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 Free Download Melinda Cooper, "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance " English | ISBN: 1942130937 | 2024 | 568 pages | PDF | 6 MB A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy  Free Download Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? By Alan Weisman 2013 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 0316097756 | EPUB | 18 MB A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a restored, healthy planet-only in harmony, not mortal combat, with the rest of nature.But with a million more of us every 4¿ days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, and with our exhaust overheating the atmosphere and altering the chemistry of the oceans, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. For this long awaited follow-up book, Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth--and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth?Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful.By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative presence, Countdown reveals what may be the fastest, most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our lives and our destiny.  Free Download Johnny Khamis, Damon Belanger, "Costi and the Raindrop Adventure" English | 2007 | pages: 42 | ISBN: 1600050298 | PDF | 5,3 mb The main character of 'Costi and the Raindrop Adventure' is and imaginative 6 year old boy, who is upset because it's raining, and is magically taken on a journey with Raindrop to learn the importance of rain. Along the way he learns about how people and animals need the rain to live.
 Free Download Corrosion-Deformation Interactions CDI '96 - CDI '96 in conjunction with EUROCORR '96 - By by Magnin, Thierry (Eds.) 1997 | 553 Pages | ISBN: 1861250487 | PDF | 32 MB Includes the majority of the papers presented at CDI '96. The four sections deal with CDI in aqueous solutions, hydrogen-plasticity interactions, oxidation-plasticity interactions and CDI in the nuclear industry. Represents the current state of knowledge of the behaviour of a wide range of engineering materials subjected to deformation in corrosive environments as well as presenting prevailing views of the failure mechanisms. Content: Front Matter Series Introduction Preface Table of Contents Part I. CDI in Aqueous Solutions 1. What Do We Understand About Stress Corrosion Cracking in Aqueous Environments? 2. The Corrosion Enhanced Plasticity Model: Single Crystal Experiments and Numerical Simulations 3. 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However, the practice of intergovernmental organizations reveals several challenges including managing corporate interaction with developing country governments and other non-State actors. Acknowledging corporate contributions also has important implications for national regulatory autonomy, the ability of governments to mediate contested policy issues, the democratic legitimacy of the contemporary lawmaking process and an understanding of consent as the underlying basis for international law.  Free Download Thomas P. Lyon, "Corporate Political Responsibility" English | ISBN: 1009420844 | 2023 | 410 pages | PDF | 7 MB Behind closed doors, many large companies quietly use their political clout to influence public policy on social and environmental issues - often in a negative direction. This book seeks to create a new norm for responsible political behaviour by corporations. 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Free Download Luke Nottage, Leon Wolff, Kent Anderson, "Corporate Governance in the 21st Century: Japan's Gradual Transformation" English | 2009 | pages: 301 | ISBN: 1847209238 | PDF | 1,7 mb The 'lost decade' of economic stagnation in Japan during the 1990s has become a 'found decade' for regulatory and institutional reform. Nowhere is this more evident than in corporate law. In 2005, for example, a spate of reforms to the Commercial Code culminated in the new Company Act, a statute promising greater organisational flexibility and shareholder empowerment for Japanese corporations competing in a more globalised economy. But does this new law herald a more 'Americanised' system of corporate governance? Has Japan embraced shareholder primacy over its traditional loyalty to other key stakeholders such as 'main banks', core employees, and partners within diffuse corporate (keiretsu) groups? 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Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neo-liberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. This book re-examines these issues with an unusually dispassionate approach, providing a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion--that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organisation there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will.  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