Saving Species as the Planet and Politics Get Hotter
In Earth’s Emergency Room, author, attorney, and environmental historian Lowell E. Baier celebrates 50 years of the landmark Endangered Species Act of 1973, a bipartisan law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon. Baier provides an insightful and entertaining history of the ESA’s dramatic highs and lows. ......
How to Become Powerful, Masterful, & in Control of Your Life in a World
Success is a daily decision for pursuing your dreams. When coupled with persistence it's a formula for obtaining higher and higher levels of success, tapping into your limitless potential and maintaining the life you truly desire. The Secret to Knowing It's Already Done may not be the key to overnight riches, but it will definitely help you lay ......
For decades, Terry L. Fossum tried to figure out why he, and so many others like him, started toward goals, but most often didn't achieve them (remember your New Year's Eve resolutions?). Why was it that what began as a great idea so often ended as a disappointment? He devoted himself to answering this question, spending three decades studying and ......
This book is about the serious financial struggles that an increasing number of colleges are facing in the post-pandemic era and what can be done to help resolve them. The tools described - including the extreme measures associated with financial exigency - can be used to change the ways colleges spend their money while still maintaining the ......
This book is about the serious financial struggles that an increasing number of colleges are facing in the post-pandemic era and what can be done to help resolve them. The tools described - including the extreme measures associated with financial exigency - can be used to change the ways colleges spend their money while still maintaining the ......
How to Become Powerful, Masterful, & in Control of Your Life in a World
Success is a daily decision for pursuing your dreams. When coupled with persistence it's a formula for obtaining higher and higher levels of success, tapping into your limitless potential and maintaining the life you truly desire. The Secret to Knowing It's Already Done may not be the key to overnight riches, but it will definitely help you lay ......
Scientists' tales from the frontiers of climate change Foreword by Karl Kruszelnicki
These tales of adventure and research in remote and remarkable corners of the earth investigate a multitude of ways the world is changing and explain the science behind exactly what a couple of degrees of warming mean. Addressed are glacier melt, rising seas, extreme weather, ocean currents, changing ecosystems, bushfires, and dying forests.
The challenge in teaching an introductory course on sustainability is there are many ways to teach it, and many issues to cover. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals offer a cohesive and interconnected set of topics to help address this problem - indeed the SDGs are now the guiding framework for planning and implementing sustainability ......