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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 1990
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83218
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Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1991
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Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
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Author : Richard J. Huggett
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642762689
Today, climate-related processes and problems are referred to as Global Change by nearly everyone including scientists, politicians, and economists; citizens worldwide are anxious about the often ob served disorientation of our environment under the influence of man. Better information on the Earth's natural systems and their possible alterations is necessary. The topic itself is so wide that sound scien tific descriptions of it as a whole are rare. For the non-specialist infor mation from relevant fields is not easy to obtain; and often, the pro gnostic models presented are contradictory and even for specialists difficult to evaluate. Therefore, this book on Climate, Earth Processes and Earth History by Richard Huggett fills an important gap. It discusses the great, climate-related areas of the Earth's environment. The atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the sediments as products of weathering and geomorphic processes, the relief as landforms and soils, and the biosphere are thoroughly treated as the prominent sub systems which are greatly affected by climate. These subsystems not only control the visual and internal aspects of our landscapes, but they are themselves especially influenced by climatic changes which can be due to either changes in the natural system or anthropogenic changes. Thus, our landscapes will be subject to significant altera tions, if climatic variations exceed certain thresholds. The plan for the present book by Richard Huggett was originally discussed in regard to the Springer Series on Physical Environment.
Author : Ernst Pawel
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 1992-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374523355
A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.
Author : Michael R. Lemov
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1611477468
Car Safety Wars is a gripping history of the hundred-year struggle to improve the safety of American automobiles and save lives on the highways. Described as the “equivalent of war” by the Supreme Court, the battle involved the automobile industry, unsung and long-forgotten safety heroes, at least six US Presidents, a reluctant Congress, new auto technologies, and, most of all, the mindset of the American public: would they demand and be willing to pay for safer cars? The “Car Safety Wars” were at first won by consumers and safety advocates. The major victory was the enactment in 1966 of a ground breaking federal safety law. The safety act was pushed through Congress over the bitter objections of car manufacturers by a major scandal involving General Motors, its private detectives, Ralph Nader, and a gutty cigar-chomping old politician. The act is a success story for government safety regulation. It has cut highway death and injury rates by over seventy percent in the years since its enactment, saving more than two million lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. But the car safety wars have never ended. GM has recently been charged with covering up deadly defects resulting in multiple ignition switch shut offs. Toyota has been fined for not reporting fatal unintended acceleration in many models. Honda and other companies have—for years—sold cars incorporating defective air bags. These current events, suggesting a failure of safety regulation, may serve to warn us that safety laws and agencies created with good intentions can be corrupted and strangled over time. This book suggests ways to avoid this result, but shows that safer cars and highways are a hard road to travel. We are only part of the way home.
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Page : 902 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Martin Furholt
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Page : 298 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Baden culture
ISBN : 9783774935990
Balkan - Tschechien - Polen - Slowakei - Kupferzeit.
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Lutheran Church
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Author : Zdravko Blažeković
Publisher : Rilm
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
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Personalities: music scholars. Personalities: composers. National studies. Encyclopedias. Periodicals. Historiography & its directions