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The playbook : how to deny science, sell lies, and make a killing in the corporate world / by Jacquet, Jennifer,author.(CARDINAL)407898;
"Science is so powerful that the powerful want to control it. From the author of Is Shame Necessary?, comes a biting satire of the techniques used by the corporate world to obfuscate and deny scientific truths. Taking the form of a corporate meeting agenda, The Playbook highlights the tactics used by the business elite to contradict climate change, ignore health risks, and undermine worker safety. The Playbook is a caustic handbook for tobacco, oil, and pharmaceutical company executives-epistolary non-fiction-advising whom to hire, how to recruit experts, how to obfuscate, and how to relentlessly and effectively challenge the threat of science, policy, reporters, and activists. Jacquet likens the machinery of deception and delays to a casino, with its deliberative architecture and design-the dimmed chandeliers, the comfortable furniture, the dealers, the drinks-to keep the customers inside comfortable and gambling as long as possible. The Playbook will help any business buy time if it is threatened by science, the most reliable form of knowledge the world has ever known. Part strategy, part social history, part resistance, part lampoonery, The Playbook illuminates the methods and motives of many successful scientific denial campaigns, and the social forces that may outwit them"--Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-216).
Subjects: Communication in organizations.; Denial (Psychology); Defense mechanisms (Psychology);
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Netherlands / by Seward, Pat,1939-(CARDINAL)387395; Arora Lal, Sunandini.(CARDINAL)652209;
MARCIVE 04/08/08Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142)and index."Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of the Netherlands"--Provided by publisher.Accelerated Reader AR
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Everything you need to know about geography homework / by Zeman, Anne,1951-(CARDINAL)380971; Kelly, Kate,1958-(CARDINAL)472891;
Introduction -- Meaning of geography: Geography defined: What is geography? -- Five themes of geography -- Geography and you: Geography of geography -- Galactic address -- Geographical thinking -- First geographers: Thales: First true geographer? -- Representing the earth: Globes, projections, and maps: Globes -- Looking at earth -- Inventing the globe -- Lines of longitude and latitude: Two north poles -- Geographers in ancient Greece -- Geographic grid -- Light on earth: 24-hour globe: Time zones -- Maps: What is a map? -- Map projections -- Some common map projections: How map projections are made: Natural features -- Human-made features: First maps -- Three basic kinds of maps -- Charts -- Maps for special uses: Altered states: Cartograms -- Written references: Geographical dictionaries and almanacs -- Parts of a map -- Understanding and comparing maps - Three steps to comparing maps: Land, water, and air: Physical world: Land: How the earth was formed -- Plate tectonics -- Tectonic events that shape the land -- Volcanoes -- Ring of fire -- Landforms: Erosion and weathering -- Glaciers -- Water: Oceans: Briny deep -- Natural events under water: Tides -- Rivers: World's longest rivers -- Seas, gulfs, and bays -- Lakes -- Air: Atmosphere, weather, and climate: Atmosphere -- Weather and climate: Weather fronts -- Water heaters: Land and ocean temperatures -- Hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons, and cyclones -- Water in the air: Insulation: Clouds and climate -- Winds at sea -- Plants and animals: Natural regions of the world: Land biomes -- Biomes: Tropical rain forests -- Tropical grasslands -- Mediterranean regions -- Temperate forests -- Cool forests -- Cool grasslands -- Deserts -- Tundra -- Polar regions: Mountain biomes -- People on land and water: Location and place: What are location and place? -- Counting people: Population: Population -- Population data: Population pictures: Profiles and pyramids -- Population density and distribution -- Urban vs. Rural: World birth rates: 1910-2000 -- Culture: What is culture: Cultural mosaic -- Culture basics -- Language -- Beliefs and traditions: Religions, customs, and arts and crafts: Greetings! Manners, meanings, and cultural differences -- Culture crafts -- Home, sweet home: Architecture of houses -- Food! Glorious food! -- Political systems: What is government? -- How people live: Hunter-gatherers -- Subsistence farmers: Industry & technology -- Agriculture -- Old MacDonald had a farm -- World agriculture -- Mining: Which mine is mine? Different types of mining -- Forestry -- Fishing and fisheries -- Manufacturing: Brief history of manufacturing -- Measuring economies -- Geography of production -- Migration, from exploration to settlement: Overview of migration: Conquest and empire -- Can't get there from here: Transportation -- Why move? -- Glossary of geographical terms -- Atlas -- World in focus -- U.S. in focus.Defines geography and covers globes, maps, land, water, air, plants, animals, people, and cultures. The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to Know About... series provides kids and parents with a quick refresher to 4th through 6th grade curriculum topics. The organization and scope of these concise homework-help guides make them an essential reference resource. Researched according to middle-grade curriculum and current textbooks, and created in conjunction with subject experts, these titles answer kids' most frequently asked homework questions. In geography, students will find everything from longitude and latitude to the longest rivers on earth.Fourth to sixth grades--Cover.Ages 9 and up--P. [4] of cover.1000L
Subjects: Trivia and miscellanea.; Geography; Homework;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 11
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Rick Steves' Great Britain 2002.
