist to investigate the dynamic ways race has been constructed and lived in America since the 1960s. Tacking between past and present, Sider describes how political power, economic control, and racism inject chaos into the lives of ordinary people, especially African Americans, with surprising consequences. In addition to recounting his years working on voter registration in rural North Carolina, Sider makes connections between numerous issues, from sharecropping and deindustrialization to the recessions of the 1970s and 2008, the rise of migrant farm labor, and contemporary living-wage campaigns. Sider's stories—whether about cockroach races in immigrant homes, degrading labor conditions, or the claims and failures of police violence—provide numerous entry points into gaining a deeper understanding of how race and power both are and cannot be lived. They demonstrate that race is produced and exists in unpredictability, and that the transition from yesterday to tomorrow is anything but certain.

Book Tomorrow s Energy

Download or read book Tomorrow s Energy written by Peter Hoffmann and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How hydrogen -- nonpolluting and easy to produce -- could become the fuel of the future.

Book Doing the Work of Reference

Download or read book Doing the Work of Reference written by Linda S Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become more versatile, competent, and resourceful with these practical suggestions! Becoming a first-class reference librarian demands proficiency in a wide range of skills. Doing the Work of Reference offers sound advice for the full spectrum of your responsibilities. Though many aspects of a reference librarian's work are changing with astonishing speed, the classic principles in this volume will never go out of date. This comprehensive volume begins with hints for orienting yourself to a new job and concludes with ideas for serving the profession. On the way, Doing the Work of Reference covers such diverse topics as working with student assistants, offering reference services to remote users, and keeping up your professional development. In addition, you will find strategies for dealing with technological change--not high-tech information that will become obsolete before the ink is dry, but ways of approaching the process of change that will work today, next week, and ten years from now. Doing the Work of Reference will help you increase your competence in: getting along with other staff members marketing the library to users and faculty handling ephemeral materials keeping students’attention in library instruction courses maintaining good relations with faculty increasing your subject knowledge and much more! This comprehensive guide is an essential handbook for librarians in the trenches. Whether you are a new librarian or a veteran at the reference desk, Doing the Work of Reference will help you burnish your skills.

Book Centers for Learning

    Book Details:
  • Author : James K. Elmborg
  • Publisher : Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0838983359
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Centers for Learning written by James K. Elmborg and published by Assoc of Cllge & Rsrch Libr. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the potential inherent in partnerships between libraries and writing centers and suggests that such partnerships might respond more effectively to student needs than separate efforts. The essays consist primarily of case studies of collaborations in institutions throughout the US. The concluding chapter reflects on the impl

Book Race to Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nala Henkel Aislinn
  • Publisher : Nala Henkel-Aislinn
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Race to Love written by Nala Henkel Aislinn and published by Nala Henkel-Aislinn. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie needs a temporary boyfriend. Mateo needs a temporary fiancée… High-end realtor Cassie has a special process to get over break-ups, and it involves finding the right transitional guy. Billionaire client Mateo Ortiz seems like the perfect candidate—in town for a short time, not interested in a relationship, and almost too good-looking. She’s not expecting him to choose her to become his fake fiancée, or to take her to Argentina, or to treat her the way no man ever has. When their fake relationship falls apart, will love carry them over the finish line?