Subjects: Guidebooks.;
© c2002., John Muir Publications,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Germany / by Fuller, Barbara,1961-(CARDINAL)369672; Vossmeyer, Gabriele.(CARDINAL)459933;
Includes bibliographical references (page 142) and index.Explores the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of Germany.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Key to the city : how zoning shapes our world / by Bronin, Sara C.author;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-208) and index.Part I. Vibrant economies. The goldilocks zone ; The magic of makers ; Cultivating creativity ; Rock around the clock -- Part II. The essentials. Making it home ; A bigger menu for movement ; You reap what you zone -- Part III. Designing for delight. The force of nature ; Completing the street ; A curatorial approach -- Conclusion."Legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin examines how zoning became such a prevailing force and reveals its impact--and its potential for good. Outdated zoning codes have maintained racial segregation, prioritized cars over people, and enabled great ecological harm. But, as Bronin argues, once we recognize the power of zoning, we can harness it to create the communities we desire, and deserve. Drawing on her own experience leading the overhaul of Hartford's zoning code and exploring the efforts of activists and city planners across the country, Bronin shows how new codes are reshaping our cities--from Baltimore to Chicago, Las Vegas to Minneapolis, and beyond. In Boston, a law fought for by a passionate group of organizers, farmers, and beekeepers is transforming the city into a haven for urban farming. In Tucson, zoning codes are mitigating the impacts of climate change and drought-proofing neighborhoods in peril. In Delray Beach, Florida, a new code aims to capture and maintain the town's colorful spirit through its architecture." --
Subjects: Zoning; City planning; City planning; City planning; Zoning.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The meaning of beer : how our pursuit of the perfect pint built the world / by Garrett, Jonny,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 299) and index."What's the oldest and most consumed alcoholic beverage on earth? Beer, of course. And it might just be one of our more important inventions. Since its creation thirteen thousand years ago, our love of beer has shaped everything from religious ceremonies to advertising, and architecture to bioengineering. The people who built the pyramids were paid in ale; the first fridge was built for beer, not food; bacteria was discovered while investigating sour beer; Germany's beer halls hosted Hitler's rise to power; and brewer's yeast may yet be the answer to climate change. In The Meaning of Beer, award-winning beer writer Jonny Garrett tells the stories of these incredible human moments and inventions, taking readers to some of the best-known beer destinations in the world--Munich and Oktoberfest, Carlsberg Brewery's historic laboratory, St. Louis and the home of Budweiser--as well as those lesser known, from a five-thousand-year-old brewery in the Egyptian desert to Arctic Svalbard, home to the world's most northerly pub. Ultimately, this is not a book about how we made beer, but how beer made us"--
Subjects: Beer.; Beer; Beer;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Denmark. by Pateman, Robert,1954-(CARDINAL)369674;
Accelerated Reader AR
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A naturalist's guide to the tropics / by Lambertini, M.(Marco)(CARDINAL)331206;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302).
Subjects: Natural history;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The winter garden / by Sterndale-Bennett, Jane.(CARDINAL)552162;
Subjects: Winter garden plants.; Winter gardening;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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